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We need to go to Diagon Alley now!'

Chapter 3 - Burrow

Weasley Wizarding Wheezes, Diagon Alley

Fred and George descended the stairs that connected their flat, to their joke shop downstairs. They sleepily moved around their shop, drinking coffee and getting their shop ready for the beautiful day ahead of them. They really couldn't believe it, their shop blossomed into what was now the fastest growing business in Diagon Alley. It was all thanks to the starting money that Harry gave them the night before he disappeared.

The twins finished organizing their products and were about to open their shop to the public, when a flash of fire erupted in their shop and three hooded people appeared. They pulled out their wands, but found that they were gone. They looked around frantically only to realize their wands were gone and had flown towards the hooded strangers across the room.

"Who are you?"

"What do you want?"

"Fred, George, we need to talk." One of the strangers said as he waved his hand casting locking, silencing and anti-eavesdropping charms and wards in the room. He then lowered his hood and so did the two beside him.

The twins were gobsmacked, their jaws at the floor and their eyes wide.

"H-Ha-Harry?" Fred asked.

"Is that really you?" George followed.

"Yes, but listen-" He never finished as he was picked up in a double hug by the twins and twirled him around. Fleur and Tonks started to laugh at their antics and this made the twins to stop.

The twins let go of him quickly as they walked over to the girls and each took a hand from the girl and kissed them softly.

"Welcome fair ladies..."

"To our humble establishment..."

"Fred..."

"and George..."

"Weasley..."

"at your service."

The two girls laughed and both curtsied. "Thank you, my lords." The girls said in unison. Harry watched this with amusement and started to laugh.

"Potter, are you laughing at us?" Tonks asked as she scowled, but can't stop the tugging on her lips.

He stopped laughing and smirked, "What if I am? What can you do about it?"

"Then you can take a bath by yourself tonight." Fleur said with a straight face.

"And you can sleep on the couch after." Tonks added as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Harry stood there shocked. 'Are they serious? Damn, why did I have to open my mouth.' He thought. The twins too were shocked, not the same reason as Harry, but because what the girls meant.

"Oh... Okay." Harry said softly. "I'm sorry for laughing... I couldn't help it, and then I added fuel to it by teasing you..." His head looking on the floor.

"Oh, Arry! We are just teasing you." Fleur crossed the room, hugged him tight and kissed him.

"Really?" He asked, relieved.

"You're so clueless sometimes." Tonks said as she too crossed the room and kissed him.

"And that, my dear brother, is why he is our hero." Fred said.

"Yup, I agree. Two of the most beautiful witches I know... at the same time..."George added, his voice hinted with awe.

Harry heard this and blushed. Everyone else laughed and the two girls wrapped their arms around his waist and chest, while his around their shoulders. He then conjured a love seat and two chairs in the room. Harry, Fleur and Nym sat on the love seat while the twins sat across from them.

"Listen, Fred, George, we need to talk..." Harry started, but was interrupted.

"Oh yes, that reminds me. Harry vault number 369 is yours in Gringott's. That is where we placed your share of the profits the shop generates." Fred said.

"What? I have a share in the profits? Why?" Harry asked confused.

"Yeah, you gave us the startup money for the store, so we decided we make you our partner. You get 50 percent of the profits we get." George answered.

"50? Why? I don't need the money. You should've just kept it. I gave you the money as a gift." Harry explained.

George's face turned serious, "No, Harry. To us you're a partner. We want to give you the share because what you did for us meant more to us than you can imagine. You gave us a chance to pursue our dream and that is not something we can come close paying you back, if we could give you more we would, but we need the rest of the money to keep expanding our shop."

Harry tried to protest, but Nym stopped him. "Harry, just accept it. They decided on this already. Besides, we need to discuss something with them remember?"

"Alright." He said with a huff. He looked back at the twins and took out acopy of the Daily Prophet from his cloak and passed it to them. "Read the headline."

The Boy-Who-Lived, a coward?

By: Rita Skeeter

Faithful readers, you've read the title right. The-boy-who-lived is acoward, according to one of his best friends, Ronald Weasley - 'I think he is acoward. He found out that he is the richest wizard in Britain and fled. He abandoned us with you-know-who for us to deal with ourselves. Everyone heard the prophecy last year, and it clearly states that it's his job to kill him, it's his duty. He owes it to us... I can't believe I treated him as my brother... People are dead because of him... innocent people like Cedric... and my brother Bill. If I ever see him...' He told us in an interview, but didn't finish his last statement.

We will also quote, one Ginevra Weasley - 'Harry? I thought he was special, I thought he was a real hero, but now I know better. He is just acoward... to think I had a crush on him.' 'But we heard he saved you from you-know-who himself, and a basilisk?' I asked. 'Well yeah, but you-know-who wasn't real, he was just an illusion, a memory left behind. Besides, he used the sword of Gryffindor. I can't imagine it being that hard to kill a basilisk if someone had the legendary sword. If a coward can do it, I'm sure anyone can.'

We've tried to interview Harry Potter's other bestfriend, Hermione Granger, but couldn't contact her. Also, the minister of magic, Amelia Bones is not saying anything about the matter.

Well readers, there you have it, straight from the former best friend of the-boy-who-lived. It does make one think, why Harry Potter left? Where is he now? And did he know about the prophecy before he disappeared after winning the mysterious tri-wizard tournament? Only time will tell.

Information about the Weasley Family pg.6

Life of Cedric Diggory and Bill Weasley pg.7-8

Recap of the tri-wizard tournament pg.12-14

The prophecy pg. 21

Richest Wizards in Britain - Business Section

The twins read the paper in disbelief. Their expressions turned from shock, to anger. Harry watched them a blank expression. They both looked at him and turned red.

"I'm... I'm... we're sorry Harry..." George said as he looked at down at his hands.

"I... they... bloody hell." Fred said as he wiped his face with his hands.

"It's okay. I don't really care." He said, but his voice betrayed him. His words came out cold and bitter. Upon hearing this Fleur grabbed his hand and covered it with both of hers and squeezed them, while Tonks wrapped her arms around him and leaned her head on his shoulders. He composed himself before asking, "Fred, George, What happened to Bill?"

The twins' faces changed from anger to sadness. "He and Kingsley were putting up the wards around the Burrow, when the Death Eaters attacked. They tried to fight them, but they were outnumbered...

--Flashback--

"Reducto!" Bill yelled as he watched the curse hit one of the advancing Death Eaters.

"Protego!" Kingsley yelled as the shield stopped two curses thrown at them, creating sparks of light around them. "There's too many of them! We need to get out of here!" He yelled over the explosions around them.

"What? We can't do that! The Burrow is unprotected right now, My family will be sitting ducks!" He yelled back as he created another shield.

Kingsley threw a couple of curses towards the army of black hooded people advancing towards them, before turning back to the man beside him. "Yes we can!We can pull back and portkey your family out of the house!"

"They will destroy the house, they will burn everything, nothing will be left if we leave now." Bill retorted. "Listen Shack, My family never had much... everything we have is in that house... they are all a little lost right now, because Harry is gone... If they lose anymore, I don't know how they will cope with it. My parents don't have the money to rebuild, when it all goes to taking care of us. Please understand..." Bill pleaded. The auror looked at him with clenched jaws, but didn't say anything . "Now, go and call for the order. I'll stay here and finish the wards. I'll apparate to safety as soon as I'm done."

"No Bill, I'm not leaving you!" Kingsley shouted.

"Shack, Please..." The oldest Weasley pleaded. "I can do this." Bill said with determination.

Kingsley looked at him long and hard, and then nodded. He understood what he wanted to do. "Alright." Was all he said and started to walk away.

"Shack! Tell them I love them." He heard from behind him, and a single tear fell on his cheek.

"I will." He said, and apparated away.

--End of Flashback--

"...when we found his body, it was surrounded by several bodies of Death Eaters. He was faced down on the ground, and covered in blood. Dumbledore said he didn't die because he got cursed or anything. He said he died from blood loss, because throughout his whole body, were carved with runes, some kind of ritual for wards or something. When Dumbledore inspected the wards he was surprised. Supposedly, The Burrow was now warded by the strongest kind of wards, Blood wards." George finished with a whisper.

Harry didn't notice the tears that were falling from his eyes until he absentmindedly wiped them away. He wrapped his arms and pulled the also crying girls to him and just held them as they cried on his shoulders.

"I-I'm sorry..." Was all he could say.

The twins looked at him with eyes glistening. "Don't be Harry. It wasn't your fault." Fred told him.

He looked down at his lap, "I-I just can't help it... What Ron said is true. If I didn't leave, maybe Bill would still be here..."

"Don't listen to that git, him and our sister. They are bloody idiots and we're going to talk to them right now." The twins said and stood up.

"I want to go with you. I just don't understand why he would say those things. I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt." Harry said as he and the girls stood up also.

"Harry... don't get your hopes up, mate." Fred said as they all apparated to the Burrow.

They appeared in front of the gate of the Burrow. The twins looked back at the three, but were stunned. They were looking at Katie Bell, Alicia Spinnet and Lee Jordan.

"W-w-what the hell?" Fred stammered.

"Oh I forgot to tell you, I'm also part metamorphagus." Lee/Harry said.

"What? You're part metamorphagus? How come you never told us before you left?" George asked.

"I never knew either. I only found out 4 months ago." Lee/Harry said as he scratched his head.

"Well I know that Nymphadora- Oww! I mean Tonks is a morpher, but what about Fleur?" Fred asked as he rubbed his arm after Katie hit him. "Well now we know who Tonks is."

"No I'm not a metamorphagus, these are just glamour spells that Harry put on me. It'll probably last me for a couple of hours or when he cancels the spells." Alicia/Fleur explained.

"But you sound just like them." The twins pointed out.

"Oh that. It's called Voice Mimicking charm. Fleur and Nym took out Katie's and Alicia's voices from my memories the way I remember them." He explained.

"How did you guys do that? How can you take someone's voice from his memories?" George asked utterly confused.

"Oh...well... you see..." He said as he mumbles something and blushed.

"What? What did he say?" George asked Fred.

"He said because we're bonded. Therefore me and Fleur can go in his mind and sift through his memories in complete detail, that we can even copy people's voices accurately. Not only that ,we can talk with each other in our minds, feel each other's emotions and their thoughts." Tonks/Katie explained as she too had a pink tinge on her cheeks.

"Bonded? What do you mean bonded?" the twins asked and saw the three blush at the same time. "Oh" was all they said as they realized what 'bonded' meant.

"Harry, you are one lucky sod." The twins said at the same time and all of them laughed.

When the laughter died they started to walk towards the gate, "It's still very weird though. Talking to people that aren't actually them." George said as he scratched his head, brows furrowing.

Fred nodded in agreement, "Well, enough talk, time to pay a visit to my family."

In no time they were at the front door of the Burrow. They entered the house and right away, the smell of food from the kitchen swept down their nostrils.

"Mum, we're home! And we brought guests!" Fred yelled.

Right away Mrs. Weasley came out of the kitchen to give the twins a hug. She spotted the three behind and them and also gave them hugs. "Well dears, make yourselves at home. I'm just cooking lunch and will be ready in about an hour. Ron and Ginny are here so why don't you go see them for now." She suggested.

"Will do ma'am." Lee/Harry answered. She turned around and walked back in the kitchen while the five walked in the sitting room.

"Ron! Ginny! We need to talk to you for a second!" George yelled from the bottom of the stairs, and he went back and sat with the rest in the sitting room.

They sat silently as they waited. Outside, Harry looked cool and calm, but inside he was fighting a knot slowly forming in his stomach. 'Why would they say those things? Did something happen to them?'

'Don't worry love we'll find out soon.' Fleur told him through their bond.

'Harry whatever happens, you can't get angry or act rash with them. If you want to find out everything, you can't blow your cover. Right now you are Lee Jordan, the twin's best friend. We've been through tougher situations before. Just use occlumency to block your emotions.' Tonks added.

'Nym's right Arry, besides we'll be here for you... whatever happens we love you and we'll be there with you.' Fleur said as she squeezed his hand.

Harry sighed and closed his eyes. "I just really hope he didn't really say those things." He whispered, but everyone in the room heard. The twins glanced at him then at each other and shook their heads.

After a minute or so, the silence was broken by the sounds of padding feet going down the stairs. Ron and Ginny popped in the sitting room and greeted them.

Ginny sat on an empty chair, "Hey Fred, Hey George. How come you're here?Who's in the shop?"

"We closed it for the day." They both answered coldly. "We need to talk."

"About what?" Ron asked.

"About what? About what?" George asked incredulously and stood up. He pulled out the copy of the Prophet Harry gave them in the morning. "About this!" he yelled and threw the paper at their feet.

"Oh that." Ron said as he picked up the paper and smiled. "We were just upstairs reading the letters people have sent us. We're famous, Witches Weekly wants to have an interview next week. And don't worry we'll advertise your shop in it." He laughed and winked at them.

"Yeah, every major wizarding media company in Britain wants to meet us."Ginny squealed excitedly.

The five were gobsmacked. As they watched Ginny and Ron talk excitedly with each other about the future.

The twins recovered first and they stood up quickly and crossed the room. They grabbed Ron by the shoulder and pushed him against the wall.

"Oww! Bloody hell! What are you two doing?" Ron asked annoyed as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Ron, what the hell are you doing? This is Harry you're talking about! You're best friend for four years! Why are you doing this?" George asked angrily.

"What's it to you? He was my best mate and I'm disgusted I ever was. I did the interview because I was just so tired of people asking where he is, and why he left. Who cares? He abandoned us, left us, so he doesn't have to face You-Know-Who! I had to let everyone know that he's just a scared little bitch who just wanted attention! People died because of his cowardice, people like Bill!" He shouted back.

The twins picked him up and threw him down on the floor on his back. They were shaking with anger, they were about to give him a tongue-lashing, but was beaten by Lee/Harry.

"A scared little bitch?" He asked in a low dangerous tone. "a coward? Who are you to call anyone a coward when you can't even say that bastard's name. You'll probably wet yourself if Voldemort does as much as look at you. You haven't even seen him with your eyes and you're calling me- him a coward?" Ron paled as he watched the dangerous look on his brothers' best friend and didn't hear the almost mishap.

"I have seen him and I'll admit I was scared, but it wasn't my job to face him. He's supposed to be Harry Potter, a hero, not a coward like him." Ginny said proudly.

This time it was Fleur and Tonks who grabbed the red headed girl and pushed her on the floor with her brother.

"He isn't a hero? He almost died trying to fucking save your life from what's-his-face and his pet snake. You owe him your life, so if anyone was to doubt if he was a hero, it shouldn't be you!" Tonks/Katie spat.

"Who are you to talk to me about what happened, Katie? Mind your own damn business!" Ginny retorted as she tried to stand, only to be pushed back down by Alicia/Fleur.

Mrs. Weasley walked in the sitting room to tell everyone lunch is ready."What in Merlin's name is going on here? Why are my babies on the floor?"

"Mum, have you read the prophet this morning?" George asked.

"Yes I did. And I'm proud of them. They had the courage to do what they did. Real Gryffindors that's what they are." She said she helped Ron and Ginny off the floor.

The twins couldn't believe what they were hearing, "Mum, this Harry we are talking about. The one that saved Ginny's life? The one you thought of as your son?"

"Yes I know, and I believe we've thanked him enough for that. And what they said was true, he left us and let one of my boys get killed by you-know-who's death eaters." She asnwered, as she glared at them. Harry, Fleur, and Nym stared at her in disbelief.

"How was it his fault that Bill died? Huh? Bill died because he sacrificed his life in order to save ours. If he was here with us, do you think he would blame him for his death? No mum! You've obviously been brainwashed by these 2idiots!" Fred shouted as he pointed a finger at his brother and sister.

'SLAP'

"You will not speak like that about your siblings Frederick Weasley!" She yelled at him.

Fred stood there with a blank face as his head was forced to look sideways from the force of the slap. Everyone watched his cheek start to color in the shape of a hand.

He slowly looked back at his mum, "They were my siblings... I'm out of this family." He whispered and turned back and walked past Harry and the girls and got out of the house.

"You guys are unbelievable. I'm out..." George said and followed his twin.

Harry, Fleur and Nym followed suit. Just as he was about to walk out the door, he turned and looked at the stunned faces of the Weasleys, "I was hoping it wasn't true..." with that he walked out the Burrow and apparated with the girls.