lyonessheart

Title: Headfirst into tomorrow
Author/Artist:

lyonessheart
Word Count: 519
Rating: G
Warnings: none really
Created for: hd_writers challenges. #5: used all 5 prompts

Points: Earn 5 points/per prompt used.

Prompts:
1/ Hogwarts Letter
2/ Sorting Hat
3/ Duel
4/ Snitch
5/ Potions

Summary: Harry needs to figure out how to start his future. He´ll do it like anything else - headfirst.

The paper is well worn, creased and handled much more often, than such a piece of paper usually is. It is more than just a letter to him, it is a reminder that in the darkest and most hopeless hours, a miracle can happen, and a world can be just around the corner that you never dared to believe in.

The old Hogwarts letter, crinkles in his hands, softly.

“You still have that?”

The voice is gentle, soft, femine.

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“Because as long as I have it, I can believe in hope.”

She sighs and the soft hand on his shoulder, has a hint of steel under the velvet.

“Life was easier, back then, but it is time to grow up. It is not about duelling in the corridors, or about the next lesson in potions that you don´t want to attend. You can always hope Harry, wether you have the letter or not. The magic is inside of you, any kind of magic is inside of you, you just need to believe.”

“Says the witch, that requires scientific proof for everything.” but there is laughter in his statement.

“I didn´t require science, to know that I was in love.”

“No that only took nearly dying.”

She snorts unladylike.

“What on earth is it with you? One might think the sorting hat was wrong in its choice and you should have gone anywhere else instead of Gryffindor.”

Harry knows that she just tries to encourage him, but his amusement is gone.

“Leave it Hermione. That is one thing you can´t fix.”

It is a testament to their friendship that she knows when to leave off.

He heads out roaming over the grounds – for the last time. The final year is done, and he will have to head out into the world, and if he doesn´t dreg up every ounce of hope that he has – because if he doesn´t speak up now, the snitch will be gone so to speak – he will lose someone he loves once again.

Draco has told him that Salem has accepted him for his potionsmastery, and while Harry understands that this is a huge chance for him, it also means that Draco will leave for at least ten years, they have been friends this last year and he has seen the looks that Draco has thrown him, but is it enough?

He looks at the letter in his hand, and when he see the blond head gleaming down by the lake, he calls up his courage. He has nothing to lose but everything to gain. Maybe Draco won´t like his idea to go with him. Hermione doesn´t know anything about his crazy idea yet, but he will deal with the consequences as they arise. So he tucks the old letter into his breast pocket and takes out his acceptance letter for the the university of salem , where he wants to study magical forensics and crime.

“Draco!” he calls – it is time to make a step towards the future.