shattered
Title: shattered Prompt # 36 - Blood Word count: 248 Fandom: Harry Potter (alternate universe) Characters: original Rating: PG-13 Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling. Any resemblance to actual persons, real or fictional, if any, is unintentional and purely coincidental.
He stands in front of the mirror and all the painful memories are coming back...
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...crying in his bedroom. "Alohomora!" - the door opens, it's father - "what's going on?"
"The kids at school... they're calling me 'filthy mudblood'!"
"How ridiculous. Did you do something about it?"
"What should I have done?"
"Well boy, you're not studying your Dark Arts for nothing!"
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He had graduated at the top of his class, and people soon had learned that doubting the pureblood heritage of the bright, talented and highly ambitious young wizard was quite dangerous. He had distinguished himself by using any means to achieve his ends, and his name inspired horror not only among the Muggles. But the rumours behind his back... they never stopped. What's worse, neither did the small voice of doubt in his mind.
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He stands in front of the mirror and the hated pale face stares back at him with a look of despise in the cold blue eyes. His lips curve into a mocking grimace, whispering...
He raises his wand. "Die, filthy mudblood! Avada Kedavra!"
The mirror explodes into a million of tiny shards.
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Explosion rocks the car - a million of tiny shards - he falls clutching the wound - filthy mudbloods running away - somebody's calling for help - blood spluttering everywhere - pain... At last...
He's slowly passing into the shadows. Want to know a secret? Wizards bleed just like Muggles. And it hurts just the same.