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Wand lit only a tiny part, was worry about what would happen next. It was as though heHad been hurtling toward this point for weeks, months, maybe even years, but how he had Come to an abrupt halt, run out of road. There were other Horcruxes out there somewhere, but he did not have the faintest Idea where they could be. He did not even know what all of them were. Meanwhile he Was at a loss to know how to destroy the only one that they had found, the Horcrux that Currently lay against the bare flesh of his chest. Curiously, it had not taken heat from his Body, but lay so cold against his skin it might just have emerged from icy water. From Time to time Harry thought, or perhaps imagined, that he could feel the tiny heartbeat Ticking irregularly alongside his own. Nameless forebodings crept upon him as he sat There in the dark. He tried to resist them, push them away, yet they came at him Relentlessly. Neither can live while the other survives. Ron and Hermione, now talking softly behind him in the tent, could walk away if they wanted to: He could not. And it Seemed to Harry as he sat there trying to master his own fear and exhaustion, that the Horcrux against his chest was ticking away the time he had left. . . . Stupid idea, he told himself, don’t think that. . . . His scar was starting to prickle again. He was afraid that he was making it happen By having these thoughts, and tried to direct them into another channel. He thought of Poor Kreacher, who had expected them home and had received Yaxley instead. Would the elf keep silent or would he tell the Death Eater everything he knew? Harry wanted to Believe that Kreacher had changed towards him in the past month, that he would be loyal now, but who knew what would happen? What if the Death Eaters tortured the elf? Sick images swarmed into Harry’s head and he tried to push these away too, for there was nothing he could do for Kreacher: He and Hermione had already decided against trying to summon him; what if someone from the Ministry came too? They could not count on Elfish Apparition being free from the same flaw that had taken Yaxley to Grimmauld Place on the hem of Hermione’s sleeve. Harry’s scar was burning now. He thought that there was so much they did not know: Lupin had been right about magic they had never encountered or imagined. Why hadn’t Dumbledore explained more? Had he thought that there would be time; that he would live for years, for centuries perhaps, like his friend Nicolas Flamel? If so, he had Been wrong. . . . Snape had seen to that. . . . Snape, the sleeping snake, who had struck at The top of the tower . . . And Dumbledore had fallen . . . fallen . . . “Give it to me, Gregorovitch.” Harry’s voice was high, clear, and cold, his wand held in front of him by a longfingered White hand. The man at whom he was pointing was suspended upside down in Midair, though there were no ropes holding him; he swung there, invisibly and eerily bound, his limbs wrapped about him, his terrified face, on a level with Harry’s ruddy due to the blood that had rushed to his head. He had pure-white hair and a thick, bushy beard: Date: 2015-12-11; view: 651
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