Harry James Potter (![]() ![]() @ 2010-02-16 20:56:00 |
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Entry tags: | !1998: 02, !incomplete, !plot, alecto carrow, harry potter, hermione granger, rabastan lestrange, rodolphus lestrange, ron weasley |
Who: Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Rodolphus Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, Alecto Carrow
When: Friday evening, the 5th.
Where: Godric's Hollow.
What: Taboo breaking, and snatching.
Rating: TBA, probably some violence.
Open/Closed: Open to Snatchers, D.E.'s, and Trio.
It had taken a few days to get it together. Hermione had wanted to read up on Bagshot more, and Ron and Harry had apparated out to take a quick look at the town under the cloak, and then they'd waited until they judged it would be safest, biding their time with more research and digging through old papers. (And in Harry's case, worrying over what he'd said to Ginny.) It had seemed safe enough though, finally, and finally the three of them had set out for Godric's Hollow.
It wasn't the first time Harry had been there, but it was the first time he'd see the house, and he wasn't sure how he felt about it. Part of him felt as if it were just a place. No matter how much he'd heard about it, or knew that it was where his parents had lived - he didn't remember it. Hogwarts was more of a home to him, and not being able to be there, even if it was in service of something important, should matter more.
But he still wasn't prepared for how he felt when he saw the remains of his old house. The house was still blackened and ruined, the second story destroyed, snow still on the ground around it, footsteps tracing through the white, proving there'd been people there. Harry had seen his mother's death in his mind a million times. Every time he got near a Dementor when he was young, in his dreams. But this was where they'd died. Where his life had changed. The last time he'd had a real family. It had made his chest hurt to look at it. Even before he'd seen the plaque, a sign with golden letters upon the wood it said: