Here I am! I want to thank everyone for reading my story. I understand that a lot of people think that this is the end but it is not!
What about Mclaggan?
Marie being Voldemort's Horcrux?
Voldemort's new feelings?
What will happen to Snape?
The Order?
What will happen next?
Well you can find out if you keep reading my story, because I will not stop until this story is finished the way I want it to be and I hope you all enjoy that. Once more thank you for reading.
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"Talking"
'Marie's thoughts'
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A couple of months had passed until it was nearing Halloween. Marie was doing very well in Slytherin just like the sorting hat had told her and the Slytherins were very pleased to have her. Voldemort was especially pleased and was extremely civil in the DADA class. He would ask her questions he knew she knew the answers to and treated everyone the same.
Except Ron Weasley.
He absolutely hated him.
However, as for the other Gryffindors, he treated fairly but not as well as the Slytherins.
Marie was kind of scared for the Slug Club meeting on Halloween. It was tomorrow and she still didn't have anything really to wear. Pansy said that she had to dress up fancy and like a pure blood like all of the other Slytherins that were invited to the meeting.
"So Marie, you have anything to wear to the meeting tomorrow night yet?"
Draco teased her off and on as they walked the halls in the dungeons.
"No", she sighed gloomily, "And I haven't had the time to go to Hogsmeade. Besides, I wouldn't have the first clue about what to wear to fancy meeting!"
"Don't worry"
Draco put his arm around Marie's shoulders like usual and it sent chills down her spine the way he handled her so gently.
"I'll go with you and tell you what you look good in. How about it? We go to Hogsmeade and find you a nice outfit to wear? I still have to get my new robes at there anyway."
Marie blushed as he tightened his hold and shook her teasingly.
But suddenly they halted and Draco's breathing stopped. Marie looked up to him to see he was looking straight ahead with a blazing glare that was even worse than what he ever used on her. His gray eyes were cold with malice that could almost ring Voldemort's to shame.
Marie felt Draco's grip on her tighten even more so as if to protect her. She looked straight where Draco was looking to see Mclaggen staring at her.
Not at them.
Not at Draco.
Straight at Marie.
He eyed her like a love sick man after a Veela and it scared her. His blue eyes stood out to her ravenously and his mouth was slightly open as if he wanted to gulp her down like a glass of pumpkin juice.
Suddenly classes ended for a few underclassmen and flooded the halls.
One moment you saw Mclaggen. . .
The next he vanished with the crowd.
Marie gulped loudly and Draco relaxed his tense shoulders that had been prepared for a fight. He loosened his grip on his companion but didn't let her go as if Mclaggen would jump out of nowhere and take her form him.
"You stay away from him, Marie, you hear me? If he so much as comes a step near you, you run. Got it?"
Marie could barely hear his words but nodded at their meaning. She let herself be led by Draco and together they started on their way to Hogsmeade.
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It was the night of the Slugclub meeting and Draco and Marie had decided to go separately as not to create any unwelcome rumors.
Marie looked gorgeous in the new dress that Draco had picked out for her to wear. It was a beautiful blood red dress with black lacing that brought out her bright green eyes exponentially. Of course, it wasn't quite a Gryffindor red as that would surely piss off a lot of Gryffindors for a Slytherin to mock and wear their colors. She also wore her blood red hair /black hair up in a loose bun with a black pearl necklace around her neck. Her black eye liner was deep and made her eyes stand out even more so. She didn't need mascara though as her eyelashes were already deep and curled naturally.
Hesitantly, she knocked on Slughorn's door but she didn't have to wait long as he opened the door quickly and let her in.
"Ah, Miss Potter! What a pleasure to see you! This would be your first meeting correct? Come in! Come in! And might I just say that you look absolutely wonderful tonight my dear?"
"Thank you, Professor"
She walked in the room that was lit all around with candles and the giant fireplace behind the table where everyone else was sitting. Draco was sitting next to Blaise and then there was an empty seat next to him on the other side and then Pansy. Draco swung his head slightly for her to come sit next to him in the free spot and swiftly she did. As she got all settled she took this chance to look around at who else was there while Professor Slughorn was jabbering away about something to do with the ministry and how much better it was faring now than what it was.
First there was Blaise then going from his right was Draco, Marie, Pansy, Melinda Bobbin, Lavender Brown, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger and then Cormac Mclaggen. Hermione just ignored Marie and the Slytherin's presence entirely whereas Ginny Weasley snuck a few dirty glances at Marie. Marie felt that this whole meeting was very awkward.
Probably because Ginny thought that Marie would tell everyone their secret at any given time. It wasn't' as if it was anything big or anything. It was just that Marie and Ginny had had a little experimental fling last year that didn't work out.
No one ever knew that Ginny Weasley was in to other girls but Marie and it didn't seem that anybody would ever know the way Ginny flaunted herself around boys and made out with them so much. Right now she was wearing a bright red and short dress that was low cut so that it showed off her cleavage. It would have looked sexy would it not have been for all of the Weasley trademark freckles that covered her skin.
Ginny was still staring at her and finally Marie got fed up with it.
Marie glared back at Ginny like looks could kill.
Ginny would be dead at that moment. Ginny obviously didn't know who she was messing with.
Finally the house elves brought some dinner out to them and they started eating not quite peacefully. Professor Slughorn was still rambling on gleefully talking to Draco now about how well his Father, Lucius, is doing in the ministry.
The food was delicious and Marie didn't realize how hungry she was until her first bite. The wonderful taste of spaghetti and meatballs filled her senses and she momentarily forgot about the awkwardness around her. She carefully twirled spaghetti noodles around her fork to entertain herself seeing as Professor Slughorn wasn't going to shut up anytime soon.
Marie stabbed a meatball with her fork gently and rose it up to meet with her lips only to see Mclaggen staring her down again. Then she noticed his eyes hadn't really left her since she walked in the door. She looked away from him and took a bite out of her meatball only to set the rest of it down on her plate.
Suddenly, she wasn't that hungry anymore.
"So Marie, how is it?"
Marie was jabbed out of her thoughts by a peering Slughorn looking down at her awaiting an answer.
"Excuse me Professor? I'm sorry. I didn't catch that"
"Oh no worries my dear! I was only asking how it feels for the war to finally be over between you and the Minister?"
Marie then knew that he was talking about Voldemort. Marie didn't know quite what to say about that though.
"Well uh, you see. . ."
She was trying to find a safe way out of the question without making it look bad but then she decided . . .
'Oh screw it!'
"It's great Professor. In fact it is the most wonderful feeling in the world. The Dark Lord has helped the wizarding world in so many ways it is unimaginable why we didn't do this sooner and let him rule."
There were collective gasps throughout the room, mostly by the Gryffindors that stared at her as though she were crazy.
"Are you insane?"
Marie noticed Hermione speak out for the first time to her in months, "Because of that monster, Dumbledore is dead! Because of him, muggleborns and muggles face a threat of being wiped out completely!"
"I haven't seen any mindless killings for months since the war ended actually" Marie argued, "In fact, there have actually been fewer killings since his rule and everything is being rebuilt."
"So he just had to kill all of those innocents to make everything better? He just had to kill muggles, muggleborns, Moaning Myrtle, your parents, Dumbledore, Cedric . ."
"Actually, Wormtail killed Cedric"
"Shut up! I'm not finished!" Hermione suddenly stood up with her hands on the table in anger, "It's your fault that most of the Order was banned from England, that Professor Lupin was forced into hiding. It is your fault that Sirius is dead!"
That did it.
"Shut up Granger!"
Marie now stood up as well in the same position as Hermione and growled like an untamed tigress.
"Don't you say a word about Sirius! You don't know! Maybe he would have one of the few that still trusted me! Unlike the ones I used to call my friends! You don't know what I went through that day! It was the only way for everyone to be safe from harm. But maybe I shouldn't have done it. Maybe I should have let him kill me."
Draco touched her arm to soothe her to try to calm her down but she just shook it away.
"Maybe it would have put me out of my misery. The pain I feel every day that aches in my heart and soul. It burns. To know that I have to live in pain and watch as everything I once knew disappeared in front of me. Like our friendship meant nothing."
There was a pause and Hermione crossed her arms, trying to hide the pulsating anger she felt. She didn't want to do that in front of a bunch of Slytherins.
"I guess it didn't mean anything"
Marie sat down once more and lifted her chin up to stare down at Hermione as she sat back down as well. Marie could feel Draco whispering softly in her ear, "It's alright. Just calm down, the meeting is almost over."
As if nothing had happened, Slughorn awkwardly began talking once more about something that had to do with a pineapple. Meanwhile, Marie was seething quietly in her chair, anxiously waiting for the meeting to wrap up.
"Well oh my! Look at the time! I guess it's time for you lot to head back to your dormitories now. Off you all go and don't forget about the Slug Party coming up soon! Wear extra good clothes as new and old members will be joining us that evening. Good night."
Marie ran out as fast as she could so Draco or Pansy couldn't follow her. Her dress billowed behind her a little as she wandered aimlessly around the halls until she came to a familiar spot.
Without realizing it, she had walked to the Room of Requirement.
Marie sighed at the memories of last year where she taught her peers to defend themselves when Umbridge wouldn't.
Just then she heard a sound behind her. She twirled around to see Mclaggen only two yards away from her. Marie jumped back like a frightened kitten but Mclaggen put up his hands as to show he was harmless to her.
"Good evening Ms. Potter."
Marie didn't say anything to him so he took a step closer only for her to take another step back.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you, Marie. I only wished to tell you how beautiful you look this evening. Especially when you were talking off Ms. Granger."
He laughed almost in a fake manner as if to ease her.
It didn't work.
Marie glared at him, "What do you want?"
"What do I want?" he repeated her words, "I only wish to let you know that I think you did the right thing back at the ministry a few months ago."
"You do?"
"Well yes, I do"
He took a step further only for Marie to take a step back.
'Oh shit'
She backed up against a wall.
"Yes I do believe you, Marie," purred disgustingly, "And I was only wondering if maybe you would like to go out with me sometime? Be my girlfriend?"
The mere thought sickened Marie to be anywhere closer to the guy let alone to date him so she shook her head.
"No thank you, Mclaggen. I refuse your courtship"
Mclaggen smirked hauntingly at her, "For now. But soon you'll be by my side and I'll never let go of you"
Before Marie could say anything back to him, he swiftly turned away from her and walked out of the hallway that the Room of Requirement resided on. Without further hesitation, Marie practically ran to the Slytherin commons and into her dormitory. As she stripped down to her pajamas, she thought about her little encounter.
What did Mclaggen mean when he said that?
Surely he wouldn't force her into anything?
Marie grew scared and shivered in fear as she covered herself up in her green blankets for comfort and quickly fell asleep in the heap of sheets.
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Meanwhile with Voldemort . . .
Voldemort had just been wandering the halls because he couldn't sleep.
To tell the truth, he could hardly ever get any sleep now days. With knowing that Marie Potter was one of his Horcruxes, naturally, he wanted to know more about it and researched the possibilities. He didn't think it would be wise to tell Marie about it since it would definitely be a lot of explaining to do. He would have to tell her what Hocruxes were and he didn't really fell up to a long night explaining dark arts to an innocent little girl who already has enough to handle on her own let alone to know that part of Voldemort's soul resides in her body.
Voldemort sighed and almost yawned but held it down to keep himself awake.
Something then drug Voldemort out of his thoughts. He could feel Marie's fear pulsating within him and knew immediately she felt as if she were in danger.
He made a turn to see Marie and that Gryffindor boy, Voldemort remembered his name to be Cormac Maclaggen, standing alone by the Room of Requirement. Mclaggen was talking to Marie and fi he listened well enough, he could barely make out the boy's words.
"What do I want?" the boy repeated Marie's words, "I only wish to let you know that I think you did the right thing back at the ministry a few months ago."
"You do?"
"Well yes, I do"
He took a step further only for Marie to take a step back.
Voldemort prepared himself in the shadows in case he had to intervene when she backed up against the wall.
"Yes I do believe you, Marie," Voldemort heard him purr, "And I was only wondering if maybe you would like to go out with me sometime? Be my girlfriend?"
Voldemort wanted to kill the boy right then and there.
Or vomit.
Whichever came first.
How dare the boy so much as suggested that he and Marie have relations? When he has been just as awful to her as the rest of the Gryffindors? Voldemort sighed in relief when Marie shook her head in refusal.
'So she isn't so stupid sometimes after all'
"No thank you, Mclaggen. I refuse your courtship"
Mclaggen smirked hauntingly at her, "For now. But soon you'll be by my side and I'll never let go of you"
Voldemort heard the dark promise in his voice and anger rose in side of him.
How dare that boy even think that Marie could ever be his?
Marie belonged to him and only him!
She was his Horcrux!
Then Voldemort shook himself out of those thoughts.
'I have to stop thinking like that. I'm beginning to sound very strange. She's only sixteen for Merlin's sake!'
Besides, it isn't as if Voldemort would ever go for his ex-enemy anyway. It would be a very stupid move on his part to make. Even if she was beautiful, he still had his morals and pride with him.
Lord Voldemort would never go after anyone.
Marie was his Horcrux and he had to find out more information about it.
He cannot allow her to be hurt in anyway.
He had to protect her.
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