Never Is Our Always

Finally, this year has ended 3

(Minnie pov)

I stirred in my sleep, trying my hardest to wake myself up, and then my eyes finally flutter open. I groaned as I sat myself up slowly.

"What— what happened?" I hear Ron groan. "Harry? Why are we in here? Where's Sirius? Where's Lupin? Where's Alice? What's going on?"

I put my glasses on and grunt in pain as I shift again, "was that either one of them?" Harry drew back my curtain and he gasped at my state.

"What day is it?" I ask quietly.

"Still the same one," he replied, handing me some chocolate. I take it with a thanks and then slowly ate it.

"You explain," Harry said to Hermione while helping himself to some more chocolate.

—

(A few days later)

I was finally out of the hospital wing and back to doing normal things for a change.

As the end of term approached, I heard many different theories about what had really happened, but none of them came close to the truth.

"Hey!" I wave while walking past Oliver; he looks and then jogged down the hallway and wrapped an arm around my shoulders as he walked alongside me.

"I'm gonna miss you at school," I told Oliver, "keep that fireplace open for me for the holidays."

"Always," he chuckles, "how are you feeling?"

"Better than I did a few days ago," I told him, "thank Merlin."

"You have colour back in your face, that's good."

"Yeah," I smile.

—

Exams were out and I was happy with my grades, I had gotten high marks in all my subjects and got all my O.W.Ls.

From what Percy told me, he had got his top-grade N.E.W.T.s; Fred and George had scraped a handful of O.W.L.s each.

Gryffindor House, meanwhile, largely thanks to their spectacular performance in the Quidditch Cup, had won the House championship for the third year running.

This meant that the end of term feast took place amid decorations of scarlet and gold, and that the Gryffindor table was the noisiest of the lot, as everybody celebrated.

"I'm so happy we won this year," I told them while eating like there was no tomorrow, "I'm glad this year is ending."

"And your new room is ready!" Lee adds happily, I was now living with Lee and his parents.

"All right!" We high five each other from across the table and then laughed.

—

(Next Morning)

As the Hogwarts Express pulled out of the station this morning, I couldn't help but feel excited to go to my new home, but the thought of the cat lingered on my mind.

I was watching Hogwarts disappear from view behind a mountain. Now, kinda sad that I have to wait two months to go back to school, but it was even sadder that Oliver wasn't coming back.

My head was on Oliver's shoulder, we sat in silence.

"You going to the World Cup, Puddlemere champion in training?" I ask Oliver and he grins.

"Yes I am, are you?" Oliver asked, "cause if you are we can meet up there?"

"I like the sound of that, loser," I grinned and he shook his head with a snort.