A/N Five drabbles of exactly 100 words. First one is random and
takes place years after HBP, while the next four are how Harry, Ron,
Hermione, and Ginny are feeling just after the end of HBP. May add more
later...
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters...
Drabbles
Luna
No one ever understood it of course. Not even my dad, who knew everything. Not even Hermione Granger, who thought she knew everything, but didn't understand faith. When my mom died, I found an old, empty scrapbook and drew a daisy. It wasn't very good, but I painted it yellow and wrote my name beneath it in block letters. I drew a tulip when Cedric died, and coloured it. Next was a daffodil for Dumbledore, a pansy for Neville, and a lily for Remus when they died too. No one ever understood it. But then, no one ever understood me.
Hermione
I guess I shouldn't expect more. After all, I am just the brain. I spout facts, and remember the things that they don't, so they need me. But I can't help wishing that one of them needed me in a different way. He could never love me, even though he's glad I'm around to finish his homework, and get him out of trouble. Harry and him would have gotten lost long ago if I weren't there to get them back on track and administer a healthy dose of reality. But I'll always be the annoying bookworm. Not his dream girl.
Ron
I guess I shouldn't expect more. After all, I am just the strategist. I plan the attack and prepare the defense, so they need me. But I can't help wishing that she needed me in a different way. She could never love me, I'm always forgetting things, and I don't do well in school. Harry and her would make a much better couple, even though he doesn't think of her that way. I'll always be on the sidelines; helping in what ways I can, but never earning my own glory. I'm not her dream man. Not in a million years.
Ginny
I'll always love him of course. But I know he has to leave me now, to save the world once again. And even though I want to go with him, to protect him with all I've got, I know I've got to let him go. I won't follow him on his dangerous journey, because he needs to focus on what he's doing. If I go, he is always going to be looking around to make sure I'm okay. I can't let that happen, because then Voldemort will win. But if he dies, I know my heart will die with him.
Harry
It was the hardest thing I've ever done. Walking away from her that last day. I don't regret it, because at least now she is safe. But that doesn't make this any easier. It's not fair, but then, when was anything in my life fair? I can only hope that if I don't die, she won't have moved on, that she will be willing to take me back. I know that she'd fight if she had to. She'd probably even win. But I don't want to take that chance, because to me, she is everything. She is my whole world.