This Is a Good Thing!!

This Is a Good Thing!!

All classes were suspended.

All exams were suspended as well.

Over the next two days,

students' parents arrived from all directions.

Some had come to attend Dumbledore's funeral.

Others had come to take their children away.

The day before the funeral,

Madame Maxime arrived as well.

She threw herself into Hagrid's arms.

The Ministry of Magic delegation was also staying at Hogwarts.

Harry even saw Nicolas Flamel and his wife.

They had come too.

After visiting Darren in the Hospital Wing, they kept insisting on taking him away.

But under Harry's firm opposition, they ultimately did not take Darren away while he was asleep.

Harry sat with Ron and the others on the sunlit lawn,

pretending that everything was exactly as it had been before.

By then, Ginny had finished all her exams.

She sat there, relaxing.

She was knitting a sweater.

"Darren's growing too fast. I have to get all his winter sweaters ready as soon as possible... Smile, Harry.

No matter how hard life gets, you have to think about something happy, right?"

Harry nodded.

But he still could not bring himself to smile.

He knew it.

He needed to get moving now. There were still so many problems troubling him.

But...

he did not want to move at all.

He knew that once he started moving again, he would be facing even greater danger.

But now, all his friends and family were still alive. He only wanted to put it off a little longer.

They visited the Hospital Wing twice a day—Madam Pomfrey's rule, or else they would have camped out there.

Neville, Luna, and Hermione had all gotten better.

Neville and Hermione had already been discharged.

Luna still needed a little more time.

Bill was still receiving treatment as well.

His