Harry found himself unable to move and his gaze never left Ron's corpse, Hermionie was sitting over the body and she was crying terribly, once Harry had left his state of shock he went to comfort his friend, and he held her back has teachers picked up the body and took it out of the compartment, Hermionie freed herself from Harry's grip and followed them, also Malfoy and his company had left. Harry threw himself down on the bench, which Ron had occupied. Ron was dead, he said over in his head until it became real and he cried and couldn't stop until he noticed the defence against the dark arts teacher had not left and his gaze was on Harry until Harry noticed him, he slowly got up and walked out of the compartment.

Once Harry had got rid of any evidence of his crying and felt confident to walk out without crying again, he left the compartment. He had just walked out the door with the hope of finding Hermionie but the his curiosity got the better of him and he hoped he would run into the new defence against the dark arts teacher, at that moment Harry felt sure he had something to do with what had just happened.

The compartment that just held so much fuss and excitement, yell and screams was now empty and as quiet as the grave to people walking by, but something lay shadows invisible to all that passed and had the satisfaction of a job well done.