The Death of Harry Potter

By: Darkmoore

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Part IV – You of All People

After the death of Sirius Black, life had become increasingly harder for Harry Potter. Day after day, he felt the weight of the wizarding world grow heavier and heavier on his shoulders. Very few things in the world seemed to bring the light back into Harry's eyes and he never forgave himself for the death of his beloved godfather.

He also never forgave Albus Dumbledore for not trusting him with the truth of the prophesy during his fifth year. If he had only known the truth, things would have gone so differently for him. He would never had been so interested in the images being fed to him by Voldemort and he would never have gone to the ministry that night.

So instead part of Harry went away that summer he had to spend with the Dursleys. While grief and despair ate away at his goodness and kindness, he became a little tyrant in their home. At first Vernon was afraid of the wizards who confronted him at the train station, but he quickly got over it when he thought he could start bullying Harry around again. Harry had threatened to write to them and let them know how he was being treated, but soon apathy took over and he stopped caring about much at all.

The less he cared the more Vernon tried to bully him, until one day something in Harry broke. No, broke isn't right, more like simply dissolved away. Something that was fundamentally good in him and he almost didn't like it. Almost. So began a little experiment to see just how closely the ministry was keeping an eye on him after all.

About two weeks into his confinement on Privet Drive, Harry broke out his potions kit and began brewing things in his bedroom. At first he brewed a dreamless sleep potion and slipped it into the Dursley's food and that gave him an evening free of them to do as he pleased. When he was discovered brewing it later by members of the order, he told them he was having nightmares and wanted to get some rest. They had believed him of course knowing what they knew and had even provided him with ingredients for future potions.

It was then that Harry began to actively poison Vernon Dursley. He started slipping alcohol based poisons into his liquor cabinet bottles. They more he drank of the odorless and tasteless poisons, the more he wanted them. So slowly Vernon turned into an alcoholic, which no one suspected to be what it truly was. It wasn't until Harry was almost finished with his sixth year of schooling that he received the news that Vernon Dursley had died of liver damage brought on by too much alcohol.

It was also during his sixth year at Hogwarts that Harry began to drink heavily himself. At one point it got so bad that he was called into Dumbledore's office about it. Dumbledore had attempted to scare him with expulsion, but Harry didn't care and dared him to do it, which he knew the Headmaster wasn't about to do. Harry knew that Dumbledore needed him far too much to let him go away so easily. However, Harry did curb his drinking when he began to dabble with sex. Harry found that sex was much more fun than drinking, no hangover afterwards.

So Harry paid attention in all his classes, did his homework like a good little boy, dropped potions, but still led a campaign to annoy Snape as much as possible by day. At night he went to great lengths to seduce a multitude of people, either male or female, it no longer mattered to him; neither did house affiliation as he had sex with people from all four of them.

Pansy Parkinson had always been fun in the bed, she was ugly as a dog, but her pelvis sure knew what it was doing, as did her tongue. The same could be said for the Patil twins, he had them both together several times. Oh how he loved them, they worked well as a team. He also had equal fun with Justin Finch Fletchly on several occasions, that boy knew how to please a man. Damn. This went on until the end of his sixth year. By the end of it, Ron and Hermione were barely speaking with him, but somehow he forgot to care.

That summer before Harry turned seventeen was tense in the Dursley house, both Petunia and Dudley suspected that Harry had something to do with Vernon's death, but were far too afraid to say or do anything about it. They were greatly relieved the day he turned seventeen and moved out permanently. He had gone for his apparition test and past it on the first try. After that he retrieved his trunk and moved into Grimmauld Place for the rest of the summer. Once there, he found that the foul little thing called Kreature still lurked around the corners waiting to betray them at the earliest convenience and nobody knew what to do with him. Harry did.

One night when everyone else was asleep, the Weasleys were all tucked away in the Burrow and had not yet arrived for the their summer stay, if they were coming at all that is, Harry crept down with dagger in hand and found the pitiful little thing in the library and slit his little throat from end to end. He quickly dissolved any trace of the murder and reduced the elf's body to miniature size and flung it into the fire, where it flooed to Malfoy Manor. Several members of the order missed the little thing, but never really bothered to look for him that hard.

Eventually, the Weasleys did arrive at the secret residence of the Black family and things were pleasant enough to begin with. Everyone was still the same, Harry was a bit cold and distant from the rest of the order members, well anyone to be honest and Ginny was nursing a broken heart, she and Dean had broken up over the summer. Hermione showed up a day later and she and Ron kept to themselves, Harry had secretly hoped they were off shagging somewhere, so he wouldn't have to deal with them.

It was during one of the night's right before term started that Harry and Ginny spent the night together. Harry had made love to Ginny Weasley all night long satisfying her in ways she didn't know about. He of course used magic to do this, but she was still thrilled. It was several weeks later into term that they discovered that she was pregnant. Harry and Ginny did the right thing and were married, mostly due to the conniption fit Molly Weasley through about it. However, this marriage didn't stop Harry's sex life in the least bit. The day after he married Ginny, he and Collin Creevey did it in the prefects bathroom together and then two hours later he had sex with Blaise Zabini, finally discovering what gender 'it' truly was, not that it mattered.

After graduation and the birth of his son, Harry devoted himself fulltime to Voldemort's defeat. The other members of the order urged him to apply to the Auror's Training Academy, but would have none of it. He had a mission to fulfill, a reason to live, this is what Dumbledore had wanted him to become after all and he was going to do it. Harry went into a severe training routine with all of the Aurors in the order, learning everything he could and eventually learned as much as anyone of them.

When the final battle came Harry fought bravely and killed the dark wizard in a very gruesome manner and was hailed by the wizarding world as its greatest hero. Award ceremonies were planned, press conferences were scheduled, and meetings with ministry officials, but Harry never showed up to a one of them. Instead he simply disappeared. Sometimes he would visit Ginny and their beautiful son, Tyler James Potter, who had his grandmother's emerald eyes, but it was seldom and far between, as Harry spent the majority of his time hunting down Death Eaters and having sex with almost anyone who would have him, which was quite a few.

Harry became so famous for catching Death Eaters, he eventually became a bounty hunter and started collecting rewards. If by chance the ministry didn't offer a reward for a particular Death Eater, they simply disappeared without a trace, executed without trial or mercy whenever Harry found them.

Everyone knew what he was doing, but he was ridding the world of evil and corrupt and they were willing to look the other way. This was Harry Potter after all. He had destroyed the darkest of all wizards. Even on some of his more questionable kills, they looked the other way, such as with the death of Severus Snape. It was only Albus Dumbledore who cried out for someone to capture and control Harry Potter. No one listened, they should have, but didn't.

For years and years Harry went on like this, just within the law with his activities. Not seeing friends for years, or even his wife and son. He probably didn't even know that his son had graduated from Hogwarts as Head Boy or that he was the star seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He simply had too many things to do and people to kill.

However, the worst thing possible happened to Harry a few short years later. He had run out of people to kill. No one dared event think about it anymore. They knew he read the Daily Prophet too closely and anyone mentioned of wrong doing soon met Harry Potter and not in the way most would have liked to. It was when Harry had gone so far as to kill Cornelius Fudge, that his activities couldn't be overlooked any longer, even though many didn't shed any tears over it. The former Minister of Magic was found stealing money from the retirement funds of the workers of the Ministry and so Harry dealt with him swiftly.

Soon Harry had become a wanted man. Leading Aurors right and left on a merry little chase as he hunted down wrong doers to punish them. However, Harry never noticed that the work he began so long ago was long over and he was passed being needed by the wizarding world any longer. Now he was just a criminal being hunted down. Once he had decided he was a criminal, then a criminal he would be. It wasn't too much longer after he made his decision that he murdered the aged Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in his own office.

He was hunted most spectacularly by one particular Auror that Harry named "Shadow" due to his ability to almost always find him. This was the only Auror Harry respected anymore. Actually, this was the only person living Harry respected at all. Even going so far as to owl the young man back into the chase, if he thought he had given up.

Harry taunted the young man for months before they finally met up face to face for a show down. Which reminded Harry of some cheap spaghetti western he once saw when he was a younger man. However, like in those cheap western he wasn't quick enough on the draw and the young Auror's killing curse struck the former hero square in the chest, killing him.

After Harry's death he never knew how the young man walked over to him weeping, cradled Harry's lifeless body in his arms and said, "I loved you daddy."

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Author's Note: To everyone who reviewed, thanks again...

Eden wrote about Chapter 1 That was really good! You did an excellent job evading the question: WHO DOES HARRY MARRY IN THIS PARTICULAR VERSION, which is probably wise, b/c people can get violent about that! The computer won't let me access the next chapter, but it says there's another one... hm... well GREAT JOB and I can't wait to read more!

Answer - Well I didn't answer which witch Harry married because it was loosely based on my Honeychurch story, I was half way thru writing Chapter 16 when this story popped in my head. However, in chaps 2 & 3, he isn't married at all.

Olean-Radcliffe wrote whoah npt what i thought would happen. i9 thought Harry would just drop dead cause it wuz too much work, but wow

Answer - Nah, I had to do at least one fic where Voldemort got to kill personally. :)

miss linn wrote very creative if somewhat trumatic to harry. nice spin on the death scene thingy.

Answer - thanks, I thought it was a bit quick, but it seemed to work for me.