Harry's Love

The sleepy world around Harry was disturbed by the light tapping of Hedwig on the window. Harry stirred in his bed as he woke from a wonderful nap. It was dusk and a bit chilly and though his sleep was great his mood was not.

Harry lives in the Shrieking Shack, where no one would think to look for him.

"Another day has come."

Harry made his way to the window to let Hedwig in. Hedwig flew in and flew in gracefully to her stand at the corner of the room.

Harry saw a letter in her beak, but felt no urgency to receive it just yet. He returned to his four poster bed.

Life has lost its meaning for Harry Potter, he fights excitedly through all his days, but now he wants to know.

"Who am I really fighting for?"

Your loved ones Harry …

Since Professor Dumbledore's death, Harry could hear a secondary voice in his head.

"Who is left for me to love?"

Your friends Harry … remember them …

"Where are they? Why are they anywhere but by my side if I should fight on their part?"

In the past year many from the Order are now dead. Percy, Sirius … and Molly …

In his years of fighting Harry has endeavoured the use of guns, though heavy they seem much easier to use and handle also because Voldemort has the same core as Harry's wand, it becomes troublesome if their wands were to bond every time they battle, but more so … heartbreaking … to see … them …

Hedwig has a letter in her beak and she dropped onto Harry's hand as Harry offered it. Hedwig has become more house trained and she seems more of an annoying neighbour than a pet. Hedwig slipped out of the Shrieking Shack after a quick sip of water.

Harry is once again alone in his room. He didn't want to see anyone from the Order, but he was eager to meet a Deatheater to force feed them some lead bullets. Harry returned to his bed and sat there looking at the letter Hedwig left behind.

"What's the point?" Harry said feeling annoyed.

He walked over to the kitchen table for a glass of water until he realised he was still looking at his letter. Harry hesitantly strode towards the letter and read the name on the front.

From Ginny

Harry is delighted to see her handwriting and was tempted to quickly rip it open, but learning from Mad-Eye had prevented him. Harry pulled from his bedside table an all-see -scope. He put it right up to his eye and looked at the letter again. The all-see-scope is really a portable version of Mad-Eye's crazy blue eye, another new gadget Harry began to use.

Harry could see the letter, the handwriting is most definitely Ginny's, but he also saw something else inside his letter. A Black Spot …

The black spot is a new Unforgivable Curse, as soon as come within a feet looking at a Black Spot you will be trapped in a hallucination. The victim realises that they're in a hallucination, but this hallucination starts off like a dream state, first taking you to your happiest memory and soon becomes a nightmare where you see everything you have ever feared happen at the same time.

Harry has experienced that curse before, but unlike the Imperius curse all you need not to fear at all, because this curse is mainly fuelled by the victim's sufferings and will only get worse until the victim perish from fear, but countered once the emotion of love is triggered. Harry was not one bit afraid to deal with this curse, he flipped the letter around to see if there was any other curse as well and there was none. He ripped the letter open and stared straight into the Black Spot.

In Harry's eyes all he saw was the Black Spot fade away. Harry knows that the Spot would not disappear as such. Instead it will turn itself into a mark. This mark symbolises the wizard or witch who cast this curse, just like the Patronus Charm as it takes a form which symbolises the wizard.

The letter disappeared from Harry's hand and so did his surrounding. Harry was familiar with virtual surroundings. He was back in the Gryffindor common room, the room was warm and comfortable, the letter in his hand had disappeared and Ron and Hermione have returned along with Ginny beside them.

"How are you?" asked Ron.

"I'm exhausted!" Harry replied. Harry has seen this so many times he's numb to his feelings of fear, but he's going along with this hallucination.

Suddenly there was screaming from outside the common room and Cedric Diggory's body flew into the middle of the common room with his wide eyes open and emotionless. Cho Chang was outside the common room where the painting of the Fat Lady was supposed to be was left a forced open and ripped opening where Cedric came in. Cho Chang was screaming with tears streaming down.

"Why did you not save him Harry, WHY?" Cho screamed at the top of her voice. "Why?" her voice was cracking under her tears.

Snape then walked in behind her and killed her too with the Avada Kedavra curse in the familiar flash of green light. Harry wasn't afraid of Snape, but to be given the opportunity to see and kill Snape would make Harry excited.

Then Harry heard the familiar swish of robes, the cold laugh and the naked feet set foot into the common room. It was Lord Voldemort …

"So this is what this pathetic room looks like." Then Lord Voldemort looked at Harry. "We meet again Harry."

Other Deatheaters followed behind Lord Voldemort, everyone was desperately and futilely running away as the Deatheaters began killing everyone in the room.

"Harry c'mon." Hermione screamed until a jet of green light hit her on the forehead, she fell to the ground head first. Even as she fell Harry caught a glimpse of her blue eyes fade into state of lifelessness. Her messy hair is all over the place, but the emotion is blank, but definitely not peaceful.

"HARRY!" It was Ron as he reached for Harry as if to catch his hand quickly run off together, but where, they were cornered one way or the other.

Ron was hit squarely in the back by Peter Pettigrew.

"How nice to see you dead Master Weasley?" Pettigrew hissed.

Outside the window a figure fell down, although it could not be seen properly Harry could make out clearly the flapping silver beard of Professor Dumbledore.

Further away Harry could hear Hagrid yell.

"You!" another flash of green light was just seen.

Hermione and Ron now lie closest to Harry's feet, on their backs head on the side with eyes wide open with an emotionless expression on their faces

Except for his response to Ron's greeting, Harry did not make any reaction towards any of the following events. Harry is actually concentrating on the letter he was sent earlier.

"Finally the prize, it seems almost a shame to kill you after so long and you're not even putting up a fight. You're just going to die like this?" Voldemort raised his wand pointing at Harry's scar.

Harry turned his head around and spat on Lord Voldemort's foot and then looked up into his snake-like face.

"Oh, sorry Tom, I didn't see you there." Harry jested.

Harry raised his wand pointing at Voldemort and they both fired at each other. The wands once again bonded …

The following events following Harry chose ignore until he saw … them … a drop of tear was felt when he saw them beside Dumbledore …

Love is the most powerful magic …

After that Harry closed his eyes and when he opened them he felt his eyes water and he looked at the letter and saw the Dark Mark. This could only mean one thing … Ginny is taken hostage.

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