For Every Beginning There is an End

Chapter 1: I Will Remember You

The Great Hall was all abuzz, when Dumbledore stood up. The hall quieted as he motioned for a young man to come foreword. A tall red head stood up from a table on the left side of the hall and he walked up to the newly erected podium. He cleared his throat and began to speak.

"Two days ago, on Saturday May 17^th, 1997, a terrible thing happened. Two of our classmates died. It wasn't an attack from Voldemort or a beast from the Forbidden Forest, but they lost their life to homicide and suicide. They were enemies up until this year when they announced their love for each other. Though they had two different backgrounds, they were inseparable. Virginia Emily Weasley and Draco Lucius Malfoy died on the same night. Their deaths were exactly fourteen minutes apart from each other.

"Draco was a young man of seventeen. He was a bright seventh year and had perfect grades. He got the top score on the N.E.W.T. test and was in all the advanced classes. He was going to play for Puddlemore United as their seeker, as soon as the school year ended. He was also a talented guitarist, singer, dancer and actor. Though he had made enemies with several people throughout his seven years here, he was still loved by many. We will always remember him as the handsome, talented, brilliant Slytherin."

The young man paused as he took out a framed picture of Draco Malfoy. The picture showed a handsome young man with platinum blond hair and silvery blue eyes. He was also grinning ear-to-ear showing his pearly white teeth with silver braces on them. Then the young man took a drink of water and started up again.

"Virginia Emily Weasley was a beautiful sixteen year old girl with a sweet personality. She too was brilliant and she loved animals. Her favorite thing to do was to sit outside and look at the sky from dawn to dawn. She was never afraid of anything and could take on any one of her six brothers. She was the youngest of seven. She wrote many poems and stories and she loved to draw. Most of her work had something to do with animals or nature in general. Her life-long dream was to meet the man of her dreams and grow old with him and have children and to live on a farm in the middle of nowhere. She would spend summer days reading and singing in her room or outside when we weren't playing quidditch in the backyard. She was always a happy girl, but her happiness escalated when Draco Malfoy announced to her in a love letter that he loved her with all his soul."

The young man then placed a framed picture of his little sister, Ginny Weasley who had her hair down, on the table next to Draco's picture. The straight auburn hair just touched her shoulders and her bright blue eyes shone through as doorways into the sea. She was grinning and she looked at the picture next to her and it grinned back at her. The young man smiled lovingly at his sister's picture then cleared his throat again.

"They would spend day and night together, even though it was against school rules. They were both daredevils and weren't afraid of the consequences. They took everything that came at them with open arms. On February 14^th Draco proposed to Ginny who accepted and they knew that it was meant to be. There was a wedding planned for June 14^th outside on the school grounds and everyone was to be invited, but that date never came for either of them.

"We will always remember them and we will not ever forget them, because those two touched everyone of our hearts either directly or indirectly and they will always live on in our hearts. Thank you."

The hall erupted into clapping as Ron Weasley walked back and sat down next to Seamus and Dean, tears streaming down his face, but he didn't bother to wipe them away. Dumbledore stood up and looked around wiping his eyes gently.

"Thank you Mr. Weasley, that was a beautiful eulogy. The wake will start at four o' clock and then funeral will start at six this evening and you are all welcome to join. Thank you."

Dumbledore sat down next to McGonagall who was crying and he took out a handkerchief and dabbed his eyes watching the young students proceed out of the hall.