where: the great lake, hogwarts.
when: janaury 12th, 2027.
@hewholivedagain sent 🎧 for me to shuffle my playlist and use the first line of the next song as a starter ( sine from above by lady gaga & elton john ).
“ when i was young, i prayed for lightning. “ susan had approached the charmed figure slowly but without much warning, looking at the towers and castle walls in front of them. there was a saddened tone she doubted his young memories would have of her, always trying to hard to be a breath of fresh air whenever she was around. the woman had her arms crossed and an expression bordering on teary, a contrast to the coolness she’d kept while subtly disrupting the memorial moments before. “ i remember staring out of the windows here and wondering what would happen if one struck a tower, or a tree, or anyone. i don’t think even you would have understood it then. “ the castle was still very familiar - susan tried to visit it every anniversary of the battle, pushing for remembrance events and awareness talks. yet the notion that students would once again feel as STUCK as she once did made the looming building morph in her head, taking an ugly shape. a prison. “ we were stuck here, most of us. that isolation... the repeated trauma of it all - you can get quite numb. i used to sit by the windows in stormy nights and just wish for a fire, a flood, anything to shock the systems. i suppose you know the feeling now, though. “
