Shatter
It happens in a moment. One moment that will just leap right onto the next, ever forward and ever changing and never stopping.
His thoughts, normally so clear, with a goal shining brightly, become scattered and he has this fear, right in his chest, like a coil wound tightly – except, it's starting to loosen and he can feel it through his body. It lights up his nerve endings, and he sees the body – nothing but a seventeen year old – and the boy's gathering of foolish friends around them.
Tom Riddle – the boy in the orphanage with no parents or friends to speak of – shouts out a curse too big to fill his small mouth. It brings forth images in his mind, dead bodies – one being his father's – and the little, lonely boy shouts louder, because he isn't a boy anymore, he's barely even human.
Lord Voldemort hears a shout louder than his own. It's filled with hope and hatred and finality.
He hits him, sending him back. His wand slips effortlessly out of his hand, and he screams, it's all over and he knows it.
Everything he detests he becomes in that moment. He feels the fear and it runs deeper into his slowing bloodstream. It's instantaneous, happening in one innocent second, one that will just jump onto the next, forgetting about Tom Marvolo Riddle.
In a moment, for the lonely boy in the orphanage, Tom Marvolo Riddle, Lord Voldemort, it all ends, but time ticks onwards.
Not exactly how I planned it to go in my head, but ah well. I was watching DH2 Deleted scenes and it annoyed me how inhuman they made his death. I thought I'd do a little death(ish) scene in which he's a little more human, because that was the point of his death scene in the book, I thought.
Review, and tell me what you thought about both book and movie death scenes.