It's Time

A werewolf. The headmaster has allowed the carnal beast to teach at Hogwarts, to be around the students and myself. He has gone too far, and now Black the traitor has escaped from Azgaban. The man is crazy, it appears that all his sanity has disappeared. If this is another plan of his than I hope it all rots, it's disgusting to watch all these manipulations, everyone thinks they're playing god while in reality they play the devil.

I just cannot stand it any longer.

***

I find my anxiety rising, and my gaze shifting to the young women who sits at Gryffindor table, at the edge away from everyone, on an abyss without allies, but soon it will all be rectified. I will make my move, play devil, with young Virginia not as a pawn but as a queen and I as her king.

I can see her watching them, I can feel her watching me, her features frozen hiding all emotion except for confusion, confusion hidden in the way her lips almost sneer at a thought than spread into a line, and her eyes, honey and chocolate. Does she know her eyes seduce as well as allow her to see the truth, and yet her eyes still burrow into me? She has questions, and I have her answers. Who will make the first move in this new game, must I convince her or will she come to me by her own free will?

***

She came to me, her cloak of silence off, her words demanding, seducing, persistent when they needn't be. I had to wonder who was in charge, wasn't I who was the master of this game, hadn't I started it, this plan I'm sure won't fail. For you see, her questions surprised me, I didn't know the answers, I hadn't even thought of asking them myself. She knew something, this slip of a girl knew more than me, it wasn't possible.

I won't be angry at her, she's been a pawn herself, and I won't lie, a queen to a king is a pawn as well. I didn't like it one bit, I thought I was different.

I sent her out, without the answers to the questions I didn't know. Her face showed confusion,

hate, and pity, and then she hardened so like myself, but then again I never showed any emotion but anger.

And that was it, she came back one day, out of the blue, as if the first day she came to me never existed. She asked not questions but for help, to learn, to be, to know everything she would need to know, I said yes. At least now my plan was back on track, she had given me time to answer her questions.

She was a great apprentice, just as I had foreseen. Her grasp on the workings of the dark arts, impressed me, I suppose her own research hadn't been useless after all, and for that we were both grateful. I taught her not only dark hexes and charms, but potions, necromancy - only in theory, aritmancy, history, dueling, and hand to hand combat, which included muggle swords, daggers, martial arts and strategy.

In less than a year, she had gained more knowledge than most aurors would know what to do with. The ministry could be thanked for that; standards had gone down, after Harry Potter defeated Voldemort and the threat that he had caused to the wizarding world.

The end of the school year was enraging, just as it was gratifying. Black escaped, but Lupin got fired, Virginia had finished this years training with the ease and grace only she could have showed. Next year will be harder for everyone. Especially me, Virginia is learning too quickly and soon she will surpass even me, I doubt it yet it is still a possibility, I must increase the difficulty, and my own knowledge. She handles herself too well, this year seemed too simple for her, I will not let her make a fool out of me, too many have already done so.

I still haven't any answers to her questions, it infuriates me, and she knows it too, every time she has looked me in the eye, I can tell she knows something, that she knows she knows something I do not, and I hate it.

I hate it.

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A/N, not many reviews, so this is a complete bummer, but then, the choice of pairing is elusive and not many people are a fan to it, so not many people read it, or write it. So I'll forgive and forget.

But those who do not review are big meanies, big meanies.

So thank-you to those that did review:

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