As today is the anniversary of the battle of hogwarts, let us not only remember those we lost. Please also remember those who survived, and would never be the same again.
Remember how Ginny and Luna and Hermione duelled Bellatrix and lived. Even if Luna had spent months in her cellar and even if Hermione had been tortured by her far too recently.
Remember how even if he may have been the surviving twin, George would never feel whole again.
Remember Lavender fought and made it out barely, with an everlasting reminder of how close she was to death.
Remember how Sybill Trelawney fought for everyone who’d ridiculed her and did it in her own way by bombarding death eaters with glass balls.
Remember that Minerva Mcgonagall had to fight with her students against her students. How she would never stop feeling as if somehow she was responsible for their actions.
Remember how Narcissa lied to Voldemort and fought without a wand, because her son’s life would always matter more than her own.
Remember how Neville kept everyone’s hope up (in the movies) even if all seemed lost when Harry died. He finally felt like he made his parents proud. (Even if they would never recognize it)
Remember how Harry would forever feel guilty. Would forever feel as if he hadn’t done enough. As if somehow the thousands and thousands of lives he’d saved weren’t enough for the fifty he couldn’t.
Remember that surviving a war doesn’t come without cost.
That each and every person who fought in the battle of hogwarts would forever be changed by it and the war it ended.
They would never be the same.
May 2 1998 // The Battle Of Hogwarts
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