Grief
As you can properly guess, this is set about a week after the end of book 5, so I am thinking maybe a month after Padfoot died. How does Harry cope with the grief? This can be read as a one shot, but I think I may carry on writing from this angle.
Harry woke up with a start; his hand sub-consciously clutching his forehead where a thin lightning bolt shaped was a deep red. The dream was so real, and those red, red eyes… they haunted his mind day and night; asleep and awake. Lord Voldemort's snake like face would bring fear into any grown man's eyes, but Harry Potter was only a boy, albeit an irregular one. He wasn't afraid of the terrorist, rather he felt a deep longing to rid the world of the man once known as Tom Marvolo Riddle.
The raven-haired boy struggled to remember the details of this latest ordeal, but all he could drag up was a silver hand, red eye slits and talk of a new potion. Potter didn't want to concern Professor Dumbledore, but someone had to know that Voldemort had, once again, entered his mind.
Who should he call?
Sirius!
But…
Wait…
Sirius died about four weeks ago. How could he have forgotten?
The memories of the veil still preoccupied Harry's mind most of the day, but in those moments between asleep and full awareness, the memories had been submerged in the back of his psyche. The boy felt tears come to his dry eyes, and lay back down amongst the sweat-soaked covers to let them come. He had not cried in those first three weeks, but now at 'home' where no-one could either see or hear his sobs, the small teen wept for the family he had know for just two short years
Grief creeps up on you, overwhelms you, and then leaves, ready to strike again another night.
I do now have an idea for another chapter, but if no one wants it then I probably wont write anything else for this one. I might do a little Christmassy thing (probably quite emotional) and with enough motivation I could even turn this entire storyline into an epic type thing!
Anyway, this story had now been edited, and now I expect at least one review! Come on people, I got none the first time around!