The Children's Hour
I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away!
Chapter I: No End, No Beginning
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite
passion of life.
--Federico Fellini
Harry's Point of View
I thought he would hate me. I had been
so sure that he would reject me. This was the third time in my life
that I felt the pain of knowing someone I loved would hate me. It
was also the third time I was wrong.
Looking back, I'm not sure when it began.
Ron would tell me that it began on Halloween our fifth year. Hermoine
tried to tell me that it never began, that it had always been there, just
as it would never end and always remain. Of the two, she's the closest,
but both are still wrong.
Now that enough years have passed for me to look
back upon it, the two of us have come to decide it all really began the
summer after fourth year. That's when it all really began.
We had all grown up so much that last year that we could no longer see
things as we once had, as through the eyes of child. We weren't adults
yet, but all of us knew that the time would come, and it wasn't far off,
and we would have to mature into the adult we were to become. We
would have to choose our sides, as the lines were being drawn very carefully.
We had little time left to be young and carefree, if we ever were such
things. So all of us, Fred, George, Dean, Seamus, Ginny, Ron, all
of us tried our best to be children just awhile longer. We tried
our best to hold on to the one thread of innocence we all still possessed.
But it came to end. All too soon it came to
an end. And none of us were ready for it when it did.
To Be Continued
Yes I realize this one is short, but it's pretty much just a teaser.
The next chapter should be up really soon.
