Disklamer: I do not own Harry Potter (and will never do.... "sobs" anyway..). I own anything you don't recognize.
MELODY
Chapter One Decisions and consequencesHarry was standing before the dark lord. He had been captured outside his relative's house while painting. His wand had immediately been taken from him and he had no way of protecting himself.
Harry knew he probably would be killed and wished he at last could have said goodbye to his friends and maybe gotten a family first. His friends would miss him and Dumbledore would miss him, or so he thought, but who knew with Dumbledore.
He looked at the ground and felt Voldemort reading his mind. Every memory was violated and he knew the other knew his entire life and all his secrets and silently wondered if Snape would be killed. "Who would have believed that our golden boy's highest wish was so simple? Hm..." he heard him say silently.
Harry wished he had learned occlumancy of Snape as Dumbledore had told him to do. "Interesting... it seems that your dear headmaster once again has underestimated someone" then he stopped and dismissed his men so they would be alone.
"I will not kill you child. We are too much alike and you do not really deserve it. Do you really still believe Dumbledore does everything in order to protect you and care for you?" Harry was silent and pondered upon the question a moment "w...what do you mean?" He assumed that he already would be dead or at least tortured if he were going to be killed.
"Why Harry, it is him who forgot to explain our new sort of connection and why I wished you to go to the ministry. If he had simply told you that I wished for something at the ministry only you or I could get then you could have resisted and maybe your godfather still would be alive. He placed you with your family without once visit to see how they treated you. And I am sure he has had people watching you all the time so he has known for a long time about their abuse. That squib for example, she knew of their hate for you and yet she did nothing with it.
You deserve so much more child. He destroyed your childhood and it is so many things you do not know, so many things you are ignorant to. If you run away from me he will place you with them again, for it is the safest place for you to be. Do you know that there are hundreds of other ways to get the same protection if not more? And I am sure he knows of the all. Not even I would place a child in a place it is not wanted, not even a mudblood" He heard his voice and knew he was right. Why had he been placed with those people and why had he been manipulated to do all those things like with the philosophers stone in first year. He was still a child and yet he had done things he doubted even old war veterans could brag of.
"I am sure Harry, that when you have lost your usefulness he will just throw you away like a used whore. You deserve so much more child, so much more and I have found a way to give it to you. I researched a spell some year ago and found a way to completely destroy a person without killing him or give him the kiss. It will allow you to be your true self while no one can even suspect whom you was. You will be a totally new person with no way of ever returning to your old self.
All prophesies and such will be annulled, for how can it be fulfilled when you are gone? You will be a woman the rest of your life and I will adopt you for then to give you to one of my men. It will be easier as I doubt you wish to serve me as a death eater. Your husband will serve me as such and give you the family you wish for while I will be your father, since you are a woman and not one of my servants you will be safe on both sides. Do you accept Harry? You will still have all your memories, but you will be given a whole new set at the same time"
"I... I... what about my friends... if I accept?" he asked. "They will not be touched unless they defy my rule or become one of Dumbledore's' lights and attack my men, then I will kill to protect mine." Voldemort answered. "Then... I accept" Harry said, feeling that the doom was coming.
Voldemort looked at the boy, he had known he would accept from the moment he started speaking. It was his only hope to be saved while getting a new life. He had felt sorry for the boy when he read his memories, and it was not often anyone got his pity! He had already got an idea of a worthy husband for him. Harry needed a strong man but at the same time gentle and loving and he knew of someone who even was his age.
Dumbledore was supposed to be the perfect picture of fighter of the light and yet he did not know how to make a person truly strong by giving them a good childhood and forming them from the beginning!
He called Harry for child and not boy, since that would remind him on mind of his bad memories since his uncle had called him that. He asked the boy to undress and watched the scarred and naked youth in front of him. He was nearly 16 and still looked like he was an 11-year-old because of malnutrition in his childhood.
He told him that it would hurt a bit and that he should try to stand during the whole time and then he raised his wand. He said the words loudly and watched with interest as the spell hit the-boy-who-lived. His whole being began to change and he saw him grow rabidly due to a second spell from his side that took care of his size. Things disappeared and popped up and soon after a beautiful you woman stood before him. The only thing that reminded him of Harry Potter was the green emerald eyes and raven black hair of which hang down her back gracefully. He sent for a house elf and soon after he whispered soothing words to her while she was clothed in green and silver. She cried at the loss of her former life and yet it was tears of happiness since she had gotten a family, regardless of whom that family was.
Half an hour later he presented Lady Melody Elisabeth, his adopted daughter for his servants. She was still a bit small for her age but had perfect forms and unmarred creamlike skin, which had never been marred in any way. She would be the perfect for the person he thought of.
Harry, or Melody as her new name was, watched the masked men with an interested look. Now that she knew none of them would even think of killing her and she knew she would give one of them heirs she wondered whom they was. Of course she knew of some, like Snape, Crabbe and Malfoy but still she did not know who was who or who the rest was. It was nice in some ways to be a girl. She would be protected, not the other way and a male are supposed to be stronger than a female. The Dursleys' had used her weakness against her and punished her for showing them and then she had been forced to be perfect in the wizarding world. She had been Dumbledore's golden boy who had a duty of saving the world against evil. As much as it was her duty, she wondered why he had done nothing with her relatives and sent her back year after year. Maybe he wanted her to break before she became 17?
It was a nice name though and she felt safe in the his embrace, she wanted to laugh hysterically, the evil dark lord who had destroyed hundreds if not thousands of families saved her from the leader of the light whom nearly broke her, and then gave her a new chance of living. She hated being famous without reasons and even more being disliked and having no friends. Since Harry Potter was gone she could relax into her new world and maybe get a chance of a normal life.
Voldemort dismissed everyone except Lucius and Draco Malfoy and waited till the rest had disappeared. Lucius was in his inner circle and one of the few he really trusted among his men. While his son yet had to be initiated he was a spitting image of his father, both in body and mind. Draco was already a devoted follower and had powers of which could easy stronger that the father once trained. Both of them were able to do things on their own to frame his rule something that could not be said of most of his followers.
"I assume you wonder who my daughter was?" The Lord said. Draco said nothing but watched the stunning girl. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen and had promises to become even more pretty when she became older. But he did not understand it... he had never seen her before and yet she looked strangely familiar, something with her eyes and hair. "Yes, My Lord" he hear his father say "she looks somehow familiar.
"That is because both of you either saw her or even knew her before I adopted her. She do not follow our ideal but has given her word that she will do as told as I has fulfilled her highest wish" The Dark Lord said. "My Lord?" Draco asked.
Voldemort smirked "Draco was going to marry that Parkinson girl was he not? I want you to annul it Lucius. "If I may ask why Milord?" asked Lucius. "He is going to marry Melody, she needs someone of which is both stern and in control but at the same time loving and give her children and I think your son is perfect. I hope you do not mind Draco...!?" "Of...of course not my Lord!" said Draco "Not that I really need to know, but who was she and why me?"
Voldemort smirked, the boy hided his feeling like a true Malfoy. They would make powerful children. "You are a true pureblood, except that you are good looking, powerful and one of my true followers and even her age." He gave Draco an approving nod. "I assume you would not used the definition she on her and much less my child. I kidnapped Harry Potter" He ignored the strong felling to laugh as their facial masks fell and their filings showed. "Earlier this summer and found out more similarities between the both of us. He accepted the only way to destroy both the connection and the prophesy while not killing one of us and became Melody Riddle. Harry Potter do no longer exist" He turned to Melody "It has been a long and tiresome day and it is time to retire, Minnie will show you to your room" He sent her a caring smile as the house elf took her to her room and the continued speaking with them.
"How milord.... How did you manage to capture and then convince her?" asked Draco, haven given up hiding his feelings. "Dumbledore once again did a great error. He placed his hero in an uncaring home with relatives who hated her and therefore gave her nearly non-existent protection. Even I could have given her more. The only thing of which has hindered us to get her was her mother's love. I forbid you to even think of hurting her in any way Draco, for if her mother still can protect her from her grave so many years after her death then how much can she give her loved ones while alive?!" Dumbledore is a great fool, he placed all his hopes in a child and then make it so her greatest wish is a family and therefore gave her a weak spot which make her easy to break if one know how to hurt her" The Lord said and it was silent a moment before he continued. "She is a powerful witch, even after our connection is gone and her sex is changed. I will not return her old wand as I anyway doubt it will work for her and she will only return to school when you are married"
It was not normal for Voldemort to speak this much but he trusted them and would even go so far that he called Lucius his friend. That was also the reason he was his second in command. "I assume a month is long enough time to prepare the wedding!? For I want her back to school and of houses it is so that once married the woman will join her husband into his house so that is no problem"
Draco nodded, he had gotten a new fiancée, his Lords worst enemy was no longer and he would be married within a month. He knew he would learn to love her and that their relationship before would easy be forgiven and forgotten. He was happy that Pansy Parkinson was no longer his wife-to-be for while she had her moment, the most of the time she looked like a pug in the face and was to intimate and sexual for his liking and seldom obeyed, even her own father's orders.
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