When the War is Over: Epilogue
(I don't own any copyrights to the Harry Potter Series, or anything to do with it. I also don't own any copyrights to the Switchfoot song 'Dare You To Run' either.)
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now...
Everybody waits for you now.
What happens next?
What happens next?
We buried Ginny today. Over and over again I see myself putting the flowers on her coffin; I hear it squeal as it is dropped into the ground. I can smell the fresh dirt as they cover her. She'll sleep forever now. I can't think straight, and the only times I feel like I am thinking clearly are when I'm holding Rachel.
Rachel's cries out for her mother, and how do I explain to her that her mother will never be able to hold her again? How do I console her when I have no way of consoling myself? I took our daughter to Godric Hollow; I got a house there. Most people are just happy the war is over-- most people will do just about anything for the 'Chosen One' and his daughter; I'm the hero who saved us all.
Some hero I am. I couldn't save Ginny...
Dare you to run
Dare you to run
Dare you to lift yourself off of the floor
Dare you to move
Dare you to move
Like today never happened
Like today never happened...
At all...
Today, like most days, I wake up and take care of Rachel, and I do all the things around the house that need to be done, and than I just sit and stare at Ginny's picture. I can't find the energy to go out and live life in this new, free world. I can't bare the thought of being around others, so afraid they are all calling me a failure behind my back.
I went to Hermione and Ron's wedding. I kissed Hermione and clapped Ron on the back. Ginny's mom held Rachel while I played the part of Ron's best man. My thoughts are all scattered because nothing seems to fit right with Ginny gone. Rachel cries, and I cradle her in my arms.
The phone rings, and I answer it. The voice on the other end makes my skin crawl. I drop the receiver, it crashes to the floor. In the background Rachel wails with all the force of her tiny lungs. The voice on the other end, it rings in my head.
"I just saw her!"
"Her who?"
"Ginny!"
"Ginny's dead!"
"No! I just saw her on a street corner, on the arm of a strange man!"
"I don't believe you!"
"Believe me," Ron says, and I can hear Hermione in the background, "I saw Ginny!"
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