Harry Potter fic: harry doesn't know

[escritoireazul]

title: harry doesn't know
author: Carla
disclaimer: Characters belong to J.K. Rowling.
inspiration: "Tomorrow, Lost" a picture by myrafur.
summary: Harry can't fail the people he loves, not again.
warning: character death



Harry doesn't know he's dying.

The blood on Hermione's hands can't be his. He leans against her and she's not supporting him, he's cradling her, giving her his comfort along with the weight of his body.

“Don’t cry,” he says and his voice is shaky. He’s not used to begging and that’s why he sounds so strange. “You’re going to be fine, Hermione.”

She just shakes her head and cries harder. Her fingers spread blood on his shirt; it’s thick and sticks to his skin and he doesn’t know how she had that much blood on her hands.

His wand sags in his hand and his fingers go numb. He tells himself it’s because he can’t save her, because he’s failed to protect someone else he cares about. His mum and dad and Sirius and now Hermione too.

Harry cracks his elbow against the floor when he falls, but he can’t feel the pain. He tries to smile and promise that he’ll tell the world about how much Hermione helped him, but the words get stuck behind his teeth and coat his tongue.

Hermione holds him tight. She doesn’t have the strength to waste, Harry thinks, not when she’s wounded. He should tell her to let go, that he’ll find help.

Harry doesn’t know he’s dying when the blackness takes him.

Comments

[lizardlaugh.livejournal.com]

:( *cries*

A unique take on that picture. Very nice.

[peri81.livejournal.com]

oh.

I want to just sit and cry.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you. I don't normally do a lot of character death, so it's good to know I can make it touching.

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

*wince* That was harsh.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

I know. I wrote it based on that picture, and almost everyone else had Hermione dying instead of Harry and then I suddenly wanted to have Harry die, because I hate when the point of view characters are always considered too important to die (though I do understand why people feel that way).

Plus it then broke my heart. Poor Harry.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. I saw almost everyone else doing Hermione's death instead, and I wanted to see what it would be like to go the other way.