Negatives
A/N: So now we have Seamus, eh? I'm sorry it's been so long – I make no promises about the updating of any story due to the complications of Real Life. (Yeah, it totally deserves those capitals.)
Disclaimer: Yeah. I'm not JK Rowling, Scholastic, Bloomsbury, or anyone connected to Harry Potter in any sort of official way other than the fandom.
Seamus Finnigan
1. Hollow – Half-Blood Prince
Nora is killed on a Sunday; the news comes that night. Seamus sits outside the Gryffindor common room on a bench and although the first-years stare at him, he cries like a baby.
"Hey." A hand claps him on the back. "You'll be all right, mate?"
"Yeah," he says quietly, because the tears have dried away, and all he can think about is his sister splayed across the floor of her flat, dead, unmoving, her sandy hair in a fan around her face... "Cor."
Dean nods and says, "I'll be inside if you need me."
Seamus inclines his head a little.
It can't be more than a few minutes before something is next to him, and long red hair hangs from a bent face and almost scrapes his hand. Ginny Weasley pats his arm and something wet – a tear, Seamus realizes – falls from her eye onto his fingers. She bats it away angrily.
"I'm sorry," she says. "Nora was like an older sister to me, too."
2. Fierce – Deathly Hallows
They come in the middle of the day. Seamus is alone in the house, his mam being at work and his dad visiting his auntie Kate in Cork.
They knock on the door and act like Muggles. But Seamus knows better, because he recognizes the maniacal glint in Bellatrix Lestrange's eyes.
"I'll kill you like I killed your uncle, boy," she says. "I'll kill you like I killed your sister."
Seamus dodges her spell, Apparates, and stands in Muggle London.