This is one of many submissions to the Prompt Relay Challenge in the Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges forum. For those of you not familiar with the challenge, there are ten stages we have to write for, each stage having anywhere from five to twenty-plus story prompts we must fill before moving onto the next stage.

Stage Three: Young Adult

He hadn't even been warned of the utter shit storm that awaited him at home.

Apparently Seamus' parents had been staying in separate rooms since he left for his fifth year at Hogwarts, but they had failed to tell him anything was wrong. The shock of the realization and how normally his parents spoke of this whole situation angered the teen more than the inevitable divorce did. How could they be so casual about this? Did the unity of their family mean so little? And what about how he felt about all this?

Not that they had even asked how he felt or how he was coping.

Seamus couldn't even talk to his friends about it. Divorce was so uncommon in the magical world that most people didn't know anyone who had gone through the lengthy process. But because his parents had been married as muggles, it was only a matter of signing some paperwork. Something he knew was only being put off for his supposed benefit. It was only a matter of time before the final pin would drop and everything would be permanent.

Seamus couldn't decided if he would rather they try to give this family another shot, or if they would just hurry up and get it over with already. Guilt from wishing either overwhelmed him every time the thoughts overtook his mind.

September couldn't come soon enough, but when it's time to leave the teen couldn't help but feel like he was running away, that there must be some way he can fix this.

There just has to be; he's a wizard for crying out loud!

But he couldn't figure out how in time.

I'm not sure how I feel about this one to be honest. As a child of divorce I found this subject a lot harder to write about than I expected. I spent a lot of time stewing over this, trying to add more emotion and make it longer, but I'm stumped. It's time to move on, so here's what I've got. I may change it in the future, but I can't focus on it any more right now.