what about 19 minutes later?

sexinamartiniglass:

so we know what happened 19 years after the battle of hogwarts, but what about 19 minutes later? who had to find all of the bodies? was it a teacher, who with every step found a body of a student they’d once yelled at for not handing the homework up on time? i want to know if it was madam pomfrey, a woman who’d dedicated her entire life to helping students. i want to know if she broke down over the body of lavender brown, because there was nothing she could do for her, for any of them. or was it a group of students? students who have already seen so much death, and even helped bring about the death of some of the death eaters? did they have to stumble across the bodies of their classmates, their friends, their little brothers and sisters? what about the gryffindor girl who literally tripped over the body of her older brother? how did she feel when she fell to the ground and his skin was still warm? and what about the parents of all the students? when did they start arriving at the school? when did they discover that the little eleven year old girl they’d sent off to school less than a year go was dead, had lasted barely five minutes before a man wearing a black hood killed her? what about the parents who had a thirteen year old boy and sent him to school with warm socks and chocolate hidden deep in his suitcase, as a surprise? what happened when they arrived and found him in the great hall, just staring off into space? what did they say when they saw that his hands were covered in the blood of his best friend, and what about when they discovered that the last words to leave his mouth were an unforgivable curse directed at the piece of scum who killed the person who meant the most to him? what about the fifteen year old slytherin girl who snuck away from the rest of her house because she didn’t want to hide, because she didn’t want to be stuck in the dungeon when she knew she could help, yet she still had to watch her best friends die? what about when she still managed to curse a few death eaters, and save some sixteen year old gryffindors who didn’t even say thank you? what about the ravenclaws who knew all of this amazing magic, who studied every day of the year, even weekends, but they still had to watch their housemates be murdered? what about the hufflepuffs who use to sneak into the kitchens at night for a snack? how did they feel when they found their favourite elf hokey, dead in the great hall? how did flitwick and slughorn comfort these students who had seen more death and violence than most people do in a lifetime? what about the slytherin students who left the dungeon, who went out into the battle, fighting everything they’d been taught from birth? what about the slytherin students who saw their mothers and fathers wearing black hoods, shooting curses at the kids they’ve been sharing a school with for years now? what about slytherin students who shot protective spells at the kids their own parents were trying to kill? what did mcgonagall say to the shaking first year who couldn’t understand why her twin brother had to die? what did she say when the girl sobbed that it should have been her? what about nineteen days later? what about the half blood who was supposed to meet up with her friends in the summer? what do they get told? do they learn of her bravery, of how even though she was only 12, she fought to the very end? and what about the pureblood ravenclaw whose parents died in the war? what about the kids who died protecting their friends from their own mothers? who do they go home to? what happened when the wounds were still fresh? what happened if they never healed? i have so many questions help