A Fallen Hero
Harry was walking back to the Great Hall when he finally realized he was tired, more like exhausted. He had been awake since he was at Shell Cottage, before breaking into Gringotts. When he got to the Great Hall a wave of different emotions flooded his mind. There was a feeling of relief, but also a feeling of great pain and sorrow for those who had died, "for him", or this is what his mind had told him anyways. The feeling of relief came from knowing that Tom Riddle, Voldemort, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, or the dark lord (as called by his followers) was gone forever. He also felt pain for the loss of the last father figure he had (Reamus) and how his son (Teddy) would grow up without parents just like he had. He vowed that Teddy would be loved at least by him. His feelings of sorrow were for the people who had died during the battle that were his friend or in Fred's case a brother.
Harry stood there and let these feelings overwhelm him. He stood there in the doorway (or what use to be a doorway) to the Great Hall and stared not at any specific in shock at what happened. He came to his senses that he was starring so he turned to leave and spotted Ginny, his beautiful Ginny then everything went dark as he felt his knees fall from underneath him.
Ginny stood there looking at Fred's body still in shock that her brother was laying there an empty shell that use to contain a happy and funny person and a pure soul. She wanted to cry, but it was just too hard. She just couldn't accept that her always lively brother laid cold and lifeless right there in front of her. While she waited until she could accept that Fred was gone she started to thinking. She didn't want to think the thoughts that came to her but they did anyway. She thought that Harry had abandoned her while he was hiding in the woods with his best friend and having fun. But then she remembered something about him, he seemed skinner then she had remembered. He also shook with what she felt as fear but didn't know for sure. She also felt little dips in his skin under his shirt when she had hugged her in the room of requirement. She would have to ask about those when she saw him again. Then she remember that he had supposedly died and Voldemort had made a sad and crying Hagrid (a half-giant) carry Harry up to the castle from the forbidden forest in his arms. Then she remembered being pulled into the Great Hall by her mother and father after a noise of utter horror. Then all of a sudden there were people running into the Hall after them saying "it's a miracle" others saying "he did it again" and "how is it possible". She wondered what had happened that made them say such things until she heard someone yell "Harry is alive and has deceived the Dark Lord". She then saw a killing curse fly past her and on to the floor causing the floor to explode where it landed. She turned and there standing in front of her was Bellatrix Lastrange she blocked then countered for a few minutes before Luna and Hermione came to her aid. Bellatrix held against all three of them. When one of Bellatrix's killing curses just missed her face, she had felt the power behind the curse and felt the heat, it sent chills down her back and she froze on the spot. Her mother saw the curse that had just missed her only daughters face and became enraged with anger. Her mother (Molly) came up and started dueling for a minute before she yelled with all her fury, anger and most of all love, for her daughter, "NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH", and cast a non-verbal killing curse and Bellatrix fell. She was dead before she had hit the floor she had been laying on. The next thing that Ginny remembered was Harry running into the Great Hall Voldemort was casting wild curses everywhere as he followed Harry none of them had an effect on the person the curses were aimed at. Harry then turned around and cast a blue light from his wand as Voldemort cast a killing curse at the same time, the spells collided and were pushed back and forth between the two duelers. Eventually the killing curse rebounded on Voldemort killing him. Harry was swarmed by people and death eaters were disapperating to avoid capture in the aftermath of the battle. Ginny was remembering these things when she turned around and saw Harry. She was about to walk over to him when all of a sudden his eyes rolled back into his head and fell to the floor.
Ron and Hermione stood in the Great Hall with the Weasley family. Nobody said anything, nobody was even crying. The family just stood there standing and starring at the lifeless body in front of them, the body of Fred Weasley. Hermione stood there holding a shocked and speechless Ron; she stood there trying to keep him from falling over. Fleur held Bill with all the energy she had left. Charlie stood there looking, and Percy was shocked but stood there trying to think of how to ask for forgiveness. George sat there not thinking just in shock of a piece of himself had died in front of his eyes, and now was laying there dead. George was comforted by Mrs. Weasley (Molly) and Mr. Weasley (Arthur). Or at least they tried to calm him down to no avail. Ron was for his brothers, sister, and his parents but he was mostly concerned for Hermione. He was in love with her and he was too much of a git to notice his love for her or her love for him. Not until the heat of the battle did he act on his feeling for his Hermione. He couldn't believe that she had the same feelings for him as he had for her. He also couldn't believe that they had lived in a tent and an old house full of dark magic for nine months and never noticed it or even when they were still at Hogwarts, he had acted really stupid then. They had known each other for seven years starting when she walked into their compartment on the Hogwarts express looking for Neville's toad, Trevor, and had mentioned that he had dirt on his nose. He smiled on the inside at the memory but couldn't make it to the surface to show it.
Hermione stood there thinking about how Fred had made fun of her but now that she looked back on it she realized that it was actually pretty funny. While she thought about these things she realized that she had kissed the man of her dreams, and it was the man she had loved since her fourth year at Hogwarts. Yes she had went to the Yule ball with Viktor Krum but that was only because she was mad at Ron for the things he said about her not having a date. She loved him as a friend since the troll incident in their first year, but now she had kissed him, and come to think of it, she had kissed him during a battle. She thought it was romantic but it now it scared her to death. As she was thinking al these things she felt a tear fall from her eye. She didn't know whether it was a tear of happiness or of sorrow. She turned to Ginny trying to comfort her best friend. Ginny was just turning around to look at the entrance of the Great Hall when Hermione saw what Ginny had seen, Harry falling to the floor.
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