| Your wand now contained the power of your enormous courage and of Voldemort's own deadly skill: What chance did that poor stick of Lucius Malfoy's stand?"
"But if my wand was so powerful, how come Hermione was able to break it?" asked Harry
"My dear boy, its remarkable effects were directed only at Voldemort, who had tampered so ill-advisedly with the deepest laws of magicOnly toward him was that wand abnormally powerfulOtherwise it was a wand like any other though a good one, I am sure," Dumbledore finished kindly
Harry sat in thought for a long time, or perhaps secondsIt was very hard to be sure of things like time, here
"He killed me with your wand
"He \ifailed\i to kill you with my wand," Dumbledore corrected Harry"I think we can omega chronograph watches agree that you are not dead - though, of course," he added, as if fearing he had been discourteous, "I do not minimize your sufferings, which I am sure were severe
"I feel great at the moment, though," said Harry, looking down at his clean, unblemished hands"Where are we, exactly?"
"Well, I was going to ask you that," said Dumbledore, looking around"Where would you say that we are?"
Until Dumbledore had asked, Harry had not knownNow, however, he found that he had an answer ready to give
"It looks," he said slowly, "like King's Cross stationExcept a lo cleaner and empty, and there are no trains as far as I can see
"King's Cross station!" Dumbledore was chuckling immoderately"Good gracious, really?"
"Well, where do you think we are?" asked chanel silver clutch bag Harry, a little defensively
"My dear boy, I have no ideaThis is, as they say, \iyour\i party
Harry had no idea what this meant; Dumbledore was being infuriatingHe glared at him, then remembered a much more pressing question than that of their current location
"The Deathly Hallows," he said, and he was glad to see that the words wiped the smile from Dumbledore's faceHe even looked a little worried
"Well?"
For the first time since Harry had met Dumbledore, he looked less than an old man, much lessHe looked fleetingly like a small boy caught in wrongdoing
"Can you forgive me?" he said"Can you forgive me for not trusting you? For not telling you? Harry, I only feared that you would fail as I had failedI only dreaded that you would make my black and white chanel mistakesI crave your pardon, HarryI have known, for some time now, that you are the better man
"What are you talking about?" asked Harry, startled by Dumbledore's tone, by the sudden tears in his eyes
"The Hallows, the Hallows," murmured Dumbledore"A desperate man's dream!"
"But they're real!"
"Real, and dangerous, and a lure for fools," said Dumbledore"And I was such a foolBut you know, don't you? I have no secrets from you anymore
"What do I know?"
Dumbledore turned his whole body to face Harry, and tears still sparkled in the brilliantly blue eyes
"Master of death, Harry, master of Death! Was I better, ultimately, than Voldemort?"
"Of course you were," said Harry"Of course - how can you ask that? You never killed if you could avoid omega constellation watches it!"
"True, true," said Dumbledore, and he was like a child seeking reassurance"Yet I too sought a way to conquer death, Harry
"Not the way he did," said HarryAfter all his anger at Dumbledore, how odd it was to sit here, beneath the high, vaulted ceiling, and defend Dumbledore from himself"Hallows, not Horcruxes
"Hallows," murmured Dumbledore, "not HorcruxesThe creature behind them whimpered, but Harry no longer looked around
"Grindelwald was looking for them too?" he asked
Dumbledore closed his eyes for a moment and nodded
"It was the thing, above all, that drew us together," he said quietly"Two clever, arrogant boys with a shared obsessionHe wanted to come to Godric's Hollow, as I am sure you have guessed, because of the grave of Ignotus chanel leather shopping bag Peve |
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