5. Snow

She watches the tiny snowflakes fall and stick onto the ground through the dirty windows of Grimmauld Place.

Mrs Weasley clearly tried very hard to make the house warm and welcoming, but despite her best efforts, Hermione still constantly feels cold. She doesn't know if it's the weather, the grim house or the knowledge that something fundamentally bad is undergoing in the Wizarding World.

The snow also reminds her of where she was supposed to be.

Skiing.

With her parents.

And the guilt that had left her alone peacefully for a few minutes rushes back like a slap in the face.

She shivers, she feels even colder now.

She curls herself deeper in her wooly jumper, her eyes leave the soft slow falling of the snow and find Ron.

Like they always do lately.

She catches him staring at her.

She isn't cold anymore.