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our dancing days
x. one
mollyarthur
There are seventy years of Molly&Arthur.
They first meet when they are eleven; two Gryffindors as fiery as their hair who might've clashed if they hadn't shared a joke that first day. They're each other's one. And maybe it's a little rushed, but their entire lives will be like that, so they might as well get used to it.
They get married at the age of twenty-one. Because they're twenty-one and selfish, and twenty-one and scared, and this is their one chance.
Their final son is born when they're thirty-one. He's feisty and perfect and he's not the only one, but he's not Ginerva Molly Weasley, the girl that could've been. Molly&Arthur will love him, though, because that's who they are.
They're seeing their son off at the platform when they're forty-one, and "Mum, is that Harry Potter?" And "You've got dirt on your nose, Ronald!" That's when their comfortable, feisty little family begins the end of their era.
When they're fifty-one, they're seeing their daughter getting married, just because her and her saviour couldn't wait. It reminds Molly too much of Bill and Fleur, but Arthur sees themselves in the newly printed wedding photographs.
On Molly's sixty-first birthday, they have to come to terms with the fact that little Victoire is going to Hogwarts and this is their one new generation. They're not just parents anymore.
And it's almost odd to think that they had all once gotten on the same one train.
On Arthur's seventy-first birthday, the Burrow is empty of children and grandchildren alike, and they are allowed to sit in silence. And mourn.
They first meet when they are eleven; at the age of eighty-one, they part. Molly whispers a seventy-year old joke into his hearing aid and the old man chuckles in his armchair. They're each other's one, and finally they are allowed to watch the world come, and go, and they don't have to rush.
Seventy years of Molly&Arthur have come to a close. Arthur Weasley lasts only one vivid hour after his wife's death, before he joins her on their next great adventure.