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Harry Potter Alternate Ending

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Mold ran along the edges of the old wooden staircase, spiderwebs in the corners and old nails sticking through the low hanging ceiling. The same old shelf, with the same broken toys, not two feet ahead. A light bulb hanging from an old string close enough to touch swinging back and forth nearly touching the sides of the tiny closet. A few odds and ends lay scattered across the floor.

It was the cupboard under the stairs.

Everything exactly the same as it had been all those years ago. As if nothing had ever happened, and it hadn't. The war, his friends, Sirius's escape from Azkaban, all those deaths. Nothing, like a bad dream, it had all just disappeared.

Harry Potter sat up from the lumpy old mattress in his room in the cupboard under the stairs. He was back, before it had all started. Though he still wasn't sure what age he was. The items in the cupboard held no clues, they'd been there …show more content…

He exhaled slowly, turning back towards the ring. He blinked once, as if expecting it to go away, twice, then a third time. The ring remained, a dark shadow amidst the silver tiles. A ring Harry knew well.

The very same ring Marvolo Gaunt had proclaimed as an heirloom of Slytherin, that had been stolen from Morfin Gaunt. The very same ring that Tom Marvolo Riddle had turned into a Horcrux, and on top sat the Resurrection Stone. One of the three Hallows that Death had bestowed upon the Peverell brothers.

But it shouldn't have been here, that Harry was sure of.

It should have been in the remains of the Gaunt household, buried within the ashes. Not on the hall table in Number 4 Privet Drive. But it was, and Harry wasn't sure why.

Death's parting words echoed in his ears,"take care of my Hallows."

Was this what they had meant be help?

"Do you accept my offer to become Master of Death, and agree to take my mark," Death's voice once again came back to him, bouncing around in his head like a

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