One-Shot: Christmas in August

Title: Christmas in August

Pairing(s): Harry/Draco

Summary: When the wards protecting 12 Grimmauld Place fell, Hermione knew it could only mean one thing.

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.

Warning(s): Major Character Deaths. Suggested Suicide. Utterly Depressing.

Epilogue compliant: Nope

Word Count: 1,500

Heed the warnings!

I went for a walk tonight and saw a house, obviously unoccupied and probably foreclosed. In the yard there was a spruce tree still decorated with bright, shiny Christmas ball-ornaments. It struck me as so painfully sad: the thought of the former residents of the house and their holding onto hope as they decorated the tree, probably with the heartbreaking knowledge that they were soon going to lose their home. So, I got depressed and wrote this in my head and tapped it out as soon as I got home. Completely un-betaed.

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