And so it happened

Screaming and laughter
Blending into a horrible sound
The sound of death
Killing
He's dead
And you know it
But you don't believe it
And you're next
And the child screams.
Because the child knows.
He's watching and waiting
While she steels herself for the decision
That she knows has to be made
And then, the tears are gone
And her head is held high
And she says the words
"You can't have him"
She's dead
And you would think that she had lost
But in dying she won
And in living, she lost
And her love lives on
And the child screams.
As his parents sail up to the land of light
While the traitor still roams the earth
And a friend is accused
Because no one knows the truth
So the guilty
goes free
And the innocent
Is proven guilty
Even though he's not
The friend is cornered
And destruction rules
And he is taken
To a living hell.
I know why the trapped man laughs.
And the child screams.
As destruction rules
As the friend is hated
And the traitor is honored
And he screams for his dead parents
For the friend, unjustly accused
Rotting
Worse than dead
And for the unhappy people
And the child screams.
For the friendships that were shattered
And the hatred
For the night that would go down in history
For the night that would haunt
Three men's dreams
For an eternity
One happy, and proud
One proclaiming his innocence
While blaming himself
Mourning the dead
And lost
In hell
And the last
Crying
With rage
And fear
And hatred
Believing what all believed
And despising
One of his best friends
Saying that death
Was not good enough for him.
And the two
Wondering how another could be so untrustworthy
But one knew
So the four were split
One a traitor
One in hell
One dead
And one
Trying hard to grasp it
And realize
What had happened
All gone in one blow
The trust they had shared, shattered
And the child screams.


This poem is about the Potter's death, what followed, and how all were feeling after the horrible experience. The child is Harry. He is James and She is Lily. The friend is Sirius Black, and Hell is Azkaban. The traitor is Peter Pettigrew. And the other person is Remus Lupin.