HP drabble: Forsaken [Harry, Voldemort, general]
Title: Forsaken Author: celandineb Fandom: HP Characters: Harry, Voldemort Rating: general Length: 100 words Summary: Even Harry's penchant for saving others has limits. Note: For quill_it, 100.3, prompt 10, "precious". For stasia, who asked for Voldemort's bit of soul with this prompt.
When Harry saw the huddled snivelling shape lying there under the bench, he had a moment's impulse to cross over to it. The thing was an infant, naked and blood-spattered, in worse condition than Harry had doubtless been when he was left at the Dursleys'. Surely there was someone, somewhere, who thought it precious, who would give anything to help it, to save it.
Yet some doubt held him back, some unconscious recognition that if he touched the crying infant, soothed it, he would regret that choice. Instead he turned away and walked off along the bleached-looking, strangely clean platform.