Just a little drabble I wrote for TTB's Halloween Feast Drabble's & Molly Weasley's Birthday.
CW: Implied character death.
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One, two, three, four and five, six, seven.
The counting started when Charlie was born, keeping track of her rambunctious children had always been a challenge.
Then came the friends who appeared each Summer. Some stuck around, others didn’t. Some left and returned many years later. They were all counted.
Even as her children went to Hogwarts, then left home, she counted them. She knew where they were.
There were forty-nine candles on the cake in front of her, a table full of people surrounding her, friends and family who had survived. But the numbers didn’t add up. They would never be right again.
One, two, three, four. Six, seven.