LIFE, DEATH and RONALD WEASLEY
Brilliant green eyes reflect the pain of an entire magical generation. Oppression, desperation and the results of thoughtless violence have lined the face. A thin mouth is formed in a pale line, another indicator of the times. It would take a small miracle to make it turn upwards into a smile.
Miracles do happen sometimes.
"You have the emotional range of a teaspoon!" Hermione's consternation cuts through the thick tension.
Not all cuts wound.
Three waves of ringing laughter echo through the Gryffindor common room. It was a replay of happier times, happier people. Even stolen moments can be claimed and renewed. Some things would never change. Life, death and Ronald Weasley.
-Ebbtide