How Sweet It Is

I needed the shelter of someone's arms, and there you were

I needed someone to understand my ups and downs, and there you were

With sweet love and devotion

Deeply touching my emotion

I want to stop and thank you baby

I want to stop and thank you baby

How sweet it is to be loved by you

How sweet it is to be loved by you

Without her he would never have been able to make it through the fight. Sure he would have put up a good front but inside he would have been cowering like a child. Her devotion had been like nothing he had seen before. Even after all they had done to her for supporting him, she still stood by his side. Her age was nothing to him. After all they were both old fools. He knew that and more than anything it made him smile. Through thick and thin she had been there for him. A loyal friend at his side no matter who or what they were fighting. Some things would never change even with age.

I close my eyes at night

Wondering where would I be without you in my life

Everything I did was just a bore

Everywhere I went it seems I'd been there before

But you brighten up for me all of my days

With a love so sweet in so many ways

I want to stop and thank you baby

I just want to stop and thank you baby

How sweet it is to be loved by you

How sweet it is to be loved by you

He was an old man now and had more experience in life than all the wizards he knew put together. His life had fallen into a rut, it seemed to him that he had been working at Hogwarts forever. There was always some fight that had be won, some evil enemy to defeat. They could win battles but the war would always continue. If it was not Voldemort there would always be someone or something else. But she, well she brightened up his day. Made the fight worth fighting again. With her around life meant something again. Even if they could never properly be together.

You were better to me than I was to myself

For me, there's you and there ain't nobody else

I want to stop and thank you baby

I just want to stop and thank you baby

How sweet it is to be loved by you

How sweet it is to be loved by you

She made him realise that he was not the senile old fool that many of the other professors, especially Professor Snape, thought he was.

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore had never told Minerva McGonagall that he loved her, and she had never told him that she loved him but they both knew the other's feelings. That was enough to keep each of them going. Some things just did not need to be spoken. But every once in a while there was a twinkle in Dumbledore's eye or a knowing look from McGonagall, that reminded the other of their feelings. As long as she was there he would continue to fight because with her he always knew the world could be a better place. Not everybody in the world let you down but then again not everybody in the world was Minerva McGonagall.