Friday, January 22, 2016

No. 60

Prompt: any book. any. Everyone else who remembers is dead now.
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Dennis flinches whenever he sees a kid with a Dark Mark tattoo. Muggle kids run around sporting swastika tattoos, too, and he sees some people sigh and shake their heads, but it's not the same. Most witches and wizards who see the Morsmordre now purse their lips in disapproval; it's a sign of hate, they say, of bigotry and darkness.

But none of them were there at Hogwarts. None of them walked among the corpses of their classmates and friends. None of them watched the light go out of a girl's eyes as the Killing Curse devoured her. They read about it in the history books, listen to the memorial speeches, but none of them remember.

Everyone else who remembers is dead now.

When they finally come for Dennis, he isn't surprised that one of them is a kid with a Dark Mark tattoo. The hissing voice he hears as his world goes dark is one he never forgot.

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