Notes: I realized, suddenly, that Harry's title could be used in a more pessimistic manner. Deciding that it was too late to spend another hour writing (pfft! only almost midnight!) I starting writing a very concise summary of how I wanted the story to go. Looking at the few words in my document, I suddenly challenged myself to write a drabble consisting only of incomplete or rough sentences — except for the prophecy quote, but that was unavoidable. Normally a total stickler for grammar rules, I figured the exercise might expand my mind.
Misleading Titles
a Harry Potter fanfiction drabble
by Celestia Craven
Boy-Who-Lived.
Perspective.
Past tense.
Boy-Who-Lived.
Boy-Who-Was-No-Longer-Alive.
But not Boy-Who-Died.
A limbo.
"One cannot live while the other survives."
Voldemort surviving, Harry not-living.
Now Harry surviving, and Voldemort not-living.
A serpentine mockery of humanity.
A death sentence.
How to live?
Mother's love?
Dead and gone.
Murderered.
Screams.
Flash of green.
Dead.
A not-living more strict than Harry's or Voldemort's.
Most powerful magic?
A mentor's memory, stained by secrets.
How to do it?
Horcruxes.
Horcruxii?
Doesn't matter.
They need to go.
Friends pave the way.
And then all that's needed —
Is the last ingredient.
The Boy-Who-Lived.
The Boy-Who-Was-No-Longer-Alive.