Title: What You'll Miss
House: Gryffindor
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Remus Lupin
It's not until he picks a dirty paper out of the gutter he discovers what all the fuss is about. Everyone has been unnaturally cheerful, and he wonders if everyone has finally gone mad. Men he’s never seen pat his back and are swigging bottles of firewhiskey on the curb.
Voldemort Defeated! screams the bold headline; beneath, miniscule type: Potters dead; Pettigrew Martyr; Black a Murderer.
His hands go cold; his guts go numb. He wants to scream, but instead pulls out cigarette, takes a drag, and pretends, for one blissful moment, that he is happy, just like everyone else.