TITLE: Melodrama
FIRST PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
SUMMARY: Harry Potter woke up in a room. What happened next?
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Harry woke up. Panic suffused him. It was dark, stifling, dimly lit—it was black as hell, dark as pitch, oppressing and without light. It was strangely silent, not a single sound suffused the strange stillness of the still-young knight. He wondered what was going on. Then, a light lit the darkness—a lamp, gleaming with a glaring, glittery glow!
And he saw, silhouetted in the shadows—not Voldemort, but a Vampire!
It walked along—slow, silent, stalkingly—smiling sinisterly; and the strange symmetry of the situation settled on his shoulders.
“What are you talking about?” Harry demanded. “There isn’t any symmetry, except that in your addled mind!”
“Of course there’s symmetry—the room, for one. The Lamp. The Vampire’s face, with long white fangs—”
“Yeah right. You were just going for the alliteration, admit it.”
“So what? It’s still true.”
With one bound, the Vampire leaped, and BIT Harry! Then it made him drink it’s blood. Now Harry was a Vampire!
“All the better to EAT YOU, my author!” –And he leaped through the pages, fury in every line of his figure, flaring in his flaming eyes, flowing from his—”
THE END
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