Isn't It Ironic?
I do not own Harry Potter or any or its characters. I do not own Alanis Morissette – Ironic (Title.) I don't know if anyone has thought of this already, but this is a theory that I came up with. Read and let me know what you think.
Harry and Hermione were sitting in the living room of Grimmauld palace. Hermione was reading a book while Harry was staring into the fire lost in thought. It had been a few years since the war had ended, and there was one thing that still bothered Harry.
"Hermione?" Harry asked.
Hermione looked up from her book to look at him. "Yes?"
"There's something that I've been thinking about for a while, and it's been bothering me." He told her, still staring into the fire.
Hermione put a piece of parchment in her book as a makeshift bookmark and set the book to the side giving her long time friend her full attention. "What's wrong Harry?" She asked, concerned.
"Well…" Harry started, now not so sure if he wanted to bring it up, but he needed to know. He looked away from the fire to his friend. "Why didn't he have a nose?"
Hermione's eyebrows shot skyward, not expecting a question like that. She turned her gaze away from him looking at nothing in particular, scrunching up her nose and eyebrows in thought. "Well…" She started but stopped herself, taking in a deep breath. She looked back at the messy haired man for a moment before looking away again. "I guess…" She started again then paused.
"Any theories?" Harry asked, tilting his head to the side.
"Well I suppose it's because you destroyed his diary second year." Hermione told him, looking back to her friend.
"I don't understand." Harry said after a beat.
"When he created the horcruxes, he put a part of himself in each of them and he wasn't resurrected until after you destroyed the diary. I can only assume that his nose was in the diary and when he was resurrected, there was no nose to be recreated." She told him, not exactly sure of herself. "Perhaps the hair too." She added as an after thought.
"Oh. " Said Harry, thinking about what she said. "Could it really be that simple?" He asked?
Hermione thought about it for a moment before replying. "I think it could be." She paused for a moment then smiled, adding, "It is ironic, though."
"What is?" Harry asked.
Hermione smiled bigger laughing a little. "Tom Riddle always had his nose in a book in his youth, only to lose it because his diary, a book, was destroyed."
Harry stared at the bushy haired woman for a moment before bursting into laughter. "I guess it is ironic."
The two friends laughed at the expense of the fallen Dark Lord.
