A/N: Ok, I'm going to need OC's for my story from here on out. Read the AN at the bottom of the page for more details.
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PoV: Severus
I growled slightly as I forced myself to move faster through the water. The water of this lake was messing with my senses, as it usually did. I was having a hard time finding her silhouette, I couldn't smell her, and I could barely hear her near silent strokes against the giving water. I growled once more and tried to make myself move faster.
We had been at this for quite some time. In fact, so long, that I was positive we were no longer on Hogwarts property. But this gave me the time to think.
Since this mer-person could obviously walk on land when others of her breed could not, she was most likely in correspondence with a strong being, most likely a wizard. Which probably meant she was a human turned mer-person. And with all of this knowledge, and the fact that she was on school grounds when I saw her, must mean that she was a current student or past student.
But which one? I never took the time to smell the occupants of the castle. The temptation could be too strong sometimes. That's why I never smelled her before. But she must have been here recently, recently turned, that is. The last time I smelt the people around me was when Potter entered the school, I was curious to see if I could smell Lily's addictive scent on him, which I could not.
I shook my head slightly as my sense began returning, a sure sign that we were far from the waters of the Hogwarts lake. Just in time to, I had just lost the scent of the elusive mer-person.
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PoV: Hermione
This was bad, very bad. Dumbledore told me to make sure no one ever found out that I was a mer-person unless it was absolutely necessary for them to know and I completely trusted them. Not only did Snape not need to know, I didn't completely trust him to go ratting me out to someone.
Not really Voldemort or someone equally as bad, but he may tell the Order, just to spite me. Which would be bad. Because then it would get back to Harry, and he would be mad. Then the shit would hit the fan and everything would go downhill from there, because then Voldemort would figure out.
I derailed that train of thought. Geez, even my mind rambles when I'm nervous. I gulped slightly as I pushed my way through the water faster and took a glance back. I saw Snape. He was really far back, but I couldn't change my direction anymore. Gods, I wish I paid more attention to what I was doing.
You see, Dumbledore also told me not to leave the water that was in Hogwarts boundary. He said that the magic of the castle messed with creatures senses and I would be able to hide and get away. But now, because I got scared and distracted, I wouldn't be able to turn around. So, I was just going to keep swimming until I was safe or ran into more mer-people, whom could help me.
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PoV: Harry
I turned from Ginny and Ron and left the common room to walk about the empty halls of the castle. Hermione was gone tonight, as usual. I know I should trust her, but I couldn't help but be suspicious. I noticed, starting around the time of the tri-wizard tournament, that she began sneaking out every night and not returning till the next morning.
No one but me seemed to notice. Not Ginny, who was supposedly her best friend. Not Ron, who supposedly loved her. Not Luna, who supposedly knew what everyone else didn't care to know. Not even Dumbledore, who seemed to know everything. Though, I think he was hiding something from me. As usual. I growled at the thought and stalked around another corner.
I immediately stopped when I heard footsteps. I looked around me wildly before hiding in one of the castles many nooks. I waited as the footsteps grew closer, sweat gathering quickly on my brow. I squeezed my eyes shut and prayed to Merlin that I wouldn't be caught. When the steps began to fade once more I opened my eyes. Malfoy, and Snape. What are they doing up this late?
I waited for them to be completely out of sight before moving. I quickly removed the Maurders map - which I always kept with me while I was at the castle - and quickly searched out the names of Snape and Malfoy.
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PoV: Lord Voldemort
I waited patiently for the ones I called to respond. I was, for once, in a decent mood. Potter was distracted with his budding relationship with the Weasley girl. Dumbledore was becoming old, there was only so much longer he had before he died. Severus was bringing wonderful news to him all the time. The Ministry was molding perfectly to his whims. And the Granger girl was overly distracted by some unknown reason, meaning she wasn't helping wonderful Potter.
I frowned slightly at the thought of the Granger girl. While she wasn't that big of a problem, if she were to focus her mind completely on fighting him, then his plan may be severely delayed and he would once more have to set everything back up. He needed to discover what her distraction was if he intended on keeping her distracted. Wouldn't want her to figure out how much potential she had to being a powerful witch, now would he?
The distinct pops of apparations distracted me from my thoughts of the girl. I would deal with her later, when I was speaking to Severus. Now, though, was the time to gather more witches and wizards on my side and to destroy more muggles. I smirked happily at my thoughts as I hissed down to my loyal servants.
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A/N: Ok, here it is, the third chapter! I hope everyone likes this story so far! If you have any suggestions, please tell me!
Ok, like I said at the beginning, I need some OC's. They are going to be mer-people. If you would like to make an OC, just tell me everything about them(you can find what to tell me on my profile). I don't care what they look like, so please, let your imagination run free!
You can tell me about your OC in a review or you can pm me.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER OR IT'S CHARACTERS.
