Date: 19 May 1998
Characters: The Weasleys, Harry, Hermione, anyone else close to the family
Location: Hogwarts and later the Burrow
Status: Public
Summary: After regrouping, the family makes their final trip home together.
Completion: Incomplete
She'd laid her head on the table. It had been hours since she'd moved but sleep did not come. It didn't seem to matter that she'd been awake for close to 36 hours. Her head felt full of cotton and her stomach churned uneasily.
Her heart ached.
She should have been out there helping but she'd nothing left. She'd feel ashamed of herself later. Right now she was terribly impressed that she'd managed not to curl into a ball under the table and disappear.
The sounds had calmed outside and things were quieter now. Soft voices filtered through the room and she moved her head enough so that she could see Fred. He was under a blanket now, she'd made sure of that hours ago. And the men who came to take some of the others found out very quickly that he was not to be taken as well. Mum and Dad and stuck close to him but she didn't need to. She was content just to have him in her sights. She wish the others were within view as well.