Thanks to those of you who read the Authour's Note. Hopefully after exams are done I will be able to post three or four times a week -I don't know about the twice a day, I have Math, English, Science, and Tech which for me are all academic. Thanks for the support!
When I came up with this one, I pictured it when they ran off and had the first wave of doubt/hopelessness.
Prompt: Trust
Rating: PG
Pairings: slight Albus/Gellert
Word Count: 294
Trust. It was always trust, when it came to Dumbledore.
"Trust him, Harry. Trust Severus," he would say whenever Harry questioned his judgement.
No reason as to why he should trust, just that he should. And how had that ended? Dumbledore being murdered by the one man he always insisted was the good guy.
Anger boiled inside Harry, burning and churning like a deep gash that had been infected. Fueling that anger even more was the Daily Prophet; the rubbish about him being seen fleeing from the Astronomy Tower and possibly the one who murder Dumbledore was almost too much. The final straw was Rita Skeeter's 'The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.' Was that really Dumbledore's past? Was he really once friends with Gellert Grindewald and thinking wizards superior to Muggles. His whole life Harry had known him he had been fighting for Muggles, not against them! Harry was fine with the whole Albus loved Gellert thing; it really didn't matter to him. It wasn't important in the big picture.
And then there was the whole Dumbledore family. They had lived in Godric Hollow! His dad in Azkaban, mother and sister dead –who may even be buried next to his parents!
There were so many things Harry hadn't known about Dumbledore, so many things he could have asked while he was alive. Instead it was all about Harry; planning ahead, and yet, there was no planning. Nothing Dumbledore left was helping him on his run for Horcruxes.
The anger subsided a small touch, as Harry slowed his breathing.
Albus had be an infuriating old man, but this was just like trust falls, somewhere between the ground and you, trust would need to be formed and you would just have to go with it.