Diary of Harry Potter (written on a separate sheet of parchment)
Darkness.
Darkness is all I have left. Everything that once shown light into
the dark pit of my existance is gone, or in fact never was. All of it
was a lie, everything that i have ever been told since I was a child
was a lie! Am I so blind and nieve to think that there would actually
be people out there to genuinely care about me, and love me for who I
am, I guess so. How could they do this? I know the answer, but I
don't want to admit it to myself...it's because I am a weapon.
Something to be used and toyed with when the time arises, but I am
not given the luxury of freedom, the luxury to have my own life.
Dumbledore has puppeted my entire life from the moment I was born.
Mother, Father...was your demise part of his plan? I do not know...I
am not sure of anything anymore.
After leaving the Great Hall this
morning I don't really remember much..I could feel everything around
me spinning and my head felt as though my face were caving in upon
it'self. My thoughts were shadowed by the repeating words of the
letters clutched in my hand. Everything was ablur but I kept
running...running with no where to go. When I finally collapsed
outside inthe snow I scrambled to the only building that was
near...and found that I had obviously gone to my dorm and gathered
the few things that still mattered to me; my fathers invisibility
cloak,my Gringotts key, the mauruders map, and the knife and mirror
that Sirius had given me,for those few gifts are the only things true
in my life. I left everything else behind, whatwould I need with
magical things when I had no intention o f remaining in the wizarding
world.
There are questions, so many questions thatI shall never
have answers for..because I am never going back. They can't make me
go back...they can't make me fight. I wonder now that I have cooled
down from reading the annomyus letter at breakfast; All this time
were Ron and Hermione just following orders? Everything that we did
together, everything they did for me, was it all just because they
were told to do it? Every year I have been at Hogwarts some strange
event takes place where I am eventually forced to play the hero, was
all of that, The Sorcers Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, even the
Tri-Wizard was it all planned?I don't think it all was...but over the
years I have come to the realization that there is little that goes
on at Hogwarts that Dumbledore does not know...but there must be
parts of those situations that he knew about and either controlled or
let things happen so that I would ..gain experience...I guess.
One
thought troubles me the most. That day on the train, the first day of
school if Ron and Hermione wouldn't have sat with me and become my
friends, who wouldI be friends with? I remember the day in Diagon
Alley before that, I was getting fitted for my school robes and I met
him there. Silver piercing eyes met mine and I was lost for a moment.
Perhaps I just wanted so desparatly to make friends but...I liked
him...more than that...I wanted to Be him. I wanted to look perfect,
to know everything about the wizarding world, to be rich, to be
loved.
But he and I were not to be friends, he was rude to Ron and
Hermione on the first day of school and when the sorting hat was on
my head I begged it not to put me in slytherin. But it was right...I
should have been in slytherin...and does..does that mean that I would
be his friend and if so...would I be training to be a death eater
right now? Would I be on the wrong side of the specrtum? No...no it
can't be...I...I'm still myself...aren't I? I would never work for
Voldemort, would I?No..the prophecy says thatI am going to fight
him...thatI am destined to fight him...unless that too is just
something else that Dumbledore made up to further manipulate me..
which to me at the moment seems very possible.
I sit here alone in
my shack, not caring much about my surroundings or how long I will
stay here. I don't even really know where I am going, I have no
plans...and darkthoughts control me as I watch the snow fall outside
the broken panes of glass...they remind me of the pain in my
heart...the way it felt when i read those last few words of
Dumbledores letter. "I know this may not be a pleasent
experience but I assure you that to comply would be in your best
intrest." Damn you Dumbledore...who the hell gave you the
right to play god!
Diary of Draco Malfoy.
Oh
,Salazar what a night! I am more exhaused and sore than I ever
remember being in my enitre life!After nearly 6 hours I finally found
the boy wonder!I had actually given up hope and had started back to
the castle when I thought to check in one last place, the shriecking
shack. I guess it would have been obvious to anyone else but honestly
who would run away to that dump? I mean I searched all of the
grounds, the castle, the quidditch pitch, and then at night I was
able to leave the grounds undetected and walked around Hogsmead in
search of the boy wonder but I found no sign of him and no one had
seen him. (I, of course, wondered around with a heavy black
hoodedcloak and a disillusionment charm so as not to be recognized)
But as I started down the long trail to Hogsmead I saw the shack in
the distance and out of the corner of my eye I saw something..and
flicker of light...like the brife waver of a candle. It was so short
that for a while I stood there thinking I had imagioned it, but after
a long internal battle of weather or not to investigate I ventured
forth and found myselfstanding on what use to be the front steps of
the house.
I slowly made my way inside, after my own personal
experiences I knew for a fact that the place was haunted by some evil
spirts and ghosts that even the Hogwarts ghosts didn't speak of.
Stopping in the door way, which was no warmer than the icy chill
outside.Lowering my hood and pulling my wand from the side pocket of
my cloak I slowly walked down the hall.
"Potter?" I
whispered into the dark, I stopped just outside of an ajar door where
a soft golden glow was comming from the door. Taking a deep breath I
slowly opened it and much to my annoyance it made a very loud
creaking sound and would have announced my arrival but I knew he
already knew I was there. I could feel him, I don't know how but I
know he could feel me too...and there was something in the back of my
head like a white cloud reading me and I threw what form of shields I
have learned to control over my thoughts.
As I walked into the
room I froze at the sight of him standing there a foot from the
shattered window staring out into the night, his livid green eyes
glassy and unmoving. He was wearing a black turtle neck sweater that
seamed to cling to his muscular torso and accent the fine lines of
his form and a pair of dark blue jeans. His black Hogwarts cloak lay
on a dusty chair forgotten and it amazed me that he was not freezing.
The soft moon light that was comming in from the window cast blue
highlights in his jet black hair and made his tan skin appear to
softly glow. I blinked a few times...realizing with a flush that I
was staring at him. But he hadn't turn to me, he hadn't said
anything, he hadn't even moved, like he was a statue.
"P-potter?"
I whispered taking a single step closer to him.
"What are you
doing here? " he asked with out turning to me, his voice was
icy, and I felt a chill run down my spine. "I expected Voldemort
to send someone,...but I honestly hadn't expected it to be you, but
then agin...nothing ever works out quite the way I think it will.."
he said in the same cold voice, his eyes unmoving still.
When he
didn't continue speaking I replied, "No one sent me...but
someone will come...I am not the only one" with that he was on
me, he had moved so fast, like the day he had tried to kill me, only
this time his hands were not around my throat. Knocking me back to
the door my wand fell from my hand. He held me pinned against the
wall, and I gasped as my eyes met his. Never had I ever seen such a
strange intense color, it was bright like a forest green that glowed
but the depths of them were piked with a dark shade that betrayed his
inner grief.
"WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT FROM ME? WHAT MORE CAN
YOU TAKE AWAY FROM ME, HUH? WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST KILL ME A LONG TIME
AGO? WHY THIS? WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!" he screamed at me his
face scant centimeters from my own. I could feel his powers pulsing
around us, his anger surging with uncontrolled force but it didn't
stop, it rose to a point where I could feel my mind drifiting away
with it, and our eyes remained locked as his green orbs seemed to
grow brighter his brows coming together in obvious pain and I felt
the full impact of it and cried out sharply. Everything around us was
shaking, or spinning he was losing hold of everything, either from
extreme grief or rage or both but I knew that if he didn't stop he
would end up killing us both.
"Harry...please..." I
cired out weakly , I felt as though I was being drained and my
vision was full of small white stars and harry's face and I blacked
out. When I woke Harry was sitting on the floor beside me, his head
in his hands and his knees pulled to his chest and shaking violently.
I was slumped against the wall my self, having remained where I had
fallen. I took a few deep breaths before looking around at
him.
"A..are you alright..." I asked in a very
soft whisper, fearing that I would cause another outburst, but on the
contrary I recieved a small nod. After watching him and laying back
against the wall and closing my eyes he finally spoke.
"W..what
are you doing here..." he asked, his voice was slow and calm.
"I...I came to bring you back..."
"Why..?"
"I...I
don't know...because you're not safe with out your wand.." I
said lamely and was startled as a low bitter laugh emited from him
and I looked up at him in surprise, he had his head tossed back
against the wall and his eyes were closed, just as I had been a
moment before.
"You have no idea..." he started
"I'm
serious...I'm not the only Slytherin with a Death Eater for a father
you know...they would have all written to their parents at first
chance I'm actually shocked no one is here to kill you now!" I
said with a small scowl, not really sure why I was giving away so
much information.
He didn't say anything for a long time but then
moved his head from the wall and looked at me, and not just a glance
but a long contemplative look that nearly caused me to blush but I am
a masterof my physcial appearance when I want to be and mantained
composure.
"You really didn't tell your father...did
you...why not?" he tilted his head to one side as though seeing
me for the first time, and that very idea sent a chill down my
spine.
"I...I don't know...I just...wanted to find you"he
cut me off there and looked away from me, staring out the window a
good thirty feet away.
"You know, I never believed in destiny
or fate...I never wanted to think that it was all already planned out
for me and that i really had no choice in the matter...but then I
found out about the prophecy and I realized that everything that
happens has a reason..everything that we do or say has a reason
behind it, like it was meant to happen...and what we have to figure
out is what that reason is and why..." he returned his sad jade
eyes to me, "Like right now...you being here...there is a reason
for that to...you were meant to come and look for me...but why.."
he stood, slowly as though every movement pained him, and when he
finaly got to his feet he was panting a bit and leaning against the
wall. I stood also and realized why he had acted so pained.
Severus
had once told me that with powerful wandless, physic, or metaphysical
magic the user and reciever would have what was known as "backlash"
which was basically a complete drainage of magical power and physical
strength. Slowly I stood with him and winced all the way eventually
leaning against the wall not noticing that he had moved to stand
a few feet in front of me and was watching me until I caught my
breath and reopened my eyes.
He was giving me a strange expression
as though waiting for me to speak.
"Why are you here,
Malfoy." he asked when I didn't say anything for a few minutes
and nothing but silence remained between us. "The real
reason...not why you think you came here...but why ...what is the
reason for you being here...right now...with me...?"
His
eyes were penetrating, intense and I had to look away from them and
to the floor. I searched my mind for all the things I thought of
while searching for him, why had I come here? It was like some
strange force pulling me to look for him.
"Because...I am the
only on who ...who can make you go back." I said with out
thinking, and looking up at him. He tilited his head to one side
again looking at me strangely and for once I wished I could read him
as he could read me.
"Why do you think you can bring me back
there...as far as I am concerned I am never going back."
"Because
despite your anger and hurt you are still the same caring, unselfish
person you always were." my voice had such conviction but I had
no clue where the words were comming from, it was like someone else
was saying them with my mouth, and i took a step closer to him, "You
are still Harry Potter...they didn't make you who you are...you have
a good caring heart and you're a natual hero. You and I both know
that you wont let the Dark Lord win, at least not with out a fight.
"
He turned away from me and moved to the window, seeming
angered by my words but he was listening and he apparently wasn't
going to lose control again.
"This isn't my war
anymore...they were just using me...like a puppet.."
"No...This
is your war..you have more reasons to fight it than anyone else!"
I exclaimed taking a step to him, "He killed your parents...he
tried to kill you...and if it werent for him Dumbledore wouldn't have
had to use you like a weapon!"
Silence hung then,
thick...but I could tell that he was thinking about what I had said.
Slowly he turned to me.
"You want me to fight him? You want
me to kill him? Why...you're..you're a slytherin. You've hated me my
entire life. Why are you here trying to get me to go back and fight
him when you're suppose to be working for him, when your father is a
death eater? I don't get it...or ...or are you playing some sort of
game...?"
He was watching me again with that penetraitng
stare but he wasn't trying to use occulmancy to read my thoughts or
intentions. It was my turn to turn away from him.
"There are
many things that you do not know about, but many of those I
cannot tell you without sacraficing my own safety..." I
muttered under my breath. The air in the room suddenly felt too thick
to breath and I closed my eyes against the pressure in my chest. "You
have to come back...you...are our only hope..." I whispered. He
didn't respond for a long time and I feared he wouldn't respond.
"I'll think about it..." he whispered and I only
nodded, I knew that was a que to leave and I took it. I left out the
door but stopped half way to turn back and look at him one last time,
just in case it was the last time I would ever see him.
I
returned to the castle, it's late but I knew I had to write this
down, I don't know if I will be able to sleep tonight, he has shown
me so many different sidesof him tonight. His eyes are truly windows
to his soul. In my past years never would I have thought he was
capable of such depth, but with in his eyes I can see how intensely
he entraps himself in everything he does. No wonder a broken heart
would nearly kill him.
