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Sorry the chapter is so short; the next one will be longer.

Harry Potter and A Better Future

Chapter 1: The End and the Beginning

Harry stood at the entrance of the forbidden forest ready for what should be the final battle with Lord Voldemort. Looking through the trees he saw Voldemort and his followers approaching the entrance of the forest. He had already lost all of his friends and people that he had ever loved to him and now realised that he had nothing left to live for except defeating Lord Voldemort.

He had spent five years searching for and destroying Voldemort's horcruxes and eliminating some of his death eaters along the way. He had been successfully learned occlumency, Leglimency, wandless and non verbal magic. He had also decided to become an animagus while he used Hogwarts to prepare for the final battle. After months of training Harry mastered the skill and had transformed into a phoenix. Professor McGonagall had been shocked at this and told Harry it was very rare someone could transform into a magical creature.

It was shortly after Harry mastered these skills that Hogwarts had been attacked by Voldemort and subsequently closed. This attack resulted in the deaths of many students and teachers. Harry stepped into the forest and started walked through the trees pushing branches aside and stepping on loose branches and twigs. He made his way into the clearance where he saw Voldemort and his followers approaching.

"It's over Tom, time for you to finally die" Growled Harry as he raised his wand ready to cast the spell he had seen take away friends and family over the years.

"That's what you think Potter, but your wrong, for you see, I am immortal" Voldemort taunted.

"You are nothing more than a mortal human, if I can call you human, I have destroyed all of your horcruxes, this makes you mortal so you will die unlike that time in the grave yard nearly ten years ago" Harry growled as he non verbally cast a stunning spell at Voldemort. Unfortunately anticipated this and cast a shield spell that dispelled the curse causing it to shoot back at Harry who ducked out of the way and the curse hit the tree behind him.

"So foolish Potter, trying to take me down with something as weak as a stunning spell, you could have used something stronger" Voldemort snarled

"EXPELLIARMUS" Harry shouted. Voldemort countered with "AVADA KEDAVRA", Harry watched the two spells collide in mid air and connect, Harry pushed hard on his wand and forced the gold beads towards Voldemort. Voldemort pushed the beads away from himself causing Harry to push harder on his wand forcing the beads back to Voldemort.

Voldemort tried to counter this by pushing harder on his wand but Harry pushed on his wand harder and watched as the golden beams moved towards Voldemort and struck him in his chest. Harry watched Voldemort yell in pain and his lifeless body slump to the floor. What Harry saw next stumped him. A green gas like substance rose out of Voldemort's body and when it detected Harry it immediately flew towards his chest, Harry turned and ran away from the gas but he couldn't outrun the gas which seemed to gain speed as it got closer to Harry. The gas flew into his chest and merged with it causing Harry to cry out in pain as it burned through his skin, after a few seconds the gas faded leaving a scar on his chest.

Harry left Voldemort's body and headed back to the castle. Harry passed Hagrid's hut which was now no more than piles of rubble and burnt wood on the floor, the death eaters had used stunning spells on Hagrid which had no effect on him due to him being half giant. It was then that the death eaters figured out that he might not be as tough on the inside and cut him open with sectumserpa and diffindo curses. They tortured him with the cruciatus curse which caused him more pain due to the fact that they had used several diffindo and sectumserpa curses on him beforehand.

Once they had tortured him enough they had killed him with Avada Kedavra and set his hut on fire. Luckily Fang escaped through the back window when he smelled smoke. Harry hoped he would be able to fend for himself on his own. Harry wiped a tear from his eye and moved on. He walked past the tower where Dumbledore was killed by Snape in his sixth year. The tower hadn't taken any damage as nobody fought up there

He walked past the Whomping Willow which was waving its branches as usual. He walked past the tree and walked up to the front steps of the castle. The front doors were laid on the floor where they had been blasted off their hinges during the battle. The four hour glasses lay shattered on the floor, their contents spilled out everywhere. The banister of the marble stair case lay in pieces on the floor, as he walked through the castle he saw bodies littering the floor, when he reached the stone gargoyle he noticed it laid on its side with part of its head chipped off. "Can I go up" He asked the gargoyle wondering whether it would be of any use.

"Sure" Groaned the gargoyle.

"Do you want me to stand you up" Harry asked.

"Yeah, thanks, that would be great" the gargoyle answered.

"Wingardium Leviosa" Harry spoke pointing his wand at the gargoyle. As soon as the spell hit it the gargoyle was immediately put the right way up, Harry levitated the gargoyle back into its stand and lowered it down, Once it was on the ground he released his spell, He cast Reparo on it but it didn't help much.

"It's ok, it doesn't hurt so much now that I'm stood up and back on my base, thank you for trying though" thanked the gargoyle.

Harry climbed the spiral stairs to Dumbledore's office. It was just the way McGonagall had left it before she was killed by Bellatrix Lestrange. Most of the portraits were sleeping due to it being the middle of the night. There were two portraits awake and one of them was the one he needed to speak to.

"Hello Professor Dumbledore" Harry greeted the portrait.

"Hello Harry, I trust that you have finally defeated Tom" Dumbledore spoke.

"Yeah, he's dead alright, I saw his corpse hit the floo" Harry explained. "There was something strange that happened after he died though" Harry continued.

"Would you care to enlighten me Harry" Dumbledore requested as he scratched his ear from inside the portrait.

"I'm not sure what it was but it seemed to be some kind of gas like substance, it flew out of his body and immediately targeted me, it flew into my chest and seemed like it merged with it" Harry explained as he took a seat on a chair.

"That Harry would have been a horcrux, this means my theory was correct, when he attempted to kill you as a one year old he unknowingly created his seventh and final horcrux, the one that would make his soul unstable, I wish I could have foreseen this when I researched horcruxes" Dumbledore answered.

"How would I destroy it, I don't think I can stab it or use any kind of weapon on it" Harry questioned.

"I'm not sure Harry, i think the only way would be to use the Avada Kedavra curse, it should detect your soul and the segment of Lord Voldemort's soul and remove the most recently placed soul, though there is a chance it may target your own soul due to it being a light soul, whereas the soul segment is an evil soul which means it matches the spell which of course is evil." Dumbledore explained.

"Do you mean it seeks out and destroys anything that isn't evil" Harry asked.

"I think that is a good theory yes, it may be the case with this spell, I didn't want to have you do this but if Tom is to be defeated for good then i think we have no other choice" Dumbledore explained sadly.

"Ok professor, thanks, i know what i have to do now" Harry replied as he put the books down and stood up.

"Professor, surely you can't allow a former student of yours to kill himself" McGonagall begged from her portrait. Harry turned around having only noticed her portrait properly since stepping in the room.

"It's ok professor, I know what I have to do, Voldemort has taken away everyone I ever loved, and this way if I die I can be with them again." Harry explained as he withdrew his wand from inside his pocket.

Harry pointed the wand at his chest and spoke "Avada Kedavra", before he had chance to blink his lifeless body crumpled to the floor and everything went black.

A/N: This chapter is roughly 1500 words, the next few chapters will be longer than this one. There are a few chapters that may be shorter than others.