A/N: This is for MioneWazlib's 30 Words or Less Challenge. As you can see this chapter is well over 30 words but I needed more to set up the story. I promise that the rest of the chapters will be only 30 words.
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-Prim
Kingsley Shacklebolt, the new Minister of Magic looked out at the people crowded in the Great Hall of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It made him think of his days at Hogwarts. They seemed so long ago, almost a lifetime.
For many people, it had been their lifetime. Kingsley thought of the people whose bodies were laid to rest exactly one month before, people much too young to be dead.
"I'm glad that you all came today." He said and the crowd instantly quieted down. Kingsley had been told his entire life that his voice was calming. He had never gotten that feeling but he valued the quality anyway. It made people more willing to listen to him which had come in handy.
"We all have had terrible losses. Everyone in this room lost someone and the pain is horrible, I know." Visions of Remus who had become his friend on the missions they had gone on together for the Order, Tonks who he had known from her first day as an Auror, Fred who he hadn't known very well but still had valued his ability to lighten the mood, all the other faces of the people he had saw that night laying on these very tables. All of those people had loved ones, families, friends, Remus and Tonks had a son for Merlin's Sake!
"We have had it suggested to us, to find some way to try and find some relief – some way to deal with the pain." He paused and looked out at the crowd. Tears streaked many of the faces. His eyes glanced over at the Weasley family; you could almost visibly see the place where Fred was supposed to be. There were so many other families who had visible holes. Maybe this idea was mad, trying to heal these people but he had to try. "Someone suggested to us, to write letters to the ones we have lost. They don't have to be long, just whenever you see or think of something that reminds you of them, write it down." Kingsley finished and stepped down into a mob of people with questions.