10. Morgue

The silence shakes him the most.

It's the first time he enters such a pristine white place.

Even the hospital room where Hermione gave birth to their children wasn't as white and clean. And there was definitively noise. He closes his eyes and remembers the vibrant yellow walls of the maternity ward, Hermione's face contorted in pain, Rose's screams as she came to life. Hugo hadn't start crying for a full minute and he recalls the Healers agitated state, but then his son had let out a soft, almost calm, cry and then he had been fine.

But he's not in the maternity ward today, and there's no baby being born.

Instead, today Ron holds his wife's hand as she says goodbye to her father.

It's not the last goodbye he knows that, because there will be a wake and funerals.

This is, the first goodbye, and somehow it's the worst.

He feels Hermione's hand tighten around his, and all he can do is squeeze back because he doesn't know what to say.

He watches the still body of the man he once feared because he was his girlfriend's dad. He seems so frail now. Ron's throat constrict. He feels numbs.

Everything is so quiet.