At the Hand of the Other

Harry had lost track of the times he had fallen to Tom’s unknowing hand, or sword, or wand. The Fates must have been having a good laugh at their expense, because the circumstances surrounding Harry’s numerous deaths were too ridiculous to be coincidental.

Each time Harry died in Tom’s arms, the result of another botched attempt to break them out of this endless cycle of rebirth, it grew harder to think of ways to stop it from happening again.