Fred’s first known act was to turn his brother’s teddy bear into a spider, causing Ron’s life long fear of arachnids. In a way this epitomizes Fred; he was always a joker and sought the amusing in everything. Indeed, he even found the funny side of his twin brother George’s losing an ear, by calling him ‘Lug-less’ (DH).

Fred was also prone to taunting his mother -

‘Fred, you next,’ the plump woman said.

‘I’m not Fred, I’m George,’ said the boy. ‘Honestly, woman, call yourself our mother? Can’t you tell I’m George?’

‘Sorry, George, dear.’

‘Only joking, I am Fred,’ said the boy, and off he went. (PS, p. 70)

Fred was evidently a very talented joker:

‘So we’ve just got to try on a hat!’ Ron whispered to Harry. ‘I’ll kill Fred, he was going on about wrestling a troll.’ (PS, p. 89)

It is then, not surprising that Fred sought to make a career out of his jokes. This was once a cause of great distress to his mother Molly Weasley, who was not at all happy at first that her son’s greatest ambition was to open a joke shop:

‘Mum thought we’d been duelling,’ said George.

‘Joke shop still on, then?” Harry muttered, pretending to be adjusting the nozzle on his spray.

‘Well, we haven’t had a chance to get premises yet,’ said Fred, dropping his voice even lower as Mrs Weasley mopped her brow with a scarf before returning to the attack, ‘so we’re running it as a mail-order service at the moment. We put advertisements in the Daily Prophet last week.’ (OOTP, p. 98)

Fred was also an exceptional Beater:

Once a Bludger decided to come pelting his way, more like a cannon ball than anything, but Harry dodged it and Fred Weasley came chasing after it.

‘All right there, Harry?’ he had time to yell, as he beat the Bludger furiously towards Marcus Flint. (PS, p. 138)

And he was also exceedingly generous, refusing to allow Harry to pay for his tricks at their shop, remembering that he had given them their ‘start up loan’ (HBP).

Fred always wanted to be in the action:

‘The Order is comprised only of overage wizards,’ he [Lupin] said. ‘Wizards who have left school,’ he added, as Fred and George opened their mouths. ‘There are dangerous involved of which you can have no idea, any of you…’

Therefore, it is fitting that Fred should’ve died defending the world from You-Know-Who. We shall remember him as a brave, funny young man. One with a lively spirit, and who attempted once to send an ill Harry Potter a toilet seat as a get well present!

Laurel, Hufflepuff

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