Eternity In An Hour

by soberloki

ONESHOT, AU, DRABBLE. Harry takes a trip, and doesn't quite come back. HP, SS. Disregards HBP entirely. Warnings for insanity and self harm.

A/N: Completely ignores HBP. Inspired by The Jaunt by Stephen King.

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Eternity In An Hour
soberloki

It'd been an hour since the portkey flared the wrong colour. The screaming filled the Order's heads with images they'd never have conjured six months earlier.

They finally found him. Harry hadn't changed on the surface, but one look and it was clear that this was not the boy they'd seen facing Pettigrew and Malfoy. This was... something dark, though not Dark...

Mad green wells; deep-space black chaos of hair. "It's there, Snape! All of it! A million years. I saw it all, I saw everything," the thing gibbered, weeping and laughing and clawing its skin into running red lines.