Cold Dark River (Dark! Harry Potter Fanfic)

"The river swept away my beloved one, as she explained why I'm mental, but all I could hear was her sorrows begging for mercy. I can still hear her, feel her golden locks choke me, and guilt fills me to the end of time. May I one day hold her hand, but I know she's in heaven as I fall unto the devil's hands."

Harry quickly shut the novel, all these thriller books, yet none explained his case. The library was usually deserted on Sundays, this gave him a lovely hour and a half without his horrendous relatives. Harry would never consider then family, he read enough stories to know what he was involved in was described as child abuse, barely feeding and locking him in a cupboard. The library was the only escape to another world, a better one filled with brave characters and magic. If only magic was real, Harry would have flown out without a second thought.