Courtney Kathrys

And her voice is breaking, because her Harry is no longer hers. He is just Harry… just Harry. She leaves him standing alone as he was always meant to do, because no one else could ever shine that bright.

"I found myself attracted to the lighter, sweeter taste of the milk while she indulged deeply in the bittersweet dark; and we laughed at how opposite our urges were from ourselves."````How memories of chocolate can bring you back together, after Hogwarts houses have torn you both apart.

"Perhaps the sage beneath our feet bore some emerald prophecy. When we left Hogwarts in its shades of rainbows and shadows, we left behind our crimsons and our vermilions, letting them slowly rot away with the pink I had burned."````Not all love stories have happy endings, but that doesn't make them any less colorful. A story about how you never forget your first love, how they always leave their canvas hanging on some corner of your heart; and how you jump between the present and the past in the memories that still haunt you.

A second-person telling of how revenge can manipulate and destroy. A tale of how unrequited obsession can be mutated into something deeper and darker: the destruction of not only the individual who is being targeted but of the targeter as well. ````Facilis descensus averni -``"The descent into the underworld is easy."

"Oh kisses can be fiery and passionate, they can be tender and sweet, they can be cold and distant, and they can even leave you breathless – but a kiss can take more from you than just your breath. I've learned that they can also take your soul."

Peter Judas Pettigrew remembers the events which led him to join the Dark Lord, the night he betrayed James as he lives up to his namesakes. Contains slash.