There are names that every child in the Wizarding World knows.   Remus Lupin Nymphadora Tonks

There are names that every child in the Wizarding World knows.

Remus Lupin

Nymphadora Tonks

Fred Weasley

Colin Creevey

Alastor Moody

Names made famous by the survivors, by the ones who lived and triumphed and made their names known.

But there are names lost to that time of terror, names which vanished into the ether with their bearer’s last breath.

The Hampton family, who were crossing the Brockdale Bridge at the exact wrong time.

The kindly witch in Kent who took in Muggle-born orphans and died trying to protect them from a Death Eater raid.

The 34 orphans living with her at the time.

Their parents, dragged into the Ministry and disappeared, while they ran and ran and ran.

The bodies that burned behind Malfoy manor, unknown and uncared for.

The unknown fighters who fell at the Battle of Hogwarts, disfigured beyond recognition and without family to miss them

So many others, lost to hunger and fear, to torture and prejudice.

Don’t forget the unknown names, the ones without a voice to speak for them.  They tried to erase them from this world, sure that they were inconsequential.

Prove them wrong.  

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