Title: The Phantom of Slytherin Hall
Author: Delilah Draken
E-Mail: delilahsdarknessyahoo.de
Website: www.delilahsdarkness.de.vu
Rating: PG-13 (for now)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing(s): Fred Weasley/Tom Riddle (Lord Voldemort), George Weasley/Ginny Weasley (implied), Severus Snape/Bloody Baron
Sequel/Series: n/a (for now)
Status: Work In Progress
Started: May 30, 2004 - 11:48 hrs
Finished: n/a
Disclaimer: The stories are mine. All the rest - characters and locations you've heard of in TV shows, movies, books etc - belong to their respective owners. I am just borrowing them.
Summary: This is the tale of a lost soul, a suffering soul. A soul who hides himself away in darkness, never to be seen again, never to be remembered.
Warnings: Slash, mpreg, a bit of violence - nothing graphic

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The Phantom of Slytherin Hall

by
Delilah Draken

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Prologue

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Hello you.

Yes, I'm talking to you. Yes, you. Or do you see another person in this room?

Don't look like you swallowed a fish. I can speak. Hell, I'm talking to you, or are you hallucinating?

Of course, this obviously has to be some kind of dream, right? Never would you imagine that I'd deem someone worthy of my conversation. Did you never realize that I just don't like it that much to speak to you? Of course not, you are only a student.

What was I thinking?

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Oh, back again?

Are you now willing to listen, child?

Really, I don't know what you are talking about.

That has nothing to do with you. No, I just need someone to talk to, to tell everything what happened. To make at least one soul understand why...

Say that again? Louis to his Lestat? Very amusing, child. Hear me laugh.

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Yes, I'm really sorry. I didn't want to frighten you. Really.

Now come on, I have to show you something.

Yes, it is impressive. Most impressive. Strange, how you seem to quote an old friend of mine without knowing it.

What, you didn't know? Why build schools if they don't teach anything? And yes, that story is true. At least partially, that is. George Lucas wouldn't have made the movie if there wasn't even a grain of truth in his vision. Why I know that? Because I was there.

Silly child, I didn't contact you to talk about Science-Fiction.

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Anyway, are you now ready to listen?

Really? Good.

And yes, you can tape the whole thing. You wouldn't be who you are if you didn't do that. Just promise to give me a copy.

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The whole mess began more that one thousand years ago. History books call it 'The First Victory Of Light'. Stupid name for a time period, if you ask me. But nobody asks, so I keep my opinion to myself.

Anyway, that was the time when it all started. When Salazar Slytherin was forced to leave his beloved Hogwarts behind and run for his life, because his once best friend believed him to be 'evil'. It was a time of darkness. It was the age of fear. It was the age of...

GARGOYLES?!!

Please, don't insult my intelligence. There are no heroic stone warriors in my tale. Castle Wyvern was never and will never be a place of prophecy.

I should have never paid for cable TV.

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Perhaps it is better if I don't start at the beginning. Perhaps I should first tell you how it ended. How the balance was established and the shadows became once more a place of freedom. How a forbidden love saved us all and how a broken heart found peace in silence.

Yes, I will tell you about Red...