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The Life and Death of Harry James

Wasn't Part of the Plan

We're weren't sneaking around, Ron, I left Hagrid's and she just ran away, she fell in Black Lake and I jumped in to save her."

"So she almost died? And you didn't tell me?"

"I didn't think it was important as she's fine. What the hell is your problem anyway?"

"Nothing," he grumbled laying back down and turning to the side "absolutely nothing."

Hermione Granger's Point of View

I took the clothes Harry handed me, the boy was insane if he thought I would change in front of him, looking or not. I took his wand from beside him and pointed it at myself before whispering an incantation and feeling the warmth of dry clothes settle over my body. Tonight all my questions would be answered...and then some.

"You've been avoiding me," I said quietly as I watched his eyes take on a glint of anger, perhaps this was the wrong thing to start with.

"I'm avoiding everyone, Hermione. You aren't the only person in the bloody world." he responded stiffly

"I know that. But that isn't how you normally act, even with everything, there's more to it."

"You have your godfather die in front of you and then get on with life happily!" he hissed "I'm like the damn plague! Everyone I love, everyone I care about, they all get killed or hurt because of me. He's not going to stop, he wants to drive me mad so I'll go to him and plead for him to leave everyone alone. To stop killing and take me instead. It's part of his plan, to kill off everyone and watch me come begging! He'll kill Ron, he'll kill Fred, Dana, Ginny, Neville, Seamus, Lupin. You name them, they're on his hit list, Hermione! You never know who's next, he could-he could-"

"Kill me?" I asked "You don't think I know that? You don't think I know that I'm in danger every second I'm with Harry bloody Potter?"

"And this is excatly why I kepy you away! I can't keep anyone close anymore. I can't let anyone in. Damnit! I can't do this anymore!" he gestured towards himself

"Do what Harry?" I asked venom pure in my tone, "Be Harry Potter, be the boy-who-lived. You don't have to be! You can be normal!"

"I will never be normal!" he hissed "I will always be Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived, the boy who killed Voldemort as a baby. I will never be anything more! Don't give me that look, Hermione, I'm not afraid of him. I'll scream his bloody name if that gets people to listen, why can't you get it through your thick skull that I don't want to be around anyone anymore?" he hissed

"Because I know it's all a lie! A fake! A-" I was cut off by his hand

"Just shut up, for two seconds. That is all I ask." I was silent. "I can't do this anymore. I can't continue to be your friend when I want-" he cut off again; just like he had that day in the snow, "Sirius' death is my fault. I went snooping around and I got him killed, if the same thing happened to you-if I had been the cause of your death-I would snap. I would do my damnest to find Vol-him faster than I am now and kill him. Just because...I just-Merlin, Hermione! why is everything so difficult around you?" Harry rose and paced around before walking towards the portriat hole.

"Where are you going?" I asked taking the blanket off and standing

"I don't know, anywhere but here. Anywhere but here with you."

His words stung when they reached my ears, it was terrible to say such a thing! To my face! I felt more ugly than I had in my life, not even Harry wanted to be around me anymore.

"Why?" I could feel the tears fill my eyes "What's wrong with me?"

Harry turned to face me again, sorrow and guilt shining in his eyes. "Becaue falling in love with you wasn't part of the plan to defeat him. But it happened anyway. Inevitable."

And then, before my brain could register what he had said, Harry was gone. Gone so fast that him even being there in the Common Room with me only felt like a dream or perhaps a nightmare with an ending such as this. Harry Potter was gone and I didn't know if I would ever see him again. As horrible as an ending this may seem, my friends, worse was yet to come.

Two Weeks Later

"He's back!"

"He's back!"

"He's here!"

"In the castle?"

"They're all comming!"

"How did they get in?"

"No one knows."

"We knew this was going to happen sometime.''

"Bet Potter did too, that's why he left us. he left us to die."

The younger years and even some of the older years were crying. Harry had left shortly after he told me he loved me, that day at Hagrid's Harry's sentence made sense. He wasn't speaking of Ginny he was speaking of me.

"I told Ginny about it, she said that I should go after her. But Ron…he told me he liked her, which was strange comming from him as he always made fun of her. I think I love her. I just don't know what to do anymore."

Doomsday was today, how he got inside the gates no one knew but we were all trapped inside the castle, prepared to fight but also prepared for the end. The Creecy brothers sat together in what they hoped wouldn't be their final moments. Fred, sitting on a bench holding his girlfriend, Dana, close to him as she cried. Ron sat next to me on the floor, his arms wrapped around my body as we both waited for the word, even he felt without Harry we would all die today. And maybe...just maybe...we would.