Disclaimer: I wrote the song but not Harry Potter.
AN: This song popped into my head to describe Harry and Hermione's relationship just after the war ends. The song is called Unguarded Brother. Even if you don't like the story will you please give me your opinion of the song?
Staying at the Burrow seemed to quell some of Mrs. Weasley's fears if not grief. Harry and Hermione were trying to be helpful and respectful of them after the loss of Fred but there were sometimes when they wished that someone would ask them to leave for a few hours so they could talk as a family. No matter how insistent the red headed family was that they were part of their already large family they knew that some things needed to be worked through without them.
Going up to Ginny's room after Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny had gone to visit Teddy and Andromeda, Molly Weasley was expecting to pick up the girls' dirty laundry when a single piece of parchment on the desk caught her attention. Looking at it with a single glance she recognized Hermione's handwriting before seeing a word that caught her eye; the word dying. She immediately held her breath; seeing that word so soon after losing one of her sons made her heart ache. Once she calmed herself enough she decided to read the rest of the parchment to see what Hermione had written with that dreadful word in it.
Lowering his walls
Seeing how deep it really goes
Forcing a smile for everyone
But feeling like he's dying all the while
He puts the walls back up
Pretends they've always been that way
But I know him better
I know for just a minute he's unguarded
Mrs. Weasley considered stopping there but she was curious as to who this was about.
I wish I could help him
But he's just too closed off
He's falling apart slowly
But no one is doing a damn thing
I'm losing my mind
Trying to make him unguarded
'Who was Hermione talking about?' Mrs. Weasley wondered.
He's finally broken
So hurt its killing him
But he's still guarding himself
Shutting himself off
Protecting everyone but him
It hurts so much to see him
My unguarded brother
Molly finally understood who her almost daughter was talking about. Harry.
As close as we are
We are so far apart
I can't watch him anymore
I can't watch him glue himself together
Once again he's shattered
Picking up the pieces
All alone in his mind
With all the horrors he's seen
Shining in his eyes
I can see them dulling with every smile
Releasing my unguarded brother
I'm the only one who sees
How weak he really is
But how strong he seems to be
The world is on his shoulders
And I can't help him carry it
But I hope I can help him cope
He's not invincible like everyone says
The walls around his heart are falling
And breaking down to nothing
He's so guarded he's dying
I remember all those years ago
When I first met him
My unguarded brother
Maybe when this nightmare ends
He'll be my unguarded brother again
Tears were streaming down the Weasley matriarch's face as she read how much her almost daughter saw in the boy who grew up too fast. She was furious with herself for not noticing how much harry was hurting. Hearing them arrive home she swore to herself that she would help the boy who won her daughter heart.