It doesn't feel like you've been gone a month, Freddie.
It felt like we were all grown up, y’know. I was just so happy to finally see all the stuff James and Al talked about all the time. Get to hand out by the lake, no parents. [Lily thought uncomfortably of how badly she’d wanted to grow up back then. She’d always been the youngest, so it was only natural for her to want to feel as grown up as the rest of her cousins, but here she was, less than two years from adulthood, wanting nothing more than to be a kid again.] Al thinks we’re going back, that this is only gonna last a few weeks… And he says I’m optimistic.
I was ridiculously excited to go to school with Fred. He made me his little sidekick, remember? He knew James would never hex me, so he had me prank him all the time. That was a blast. [Roxy always felt like she'd been born two years too late. From Alice to Frank to James, all of her closer friends were much older than her. And she seemed to fit in better with them than she did with people her own age. So, naturally, she ecstatic to finally go to Hogwarts with all of them. All she ever wanted was to grow up and to be older, but this - war, pregnancy, and death - wasn't anything what she expected.] Who knows? Things have been awfully quiet ever since...Valentine's...So maybe he's right.
