Dear Parvati,
Today was the day you died.
OK, that's not really true. Today was the same day that you died a year ago. That might be more accurate.
It's weird to think that you've been gone a whole year. I still miss you, but it doesn't hurt as much as it did. I don't feel as lost as I did.
Life has kept moving. Today, everyone is celebrating. It's the Anniversary of the battle of Hogwarts. The world started to return to normal on this day last year. The Carrows were sent to Azkaban. The Death Eaters started standing trial. The world stopped living in fear. The world started to return to normal.
My world started to fall apart that day. Before that my world hadn't been so great, with the weekly torture of students and all, but I could handle it. After you died though, the first couple of weeks were awful. It wasn't until I wrote my first letter to you that I felt a little better.
Now though, my world feels like it has started to return to normal. It's not normal yet, but it's getting there. Schools going well and I even laughed yesterday. I saw our parents over Easter break. They are doing well. Their jobs are back to normal, and they were planning a holiday to India for May.
I can hear students partying downstairs in the common room even though it's nearly midnight. The whole school has been rowdy, excited and happy that their school is back the way it's supposed to be. Even the teachers have been much more relaxed and after dinner I could see people celebrating in Hogsmeade.
Not all the students are like that though. All the D.A. that's still at school went to the Room of Requirement after dinner, though we didn't have a party. Instead we just sat there and talked about everyone we lost. You, Lavender, Colin, Lisa, we talked about all of them. It's nice to know that not everyone forgets about the price we paid to end You-Know-who.
Since I'm out of paper, I better finish this up. With Love,
Padma