Flashes from life
Book
Megan Jones
As she stands up and prepares to leave the Great Hall, possibly for ever, she already knows there will be tens, maybe hundreds of books written of the following battle, no matter which side will win.
She won't be mentioned in any of them, unless someone someday wants to list all those people who left with no intention of fighting. Then her name will be written on top of the long list, because she is seventeen years and some months old, because she is adult and therefore she should be willing to give her life for the greater good. If the list is published, no one will want to understand her explanations about her mother and Gwen and her Muggle father and all her little step-siblings (Gil is only six years old and still believes that happy endings exist).
Megan knows all this and still takes William Bones' thirteen-year-old hand (Susan is going to stay and Megan is going to take care of her only brother), looks quickly at the Ravenclaw table, trying to find the dark hair and brown eyes she wants to see. They are there, looking straight at her, pleading her to stay, wanting her to leave.
It's time to go and Megan Jones is brave enough to follow the crowd of those, who won't stay.