Torments

by Cloakedsoul

A story set eight years after the sixth book. We face the betrayals and loss Harry has faced over the past few years, and the way it has set up this moment. The final confrontation with Lord Voldemort.

DisclaimerI do not own any of the characters or anything else that was created by Rowling in this series. I do not pretend to own any of them, nor do I pretend to try owning any of them :P.

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Torments

Prologue: Fin

It had been eight years; eight long years. Since then, Harry had changed. He was no longer the boy who had declared vengeance upon Lord Voldemort. He was no longer the boy who had mourned the death of his mentor. That death was nothing to him anymore. It was merely the beginning of a series of events that had claimed the rest of his innocence and left him with a soul purged of joy: a soul that was left to the forlorn wanderings in a despairing maze with no exit but that one denied him again and again.

As Harry stood upon the crest of the hill, looking down upon what could soon be his grave, his thoughts drifted to the past and the events that contributed to where he now stood; ready to fail, or finally claim the vengeance that had become his only reason for life. Whisperings of lost souls drifted around him, claimed yet again in his minds eye by the plague of evil that enveloped his past.