Moving On

A/N: Hello everyone! I thought of posting this as soon as possible but I was distracted a lot... so sorry. I will make sure to post as soon as I finish writing. And enjoy the chapter. Thanks Vaishu for your positive feedback. As for the Guest reviewer, Thank you and as for your doubt, no Harry is not dead. And for a reviewer named "Dismayed", well I'll try to rectify the mistake you pointed out.

Ch-2

Severus opened his eyes. He found himself lying on the floor, with a not-so-heavy weight on him. He tried to get up but as soon as he saw the scene in front of him, his mind went numb. Harry was lying on him, without any hint of life, and sharing the same fate, Voldemort too was lying on the floor in front of him, with cracks all over his pale face and his scarlet eyes lifeless. Severus did not know why but he bellowed the only thought that came to his mind, the name of the one who he thought he did not love but proved otherwise now - "Harry".

Harry's POV

He was laying face down listening to the silence. Nobody else was there. He lay there motionless for a long time. It was like time did not matter to him anymore but he was sure that he still existed, he could feel the surface on which he lay, he had a sense of touch but still he did not move. Not that he could not but he did not feel like moving. He sat up. There were no bruises on his body anymore nor did he feel any pain. He touched his face and found that he did not wear glasses anymore. Still he could see well without any trouble.

Then there was a noise - a noise of something struggling. He turned to look in that direction. It had the form of a small, naked child, curled on the ground but a great difference was that this form did not have any skin. It lay under a seat which he did not notice before. Now that he observed it, he could see that there were two of those. Even though they was small and fragile-looking, Harry did not want to go near them but still he moved slightly in that direction.

"You cannot help it." said Albus Dumbledore, walking towards him slowly. "Harry! You brave man" he said spreading his arms wide, both his hands undamaged. "Let us walk".

Words did not come to Harry's mind, he started to walk with Dumbledore, who was now leading him to two seats that he did not notice before. Harry could no more stop himself from saying "But you are dead" Dumbledore with his usual piercing-blue eyes smiled and said "Oh yes", then Harry had another doubt which again without controlling himself asked,"Then... am I dead too?"

Dumbledore replied "Ah! That is the question, isn't it? But the on the whole, I think not". But Harry wondered "But I jumped in front of Snape... without knowing why or... it was like I just wanted to do it..." Dumbledore smiled a bit more and said "Not everything we do needs a reason, Harry, some things are in our nature, on the whole, they make up our character, like your compassion that made you to jump in front of a killing curse, even for your enemy, Harry. And these decide who you are as a man. And as for a question that you asked me in your first year, just this act of sacrificing yourself to save someone shows how different you are from Voldemort.". Harry now had a new question "What is that, Professor?". "Something that is beyond either of our help." said Dumbledore but he himself had his own doubts now, that Voldemort is no longer alive, he could not help but wonder how Harry is still alive, thinking about that, he further doubted whether Harry is still alive at all? He decided to confirm his doubts. But at the same time Harry asked another one of his questions "So, what is this place?"

Dumbledore answered that question with one of his own "Well, I was going to ask you that, where do you think we are?" Until he asked, Harry did not know, but now, he found that he had a answer ready to give.

"It looks" he started, thinking, continued slowly, "like King's Cross but much cleaner and without any trains as far as I can see"."King's Cross!" Dumbledore could not help but chuckle "Good Gracious, really?" Harry felt a little insulted, he asked "So where do you think we are?" a little defensively. "My dear boy, I have no idea, this is as they say, your party"

Harry had no idea of what Dumbledore meant, his mind went wandering to the thoughts of his friends, whose fate now he was afraid of. Now really he wanted to go back. So he prepared himself for every possible answer that Dumbledore can give, even for the one that he cannot go back. He asked "I've got to go back, can I?"

Dumbledore replied "That is up to you". Harry wondered of what he should do, but the image of his friends made him more determined to return but still he asked "I've got a option?". "Of course!" continued Dumbledore "We are in King's Cross, you say? I think that if you decided to go back, you would be able to... board a train." he finished. Now with a hope to go back to his friends, and possibly finish off Voldemort, Harry was determined to make the most of the chance. He turned to see Dumbledore, but he was nowhere. Harry could not help chuckle at his thought 'Mysterious, even in death!'.

Suddenly everything went black. He felt a warm body holding him. Someone crying out his name, a familiar voice which he could never imagine with any emotions, now full of it.

Ron and Hermione were blasted off due to the curse's rebounding while they ran towards Harry who jumped in front of the killing curse itself, why he did it was completely unreachable to their minds. They both tried to get up, but could not due to the weight of the debris that pinned them down to the floor, after a huge struggle, they pushed the weight of them and helped themselves to stand up. They could not move as fast as before due to their now heavy injuries. The scene they saw, made them question their own sanity. Snape holding Harry, whose breathing was uneven, with Voldemort laying dead in front of them.

A/N: So... I hope that you liked this chapter, you might wonder why I added a scene of Harry visiting Dumbledore and why it's alike to canon in some aspects and completely different in other. The missing parts and much more. The chapter may not look so crucial but this is important for me to subtly show the differences between the canon Harry and mine. So, from this chapter, you won't be seeing much canon.

With love,

Blueycat ;)