Date & Time: 6 December 2002 | Lunch time. Post Type: RP. Status: Abandoned. Character(s): Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger. Location: Ministry of Magic. Summary: After hearing the news, Hermione needs to see Ron. And then apparently break it to him as well.
Her mind was fuzzy, and she couldn't even remember where she had heard it first. Or did she read it? Possibly both, it didn't matter. Neville was gone. After everything they had been through, it ended for him like that. This wasn't how things were supposed to go, they were all supposed to be happy now, have everything that they had been waiting for. Everything they had fought for.
Hermione was barely holding it together as she sat at her desk. The piece of parchment she was supposed to be working on all morning was blurring in front of her eyes, and her hand was shaking as she held onto her quill. She needed to see Ron. She had her own work to do, and she knew that he would too, but it just didn't seem as important as finding him right now.
Pushing her chair back, Hermione put her quill down and stood up from her desk. Her department was largely empty, most people having gone to lunch. Careful not to make eye contact with the few of her co-workers remaining, she could still feel them looking at her as she walked past.
Somehow making her way to the correct floor, she stepped out of the lift and headed to the Auror office on autopilot. Why did some of them look happy? They had no right at all to be smiling. Didn't they know what had happened?
Ron was sitting there at his desk, surrounded by paperwork. Hermione burst into tears as soon as she saw him.