This is the way the world ends …
Harry can see the triumph in Voldemort's eyes, the shining, sparkling madness. Even now, when Harry has survived the supposedly unsurviveable curse twice Voldemort still has no doubt. The Boy Who Lived will die.
Harry knows, however, that he has little hope of surviving a third time. He is fighting on a hope and a prayer, with a desperate dream that once again his luck and Dumbledore's machinations will save him and kill Voldemort.
Avada Kedavra
Expelliarmus
Triumphant red eyes against fearful green. Malevolent green light against defensive red.
The clash, the inevitable battle. Neither can live whilst the other survives. The other fighters stand and watch, their own fights forgotten. Then, insanity; the unbeatable curse rebounds and Harry sees, for half a second, a flash of fear. The eyes, the slits that have tormented his dreams seem, just for a moment, almost human. The lipless mouth opens the merest of millimetres and, from those cruel depths, betraying its master, there emerges the quietest of sounds, a helpless pleading.
Then it is over. The eyes, now unseeing, are once again snake-like slits and something less than human falls in a graceless arc, lifeless.
… Not with a bang but a whimper
A/N – The quote comes from T. S. Eliot's 'The Hollow Men'
