Hermione nodded in understanding, feeling her heart tighten in her chest at the very reminder of it. There were days now that she woke up without nightmares. Woke up expecting that she'd hear the distant crash of waves, the sound of the wind blowing overhead, the warmth of the island resting against her skin and the steady breathing of Ron on the other side of the bed. But there were also still days when she expected to wake up cold, to wake up with an unnatural silence around her, as drawn by a spell. Or, worse still, to wake up to the dark and dank of Malfoy Manor, to the tinny laughter which spread through the halls.
If someone who had been exposed to such dangers for years already still found herself waking up to the unease, to a stomach knotted in turns, how could they expect anyone else not to be unsettled?
"We didn't either," Hermione replied softly, once she'd found her words, a smile still ghosting her lips. "We'd come to terms with it in the last year, after finally looking at our lives and seeing all the danger that we'd been put in, year after year, and after hearing a prophecy that didn't seem to favor Harry's chances. But you know, most of our lives, though we'd always faced these kinds of dangers, we never really thought that anything of that level would happen to us. We were children, you know. Even when everything seems hopeless, if it turns out right, you start believing that at some point down the road, things will be okay again, no matter what."
She shrugged, though the movement was stiff. "I don't blame you for finding it unnerving. It's nothing that children, or... or people our age should have been involved in, really."
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Date: 2011-10-22 07:41 pm (UTC)If someone who had been exposed to such dangers for years already still found herself waking up to the unease, to a stomach knotted in turns, how could they expect anyone else not to be unsettled?
"We didn't either," Hermione replied softly, once she'd found her words, a smile still ghosting her lips. "We'd come to terms with it in the last year, after finally looking at our lives and seeing all the danger that we'd been put in, year after year, and after hearing a prophecy that didn't seem to favor Harry's chances. But you know, most of our lives, though we'd always faced these kinds of dangers, we never really thought that anything of that level would happen to us. We were children, you know. Even when everything seems hopeless, if it turns out right, you start believing that at some point down the road, things will be okay again, no matter what."
She shrugged, though the movement was stiff. "I don't blame you for finding it unnerving. It's nothing that children, or... or people our age should have been involved in, really."