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20 Facts About Lee (HP, Lee/Fred/George, 910 words, PG)
Title: 20 Random Facts About Lee Jordan
Rating: PG
Warning: Incest
Word Count: 910 words
A/N: Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest.
Title: 20 Random Facts About Lee Jordan
Rating: PG
Warning: Incest
Word Count: 910 words
A/N: Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest.
- Just before his first year at Hogwarts, on the train, Lee met Fred and George Weasley. He never had any problem telling them apart, and he spent much of the journey cracking up every time Fred and George pulled a switch on someone. Later, he decided this was what started it; the twins always loved an appreciative audience. Especially one that participated.
- Although Lee did almost give the joke away at the sorting, barely turning giggles into a coughing fit. George said the sorting hat thought it was funny too, and they both cheered loudly when Fred bounded over to join them, bright red and grinning, too much life for one body.
- In their first two years, they managed to lose Gryffindor a hundred and ten points between them (though they gained more overall). Lee was a bit put out when Harry Potter and his friends managed to top this by forty points in a single night. He promptly shunned them.
- Later, he felt bad about this and, one evening when Harry and company lingered late in the common room, he did too, meaning to say something. For once, nothing came to mind. He finally gave up and went to bed, stretching and yawning. -- except he had clearly stayed up too long, because he couldn't get to sleep at all, so he ended up stumbling back down to the common room. To his surprise and the boy's eternal gratitude, he found and freed an immobilised Neville Longbottom.
- Neville was good at listening, and Lee was good at talking, so it worked out quite well.
- Plus Neville liked Martha, Lee's giant tarantula. Bought in the rather more dubious of Diagon Alley's pet shops for a galleon twenty, Lee managed to smuggle Martha into Hogwarts because Hagrid was the one who met the carriages that year and he was always up for monsters. When Martha ran away in his fourth year because of the Basilisk, Neville offered Lee his toad, which he turned down, and Hagrid offered him firewhiskey, which he didn't.
- Lee, perhaps, drinks far more than he should.
- Though he never drank too much and, anyway, George taught him Sobering charms you could cast before drinking and, more importantly, while drunk when you forgot to do them first. George was always the most observant of them.
- It was George who looked up, the first time Lee caught the twins together, Fred moving, always, George slow and still, both flushed and panting in the half-light, all shadows and freckles and blazing hair. It was okay. The twins always loved an appreciative audience. Especially one that participated.
- They don't always get on, though. Lee thinks that Fred can be a bit too pushy, that George gives in a little too easily, that both of them can sometimes be more cruel than funny. He doesn't really think about the latter too much, because, deep down, he thinks it's true of himself as well.
- Still, the only time he gets well and truly pissed at them is when they skip out on their NEWTs and leave him alone at the school.
- If he was honest to himself, he'd admit that he never really thought Umbridge was dangerous, that the Moody imposter showing them Unforgivables and even Cedric dying didn't make it feel real. Like it would have consequences. Like it would be an actual war, grotty and miserable and horrific, not a story-book war with heroes and villains and clear lines and glory and honour. And then Dumbledore was killed and it was far, far too real.
- Scars on his hand read 'I will not talk back'.
- He will, of course.
- The wireless broadcasts were Fred's idea. George and Lee worked out how to turn Fred's suggestions into something that actually worked. Their first test blew the WWN out for three days. Fred laughed and danced and did things of pure and unbridled genius to their hardware and George remembered to swap the tubes around and Lee grabbed the microphone and just said whatever came into his head and it was loud and bright and beyond glorious and they were found and they ran and they started all over again without pause and
- then there was Hogwarts and no time to stop or think or breathe, just move, Death Eaters against them and children, so many children, making a stand, no rhyme, no reason, everything black and white again, us and them, curse and move, curse and move, curse and move, and laugh in the face of it because what else was there to do until they stopped, until
- Fred stopped
- and Death's immobility was not so easily broken as a body bind and, anyway, this time Neville saved himself, and Harry saved them all, all that are left, in the still, in the silence, in the hollow, lifeless aftermath of unmet eyes, unspoken words
- and so Lee set off an entire batch of Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start No-Heat Fireworks at Fred's funeral and Molly screeched, horrified and Ginny, previously tightly controlled, burst into tears and Ron glared and Harry, holding Ginny, smiled sadly and Percy chuckled and sobbed and Lee, Lee missed all of this because his eyes were fixed on George and George alone (sorry, so sorry) and after a long moment, George looked back, looked almost grateful and
- Lee breathed again.