Post by rachy on Oct 31, 2011 22:09:36 GMT -8
Title: Daughter of Mine
Rating: PG
Prompt #:#3: Purity
Word Count: 403 words.
Summary: Molly ponders when it was that Ginny grew up before her eyes.
When did the daughter before her become a woman?
She was not yet even of age. She was still sixteen, still three months off her legal life, and yet the daughter who sits beside her, this pillar of strength, is a woman and not the girl she has always seen.
She is a woman, touched and scarred by life and not a girl, untouched and unscarred and calling Mummy.
She wonders how she can not have seen it before, when Ginny was so insistent on being allowed to do things. Ron did this, Ron did that, Ron’s off fighting against Voldemort, Mum!
If she is truthful, her little girl has not been her little girl since she left on the train for Hogwarts. Really, since that day in Flourish and Botts. But just because her little girl had been forced to grow up didn’t mean that she had.
She wonders how she didn’t see it. How when Ginny had gone and fought in the Ministry battle, in the first Hogwarts battle, standing next to Harry with her hand firmly within his, in seeing her brother, lying dead on the floor before her, in news of detention and oh, sweetheart, what are you doing? She doesn’t know what sort of things Ginny has been through this year, she doesn't want to know what sending her to Hogwarts to be safe has done to her, or to Ron, or Harry, or Hermione on their adventure.
Her little girl lost her innocence a long time ago. And like herself, she was swept into a world in which there was fighting and unlike her mother, she fought.
But, like her mother, she thinks as she feels Ginny lift her head off her shoulder and gaze towards the doors of the Great Hall as Ron and Hermione exit, she found love.
And she supposes it will be far easier to truly accept that Ginny is all grown up once she graduates, if Hogwarts reopens. And if she marries Harry, because then he’ll finally be an actual part of the family and she’ll have known the boy for a very long time and long enough to know that he is good enough for her daughter.
But though her little girl acts like a woman, she’ll still always be her little girl. And Molly will always give her a shoulder to cry on, even when she’s finding her strength from Ginny.
Rating: PG
Prompt #:#3: Purity
Word Count: 403 words.
Summary: Molly ponders when it was that Ginny grew up before her eyes.
When did the daughter before her become a woman?
She was not yet even of age. She was still sixteen, still three months off her legal life, and yet the daughter who sits beside her, this pillar of strength, is a woman and not the girl she has always seen.
She is a woman, touched and scarred by life and not a girl, untouched and unscarred and calling Mummy.
She wonders how she can not have seen it before, when Ginny was so insistent on being allowed to do things. Ron did this, Ron did that, Ron’s off fighting against Voldemort, Mum!
If she is truthful, her little girl has not been her little girl since she left on the train for Hogwarts. Really, since that day in Flourish and Botts. But just because her little girl had been forced to grow up didn’t mean that she had.
She wonders how she didn’t see it. How when Ginny had gone and fought in the Ministry battle, in the first Hogwarts battle, standing next to Harry with her hand firmly within his, in seeing her brother, lying dead on the floor before her, in news of detention and oh, sweetheart, what are you doing? She doesn’t know what sort of things Ginny has been through this year, she doesn't want to know what sending her to Hogwarts to be safe has done to her, or to Ron, or Harry, or Hermione on their adventure.
Her little girl lost her innocence a long time ago. And like herself, she was swept into a world in which there was fighting and unlike her mother, she fought.
But, like her mother, she thinks as she feels Ginny lift her head off her shoulder and gaze towards the doors of the Great Hall as Ron and Hermione exit, she found love.
And she supposes it will be far easier to truly accept that Ginny is all grown up once she graduates, if Hogwarts reopens. And if she marries Harry, because then he’ll finally be an actual part of the family and she’ll have known the boy for a very long time and long enough to know that he is good enough for her daughter.
But though her little girl acts like a woman, she’ll still always be her little girl. And Molly will always give her a shoulder to cry on, even when she’s finding her strength from Ginny.