And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing, that's all, one thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.
-"The Parting of the Ways" (Doctor Who)
It's only a matter of time, now.
It's always been like that really. This was always going to happen. You were always going to die. This is what's been planned since before you were even born.
But now… Mere minutes.
That's all that stands between you and your death.
The death to which you must surrender yourself; the death to which you must willingly walk.
And they—they have time. They will have time. Time that you yourself could not, cannot, will not, ever dream of. That is what you tell yourself. Because they will survive, they can survive, and they have not been forced to confront this horrible fate.
One of them will kill Nagini, kill Voldemort. The last tattered bits of the Dark Lord's soul shall be killed, just as you are to be.
And all of them—they will all be safe.
Happy. They'll be happy.
They'll have their own lives. They might get married, have kids, have a future. One without Voldemort or Horcruxes or any of that.
Ron and Hermione… Maybe they'll stop fighting. Luna… She'll be able to see the world. And Neville… He could be a Herbologist or even an Auror, if he wanted to.
Ginny—
She could do anything she wanted to do, Ginny. She could play for the Harpies. She could do anything, and you wouldn't be there to put her in danger or to keep her from having a normal life.
And you're so sure they'll be okay, you're so sure they'll be brilliant—she'll be brilliant—that you can't worry about them, even if you had time before your final thoughts of Ginny were interrupted by a blinding flash of green light .
AN: As a reminder: beginning in February, I will be including quotes from John Green's latest novel, The Fault in Our Stars. While there will be no real spoilers (Hazel kills Dumbledore, for example), I will be using quotes from anywhere in the novel, so long as I don't find it too spoilery. Thank you for reading. (: