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Harry slowly got up from where he was curled up against the wall. He knew he still had to go see Voldemort. Which he was looking forward to of course.
He decided he might as well go. There was no point in annoying the dark wizard espcially not with Hermione so close.
Harry walked through the abandoned corridors, concentrating on the echoes of his foot steps. It took his mind of the images of Malfoy being pushed against the wall, slowly dying.
He politely knocked when he reached Voldemort's door. "Come in."
Harry pushed the door open and hesitantly walked into the room. Voldemort was as usual behind his desk, doing paperwork. "Sit." The dark lord ordered.
Harry silently obeyed.
Voldemort finished writing some letter, before looking up at Harry,"Hhmm, is it just me or do you seem strangely...subdued this morning?" Voldemort asked.
Harry had no idea how to reply, but it seemed Voldemort didn't expect him to. "Well, I take it your curious as to why I called you here?"
Harry gave a tight nod.
"You don't seem curious. Is it my punishment last night? Although I think it may be that duel with Malfoy this morning." Voldemort said before going back to scribling something onto a blank sheet of paper.
Harry stared,"How...how do you know?" He asked.
"I know everything." Voldemort replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Why did you call me here?" Harry asked desperate to just get this over with.
"Well, two reasons. One being that you remember the night before we came here I said I would punish you in some other way? Well, you'll be serving detention with me, tonight. The other reason is to inform you that I want you to make friends with some of the Slytherins your own age."
Harry gave a strangled gasp at the idea.
"You will also be training with them. Yes, they are here to train to become future death eaters." Voldemort said, noticing Harry's quiizical look.
"Your training students to be death eaters?" Haary asked in a revolted tone,"Hold on you want me to be a death eater."
Voldemort laughed,"Of course not Harry,you don't have half of what it takes to be a death eater."
Harry was not sure whether to be offended.
"Anyways, the rest will be waiting for you at the courtyard. Do to fix things with Lucuis's son." Voldemort continued.
Harry wanted to protest, but decided to to stay silent.
"You'll need this." Voldemort flung Harry's wand at him. Harry grabbed the familiar phoenix feather wand. The warm tingle of magic spread through his fingers.
Harry could not help, but smile.
"Bye, now." Voldemort said.
When Harry arrived at the courtyard he found that half the people was already there. He reluctantly joined the group making sure to stand as far away from everyone as possible.
The rest of the kids seemed to have no problem with that since they saw him almost kill Malfoy. Harry tried to push that thought away.
When everyone arrived Lucuis Malfoy called for their attention."Right everyone. Today we will be looking at the Adfectus spell. Who can tell me what this spell is used for?"
Two hands went up. Daphne Greengrass and Draco Malfoy. "Draco?"
"It is emotion magic."
"More then just that. The Adfectus spell translates your emotions into magic. For example if I really badly needed to protect my family I could use it. The spell would take my emotions and intent and use it to create a sort of shield or whatever would help the situation. Now, this spell in extremely dangerous and unpredictable, so we will be practicing Adfectus Mino. Adfectus Mino is the same spell, but on a much smaller and more controlable scale." Lucuis explained.
Now pair up and get a partner. Harry immediatly stepped back. Luckily no one was coming towards him anyways. Unfortunatly for him there was a odd number of little death eaters in training.
Harry and Daphne stared at each other.
"Now, you will all be practicing making one of the brick you see in front of you explode. You will not do anything to each other with this spell. You are simply paired up in case something goes wrong. You may begin."
Daphne scowled at him before saying,"I'll go first."
Harry noddded, not really caring.
Daphne said the spell and nothing happened.
When it was Harry's turn nothing happened either.
And so it went on.
Harry did not really care, but Daphne got more and more frustrated. "Adfecto Minos" She hissed. Nothing.
"My turn." Harry said.
"You think you're just so great aren't you? Well, you can't do it either."
"I don't want to be able to do it." Harry replied, still not caring.
"Oh yea, then what was this morning? That was dark magic, Potter. You almost killed Draco."
This got to Harry. He clenched his wand tightly. "What would Dumbledore say?" Daphne taunted.
"You can barely do magic. I know you want to escape, but how can you ever do that with your pathetic attempts at spells? Your and your mudblood friend will both be dead soon enough." The Slytherin girl said.
Harry saw red,"Adfecto Minos!" It had came so natrually. The brick exploded into thousand of flaming pieces.
Everyone was silent. Harry could not believe it. Another dark spell. He had cast another dark spell.
"Right, that is enough. We will be taking abreak now, since it is week end. You can go explore the grounds if you wish. Another lesson will be held this evening." Lucuis Malfoy called, ignoring Harry completly which Harry was glad for.
After Lucuis Malfoy left the students slowly began to walk in different directions. "Potter!" A voice called.
Harry stopped. "Wow, you always have to be the best don't you?"Alana yelled.
Harry felt a little hurt that she was against him. They were friends sort of for a short while.
"You can never be just average. Even when your doing freaking dark arts."
Harry flinched.
"Well, I'm not scared of you. We are better than you. In fact to prove it I have a preposition for you."Alana shouted.
"I don't care." Harry snarled and began to walk away.
"I could help you escape if you win."
A shocked silence followed.
"I don't believe you." Harry said.
"There is such things as oaths."
Harry stopped,"And what would I have to do?"
"Well, beat me in a duel." Alana said, while for some reason smirking.
"I could do that, but everyone here would just stop you from helping me escape." Harry replied.
"They could swear it to." She said, looking at Malfoy, Daphne, Theodore , Crabbe and Goyle.
"They won't." Harry said.
"Well guys remember what we did to Astoria? I think you would swear?" Alana said.
The other Slytherins nodded.
"What is the twist?" Harry asked bluntly.
"Well, follow us and see." Alana said.
The Slytherins lead Harry out of the fort and into the mountains that surrounded it. After a short while they came to a massive pond carved out in the stone. It's water was swirling in a deadly spiral and Harry could see that if you fell in you would most likely drown.
"This is a Spiral Pond. Fall in and you drown. Now, you see that log that is in the middle of it. Well, we will duel on that lon and if either of us fall, then well..." Alana said.
Harry stared at the log. Alana had to be bluffing. In fact she probably was. He knew Alana would not risk her life like that. Harry looked at the swirling waters again.
He knew Alana's father was high enough for her to have a chance of getting them out. Freedom was so close. She had to be bluffung. She had to.
"Fine. I'll do it." Harry said.
Alana smirked,"Very well, I Alana Waters-Fisher promise to try and help Harry Potter and Hermione Granger escape to the best of my abilities if he wins me in a fair duel on the log over the Spiral Pond. If I win he will become my slave. I either of us backs down it will count as if that person lost. Also if someone leaves the log during the duel they will also loose. Everyone gathered here will not speak of this afterwards. Do you agree?" She asked the Slytherins who all immediatly said they agreed.
She then looked at Harry,"Do you agree?"
Harry swallowed,"I agree."
"Then lets begin." Alana said looking like she was not scared at all. This only increased Harry's suspiciouns that this was a bluff, but who would back down first?
They both took up their positions on oppisite sides of the log. "On the count of three." Malfoy shouted,"One...two...THREE!"
They both stared at each other. Then Alana took a confident step forward. Harry did the same. They were both above the water now. There was no turning back. Harry knew that if he fell now he would be dead.
Alana took another step forward, looking straight into Harry's eyes. Harry stared back and took two steps forward.
The log vibrated slightly.
Harry knew that both of them was too scared to cast the first spell.
Alana took a step and Harry took two.
They were well above the water now.
"Hey, Harry you know a interesting fact about Spiral Ponds?" Alana asked,"They were used to transport people in the old days. You would put on a special necklace and then jump into it. The Pool would then transport you to its counterpart. Just sad that some people forgot to put their necklaces on and then they died when they fell in."
"Sorry, if I don't really care about the history of Spiral Pools." Harry snapped.
"Oh, I just thought it would be interesting since I have one. It still works." Alana said revealing a light blue crystal-like necklace around her neck.
Harry realised he was in deep s**t.
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