LOVE, n.
A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
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Chapt.12
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Harry's POV
He's trying to get to the Mound. But he's having problems, the wards are too strong and his fear is overpowering him. The people that are surrounding him fighting are falling and others are quickly replacing them. He's being pushed and shoved and he isn't sure when a spell is going to hit him.
His body is still aching from the Crucio Cruse he was hit with. Not even that could stop him from getting to the Mound. All he can think of is how to get to Percy without falling on the way.
Harry tries harder yet to break the wards but still he fails…
Then one is broken.
The screams and death cries are blocked out of his hearing as another explosion nearly deafens him.
The second barrier is harder and all he can do is try to get close to it before it throws him back.
Then he sees him. One of the people he loathes in the world as well as pities.
Platinum blonde hair.
Malfoy.
Harry's barely aware of screaming at him. All he knows is that the hate he feels is being generated at the second barrier until he can nearly see the energy of it pulse through the wall. Shattering loudly with a snap that hurts his ears more.
Malfoy is talking to him but Harry feels as if he's underwater. He knows that he himself is still talking because he can feel his throat contracting and his Adams apple bob up and down.
Then Malfoy comes up to him and nearly screams in his ear
"--YOU HAVE TO GET THE SNAKE! HIS LIFE IS THE SNAKE! --" Harry can see the dirt that is covering Malfoy's abnormally pale skin. But he nods.
The Snake…
The Snake….
Nagini.
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Harry can see the Snake and is trying to get to it. The barriers are broken on both sides. The magic couldn't hold against both the magic and Muggle artilleries.
The he sees him. The thing that has tried to kill him since he was born. The man who is but a retile of a man.
Harry can see him come for him. Gliding as if he has no feet. The slits of the nose contracting and the skin on the face stretched over unfathomable bones. The red eyes not quite so crimson but nevertheless reptilian. The body as a skeleton.
Harry decides within a matter of nanoseconds that there are worse creatures to be afraid of.
Then the earth tilts.
Harry can feel it and so can everyone else. The earth is cracking and the Mound is moving. The figure dangling from that atrocious statue swaying slowly back and forth. The sounds of thunder in a darkening afternoon sky is eerie and the patrons that are fighting in the The Ditch of The World.
The earth is cracking.
There is that feeling of darkness and despair.
And fear.
The earth is cracking.
The Evil Thing is coming.
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Chapter 13.
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Percy's POV
All he can feel is fire. The veins in which the blood flows through are aflame with white fire making it's way slowly to both his head and his heart. His vision has darkened and the darkness is becoming more and more menacing. He fears he could be both deaf and blind and then he fears that he is dead.
Death shouldn't be like this.
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Harry's POV
He's sending curse after curse at him. He's trying to kill the man who's taken everything away from him and stuck him into the prison of oppression that being the hero is. He could kill him but he's not sure that would take away all this man's sin.
Hell, he's not even sure if a man like this can be killed.
But he's going to try.
So when he throws the Killing Curse at the same time that Voldemort does the golden line is once again created. However this time Harry's going to use it to his advantage.
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The Golden line is like a whip. That is how Harry uses it. He whips his wand and tugs at it. He thinks and concentrates hard on trying to get magic pulsing into the line.
The electric blue comes from his part of the line. Flowing down the line and onto the shocked Voldemort's wand.
Shattering it.
Voldemort's howl is eaten by the wind as Harry throws the final curse. But the Dark Lord disappears.
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The Snake is what Harry's trying to get to. Because he knows that it has Voldemort's soul still inside it and he must have it.
When he finds the Snake he tries to dodge the way it tries to attack him. Speaking to him the hisses of Parseltongue. But Harry's not going fall for it. He can tell that if he was to speak Parseltongue to the creature that it would try to bewitch him somehow.
So he sends a Stinging Hex at the thing at the same time that guns shoot at the thing.
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Harry knows that Malfoy is trying to summon him back to where the fighting is going on.
Everyone who was at the Mound has abandoned it for fear of the earth shifting.
Harry is trying to get to Percy because he's afraid of losing him.
However there is some sort of black sheet going around the Mound and the figure of Percy dangling is starting to disappear in a cloud of impenetrable black.
Harry goes through it despite the fact that it reminds him of the Veil that Sirius fell through.
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Chapter 14
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Harry and Percy's POV
It is the End. The End of all things that live and breathe. The End of the World's and the many universes inside it.
The Black that sucks in the soul.
It's dark and nothing can move it. Like soot from a building that is burning down, one cannot breathe see or even feel.
Then there is the sense. The sense of two beings trying to struggle in this darkness that consumes them.
The sense as they find one another and try to stay with it. The sense of the magic and something else that isn't known in the darkness for what it truly is.
The fingers lock and the bodies align themselves to each other. Clinging. Holding. Breathing.
Then the darkness is trying to get in the middle of these two beings as the red eyes come after them grabbing at the arms and trying pry them apart.
The magic is too much and the creature falls back with a howl that isn't heard. The darkness is growing thicker.
The figures aren't letting go. They cling harder and the darkness realizes that it's time has past.
But alas,
The Dark Lord, Tom Riddle, Voldemort has past.
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Epilogue.
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The Boy Who Lived Once Again.
For the past couple of decades Britain has had problems with the Dark Lord that was referred to as 'You -Know- Who'. The young boy who put this monster down has had to do so twice. Once when he was barely a year old. The other at the age of 17.
It has been 6 months since the defeat of You Know Who and the Boy Who Lived has shown that he himself is still fighting the battle. With the attacks of old supporters of the Dark Lord still on the rise The Boy Who Lived has been busy…
He has shown support for the re-evaluation of the school system at Hogwarts since it has been deemed both nationally and internationally flawed for the prejudice of both so called 'Purebloods' and Muggle borns. He has also joined a campaign for the political system to be changed regarding the treatment of Magical Creatures.
But for the infamous Harry Potter his biggest challenge has been with St. Mungo's on the treatment that Percy Weasley (Harry Potter's lover). The young man who's life has been in a catatonic state since The Defeat of the Dark Lord.
Harry Potter has finally won custody of Percy Weasley, despite the fact that St. Mungo's has put up the fight that Harry Potter would not know how to take care of the patient…
(More on this article on pg 3, 5 and 8)
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Harry Potter has spent the last six months by the bedside of someone who has no idea that he is there. The shock treatments the red head has been given help him not and Harry doesn't want to think of him as not getting any better.
So he decided to take Percy home.
Despite the fact that no one thought he himself was very sane anymore. Despite the fact that he still refused to talk to anyone.
No, Harry Potter is tired.
And all he wants is Percy to wake up and touch him.
But even when he brings Percy home the other man just sits without an emotion going through his eyes.
But Harry won't give up.
Not now.
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Hermione and Ron come over every day. Even though Hermione's starting an activist paper and Ron's training for his Auror's certificate.
Harry knows they worry about him.
Neville came over once just to ask Harry if he was going to go to Godric's Hollow anytime soon.
Harry replied
"When Percy wakes up."
Neville left after that.
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Harry sleeps in the same bed as Percy. He sometimes prays before he puts on his pyjamas that Percy will suddenly reach out to stop him.
But he knows that won't happen.
He knows that people know he sleeps in the same bed as Percy.
He knows they what they think he's doing.
But he's not.
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It's been three months and in three more it will be a year.
Harry wants Percy.
Harry wants to taste Percy and to feel Percy.
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On Harry's 18th birthday he takes his broom that he hasn't touched since last September.
He's going to take Percy out.
Levitating the broom so that it's touching the higher part of Percy's thigh Harry bends Percy's knees to sit on the invisible cushion. Then he gets on in front.
When he goes to put Percy's hands around his waist, he feels them move on their own accord.
Harry tries not to think about it.
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The faster the broom goes the more Harry forgets. The warmth of the person behind him doesn't make him react though when the breathing on his neck becomes more erratic his heart starts to race.
The arms around his waist are getting tighter and tighter.
Then Harry does a dive.
The shrill cry that comes from behind makes Harry jump at the same time releasing tears. The legs behind him are squeezing his own.
He's afraid that he's gone crazy; that this isn't real. But then he hears it
"HARRY!"
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When they touch down Harry whips around and all he does is stare. Because the brown eyes are no longer dead. The lips are dry and the tongue is pink when it goes out to wet them.
Harry smashes his lips against that mouth.
When the arms go around him tight and the response of the body is everything that Harry has dreamt of for nearly a year.
Harry hopes this is real.
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