Title: Before, Now, and Forever
Rating:
R
Summary: The three moments in Harry Potter's life.
Note:
Weird. Beta-ed, thanks to Helgaleena. All the remaining mistakes are
mine.
Disclaimer: Not Mine
Before, Now, and Forever
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The Past
As Voldemort rapidly turned into ashes in the soon-to-be-empty place between you and him, his figure was getting clearer before you. There on the bloody battlefield you two stood rigidly, near yet apart.
For a minute or maybe more, because time felt like it was standing still for you and him, your eyes locked together, exactly as his eyes and Dumbledore's had done before. But if a million things could have been said between him and Dumbledore in those seconds, all you could do was conjure an image that's been blooming beautifully, dangerously in the darker recesses of your mind since you'd seen the truth in Dumbledore's last pensieve thought.
You didn't know if he saw the image or not, because his expression gave away nothing while his eyes were unreadable, and more so his mind. You were silently, desperately begging him for any reaction, and right before he disappeared before your very eyes, you caught his last glance, heard the final incantation coming in his velvet voice.
"Finite Incantatum, Harry Potter."
And whatever spell that had been binding you two together for those seven hateful years was now broken.
Then all hell broke loose around you as they realized Voldemort's demise, but you knew nothing about that since you were falling into an endless darkness, with the sound of his painful parting words and the harsh crack of his apparition (or maybe, you thought distantly, that harsh crack actually was the sound of your heart and your soul shattering into a million broken pieces) overlapping each other, ringing deafeningly in your ears.