Assignment 14: Muggle studies - Muggle education in the UK
Task #2: Write a 'Five Stages of …'-themed story (preferably one scene per stage). For example: Five Stages of Taking an Exam, Five Stages of Procrastination, Five Stages of Pining, etc.
Word count: 522
Five stages of grief
"The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief."
Denial
"Noo!"
Hermione felt her heart break upon seeing Severus fall after being bitten by Nagini. She run to him, forgetting about Harry and Ron, forgetting couldn't die. Not now. Not at the end.
She watched in a trance as he gave Harry his memories and how with his last breath he murmured at "I love you" before closing his eyes.
But Hermione couldn't just let him go. She needed him. So she didn't move when Harry and Ron asked her to leave and told her it was too late. She refused to believe that it was too late.
II. Anger
She was so angry at the moment. Severus was a hero for all intents and purposes! He should be treated like such. Even if he was on the death bed! He deserved respect.
She was angry at the world and especially at the late Headmaster. If it wasn't his wish for Severus to spy perhaps Severus wouldn't have almost died. And even so the world didn't seem to care.
Hermione wanted to shout and scream. He deserved better.
III. Bargaining
She was ready to do everything. She would do everything if it meant making him alright. She would go to every Healer in the world or Muggle doctor until she found one to save him.
Anything and everything. She couldn't lose him.
IV. Depression
She had stopped caring what happened to her after the tenth doctor told her there were no chances to save him.
She had stopped eating and sleeping and no matter what Harry,Ron or Ginny told her she wouldn't give up until she found a way. Not even the thought of finding her parents could cheer her up anymore. Nothing. Without Severus there was no world to live in. She couldn't even think of such a world.
For Hermione death was a better option.
V. Acceptance
After a year the pain had started to fade away. She had become more rational. Severus wouldn't want her to die, she knew that. It also helped that now she wasn't alone any longer. She had a reason to live, her daughter, Elise. Or better said, their daughter.
Elise was a mini Severus with Hermione's nose. He would have loved that.
She had accepted that there wasn't a way to save him, to wake him up from his coma, but she wasn't going to let go just yet. Her daughter deserved to meet her father one day, even if he was asleep.
Also, it helped that she had found a letter from him telling her to live her life, to he happy even after he was gone.
….
Two months later when she took Elise to meet him for the first and last time the Healers told her that he had woken up.
