Heart on Fire(Seamus Finnigan and Watty Awards 2013 Finalist!)

Heart on Fire(Seamus Finnigan/HP FanFic!)

While every witch and wizard was celebrating, one wizard was thousands of miles away. The boy checked to see if anyone was in the barn. He walked in and saw that it was completely in ruins and nothing could have lived there except a couple of mice at most. He walked outside and took two things out of his pocket. Some matches.

And a wand.

He looked at the two and tried to decide what would be best. The wand would be easier and quicker but the matches had more meaning to them. He slide a match out and struck it against the box until an orange/red flame flickered against the dead of night.

The boy set it against the crippling building, blew the match out then apparated to a hill nearby to watch the barn burn to the ground. 

When he saw fire trucks arriving, he disapparated to his home only to find his mum, dad, and sister fighting once more.

While most people's lives would be getting better after the Second Wizarding War, Seamus Finnigan's life was going to get much worse.

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It had been 4 years since Harry Potter had finally defeated Voldemort and life had almost gotten  back to normal for the witches and wizards of England. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley had gotten jobs right away as aurors, Hermoine Granger was working for the Ministry. Padma and Pavarti were also working for the Ministry in different departments. Dean Thomas became an artist.

Everyone had their lives practically complete except for Seamus Finnigan. He was the janitor and part time barman for the Leaky Cauldron. His life was in a rut. He looked at all of his friends and wondered how in the world they got over the War. All Seamus thought about were the people who lost their lives.

Mainly one person in particular.

Lavender Brown.

The two had never liked each other. Seamus though Lavender was needy and crazy. Lavender though Seamus was fire-obsessed and crazy. They had not gotten to know each other well enough until one night when they were keeping watch over the Room of Requirement. What had grown from resentment turned to friendship, and then love. 

They had made a plan that after the War, they would run off and get eloped. 

The plans were never fulfilled.

Lavender was killed in the war by Fenir Greyback. Hermoine had tried to save her but the injuries were too substantial. 

Since that night, Seamus had never been the same. He drank from dawn to dusk, and every Friday he set something on fire. He didn't know if he kept doing it because of his love for fire, or that maybe because it was the one thing Lavender thought was silly about him, or because the beauty of it took all of his pain away.

The fateful day that would forever change Seamus was just another Saturday. Seamus was nursing a hangover and was trying to look in one of Tom's old books on how to cure it because he never remembered the exact spell or potion when Harry and Ron came in.

"Seamus!" Harry called from across the room.

Seamus winced at the loud noise, and turned to wave but instead saw the two men coming towards him. He dropped the book from the bar so they wouldn't see them. "Hello mates, is there something I can get for you?"

Ron laughed. "You're seriously gonna talk to us like that? Come on we're friends not patrons! Well actually can I get a shot of firewhiskey?"

"We're not in here to drink Ron! We've come to give you this Seamus!" Harry said handing him an envelope. Seamus took it and opened it. 

"It's an invitation! To my engagement party! It was Molly's idea. Seems kind of silly to me." Harry said proudly.

"You're engaged?" Seamus asked.

"Yeah, didn't you see it in the Prophet?" Ron said.

Seamus shook his head. "Nah, I don't do much reading lately. Why are there two Quidditch tickets here?" 

"Because I thought you could use a pick me up! You seem kind of down lately." Harry said.

Seamus scoffed. Harry was kind but he obviously did not know him well. 

"You should come next week to the party though, a lot of our friends will be there and I bet they'll be glad to see you. Well we have to go give out the others, gives us an excuse not to fill out reports. See you there Seamus! We've missed you!" Ron said and the boys apparated out of the bar.

Seamus sighed and tried to find that potion recipe for hangovers.

"Ahhh... you have a hangover don't you? Don't worry I have some Drunk-B-Gone in my bag. Here!" A voice said.

Seamus looked up, and he saw her.

Lavender.

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Hiya folks! I'm sorry if it kinda sucks right now, I just was thinking last night 'What the bloody hell happened to Seamus?!" and you know I googled it, and JK NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT HIM! So I thought well, this calls for a Fan-Fiction! 

So do you think that's really Lavender? And how about all the other characters? What do you think? 

Please comment and vote!!!!

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Kate