Do you get annoyed of seeing a lovely story interrupted with me saying that I don't own Harry Potter? Cause I really do.
Somehow I thought seeing her dead would make me feel better. The woman who had been the bane of my existence, the one who had ruined my childhood, was gone. But I felt no different. My joy at the thought that the tormentor was gone was hidden by my grief. So many had died tonight. All of those that I love, Remus, Tonks, Fred. And her. But she isn't one that I love.
I look at all the bodies lying in a row in the Great Hall. I see families, clumped together, with dirt and tear stained faces. The Weasleys all huddled near Fred and Tonks and Remus. And Dennis is standing over Collin's limp form. But this place holds nothing for me; I turn and walk out of the Hall, leaving the grieving families behind.
Off down a few corridors is another room of dead. But these are the dead that nobody wants to see. The ones that nobody wants to grieve over. Off in the corner I see Antonin Dolohov, who killed Remus. And I see Alecto Carrow, who killed Tonks after she killed Dolohov. But off to the side apart from all the Death Eaters I see the body I'm looking for. She lies next to her master, the one she was so devoted to and the one she was in love with. But he never loved her back. He recognized her as a faithful servant and nothing more.
Her wild mane of black hair was spread around her, and her fingers were curled around a wand. Not hers, but a wand. Her eyes were closed, and they wouldn't open again. This woman had killed so many, Sirius, and others. She had driven his parents insane. But he didn't feel any better that she's dead. Her body is limp, and doesn't stir. Beside her the pale skin of her master glows in the candlelight. His slits for eyes and a nose don't twitch.
He silently thanks the woman who lies dead before him. If it weren't for her, then maybe he wouldn't have had something to look up to. Maybe he wouldn't be the person he is today. If she hadn't ruined his life, he wouldn't have killed the snake, or fought in the Battle. None of this would've happened. Maybe, what she did changed his life for the better.