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Deadline
Title: Deadline
House: Ravenclaw
Word Count: 100
Character: Harry Potter
Challenge: Fast
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Too slow.
Harry's pulse pounds to the tempo of panic even through the stifling monotony of research. The Horcruxes he seeks all glint as gold as snitches in his mind.
Too slow.
The final confrontation with Voldemort speeds closer, as lethal and inescapable as the ground always seems when he plunges into a Wronski Feint.
Too slow.
And around him people die, as random as bludger attacks, because he just isn't fast enough.
Too slow.
He races to stay a step ahead of his enemy and reaches desperately for the glitter of victory.
But in nightmares he's always too slow.
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