vampireharry the 2: I'm glad you liked my slightly gory bit. And Luna's going to get even more awesome soon...

Hello! And here we are at the fourth part of the series!

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Snowy Holly IV: Frozen Hearts

Chapter 1: Spiteful Wishes

Not that I so different

Not that I don't see

The dying light of what we used to be

But how could I forgive you?

You've changed

And I'm a liar by your side

I'm about to lose my mind

-The Change (Evanescence)

Dawn wakes Snowy Holly on the last day of school for his third year, and it's with a heavy heart and mind that he comes down to breakfast, avoiding the dark look Ron sends him. Ever since he let it slip that he'd killed Scabbers to the other dementors, unknowingly telling their human friends that had been coming to see them and Luna, he's been all but shunned by those that know. He sits down beside Cedric and keeps his head down even as he grabs "breakfast" a bottle of condensed emotions that Peter so generously supplied before his death.

"Are they still not talking to you?"

"Yep, they hate me."

"Not all of them... Luna, Hermione, Draco, Theo and Blaise don't."

"That's because they're all slightly dark to start with."

"That's not a bad thing. After all, dementors aren't that dark, even if you did kill someone."

Snowy Holly takes a swig and looks up at the other Hufflepuff. "You know, you'll make for a good politician one day."

Cedric grins. "And I will do my best to help out your kind!"

"Thank you." Then the whitette's voice becomes solemn. "I fear that we will need all of the help we can get."

As the dementors settle in on the train, Shades keeps his gaze affixed on his best friend. ₰What's with that glum and hopeless look?₰

'Snowy Holly.'

₰I was hoping that they'd have started talking to me by now.₰

'Snowy Holly.'

₰They'll come around, you'll see.₰

'Are you listening?'

Snowy Holly scoffs. ₰Doubt it.₰

'Hey!'

'What the hell do you want?'

'You're ignoring me!'

'So?'

'I wanna talk to you.'

'You are.'

Markalis growls in the other dementor's mind, making Snowy Holly laugh. 'You are such an ass!'

'Yeah, yeah. Now what did you want.'

'To see Tom.'

'Oh, God, seriously?'

'Yes. I have missed him greatly.'

'Fine. I'll go see him tomorrow, alright?'

'Okay. I'll hold you to it.'

'I have no doubts about that.'

Tom Marvolo Riddle wakes up to a cold frost spreading across his covers and sees Snowy Holly sitting on his dresser, watching him. ₰Good morning.₰

§Good morning.§ Tom responds, deciding that it's a kinder greeting than 'what the hell are you doing in my room?'

₰Before you ask, it was not my blasted idea to come here. It was your fucking lover's.₰

§Markalis?§

₰Obviously.₰ The agitated tone makes Tom slightly flinch. ₰Sorry. He's just been driving me beyond crazy, like to the point that I want to shoot myself in the head to get him to shut up.₰

'You sound crazy, you know that?'

₰Shut the hell up! It's all your goddamned fault!₰

'One, I didn't start the war. Two, you killed Peter Pettigrew, not me. Three, you said that out loud.'

'Fuck...' Snowy Holly's head slams into the wall repeatedly and he starts murmuring about 'stupid fucking dementors that won't stay fucking dead...'

§Um, Snowy Holly...§

₰You can speak English if you want. I do understand it.₰

§I know, but Markalis preferred parseltongue. He said it sounded 'homey'.§

The whitette smiles and pulls away from the wall to look in the Dark Lord's eyes. ₰You do care for our kind...₰

§Of course I do.§

₰That makes me glad. Perhaps one day, you will achieve your goals, and dementors will no longer be thrown aside...₰

§I'm hoping for that as well.§

From the corner of the room with his Shikra pulled up, Snowy Holly observes the Death Eaters, smirking to himself. Slowly, he makes his way up to Tom's side and startles those that don't know about a dementor's true form as he pulls the hood down. "Good afternoon, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. Hello, Professor Snape." Mismatched eyes gleam with amusement at the look of confusion on the Malfoy patriarch's faces. "I am friends with your son, Snowy Holly, the once-Harry Potter."

"Harry Potter..." His human name spreads like wildfire throughout the room before the doors to it slam open, and his convict friends and godfather come inside.

"Snowy Holly!" Bellatrix chimes, barreling up the steps.

"Bella!"

She embraces him tightly in a motherly fashion and pulls back to check over his frail form. "Have you been getting enough to eat?" she asks. "You're looking rather thin."

"Dementors don't get fat, Bellatrix," Sirus says, coming up behind her to steal the boy away. "But I heard that you had a nice meal the other day... And some of your friends aren't talking to you because of it."

"That's true... Although I must admit that Peter Pettigrew was quite delicious: his emotions, blood and soul."

"Now what did I say if you started drinking blood."

"You'd ask me if I was a vampire!"

"Are you?"

"No." In moments, the hard faced dementor has melted away into a child. "If I was, Tom wouldn't have been as calm when he woke up to me staring at him this morning."

"In my head, I wasn't."

"Ne, ne, Tom." He turns to look at the Dark Lord and giggles. "It's still your lover's fault. Markalis is always so loud and whiny!"

'Like you're one to talk.'

"Oh, come on!" Snowy Holly cries. "You were quiet just a few minutes ago! Let's go back to that, Rainbow Adder!"

'You spoke out loud again.'

'I did.'

'Yep.'

"Fuuuuuuuuuck..."

"Snowy Holly," Sirus says sternly.

"I know. I know..." His head bows. "I'm so going crazy."