Fred Weasley

Name: Frederick Gideon Weasley
Nickname(s): Fred, Forge, George
Age: 16
Wand: 12½" dogwood with unicorn hair core
Patronus: Hyena
House/Job: Gryffindor
Blood Status: Pure-blood
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Marital Status: Single
Ethnicity: British


Hair Colour: Red
Eye Colour: Brown
Distinguishing Features: N/A
Face Claim: James Phelps


Likes: Sweets, pulling pranks, being with George, Quidditch, winning
Dislikes: Voldemort (more of a fear, really), spinach (but will eat it in the presence of his mother), getting caught, detention, conflict
Habits: Zones out, constantly thinking of new pranks, ragging on his siblings
Personality: Fred Weasley is the more outgoing, daring, and sarcastic of the twins. During the rescue from the Dursleys in 1992, George picked the lock on Harry's bedroom door with a hairpin, while Fred insisted Muggle tricks were important to know, even they were a bit slow. Fred tends to take the ringleader role in their pranks, but is also crueler in his humour or in dealing with those he dislikes. Fred can be quite callous in dealing with the victims of his pranks, particularly his older brother Percy, but is more compassionate when he feels that the victim didn't deserve it.

Both he and George are renowned for their senses of humour; they are able to make people laugh and relax even in very trying times. Neither Fred nor George take school very seriously, but are both very talented wizards. They were also staunchly loyal to their loved ones, are very brave, and are unafraid to stand up against what they thought was wrong.


Hometown: Ottery St. Catchpole in Devon, England
Father: Arthur Weasley
Mother: Molly Prewett
Siblings: Bill Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley (older brothers), George Weasley (twin brother), Ron Weasley (younger brother), Ginny Weasley (younger sister)
Others: Lee Jordan, Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet, Oliver Wood, Katie Bell, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Rubeus Hagrid, Albus Dumbledore,
History: Fred Weasley, along with his identical twin George, were born on 1 April, 1978; appropriately enough, April Fool's Day. He was raised at his family home of the Burrow. The Weasley family was poor, but loving.

Fred and George enjoyed making mischief from a young age, and were quite a handful for their parents. It was not uncommon for explosions to be heard coming from the bedroom the two shared. They also greatly enjoyed teasing their brothers Percy and Ron. At the age of five, Fred transformed Ron's teddy bear into a giant spider, sparking his arachnophobia, after Ron broke his toy broomstick. Also around that age, he gave Ron an Acid Pop, which burnt a hole through his tongue. When they were seven years old, Fred and George nearly succeeded in getting Ron to make an Unbreakable Vow; their father was so angry that Fred later said "his left buttock has never been the same since." One Christmas, Fred and George set off a Dungbomb under the chair of their great-aunt Muriel during a family dinner. The elderly witch most likely wrote the twins out of her will for this stunt, and stopped attending Christmas celebrations at the Burrow, for which all the Weasley children were thankful.

Fred was educated at Hogwarts, getting sorted into Gryffindor. He was very popular among the Gryffindors in school, and he and George were well known for their senses of humour and pranks. The twins even set up their own joke shop in the disused bathroom on the seventh floor. During their first year at Hogwarts, Fred and George swiped the Marauder's Map from Argus Filch's office. In their second year, Fred and George became Beaters for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. They both used Cleansweep Five broomsticks and were so skilled at Quidditch that they were both described as being like "Human Bludgers". Both twins achieved really good marks in their early years.

Fred became friends with Harry Potter in his third year, when Harry palled around with his younger brother Ron and was made the Quidditch team's Seeker. Fred and the other players believed that the addition of Harry would be a real shot in the arm to their chances of winning the Quidditch Cup. Around the Christmas holidays, Fred and George got in trouble for bewitching several snowballs to follow Professor Quirrell around, and hit him in the back of the head. They stayed in the castle for the holidays along with their brothers and Harry, all of whom received jumpers from Mrs. Weasley. The ones she sent to Fred and George had their initials on them, prompting them to call themselves "Gred and Forge". The twins also dragged Percy away from his fellow prefects, insisting that Christmas was time for family, and stole his prefect badge, much to his irritation.

In the summer of 1992, Fred, George, and Ron rescued Harry from his relatives' home, pulling the bars off his window and flying him to the Burrow in their father's Ford Anglia. The twins soon began their fourth year at Hogwarts, and took to teasing their younger sister Ginny as she began her first year. They were trying to cheer her up, unaware that her emotional state was fragile due to the influence of Tom Riddle's Diary. When many students speculated that Harry was the Heir of Slytherin that year, neither Fred nor George took it seriously, making jokes about it to lighten Harry up. They were also outraged when Draco Malfoy called Hermione Granger a "filthy little Mudblood", after she implied that Malfoy had bought his way onto the Slytherin Quidditch team, unlike the Gryffindor players. Fred and George both lunged at Malfoy, only to be blocked by Marcus Flint. That year, they were also delighted to hear that Percy had a secret girlfriend because it was an opportunity to tease him.

In the summer of 1993, the Weasley family went to Egypt, where Fred and George attempted to lock Percy into a pyramid, which their mother prevented and scolded them for. They thought their older brother was acting particularly pretentious because he had been appointed Head Boy, and repeatedly mocked him for it. In Harry's third year and their fifth, Fred and George gave Harry the Marauder's Map, as they already knew it by heart and Harry needed it in order to sneak into Hogsmeade. They also tried to cheer him up after he fainted near the Dementors that were guarding the school that year, due to Sirius Black escaping from Azkaban. Their attempt to cheer up Ron after his pet rat Scabbers went missing was not as successful, as Fred and George reminded him that Scabbers was boring.

Fred and George began inventing magical prank items the summer of 1994, starting with the Ton-Tongue Toffee, which Fred "dropped" near Harry's cousin Dudley Dursley in order to test it out. This was very successful. Fred also attended the Quidditch World Cup with his parents, siblings, Harry Potter, and Hermione Granger, and gambled all of his money on the outcome, which their father told them not to mention to their mother. When Ludo Bagman defaulted on his bet, Fred was furious, and suggested that it was "time to play dirty" like Bagman by informing the Ministry of Magic of his activities. George was against the idea, arguing that it was blackmail. Now back at Hogwarts to start their sixth year, the twins have begun trying out and selling their products, hoping to open up a joke shop when they finish school.