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The crowd was afraid, and silence fell abruptly...
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The crowd was afraid, and silence fell abruptly and
completely as Voldemort and Harry looked at each other, and began, at the same moment, to circle each other
"I don't want anyone else to help," Harry said loudly, and in the total silence his voice carried like a trumpet call"It's got to be like this
"Potter doesn't mean that," he said, his red eyes wide"This isn't how he works, is it? Who are you going to use as a shield today, Potter?"
"Nobody," said Harry simply"There are no more HorcruxesIt's just you and meNeither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good
"One of us?" jeered Voldemort, and his wholy body was taut and his red eyes stared, a snake that was about to strike"You think it will be you, do you, the boy who has survived by accident, and because Dumbledore was pulling the strings?"
"Accident, was it, when my mother died to save me?" asked HarryThey were still moving sideways, both of them, in that perfect circle, maintaining the same distance from each other, and for Harry no face existed but Voldemort's"Accident, when I decided to fight in that graveyard? Accident, that I didn't defend myself tonight, and still survived, and returned to fight again?"
"\iAccidents!\i" screamed Voldemort, but still he did not strike, and the watching crowd was frozen as if Petrified, and of the chanel leather shopping bag hundreds in the Hall, nobody seemed to breathe but they two"Accident and chance and the fact that you crouched and sniveled behind the skirts of greater men and women, and permitted me to kill them for you!"
"You won't be killing anyone else tonight," said Harry as they circled, and stared into each other's eyes, green into red"You won't be able to kill any of them ever againDon't you get it? I was ready to die to stop you from hurting these people - "
"But you did not!"
" - I meant to, and that's what did itI've done what my mother didThey're protected from youHaven't you noticed how none of the spells you put on them are binding? You can't torture themYou can't touch themYou don't learn from your mistakes, Riddle, do you?"
"\iYou dare -\i"
"Yes, I dare," said Harry"I know things you don't know, Tom RiddleI know lots of important things that you don'tWant to hear some, before you make another big mistake?"
Voldemort did not speak, but powled in a circle, and Harry knew that he kept him temporarily mesmerized at bay, held back by the faintest possibility that Harry might indeed know a final secret
"Is it love again?" said Voldemort, his snake's face jeering"Dumbledore favorite solution, \ilove\i, which he claimed conqered death, though love did not stop him falling from the tower and breaking like and old waxwork? \iLove,\i dior handbag sale which did not prevent me stamping out your Modblood mother like a cockroack, Potter - and nobody seems to love you enough to run forward this time and take my curseSo what will stop you dying now when I strike?"
"Just one thing," said Harry, and still they circled each other, wrapped in each other, held apart by nothing but the last secret
"If it is not love that will save you this time," said Voldemort, "you must believe that you have magic that i do not, or else a weapon more powerful than mine?"
"I believe both," said Harry, and he saw shock flit across the snakelike face, though it was instantly dispelled; Voldemort began to laugh, and the sound was more frightening than his screams; humorles and insane, it echoed around the silent Hall
"You think \iyou\i know more magic than I do?" he said"Than \iI\i, than Lord Voldemort, who has performed magic that Dumbledore himself never dreamed of?"
"Oh he dreamed of it," said Harry, "but he knew more than you, knew enough not to do what you've done
"You mean he was weak!" screamed Voldemort"Too weak to dare, too weak to take what might have been his, what will be mine!"
"No, he was cleverer than you," said Harry, "a better wizard, a better man
"I brought about the death of Albus Dumbledore!"
"You thought you did," said Harry, "but you were wrong
For the frist time, the watching louis vuitton beverly bag crowd stirred as the hundreds of people around the walls drew breath as one
"\iDumbledore is dead!\i" Voldemort hurled the words at Harry as in the marble tomb in the grounds of this castle, I have seen it, Potter, and he will not return!"
"Yes, Dumbledore is dead," said Harry calmly, "but you didn't have him killedHe chose his own manner of dying, chose it months before he died, arranged the whole thing with the man you thought was your servant
"What chldish dream is this?" said Voldemort, but still he did not strike, and his red eyes did not waver from Harry's
"Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry"Snape was Dumbledore'sDumbledore's from the moment you starting hunting down my motherAnd you never realized it, because of the thing you can't understandYou never saw Snape cast a Patronus, did you, Riddle?"
Voldemort did not answerThey continued to circle each other like wolves about to tear each other apart
"Snape's Patronus was a doe," said Harry, "the same as my mother's, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were childrenYou should have realized," he said as he saw Voldemort's nostrils flare, "he asked you to spare her life, didn't he?" "He desired her, that was all," sneered Voldemort, "but when she had gone, he agreed that there were other women, and of purer blood, worhier of him - cartier pasha crono "
"Of course he told you that," said Harry, "but he was Dumbledore's spy from the moment you threatened her, and he's been working against you ever since! Dumbledore was already dying when Snape finished him!"
"It matters not!" shrieked Voldemort, who had followed every word with rapt attention, but now let out a cackle of mad laughter"It matters not whether Snape was mine or Dumbledore's, or what petty obstacles they tried to put in my path! I crushed them as I crushed your mother, Snape's supposed great \ilove\i! Oh, but it all makes sense, Potter, and in ways that you do not understand!
"Dumbledore was trying to keep the Elder Wand from me! He intended that Snape should be the true master of the wand! But I got there ahead of you, little boy - I reached the wand before you could get your hands on it, I understood the truth before you caught upI killed Severus Snape three hours ago, and the Elder Wand, the Deathstick, the Wand of Destiny is truly mine! Dumbledore's last plan went wrong, Harry Potter!"
"Yeah, it didBut before you try to kill me, I'd advise you think what you've done Think, and try for some remorse, Riddle
"What is this?"
Of all the things that Harry had said to him, beyond any revelation or taunt, nothing had socked Voldemort like thisHarry saw is pupils contract to thin slits, saw the skin around his eyes chanel lookalike bags cheap whiten
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