AN/ Song fic based on my favourite song of all time. This will be update over time for each verse. Now completed and partially re-edited.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. All lyrics are from The Living End "From Here on in".
Warning: Dumbledore bashing. Slash.
Enjoy.
From Here On In
Chapter One
By ScreamForSOH
"Oh I can't explain it,
Oh I guess it's just the way it goes,
For I know no reason,
For I don't know where I'm going…"
-The Living End
The war is finally over, while Harry was one of the happiest people amidst all of the celebrating, he knew there was one thing that he would have to deal with the next day. For the time being he left it alone. It had been a week since Voldemort had been killed, however most of the celebrating had been held off while Harry was in recovery. It had shocked him that so many people had really cared, he didn't realise that he had gotten through to that many people since he started the campaign again discrimination of werewolves, vampires, Muggleborns, half bloods, children of Death Eaters, and many others. He had seen too much during his time at school to allow the generations to continue with the cruelty of which Voldemort had started against those who were different.
During his times in the library with Hermione and Draco, Harry had come across a section of diaries from previous professors and headmasters of Hogwarts. He had begun reading them, interested in the changing of school curriculum and techniques. He had been surprised to see an increase in the mentioning of discipline needed and rules added over just the past sixty years to try and combat against the prejudices the students arrived at the school with and continued to flame over the years. House rivalry had once been only minor, only really needing punishing during time of Quidditch and final point scores.
He had been researching more on the changes in the belief system and using the information he gathered along side his team of newly recruited helpers, Hermione, Luna, Draco and a few parents of other students who had agreed with what he was saying, and so they began writing in to the newspaper. They participated in interviews and pushed to get word out there that things were once without the discrimination and that it was one of Voldemort's ploys since the beginning to start manipulating them and weakening the light side. This was amid his training for the final battle, and the further the campaign got, the more Dumbledore seemed to work him harder.
One day, Harry confronted Dumbledore about his belief in the things which Harry was working on and was surprised to find that he was against much of what Harry was fighting for. Yes, he believed in getting people to forget their differences in most ways, but at the same time, he was defending everything about the house rivalry and thought that Harry shouldn't be fighting for such a little cause as what people believed of each other and should concentrate more on the fight at hand and destroying Voldemort.
Standing off to the side of the party being held at the Malfoy Manor, Harry leaned against Draco contently, he knew that everything was okay, and he shouldn't continue letting his mind and conscience be plagued by things of the past and yet he soon had the memory of talking to Hermione about the way the headmaster was behaving. "I don't get it Herm! He's the one always talking of harmony and all that crap, and yet when it comes to believing the children of Death Eaters, or even just descendants of dark families, he is completely against it!"
Hermione nodded sympathetically, "I know Harry, but even if he continues to work you too hard for you to help with it, there are still the people who have volunteered to help research and prove prejudices wrong." Harry nodded, he was so thankful for everything that people were doing, he was annoyed that Ron was even more against it then Dumbles. He even seemed to be doing an anti-campaign for it, showing all the things that proved that people with dark backgrounds were bad. Even went as low as to bring Snape back into it. He wouldn't leave the dead be… for Snape had been brutally killed by Voldemort when he found out about his spying, Ron just broadcast about Severus trying to kill Dumbledore, it was terrible and yet it seemed to work with some people.
His mind skipped ahead to when the time to fight came about, a lot of people who had been on the fence, or unwilling to work under Dumbledore's beliefs and manipulative rule, or Voldemort's strict and cruel regulations with his even harsher philosophies had come and joined Harry's side, one who was willing to let people do as they chose, believe what they want, as long as they give people a chance, in hope that others would give them a chance. And so Dumbledore lost much of his army, they instead turned to Harry for commands, and even Voldemort was shocked to find some of his new recruits not turn up as he called them, those who had heard some of what Harry had been fighting to prove and so they gave him information in return for help once the war was over. They knew the risks; they were willing to take it.
Harry's mind continued to scroll over his memories of the battle and was eventually brought back to the current time. His mind suddenly worked out, or at least, he knew of the past, didn't understand all of what happened but knew it was all worth it, he knew where he was, in the arms of his lover, surrounded by friends, family and even those he didn't want to see again, but that was to be dealt with after celebrations were over. Harry smiled and turning in Draco embrace, he brushed his lips against Draco's before leading him out onto the dance floor and began dancing with him to the heavy pounding music.
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AN/ Please review and tell me what you think. The chapters get shorter from here I think. If you haven't heard the song before, download it or something. It is a great song.