Worth It?
They say that reincarnation isn't possible, but is that really true?
We can only hope that it is.
Being the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement was a big and dangerous job, but Hermione took up the challenge.
"I want to take my mind off the war," she told us - Dean and I. "I'm sure you two feel the same way."
We wanted to protest, to tell her that she was at risk of being harmed any moment if she became the Head of the DMLE, but we couldn't. Different people have different ways of coping with traumatic events, after all, and this was Hermione's way.
Tragedy struck, sudden and unexpected, on an innocent Tuesday.
We received letters from the Ministry, informing us of Hermione's passing and asking us to organize her funeral, as her parents could not. We did so, with many tears and much sorrow.
How could she die? I thought to myself. How could Hermione Granger, war heroine, die so easily? Hermione was a very vigilant witch. Who killed her, and why?
I officiated at her funeral, but my mind was on other things.
Voldemort had been reincarnated, though he hadn't really died. Was it possible that we could do the same for Hermione - bring her back to life?
The Death Veil was a mysterious, dangerous thing, just like Death itself.
The Unspeakables weren't that eager to let us experiment with it - because that was what we told them we wanted to do - but Kingsley let us.
Death was a complicated thing, and so was changing death.
Sometimes, sad and angsty stories actually get a happy ending.
It astonished me.
But since we - Hermione, Dean and I, Theodore Nott - got a happy ending, I'm not complaining.
A lesser man might think that all the trouble Dean and I went through wasn't worth it, but to us, seeing Hermione smile again is worth anything.
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Written for Hogwarts, Assignment 2 - mythology - Isis and Osiris and some other stuff