Then Harry’s scar burst open and he knew he was dead: it was pain beyond imagining, pain past endurance – He was gone from the hall, he was locked in the coils of a creature with red eyes, so tightly bound that Harry did not know where his body ended and the creature’s began: they were fused together, bound by pain, and there was no escape – And when the creature spoke, it used Harry’s mouth, so that in his agony he felt his jaw move … ‘Kill me now, Dumbledore …’ Blinded and dying, every part of him screaming for release, Harry felt the creature use him again … ‘If death is nothing,
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