Author's Note: Before you read this, I want you to know, I wrote it more than a year ago. My original intention was to include it in a short story that featured characters sharing their thoughts about their actions of betrayal. The characters I was going to have speak included: Marietta Edgecombe, Karkaroff, Crouch Sr. (for helping his son escape prison, a criminal offense, he betrayed the government and the laws he worked so hard to uphold, and in his final moments he seemed to realize that he was a traitor and he wanted to come clean), Rookwood, Quirrel, Snape, and Pettigrew. The story never materialized and I forgot about the poem. I was sorting through my old Fanfiction binder, when I came across it. So, here it is, a poem that has been waiting a long time to grace computer screens around the world. And in light of the 6th book, it seems even more fitting for one of those characters on my "traitor" list.
I don't own the characters, but this poem's mine!
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Scars of a Traitor
No matter what I do
It won't go away
The guilt that's within me
Is here to always stay
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I can wish all I want
My actions won't come undone
I've ruined the bond of trust
Where there was friendship, now there's none
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I am tarnished
This is my fate
Locked in treachery
Thing of hate
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Gone away
Truth for lie
Moment of new oath
Turned spy
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Within the confines of my soul
Beneath the beating of my heart, you'll never know
My reasons for choosing this path in life
Trading you for your foe
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The guilt continues to tear me apart
An anguish within me cries
From the depths of my darkened heart
And the truth, with me, dies.
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