Truth

Holly woke up to a bright white space.

'Too...bright...' she winced as she got up. 'What an eyesore.'

Sorry if its an eyesore! she heard a jovial multitude of voices speaking in an instant, and their voices echoed.

She looked around to see a shadow of herself. Featureless, white, save for that toothy grin but it bore her form. Behind it was a pair of doors.

'Eek! What ARE you?!' Holly edged backwards.

'Good question!' it said. 'I am what you call The World, or perhaps The Universe, or perhaps God, or perhaps Truth, or perhaps Everything, or perhaps One...and I am You.'

'And how?!' Holly squawked out. 'Am I in judgment now that I died like it says in some books?!' the being laughed at that.

'Hahaha! Well, they got one thing right at least! Well, they guessed correctly in that case.' said the being. 'Well, they'll know when they die...my usual guests are morons who think they can break some laws or play God. You who never committed a crime that is within my jurisdiction happens to be an unwitting patsy.' it said, pointing at her forehead.

'I know...I know I had to die to get rid of it. For Tom to be mortal again, so he can finally damn pay for everything!' Holly swore. 'My death is scary...but I got to do it or it'll never end...I just wish...I actually lived.' she choked out. 'All I've known...was being taken from.'

'That's true. It's take and take and take indeed. By the machinations of a man whose spiel was 'For the Greater Good'. By Albus Dumbledore.' said Truth. 'What an arrogant man...saying that spiel while playing lives like pieces on a chessboard. He fancies himself as one who knows best and yet, the decisions he makes ends in needless deaths while you, his greatest piece, is used until time to be thrown away.' Holly flinched horribly. 'Your entire life, was like that without you knowing it.'

'T-that's...!'

'So! You came here by deliberate suicide and yet you're now the Master of Death. What will you do, Holly Potter?'

'Master of Death my arse, that's just a stupid fairy tale.' Holly scoffed dismissively with a handwave. 'And even if that were real, what on earth would I do with that? Power corrupts absolutely, I got stellar examples all around me I just wish...' she drooped morosely. 'I could have what I long wanted.'

'Hoo? And what is that eh?'

'A happy family. A childhood. A life I'm happy and content in...a life of freedom where I can be who and what I want to be...I never had that from the get-go.' said Holly. 'I want to die to end up in a life I want. Power will never give me that. If I had too much power I'll become a monster for sure. Best throw stuff away and keep what really matters. And this time, I don't want to be the one taken from till I'm a dried up husk.'

'Heheh, if only visitors are just as smart.' Truth chuckled. 'Yosh! You can go. You more than earned it. I don't expect you to be back here and don't commit heinous crimes...you won't like me angry. Hehehe...you're not the only guest I have who's being taken from so in your next life, we'll balance things out.' its doors slammed open and numerous black hands quickly wrapped around Holly before she could protest and was pulled into the door. '...you wished for what you truly wanted. Yet you see it taken for granted around you. They will pay their dues in the karmic ways possible...especially...your little freeloader.'

Holly passed through a black seemingly eternal doorway, her mind fed with knowledge while some of what she knows is currently erased away until she saw a light up ahead...and she was floating above a new world.

'This is...' she turned into a ball of white light, and she was pulled somewhere...