"AVADA KADAVRA!"

With those words, those two, hate-filled, life-ending, hopefully war-turning words; Harry closed his eyes, and resigned himself to his fate.

He hadn't comprehended, he realized in the split second before the green light enveloped his broken form, exactly what his sacrifice would entail.

In flashes of light and sound and screams, Harry lived everything that had led him up to this point.

Letters… Hagrid… Fluffy… Dragons… Unicorns… Blood… Mars is bright tonight… Voldemort, Stone, resurrection, cloak of invisibility… Ron… Chess, keys, Devil's Snare… Hermione, Neville… Mirror, turban, Quirrell… burning, screaming, Am I Dead Yet…?

Dobby, Dursleys, secrets… bars, car, picking locks and freckles… Lockhart, voice in the walls, KILL HUNT FRESH BLOOD KILL KILL KILL!... spiders, rejection, persecution, Parseltongue… Polyjuice, Heir of Slytherin… Diary, Tom Riddle, Hagrid… Acromantula, Hermione, Basilisks… Myrtle, Ginny, OBLIVIATE!... Diary, Voldemort… SMELL HIM SMELL HIM… Pheonix song, Gryffindor's sword, Sorting Hat… Venom, white-hot, burning, boiling…. Am I Finally Dying…?

Marge, SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE BITCH THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE PUP!... running, Knight Bus, Neville Longbottom… Sirius Black, murderer, godfather… Dementors, screaming NOT HARRY NOT HARRY… Professor Lupin, werewolf, Patronus… Marauder's Map, Weasley Twins, Peter Pettigrew… Quidditch, Firebolt, Hermione… Scabbers, Crookshanks, Buckbeak… Timeturners, Shrieking Shack, Ron, betrayal… Grim, innocence, Snape, EXPELLIARMUS… blinding, overwhelming hope, Come live with me?... full moon, werewolf, running, screaming, Dementors, flash of light, overwhelming black, dad… Dumbledore, time, Malfoy, hippogriff… flying, laughter, rescue… watching all his hopes and dreams fly away… I Wish I Was Dead…

Dursleys, TonTon Toffees… Quidditch World Cup, Viktor Krum, Veela… Death Eaters, MOSMORDRE!, Winky, Crouch… Triwizard Tournament, Goblet of Fire, death toll… Cedric Diggory, Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour… Harry Potter…ridicule, torment, abandonment, Ron… fear, Dragons, Hungarian Horntail, broom… Golden Egg, Come seek us where our voices sound, we cannot sing above the ground… Maze, Sphinx, Boggart, Acromantula, CRUCIO!...screaming, running, WATCH OUT!... take the cup together… Hogwarts victory… Portkey, spinning, KILL THE SPARE… Bone of Father, Blood of Enemy, Flesh of Servant… BOW TO YOUR BETTERS… CRUCIO!... Expelliarmus, AVADA KADAVRA!... Pheonix song, mum, dad… Harry, take my body back to my father… RUN HARRY RUN!... ACCIO! VOLDEMORT'S BACK!... Dizzy, shock, Come with me Potter… Mad-Eye Moody, Crouch, Polyjuice… Fudge, Dementors, denial… Why Can't I Just Fucking Die?

Grimmauld Place, Fidelius, Sirius… Order of the Pheonix, secrets, anger and frustration… visions, nightmares, screams… Daily Prophet, liar, attention-seeking, murderer… Umbitch, bloody quill, I MUST NOT TELL LIES… Snape, Occlumency, LEGILIMENS!... memories, flashes, nonono can't see not allowed to see hide, hide all Dursleys… secrets, Dumbledore, corridors and balls of light, slithering, giant snake… Mr. Weasley… pensieve, Sirius, dad, Remus bullies, furious Snape, glass jars, DON'T COME BACK!... Sirius, screaming, torture, Department of Mysteries… Inquisitorial Squad, DA, Veritaserum, CRUCIO, secret weapon… Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna, rescue… Thestrals, flying, running… Prophesy, Voldemort and Harry Potter?... Death Eaters, running, fighting, falling, screaming… rescue, terrified, it was a trap… Bellatrix, Sirius, STUPIFY,The Veil, NOOOOOOO!... breaking, shattering, sobbing, alone, abandoned… Voldemort escapes, Fudge sees, all is known… I Don't Want to Live Anymore…

Dumbledore… Slughorn, Dragons Blood, Slug Club… stay there for your own safety, my boy… Potions, Half-Blood Prince, Liquid Luck… Memories, Tom Riddle, goldfish bowl… Poisoned chocolate, cursed necklace, bezoar… HORCRUXES… cave, Slytherin's locket, inferi… RAB… Draco Malfoy… bathroom, SECTUMSEMPRA… blood, tears, panic, oh thank Merlin it's Snape… run run run get away… ring, shriveled hand, Death Eaters… Malfoy, invisibility cloak, Please Severus… AVADA KADAVRA!... Dumbledore dead, falling, Death Eaters escape… Couldn't do anything, weak, defenseless, helpless, pathetic, FREAK… The War Has Begun… And I Don't Think I'll Live to See the End…

Wedding… running, HORCRUXES… Apparation, Death Eaters, torture… MUDBLOOD…Malfoy Manor… Bellatrix, Draco, Narcissa, Lucius… Don't say the name… Gryffindor's Sword, Doe Patronus… Kreature, Slytherin's Locket, RAB is Regulus Arcturus Black… negative emotions, anger, hatred, jealousy… Ron… Polyjuice, Umbridge, Dementors… Hufflepuff's Cup… Gringotts, Goblins, Dragons… Nagini, Snape, Neville… LOOK AT ME!... Tom Riddle's Diary… Ravenclaw's Diadem… Hogwarts, Grey Lady, Bloody Baron… Gaunt's Ring… Deathly Hallows… Invisibility Cloak, Resurrection Stone, Elder Wand… Master of Death… final showdown, ultimate sacrifice… Me, Harry Potter, the Final Horcrux…

Briefly, Harry wondered why he was only remembering these. Where was the rest of his life? Wasn't all of it supposed to flash before his eyes? Suddenly, Harry came to a horrible realization. This was his life.

His entire existence was nothing more that to be trained and tested for this final moment. All his life, from the time he was put on the Dursleys doorstep until now, was all to prepare him to go to his death. What normal seventeen year old would willingly do this? Hell, Harry'd been willing to do it since he was eleven!

And Dumbledore… Dumbledore knew all along. How could he have watched the small eleven-year-old first year walk in that door; and with a clear conscious already be planning his inevitable sacrifice?

And suddenly, as the bright flash of green light burned bright into his eyelids and encompassed his body, Harry realized that he didn't want to be the wizarding world's scapegoat any longer; their sacrificial lamb. He didn't want his last memories of life to be this unfulfilling, pain-filled existence.

For the first time that he could remember, Harry Potter didn't want to die.

And Voldemort's high, cold, cruel laughter echoed as the small, emaciated, blood- and dirt-crusted body hit the floor with a dull thud; holly and phoenix-feather wand clattering from his already-cooling fingers.

A/N: This is a Challenge issued to me by my faithful reader and reviewer: Anniriel. She posed a fairly overdone plot, but then some EXCELLENT plot twists hit me like a triple-decker bus (I've still got the bruises…) that have never been done before and as such, will make for an intriguing and fascinating read (I hope…). I'm not even 100 percent sure how it'll turn out; so it's almost like I'm discovering and reading it at the same time as you guys!

But, before you all decide to lynch me, YES I'm working on my other stories. I just needed a little break. But, now that I have the creative juices flowing, I'll be having new chapters out in now time. Thank you all, my faithful readers, for your patience… it shall not go unrewarded. xD

((PS: If you want an idea of how brilliant I think this plot is… it only took me an hour to read the challenge, come up with ideas and plots, accept the challenge, and type up this chapter. xD xD))

… I Solemnly Swear I Am Up To No Good …