Written for All Saints and Souls day, the Golden Snitch. Character Remus Lupin
Written for the Astronomy class: Task: You've learned about the many moons other planets have and a basic definition of what how to classify a moon. I've listed three of each planet's moons (two for Mars' case). Choose a moon below and use all three of those prompts in a story. (For some reason, these prompts seem awfully depressing...)
Word count :637
I have chosen Europa:cold,sharp, life.
Harry looked briefly around, scared at what he might see. His eyes landed on two bodies,one man and the other woman,who stood separated from the rest, hands intertwined. Upon looking closer he recognised the man as Remus and the woman as Tonks. Harry felt numb, a sharp knife twisted in his heart, but he didn't feel it. He couldn't feel anything. The pain was too much, overwhelming. It couldn't be true. Remus could not be dead. He needed him. He needed someone to call his own family. Sure the Weasleys were as his family, but he wanted something that he didn't need to share. He couldn't wait for the three of them to play with Teddy,to live together; he had plans on asking them to move at Grimauld Place.
And now,Teddy was an orphan, just like Harry. Remus will never hold him. He will never hold both of them. He layed there cold and unaware of the pain he had left Harry in. And not only Harry, but a little boy who will ask one day "Where is my dad?" and Harry didn't know how will he answer that. He felt so cold, so alone, knowing Remus was gone. And he will never see that spark of life in his eyes. The knife twisted even more in his heart.
The last marauder had died, the man who he had come to see as an uncle, his last link with his parents, the only other person who actually knew them was gone. And so was his wife.
Harry didn't know how long he stayed there looking at Remus. He was sure that more than once they had tried to move him, but he had remained there, eyes pinned on Remus, not moving, not breathing. As he wanted the life to drain out of him, so he would join Remus.
A sharp pain erupted in his chest. Teddy. He couldn't leave Teddy. He had to live, to tell him, how amazing his dad had been, how brave. A new wave of pain washed over him, remembering that he had called Remus coward.
And he never apologised for it. Though he was sure that Remus knew that he hadn't really meant it. He had just wanted for him to understand that he couldn't leave Teddy, that he had a chance to be happy, to have a family and he shouldn't waste it. Harry had never saw himself surviving the war, or having a family and he had been mad that Remus would throw away the chance.
But it seemed that in the end he was the one to survive, not Remus as it should have been. Harry didn't have a son, who would miss him. He should have died in his place.
He hadn't felt so much pain when Sirius died. But he knew Remus better. Remus had been the one to hold him in third year when he had blacked out after facing the boggart-dementor hearing his mother's screams. Remus had teached him the Patronus charm. Both he and Dudley would now be soulless without Remus. Remus had held him after Sirius'death.
He owned him so much, but he never had the chance to thank him. He didn't , he didn't imagine that Remus would survive the battle. Anyone, but not Remus. He had feared for each one of his friends life, but not Remus'. He was foolish to believe that. Nobody was safe from Death. No matter how good of a person they were. And Remus had been the best.
He will find the will to live, for Remus. So he could take care of Teddy and to make sure that he will never be forgotten.