A Difference

Ch.1

*Author's Note: This is short. It's a Harry Potter fanfic. And believe it or not incredibly minimal romance. Crazy right? Big romance is like my thing. But this.. Has no time and place for it. But pretend Harry was single. What happens would be to strange if he dated Ginny. Enjoy the beauty! As for the cover, this was the closest I could get to what happened.*

Ch. 1

So many feelings go through your brain when you're about to die. So many memories. So many fears. Am I doing the right thing? What will life be like when I'm gone?

I know I'm doing the right thing. The only thing I can do is let him kill me. I'm a horcruxe. Or so I believe. I know the snake up ahead is. She's watching me. She can't wait to tear me up. I'm practically handing myself to her. Although, I'm not sure if he'll let her feed on me yet. For a man who hates me so much and the feeling is mutual, Voldemort would love nothing more than to keep me in some lovely casket as a prize of victory. Show me off to his followers. To say that he really killed me. That is if my body isn't destroyed in battle, because he's definitely going to show me off to my friends. Watch them weep and kill them. I hope to Merlin someone kills that snake. Then, we'll both be dead, he and I.

After hearing what they said, my parents, Sirius, and Lupin, I'll be ok. That it doesn't hurt. At least I'll have them back. Where ever I go. I walk into the clearing and see them all standing there. That snake heading back, behind her master.

"Wait, Nagini... You'll get to play with him soon."

He saw me and it looked like he'd dance in glee over seeing me so helpless. He smiled a wicked smile on his happy noseless face. I would've laughed if I wasn't about to die.

"Harry? No! What are ya doin' here?!" Yelled Hagrid.

Two death eaters had him tied up on his knees. He looked bruised and dirty. I wanted to cry for him. He looked so sad. I mouthed that it'd be ok. He shook his head no and tears welled in his great big eyes.

"Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, has come to die?"

I nodded.

His smile widened and he laughed. He grabbed his wand and I closed my eyes, waiting.

"Avada Kedevra!!"

I saw green through my eye lids, I was hit hard but I don't feel dead.

"What?!" I hear.

It came from Lucius Malfoy. I recognized his voice. I'm in the air. I'm..slowing down. As I open my eyes I pull to stop high above the ground. I'm surrounded by a green ball. It's the curses power that should have just killed me. I look over at them all. They are stunned. Have I avoided death?

I gasp as something makes it's way from my stomach to my throat and out of my mouth. It's not throw up. It's black. It's not blood. It's like a mist. The mass flows out of me and makes tiny cuts in my throat. It's evil. It's my horcruxe. As soon as the mass realizes it's trapped it tries to bust through the green ball and fails fading into the green and makes horrible screaming sounds like the green is killing it. As this happens I hear Voldemort's screams as another piece of his soul is dead. For the first time, I feel no pain as he does. We've finally been separated.

A sigh of relief escapes me. But then, it's like millions of tiny needles kneed into my skin and I let out a painful scream. They prick at my eyes, my lip, scalp. Making me bleed, the dark red liquid makes it's way to the green energy like the evil mass that was Voldemort's soul. But it isn't destroyed, it becomes mixed and soon my blood takes the shape of that energy. I feel empty and weak. I'm sure that every inch of my blood is covering the shield. I'm sure I'll die a gray heap of skin, bone, and clothes.

Just as I think this, pain shoots from the sides of my neck and into my arms and sides and to my legs. It hurts, so bad make it go away. Then in a thin strip where the pain was, my skin cracked to to reveal a bright and glowing blue strip of light. The light faded on the backs of my hands and at the front of my feet. Next I saw my clothes crumble away and the blood on the energy left it and turned into steam before it hit the ground. As I brought my legs to my chest and wrapped my arms around them, I realized the energy was now blue, like those strips in my skin. I felt my face thinning out and my arms were longer, so were my legs, I grew muscle on my chest and arms. My large fingers became meek and feminine and I grew longer nails. My toes and feet were also more slender. I felt my hair growing and turning from black, to gray, to silver, and to white. Not old man crappy white, but beautiful and shining white. The hairs turned and twisted until they formed a very long braid. My skin began to grow increasingly pale it ended the same color as my hair. My teeth were painfully growing. A white mist formed inside the bubble. It covered me. The clothe was long sleeved and flowing. Almost like a dress but this wasn't a dress. The clothes wrapped around my middle fingers and fell like a priest robe. The clothe in a thin strip wrapped around my neck. It flowed down my sides forming back together around my waist. It ripped itself mid thigh and flowed down the rest of the way. My chest and back were completely bare.

A sudden drowsiness came upon me. The shield faded and I fell with an umph. The blue strips of light faded and my skin heeled back together. I heard the mumbling of the horrid men from far away. I opened my eyes and they all stared at me. They were whispering, confused. Even Hagrid looked confused, but happy. My sight was much improved and so was my hearing, and smell. I stood slowly. I was taller then before so it was odd. I walked toward them because I knew there was a lake behind them. The followers shrank away and let me pass in fear of me. How strange? I reached the lake and kneeled. It was... such a difference. Such an improvement. I...was beautiful. I put a finger into my mouth and realized all of my teeth had sharpened. It pricked my finger and I bled. It healed in two seconds. Strands of my long white hair fell from the braid which ended at the end of my back, into my face. I pushed it behind my ear. My eyes. Beautiful black lashes. That didn't change. But the color was like my skin and hair. The pure white color. My lips were pink but an incredibly light pink. If I smacked them together they were white for a second. Most of all, my scar was gone.

My clothes were beautifully created. They're was nothing left of my old ones. I walked back in amazement. I walked straight up to Voldemort and looked at him. He was so vivid but still so awful.

"How did you survive? How did you become this thing?"

"I'm unsure how. But I did."

"I will kill you."

"Maybe... But now is not the right time. I see this. Wait until tomorrow. It's only fair. You can wait a while longer. Come up with a plan. I'll take my leave. And I'm bringing the giant. But before I do, listen."

I had honestly not a clue how I knew what I do. I placed my finger tips on his temples. This was the first time I ever had even laid a finger on the horrid thing. He listened. He heard nothing. I realized that I had no heartbeat. No heart was within my body. It shriveled away when the old blood left my system. He stood stunned. Almost fearful. I smiled. Then I did something that made many gasp. I actually kissed him. Not like I loved him. I hated him. It was because I knew it'd leave him wondering. To let him know this. I say this to him now, as whispered to him.

"You have no power over me... I promise you. I will kill you before you can kill me."

I then broke the ropes that bound my friend and I walk away with him.

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*Author's Note: So, yeah. I wanna write probably one more chapter for this. It feels incomplete. Lol what about the new Harry kissing Voldy! Hahaha! I thought it'd be funny. I don't know what kind of creature Harry is. It's like mix between a vampire, a Snow White type effect, a magical plant grower (by hand), angel like thing. I don't know. I think of what to call him.*