It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
~Andrew Wyeth
3) Moonstruck
"All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness."
― L.M. Montgomery
It was ridiculous, she knew, that this was the moment when she realised that the Wizarding World was no better than the culture that she had grown up in. She had seen the corruption of its government and experienced prejudice, but still she had clung to the idea of the idyllic society her imagination had conjured up when she had first discovered that magic existed. Yet it was only now, staring at her friends and wondering how on earth they could think her mad for disagreeing with slavery, that she fully understood how wrong she had been.
A/N: Just in case I encounter the same problem as the last chapter with this one, this was from the perspective of Hermione. The previous chapter, 'Vague Misery', I originally wrote with Doctor Granger (Hermione's father) in mind; however, in retrospect, you could consider it to be that of anyone who lost a child in either war.
