Here we are with Chapter 16. I had trouble getting started with this chapter, since the prompt was so un-Harry Potter. I think I managed okay though.

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Anywho, onward!

16. Church
Sunday

There is a faint pop outside the door, and a second later Harry and Ginny enter, looking weary.

"I'm glad you waited for me," says Ginny quietly, laying her unobtrusive Muggle coat on the table. "I would have hated for you to go alone."

Harry just nods, stripping off his gloves.

"We're always so solemn when we go there," she continues. "I forget how pretty it is."

Harry says nothing.

"We should go when it's not so cold one day," she says. "We never go in summer. Your mum's birthday's in January and your dad's is in March, and of course Hallowe'en… We should have a day where we don't have to be sad."

Harry can't imagine going to Godric's Hollow without being sad, but he concedes that it would be nice. It was once, after all, his home, and going only to mourn is starting to give the place a horrible stigma in his mind.

"Just make sure it's not a Sunday," he says eventually. "Everyone in the church was staring at us. It was kind of weird."

"We were sort of interrupting the service," says Ginny. "But we'll go on another day next time. We shouldn't draw too much attention to ourselves."

Harry hadn't thought of it that way. He'd only thought of the inconvenience to him, the awkwardness the church-goers had caused them in their dutiful visit to the graveyard. He finds it difficult to remember, sometimes, that the little church has significance to the faithful too.

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