Love & Losses

Chapter 1

Its today exactly six months ago the battle of Hogwarts happened. Hermione Granger still thinks about it every day. How Voldemort died, how all those people died. How Ron kissed her. After all those years that they annoyed each other, she never thought it would end up in love. She thought Ron didnt liked her but he did. The kiss, in the middle of the battle was magical. She felt so happy even though the night was horrible. They buried all the people who died while the battle near Hogwarts. McGonagal said she buried them there because of the memory from that night. Everyone should remember their names. Great names like Severus Snape, Remus Lupin, Tonks. Even Fred Weasley. She thinks that death hurted the most. His brother George Weasley is broken. She havent seen him since the battle but Ron says he feels terrible. George doesnt speak very much since the death of Fred, Ron said he only nods or shakes his head when he talks to his family. Hermione lives in the burrow now too, she could have Percy his room because he has his own house now. Its nice to live there even though it is slightly different. Its quiet sometimes, it never was quiet before Fred dies. When it was you heard some firework out of the twins their room or you heard Molly talk. It is nice sometimes to hear no noise like when you try to read. Hermione dont know if its get better. Molly and Arthur are still very sad about Fred but moved on so they are happy again most of the time. Ron did it good too, he moved on faster then the others. Hermione only worries about George.

She decide to go to him. He still lives above Weasleys Wizards Weezes. The doors of the store are open but the lights are off. When she is inside its quiet and dark. Alot of stuff lays on the ground, its broken. She smells an awful smell, probably the smell of all those potions mixed on the ground. Why would George ruin his own store? It was his and Freds favorite place to be. But now it even looks kind of creepy. There are not only potion bottles on the ground but emthy fire whiskey bottles too. She hopes George is okay. Now he is in the room above the store all the time. He is alone. Hermione walks to the stairs and while walking she steps on a  bottle of love potion, it doesnt work anymore because it is mixed with like five other potions but it did gave an even worser smell then before. The stairs are old and it seems to fall apart everytime now. She walks on it carefully and when she is on the top she can see the store from above. It makes her sad to see it. She turns around and sees the door from George his room. She sighs and knocks on the door with shaky hands. There is no sound from the other side of the door so she slowly opens it. She is nervous to see what George would look like. When she opens the door the first thing she sees are bottles of fire wiskey on the ground. Then she sees George at the table. He looks so different. His hair is messy and he has a tired look in his eyes. The sparkles he always had in his eyes are gone too. Hermione never saw him like this, he looked so unhappy this is an other side of him she never knew. She feels so bad for him. He wears one of the suits he always did in the store but the coat lays somewhere in the corner of the room and it looks filthy. The place where his ear was before he lost it in the battle has some blood on it. It must hurt. He sits there with a glass of fire wiskey in his hands, he looks down at it. When Hermione steps into the room he looks slightly up and then looks back to the glass. He takes a big sip out of it. She walks to him slowly and sits on the chair next to him. He doesnt say anything.

'How are you?' She ask. He shrugs and fills his glass with some more whiskey. What is she suppose to say? She doesnt know. He glance over to her.

'How do you think I feel?' He says, speaking softly. There is no cheer or happiness in his voice anymore it sounds sad and broken.

'Awful..' She looks down.

He nods slightly 'Youre coming close but its worser then that.'

'Terrible.' Hermione suddenly thinks about her parents again. She feels tears in her eyes and bites her lip to stop them coming out.

He nods again, he doesnt notice that she has tears in her eyes. But she doesnt think its wrong because he has his own problems. he looks over to her and sees it. He takes the whiskey bottle.

'Do you want some?' He ask. 

'Is this what you do all day? Drinking?'

'Basically. But I'm not drinking to get drunk, I drink it to forget..what happened.'

'You know you cant do that. Fred is dead and you cant just forget it. You need to move on. Think about the memories you two had, not about that he is gone.'

'Easy for you to say, you didnt lost anyone that night.' He mumbles. 

'What? Thats rubbish. I lost alot of people, they might not be my twin brother but I did lost them. Like Lupin, Tonks, Dobby, Snape even Lavender. I'm hurted my that too but you cant stay sad forever. It has been six months you need to start living again.'

He doesnt respond and takes a sip of his whiskey. He knows that he has to move on but he cant. He tried it but the shop or making jokes like in the past isnt fun to do alone. 

'Okay if you dont talk I go now.' Hermione stands up, she doesnt want to go but she feels like she has to. She walks to the door and looks to him one more time. Then she walks out of the room and close the door.