Date: July 1st 2026
Place: Harumi's home
Key: Speech // Mother's Speech
Word count: 783
Important: This thread contains death of characters, cancer, and grief, nothing too much, but please don't read if you fear being triggered.

Back to home, Harumi had to admit she missed home and all her family and friends there, Isela and her mother especially, but now that she's back, she's faced with a different—or perhaps it's actually similar—problem, she misses her friends at Hogwarts, the lessons, and the activities, that place really has a way of making you love it. The promise of meeting some of her friends some time during the summer break eased her up admittedly, but she has to manage until then, little did she now, this summer would be a turning point in her life.

----The very first day back, Harumi spent all day telling her mother about all her adventures, the woman was surprised to hear about the girl becoming a quidditch captain, her mother never knew the girl was the sporty kind, which is true, the girl did dislike sports besides running and a few others, but her curiosity always won, and now she will have to at least pretend to be the sporty kind. "A headliner reporter? Now that's more like you, you always loved observing, that's a helpful talent for reporters." The woman claimed. Harumi couldn't tell if her mother was proud, the woman mysteriously looked through the kitchen cabinets with no expression worth reading.

----Naturally, it was now the mother's turn to share the news from the neighbourhood and home whatsoever, the girl was absent since last September after all, she stubbornly refused to return during breaks, that's 10 months without seeing her mother, their only means of communication were owls, so not much could be told through it. "So she's still sick? But that's ridiculous, it seemed like she merely had a bad bout of illness last time I saw her, how can it escalate so quickly? Did she see another doctor? Maybe the first one wasn't experienced enough." The girl couldn't understand how someone can go from being the healthiest person she's ever seen, to no more than a fatigued person relying on others for basic needs, no wonder she didn't see her father today, he must still be by her side, the man did care about his sister deeply. "We didn't just visit one or two, your father had us take her to 7 different doctors, and all of them came to the same conclusion, grade 4—or was it 3?— brain cancer. Poor Herthya had gotten tired of tests by then, the muggle doctors apparently opened up her head to take a piece of her brain? Seriously I don't understand muggle medicine, but they seem confident enough about it." Her mother explained as she chopped some vegetables for lunch, today on the menu tomatoe soup and garlic bread. "That's called a biopsy... For diagnosis, they need to see the cells under a microscope sometimes... I think..." The girl pointed out thoughtfully before returning to her silence, the thought of her fierce and strong-willed aunt being overpowered by illness seemed almost like a prank, that woman could get hit by a car and then stand up to argue with the driver, can that kind of a person really become dependent on others, Harumi couldn't imagine it, in some way it was painful, the fact that so much about you and your life can change while you have no power over it.

----"Your father won't be back tonight, your aunt refused to stay in the hospital—very classic of her—so she's home, and your father is taking care of her today." The mother's voiced made Harumi return to reality. "Wouldn't it be better if he hired a nurse? There's only so much he can do without experience." Harumi inquired, she also wanted to add that he should be at work because there's definitely bills that won't pay themselves, but she refrained from it, no sense saying it when her words change nothing. "We hired 3 different ones, but they tend to leave because of her attitude, a fourth one should be arriving tomorrow, I pray they have high tolerance" Her mother said in a bitter tone, Harumi guessed she was the one mostly taking care of Herthya rather than her father. "yeah, I can see that... How is coco doing by the way?" Harumi changed the topic to the cat that lived in the neighbourhood, the very one she saved all those years ago when her magic decided to reveal itself. "She's been as Lazy as ever, probably because of her children, she gave birth to 4 kittens recently you see" The mother explained. "That's awesome! I'll find Isela and go play with them tomorrow." Harumi announced, kittens are always so cute, her friend will be very excited to see them.