A Tear Drops

A Tear Drops

A tear drops, it falls and falls, until it splashes into the earth, mixing with the soil to form new hope, an opportunity for life to grow and flourish.

A tear drops and within that tear lies hope for a new life, a new world, a new love.

A tear drops and hope is born

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Hermione Granger stands in the warm light on a Sunday morning. The breeze playing about her making her unruly locks fly to and fro. A solitary tear falls down her soft cheek. The grave before her is covered in flowers of all colors and shapes. It is meant to be beautiful but he would have hated it. Thinking of him always makes her eyes fill with salty water ready to spill out so the world can see her grief.

Not today. Today I came here to let go.

She holds a flower in her trembling hands, a lily, a simple flower with so much meaning it is almost unbearable to look at. Her hands moved over the lily's worn and tired petals feeling them for the last time and fighting her emotions back inside the deep confines of her heart.

You hid your feelings for so long, why is it so hard to let go?

Because he loved you as you loved him.

The thought struck her so deep it made the tears fall freely. What self restraint she once had was now gone. He loved her and when they were finally happy he was brutally ripped from this world to save his best friend and end the war. He ended the war; he sacrificed himself for all mankind.

He was too brave, he ended the war but he ended my happiness.

Tears sprinkled the lily and in the sun on that Sunday it looked fresh and new but inside it was tired, just like the young woman holding it. She was tired of holding on she was the lily and the lily was her love. Worn out with nothing left, today she came to bury the lily, to bury her love.

I only wish we had more time, but that is war. Loved ones are ripped from this world leaving their lovers in a grieving wake. The ones who are lost are slowly forgotten in time but it is never the same world without them, without them the world is empty as the world is empty for me. He will always be remembered as the one who sacrificed himself to save the world but he will be more to me, forever.

Hermione bends over and places the lily on the grave. While the lily sits in the sunlight the extent of the damage is clear. The once pure white petals are now brown with age and the edges have begun to dry out and flake away. The stem is brittle and threatens to snap every time someone touches it. She scoops a handful of dirt off the top of the grave and places the lily in the new hole.

This is it, when I say goodbye to you forever.

The tears come once more but she has a purpose, a mission. She takes the dirt and places it over the lily, burying it just like their love.

Now it's all buried with you, now it's done.

She stood and let fresh tears fall from her amber eyes. The tears fall onto the buried lily and an arm sets itself upon her shoulders. She lets it lead her away from the grave and she knows she is happy with Draco Malfoy. She smiles as he comforts her but her mind is elsewhere.

Goodbye Ron Weasley, you saved the world but you ended our love. Goodbye forever, until we meet again beyond the curtain and across the veil.

As she walks slowly away with her fiancé something in the ground stirs where she buried the lily and her tears fell on it. A new flower sprouts from the same spot, a red rose, a new life born from the old one like her love. She lost one lover but she found another. They will both be in her heart but she fought back her deep feeling for one to allow room for the other.

Goodbye Hermione Granger, I did it for you, you and the world. Live a full and complete life with Draco. Don't dwell on me or on the past, I did it for you. Don't waste it Hermione Granger, live it.

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A tear drops, it falls and falls, until it splashes into the earth, mixing with the soil to form new hope, an opportunity for life to grow and flourish.

A tear drops and within that tear lies hope for a new life, a new world, a new love.

A tear drops and hope is born