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The last narrative frame closes. We are back with Harry in the cell.

HARRY: I heard what you said. Don't try to tell me one thing and everyone else another. You just want me to prove you right.

GRANGER: Perhaps I was mistaken. It would not be the first time I have said or done something that I have come to regret. Tell me – why did you kill those Slytherin students?

HARRY: I won't tell.

We enter a narrative frame in which Granger describes past events.

PRESENT GRANGER: You left messages with the bodies of your other victims.

Two scenes show dead bodies that Harry has labeled with bright magical writing. One says "TORTURED MUGGLES FOR SPORT – TORTURERS WILL DIE". The other says TRAPPED AND SOLD ELVES – SLAVERS WILL and a past version of Harry is busy finishing the sentence.

PRESENT GRANGER: Why not with these?

PRESENT HARRY: I won't tell!

PRESENT GRANGER: Your former professors say that many of these students had bullied you in classes...

Past Harry sits in class with two students casting nasty spells at Harry in class, while Professor Minerva McGonagall looks the other way and continues lecturing. McGonagall wears dark green robes.

DAPHNE GREENGRASS: Densaugeo! Ha ha ha! {The incantation of a spell that makes the target's teeth grow unnaturally large.}

GRAHAM MONTAGUE: Ha ha! Langlock! {The incantation of a spell that makes the target's tounge stick to the roof of zir mouth.}

MCGONAGALL: The precise study of Transfiguration requires a departure from naive physical...

The narrative frame closes.

GRANGER: It seems natural to think–

HARRY: You think I killed them for revenge! I don't kill for revenge. I did it because I had to. And that's all I'm gonna say. Unless...

The "unless" fades into a yellowish color uncharacteristic of Harry's speech.

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You'd have to be a real Harry Potter scholar to remember what those spells do, but I've written their effects down in the transcript.

Transcripts help make the story accessible to as many people as possible. This is obviously useful for people who are vision-impaired and can't see the image at all, or people who can see the image but can't read the text in it. But that's not the only group who can benefit from transcripts. They are also helpful to people who have trouble interpreting the language of comics that I'm using – e.g. which things happen in which timeframe, what is dialogue and what is thoughts, and so forth. You could have trouble because you're unfamilar with the medium, or because of cognitive differences, or because I drew things in a confusing way (which I can't deny will happen sometimes).

Because the transcript has many different possible uses, I try to make it explain all the relevant information from the image. A lot of websites have transcripts that repeat the words drawn in the image, but don't describe the pictures. I believe that it's important to include both.

Of course, since this is a work of fan fiction, it has a lot of implicit references to things from the Harry Potter universe. I can't reasonably explain all of them. I will generally try to explain things in the transcript if they're obscure enough that a fair chunk of Harry Potter readers won't know them. This includes information from the later books in the series, because I've met a bunch of people who have read the first book, or the first few books, but not all of them. I'm not trying to make the story entirely accessible to people who haven't read Harry Potter at all, but I want it to be as accessible as I can reasonably make it. And for the things I don't explain, most things from the Harry Potter universe are possible to look up on the Internet.

Approximate readability: 9.82 (1478 characters, 335 words, 16 sentences, 4.41 characters per word, 20.94 words per sentence)