Silky Raven Blonde Hair

AN: Thanks everyone who actually likes the twist I put in here… I’m not sure I can say I agree though… I’m twisted and mess up… I know… :P Oh! And Thanks to all those who hate this story but didn’t flame me!! It means a lot for my ego.

Cofaym, sorry, I had to give an excuse for all the killing they did… I had no other explanation… sorry… heehee, I wanted to make it so that it was Dumbledore who killed but then that’s just a bit… and it wouldn’t be as surprising for this chapter… sorry though… I didn’t like it either…

Introspect, I’m glad you like my fic. I’m not too proud of it though… I liked Dumbledore, he was cool… but I had to add something in here… it was getting dull… and yeah, I put in the tea thing for fun. I like Snape’s character (As you can tell if you read my other fics, most of them put Snape in a good light. I think he’s cool. But I’m also totally twisted so…)

Charlene, I’m glad you like it… I’m not sure if I like it myself… it’s such a big twist to things it’s a bit scary…
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It didn’t take long for the group of Death Eaters to come up with a plan. It was quite a simple plan really. Go into Hogwarts and defeat Dumbledore. Simple? Hardly. Dumbledore would be expecting this but that wasn’t the problem.

“Tom, do you, do you think you could or even would curse Albus?”

The Dark Lord sighed, “No Harry, I couldn’t. That’s why you need to do it. I can’t, I still love him. After all these years after all the pain he’s put me through, I still love him.”

Harry smiled, “You can’t chose who you fall in love with Tom. Things just turned out this way. I guess it’s for the better anyway. Now we can help the world.”

“So, will you do the honors?”

Harry smiled again, “If you think it best.”

The entire afternoon was quite refreshing for Harry. The Death Eaters had taken off their ‘dark robes’ or whatever they call them and was just lounging around. In fact Harry saw Lucius and Severus exchange a few glances before looking away blushing at one another. Harry smiled. He had never felt so at home before. Surrounded by people who like who he was not who the world made him out to be. These were people who didn’t care that he loved Draco. In fact, that was the entire reason why he was even here. He loved Draco and Draco loved him back. This was beautiful.

“I guess we should finish him off before the Holidays are over. I mean, the less people around the better right? Less protection for him.” Said Harry

“Oh, but your wrong there Harry. He made sure that everyone stayed in the school over the holiday. Severus told him that I summoned him for a Death Eater meeting. That’s the only way he was even able to get out of the school. Albus wont let anyone leave.”

“So he’s holding every one hostage until I return?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“So he’ll have protection. He knows that you wouldn’t want anything to happen to fellow students but there’s another problem. I recently discovered that he informed your two friends. Who was it? Heainion? And the Red head?”

“Hermione and Ron.”

“Yes, those two. At first they were fine with the whole idea. But then he tortured them. He had used a muggle method of forcing them to follow his ways.”

“How?”

“Whenever they would see a picture of the two of you together he would put the Cruciatus curse on them. Eventually they gave into the pain. Now whenever they look at either one of you the remember the pain because it’s etched in their brains and they hate the two of you for it.”

“What? That’s absolutely barbaric!”

“Well, that’s what he’s done. You can’t go back in time Harry.”

“But that’s horrible.”

“Harry, I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be sorry. You didn’t do anything.” But it was clear that there were tears in Harry’s eyes.

Draco took his lovers hand and held on with both his hands, “Harry.”

“He did that, to two people who had absolute faith in him. He just did it. It’s an unforgivable!”

“Yes, but it’s done. You can’t do anything about it now.”

Harry got up and made his way to the bathroom while the others just remained seated to give the Griffindor some time. Draco joined him in a few minutes.

“Harry, you alright?”

“Yeah. It’s just; they were my friends and he just- Draco, he used an unforgivable on them.”

Draco nodded and patted the Griffindor’s hand, “It’ll be okay Harry. We’ll finish off Dumbledore and everything will be better.”

Suddenly there was a loud crash that soundedthe the living room. Both the boys ran out of the bathroom as quickly as they could to find none other than Dumbledore himself standing in the room looking at the Death Eaters with pure anger raging from his eyes.

“You bastards! Give me Harry back!”

Voldemort stepped up and spoke calmly, “Albus, he doesn’t belong to you. You can no longer do this to the boy. He knows the truth. He knows what you’ve been up to. The game is over Albus. You’ve lost.”

The eyes on the Headmasters face had both darkened in fear and brightened in surprise at the same time. “I don’t know what your talking about Voldemort.” Yelled Dumbledore

“You know what I’m talking about Albus. The boy knows what you’ve been doing. He knows what you’ve done to me. He knows. The game is over, you’ve lost.”

“NO! He doesn’t know anything!”

Suddenly the Headmaster noticed Harry standing by the door of the bathroom staring at him with wide eyes. “Harry, Harry they’ve been feeding you lies. Harry you must not believe what he’s been saying. He’s insane. He’s lying. They try to get your trust and then they kill you. Harry, please believe me.”

But at the moment of decision it wasn’t Dumbledore’s eyes Harry looked into, it wasn’t even Voldemort’s. Instead Harry looked into the eyes of his two best friends and he saw truth. That was when he realized who had been telling the truth and who hadn’t. It was over, in the eyes of his best friends, it was all over.

“This ridiculous game is done with!” Shouted Harry.

Everyones eyes were now on Harry. The action of everyone in the room depended on Harry’s next decision.

The raven-haired boy turned his gaze to Voldemort, “He doesn’t deserve your love.”

That was when everything broke loose. The fight began. Right in the home of Ses Sns Snape.

At first it was simple dueling between the two great wizards. Simple spells thrown at one another although Dumbledore’s spells were getting more and more threatening almost as if he didn’t care yet it was obvious that Voldemort was holding back his spells. He didn’t have the heart to hurt Albus.

The Death Eaters and the members of the Order started at one another. There were spells thrown every which way. A few Death Eaters were down first. The Order didn’t care what happened, the Death Eaters wanted to save the world, not destroy it so they were holding back. It wasn’t until a great amount of the Death Eaters were down when the rest of the standing Death Eaters began to really fight with vengeance. One member of the Order had hit Lucius’s leg and he fell over with a very angry looking Severus standing in between the two battling for the life of his love.

Harry was standing there with Draco holding him watching all of this happen when he saw Dumbledore throw the Cruciatus curse at Voldemort and the Dark Lord was down. Voldemort was too old to fight it off. He would have it worst than lose his mind. There was a big chance that he would die.

That was when Harry heard it. The most maniacal laughter to ever come across his ears. They were from the wizard everyone had looked up to. The eerie sound was rolling off the throat of the wizard everyone claimed to be great.

Harry didn’t have time to check if Voldemort had died, only one thing was running through his head. He had to kill Dumbledore.

Harry held his wand pointing it at his once Headmaster.

“Harry, don’t you understand? He’s a freak! He’s a freak and if you follow in his path you will be a freak too! Don’t you understand?”

“Don’t YOU understand? I don’t care. I’ll be the biggest fucking freak in the world if I have to.”

“No you wont. You wont do this. You are going to come back with me and we’re going to squash it out of you boy!”

This was when Harry began to laugh. He didn’t even know where it came from he just felt that what Dumbledore had just said was just so, funny. “Oh, I’ve heard that so many times. My uncle swearing that he was going to squash the magic out of me. But unless you haven’t noticed, the magic cannot be squashed out of me. It just doesn’t work that way.”

“This isn’t about magic. It’s about your abnormality.”

“Don’t you understand? The magic in me is like my love for Draco. You can’t squash it out. Love doesn’t work that way.”

“But it’s abnormal Harry. You don’t want to be weird.”

Harry grinned, “Is it abnormal to fall in love? Is it abnormal to look into the eyes of the one you love and find yourself staring right back at you? Is it abnormal to finally feel like you can wake up in the morning and live, live like you’ve never lived before? Is it abnormal to touch someone and FEEL the love radiating from their simple touch into your body?”

“It’s abnormal Harry!! Don’t you understand? You will never be accepted in the world. Never. I’ll protect you Harry. You can come back with me right now and we can forget the whole thing ever happened. You don’t love that abomination Harry. You’re better than that. You’re better than him. You deserve better Harry.”

“No,” Said Harry firmly, “Your wrong. It is I who is not good enough. And I am truly lucky to be able to wrap him in my arms at night and wake to his beauty every morning. That is from deep in my soul and that is what real love is. It doesn’t matter if he loves me back or not. It’s just that I love him and that’s all that matters. Things can’t ever change from that Albus. You cannot choose the one you love but I am graced to have fallen in love with such beauty.”

“No. This is absurd. You will not continue this silly charade.”

Harry looked into the Headmasters eyes and saw something he didn’t expect to see looking back at him. It was the image of Tom. Tom Riddle not Voldemort. It was the image of the boy Harry saw in the pensive which held the Headmasters memories.

Harry smiled at the Headmaster and was in return gifted with a look of confusion. “I saw that in your eye.”

“Saw what?”

“You never hated him did you?”

“What? Hated who?”

“You never hated Tom. In fact you loved him as much as he loved you. And it scared you didn’t it? It scared you so you ran. You did the only thing you could. You ran from your feelings. You wouldn’t admit it. You wouldn’t admit that you are as well, an abomination. You love him.”

“I DO NOT!”

“Yes,” Said Harry calmly, “You do. You love him so much it kills and deep in your heart you’re hoping that I kill you and let you join the state he is in. You are hoping that if you are not together on earth, for you both to be together in eternal bliss. You love him Albus. Albus, you love Tom. Tom Riddle.”

Albus said nothing but Harry saw the tears flash in the Headmasters eyes.

“You love him and he loves you. You haven’t been fighting against him all these years. You’ve been fighting against yourself. Fighting against yourself because you didn’t want to admit it and now, now you want to die along with him. You know, there’s still hope. You can bring him back Albus. When you bring him back you can be together.”

The Headmaster was still silent. This silence was what alerted Harry that all action had stopped around him and everyone was watching the two.

“Albus, bring him back. Bring back your love. I know you see yourself in his eyes as he sees himself in yours. You love him Albus. You love him and he loves you. Bring him back Albus. Bring him back and you can both be happy together.”

“NO! Don’t you understand? It’s unnatural! It’s just not right!” Yelled the Headmaster

“Do you believe that? Do you really truly believe that?”

“Yes.”

“Look deeper Albus. Look deeper, now, do you see him?”

The Headmaster nodded to everyone’s surprise.

“Bring him back Albus. Just bring him back. He’s right there.”

“How?”

“Reach out to him. He’s given you his soul. He had given you his soul years ago. Give it back to him. Give it to him and you can be together Albus. Be together forever.”

There were clear tears running down the Headmasters face now.

There was a long moment of concentration coming from the Headmaster and immediately the body of Voldemort began to glow. It was a soft glow at first then it became brighter and brighter.

Harry saw it. The image of Voldemort was changing, shifting. That’s when Harry realized what was happening. “Tom.”

The body of Voldemort had morphed back into the once young image of Tom Riddle. He was young again. Harry looked at Dumbledore and he saw that Dumbledore’s image was shifting as well. It was like watching someone grow but backwards. Dumbledore’s features clearly began to go younger in years, the wrinkles smoothed themselves out. The white hair was taking colour and was getting shorter.

When Tom had stopped glowing Harry stood there staring at the Headmaster as the Headmaster stared at his long time love lying on the floor unmoving.

Suddenly the body which lay on the floor started to stir and Tom pushed himself up off the floor.

The face turned up and looking into the eyes of Albus Dumbledore. They just stayed there staring at one another and no one dared to move. No one dared to even breath at this point.

“Tom.” Said Albus as he let out a breath of air

“Albus.” Returned the man holding himself up off the floor with his eyes intensely gazing up at his love.

“I’m sorry Tom.”

“It’s okay.”

“You forgive me for all those years?”

“Yes.”

“But, but why?”

“Because that’s what love does to you.”

“Tom, I’m so sorry.”

“It’s alright Albus.”

Tom got up off the floor and made his way slowly over to the once Headmaster of Hogwarts.

The moment they touched their images started to flicker but they hadn’t noticed it. They kept looking into one another’s eyes. Tom reached out a hand to touch Albus’s face. To caress the flawless skin he had watched from afar for years.

The two broke from their gaze and looked down at their bodies and watched as they continued to flicker. They smiled at one another and looked at Harry and smiled too. Harry didn’t know what was going on but he couldn’t help but be happy for the couple.

Tom was able to mouth ‘Thank you’ before they both flickered out of sight.