A/N.:I know I didn't update any WIP story in so long, but life went its way, and this is what happened. Please enjoy.


The Reason

Some say that Lily Potter nee Evans saved his son on that fateful night in Godric's Hollow. Some wonder if it was possible by the chance Severus Snape gave her, as she refused to stand aside even when asked. Some explained it by the power of love or obscure rituals, even blood magic.

But they all forget one thing. It could have happened to the Longbottoms.

So say it was them. And it still happened. Why?

It couldn't have been the chance to surrender ones boy to death, or some inner power of the infant.

It could have been a ritual based on death, or something other spell or potion, that required the mother to die, but that isn't what really happened. For if they did the same thing, they needed to talk, to share ideas, to plan and scheme. And if the women plotted, surely the husbands would know, and many more people before both families went into hiding and the books would sing the chronicles of two heroic women ready to sacrifice themselves for their children. No, that didn't happen.

There were no fancy preparations, no previous knowledge, and no mysterious power.

It was all the Dark Lord.

A soul broken into six pieces and further burdened with countless murders is fragile. And the thing that shocks a damaged soul the most is the death of an innocent. If one kills a person who is rotten to the core, cruel, violent, saturated in dark magic, it does burden the individual, but only barely. The Killing Curse is the darkest of them all after all, and as such, has no problem conquering the lesser evils, be it in the form of magic, mind or soul. The better, more innocent the person, the bigger the burden however as the black magic cannot suffer the light and needs the power from the caster's soul to finish its job.

So on the night of Halloween in 1981, it didn't matter where Voldemort went, his fraying fragile, even crumbling piece of a soul wouldn't have been able to stand the force it required to end a life so innocent. But as his determination to kill was so great in his fear of a rival, the spell did its job, it killed. It killed the only living thing that it was able to. That was not all, however, as the previously accumulated power to fight the innocence and light was still in the spell, not needed anymore. It had to discharge somehow, thus destroying the body and taking away the chance from Voldemort to possess his own body and continue his reign. The Dark Lord was so destroyed in all his mad and malicious glory.

This is the only reason one Harry Potter would be able to live a normal, sane life after ending so many pieces, including the resurrected centre piece, even if he didn't use the Black Curse himself.


A/N.: As always I welcome any and all reviews, so tell me what you thought of it!

2014.06.04