These Days Will Pass Away

“You’re a healer?” Harry blurts out.

“I know a few spells.”

Harry takes a moment to consider this. “If you were going to kill me, you had plenty of opportunity,” he points out.

Tom flashes a broad smile, all teeth. “There are worse things I could do to you than kill you, Harry.”

In a world where Voldemort ignored the prophecy, the rebellion is burning and dying, waging endless war against a man with too much magic.

Harry Potter is holding the remains of the Order together when he is saved by a stranger with gleaming red eyes.