Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light. - Albus Dumbledore
Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light:
16. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Electra walked up to the Burrow her black funeral clothes packed into her bag. Mrs. Weasley met her outside the front door. "I'm glad you could make it dearie," she said hugging Electra. "Why don't you head inside and change?"
Electra nodded. "Yeah I will thanks." She headed inside and was about to head up to a bathroom when Bill stopped her.
"Electra can we talk?" he asked from the living room.
"Yeah," she said walking over. They sat down on a sofa.
"So I got your letter and I spoke to the Head of Gringotts," Bill said.
Thank you Lord Hermes for getting my letter here quickly, Electra thought planning on giving a sacrifice to the God in thanks. "What did he say?"
"He agreed to see you," Bill said. "He was a little hesitant at first and certainly was more than a little angry."
"Well that's understandable considering what he believes happened," Electra said.
"Believes?" Bill asked. "So you didn't break into a high security vault and ride the dragon out through the roof?"
"I had every right to enter the vault hence there was no breaking and entering," Electra explained. "If you want to be there when I explain everything to the Goblins you can be."
"I might just take you up on that," Bill said. "They want to see you the day after tomorrow at nine in the morning."
"That works for me," Electra said. "I'll meet you at the Leaky Cauldron fifteen minutes prior then?" Bill nodded and Electra went to go change.
Electra was pinning her front sections of hair back with a black rose clip when someone knocked on the door. She said that they could come in and Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny came in.
"Mum said you were here," Ron said.
"Yeah I got here about five minutes or so ago," she said pulling on her heels. "I had to speak with Bill before I came up here."
"Because of what happened at Gringotts?" Harry asked.
Electra nodded. "I'm going to sort everything out in two days. Clean up the mess that Griphook caused when he lied."
"How are you planning on doing that?" Hermione asked.
"By explaining how we were legally allowed to enter Bellatrix's vault and why we didn't alert them as to why we were doing so," Electra replied.
"How was breaking and entering legal?" Ron wondered confused.
"I was right. The head of house can legally enter any vault of a family member and since Rodolphus Lestrange was dead the Lestrange vaults were in the care of his wife Bellatrix Lestrange née Black."
Mrs. Weasley called up to them for them to come down. They headed downstairs with Electra putting her earrings in.
The funeral for Fred, Remus and Tonks was over fairly quickly though it felt like it took forever. Electra felt her gut wrench every time she saw George's broken expression, the devastated faces of the rest of the Weasley family, Harry trying to remain strong even as they buried the last connection to his parents, Hermione trying to comfort Ron even as tears flowed down her face, and Andromeda holding Teddy as her daughter and son-in-law were buried so soon after she lost her husband. She stayed quiet throughout and after the funeral afraid to say the wrong thing and not knowing the right thing to say since her mourning process was completely different from their's due to being a daughter of Hades.
Electra stayed through lunch the next day and then said her farewells before leaving for Arizona. She shadow travelled to an alley near Clarisse's home and then walked the rest of the way. Electra knocked on the door and Chris answered it.
"Hey Electra Clarisse's in the living room," Chris said smiling. "It's good to see you in one piece still."
"Very funny Chris," Electra said as she followed him in.
"Please tell me you've spent the time you've been over in England you've been kicking ass," Clarisse said standing up and hugging Electra.
"Yeah," Electra said smiling. "So what was so important you had to IM me out of the blue?"
"Well we needed an answer and I wanted to ask you in person," Clarisse said.
"I'm here now," Electra said. "What did you want to ask me?"
"I was wondering if you would be my maid of honor?"
It took Electra a moment to process the meaning behind the question. She hugged Clarisse. "Of course! Congratulations! So when's the wedding?"
"We haven't decided on a specific date yet but we're looking at between the end of March and the beginning of April," Chris said as he received a hug from the daughter of Hades.
"I'll have to get some time off school but I will definitely be there," Electra said smiling.
"I thought this was your last year," Clarisse said as they sat down.
"It was supposed to be but since I didn't attend my family for the most part is pretty insistent that I go back and complete my schooling. Apparently they think it would be a good idea in case I ever want to get a job that requires N.E.W.T.s or as an auror."
"Wouldn't being an auror require whatever newts are?" Chris wondered.
"Normally yes but because of my efforts with helping to end the war our interim Minister is allowing me and several others who fought on the side of the light to join the aurors straight out of school," Electra explained. "N.E.W.T.s by the way are Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests. They're basically exams that cover everything you learned in your last two years of school."
"Glad I never had to take those," he said grimacing.
"Same here," Clarisse said prompting Electra to make a face at them. "So have you been back to Camp yet?"
"Yeah I went there the day before yesterday," Electra said.
"So you've heard Prissy's news then?" Clarisse said grinning. Electra nodded smiling.
"What have you been up to over in merry old England?" Chris asked.
Electra proceeded to talk about the past year some parts with a little hesitancy. Clarisse of course loved the parts where Electra was fighting and Chris found the fact that she "broke into" and "robbed" a bank that had never been successfully robbed before. Once Electra was done the couple told her what they'd been up to since they'd last seen each other and the wedding plans so far.
Clarisse insisted that Electra stay the night since she'd just shadow traveled there and would have to have to head back to England before two in the morning so that she could be on time for her appointment with Bill at Gringotts.