There are moments in life when we stop and think about the choices we make in life.
Now 150 years since the day he broke The Elder Wand Harry thinks about his journey, all that was expected from him, he did it, married Ginny and had a long marriage until she left 50 years into it, leaving him alone in a manor that she wanted for the "dream family" they had three kids but none of them really stayed close James went of with his team playing an the coaching quadriboll, never settling with anyone. Albus was with his family in Bulgaria and sweet Lily never had the chance to see her 20 birthday.
Now is his time, am bitterness claws up inside. It was a good life, a quiet life. Whats has he left behind.
Laying alone in his house with only house-elf's down below, a smoke figure starts to wander the halls, quiet and slowly moving up the stairs to the master bedroom, as short breaths leave his body.
Suddenly he is looking at his body.
'Well, that is anti climatic'
He looked at his body, and didn't recognize himself, the face frowning was not what he was used to, but that path was over
Looking at the figure at the thresh hold
'As the old fol said, it is time for the next adventure, isn't it?'
The dark figure moved closer and ever without a body there he felt a cold aura surround the room.
'Indeed, the time has come, the prophecy has been laid to rest at last. What is your next journey?'
' Next journey?'
' Yes... you are still the owner of my gifts, and way before your time it was foretold of their destiny. The one who shall hold all three gifts, claimed by blood, trials and death, they shall walk beside him who ends life, and shall live a thousand lives before the path is closed'
'But what kind of life, i have to relive my life a thousand times?'
He almost screamed, while redoing somethings a certain way would bring a peace of mind, it would also seem and endless torture to see every single one of his friends and family die, even with a 100 years until he saw them again.
'No, my friend, only your first of a mortal, now you are as i am, timeless.. far beyond the reach of fate and karma. With a few conditions as your appearance will always revert very close to your original looks, even when reborn you only age until you look 25 and no older, you can die but it would be very hard to achieve it and doesn't last long if you wish to live longer that is. Magic will always be a part of you, but literally a part of you the Elder wand when you destroyed it it merged with you core, and now its powers reside in you.'
Harry sat at the bed looking at the figure as if he was crazy, how could this be true, eternity doing only merlin knows what, never meeting his family in the after.
' You are shiting me right'
'I'm really not' - if it could be laughting he had the impression it was. 'Humans are funny, you where only now thinking about what you did that you shouln'd have, and now that you can.. it scares you'
'Yes humans wish for those things they can't have, it's our nature' - harry said very slowly, it was like talking wish a child.
' Well, you are not a human anymore, hasn't been for a few good years, and you knew... didn't you?'
Looking at his body behind him again, Harry stood up sighed 'Denial is also something humans are very good at, remember?' a bitter laugh escaped him.
'How do i choose then, this next life?'
Squaring his shoulders, the lines of age started to disappear and lean muscle filled his body out. As his new form showed the room was gone, the life he lived was over. A new life began.
'I knew you would be interesting to watch...' - Death said as they where engulfed to black but not to nothingness, to the universe around, full of little dots that surround them.
'These are the universes, each has its planets different life forms and societies.. some humans used to able to travel between these, and so a few might be familiar for they where made into movies, books and art in your previous world.. anything strikes your fancy?'
' Well.. i was always found of these books you see...' harry said trying to remember.