Nearly Headless Nick left immediately after the service was over, but not without saying goodbye and telling Natalie, again, how happy he was to finally meet her. Isaac watched him go, the longest, and felt like he had a stomach ache caused by spoiled milk. Filch noticed, at the last minute, and touched his shoulder to get him to join the group's conversation.
Father McKenzie told Harry, "There're some pictures of your mother," he gestured to the board Filch and Isaac had looked at, when they first come in, "over there. You can see them, before you go."
Harry nodded and followed him over, along with everyone else.
Harry stared at younger phases of his mother, as Father McKenzie gave little anecdotes about each of the photographs Lily was in.
There was one of her, as a first year, and Isaac, as a second year, on either side of a barn owl who had a broken wing. Isaac had jumped in to explain, after Father McKenzie shared that his name had been Crafty, "A fourth year Ravenclaw girl and two seventh year Slytherin boys had been attacking him in the owlery. I found them and- Well, they're backs were turned—I stunned them-"
Harry gave him an impressed look and said, "Thanks. I mean I'm sure my mum was thrilled. I know that's how I would feel, if someone saved Hedwig, my owl, for me."
Isaac nodded.
Father McKenzie, who had been watching Isaac, like Filch and Natalie, brought their attentions back to the photographs. There was one of a second year Lily and a first year Ashley motioning, enthusiastically, to the church, on the front steps.
Besides pictures of Lily, there were ones of Alice, Frank, two girls named Silvia Stone and Alison Knott, Filch, and all the Snape siblings.
A third year Snape and Filch covered their ears, as if fourth year Isaac's singing voice was terrible. Filch confessed, "It really isn't. He was in the school choir, after all. He got a lot of solos too."
Isaac insisted, "Well, Professor Falyn, who was the music professor back then, knew I was good at memorizing songs-"
"And that you had the best voice." Filch added.
Isaac smiled, briefly and appreciatively, at Filch.
There was a picture, from their fourth year, where Alice surprised Frank by kissing him on the cheek.
Another showed Filch and Alison, in Hogsmeade, on a horse.
One from Snape's first year of him and Filch, leaning, outside, against the church wall, looking off into a sunset.
Another showed a sixth year Isaac and fifth year Lily having a snow ball fight against Alice and Ashley.
A somber picture, from Snape's fifth year showed himself, his siblings, Filch, Alison, and Silvia seated together at the front of the church.
There was one from Snape's second year of Silvia, himself, Lily, and Ashley waving to the camera, on a bright spring day.
The picture next to it was of a fourth year Isaac and third year Alison, dramaticly, shaking their heads as third year Alice and Frank pretended to have an argument.
There was only one of any of them alone: Isaac, as a first year, laughing at something Father McKenzie had been doing or saying behind the camera.
There was one picture of the kids that made Isaac, as well as Filch and Father McKenzie, feel like he had been sentenced to the dementor's kiss. Natalie swept her eyes over the three of them and had a good, gloomy idea about what they were remembering.
In the picture, from Snape's fourth year, all of the kids were standing in front of the pews, facing the door. Alice, Frank, and Isaac were looking through the hymnal Frank was holding. Alison and Silvia waved to the camera, like beauty pageant winners. Lily stood behind Ashley, hugged her, and rocked her back and forth. Filch, who was chuckling a little, stood at the end, next to Snape.
Snape, however, saw something at the door that made him look like there was a thick, icy sludge in his throat. Harry and Hermione noticed, but felt like mentioning it, somehow, wouldn't be a good idea, unless they wanted to be lied to