A Last Honor
The happenings of today had Dennis Creevey bouncing with anticipation and excitement. Five years after the Battle of Hogwarts he had finally finished his project to honor his brother. And if Dennis was honest, it had taken him a lot longer than he had ever expected. His self assigned task was not easy either as he had to cope with the loss of his older brother.
Right now Dennis was walking around with a spring in his step, making sure all the frames were hanging perfectly straight on the walls and nothing was out of place. Afterall, everything had to be perfect when his brothers idol was to be the guest of honor on this event. Dennis slowed down as he walked up to a display with a burned trough camera.
It had taken Dennis a lot of time to find the first camera his brother had used. In Colins first year his camera had been his most prized possession and he carried it everywhere he went with him. That same year the camera saved his life when he encountered a basilisk. Who would have ever though a basilisk could be found in a school full of children. The camera had burned through when Colin tried to take a picture of said basilisk, it had left him petrified for the rest of the year together with others amongst them was war hero Hermione Granger.
The camera had gone missing after Dumbledore had used it to try and find out what was attacking students. Eventually Dennis had found it in one of the rooms provided by the room of requirements.
Dennis let a heavy sight go, only if his brother had a life saver five years ago. They would both have become photographers for the wizarding newspapers and magazines. Sadly that didn't happen because of a madman. Not wanting to make this happy day overly sad the young man walked away from the display once more inspecting the frames on the wall for anything wrong.
After two more rounds past all of the frames and few displays he went back to the reception area, checking in everything was ready for the first guests. When everything was indeed ready, he had to roll out the red carpet out for the guest of honor because someone had forgotten to do it, he went home quickly to get dressed and welcome the first guest.
Unbeknownst to Dennis his brother had been following him over the past five years. It made the big brother proud to see his younger brother make so much effort for him not to be forgotten. Tonight after the events end Colin would move on, it was time and he felt that Dennis was ready as well to move on with his normal life.
So that night Dennis cheerily welcomed a lot of old Hogwarts school, year, house and class mated to the exhibition on Colin Creevey's adventures though a camera. Every person present had some memories to the pictures displayed in the frames. Laughs could regularly be heard through the exhibition when they came across particular funny pictures.
The guest of honor had to admit that the pictures were good memories even if Colin sometimes had really annoyed him in his time at Hogwarts. One of Harry's favourite pictures was the one where Ron had cursed himself to throw up slugs. So at the end of the night as a gift to the guest of honor, Harry received the framed picture of Ron throwing up slugs over and over from Dennis.
All in all was the exhibition an amazing success to Dennis as well as the guests. When Colin was getting ready to leave he was stopped by someone. ''Shouldn't you say goodbye to your brother?'' a soft voice asked him. How it was possible Luna could see him was lost to him but he replied anyway. ''I think I will do that yes, and Luna thank you for coming to my brothers exhibition.'' Colin said and he left the room, leaving Luna alone with a dreamy smile on her face.
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This fiction was written for the Prompt of the day Challenge from The Golden Snitch forum.
For this fiction I used the prompt: (setting) exhibition (March 6th)
Word count: 681
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