For Princess Pearl's flavourful prompts competition on NextGen Fanatics Forum.
26th July
candle flavour: toasted chestnut
character: Lysander
prompts: volume, spiral
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He stands under the canopy of the trees in the Hogwarts grounds, listening to the children chattering around him. This has always been such a great place for him to come and think throughout his seven years at Hogwarts, and now that it is coming to an end, it is quite possibly the thing he shall miss the most.
He has deliberated over the love he has harboured for Molly Weasley under this tree, talking with her about how his life has been heading in downward spirals since his parents divorced, wishing every time that this is the time that he decides that he is brave enough to tell her how he feels. This tree has brought him the chance to comfort her through her break up with Scorpius, for him to run his fingers through her chestnut hair and comfort her as a friend… but allowed him the chance to have her close to him, to complete one of his dreams.
As he looks out onto the beautifully idyllic lake to the front of the school he has loved since before he arrived, he realises the sun is setting. It's later than he realised, the volume of the children's chattering decreasing with every step they take back to the school to go to their dorms.
Now, it is truly silent and it leaves him an opportunity to sift through his thoughts, to remember the times he has spent at this school and to lock them in his mind before he leaves in two days time. It allows him to grin as he remembers the time that he brought the entire Weasley clan out here to eat toasted marshmallows on the fire he conjured as they celebrated the birth of Teddy and Victoire's first child, Lindsay, but James accidentally kicked the fire so that it resulted in the tree catching on fire – close call there with McGonagall!
But, most of all, it allows him the chance to think of the girl with the chestnut hair, the girl with the smile so wide that it makes your eyes go starry if you look at it too long, the girl with the warmest heart imaginable.
It allows him to think of Molly.
And that's all that matters.
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Vicky xx