Disclaimer – JK Rowlings owns the characters I just get to play with them
A/N - So I got to thinking, 'What if Voldemort and Harry had different intentions when they did what they did, what would those intentions be?' this lead to the below being written. Hope you enjoy.
The Power he knows not
Dumbledore was sure the power to defeat the Dark Lord was love, but he was wrong. He was very wrong.
Chapter 2 – Harry
Harry was repulsed by the Wizarding world. It celebrated the death of his parents with no thought to his own peace of mind. Most Halloweens thanks to his upbringing with the Dursley's he could ignore what the holiday meant. But every now and then the thought always slipped in, this is the day they died and I was sent to Hell.
It seemed that it was to be conveniently forgotten that he was a half-blood and heir to an old family, he wasn't even treated like the other muggle-born's, he was thrown into the Wizarding word and expected to know it all, to enjoy all the fame and attention and as a result want to save it all when it became threatened.
It seemed like all the abuse he was forced to endure was to be forgotten, after all he was the saviour, the boy-who-lived so it was his duty to always risk his life to save everyone and never think of himself first.
It didn't matter that it was because of Magic that his parents had been killed. It didn't matter that it was because of magic he was treated like a freak for the first 10 years of his life. It didn't matter that because of his name he was treated with revulsion by someone who was meant to be in a position of protection and foster learning within him.
It was still his duty to save them all, and he had to do this with the power of Love.
He had to save them all despite every year he spent in the Wizarding world he was tossed between being revered and then equally hated. He had to save them all despite being treated like a baby that could not do anything without constant watch. Not only did he have to save them but he also had to Love them all despite being insulted and bullied by not just his enemies but occasionally by his friends too.
The moment Harry was given anything good or a small moment to Hope that he the may deserve some happiness it was ripped away, and all done in the name of the 'greater good', but he was not allowed to help decide what the greater good was. No he was just meant to save them all so that they could have it.
Harry was starting to hate the Wizarding world. He was starting to see that magic was not 'Light' or 'Dark' it only was, and it was always against him. Harry was starting to Hate Magic.
He was told he was Loved and that he had great potential to Love in return, but everywhere he looked at all he saw were people trying to tell him what to do and how to do it, no one asked Harry what he wanted, no one asked Harry if he felt Loved.
He had to save them all though, it was his duty.
And he did save them but it was not with Love.
He saw what Voldemort would have done if he was in power, he saw that he would have brought Order to the Wizarding world, it would have been a Dark Order but it would have been Order. He didn't want that, he wanted the Wizarding world to suffer as he had been made to because of it and because of Magic, so he saved them.
Harry gave them all exactly what they wanted, not what they needed but because he hated them he gave them what they wanted, and rarely should such people be given what they want.