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Pairing: None

Category: General

Rating: PG

Warning: None

Title: Dashed Hopes

Author: yellowhorde

Notes: This was written for the LiveJournal community, hp100. Challenge #116 – 'Changes'

DASHED HOPES

You can come and live with me when you're out of school.

To be perfectly honest, Sirius had never actually said those words, but Harry believed that if things had been different, safer, that invitation would have been a reality and not something entirely in his head.

Angrily, Harry glared about his room, which was in a shameful state of disarray. He didn't care. That one hope had been the only thing that had gotten him through the summers with the Dursleys. And now he would never see Sirius Black again and this, plus the guilt, was eating him alive.

THE END