✔ Chapter 14: Intertwined

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        Nine months.

        Nine months of tirelessly hunting for Horcruxes with your friends. Nine months you've gone without your soulmates, Fred and George.

        Every single day, your mind flooded with vivid images of them. Desperately clinging and hoping they don't turn into a fleeting memory, wanting to keep it fresh as the first day you met them. Like how their eyes that twinkled with laughter, teeth that glistened as they smiled and their flaming red hair that rustled in the wind as they ran from yet another successful prank.

        The two ring lines that glowed on your little finger kept you going. You hoped the letter you slipped into George's pocket would be enough for them, but knowing they were alive was assurance enough for you to calm your ever growing worry. It's been far too long. So much time has passed since you last saw the sadness and confusion in their eyes at the wedding. You had almost forgotten the sound of their voice and the touch of their skin. Your heart twinged and longed for them desperately. You missed them so much that sometimes it was almost hard to breathe. And when the anxiety subsides, all is left is the pang in your chest that never wants to leave.

        But despite all that, you were determined to keep going — you had to. You had to.

        So when you and your friends walked through the secret tunnel that connected Hogsmeade to Hogwarts, with the help of Aberforth Dumbledore and Neville Longbottom, your heart raced with a hint of hope and excitement.

        With each step, your stride became lighter. You were almost back home.

        As soon as you reach the other end of the hidden passage, Neville stands aside to show you've arrived in the Room of Requirement, which has been transformed into what appears to be a lavish tree lodge or a massive ship's cabin. Many eyes shift to you and your friends, blinking to ensure they weren't hallucinating, and then... cheers erupt throughout the enormous room.

        The sight of so many familiar faces couldn't have made you feel any better. Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan drew you in for a strong hug, and you didn't realise how much you'd missed them.

        When the excitement has dies down, Harry gazes out over the expectant faces in the room, noticing the hollow eyes and desperate desire for hope. He finally speaks up, retelling that he needed to find something in Ravenclaw and that it'll help defeat Voldemort, but with not much to go on, confused murmurs filled the room. Luna then pipes in suggesting that it might be Ravenclaw's lost diadem.

        Before Luna and Cho could explain any further, the door opens and Ginny quickly enters the room. Everyone turns to her as she stops in her tracks to look at Harry, barely giving her own brother any mind.

        "Nine months she hasn't seen me and it's like I'm Frankie First Year," Ron frowns, whispering to Hermione. "I'm her brother."

        Seamus smirks. "She's got loads of those. There's only one Harry."

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