DRABBLE: What's In Your Head (HP)

[lettered]

Basically I initially misread the concept for Harry's Death/Re-birth Comment Fest and thought you could leave unprompted stories. So I did this one. Go leave more prompts!

Title: What's In Your Head
Rating: G
Length: 100
Summary: Voldemort.

What's In Your Head

When we lived together under the stairs all of those years, you could give me forever, and take my serpent tongue. Still they cursed us and we crawled.

When we lived alone with our families’ graves all of those ages, you gave me eternity; you took my wrath and infamy. Still, our fathers figures failed us, left us, lied to us.

I thought that we could rise above the steps; I thought that there was more that we could be. Under the chair, I gave you strength and history; I gave you yourself.

Remember when you died?

That was me.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So powerful and interesting. yeah, there is so much unexplored about that - the whole abandoned boys of Hogwarts connection between them and Snape - and then, if Voldemort didn't know he'd left part of himself in Harry, that part grows up with Harry instead of with the rest of Voldemort. And the Parseltongue, for example, that was a cool thing for Harry to have as a kid, to meet that snake he helped spring from the zoo. The skinless kid under the chair at King's Cross is troubling. Maybe they can't do anything - but JKR says "it", not "he", and that's troubling in itself. Don't know if I'm making any sense. But this is really interesting.

[khalulu]

oops, didn't mean this to be anonymous. this is khalulu from livejournal - don't have the hang of open ID yet.

[seraphcelene]

Wow! I love the way the two perspectives, Harry's and Voldemort's, intertwine. It's especially significant considering that Harry isn't technically there.