Title: The Proposal

Author: Orion

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.

Summary:

Voldermort wants power and immortality. Harry wants to live. The prophecy gives them both the means to their goals.

Warning: kinda Dark Harry fic.

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Voldermort,

You know who this is. You know that I would not be foolish enough to leave this letter exposed, so that any could read. Your eyes and mine, and the eyes of none other alive or dead, can read this. If you try to track me through this, the magics I have placed on it will retaliate. I doubt that it would do much to you, but it might take a number of your mindless Death Eaters out.

You have said numerous times that there are only two types of people: Those with power and those too weak to seek it. Power, I do not lack. I do not know of your true power, nor that of the old fool Dumbledore. Therefore I cannot compare my power to yours, or to the fool's.

While power I have, I have little desire to wield that power. Not on the fool's behalf, nor yours. What I want is to live in peace.

Therefore I send to you this wizarding contract. I swear by my magic, and may my magic be removed from me if I swear falsely, that every word contained within this letter and contract is true. You know that I would not swear that lightly, for not even you would swear this oath and not speak the truth.

First, I offer as proof of my sincerity, a token. You have a traitor in your midst, unless in truth this traitor works for you, making the fool believe that he works within your forces against you. I believe that he is working against you, and I doubt that you would use him in that capacity. His name is Serverus Snape. If he is indeed not working for you as an agent within the fool's forces, then I ask that you dispose of him quickly so that he may not reveal this letter to the fool.

Now, I get to the proposed terms of the contract. I have knowledge of the prophecy. The entirety of it. Its magics are strong, and it will enforce its decree as long as the subjects of the prophecy live. That could, by the will of the prophecy, be a long time. It states that you cannot die; save by the hand of the one you marked as an equal. That said individual cannot die save by your hand. However, once one has died by the other's hand, then any with the ability to kill may kill the survivor.

Therefore I propose that you, and that one you marked as your equal, Harry Potter, join in a wizard pact, a wizard oath, to never harm no order, request, suggest, or in any way indicate a desire to have others harm the other.

I, the one that is marked, Harry Potter, formally agree, should you sign this contract, to take my friends and some allies and refugees to the island chain of Hawaii. I hold no power over the forces that would oppose yours, nor those that would leave the islands. Any that do, you may do as you wish too. On, over, or near those islands neither you nor your forces will ever approach. And therefore you and I will never fear death at the other's hand, and therefore never die, as is the enforcement of the prophecy.

Signed,

Harry James Potter
Son of James
Son of Lilly