Harry Potter One Shots :)

17. Silence *albusseveruspotter*

Hope you enjoy. I've started putting songs on the stories and I quite like it. I hope you do too, ✌🏻 E.

TW: Bitter-sweet sad. Also mentions of death. But like not triggering if you know what i mean.
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Song: Silence by Khalid, Marshmello
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'Yeah, I'd rather be a lover than a fighter (fighter)
'Cause all my life, I've been fighting
Never felt a feeling of comfort, oh
And all this time, I've been hiding
And I never had someone to call my own, oh nah
I'm so used to sharing
Love only left me alone
But I'm at one with the silence'

You remember the first time you met Albus on the train to Hogwarts. He was so scared, he was shaking. You had asked if you could sit in his compartment.

"Is anyone sitting here?" You had asked. He shook his head stiffly.

"Just me and my family. Go on and sit." He had invited.

"I'm not usually too extroverted, but what's your name?" Your nine year old self had asked. You were the youngest to ever get into Hogwarts. You were also well aware he was most likely 11.

"Albus Severus Potter." He answered as though it was absolutely normal to introduce yourself with your full name. So you figured you introduce yourself the same way.

"Y/n M/n (middle name) L/n" you shook his quavering hand.

Eventually you had helped calm his nerves by talking through things with him. He told you about his worries of getting into his father's rival house. About how he had been in his brother's shadow his whole life, and he knew it would be the same here. How his whole family were fighters but he didn't want to be. He just wanted to live and love.

From then on you were wonderful friends and when he had gotten in slytherin and you had too and you two stuck together.

'I found peace in your violence
Can't tell me there's no point in trying
I'm at one, and I've been quiet for too long
I found peace in your violence
Can't tell me there's no point in trying
I'm at one, and I've been silent for too long'

Your first fight was when he thought you acted too rashly and never thought before you spoke and he wondered why you weren't a gryffindor. You had been severely affected by his words, because as a young child your parents always told you this and scolded you. You felt alone and ignored.

'N/n. You don't have to say anything but can you just listen.'

He had come and sat next to you on the astronomy tower. The wind blew through your hair and without thinking he had already wrapped his warm large green robes around you.

"I'm sorry. I'm young and stupid. You know 14 is a rubbish age. Do you realize that when your 14, I'll be 16? But you'll graduate at 16... anyways what I'm trying but failing to tell you is, I'm so used to the silence. I guess it'd just been too silent, too long. But i found peace in your... outspokenness."

You laughed coldly.

"My violence you mean." He smiled a small embarrassed smile that you loved so much.

"Yeah i guess. I found peace in you violence. As weird as that sounds, and i don't want to lose you." You had hugged him and told him he wouldn't ever lose you.

"I've been quiet for too long
I've been quiet for too long
I found peace in your violence
Can't tell me there's no point in trying
I'm at one, and I've been quiet for too long"