To Tom Riddle

[alt_draco]

If Bellatrix were fixing you I think you would have made that known by now. But since you haven't, you and my Aunt must both know that the end is near.

I wanted to tell you that there was one thing you did right as "father" to the boy you kidnapped and whose parents you murdered, and that was having us befriend each other. Though I suppose from your current perspective it was a mistake, from where I'm looking it was the only useful thing you've ever done. For that you have my thanks. For everything else -

I cast the curse that you're currently dying of.

I got to kill you.


And Harry got to save us all.

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[alt_seamus]

What did you do, Draco? WHAT DID YOU AND HARRY DO?

[alt_draco]

Harry gave himself up to Riddle for a ritual that allowed Riddle to possess Harry.

But before Harry went to him, I cast Auror Lestrange's Black's Curse on Harry. It's irreversible. Riddle put himself into a dying body.

And we've extinguished all of his other means of resurrection.

Oh, but I can't take credit alone for all of that last one. Sally Anne, Ron, Daphne, Justin, and Hermione all had their part in that, along with some others.

[alt_seamus]

You

You

WHY?

[alt_draco]

How bloody thick are you?

Fuck, I can't even be properly enraged at this level of dullness.

Because the Lord Protector is evil. Because it was the right thing to do.

Go back and read what I wrote a few days ago. Read what Harry wrote. If you still don't understand, you never will.

[alt_seamus]

You're a Malfoy. You're

You've always had everything. You've always been the one

WHY?

[alt_draco]

Oh god, you're not still in love with me, are you?

[alt_seamus]

I'm going to kill every single one of you if it's the last thing I do.

Except for Daphne because OUR LORD ALREADY KNEW. HE KNEW. HE WAS RIGHT.

[alt_draco]

He didn't know the most important things she'd done, or he would have kept her alive for interrogation.

He didn't know anything, that's how we fooled him.

So. Sorry, but you don't stand a chance.

[alt_seamus]

I just realised.

You cast the curse. Auror Lestrange's curse.

You cast it on Harry.

[alt_draco]

On Harry, for Harry.

It was his idea, and it was what he wanted.

[alt_draco]

And it worked