Disclaimer: My plot, but thats all own
This is just something that wouldn't get out of my head so i wrote it down. Its' set sometime after OOTP. Not necesarly in the sixth year, but there are no HBP spoilers. It is a one shot so yeah...
Harry walked down a path in the park near his home.
He watched everything as he walked. His heart clenched painfully when he saw the mothers playing with their children, pushing them on the swings, playing in the sand. Or when he saw the teenagers, playing basketball, flirting, talking with their friends.
'Why can't my life be like that? So simple and innocent? Why do I have to be the bloody boy-who-lived-to-watch-everyone-he-loves-die-so-he-can-be-alone-and-misrable?'
He sighed and kept walking.
Once he almost cried out, as a black dog came running out of the bushes. But it wasn't Sirius…it couldn't be. Sirius was dead. Dead.
'Why? WHY?' his mind screamed.
He continued. He watched as a little boy tripped and skinned his knee. The boy started to cry and his mother picked him up. Quietly she whispered comforting words into the child's ear. She rocked him back and forth, and kissed him on the top of the head.
Something cracked, and he started running. He ran and ran until he came to a bridge overlooking a wider river.
Harry couldn't help it he broke down.
"It's not fair!" He yelled to the river. Crying he whispered again.
"It's not fair."
For a long time he watched the water.
Rushing. Rushing.
It kept going and going. Never did it stop. Never. No matter what got into it's way it kept moving.
Soon that was all Harry could think about. Everything else forgotten, he watched the river. He stared into the clear rushing water. He listened to its roar.
He began to think, about the river. How, it overcame every obstacle, it just kept moving. Even when it was down to a small trickle, it persevered. Nothing could stop it, not a rock, a fish, a person. Nothing. It had somewhere to go, and it was going to be damned if it let anything get in its way.
Harry decided something then. He decided it was time he took a lesson from the river. There was something he needed to do. And it was time he got to it.
Voldemort beware, for Harry Potter had a destiny to fulfill. And this time, nothing was going to stop him!
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