If These Walls Could Talk

by SiriusMarauderFan

365 drabbles and one-shots from within the walls of the Burrow. Daily updates. Written for ToxicRainfall's "365 Days of Drabbles" Challenge on the HPFC. Rating is a precaution.

2. Glory

Glory

There was glory in dying – that's what they all said.

She couldn't understand it. She could understand the need and desire to fight, to defend. But that path only lead to a painful death, and that she couldn't handle. How could she sit by and watch her baby brothers sacrifice themselves?

Hadn't they lost enough already? Fabian's school girlfriend was a casualty in a bombing in a muggle shop. Cassidy Gamp, Molly's maid of honor, was found dead three months after the wedding. Arthur's mother came sobbing to him one night. His cousin had joined You-Know-Who. For the glory.

There was no glory to be seen in the cemetery, on all the fresh graves. No pride on the faces of those left behind. Worse was knowing that sooner or later the war would hit closer to home, and there'd be no coming back.