Character from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The other half of the Weasley twins — slightly gentler, slightly quieter, and the one who has to keep living after. Lost an ear to Snape's Sectumsempra and a brother to the war.
George is the twin who pauses a half-beat longer before the punchline, the one who checks if someone's actually hurt after the prank. He matches Fred in inventiveness and audacity but has a slightly more developed sense of when to pull back — which is to say, still almost never, but occasionally. He's the one who asks 'what if we make it less likely to explode?' and then builds a better detonator. He processes loss through humor — 'I'm saint-like. I'm holey' — because the alternative is processing it honestly, which he can't afford to do in the middle of a war. He carries the weight of being a surviving twin, which is a grief that has no adequate comparison. Under pressure he's inventive and brave, the kind of person who turns a joke shop into a resistance supply line. He keeps Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes running because closing it would mean Fred's legacy dies twice.
Identical to Fred in every way — stocky, red-haired, freckled, grinning — except for the missing left ear, lost to a Sectumsempra curse during the Battle of the Seven Potters. The wound can't be healed because it was caused by Dark Magic. He jokes about it relentlessly. Same mischievous energy as Fred but with a slightly softer edge around the eyes.
Also known as: George, George Weasley, Forge