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The Hours On Rewind...

Ginny walked back to her dorm. She changed and got into her bed and snuggled in her blanket and looked out of the windows and replayed the entire evening that went by. She was returning back from the pitch along with her team mates when Filch turned up saying that Sara and she were both called to the headmistress’ office. Ginny went to the common room and saw Sara sitting and chatting up with Fiona about something and that something was Fiona’s dress robes for the Ball. Sara’s eyes were shining with admiration as she told Ginny about it on their way to the headmistress. How much ever she, not willing to go to a ball or try not think about silly teenage crushes she is after all a girl and she is bound to enjoy little girly things like dress robes and matching sandals…Ginny smiled as she remembered the bright face of Sara. As soon as they reached the headmistress’ office Minerva welcomed them with a somber face.

“Good evening, Miss Mehra, Miss Weasley. Thank you for coming.”
“Good evening,” said Sara
“How are the preparations going on, miss Weasley?”
“Great, professor”
“Good,”
“Now Miss Mehra I have a very important thing to say so do hear carefully and please be calm”
Ginny and Sara looked at each other and didn’t understand what was happening
“Yes, professor” said Sara turning back to Minerva. Headmistress took a deep breath and said
“Miss Mehra you have been called by the Department of International Magical Cooperation. So would you please follow me through the fire place”
Sara looked at Ginny again surprised and confused
“Professor is there any problem?” asked Ginny looking from Sara to Minerva
“I would be lying if I said that there wasn’t. But I would want Sara to come along with me and I would want you to stay here lest I tell you to leave,” she said looking straight at Ginny through her specs. She had some kind of look which Ginny understood and instantly knew that there was something terribly wrong happened back in the ministry.
“Miss Mehra will you please,” said Minerva and Sara stepped in. behind her Minerva stepped in and said ‘the Auror department’ and the two ladies were engulfed in the green flames of the fire place. Ginny was now confused ‘the Auror department’

“why didn’t I see something like this coming?” thought Ginny and turned away from the window. She tightened the blanket around her and continued to rewind her evening.


She waited and waited as Sara and Minerva had gone to the Ministry for quite some time. After about 2 hours or so the headmistress came without Sara tired and pale. Ginny got worried looking at her headmistress.
“Professor, what happened? Where’s Sara? Are you alright?” asked Ginny hurrying up to her as she sat down in her chair heavily.
“Sara…is shattered Ginny,” said Minerva for the first time taking her name. Minerva was truly hurt and pained.
“Her friend, has been found but in a very gruesome almost brutal condition. It looked as if he went through a rough duel before he died,” said Minerva and Ginny’s hands flew up to her mouth her eyes wide open, she stepped away from Minerva. Words failed her. She couldn’t speak to her at all.
“she is at the Auror department and has just finished with paper work from the department of international magical cooperation regarding her friend. She had to tell them everything about her stay so long and about her friend and her search for him. oh dear she has just gone so much of trouble.”
Ginny looked up to her headmistress. She hardly knew a thing about Sara and her friend. She just knew that she used to go in search of him every time she had a chance and she knew a little bit how Sara came across her brother during the war and how Hagrid found her after the war but the entire truth, she didn’t know.
“she didn’t tell you this before?” asked Ginny
“no, she didn’t and even the education department didn’t know about it. Only I knew that she was in search of her friend. The education department just contacted her school the then headmistress and she gave the details about Sara and that was pretty much enough and neither did Rosmerta let the Ministry know about her being the guardian to Sara until today.”
“So the Ministry knows now?”
“Yes, they immediately called her and your…your dad to help Sara and to fill up the guardian form. According to the rules the foreign student should at least have two guardians in our country if she or he has no immediate family or relatives here.”
“Dad and Rosmerta did the needful, right?”
“Yes of course they have immediately taken care of the things. Your dad was equally worried about Sara and so was Rosmerta. They haven’t seen her but if they would have it would have been a sort of déjà vu for them especially for your dad,” the headmistress said and Ginny understood what she was saying.
“But how come they didn’t see her?”
“She was with the aurors and they were you doing their primary questioning and all”
“did you see her friend?”
“yes, he was completely unrecognizable”
“then how could she?”
“she was shocked when she saw the body. They told her that they found him near Duff town and she looked at the scar and she said that it was her friend. She had no more to say.”
“she just that much?”
“yes, even the aurors coaxed her to tell and think a bit clearly whether or not he was her friend because he was in such a state that no one could ever be able to recognize him. But she was so much in shock and that scar which was the only thing prominent gave her the answer of him being her friend”
“Where’s she right now?”
“she was signing few papers for the funeral. Your father has taken care of it. I guess he has met her.”
“she is coming back right?”
“yes, she is. But Miss Weasley I would want to tell you that she wouldn’t be in a state to talk to anyone so it would be better to just let go her and don’t talk about the reunion to her though that is impossible as the entire school is talking but I would want you to be a less involved about it when she is around”
“I understand what you are trying to tell me headmistress” and Minerva just nodded her head and looked to Dumbledore’s portrait on the wall and he smiled.
“Albus when will the wrath of the war die. It looks the aftermath will never cease”
“Minerva the after math will cease as soon as the people feel that it is the time to move on in life”
“but that can take too long”
“yes, it can take too long but it might just take as much as a second to muster the courage and determination to move on. It just depends on from person to person and remember that the person whom you might think will take longer than the rest to move on maybe will move on faster than the rest as he will realize that life is too short to waste and he would want to do everything within his reach to make his life meaningful so don’t worry about these kids. They have already seen so much in their lives that they will spring back to life and move on. Its just people like us who we need to worry about, who can go into a bit of depression for all that we have seen within our life time,” said Dumbledore. Ginny looked at him as he looked at her when he said the last few lines and was amazed how he could do that when he was already dead. Just then Sara came out of the fire place and saw Ginny and the headmistress. She looked at Ginny for sometime and as soon as Ginny made her way to her she ran. She ran out of the room and continued to run. Ginny went after her but she couldn’t stop her. Ginny later bumped into Dean who was in Hogwarts for the reunion…