A young man of about 20 walked through the cemetery and
stopped at a flowered grave. A soft tear slid down his cheek. He was caring a
card, a laminated card. He sat down and began to speak.
"She had her baby last week. That's why I didn't visit.
She's beautiful. Like you were. I just can't seem to forget you. As I held her,
my wife, at the hospital, it was really not her I was holding. I saw you. I
kissed her neck softly and winced, it was too painful to think. You, the one
with the soft brown hair, who had captured my heart. You the one who taught me
more than anything else at school. I loved you. I loved you more than I could
grasp, more than you could say, more than we could comprehend. You threw it all
away, for me, and for humanity.
It's not that I don't love her. I do, very much. It' just
that…you.
When I heard my newborn cry. I remembered that night. When
she and I made love. But it wasn't she and I. It was you, your skin caressing
mine. I needed you. I wanted you. Out of love and selfishness. You sacrificed
your self for everyone. You saved my life as well as the worlds. You took the
blast before I could. I finished him out of anger, but more out of love. Love
for you.
I must move on, they said. The sadness will pass, they
said. I had hopes and dreams, you had them, we had them. They all died the
night you did. The night people celebrated, toasted, sang. The night the dark
lord was vanquished. Three years later, the celebrations have stopped. I shall
move on. I will remain the world champion seeker, on 422 different trading
cards. I will be a great father to my beautiful daughter. My child, my brown
haired beauty. She was not named after her mother, or after her godmother. She
now has the name that you should have had."
He stood up and lay the card down on the soil.
Harry and Lauren
Are happy to announce the arrival
Of their daughter.
Hermione Anne Potter
April 5, 2000
7 pounds, 11 ounces
21 inches
"Good bye Hermione. I'll love you forever more."
AN: Wasn't that weird? I don't know if I liked it or not.
I'm not a Herm/Harry person. I know my fic I used a lot of fragments, I can't
help it.
D:
All the characters used above belong to J.K. Rowling, excluding Lauren (she
knows who she is) who belongs to herself, and Hermione Anne Potter who belongs
to me.
