Written for the Charms Assignment #1 of Term 6 at Hogwarts. The prompt was "Write about someone who feels as if the weight of the world has been lifted off their shoulders".
Word Count: 450
When Jennifer Brown first heard the news, she did not believe it. The message was simply too good to be true.
You-Know-Who, defeated?
She had prayed for that during the last eleven years; for good reasons, too.
For one thing, Jennifer was a muggleborn. That was not exactly something anyone could want to be in the last decade.
Then there was her beloved daughter, Su Li. The name came from her father's side of the family. Marrying Hu Li—or rather Li Hu, because that was the way he had grown up with—had involved a lot of confusing paperwork, but she would not trade it for anything in the world. He was a wonderful father and husband and he was more than worth the time and effort they had put into their marriage.
Finally there was the fact that she was a healer at St. Mungo's. Well, technically speaking a healer apprentice, but that didn't really matter in this case. That status difference only made you a tad more overworked, if anything. Because you were helping out several healers at once, often working on up to twelve percent at the same time.
If there was anything that You-Know-Who could be trusted with then it was creating—emotionally and physically—injured people.
And corpses, of course. You-Know-Who was quite good when it came to corpses, which was obviously a very bad thing. Despicable and horrible.
When she heard the news, Jennifer was incredibly relieved and delighted.
She wouldn't need to worry about the lives of her family anymore.
She was free of the constant worry hanging over her head.
Her workload would finally reduce—or at least stop increasing—and she would be able to spend more time with her family once again. In the past months—ever since she had started her job—there had been no time for this, but she had needed to do everything she could to help.
How could she stand by and do nothing—essentially pretending that the war was not happening in the first place—when everyone else she knew was trying their best to stop the man? Her best friend, Emmeline Vance, and even Hu were risking their lives as Auror?
This—You-Know-Who dying—was better than she could have dreamed to hope for. Jennifer could have danced and sung, only barely managing to hold herself back in front to the patients.
That changed when she got home. Jennifer fell into her husband's arms and cried tears of happiness until their daughter woke up a couple of minutes later.
She spent the rest of the day playing with and entertaining Su.
It was the best day she had had in a while.
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~Marvelgeek42