So, this is part of the BWAU series. I hope you enjoy it.
I don't own!
Enjoy!
Death.
It is something that will always happen. Nothing can stop it. Not a single thing can prevent someones death. Not even Voldemort could survive forever.
But even knowing that, It still came as a shock when he himself died. He did everything he could to make up for his mistakes. He didn't think he would ever be in the same place as his beloved, he always thought that he would just, cease to exist, no more thoughts, no more pain.
He was right on the last point. He felt no more pain.
He was in agonizing pain before, when the venom was spreading through his body. And even in his pain, he still was able to give his memories to his beloved's daughter. He did his last deed. He was free, but it wasn't to come.
He knew not what was happening at first.
He knew that the war was going to finish, knew that there was nothing he could do at this point. He could have saved himself, could have taken an antidote before he was bitten. But then, he had nothing left. He couldn't continue in life, no matter which side won.
If, Merlin forbid, Voldemort won, he would be on the run, already found out to be a traitor. He would have no peace as he ran for his life. And what a pathetic life that would be.
And if Harriet won? He would never be able to look at anyone, they would see him as either a traitor, or a hero, The first would be no different than if the dark side won, and he felt he didn't deserve to be seen as a hero.
It didn't matter now though.
He felt himself floating, it felt like there was nothing to keep him down, in the literal sense. He felt nothing, floating absently around Hogwarts as it was being rebuilt. Other spirits were floating around. New ones, Severus noted.
There was a boy, he remembered him to be in his class. A girl was around there somewhere.
He didn't feel the need to talk to his fellow ghoats, he knew that he was blamed for their deaths, he blamed himself as well. He had been in charge when they died, it was his fault they didn't survive.
So he ignored them. He would pass some of the survivors, nodding when they blinked up at him, before floating through the wall.
He would never get used to this.
So? I had Severus turn into a ghost, and he feels guilty of the deaths of the younger students, since he was headmaster when they died.
Well. I liked it.
Mars
