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[alt_harry]

To the one who now calls himself Harry Potter:

You belong to me, and always have. This has always been your purpose. This has always been your destiny. Accept it - embrace it.

Come to me and you need never know pain or fear again. Come to me willingly, and you can end this pointless conflict now and forever. Come to me before midnight in two days' time, and no one else need die because of your cowardice. Submit to my will, and understand. It's time, Harry.

Your schoolmates' lives depend on you obeying my command.



I have a question about the Black Curse.

You're the only person who's ever survived it.

How soon after Bellatrix cast it on you did you know something was really wrong? It wasn't right away, was it?

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[alt_sirius]

Why do you

... Yes, it was obvious very quickly that something was wrong. At first, I hadn't realised she'd hit me. I thought it had merely glanced or that I had bounced off the corner of a building as I took a side turning.

But nearly immediately, I began to feel less than myself. I believe I survived on adrenaline alone because I knew I couldn't stop running at that moment. If I'd stopped, I would have been caught.

I would say within an hour, I had to find somewhere to hole up and lie down. My instinct was to ride it out as a dog, but it took immersing myself in salt water to really push through, and I still felt weak as a puppy for days afterward.

Has Draco cracked it? Do you think it will work if we can get him close enough to Voldemort? I hope

[alt_harry]

Draco can cast it, yeah.

[alt_harry]

An hour in, if you'd absolutely had to fake being okay for some reason, could you have?

Two hours in?

[alt_sirius]

Harry?

What are you -

[alt_sirius]

NO, Harry!

You can't mean it.

[alt_sirius]

Where are you? My old room?

I'm coming up.

DO NOT LEAVE.

[alt_harry]

I'm not going anywhere at the moment.

Look.

This will WORK.

[alt_harry]

You would do this.

If you could use the Black Curse to kill Voldemort, even if it meant dying, you'd do it. Don't try to tell me you wouldn't.

[alt_sirius]

Of course I would. But we're not talking about me.

Harry, it's not a question of - look, I'm old enough to die, you're not.

Let me take polyjuice and I'll go.

[alt_harry]

It won't work if it's anyone but me.

For the Succession Rite to work, the two people have to be related. By birth or adoption. That's why he made me his son.

The point isn't to kill me, but to kill him. He's going to have Dolohov bind his soul into my body -- I saw that part, when he was possessing me. That will only work if it's me.

[alt_sirius]

We could ALL take polyjuice and attack. He wouldn't know which one is the real you.

[alt_harry]

We wouldn't be able to get to him.

[alt_sirius]

There are a hundred things we can try before something like this, Harry.

[alt_harry]

If we had a hundred days instead of one, maybe one of them would work. But probably not. All the places he spends time are warded and guarded and he's even more paranoid since Selwyn killed him.

[alt_sirius]

And what would I tell you mum and dad? That I took care of you for a week and let you walk off to your death?

[alt_harry]

Tell them I died a Gryffindor. Just like they did.

[alt_sirius]

They'd rather you live as one.

Harry, this is - I was going to say suicide but it literally is that. It's utterly mad.

You've convinced yourself beyond a doubt and you've not even begun to consider the ways it could go wrong or any other options.

Someone polyjuiced as yourself could get close enough to take the final Horcrux and get away. Once it's destroyed, he's no longer immortal. We could all attack and someone would get him, he's not that invincible.

His armies are either falling away or will after we liberate the students from the school.

Listen to me, Harry. Alice and Remus and the others, we're planning to attack soon. We're not going to let him kill anyone there any more than you would do.

We don't have to give in to his demands. You don't have to face him on his terms.

[alt_harry]

This is what the prophecy was talking about.

He marked me as his equal -- he thinks I'm like him. But I have a power he doesn't understand at all -- I'm willing to die to defeat him.

I've seen Eton. You haven't.

[alt_sirius]

I've been to bloody Eton, James! It was there before all this!

I mean ....

[alt_sirius]

Fuck.

[alt_harry]

I mean his labs at Eton. It's where he took me when he tried to get me to make a horcrux.

[alt_sirius]

Fine, then take someone with you. Take all of us with you, we'll have a side-along Apparation party. We can come out casting.

It's not that I am trying to keep you out of the fight. I want you to be able to fight. But

[alt_harry]

I'm thinking about the eighth horcrux.

Mrs Longbottom's September plan was to kill him even if we didn't have all the horcruxes. Maybe that's just how it'll have to happen.

If they're doing the rite, though, they'll be focused on me.

[alt_sirius]

Alice and I disagree on that score, Harry. I believe that if his physical shell is destroyed before all the Horcruxes, he can still come back, even if the final one is eliminated while he's outside his body.

Even if you did this - and I'm not saying I've changed my mind - someone has to get to that horcrux before he expires.

[alt_harry]

Okay.

If I come up with a way to do that will you stop arguing with me?