It has been a month since the defeat of Voldemort. The entire wizarding community has been celebrating day and night. There have been too many parties to count. In muggle and wizarding communities a like, confetti has been covering the streets. Everyone was restless...Everything was just so much better and brighter, for both muggles and wizards. Everyone...except for many who were at the Battle of Hogwarts, fighting.

Most of these people have been resting. Many were still at St. Mungos; others were enjoying their safe lives. Everyone was mourning their losses; there were too many funerals to count. Most of the battle's survivors were being questioned, no matter how small of a part they had in the battle.

Hogwarts was being reconstructed. This was taking a very long time, even with magic. Whether or not it would be able to open in the fall was unknown at this point, a lot of work still needed to be done. Even if Hogwarts was able to re-open in the fall, it might not. It was Minerva McGonagall's decision…she was the new headmistress. Even if the school did reopen, most students would be far behind on all of the information they need to learn for their classes.

Hermione went to Australia and brought her parents back to England shortly after the battle. She was now staying with them at their house. Hermione has cut herself off from everyone, and everything, in the wizarding world. She has been ignoring all owls sent to her and she has not been reading any school books. She is not ready to face what has happened. So many people she cared about were dead…many more were injured. She also wanted to spend more time with her parents; she almost lost them forever.

The Weasleys were in St. Mungos everyday visiting Ron. He has been in a terrible condition; his status changing everyday. To make it worse, nobody knew what happened to him. He was only awake for an hour or two a day. He barely ate anything. Everyone was extremely worried about Ron.

Harry has been staying at the burrow since the war. Like usual, he was staying in Ron's room. This was extremely hard on him, considering Ron's current condition. Harry also blamed himself for everything: Hermione cutting herself off from the wizarding world, Everyone's death, and Ron's injury. He spent most of his time at the burrow, avoiding attention from everyone.

Harry had been doing everything to keep himself busy. If he had time to think, he would go crazy. He might be happy that Voldemort is gone, but too many people were lost in the process. There was not a single person in the wizarding world that was not effected be the war. He thought that he could have stopped all of these deaths, if only he had killed Voldemort earlier. He felt this made it his fault they were dead. He refused to listen when anyone told him it's not his fault that they died.

There was another reason he did not want to think, he would become very nervous.

What if she did not love him?
What if she was mad at him for abandoning her?

Harry avoided Ginny at all cost, only being in the same room as her doing meals. Ginny avoided harry in return, making him believe the worst. Everyone, even Ron, was trying to force them to talk, but it never worked.

For all of those who fought at the final battle, life was not going smoothly.