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 18

There were only a few minutes until the Halloween feast began when Blaise and Tanathos walked back into the castle, swaying slightly from the amount of Butterbeer and Firewhiskey they had drunk in the day.

Their Hogsmeade trip started out with them in the Three Broomsticks but as the day went on more Hogwarts students arrived and so they moved to the Hogs Head. (The Bar tender was a distant relative of Blaise's so they got a lot of free drinks of what ever they wanted)

"I'm hungry!" Tanathos complained just before they had reached the great hall

"Not as hungry as I am!" Blaise shot back

"Oh yes I am!" He countered

"Are not!" Blaise replied

"Fine then" Tanathos said suddenly "I challenge you to an eating competition! To prove that I'm more hungry than you are!"

"Fine then! Lets go, I'm hungry!" Blaise started walking quickly into the hall with Tanathos behind him.

Together they sat at the Slytherin table, which in its self caused a few heads to turn, but even more when the two started piling up their plates with everything in sight. Those who were on the Slytherin table noted that they were both getting the same foods. If one got lamb chops the other would get lamb chops, and so on and so forth.

Once their plates were so full they wouldn't have been able to add even a single pea onto it, they turned to face each other

"Ready?" Tanathos asked

Blaise smirked

"I will beat you!"

Most of the people in the hall, including the teachers, watched in shock as both Tanathos and Blaise began to eat all their food with as much speed as possible. Up at the staff table Severus sat staring in shock at his son.

'What are those two doing?' He sighed 'Blaise' he called mentally

'Sod off, I will win this challenge!'

Severus was shocked no student had ever talked to him like that

'What challenge?' he asked

'I will prove to Tanathos that I am more hungry than him!'

Severus dropped his head into his hands 'This. Is. Not. Happening.' Was his mantra at the moment

"Severus are you okay?" came Lupin's voice from the seat next to him.

"Yes I'm fine." He snapped back

Severus looked back over to the Slytherin table where a small group, which was steadily growing, surrounded the two speed eating members of Hogwarts. Severus groaned, then stood up and made his way over to the table where they sat

"Mr Potter, Mr Zabini. Stop this at once!" he commanded, but to no avail, the group surrounding them however dispersed quickly, though neither Blaise nor Tanathos made any notion to of heard him.

"Mr Potter!" he growled "Mr Zabini!" again they ignored him, Severus was losing his patience

'Blaise, Tanathos stop this at once!' he screamed into their minds

Both jumped

"Ow . . . don't shout so loud!" Tanathos growled at him, the hall it seemed were holding their breath. Blaise looked down at his plate, then at Tanathos'. A wide grin appeared on his face

"HaHA! I won! I told you I was more hungry then you!"

Tanathos looked down at his plate, and then at Blaise's. His had more food on it.

"No! I don't believe you! You must have cheated!" Both were, once again, ignoring their surroundings.

"For Merlin's sake will you two shut up and follow me!" Severus literally screamed at the two 6th years.

Finally they actually looked at him

"Don't shout, if you wanted our attention all you had to do was ask." Tanathos grumbled

"Lets go, we need to have a little chat." Severus turned away from them and walked out of the hall, black robes billowing behind him. Tanathos looked at Blaise

"Oh well, lets go!" and he walked quickly out of the hall with Blaise behind him

Once they reached Severus' office, he shut the door behind them and looked at the two.

"What in Merlin's name did you think you were doing?" he hissed

Blaise shrugged, Tanathos answered

"We were hungry"

"Yes I guessed that" Severus snapped at his son

"That was it." Severus blinked

"You were hungry. That was the only reason for that ridiculous display in the hall.

"Yep" Tanathos answered

Blaise attempted to sit on the chair next to Severus's desk, but missed and ended up on the floor. Tanathos laughed and the fell over himself. Severus looked at the both.

"You've been drinking?" It was a statement "How much?"

"Er . . ." Tanathos started

"Not to much." Blaise said still sitting on the floor. Severus sighed again and leaned against the front of his desk. He then pulled out his wand and pointed it at Blaise, who froze.

"Sobreum" The spell hit Blaise on the head, and for a moment he was silent then he stood up

"Thank you professor" Blaise said apologetically, and complete sober. Turning Severus pointed his wand at Tanathos who backed away slightly

"Sobreum" he said again.

"Opps." Tanathos said a little while later "I can't believe we got drunk on firewhiskey"

"You were drinking firewhiskey?" His father asked him

"Er. . . yeah. Sorry."

Severus smirked and shook his head at the two boys, before glancing at the clock on the wall. It was 9.30pm.

"Go and have a shower and get changed, be ready for 11pm, I will come to your common room to collect you. We leave at 11.15pm." the two just stood there "Go!" he hissed.

"Right see you at 11 then! Bye!" Blaise said as he was leaving the room, Tanathos hadn't moved

"Tanathos?" his father asked him

"Do you know if Dumbledore knows about this party?"

Severus thought for a while

"No, I don't believe he does." A wash of relief washed over his son's features.

"Brilliant, I'll see you at 11 then. Bye Father."

"Bye Son."

Tanathos left the office and made his way up to his dormitory for a long bath before he got ready for the party.

"This is gonna be so cool!" he said to himself as he entered the common room.

~S~

AN: there we go! This one is twice as long! And I cant believe I haven't got to the Halloween party yet! Well its definitely gonna be in the next chapter!

Keep reading and reviewing!

LS