alternate magic (a decade old thought exercise) - Chapter 7 - truthed - Harry Potter (2024)

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1. I'm Gonna End Up Dead So Yeah [7th year/on the run]

Tatiana came to a halt. "Draco," she gasped. Her former- what to call him? Boyfriend? Lover? looked different. His face, while normally pointed, was now gaunt and lean. There were shadows under his eyes. 'He looks older,' Tatiana realized. 'Older and tired and scared.' She shook her head. "What are you doing here?" Crabbe and Goyle crossed their arms.

"We's gonna bring ya to duh dark lord," Crabbe said. "Then we's gettin' rewarded, Pottah." Tatiana stepped forward, only now remembering to draw her wand.

"How did you get in here?" Tatiana had thought this was her private place, that only she knew about this particular place. Draco stared at her.

"How did I get in here, Potter? I was here nearly half the time all last year." His face was blank, his words clipped and hard. Tatiana listened for Ron and Hermione. Where were they? She glared at Draco.

"Yeah, you spent half the year in here, cause the other half you were f***ing me. And now you've completely gone over to the dark side, Vader. You're sick and awful. But you're a coward too." Everything Ana had wanted to say for the past months just flew out of her mouth. She felt like she was aflame, the poisonous words lighting up the sky. "You got me knocked up, and then you were too much of a coward to own up to it. I know it's only fifty percent your fault, but I hate you for that fifty percent. Speaking of which, our baby? She's somewhere in a muggle orphanage because of your master's stupid war. Because that's the only place she'll be safe. And-" Draco raised his wand.

"Do you think I like what you've done to me, b****? You sleep with me and act like a s***, then the very next week you try to kill me. And during the summer, I got these." He pulled up the sleeve of his shirt to expose a heavy white scar. Tatiana suppressed a gasp. "They're all over me. And they open when I 'act weak', or be 'a coward', or even just when the dark lord feels like it. You think you got punished, you got it easy." Tatiana opened her mouth, shocked.

"I'm-" then she heard a crash on her left.

"Ana!" Ron was running up behind her. "What happened? Why are they here?" He gestured at the Slytherins. Crabbe was grinning smugly.

"Duh girl," he said. "She's under the pile." There was another crash. Someone shouted 'Reducto!' Then Hermione crawled out on Tatiana's left.

"I'm fine," she said.

—--

The flash of green light spread throughout the castle. Everyone saw it, though not everyone paid it much attention. The Order of the Phoenix saw it and hoped that it was a Death Eater going down. The Death Eaters saw it and gloated. They laughed and shouted and cheered. During their momentary lapse in concentration, Ginny and Neville were able to hit a couple of them with a Stupefy. Hermione saw the flash and hoped it wasn't someone she knew. Where had Ana gone, anyway?

And Draco saw the flash and he knew. It was all over. Everything he had worked for had come into place. His master had won. He was on the winning side, like he had always known he would be. But he couldn't feel happy. Not with everything that had happened. Ana, he thought, and reached out his hand. Where are you? It was as if something was missing inside of him, knowing that she was gone. He missed her. His girlfriend. The girl raised by Muggles. The Chosen One. She had been destined to die, Draco knew that. But why her? Why had he loved her? Draco was beginning to think it must have been love, what they'd had, if it was only for their last few hours together. Somehow he found himself running down through the castle, toward the forest, hoping desperately, praying that it wasn't true. What if it's Voldemort who's dead? He banished the mutinous thought. Then he got to the forest edge, and he saw her. Floating. Levitated in the air by his aunt. Tatiana.

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Draco writes letter then bombs m manor w/ dual spell everyone in there gets blown up either narcissa or lucius is away and comes back and finds everyone is dead

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Epilogue

"Did you hear about what happened
in London?"

"No, what!"

"I heard it had something to do with magic!"

"Really? That can't be true!"

"It is. This guy was trying to take over the world, but this girl stopped him."

"Oh, I think I did hear about that. But didn't the girl die though?"

"Yeah. It was so sad."

"I heard they're going to make it into a movie. Evanescence will probably do the soundtrack."

"That's so mean! She just died!"

"It's not mean, cause now people will know what she went through."

"I wonder how hard it is to save the world."

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