That was quite a well-written fic and I can appreciate his motives. If you're going to have to take 'em all with you to destroy them, then you might as well do it up right. I think that, if Hermione had chosen to stay with him, he'd have had other plans that would've been just as effective. As 'tis, this is the ultimate way to make sure the opposition goes down, take them with you when you go. I doubt Tommy-boy ever expected that approach for dealing with him and, really, there's not much even a wizard of Riddle's power can do about that large an incoming rock; actually, I'm not sure there's that much our technic civilzation can do about it at this point since we don't have the spacelift capacity to loft enough weaponry to just split/reduce it and we darn sure don't currently have the tech to destroy it. I wonder, will they end up calling it Mount Azkaban or Mount Potter?
I reckon Harry returned to consciousness where ever heroes go when they die, but it Valhalla or somewhere else.
My compliments on an excellent piece of work.
A very well done piece of work.
Author's response
Thank you for your kind words. This piece was one of my favorites to write, but for some reason it's the least read. I wish I knew the answer to that little problem.
You're pretty much correct in all your assumptions.
If he'd had a reason to stick around, he would have come up with a plan b. As it was, he figured to do it up right. If albus had been alive he'd be mourning the pureblood lines callously lost, but oh, well.
As of right now, we have no way to deal with a planet killer, which is kind of scary as we have something like two or three a year that pass between us and the moon. Heck, we don't even have anything with the lift a Saturn V had in 1968, much less a way to guide it to an incoming asteroid.
I went for Mt. Azkaban, myself. I doubt Harry would have wanted the notoriety, even in death, from the sheeple, and the one person he wanted to know about it was smart enough to figure it out.