N/A For the I'm about to die challenge on HPFC! This may be pretty suckish I am warning you! Pretty much what I had to do was write a short one shot about what the character was thinking when he or she died.
Most people believe I did it in fear. Others simply believe I was under the imperious curse and was forced to be his servant like others claimed. But I did it for one reason and one reason alone: power.
I had always been ambitious. I traveled the world for a bit, I believed in searching for the greater good in the world. I now see that was pointless and foolish. I was so naïve back then. On my travels to Romania someone steered me in the right direction, they showed me there was no such thing as "good" or "bad" or "light" or "dark". There is only power, those who seek it and those who are too weak.
I then served him faithfully, he did have to punish me a few times when I failed him but he gave me many chances, more then I deserved. He promised me if I did exactly what he told me to do I would be remembered in the future for it and rewarded graciously. I liked the being remembered part a lot I had always wanted for people to look back on me as not just another teacher at Hogwarts but something more. This was defiantly something more.
I think everyone knows how I died. That little runt Potter touched me which somehow resulted in my whole body blistering and turning into dust. Not exactly pleasant to put it mildly. I felt extreme pain, I felt like someone had put me into the very center of a roaring fire. As my eyes started to go black I reached for Potter, my master was yelling at me, I felt him slowly slipping away.
As what was left of my soul finally left my body I had only one thought left that I am thoroughly proud of and it is why I regret nothing: no one is going to look back at me and think " he's juss another Hogwarts teacher". Call me evil, call me ol' stuttering professor Qurill, but everyone shall remember when the day comes, (and it will come,) when the dark lord rises again, I was a part of it. And for quite a while he was a part of me.