HP7 spoiler
So, while everyone else is doing big comprehensive spoiler posts, I fully intend to just post random thoughts as they come to me.
I now have two contradictory pieces of brain-canon regarding what happens next. See, I've always been of the "Harry ends up teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts" persuasion. HOWEVER!
Now I also want it to happen like this:
GEORGE becomes the Defense Against the Dark Arts prof (because he would be so. fucking. AWESOME!) and Fred haunts Hogwarts until George dies many years later of an overdose of puking pastilles.
And in the meantime they wander the halls of Hogwarts joking and laughing and playing tricks, one solid, one not so solid, both happy, for years and years, Fred teasing George about his missing ear and George teasing Fred about his missing corporeality.
Oh, and when George dies, and Fred vanishes from Hogwarts, too, people who don't know them will wonder, why is Fred Weasley's ghost gone now?
And the people who know them, or know their friends and families, will say, "Oh, Fred's spirit was never troubled. It was just waiting."
So there, that is how it happens, in my head. Because? I am a sap.
(and also because it's TRUE!)
Also, someone should totally write me that story, STAT.
I now have two contradictory pieces of brain-canon regarding what happens next. See, I've always been of the "Harry ends up teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts" persuasion. HOWEVER!
Now I also want it to happen like this:
GEORGE becomes the Defense Against the Dark Arts prof (because he would be so. fucking. AWESOME!) and Fred haunts Hogwarts until George dies many years later of an overdose of puking pastilles.
And in the meantime they wander the halls of Hogwarts joking and laughing and playing tricks, one solid, one not so solid, both happy, for years and years, Fred teasing George about his missing ear and George teasing Fred about his missing corporeality.
Oh, and when George dies, and Fred vanishes from Hogwarts, too, people who don't know them will wonder, why is Fred Weasley's ghost gone now?
And the people who know them, or know their friends and families, will say, "Oh, Fred's spirit was never troubled. It was just waiting."
So there, that is how it happens, in my head. Because? I am a sap.
(and also because it's TRUE!)
Also, someone should totally write me that story, STAT.