Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, I´d be traveling around the world, not writing fanfiction.
A/N: Hermione´s POV at Dumbledore´s funeral.
I am looking at his tomb, but still I can´t believe it. All of it seemed a horrible nightmare, but nothing more then a nightmare. But when Hagrid came carrying his body, shaking with tears, it hit me, terribly, painfully. He was gone. Gone. He wouldn´t be there to help them anymore. How could I not have thought about it before now? I was refusing to believe it, and it had been easier this way. Now, I have to deal with this pain. I had been too worried about Harry to pay any attention to myself. They were considering to close Hogwarts! That´s not really a big deal, I think, as long as I have Harry and Ron by my side. But I can´t fool myself. I can´t bear the idea that I´m never going back to this castle where I lived the most wonderful years of my life, where I learned the meaning of true friendship, and that that it´s way more important then being the best student in the year.
While I´m thinking all this, I stop crying. As the funeral goes on, however, the fear of the different life I have in front of me hits, and I cry again, but this time I feel protecting arms around me, and a warm hand in my shoulder. I look at my right to see Ron, and think that it was in this castle that I´ve met my true love. I lose control when I look into those sweet, and at the moment, caring eyes, and hug him, still crying, as tough my life depended on that touch. To my surprise, he hugs me back, not awkwardly, but in a comforting manner. I realize he´s crying too, and hold him stronger. I was making a mess with his robes, but I´m sure he doesn´t care. Surprising me once more, he says, close to my left ear, in the sweetest voice in the world, " Don´t worry. It´ll be alright", and I feel chills down my spine. At that moment, I believed him, and felt like nothing else could go wrong. How could it, if my baby was protecting me from all evil? At that moment, evil felt so unreal! I feel so much love that evil is not understandable to me. At that moment, nothing else mattered, just laying like that forever.