Set after the seventh book of Harry Potter, and joining in with the first book of Twilight. I am treating the Twilight timeline as if it runs straight on as a sequel to the last Harry Potter novel. Of course, the story will veer wildly off track in terms of characters, but the general theme of events will be the same. I disregard the epilogue in the last Harry Potter novel.
Warning: Rated M for language, if you know your mother wouldn't want you saying or reading these words, then please don't. Adult themes may also be present, just later on in the story. Also, story is un-Beta'ed so any and all mistakes are purely mine. If you do happen to see a lot of errors and you really think you could Beta this story then I'm open to any offers.
Disclaimer: Twilight and all its canon pieces are Stephenie Meyers'. The Harry Potter references and characters are J. K. Rowlings. I am merely an amateur playing in their worlds.
Prologue: A Lifetime
Forever.
Not a concept most people think of during their daily lives. Always, it seems like they have to rush about to finish tasks on time. Mostly, people think life is too short for them experience their lives as they want. Never enough time to do what they enjoy or want to do, always something else pressing them on.
Sometimes, forever seems to come in to people's lives, as they wait earnestly for something to come. Waiting has the opposite effect of keeping busy; time drags out laboriously instead of flying by in a rush. Even then, it only seems to take a long time, it seems to take forever, but of course it does not, as any human would never apply themselves to a task which was going to take forever. The human life span covers only such a tiny smidgen of forever that it would be folly to attempt it.
Rarely, some people think of an eternity. To almost everyone it is an incomprehensible idea. This thought of infinite time stretching on and on in front of us, and behind us, reaching further than we could hope to ever realise. Perhaps while looking up to the heavens, as the light of God shines down on them, people may catch a glimpse of what forever could mean. An eternal darkness, with tiny, miniscule points of light, representing the brief flares that are their lives in the passage of time immemorial.
Forever.
I cannot perceive the idea of it, really. I cannot grasp the enormous burden of the years laden down upon this lifeless body of mine. Hundreds, thousands, millions of eons may pass, until all we know is destroyed by fire and all that is left is ash. I find it ironic in the extreme that one such as I, who does not even truly live, has eternal life.
Forever, for me, is a lifetime.
AN: Although this is written in the first person, the story will actually be told in an abbreviated third person perspective, this is just to emphasize the underlying theme of the book.
Please review and let me know what you think, although I know this is little to go on but you shall see Harry in the first chapter!
Bluebell xx