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Life goes on
Part 1
The tension was practically visible. Every one was silent, each preparing for the battle ahead in their own personal way. Hermione Granger watched as her best friend, Harry Potter, sat restlessly beside her, his left hand moving through his thick black hair. She knew he was scared, she knew he was trying not to look nervous. It was the way he repeatedly twisted his wand in his right hand, something so simple but said so much.
Harry knew, just as everyone in the great hall did, that this was going to be the Final Battle. She looked away from Harry to the other people in the room, knowing that this might be the last time she saw some of them. Each time they had a battle the light side lost someone, the first had been Cedric, back during their fourth year. Sirius had been next; the first death, the one that hit home, She had known Cedric, but he hadn't meant as much to her as Sirius. Cedric was just a fellow student, Sirius was practically family. His death had been a reminder that heroes and the good side sometimes lost, the good guy could die.
By the summer after 6th year, there had been more raids mostly muggles but also wizards, witches, this brought the death toll to over 500. Snape being discovered as a spy, the Order had not received any inside information into Voldemort's actions so the Order had a set back. Dumbledore had bits of news. After Snape had been discovered the order decided to send another undercover.
That was how her best friend Ronald Arthur Weasley had become a Death Eater and a hero for the Order. It had been over a year since Ron first went undercover as a follower of Voldemort, reporting back to the Order every chance he got. Ron's inside information had the result of several of Voldermorts victims being saved by members of the order.
She was proud of Ron for accepting such a responsibility; she had seen him change from being a weedy little boy into a fully brave man. She had never seen his dark mark fully before, only from a distance she caught a glimpse of it, but Ron saw her looking his way and covered it up. Harry had seen it of course, much to the dismay of Ron, he didn't want any of his friends to see it. To him in was a reminder of what he had to do after he left his friends; he had to go to the evilest form of evil there was. Tonight, he was with Voldermort, there was a plan to attack a small town near north England.
Hermione wondered what Ron was doing as the prepared for the battle. Molly, not wanting her youngest son hurt during the battle had put a red tie to his black robe. Ron was suppose to remove his mask and help the Order when most of the other death eaters where down. Ron was the only Gryfffindor to join Voldermort, Most new Death Eaters were from Slytherin and a few from Raveclaw and only one from Hufflepuff. She knew that Draco Malfoy had joined Voldemort round the time Ron did, Malfoy seemed to be friendly with Ron at times, which was a turn up for the books.
Ron had gone saying he was tired of helping Harry with everything and never getting in on the celebrity status that Harry got. Nobody ever saw the people behind him, they only saw Harry Potter. Voldemort had agreed, pleased to have extra close information on Harry, the kind only someone close to Harry could provide. Voldermort believed Ron was faithful to him, but out of the enemies eyes Ron was still their best friend but because Malfoy had involvement with Voldemort, their friendship had changed, they were forced to be less friendly to each other, they couldn't go out and act to what they considered normally like they could before. Ron had to be seen as to only like them because they gave him critical information which he would pass on to Voldermort. It had been strange not having Ron as part of the trio.
Hermione turned her attention back to the people in the hall, she saw Neville frantically flicking his wand and practicing silent curses. Fred and George Weasley were both silently playing a game of exploding snap; the cards had a silent spell on then as not to make a noise, and the twins paid little attention to the game. Both boys had grown up over the years, they still were pranksters but they had matured at the seriousness of what lie a head, their little brother went out everyday risking his life for the good of wizard kind and they along with everyone else didn't know if they would ever see him again after he left or if every time he was late to meet them was it because he was dead.
The other Weasleys were also quiet, Percy was sat looking at a stonewall, he had come back after his betrayal in their 5th year. His family was only too welcoming to have him back, Hermione was glad too, she had once looked up to Percy he was a brilliant prefect and made a good head boy, but that was before he left school. She hadn't seen him much since he re-joined his family, but the Weasleys were like her family so she was glad to have him back amongst them. Bill was watching Ginny and she was watching Harry, her boyfriend of the last year. Hermione couldn't imagine what it was like for her, they would all miss Harry terribly if he died or Ginny if she did, but Harry and Ginny would miss each other more because they were more linked than anyone else was to them, they was romantically linked to each other.
There was one Weasley who wasn't there, Charlie, he had sadly died about 9 months ago when Voldermort and his death eaters attacked the dragon colony where Charlie worked in Romania, something even Ron didn't know about, Voldermort had attacked the colony during a time when Ron had been told to get more information on Harry. Hermione looked at Dumbledore, he looked older than usual. He was a old man and all the anticipation and worry had not done him any favors.
Lupin was sitting quietly with his eyes shut, he wasn't a sleep she knew where his thoughts lie, they lied with Tonks, his new wife that was murdered by Lucius Malfoy after a small battle a few members of each side had, they had only been married a few months when Lucius attacked her with a dragon tooth dagger. Tonks died in her husbands arms a hour after been stabbed. Lucius Malfoy got his comeuppance, he along with many death eaters that day was killed by the order, Remus had the pleasure of sending the killing curse at him. Hermione felt sorry for him, she was present at his and Tonks wedding, after 2 years of being together, since the end of 5th year, Tonks accepted Remus proposal and the next month they was married and now he was widowed. Moody had soon followed Tonks death.
Snape was sitting across from him, full of concentration Hermione could tell her ex-potions master was worried, she had never seen him so worried, she knew it was because he had not seen Voldermort since he found out about his betrayal and he couldn't avoid it tonight.
Hermione was safe in the knowledge that she was either going to see Voldemort defeated or she was going to die fighting a good cause. As soon as they knew the battle would take place tonight she wasted no time in telling the ones she loved that she cared about that she loved them, in case she never came back to them.
"It is time" a soft voice spoke, drawing everyone in the hall out of his or her own trances and to their feet.
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End of Part 1
To be continued...
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