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A/N: Got the idea from the Shuffle Challenge (HPFFC). All of this takes place during the final battle in DH or soon after it. Most songs are for certain characters but some aren't. Be warned – I have a lot of odd music. Songs are by Death Cab For Cutie, Plumb, Evanescence, The Fray, Fireflight, ZOEgirl, and Coldplay.
I Will Follow You Into The Dark - unknown characterHe knows that he won't be able to make it if she dies. It took so long for him to figure that out – too bad it happened much too late. Now he's fighting for her, making sure that everything is as it should be.
He knows he's got a low chance of surviving, and for once he's not thinking about risks. He'd die if it meant saving her in a heartbeat if he had to. Protecting her is the only thing he cares about at the moment.
He hasn't been with her for a long time, but it doesn't matter to him anymore. All that matters is keeping her safe.
I Have Nothing - BellatrixShe has never let anything get in her way before. Tonight's no exception. Tenacious, they used to call her, when they really meant crazy enough to get what she wants every time. Do they ever wish she'd listened to them, she wonders, or is it better that she didn't?
She stands in the middle of the battle, surrounded by her comrades and her enemies, and finds it rather funny. She'd wanted this to happen for ages, and now it is. No one will stop her tonight. No one.
Hello - George
His other half is gone. This was so unexpected, so tragic, so completely terrible. How will he face the world now? They all expect him to be a wreck inside, and for once he's exactly what they expect.
He won't go to the funeral. He doesn't want anyone to know how confused he is, how mixed up he feels inside. Most importantly, he doesn't want anyone feeling sorry for him.
He was the one that survived, while his brother didn't. He is the one who has to do everything they meant to do – alone. He is the one who was hurt the most by one death.
Little House – ChoShe shouldn't be feeling dreadful today, of all days, but she is. She's missed him for three years, but it's never been quite this bad before. Never so out-of-place, either.
Why is she missing him so badly? A quick glance behind her reveals the answer. She's not the only one who's lost someone now, but she was the first.
She tried to move on, but she kept falling backwards. No wonder people wish she'd just shut up. Despite everything that happens, she still thinks about him constantly.
You Decide – Luna
She wants so desperately to be somewhere else, somewhere so far from here. But she's here, all right, hiding and hoping she survives. She's survived enough already; no need for something more.
She's in a hallway that's never used. Now that she's gotten her friend into her House area to find a particular ghost, she has no reason to be here. But she is. Someone will have to deal with whatever remains when the battle ends. She thinks she will be that someone.
It's all right, she tells herself. Her father, wherever he is, is safe and far from here. She thinks briefly about the boy she loves, but she knows he'll be all right.
Save Myself – Ginny
I lived, she reminds herself, trying to make herself feel better. But having lived doesn't comfort her like it should. She's still here, but a lot of people she knew well aren't.
She doesn't know whether she'll miss all of them. That pest in her year – she can't remember his name, but she won't miss him one bit, and she doesn't think anyone else will. There were a few she only knew OF, people she didn't get to know well.
It's odd, she decides, missing people already when they've not even been gone a week. Knowing she could have been one of them is the only reason she will never forget. She nearly was one of them.
42 – unknown character
He looks around at the cemetery and wonders why anyone allowed this to happen. It's been ten days since the battle, and he still wonders why it had to end like that. He didn't lose anyone who was close to him, but he feels like he did. He feels pain inside that isn't his.
The plaques are already up at school, as is a memorial birdbath, which was someone's idea of a joke, even though no one thought it was funny. Who really wants to be remembered with that sort of thing, he wonders. At least the rosebush someone donated has a small point – it's what the woman it honors would have wanted, they said. He doesn't know because he didn't know her.
It's odd being in a school that now has a cemetery and is almost a memorial.