Lord Voldemort
His skin was of pale demeanor. His eyes were a devilish red. His robe was sharp and gothic. He was Lord Voldemort and he was here right now. Too shocked and afraid to scream, the two teenagers watched him closely with wide open eyes as he glided over to them
"So, we meet again…for the second and last time" Voldemort sneered at them
"Oh really? I think this will only be one of the many to come" Harry bravely shot back. He was trying to focus on completely blocking his mind shields
"Aaah, you've gotten cheeky, boy, you were only a baby then when I last saw you. Before you… disappeared….." Voldemort mysteriously said
"Yes. I know" Harry muttered under his breath.
He prayed that Voldemort wouldn't reveal his true identity because if he did, hell, he would have wanted to die anyway than face his sister
"And here's Ashley Potter, the famed Girl Who Lived" Voldemort went over to Ashley and patted her cheek
"That's right! I survived your curse once and I'll survive it again" Ashley said, her voce trembling
"You think you actually survived my curse? When none was inflicted on you?" Voldemort cackled. Both of them became confused
"Yes, there was. You wanted to kill her because of some prophecy. But you're spell didn't succeed" Harry sneered at him.
"You don't know the whole story boy…few people do…you'll surely be shocked if you knew people have had it wrong for years" Voldemort hissed
"What do you mean?" Ashley asked, fear in her eyes
"Why should I tell you?" Voldemort snarled
"I have the right to know! This is our fight!" Ashley fiercely said
"This fight has nothing to concern you" Voldemort calmly said. He made the fire in the hearth much larger. Ashley and Harry became scared, they knew there was a great chance Voldemort would kill them right on spot. Help was welcome now. But in order to stay alive a little bit longer….
They would have to keep him talking
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"Shh…I hear footsteps" Helena hushed them all up. She had always been the one with the sharpest senses. Silent footsteps were echoing on the roof about them
"I think…I think…we're on a basement of some sort" Brian looked around him
"How else could they be walking there?" Hermione asked with a concerned look
"I'll find out what they're saying" Green said.
She looked up and found a horizontal metal pole situated above them. Then nearby, she saw old wooden boxes with cobwebs frizzled about the covers.
"How do you suppose you can do that?" Ron asked. Green raised on eyebrow at him. She took off her shoes and sock and crinkled her toes. She then bounced
Just then, she cart wheeled over to the boxes and stood on them. Then, jumping as high as she could, she grabbed the pole and twirled acrobatically about it for a while. Then, she sat in a frog position on the pole.
"Nice on, Peron" Neil said to her
"Couldn't have done it better myself" Lachine grinned. Hermione and Ron watched with their mouths open as she did another daredevil stunt
Her legs barely shaking, she slowly moved her figure up to a crouching position. She was almost standing on the pole had it not been for the roof
"Can you hear anything?" Brian whispered
"Shut up Aerobe! I can't hear a thing" Green irritably said
"I'll get up there too" Lachine said, looking up at Green.
She backed some steps off and looked at the wooden walls. She tapped them with two fingers before nodding her head. Backing off more, she sharply held her arm out front and out came 10 daggers. They pierced the wall in a vertical manner. Everyone looked at her for her next move
"Wait for me Peron" Lachine said. She took hold of a dagger and started climbing up, using the daggers as some sort of ladder. When she was at the top, she lithely went into the same position as Green
"I hear voices" Green whispered. Both of them held their ears out to the roof
"Evening Avery, I trust dat ze Dark Lord's trip was fine?" A man asked. He had a deep, gruffly voice
"It certainly was, Yaxley. I also trust you weren't lying about the two captives" Another man, Avery, said
"Aye, I wasn't joking as ye thought I was ey" Yaxley replied to him
"I suppose he is dealing with them right now?" Avery asked
"N'deed 'e is. Tis finally going to be done, innit? Za Potter child finally dead" Yaxley said with a phlegmy voice
"Move over Yaxley, I want to know what it happening in there" Avery ordered
"Aint gonna 'appen you freaky tyke! Dark Lord's orders, not to let anyone go in there, Aye, he said dat" Yaxley protectively said
"I am not just any death eater! I am in the inner ranks. I deserve to be there. I am one of his closest" Avery demanded
"Aye, so is Lucius Malfoy and the Lestranges, but they aint gonna go near them now aint they? Now you just go over there, yer business is done" Yaxley said in a final and deciding voice. Grumbling was barely audible but footsteps suggested Avery was out
Green and Lachine turned pale and looked at each other.
"What happened?" Neil asked
"They're in trouble….Big trouble" Both of them said at once, looking down at the eager group
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Seeming to get the plans to keep Voldie yapping on and on, Ashley nodded discreetly to Harry and he winked his left eye to show he understood
"So what do you plan to do with us now?" Harry asked
"Oh, you won't want to know that, boy. It would be too much…excruciating" Voldemort licked his paled lips and continued to pace in front of them
"We just want to know what to expect" Ashley said in a trembling voice
"Expect death" Voldemort calmly said
"Why are you doing this? Why do hate muggleborns and muggles? I hear you're father was one!" Harry bravely said
"Ha! So you're just a silly little half blood!" Ashley sneered, not thinking what she was saying. Harry look weirdly at her
"If half bloods seem silly, you're the silliest" Voldemort silkily said
"Why? You're father was a muggle!" Harry again said
"That's how I became to hate muggles, because my father was one" Voldemort replied. Harry and Ashley were beginning to get nervous because he was so calm
"For you're incompetent brains to understand, I'm afraid I'll start at the beginning. We have time, I know, because your help won't seem to be getting here any sooner" Voldemort gravely said
"We are more alike than you think, boy. We are both half bloods, we were smart for a young age, we had no real family" Voldemort turned to Harry
"You and I will never be alike!" Harry angrily shouted
"We already are, boy! Do you even know that your mentor, Lodes, had offered me a spot on his place? I had learned I was something special before then and if there was this thing as another world, I didn't like to waste it on him!" Voldemort bellowed
"You missed out on a lot" Harry bitterly said
"I'm afraid I didn't. Had I contained myself to his estate, I would have never seen the real magical world. I would have only known things to a limit. But Hogwarts! Ah, that blasted school now ran by a bastardly man, taught me things. It taught me how the world can slice away your innocence and carve you with its cruelties in just a minute. I was taught the true way of wizardry. The way of the great and high Slytherin" Voldemort proudly said
"Being one of the darkest figures in mankind has no benefits" Ashley screamed
"Yes. But do not forget. I am not only a dark figure. I am a dark figure raised in the cunning ways of Salazar" Voldemort icily said
"You bring shame to the name of Slytherin" Ashley cried
"You are wrong! I bring pride! He wanted this world rid of the muggle scum and I fulfill it" He snarled
"No! Slytherin wanted no muggle to step in Hogwarts! He wanted them to let be in the muggle world!" Harry shouted
"Yes! What I'm doing now is what you call enhancement to his vision" Voldemort said evilly
Just then, a snake slithered through the doorway, carrying a parchment between his fangs. Seeing Harry and Ashley, the snake stuck out his tongue and hissed violently. Voldemort clasped the parchment in his claw like hands and read it
The snake kept on hissing and hissing, looking right through their eyes.
"You'll die?" Harry found the snake's hissing turning to slithery words. The serpent was speaking to him. That was silly, snakes couldn't talk. He suddenly paled. That could only mean one thing: He was parseltongue
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"What exactly do you mean big trouble?" Neil asked
"Trouble as in: Voldemort's here" Lachine gravely said
"What?" Nobody could believe it. Where was the help they needed and called for? Who knows, they could have been dead minutes ago
"Well, we can't just be sitting around like damsels in distress!" Helena cried
"Wait, let me think" Everyone looked at Neil.
He was again in one of his "brain moods" as they liked to call it. Neil's brain moods lasted about 2 minutes during which time he would brainstorm a perfectly flawless plan to get them out of sticky situations
"Fifty nine, fifty eight, fifty seven, fifty six…." Lachine trailed off
"Hey keep quiet! He cant concentrate" Brian scolded. They looked at Neil, who was sitting on one of the wooden boxes, in a meditating position.
"Five, four three, two, one…."
"I GOT IT!" Neil cried out. Lachine stood up and told him to shut up. He turned red and nodded silently.
"What's the plan?"
"You noticed there's no door at where we are, right? So that means there must be another way out. Everybody, look for some trapdoors or some secret hideaways." Neil told them. At his word, everyone scampered around tapping the floor and the walls, looking for any sign of a hidden passage
Just then, Ron heaved open the cover of a very large wooden box. Inside was a stairway leading downward to blackness
"Over here!" Ron called out. The box was so big it appeared to be glued to the ground. Everyone peered at the stairway, looking for signs of light
"Good job, Ron!" Neil clapped his hand to Ron's back
"What do we do after we've reached the end?" Green asked
"We don't know yet the structure of the house. I'm betting there's a hallway above us right now so the passage will probably lead to that. We've faced death eaters before wandless and I think we could take them" Brian said in an somewhat demanding voice
"Okay, we should probably stay as a group…no one falls behind or goes ahead and….." Neil began but was cut off by Lachine's excited squeals
"Last one in goes out with Snape!" Lachine giggled, jumping down the box and running down the stairway. Everyone froze. Then suddenly, when she reached somewhat the bottom, she gave out a scream
"Let's go!" Neil jumped over the box. He was about to sprint downstairs when he heard laughing
"Boy, you should have seen your faces!" Lachine's giggling face appeared as she strolled up the stairway
"NOT.FUNNY.SHANTY!" Green bellowed
"We were frightened!" Hermione whimpered
"Whatever, we better go!" Helena jumped in after them.
Everyone got in the box and started their way down. Neil went in last so he closed the box cover, giving them pure darkness
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He hadn't really thought about snakes back in his training days. He never even knew he could understand them. The only two known people to have that dark gift were Salazar Slytherin and the other one was standing in front of him: Lord Voldemort. The gift was known to only people on the dark side. Harry was clearly fighting for the side of light. Being parseltongue was a sign of darkness and he couldn't have that. It could mean he was descended from them or he was really, really bad. Still, it could be an asset.
What would the count say? The words he would say would probably end up like "no talent or gift is bad. Anything can be an asset…blah blah blah
Anything can be an asset
"I can understand you" Harry told the snake.
Ashley's eyes widened as she observed Harry. She was completely and utterly shocked. She knew that parselmouths were bad people. Argon couldn't be bad…could he? He was currently speaking in a language that she never heard before
"Nagini, leave!" Voldemort cried out. Ashley looked at him again. This was the first moment she heard someone speak the language and she was shocked.
The snake nodded and left. Just as the snake was about to leave the door, it looked at Harry and its glassy eyes narrowed and then it left
"You speak it! I knew you could" Voldemort said to Harry
"So what! I can never be like you" Harry retorted
"That means I have truly left my mark upon you…Harry Potter"
A/N
So yeah, I updated and this time, with an exciting twists. The italics are in parseltongue, as you know. I can only assure you one thing; Voldie will not reveal who Harry is. I've already had reviewers pester me about it and its time I put their minds to ease. Anyways, the final exams are barely a month away and I need to pass this in order to get into junior year. So, guys, I really need some study time.
The next update will be on FEBRUARY 27 2008. Sorry if it's too long but I really want to pass the exams. Oh yeah! Reviews make me feel good and I like studying when I feel good. So do me a favor and review! If you don't review, it will be on your conscience if I don't get to Junior Year.
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