Come Away With Me – Ginny
Dear Draco,
I graduate next week. They're going to make me learn how to be a healer. They think it will keep me safe, occupied. I'm sure they're hoping the war will be over before I learn enough to be of any use. They won't let me fight. They won't tell me anything about what's going on. I have no purpose here. I'm no use to anyone. They want to put me on a shelf, to keep me a child forever. I can't stay here.
After I graduate I'm going away. I'm going to America. I'll figure out what I'm going to do when I get there. At this point I don't really care as long as it's done anywhere but here. I'm tired of their lies. They tell me they care about me and only want what's best for me but they don't even listen to me, they don't even know me, so how can they have a clue what I need?
I know we were only friends for a year. I know there have been two years since. I know we haven't talked since the day you walked away. I know you probably think I'm crazy for writing to you.
I don't know whether you became a death eater or not, but I don't care. I really don't. You listened to me. You cared about me. You got to know me. I fell in love with you.
I've tried to tell myself I was only a child, but I haven't been a child since my first year. I've tried to tell myself that you can't fall in love with someone that fast, but why not? I've tried to tell myself that it's been too long, that you can't be the same person, but I might like who you've become even more, and if I wouldn't like it at all, well, that doesn't really matter, does it? If you've become someone I wouldn't trust, wouldn't love, than this letter won't make a difference and I'll never see you again.
You did something to me. You touched my heart in a way I don't understand. You got close to me in a way I didn't know was possible. You told me once that if we lived in a different world, a different time, you would want more. Come away with me. We can make that world.
Come away with me. We can escape them all. Neither of us is needed here. Neither of us will be missed because no one really cares but us. Come away with me. Meet me at the Shrieking Shack. I'm going to spend the night there after graduation. You know the date. Please, come away with me. I want to rest safe in your arms again.
Ginny
I'll never stop loving you.