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PAST HARRY: I didn't know about underage magic then, so I thought it as just an accident. But I did know that Dudley was suffering, and that made me happy... Until...

Dudley, in zir wheelchair, approahces Harry.

DUDLEY: Harry? I realized something...

Harry stands outside the cupboard under the stairs, with zir arms crossed.

DUDLEY: Mum and dad... they talk about me now like I'm not even in the room... like I'm just a piece of charity they're doing... that's the way they've been talking about you all these years, isn't it...? Harry? I've been a bad cousin...

PAST HARRY: I'd had my revenge, but I only felt sick inside. I don't like hurting people, Malfoy. But you know why we have to do this. I need to see your list of the people who – who we have to kill. You're the only one of us who knows who they all are, and... I trust you.

The narrative frame closes; we are back in the tent. Draco looks defeated. Ze goes in a corner and writes a list on a scrap of parchment, then hands it to Harry. While handing it, Harry faces away and Draco has zir eyes closed and head bent, very reminiscent of Lily handing James the spell on page 43.

Harry looks at the list.

PAST HARRY: You wrote Crabbe and not Goyle...

DRACO: Hah... Goyle is too stupid to learn the spells.

In the background, we see an angular view of the list of names from Fudge's speech on page 5, except that Draco's name isn't in the list.

PAST HARRY: So many names...

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The Dursleys blamed Harry for the 'accident' anyway, of course. They locked zem in the cupboard without food until two days later, when Dumbledore visited to intimidate them. Dumbledore draws the line at things that could endanger Harry's life.

This page also finally answers why Goyle wasn't listed among the dead on page 5. In the books, being nasty helps you cast nasty spells, but in Voldemort's Children, all spells require skill and intelligence. I decided that Crabbe is somewhat smarter than Goyle because ze's the one who casts the Fiendfyre spell in the books (and the books say that that is a very difficult spell).

Approximate readability: 9.71 (502 characters, 106 words, 6 sentences, 4.74 characters per word, 17.67 words per sentence)