18. Whomping Willow

“There’s a secret passageway,” he told her.

“Yeah, and that’s where you found out Snape was innocent?”

“Exactly, its right under the whomping willow, I’ll show you.” Harry exclaimed, only days after the war. He grabbed her hand, walking over to the tree, the tree that had sustained its hold during the war; branches still thrashing.

Lobbing a rock at the knob, he climbed into the hole below the trunk – she followed. And soon, they were there, in the Shrieking shack the stench of rotting flesh ripe in the air. Snape lay dead his pensive-ready memories around his head.