To the Guest who asked me how long "soon" is: PATIENCE MY YOUNG PADAWAN.
Sorry I didn't update sooner.
I was drowning my sorrows over Carrie Fisher's death by rewatching the original trilogy of Star Wars.
So ex-cuse me if I wasn't able to write.
I HAD A PERFECTLY GOOD REASON!
"Voldemort's back!" Harry screamed. "Voldemort killed Cassius!"
Kathy Nott fell to her knees, sobbing over her dead boyfriend's body. "Cassius!"
The Slytherins all looked on with either sadness or hatred.
Sadness that a member of their house had been killed.
Hatred that it had been done by the person their parents' followed blindly.
Theo Nott knelt by his sister's side and attempted to calm her but she shook him off in favor for screaming "CASSIUS!"
Harry eventually hugged her and she just sobbed. "Cassius… Cassius…"
Harry idly thought about why only Kathy's brother had come forward in an attempt to comfort her and it sudden struck him.
Their mother is dead and their father was there.
In the Graveyard.
One, a small Slytherin girl no older than twelve said, "But Cassius was a pureblood… why would You-Know-Who kill Cassius?"
Hermione came forward and pulled Kathy into a hug.
"Voldemort's going to pay. We'll make sure that."
Kathy didn't pull away. "Are you sure? Do you promise?"
"I swear it on my life." Hermione said. "Voldemort will pay for this."
Pansy and Draco didn't even bother talking about blood supremacy after that.
After all, it apparently didn't matter to Voldemort whether they lived or died.
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"My son is dead." Faith Warrington, the mother of Cassius said. "I demand compensation. I am barren with no heir."
"And who's fault is that? You should have had a better grasp over your child." Voldemort said. "Avada Kedavra."
The green light raced forward and hit the pure-blooded woman in the stomach, killing her instantly.
"Do you have anything you wish to say, Christopher?"
Christopher Warrington only shook his head and said, "No milord. I beg forgiveness for my wife's demanding nature."
Voldemort replied, "No matter. She was French after all. Besides, she was a half-blood acting like a pureblood."
Christopher remained quiet and thought She wasn't that closely related.
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"May I say a few words?" Ron asked.
Dumbledore nodded and stepped away from the podium.
"Now, I didn't know Cassius as well as some of you did. But I did know him on the field of Quidditch, and he was an honorable bloke when it came to that. He had the least amount of fouls and while we originally thought that he was only on the team as a friend of Flint's, he proved that he could play and that he could play well. He always played by the rules, and didn't do anything underhanded in an attempt to win. I- I think that everyone should know that he died being the champion that somebody would want as the Hogwarts Champion. He could have abandoned Harry or not help him at all, but he did, and he did so in the most honest way he knew how. Slytherin should be proud to have had him in their house."
Pansy Parkinson took that chance to stand up and say, "I want to say, Weasley, thank you."
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"Malfoy? Parkinson? Greengrass? Davis? Goyle? Crabbe? What are you all doing here?" Granger asked as the five Slytherins plus almost twenty others stepped forward. Among them was Kathy Nott.
"Isn't it obvious?" Draco replied. "We are here to sign that pretty little document in your hands. You-Know-Who is an asshole and one thing about Slytherins is that we don't let things go… especially when one of our own is murdered by the man that your parents blindly support. Are you instating that we shouldn't rebel? We are teenagers after all. Rebellion is healthy."
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"Draco Malfoy… Pansy Parkinson… Daphne Greengrass… Tracey Davis… Millicent Bulbstrode… Gregory Goyle… Vincent Crabbe… Theodore Nott… Katherine Nott… Blaise Zabini… I've called you here today to join my Inquistorial Squad." Dolores Umbridge said.
The ten of them looked at each other and said, "We're in."
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"We can bring you intel from Umbridge. My father, the bantha fodder, once said that she was in league with Voldemort, if indirectly. She's definitely a sympathizer at the least." Draco reported to the DA.
Of course, the Slytherins had refused to call it Dumbledore's Army… so they had elected to call it the Destruction of Assholes with the main enemy being Voldemort, Umbitch, and Death Eaters.
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"Sirius is in trouble!" Harry said.
The fifty members of the DA looked at each other before deciding: "Let's go to the Department of Mysteries!"
Two members did however scream: "Let's participate in an illegal break in!"
That was Katherine and Theodore Nott.
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Months previously, Harry had constantly received letters and notes, unsigned, but filled with information that helped the Order immensely.
Spells… Potions… Plants… every kind of thing that the Death Eaters used to dominate.
And so when a jet of red light burst from Bellatrix Lestrange's wand, Sirius Black immediately knew what it was: similar to the Stunning jinx, it interlocked all of your bones for a short period of time, making it impossible to move.
He was able to dodge it and send one of his own at the Bitch, finally capturing her.
Neville had danced once he heard that she was to receive the Dementor's Kiss.
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It went on.
The Slytherins slowly reached out to the other houses, uniting in their hatred of Voldemort.
Uniting in the name of Cassius.
Some of the more well-connected Slytherins secretly passed information to the Order. The Death Eaters knew that they were suddenly losing this war for one reason: their children.
Most of the Slytherins reached out and asked for help hiding from their parents during the summer.
Draco Malfoy was placed with his godfather, Severus, and Pansy Parkinson grudgingly accepted to live with Hermione Granger.
Blaise Zabini had been disgusted with the Dursleys and both of them eventually were placed under the care of Sirius, acquitted of all charges and getting it on with Amelia Bones, bringing in a Hufflepuff viewpoint with Susan.
When Amelia was killed by Death Eaters, she was killed as Amelia Black, pregnant with her and Sirius' child.
Needless to say, that just increased the hatred between The Houses of Hogwarts and Voldemort.
When the Battle of Hogwarts came around, the resounding cry of "FOR CASSIUS!" was popular. Prior to the battle, Harry reminded everyone that there were no spares.
After the battle, which was heart wrenching for many as they saw their children fighting against them.
Many surrendered rather than fight their children, saving the lives of Remus… Tonks… Fred…
After the Battle, a statue was placed on the grounds in Cassius' honor.
Cassius Warrington was known as the true Hogwarts Champion from that day on. Hundreds of years later, scholars and historians will look back on history and see that the moment that Voldemort killed Cassius Warrington was the moment that he sealed his fate as "bantha fodder"
Go Chapter 51!
Sorry, I had to have a Star Wars reference.
GO CASSIUS WARRINGTON!
