[Harry Potter: Fred] The Book of Time

This is a story about loving one person for a lifetime, about a boy and a love that will never grow old.

But I have to start telling it in 1991.

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The hero of this story is Fred Weasley, a strapping, stand-up Gryffindor lad from a happy family with plenty of siblings. He thinks he ought to set his sights on something bigger. What could romance possibly matter next to the grand future he and his brothers have planned for themselves, one that will make them rich?

So he can't say exactly when he started paying attention to the little songbird with pale green eyes from Slytherin.

The heroine is Alice Nightingale, a Slytherin who was struck from her pure-blood family tree at a young age, simply because her besotted father stubbornly married a Muggle-born woman. She grew up deprived of love, but didn't turn into a twisted monster like a certain noseless Dark Lord. That was only because she met Fred Weasley, someone no one else had.

Love is hard, but when a boy falls in love in an instant, he stays in love forever.

From AI: "Fred and Alice's love is like a moth flying into a flame: through all the partings and reunions, after seeing the world, they remain young."

[Warning]

⊙ This is a very long story about Mr. Fred and his Alice, from their meeting in 1991 to a future beyond sight. ⊙ The heroine is an original character, and she may not be particularly likable. She's conflicted and awkward, with her temper written all over her face. A Slytherin's ambition is all invested in Fred Weasley (though they still argue when they're dating).

⊙ The story doesn't follow the original plot very closely. The heroine isn't close to the Golden Trio, and she's even had some conflicts with Hermione. Leave saving the wizarding world to the Chosen One. This girl just wants to date the boy she likes in peace (though the relationship isn't exactly peaceful).

⊙ There are a great many original details. The basic setting draws on both the films and the original books, and I'll do my best to stay true to each character.

⊙ The heroine's friend Grace is based on the Slytherin girl in the Order of the Phoenix film: when the twins flew around on their brooms setting off fireworks, she was right at the front, laughing the hardest. x

⊙ I won't change the original main plot except for Fred's story. I swear by Merlin that they will have a happy ending.

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The author is a very lazy person x. Updates may be irregular, there will be lots of rambling, and I've created a girl who probably won't be very popular x.

As for Fred, his death is probably the regret I'm most fixated on in HP, to the point that I've always chosen to forget it (not really). And of the twins, he's the one I like better, so I've decided to go after him!

This is Gusu, the Gusu from the Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City.