The Fifth Marauder Part 10
Karen was waiting at Kings Cross for her dad. "He's late." She thought to herself, looking at her
watch. Everyone left awhile ago. She dug some money out of her pocket and called a taxi. She was
thinking about what Mr. Arnold(Lily's dad) told her earlier, over and over in her head.
"Your father has been pretty depressed, since your mother was killed." She climbed out of the taxi and
paid the driver. Her owl flew off, to go hunt a mouse, while she dragged her trunk to the house.
"Dad, I'm home." She looked all through the house, he wasn't home. There was a note on the refrigerator.
"Be back at 7," was all it said. She did her usual chores. While taking out the garbage she noticed a lot of
beer cans, and an empty vodka bottle.
After eating dinner, and finishing her Arithmancy homework, she heard a door slam.
"Hi Dad. How was your day?" He just grunted and pulled a six pack out of the refrigerator.
"I got fired."
"Why?"
"Because I was drunk."
"Oh." She went to fix her dad dinner and noticed he finished a beer already as she set it down in front of
him.
"Dad, you can't drink like this. It's already made you lose your job."
"Don't tell me what to do." He stood up and punched her across the face. He then grabbed her and pulled
her out of the room. He slammed her on the stairs.
"It's your fault your mother died." He kicked her in the stomach. As she laid there in pain, he walked back to the kitchen to get another beer.
She locked herself in her bedroom. 'It was my fault my mom was killed.' She told herself as she looked in the mirror. 'I deserve this. Because I became a witch, I got my mom killed. Now my dad's a drunk.' She took the mirror Sirius gave her out of her trunk.
"Show me Sirius Black." Sirius was with James, they were writing something. James moved away from his, it was a letter to Lily. Sirius put his in an envelope, addressed to Remus.
Later that night, Karen took all of the bottles and cans of alcohol and poured them down the drain. When her father noticed, he beat her up again. Lily came over the next day to see Karen, but she didn't answer the door. Everyday that week her father beat her up, and everyday that week Karen prayed he wouldn't do it the next day. Friday was the worst. Her father couldn't find his keys, he assumed Karen hid them. When she said she didn't know, he punched her down the stairs, and she broke her arm. As she sat in her room crying, she didn't know that on the other side of England three of the Marauders saw what was happening, through a mirror like Karen's. They were planning on getting her on that Sunday, in the middle of the night. But they were a bit to late.
On Sunday night, around six o'clock, Karen's father was turning the house upside down, in search of money, for alcohol. Karen was in her room, frantically searching for a hiding spot for her wizard and Muggle money. She just stuffed it in the bottom of her trunk when her father came in.
"I know you have money. Give it to me right now." He yelled.
"Daddy, you can't do this. You're hurting yourself and me. Mom wouldn't want you to do this." She pleaded. He started to tear up her room. The mirror from Sirius was thrown up against the wall.
"Give it to me now!"
"No!" She yelled back. He punched her. He continued to throw her stuff out of her dressers and closet. He spotted the trunk and started to search through that. He pulled the money bag out.
"No! Daddy don't touch that. You have to quit drinking." She tried grabbing the bag out of his hands. He just threw her off of him. She hit her head on the wall, and everything went black.
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"Man, this place is a mess. I wouldn't think Karen of all people would be a slob."
"I don't think she did this." Sirius and James just arrived to Karen's house. Sirius picked up the remains of the mirror.
"Padfoot look." James pointed to where his flashlight stopped. There was Karen, slumped up against the wall.
"She's unconscious. Help me put her into the side cart." Sirius picked Karen up. James jumped out the window onto the motorcycle. Sirius handed her out the window, and James set her in the cart. They picked up some of her stuff, that wasn't ruined too badly, and put it in her trunk. Her robes were ripped, and several pages were torn from her school books. Her owls cage was dented and the latch was broken. Fluff wasn't around. After they got most of her stuff , they hopped onto the motorcycle. James held Karen, since her trunk was in the side cart and Sirius was driving.
"I hope she's not hurt too bad."
"Maybe we should take her to Hogwarts. Dumbledore would know what to do."
"Yeah, I agree."
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"Who did this to her?" Sirius and James just arrived at the castle, they were in the infirmary with Dumbledore and Madame Pomfery.
"Her father. He was drunk and looking for something in her room, I'm guessing. He did it to her the whole week."
"How do you know?"
"We saw through this mirror. It shows you anything you want to see." Sirius pulled out the mirror.
"I see. Well you boys were smart to bring her here."
"We knew you'd know what to do, Professor, and Madame Pomfery would be able to fix her."
"She's lost a lot of blood, hit her head pretty good. Her arm can be fixed quickly. She should be alright within a day or two."
"May we stay here with Karen?"
"Yes. I'll owl your parents and tell them that you are here." Dumbledore left, and Madame Pomfrey went to her office.
"How come it seems like Karen has so many people after her? Last year she was thrown into a lake in the middle of winter, given the Cruitcus curse, and her mom was killed."
"I don't know, but if I was her I'd become an Auror or an Unspeakable. Then she'll be able to defend herself."
"I'll have to think about that." They jumped, Karen woke up.
"How are you?"
"Weak. I can hardly think. Why are you guys in my room?"
"We are in the infirmary."
"Oh. How'd we get here?"
"On Sirius' flying motorcycle."
"That's nice. I'm going back to sleep."
"G'night."
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"How am I going to pay to replace all of this stuff? I have no money left." Karen was at the Potter's looking at all of her destroyed materials.
"We could loan you some money. We got plenty of it."
"I couldn't do that." She then got an idea. "Mr. Potter. Do you think I could work for you? Like in the mail room or something, until I have enough money to pay for my stuff, and enough for everything else?"
"Sure, but you know I work for the Unspeakable department."
"I know. Thank you so much Mr. Potter. I'm really grateful for you letting me stay here."
"It's alright dear. We don't want you to have to go back to that place."
"I would've stayed with Lily but she lives right next door to my house, and I don't want to even be within five hours of that place."
"I'm glad you're staying, now I'm not outnumbered any more." Mrs. Potter said. Karen laughed.
"I'll help you with dinner Mrs. Potter." They left and went to the kitchen.
"You know Dad, Sirius is really lucky to have her as a girlfriend."
"Yeah, and we're lucky to have her staying with us. Now I don't have to look for a new mail room manager."
"Yeah, and I don't have to be that person."
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"Karen, I was thinking, since you are interested in becoming an Unspeakable, we will start training you to become an Auror. You will be trained by Alastor Moody."
"You mean, Mad-Eye Moody?"
"Yes. He's a very successful Auror, and agreed to train you. Just go to his office and he'll start."
"Alright." She walked down to the Auror wing of the building. As she walked down the hall she noticed that each door had a sign, saying who's office it was. Some were funny, like Samuel Bones was called the Dog House while others were just a nameplate with their last name. She stopped to the door which said 'I can see you.' She was about to knock on the door when she heard a voice.
"Come in Darkes." She opened up the door and saw Mad-Eye.
"Thank you for taking time to training me."
"The first thing I'm going to teach you is constant vigilance."
"What's that?" Just then Moody pulled his wand out and aimed it at her.
"If you don't have constant vigilance, then you won't last long in this world."
"Oh."
"You have to be on guard at all times. Never let your guard down if you want to stay alive."
"Got it."
"Now if you don't have your wand, or if you're up against a muggle, you need another way of disarming them, or getting them to a point where you can defeat them. That's were self defense comes in."
"You mean, like karate?"
"Is that what the muggles call it? Then yes karate. I won't be teaching you that, as you can see I'm not as young as I use to be. You'll be learning that another day. Now are you good at dueling?"
"Yeah, my friends and I practiced last summer at James house."
"Okay, lets see what you can do. What's the first thing you want to try to do?"
"Disarm the dueler or block the disarming spell."
"Right.
"Get in a dueling position." Karen walked across from Moody, she was about to bow when he sent the disarming spell at her. She flew across the room and her wand landed in front of her.
"Hey, we didn't even bow."
"Do you think a Death Eater will bow to you? No, he'll curse you when your head's lowered. Now, you have to keep one eye on the person, and the other on what ever you're doing."
"That would be a lot easier if I had an eye like yours."
"Well I just we'll stop here today."
"Why?"
"Because Mr. Potter is here to see if you can deliver a message for him." A knock came to the door.
"Thank you for you time, Mr. Moody." She turned her back to open the door. Moody pulled his wand out, but Karen turned around, with her wand in position.
"I catch on fast."
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"This is so great. I've only been working at the Unspeakable sector for a month now, and I have enough money to pay for all of my stuff, and still have some left over."
"And now you can kick Snape's butt, in 3 seconds flat."
"That training is not suppose to be misused." Mr. Potter said lowering his newspaper.
"I know, but if he starts it, she has to finish it."
"Maybe if I work for the rest of the summer I'll be able to buy a new broom. They just came out with the Cleansweep model."
"Sirius has been working on that motorcycle all summer. Ever since he got it to fly, he's been playing around with that."
"Hogwarts letter's." Mrs. Potter called, coming into the kitchen.
"Hey James, what do you have there?" Karen leaned over and read the letter.
"Potter is Head Boy!" James pinned the badge on.
"What do you think? Should I accept?"
"Are you a complete idiot? Yes you should. Then we can get out of our mischief. Kidding."
"Well, I'm off to work. Come on Karen. You're going to go on a mission today."
"Honey, I don't think that's a good idea. She's not even a qualified witch yet." Mrs. Potter said, cleaning the dishes off the table.
"I've already contacted the Ministry about it. It's just a small mission. We are prosecuting a caught Death Eater."
"I think I can handle that." Karen grabbed her cloak and followed Mr. Potter.
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"Prongs, how could you?" Sirius said, seeing the badge on James robe. "It was bad enough becoming prefects, but now this? I'll never forgive you."
"Shut up Snuffles."
"Hey! Only Karen can call me that!"
"Someone has to call you that, while Karen is away."
"Where is she anyway?"
"Prosecuting a Death Eater. I think I'll become an Unspeakable too. Dad said that he'd give me some lessons if I wanted. Have you thought about what you're going to do after Hogwarts?"
"Yeah, I'll either become an Auror, or maybe get a job at the Ministry. Could you see me becoming Minister?"
"No."
"You are so un-sensitive." Sirius sniffed. "So when is Karen going to get back?"
"Don't know. I just hope no one tries to kill her again."
"I think she's cursed."
"And aren't you lucky, you're her boyfriend. You're a target, too." James dad apparated into the kitchen.
"Hi Dad."
"Hi Mr. Potter." Mrs. Potter came into the kitchen. She looked around the room once and noticed something.
"Where's Karen?"
"Oh that. Well while we were prosecuting the Death Eater, him or someone in the room sent the Cruico at her." Mr. Potter wiped his forehead with a handkerchief.
"Is she alright?"
"Yes, they just wanted to check her out. She said that she's been given the Cruciatus curse before, and has been through worst than that. Do you two know anything about that?"
"Well. Someone gave her the curse last year, Dumbledore reckons it was Voldemort. Then people keep trying to kill her or hurting people close to her. Like her mom."
"Oh." Karen then tumbled out of the fireplace.
"Are you alright dear?" Mrs. Potter helping her dust herself off.
"Yeah. I just want to know why people keep trying to kill me. This is like the 5th time."
"So Dad, who was the Death Eater?"
"I'm going to go write a letter." Karen got up from her seat at the table.
"Who to?"
"Severus." Karen ran out of the room, to the guest bedroom.
"Why is so writing to him? I thought she hated him."
"Well, the Death Eater was Mr. Snape, Severus' dad."
"What? But who's the new Minister?"
"That's why we were late, the members of the Ministry were voting on it."
"Who won?"
"You're looking at him."
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In a large mansion, a group of people, in hooded black cloaks were standing in a circle, a tall man was standing in the middle of them. His hood was down, unlike the others, and he was the most different out of rest. He referred to himself as Lord Voldemort, and the others called him Master. Among the members standing in the circle, many of them were adults, from families of Dark Wizards, but there were also teenagers.
"Now, my faithful Death Eaters, we shall begin our meeting," said Lord Voldemort. Chairs appeared, and the Death Eaters sat down. A young boy in the crowd wasn't paying much attention to what his Master was saying, but it looked like he was. He was nodding in the appropriate places, and acting like he was paying attention, but he was actually thinking about what happened the day before. His father was sent to Azkaban, for being a Death Eater. He saw Karen there, no doubt that she was training to be an Auror. His thoughts were interrupted by a tapping. He looked up to the window and saw a small minute owl carrying a letter.
"Oh no." He thought to himself. Severus went back to looking at his master, pretending not to see the owl. But he wasn't the only one to notice. The man sitting next to him stood up.
"My Master. An owl is tapping at the window."
"Please don't." He begged inside. That owl was familiar to him. It was Karen's. The man next to Severus went to the window and let the little owl in. The thing that Severus dreaded the most happened. The owl flew right to him and landed on his shoulder.
"Severus, do you know that owl? Is it yours?" Lord Voldemort stepped closer to him. Severus quickly replied, not wanting to be given the Cruciatus curse.
"I know the owl, Master, but it is not mine."
"Who's is it?"
"Karen Darkes', sir."
"Ah, the witch we need to get rid of. Well, open the letter and read it aloud."
"Yes, Master." Severus opened the letter slowly.
Dear Severus,
I know we aren't on very good terms, but I want us to put all of that behind us. We should be friends, not enemies, it's bad for the soul. I'm sorry what happened to your father. I was there. I'm training to be an Auror, isn't that great! I'm getting really good at it, well that's what Moody says. Well I got to go, Sirius and James are bugging me to play Quidditch. Maybe we could meet somewhere before school starts? I'm staying at the Potters, since my dad got a little abusive. He broke my arm, and made me go unconscious. Alcohol does that to people. Well owl me back. If Fluff gets a little too hyper, just stuff a Owl Treat in his mouth.
Toodles,
Karen Darkes
"Awe, how sweet." Lord Voldemort sneered, grabbing the owl by the neck. "I have another way of calming this owl down. Avada Kedrava." The small owl laid motionless on the ground. "Now, you will meet this girl at Diagon Alley, Saturday night. Will lead her down a empty street, and will kill her. Understood?"
"Yes, sir." Severus gulped.
"Alright, now back to business."
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"Karen you have a letter, and a package."
"Thank you Mrs. Potter." Karen took her mail and went into the library, where Sirius, James, and Remus(who just arrived) were trying to developed a new, and improved dung bomb.
"What do you have there?"
"A letter from Severus, and a box, that's not labeled. I wonder who it's from."
"You might want Dad to open that. You've had another attempted deaths on your part."
"Okay. I'm opening the letter though, it's not ticking and it's not smoking."
"May we read?" They didn't wait for an answer, they all crowded behind her and read over her shoulders.
Dear Karen,
Sure, I'll meet you sometime. How about Saturday night at Diagon Alley? I need to get my school stuff. So you're staying at the Potter's, that should be pretty safe there, don't want you to get killed. Well I have to go. See you on Saturday.
Severus Snape
"We're coming with you." They all said at once.
"Why?"
"He's a son of a Death Eater. Don't you think he'll be a Death Eater too? And you're an Auror, too."
"I'm not one yet."
"Same difference. No where in that letter does it say that we can't come along, so we are going."
"No way am I going to let you go by yourself. What kind of boyfriend would I be if I let you walk into a trap?"
"A bad one. Fine you guys can go. Just use the invisibility cloak." Mr. Potter walked in.
"Have a nice day boys? And girl?"
"Yeah, we are almost finished with the dungbomb."
"Hey Dad, could you check to see if this has any curses or hexes on it? Karen got a un-labeled box, and she's had enough attempted deaths."
"Alright." Mr. Potter did several different spells. "Well it seems to be perfectly fine." He handed her back the box and left the room. They all stood around the table as Karen opened the box. She let out a scream as she pulled out what was inside. It was Fluff.
"Oh my god. Oh my god." She kept repeating over and over, looking at the carcass laying on the floor. A note was tied to it's leg. Sirius picked up the dead bird and read the note.
"Karen, Better quit your training now, and join the Dark Side, before one of your little friends get killed next. Lord Voldemort." Sirius read out loud. He looked up to see James, and Remus comforting her, and Mr. Potter running into the room.
"What happened?" He looked around and spotted the owl. "Oh."
"Someone really is out to get Karen. But why?" Sirius thought, taking a sobbing Karen into his arms.
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"Are you guys ready?"
"Yeah, are our feet showing?"
"No, here he comes." Severus walked up to Karen.
"Hi Karen, how have you been?"
"Not too good. Voldemort killed my owl, and sent his carcass to me."
"That's terrible."
"I'm glad you aren't part of the dark side like your father was." Karen looked at his face. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought that up."
"It's alright, are your friends here?"
"Yeah, somewhere around here, but I told them to leave us alone, since I know you guys don't like each other very much."
"Okay." Severus then thought to himself, "I'm going to fail this mission, unless I can kill 4 birds with one stone, or should I say, four people at one time." Severus smiled.
"Why are you smiling?"
"No reason, I was just thinking of a joke I heard earlier."
"I heard a good one the other day. A troll, a hag, and a leprechaun go into a bar..." Behind the two, James, Sirius and Remus were under the invisibility cloak.
"We have to make sure she doesn't get hurt, or worse, killed. Lets go into that empty path over there and take the cloak off. I'm sure Snape is part of the dark side, and he's probably plotting to kill her right now." They went down the empty path and hurriedly took off the cloak and ran to catch up with Karen and Severus.
"Hi Karen, Severus."
"I thought I told you guys to let me be."
"We know, but we just don't want anything to happen to you."
"Nothing will happen with Severus with me, so let us be." Karen pushed the three of them into the Joke Shop.
"She'll be alright, most likely Snape won't be able to cast Avada Kedarva, and she's been taking lessons from Moody so she can kick his ass for us."
"Good point. We have to replenish our candy stash, we ate alot of it this summer."
"That was hilarious." Severus said once Karen was done with the joke.
"Why are we going down this path?" She asked, taking notice to where they were.
"Oh I just thought you'd like to take a walk."
"This place is creepy, I can hardly see where I'm walking."
"Good." Severus pulled out his wand. "How would you like to die? Quick or long, and painful."
"What? Oh god!" Severus pointed his wand at her. She quickly pulled out hers and blocked the first curse. "What the hell is wrong with you? I trusted you and now you try and kill me!" But she wasn't fast enough to kick the wand out of his hand.
"Oblivate." He put a memory charm on her.
"Why are we here?" Karen asked, with a glazed over look in her eyes.
"You thought you saw someone come down here."
"Oh, lets go back. It's creepy down here."
"Alright." 'I failed Master, I'm going to be in deep shit at the next meeting.'
"Why were you guys down that trail? You know it leads to no where." James asked seeing the two come out to the main road.
"I thought I saw someone come down there." Karen said, the glazed look vanishing.
"I'm going to go. See you at school Karen." Snape walked down the road, going down Knockturn alley, but the others didn't see this, they went to the Eeylops Owlery to get Karen's new owl.
"Isn't she a beauty?" She held out a black eagle owl.
"Yeah, what are you going to name her?"
"How about Sijare?"
"Sijare? How did you come up with that?"
"The first to letters in all of your names. S-I for Sirius, J-A for James, and R-E for Remus."
"Cool, we better head back, It's getting dark out."
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A:N/ okay, I know I messed up in places, but this was written before I reread the 4th book. I know that
Moody's eye wasn't there at the time, and I think I got some of the spells wrong, and I can't spell for shit. Anyways thank you for those who reviewed part nine. Oh and part 11 might be awhile to get up, 'cause I have to write it!
Karen was waiting at Kings Cross for her dad. "He's late." She thought to herself, looking at her
watch. Everyone left awhile ago. She dug some money out of her pocket and called a taxi. She was
thinking about what Mr. Arnold(Lily's dad) told her earlier, over and over in her head.
"Your father has been pretty depressed, since your mother was killed." She climbed out of the taxi and
paid the driver. Her owl flew off, to go hunt a mouse, while she dragged her trunk to the house.
"Dad, I'm home." She looked all through the house, he wasn't home. There was a note on the refrigerator.
"Be back at 7," was all it said. She did her usual chores. While taking out the garbage she noticed a lot of
beer cans, and an empty vodka bottle.
After eating dinner, and finishing her Arithmancy homework, she heard a door slam.
"Hi Dad. How was your day?" He just grunted and pulled a six pack out of the refrigerator.
"I got fired."
"Why?"
"Because I was drunk."
"Oh." She went to fix her dad dinner and noticed he finished a beer already as she set it down in front of
him.
"Dad, you can't drink like this. It's already made you lose your job."
"Don't tell me what to do." He stood up and punched her across the face. He then grabbed her and pulled
her out of the room. He slammed her on the stairs.
"It's your fault your mother died." He kicked her in the stomach. As she laid there in pain, he walked back to the kitchen to get another beer.
She locked herself in her bedroom. 'It was my fault my mom was killed.' She told herself as she looked in the mirror. 'I deserve this. Because I became a witch, I got my mom killed. Now my dad's a drunk.' She took the mirror Sirius gave her out of her trunk.
"Show me Sirius Black." Sirius was with James, they were writing something. James moved away from his, it was a letter to Lily. Sirius put his in an envelope, addressed to Remus.
Later that night, Karen took all of the bottles and cans of alcohol and poured them down the drain. When her father noticed, he beat her up again. Lily came over the next day to see Karen, but she didn't answer the door. Everyday that week her father beat her up, and everyday that week Karen prayed he wouldn't do it the next day. Friday was the worst. Her father couldn't find his keys, he assumed Karen hid them. When she said she didn't know, he punched her down the stairs, and she broke her arm. As she sat in her room crying, she didn't know that on the other side of England three of the Marauders saw what was happening, through a mirror like Karen's. They were planning on getting her on that Sunday, in the middle of the night. But they were a bit to late.
On Sunday night, around six o'clock, Karen's father was turning the house upside down, in search of money, for alcohol. Karen was in her room, frantically searching for a hiding spot for her wizard and Muggle money. She just stuffed it in the bottom of her trunk when her father came in.
"I know you have money. Give it to me right now." He yelled.
"Daddy, you can't do this. You're hurting yourself and me. Mom wouldn't want you to do this." She pleaded. He started to tear up her room. The mirror from Sirius was thrown up against the wall.
"Give it to me now!"
"No!" She yelled back. He punched her. He continued to throw her stuff out of her dressers and closet. He spotted the trunk and started to search through that. He pulled the money bag out.
"No! Daddy don't touch that. You have to quit drinking." She tried grabbing the bag out of his hands. He just threw her off of him. She hit her head on the wall, and everything went black.
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"Man, this place is a mess. I wouldn't think Karen of all people would be a slob."
"I don't think she did this." Sirius and James just arrived to Karen's house. Sirius picked up the remains of the mirror.
"Padfoot look." James pointed to where his flashlight stopped. There was Karen, slumped up against the wall.
"She's unconscious. Help me put her into the side cart." Sirius picked Karen up. James jumped out the window onto the motorcycle. Sirius handed her out the window, and James set her in the cart. They picked up some of her stuff, that wasn't ruined too badly, and put it in her trunk. Her robes were ripped, and several pages were torn from her school books. Her owls cage was dented and the latch was broken. Fluff wasn't around. After they got most of her stuff , they hopped onto the motorcycle. James held Karen, since her trunk was in the side cart and Sirius was driving.
"I hope she's not hurt too bad."
"Maybe we should take her to Hogwarts. Dumbledore would know what to do."
"Yeah, I agree."
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"Who did this to her?" Sirius and James just arrived at the castle, they were in the infirmary with Dumbledore and Madame Pomfery.
"Her father. He was drunk and looking for something in her room, I'm guessing. He did it to her the whole week."
"How do you know?"
"We saw through this mirror. It shows you anything you want to see." Sirius pulled out the mirror.
"I see. Well you boys were smart to bring her here."
"We knew you'd know what to do, Professor, and Madame Pomfery would be able to fix her."
"She's lost a lot of blood, hit her head pretty good. Her arm can be fixed quickly. She should be alright within a day or two."
"May we stay here with Karen?"
"Yes. I'll owl your parents and tell them that you are here." Dumbledore left, and Madame Pomfrey went to her office.
"How come it seems like Karen has so many people after her? Last year she was thrown into a lake in the middle of winter, given the Cruitcus curse, and her mom was killed."
"I don't know, but if I was her I'd become an Auror or an Unspeakable. Then she'll be able to defend herself."
"I'll have to think about that." They jumped, Karen woke up.
"How are you?"
"Weak. I can hardly think. Why are you guys in my room?"
"We are in the infirmary."
"Oh. How'd we get here?"
"On Sirius' flying motorcycle."
"That's nice. I'm going back to sleep."
"G'night."
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"How am I going to pay to replace all of this stuff? I have no money left." Karen was at the Potter's looking at all of her destroyed materials.
"We could loan you some money. We got plenty of it."
"I couldn't do that." She then got an idea. "Mr. Potter. Do you think I could work for you? Like in the mail room or something, until I have enough money to pay for my stuff, and enough for everything else?"
"Sure, but you know I work for the Unspeakable department."
"I know. Thank you so much Mr. Potter. I'm really grateful for you letting me stay here."
"It's alright dear. We don't want you to have to go back to that place."
"I would've stayed with Lily but she lives right next door to my house, and I don't want to even be within five hours of that place."
"I'm glad you're staying, now I'm not outnumbered any more." Mrs. Potter said. Karen laughed.
"I'll help you with dinner Mrs. Potter." They left and went to the kitchen.
"You know Dad, Sirius is really lucky to have her as a girlfriend."
"Yeah, and we're lucky to have her staying with us. Now I don't have to look for a new mail room manager."
"Yeah, and I don't have to be that person."
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"Karen, I was thinking, since you are interested in becoming an Unspeakable, we will start training you to become an Auror. You will be trained by Alastor Moody."
"You mean, Mad-Eye Moody?"
"Yes. He's a very successful Auror, and agreed to train you. Just go to his office and he'll start."
"Alright." She walked down to the Auror wing of the building. As she walked down the hall she noticed that each door had a sign, saying who's office it was. Some were funny, like Samuel Bones was called the Dog House while others were just a nameplate with their last name. She stopped to the door which said 'I can see you.' She was about to knock on the door when she heard a voice.
"Come in Darkes." She opened up the door and saw Mad-Eye.
"Thank you for taking time to training me."
"The first thing I'm going to teach you is constant vigilance."
"What's that?" Just then Moody pulled his wand out and aimed it at her.
"If you don't have constant vigilance, then you won't last long in this world."
"Oh."
"You have to be on guard at all times. Never let your guard down if you want to stay alive."
"Got it."
"Now if you don't have your wand, or if you're up against a muggle, you need another way of disarming them, or getting them to a point where you can defeat them. That's were self defense comes in."
"You mean, like karate?"
"Is that what the muggles call it? Then yes karate. I won't be teaching you that, as you can see I'm not as young as I use to be. You'll be learning that another day. Now are you good at dueling?"
"Yeah, my friends and I practiced last summer at James house."
"Okay, lets see what you can do. What's the first thing you want to try to do?"
"Disarm the dueler or block the disarming spell."
"Right.
"Get in a dueling position." Karen walked across from Moody, she was about to bow when he sent the disarming spell at her. She flew across the room and her wand landed in front of her.
"Hey, we didn't even bow."
"Do you think a Death Eater will bow to you? No, he'll curse you when your head's lowered. Now, you have to keep one eye on the person, and the other on what ever you're doing."
"That would be a lot easier if I had an eye like yours."
"Well I just we'll stop here today."
"Why?"
"Because Mr. Potter is here to see if you can deliver a message for him." A knock came to the door.
"Thank you for you time, Mr. Moody." She turned her back to open the door. Moody pulled his wand out, but Karen turned around, with her wand in position.
"I catch on fast."
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"This is so great. I've only been working at the Unspeakable sector for a month now, and I have enough money to pay for all of my stuff, and still have some left over."
"And now you can kick Snape's butt, in 3 seconds flat."
"That training is not suppose to be misused." Mr. Potter said lowering his newspaper.
"I know, but if he starts it, she has to finish it."
"Maybe if I work for the rest of the summer I'll be able to buy a new broom. They just came out with the Cleansweep model."
"Sirius has been working on that motorcycle all summer. Ever since he got it to fly, he's been playing around with that."
"Hogwarts letter's." Mrs. Potter called, coming into the kitchen.
"Hey James, what do you have there?" Karen leaned over and read the letter.
"Potter is Head Boy!" James pinned the badge on.
"What do you think? Should I accept?"
"Are you a complete idiot? Yes you should. Then we can get out of our mischief. Kidding."
"Well, I'm off to work. Come on Karen. You're going to go on a mission today."
"Honey, I don't think that's a good idea. She's not even a qualified witch yet." Mrs. Potter said, cleaning the dishes off the table.
"I've already contacted the Ministry about it. It's just a small mission. We are prosecuting a caught Death Eater."
"I think I can handle that." Karen grabbed her cloak and followed Mr. Potter.
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"Prongs, how could you?" Sirius said, seeing the badge on James robe. "It was bad enough becoming prefects, but now this? I'll never forgive you."
"Shut up Snuffles."
"Hey! Only Karen can call me that!"
"Someone has to call you that, while Karen is away."
"Where is she anyway?"
"Prosecuting a Death Eater. I think I'll become an Unspeakable too. Dad said that he'd give me some lessons if I wanted. Have you thought about what you're going to do after Hogwarts?"
"Yeah, I'll either become an Auror, or maybe get a job at the Ministry. Could you see me becoming Minister?"
"No."
"You are so un-sensitive." Sirius sniffed. "So when is Karen going to get back?"
"Don't know. I just hope no one tries to kill her again."
"I think she's cursed."
"And aren't you lucky, you're her boyfriend. You're a target, too." James dad apparated into the kitchen.
"Hi Dad."
"Hi Mr. Potter." Mrs. Potter came into the kitchen. She looked around the room once and noticed something.
"Where's Karen?"
"Oh that. Well while we were prosecuting the Death Eater, him or someone in the room sent the Cruico at her." Mr. Potter wiped his forehead with a handkerchief.
"Is she alright?"
"Yes, they just wanted to check her out. She said that she's been given the Cruciatus curse before, and has been through worst than that. Do you two know anything about that?"
"Well. Someone gave her the curse last year, Dumbledore reckons it was Voldemort. Then people keep trying to kill her or hurting people close to her. Like her mom."
"Oh." Karen then tumbled out of the fireplace.
"Are you alright dear?" Mrs. Potter helping her dust herself off.
"Yeah. I just want to know why people keep trying to kill me. This is like the 5th time."
"So Dad, who was the Death Eater?"
"I'm going to go write a letter." Karen got up from her seat at the table.
"Who to?"
"Severus." Karen ran out of the room, to the guest bedroom.
"Why is so writing to him? I thought she hated him."
"Well, the Death Eater was Mr. Snape, Severus' dad."
"What? But who's the new Minister?"
"That's why we were late, the members of the Ministry were voting on it."
"Who won?"
"You're looking at him."
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In a large mansion, a group of people, in hooded black cloaks were standing in a circle, a tall man was standing in the middle of them. His hood was down, unlike the others, and he was the most different out of rest. He referred to himself as Lord Voldemort, and the others called him Master. Among the members standing in the circle, many of them were adults, from families of Dark Wizards, but there were also teenagers.
"Now, my faithful Death Eaters, we shall begin our meeting," said Lord Voldemort. Chairs appeared, and the Death Eaters sat down. A young boy in the crowd wasn't paying much attention to what his Master was saying, but it looked like he was. He was nodding in the appropriate places, and acting like he was paying attention, but he was actually thinking about what happened the day before. His father was sent to Azkaban, for being a Death Eater. He saw Karen there, no doubt that she was training to be an Auror. His thoughts were interrupted by a tapping. He looked up to the window and saw a small minute owl carrying a letter.
"Oh no." He thought to himself. Severus went back to looking at his master, pretending not to see the owl. But he wasn't the only one to notice. The man sitting next to him stood up.
"My Master. An owl is tapping at the window."
"Please don't." He begged inside. That owl was familiar to him. It was Karen's. The man next to Severus went to the window and let the little owl in. The thing that Severus dreaded the most happened. The owl flew right to him and landed on his shoulder.
"Severus, do you know that owl? Is it yours?" Lord Voldemort stepped closer to him. Severus quickly replied, not wanting to be given the Cruciatus curse.
"I know the owl, Master, but it is not mine."
"Who's is it?"
"Karen Darkes', sir."
"Ah, the witch we need to get rid of. Well, open the letter and read it aloud."
"Yes, Master." Severus opened the letter slowly.
Dear Severus,
I know we aren't on very good terms, but I want us to put all of that behind us. We should be friends, not enemies, it's bad for the soul. I'm sorry what happened to your father. I was there. I'm training to be an Auror, isn't that great! I'm getting really good at it, well that's what Moody says. Well I got to go, Sirius and James are bugging me to play Quidditch. Maybe we could meet somewhere before school starts? I'm staying at the Potters, since my dad got a little abusive. He broke my arm, and made me go unconscious. Alcohol does that to people. Well owl me back. If Fluff gets a little too hyper, just stuff a Owl Treat in his mouth.
Toodles,
Karen Darkes
"Awe, how sweet." Lord Voldemort sneered, grabbing the owl by the neck. "I have another way of calming this owl down. Avada Kedrava." The small owl laid motionless on the ground. "Now, you will meet this girl at Diagon Alley, Saturday night. Will lead her down a empty street, and will kill her. Understood?"
"Yes, sir." Severus gulped.
"Alright, now back to business."
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"Karen you have a letter, and a package."
"Thank you Mrs. Potter." Karen took her mail and went into the library, where Sirius, James, and Remus(who just arrived) were trying to developed a new, and improved dung bomb.
"What do you have there?"
"A letter from Severus, and a box, that's not labeled. I wonder who it's from."
"You might want Dad to open that. You've had another attempted deaths on your part."
"Okay. I'm opening the letter though, it's not ticking and it's not smoking."
"May we read?" They didn't wait for an answer, they all crowded behind her and read over her shoulders.
Dear Karen,
Sure, I'll meet you sometime. How about Saturday night at Diagon Alley? I need to get my school stuff. So you're staying at the Potter's, that should be pretty safe there, don't want you to get killed. Well I have to go. See you on Saturday.
Severus Snape
"We're coming with you." They all said at once.
"Why?"
"He's a son of a Death Eater. Don't you think he'll be a Death Eater too? And you're an Auror, too."
"I'm not one yet."
"Same difference. No where in that letter does it say that we can't come along, so we are going."
"No way am I going to let you go by yourself. What kind of boyfriend would I be if I let you walk into a trap?"
"A bad one. Fine you guys can go. Just use the invisibility cloak." Mr. Potter walked in.
"Have a nice day boys? And girl?"
"Yeah, we are almost finished with the dungbomb."
"Hey Dad, could you check to see if this has any curses or hexes on it? Karen got a un-labeled box, and she's had enough attempted deaths."
"Alright." Mr. Potter did several different spells. "Well it seems to be perfectly fine." He handed her back the box and left the room. They all stood around the table as Karen opened the box. She let out a scream as she pulled out what was inside. It was Fluff.
"Oh my god. Oh my god." She kept repeating over and over, looking at the carcass laying on the floor. A note was tied to it's leg. Sirius picked up the dead bird and read the note.
"Karen, Better quit your training now, and join the Dark Side, before one of your little friends get killed next. Lord Voldemort." Sirius read out loud. He looked up to see James, and Remus comforting her, and Mr. Potter running into the room.
"What happened?" He looked around and spotted the owl. "Oh."
"Someone really is out to get Karen. But why?" Sirius thought, taking a sobbing Karen into his arms.
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"Are you guys ready?"
"Yeah, are our feet showing?"
"No, here he comes." Severus walked up to Karen.
"Hi Karen, how have you been?"
"Not too good. Voldemort killed my owl, and sent his carcass to me."
"That's terrible."
"I'm glad you aren't part of the dark side like your father was." Karen looked at his face. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought that up."
"It's alright, are your friends here?"
"Yeah, somewhere around here, but I told them to leave us alone, since I know you guys don't like each other very much."
"Okay." Severus then thought to himself, "I'm going to fail this mission, unless I can kill 4 birds with one stone, or should I say, four people at one time." Severus smiled.
"Why are you smiling?"
"No reason, I was just thinking of a joke I heard earlier."
"I heard a good one the other day. A troll, a hag, and a leprechaun go into a bar..." Behind the two, James, Sirius and Remus were under the invisibility cloak.
"We have to make sure she doesn't get hurt, or worse, killed. Lets go into that empty path over there and take the cloak off. I'm sure Snape is part of the dark side, and he's probably plotting to kill her right now." They went down the empty path and hurriedly took off the cloak and ran to catch up with Karen and Severus.
"Hi Karen, Severus."
"I thought I told you guys to let me be."
"We know, but we just don't want anything to happen to you."
"Nothing will happen with Severus with me, so let us be." Karen pushed the three of them into the Joke Shop.
"She'll be alright, most likely Snape won't be able to cast Avada Kedarva, and she's been taking lessons from Moody so she can kick his ass for us."
"Good point. We have to replenish our candy stash, we ate alot of it this summer."
"That was hilarious." Severus said once Karen was done with the joke.
"Why are we going down this path?" She asked, taking notice to where they were.
"Oh I just thought you'd like to take a walk."
"This place is creepy, I can hardly see where I'm walking."
"Good." Severus pulled out his wand. "How would you like to die? Quick or long, and painful."
"What? Oh god!" Severus pointed his wand at her. She quickly pulled out hers and blocked the first curse. "What the hell is wrong with you? I trusted you and now you try and kill me!" But she wasn't fast enough to kick the wand out of his hand.
"Oblivate." He put a memory charm on her.
"Why are we here?" Karen asked, with a glazed over look in her eyes.
"You thought you saw someone come down here."
"Oh, lets go back. It's creepy down here."
"Alright." 'I failed Master, I'm going to be in deep shit at the next meeting.'
"Why were you guys down that trail? You know it leads to no where." James asked seeing the two come out to the main road.
"I thought I saw someone come down there." Karen said, the glazed look vanishing.
"I'm going to go. See you at school Karen." Snape walked down the road, going down Knockturn alley, but the others didn't see this, they went to the Eeylops Owlery to get Karen's new owl.
"Isn't she a beauty?" She held out a black eagle owl.
"Yeah, what are you going to name her?"
"How about Sijare?"
"Sijare? How did you come up with that?"
"The first to letters in all of your names. S-I for Sirius, J-A for James, and R-E for Remus."
"Cool, we better head back, It's getting dark out."
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A:N/ okay, I know I messed up in places, but this was written before I reread the 4th book. I know that
Moody's eye wasn't there at the time, and I think I got some of the spells wrong, and I can't spell for shit. Anyways thank you for those who reviewed part nine. Oh and part 11 might be awhile to get up, 'cause I have to write it!
