The World Isn't Kind
The world isn't kind.
Harry learnt this at a very young age.
The world isn't kind.
His relatives beat him, starved him, called him a freak.
The world isn't kind.
Sixteen years later, Harry is once again taught this lesson. He vows the next time this lesson is taught, he will be the one teaching it. He'll teach it to them all. Why you may ask?
Because,
The World Isn't Kind.
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter.
NOTE: Sirius was not pronounced innocent after his death in this series simply because that never made sense to me, like, why do they suddenly believe this just because he died and gave them yet another thing to deal with? If anyone has an actual answer to that question, I'd appreciate a message or review explaining it, but regardless, in this it's believed that he's guilty and was killed fighting for the Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries, not for the 'good guys'. Also, Lucius Malfoy and the other Death Eaters escaped unless their name is specifically stated as having been arrested. Anyways, MOVING ON!
A red spell, a mystical arch, Remus' arms wrapped around him, holding him back, he lets go, Harry runs.
Laughter, everywhere, laughter. "Come out, come out, little Harry!"
"CRUCIO!" It doesn't work, nothing ever works. He lost him, he loses everyone. He can't, not again.
"A time will come, Potter…Make it worth all of this in the end."
Sirius is dead. This is the thought that is stuck on loop in Harry's head. Sirius is dead. It's all he can think about. Remus' words as stuck in his head as that thought, 'sometimes the world isn't kind' he'd said.
Harry's life has always been hell, but he has never known the pain of losing someone you love. He never had someone to love him, nor for him to love. He has never had someone teach him right or wrong, never had someone to guide him. All he had had was a cupboard, and many painful years spent learning how to stay out of it. Then he met Cedric and Cedric had loved him. All for nought in the end. Sirius too had cared, had taught him that no one's born evil, taught him that sometimes you have to keep the people you love away to keep them safe, and also that sometimes that's total hogswash. Sirius had been everything he had needed and so much more, but now he is gone.
Harry thought he would blame Bellatrix, she is the one who killed him. Or perhaps Voldemort for ordering her to be there. Maybe Lucius for being the one to lead the charge. His friends or himself for not being able to stop it? Hell, even Snape for not letting him know that Sirius was safe. But no, he doesn't blame any of them, not even himself. He blames no one because he knows something in his heart that is a lot stronger than blame. The world isn't kind. He knows that bad stuff happens to everyone because sometimes bad stuff just happens.
When he was eleven he had been brought into the wizarding world, the first good thing to happen in his life that wasn't later taken away. Then he had nearly been killed every year since, his friends had nearly been killed, and the last two years someone he cared about had died right in front of him. All because the world isn't kind. He ponders this for a while and comes to a conclusion. If the world isn't kind, then why should he have to be? No, he shouldn't have to be, he can't be anymore. So many people have wronged him, so much bad stuff has happened, and he didn't do anything, he couldn't do anything, because the world isn't kind.
Now it is his turn to teach people that, and he'll start with the person who was supposed to protect him, who should have protected his Aunt and Uncle, should have saved him so many times, should have protected the school, the students, and Sirius. Because really, everything is his fault, every damned thing that's happened to Harry leads back to him. Yes, that is what will happen, Dumbledore is going to die. And not only will Harry kill him, he'll also destroy the man's belief that the world can be kind, that people can be. He'll destroy the man's hope and take his entire world down around him, he'll decimate the war the old man cared so much about. Harry will destroy it all, and then, he'll destroy him.
The world isn't kind.