Suicide Solution.

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Summary: A Severitus challenge, [Snape is Harry's father] Story begins at 11.59pm on July 30th. It's the summer before Harry's 6th year, and Harry's changing . . . (A Dark Harry fic)

Chapter 16

'Blaise! Blaise!'

Harry screamed in his mind

'What Tanathos? What's got you all happy?'

Harry and Blaise were both sitting in the great hall having breakfast

'Father says I can come to the party tonight!'

'What! But what about the potion, you still look like Potter.'

Harry smirked

'Yeah but it wears off at 11 ish tonight, so I can come!'

'What about your robes? Do you have any appropriate?'

'I have a few, but I dunno if they'll be good enough for the party? I have my cloak with me so when we finish breakfast meet me in the 1st class room on the left of the hall.'

'What good'll that do?'

'You can come with me to the Gryffindor dorm'

'How will a cloak help me get into the dorm?'

'Duh! It's an invisibility cloak!'

'You have an invisibility cloak? How? Since when?'

Harry smirked again

'Yep, Christmas present, 1st year'

'Wow'

Harry laughed at the awe in Blaise's voice

'Dumbledore gave it to me'

'You got it from Dumbledore?' interrupted Blaise

Harry scowled across the hall at him

'No he past it on from James Potter, it was his.'

'Ah that makes sense. So Dumbledore doesn't know?'

'Nope, not gonna either. Harry Potter will die and Tanathos Guerra shall live on.'

'What about Snape?'

'What about him?'

'When are you gonna take Snape's name?'

'I dunno actually, I hadn't thought about that. I'll have to ask him.'

'Harry Snape?'

Harry laughed, and then looked around the table; the Gryffindors and some Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws were all looking at him weirdly so Harry laughed again

'Not bloody likely' he shot back to Blaise

'What about Tanathos Snape?'

'Nah, it doesn't sound right. I wonder what he would have named me if he knew I was his when I was born.'

'What's your middle name?' Blaise asked suddenly

Harry thought, 'I don't know. I've never been told.'

'That's something to find out. Are you finished?'

Harry looked down at his plate 'Yeah let's go.'

Harry and Blaise both stood and made their way out of the hall, Blaise left it first, having sat nearer and Harry was walking slowly.

He crossed over the hallway and entered the 1st classroom on the left. As soon as he entered Blaise stepped out from behind him.

"Well mister Guerra where's this lovely cloak of yours?"

Tanathos but his bag on the floor and pulled out his invisibility cloak.

"Put it on and follow me."

Blaise did as he was told. Once he was completely covered they left the class room. Tanathos led Blaise up stair case after stair case through tapestries and behind mirrors. When they eventually made it to the Gryffindor common room Tanathos could hear Blaise breathing heavily

'Tired?' he mocked

'Shut up! How do you manage to make that journey every day?'

Tanathos shrugged 'I've been doing it for over 5 years'

'Oh yeah, well where's your lovely common room?'

'This way' he walked down the last stretch of the corridor and stood in front of the fat lady's portrait

"Eatsqueakmeat" he told her

He heard Blaise snigger behind him 'that's a password? No wonder us Slytherin' s can never guess it'

She swung forward and Tanathos climbed in followed by Blaise.

'Wow, it's really cosy and well nice, 'cept for all the red, I prefer green.'

'You would, you're a Slytherin.'

'So are you'

'I never said I preferred red. Come on'

Tanathos walked up the stairs to his dormitory. Once inside Blaise took off the cloak and threw it back to Tanathos.

"Well where are these robes that you have?"

Tanathos walked over to his wardrobe, unlocked it and pulled out 4 new robes that he had bought in the summer. One was Black with a silver dragon on the back, rimmed in silver threads, made of velvet. The second was deep emerald green, with black lining, made of velvet too. The third was a blood red colour, made out of silk. The fourth was Black again, with a high collar and rimmed in green.

Blaise looked over them all before picking up the first one with the dragon on the back.

"Put this one on."

Tanathos took off his school robes and his black jeans that were underneath. He wasn't wearing a top. Then pulled the black robes on over his boxers.

"Well what do you think?" he asked Blaise.

He didn't answer right away; instead he walked around Tanathos admiring the robe.

"Take it off and put the Red one on"

"You want me to look like a Gryffindor?" he teased

"Shut up and put it on"

Tanathos took the black one off then pulled the red one on.

"Hmm, I don't know" Blaise said to himself "You're right, you do look too much like a Gryffindor, put the green one on."

Sighing Tanathos pulled the red robe off and the green one on.

"So now you want me to look like a Slytherin?"

"Better Slytherin than Gryffindor" Blaise replied absentmindedly.

"Yeah, I spose." Tanathos said quietly.

"I think this one, but you'd better but the other black one on to be sure."

"Fine, you know I feel like a bloody Barbie doll" he said grumpily as he took the green one off

"A what?" Blaise asked confused

"A Barbie doll - muggle girl's toy made out of plastic that looks like a woman."

Tanathos explained patiently

"Ah, okay, if you say so, now put the black one on."

Tanathos had just picked it up when the dormitory door opened and Ron stood there with Ginny behind him. There was silence then Ron exploded

"What's he doing in here? He's a bloody Slytherin!"

Ron was drawing his wand

"Expelliarmus!"

Tanathos shouted the spell hit Ron and he was blasted into the wall, Tanathos held out his hand and caught Ron's wand easily.

"Don't you even think about attacking him Weasley!" Tanathos hissed. He threw Ron's wand back onto the ground and Ginny helped Ron stand up.

"Why is he here?" Ron asked

"Because he's with me" Tanathos shot back

"I gathered that much. Why is he with you?" Ron said annoyed

"Because he's my friend and I invited him up here."

"So that's it then?" Ron asked angrily "You dump your best friends and run to a slimy Slytherin!"

Tanathos' anger flared

"First of all I didn't dump you! You dumped me! And secondly Slytherin's are not slimy, as you so eloquently put it, they are a hell of a lot smarter then you and almost any other pathetic Gryffindor!"

"You're a Gryffindor" Ginny pointed out quietly

"Shut up Weasel. I'm more Slytherin than Gryffindor anyway."

Ginny was standing behind her brother looking at him, Tanathos ignored her, Ron he noticed had his wand pointed at Tanathos.

"You're evil! What the hell has happened to you Harry? What's going on? 5 years of friendship just brushed away as if it didn't happen. How can you do that to us? What about Dumbledore, Remus, Tonks and the rest of the order?"

"Is that all I am to you lot? A weapon for the order?" Tanathos shouted

Neither Weasley answered

"Answer me!" Tanathos bellowed

"Easy Tanathos, easy." Blaise said from behind him. "They don't know what their side will do with out you. You're their only hope. It would be like the Dark Lord without the Death Eaters."

Tanathos smirked "With out the Death eaters, he'd be weak and helpless" he said quietly and in an amazingly calm voice. He looked up at Ginny and Ron

"Well, is that true? With out me the order will be like the Dark Lord with out his Death Eaters? Well?" again they both stayed quiet Tanathos' temper flared again

'Do you know any spells that will make them tell me the truth?' he asked Blaise mentally

'Resero Ingenium. It reveals a persons nature'

'Ah nice'

"Resero Ingenium!" Tanathos commanded

'Now ask them again'

An evil grin appeared on Tanathos' face and he turned to face the two Weasley's

"If I leave the order will they be like the Dark Lord with out his Death Eaters?"

"Yes" came the reply from both of them

Tanathos' features darkened "Then that is what I'll do. From this point onwards the order will have to fight this war with out the boy-who-lived."

Ginny started crying and ran from the room; Ron took one last look at Tanathos before running after her.

"Wingardium Leviosa"

Blaise looked at Tanathos

"Why'd you do that?"

"Because they will have run to Dumbledore who will ask me to go to his office and he will do Priori Incantantum on my wand to see if they are telling the truth about me using Dark Arts, so now he won't have any proof unless he uses Occlumency on me"

"Ah okay put the black one on then"

Tanathos did so and waited for Blaise's verdict.

"Nope, I still say the green one. Put your school robes back on and let's head to Hogsmeade and get a drink."

Tanathos smirked, nodded and put his school robes back on after pulling on his jeans.

"Let's go"

Tanathos made towards the door

"What about the cloak?"

He turned back to Blaise

"You think I care anymore?"

Blaise surveyed Tanathos, 'Something's different about him, he's changed so much in such a short amount of time, it's scary.'

"Nope."

"Well, then lets go!"

Tanathos walked out of the dormitory and out through the common room with Blaise behind him. Together they made their way out of the castle and into Hogsmeade.

~S~

AN: Resero Ingenium is another spell from Not Myself, I love Saerry, Ni and Harry! Thank you!

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