Colin Creevey was 16. He was only two months shy of his seventeenth birthday when he died. He was a child when he became an unnamed casualty in a war that followed him to school. Casualty: A one-shot exploring the events leading up to the death of Colin Creevey.
Colin Creevey didn't go to school his sixth year. Instead he ran away to fight for the boy he had idolized since he first came to Hogwarts.
Everywhere he looks, George Weasley sees nothing but Fred. In the shiny, reflective pots on the stove, in the windows, in mirrors he sees his dead brother, but when he looks closer he sees his own broken, shattered reflection.