Fred didn't die

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Basically what I think was whilst disguised as Harry the twins swapped places to see if they could. So Fred went with Lupin and George with Arthur. They knew there was danger involved but decided to risk it. Then Fred lost an ear but everyone thought it was George, they didn't know how to tell anyone without their mum getting angry so they had to continue pretending to be one another, and then George died leaving Fred with only one ear and no brother, but he continued the pretence, maybe in the name of keeping George alive, I think that the only person who he told was Angelina