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Title: "The Tolling Bell"
Author: [livejournal.com profile] batsutousai
Disclaim Her: I don’t own Harry Potter.

A/N: Response, of a sort, to [livejournal.com profile] eaivalefay's drabble, "Partnership" that was written for me. ^.~

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Fear-flowing wind whistled through the empty tower, slamming metal into metal...a low, mourning cry that no one remained to hear...

Death rose, tangent in the heavy winter air. The wind wouldn't blow through the blood-slicked streets and never-ending alleys - a twisted sort of respect for the decomposing bodies that littered the ground. Bodies that were prepared to wait for weeks until silent life returned to the war-ravaged town and piled them non-too-gently onto cracking carts. Sweeping them away to the ever-growing pile of death that reached out towards smothering trees and crumbling stone walls.

...the bell tolls thirty-two times...

Hogwarts had once stood, proud, as a place of laughter and learning. A place where children could come and feel safe, no matter the pains they faced beyond her sturdy stone walls.

...the bell tolls fifty-five times...

Now, Hogwarts cried stone tears for her children. Those who lay dead on the grass before her and those that cried over their desecrated bodies. Those who fought with one another over a useless plot of island in a world of suffering and those that had fallen from grace and into the arms of darkness.

...the bell tolls eighty-nine times...

That very darkness which had ripped through her defences and taken her children, using those she had once housed and loved just the same.

...the bell tolls one hundred and seventeen times...

Such is the world where Harry Potter loves Lord Voldemort.

...the bell tolls twice more, then falls into silence...

Date: 17/3/06 12:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eaivalefay.livejournal.com
*falls over*

Oh my god. Oh my god. Those last two lines killed me. You built this up brilliantly. So dark and intense. And then those last two lines. *dies*
This is perfect. *humbled*

I ♥ you.

Date: 29/3/06 10:28 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eaivalefay.livejournal.com
:D That's good to know! Self-♥ is very important you know. Doesn't everyone ♥ you? I will be very :( if they don't.

Date: 1/4/06 09:45 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eaivalefay.livejournal.com
True, true. *ponders*
So MOST people should ♥ you - minus the creeps and wotnot - and if they don't I will be :(.

Date: 2/4/06 10:07 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eaivalefay.livejournal.com
You are ♥ed. :D

Date: 17/3/06 12:31 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyphoenixia.livejournal.com
*sniff* How sad.

You have such a way with words! *admires*

Date: 17/3/06 12:50 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flosspyromaniac.livejournal.com
Wow.
So very dark and bitter. I love the way Hogwarts is characterised, that feels really good. Your descriptions are amazing.
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Date: 25/3/06 13:11 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] siennalyamalor.livejournal.com
i don't think i saw that coming. i was sure it was going to be some 'harry died' and some such reaction. that was brilliant

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