[FFML] [challenge/short][Harry Potter] Harry Potter Epilogue Challenge

[StudioPC]

I always love how so many authors forget the words: "A long long time  
ago, in a galaxy far, far away."

That said, it's an interesting idea.

On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Juho Saarikko wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 23:46, The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:
>> So. This Saturday, it all finally comes to an end.
>>
>> But before we get the official, canon finale to the series,  
>> there's still
>> time for a little fun.
>>
>> To that end, I present:
>>
>> THE HARRY POTTER EPILOGUE CHALLENGE.
>>
>> Simple and straightforward:
>>
>> Write a brief epilogue to the Harry Potter series. You can take  
>> any tone you
>> wish with it, just keep it under ten pages. One to two pages is  
>> sufficient.
>>
>> The only rule: It MUST be posted before noon Eastern US time on  
>> Friday.
>
> Well, since it is well known that a wizard is never late, nor is he
> early, he arrives precisely when he means to:
>
> ***
>
> He always underestimated family ties. It had been his downfall before,
> and now history was repeating itself; only this time, he was literally
> falling to his death. Oh, he wouldn't _die_, his Horcruxes would  
> anchor
> his spirit to this life; but it would be another long, painful climb
> back up the ladder of power, both personal and politicial.
>
> It was funny in a way. He had crushed every enemy he had ever had,  
> from
> those long gone days he crushed Albus Dumpledore and Harry Potter, to
> his political opponents in the Senate just decades ago. But even from
> beyond the grave, Dumbledore and his accursed Order of the Phoenix  
> still
> kept thwarting him, time and again, no matter how many times he killed
> them.
>
> As he felt the lightning still flying from his hands hit the force  
> field
> and beginning to feed back into his mortal coil, Lord Voldemort
> screamed; and just before his body disintegrated to dust - once  
> again -
> he briefly wondered if it was truly worth it to keep on fighting this
> war, when even mythology no longer remembered its origins. But as
> Emperor Palpatine's brittle body turned to ashes, Tom Riddle felt the
> tug of his Horcruxes on his soul, like someone had pinned him to the
> ground with weights heavy as sin, not letting him go to his rest;  
> and as
> night came to take him once again, he remembered what Dumbledore had
> said about there being things worse than death, and knew him to have
> spoken the truth.
>
>
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