Human Voices
by
Anaphalis
Rating: R/M

Summary: It is not that war creates monsters, it is that war brings out the monsters that are already hidden inside." Hallucinations. Inner voices. Lots of black coffee. Some wars need a different kind of weapon. Drama/Romance.
Remus/Hermione.

Chapter Summary: Harry is a special boy. And he gets a very special bedtime story.
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Chapter 4
'Harry'-The Hollow Men


We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men

Leaning together

Headpiece filled with straw.


-T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
Once there was a boy, a very special boy. He lived with his parents in a little house in a little hollow. Then that all went to hell.

Between the conception

But he became something even more special, didn't he?

And the creation

And he loved the friends that he made after his tragic, tragic childhood.

Between the emotion

That's right- it was his feelings that gave him the strength to fight, to avenge those friends.

And the response


But something went wrong. The brave, conquering hero wasn't quite... all there afterwards.

Falls the Shadow

And now he's stuck here. In this special room. With me.

Life is very long


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They don't know do they, Potter? They have no idea that it wasn't the
girl you were upset about. That you felt guilty because you were relieved she was gone. That maybe then you had a chance with her lover.

Between the desire

Did they know what really went through your mind as you cursed me?

And the spasm

That was what made your spell so effective- that hate, that guilt, that fear of discovery

Between the potency

That was what bound your mind to mine

And the existence

Because underneath it all, we are driven by the same things

Between the essence

Because you justified your feelings- in the end my death would save the world

And the descent

Because you were thinking of consoling your dead friend's lover even as you killed me

Falls the Shadow

And now you're mine.

For Thine is the Kingdom

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They thought you were shell-shocked, because I prevented you from speaking.

For Thine is

And really, all those ambitious wizards were a lot happier if you weren't in the contest for power.

Life is

And you knew, as I knew, that really we were just pawns from the beginning- but I will at least control my fellow pawn.

For Thine is the

You can't keep me in here forever, Potter. There's so little of you left now that it won't be anytime at all before I'm in control. And I certainly won't make the orderlies think that I'm insane.

This is the way the world ends

Think what I could accomplish in the body of Harry bloody Potter.

This is the way the world ends

You, the only person who could stop me- too cowardly to fight for your own mind.

This is the way the world ends

What are you doing Potter?...POTTER!

Not with a bang but a whimper.

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Italicized lines are from "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot. I really just wanted to do the song-fic from hell.
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