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 21

"Welcome" Ginny began

'What's Ginny doing here?'

"It is such a pleasure to see all of you again"

'Again? Does that mean she's been to one of these parties before?'

"We have a lot of new members that I hope will do better than their families that betrayed us!"

'New members? What does she mean 'new members' surely little Ginny couldn't of joined up with the Dark Lord?'

"Now, our Lord and Master"

'Oh no, I can't take much more of this.'

"Has granted me permission to have my own little section within his ranks"

'First mum, now Ginny. What's going on?'

"I shall choose you, and you shall obey me as you do him"

'My whole life has been a lie, my friends work for the Dark Lord, my mum worked for the Dark Lord, my dad is a loyal Death Eater that has infiltrated the Order and the man who I thought for five years to be my dad blackmailed my mum into marrying him.'

'Hey Tanathos are you okay, you look like the world is about to end' Blaise asked concerned

'If only it would.' Tanathos replied coldly. His voice, though thought, was dead and blank. It held no emotion 'how did you know all that information about my mum?'

Blaise just shrugged 'All of Slytherin no the story of Lily Evans. She was a brilliant student and a brilliant charms mistress and she was one of the most loyal and most cruel Death Eaters to serve the Dark Lord.'

'Why are you telling me this?' Tanathos asked in a deadpan voice

'Because you deserve to know' Blaise replied simply. Blaise looked away from Tanathos and focused back on Ginny.

'My whole life has been a lie. I hate Dumbledore for not telling me. I can't believe they would keep this amount of information hidden from me. I hate them all!'

Blaise was tugging on his robe sleeve

"Come on. Lets go to the Anguish show, you look like you could use something to take your anger out on."

Tanathos allowed Blaise to lead him away back to the manor.

'I can't believe it. No one told me, not Sirius not Remus not Sna- my father no one. No one who said they cared about me. I hate them all.'

"Tanathos are you okay?" Blaise was concerned but right now Tanathos didn't care.

"Contact my father, I wish to speak to him."

"Okay." Blaise was quiet for a while then he turned to Tanathos "He's on his way. What's this about?"

Tanathos sat down on the top of the steps while they waited

"I need some questions answered." He replied

"Which questions would they be?" came Snape's silky voice from behind them.

"Follow me." Tanathos stood up and lead Snape and Blaise into the manor.

Tanathos opened a door to the left of room 17 where they had left their cloaks. He sighed it was empty. Walking in he stood in the middle of the room, Blaise and Snape followed him. Once they were all inside Tanathos pointed his wand at the door.

"Locoom. Secretus." As soon as he had locked and warded the door his anger exploded

"Why didn't you tell me anything about my history!" He screamed at his father, who surprised by the sudden hatred, fear and betrayal in his voice. Severus didn't answer

"Well?" Tanathos advanced on him, wand still out "Answer me Father, why didn't you tell me anything about anything?"

"Because" he began

"Because what father?" Tanathos cut across him "Because you didn't want me to run off to Dumbledore and tell him that you were spying on the order and have completely betrayed his trust! Because you didn't want me to go to Remus or anyone from the order and suggest that they question you under Veritaserum? Well?"

"Because I didn't want to lose you again" Severus' voice was barely more than a whisper and he was looking at the ground. Tanathos stopped, his anger quickly dissipating with the timidness of his father's voice. He had never seen nor heard him so withdrawn and receptive in emotion before.

"It's getting late we should find the others and head back to Hogwarts." Blaise said 15 minutes later. Neither Tanathos nor Severus had spoken within that time.

Tanathos took down the wards and the three left the room.

"I'll go find the others we'll meet you at the portkey point" Blaise said and left. Tanathos and Severus collected their cloaks and headed back outside. Neither speaking to the other. Both lost in thought.

Blaise and the others from Hogwarts who portkeyed in joined them a short while later.

"Everyone take hold. 3. 2. 1." The 14 people we're whisked away from the manor and back to the castle. The students disappeared off towards their dormitories.

"Tanathos" Severus called to him, he fell back into place with his father "We need to discuss a matter of importance come to my office after classes tomorrow" Tanathos nodded and watched silently as his father walked down to the dungeons.

'Goodnight father. Tomorrow you shall tell me everything.'

~S~

AN: ack! Sorry it took me a while to get this written! I'm sorry, but now its up! Yay go me! The next chapter will be Tanathos and Severus talking, or rather shouting [havent decided yet] then possibly the duel between Ron and harry. But yeah, it's coming along nicely don't you think? Lol.

Replies to reviewers:

The Internet Oracle: Teeheehee, thx your review made me laugh.

Terra4: Mwahahahaha yes I know I'm evil. Thank you. And I thought about doing a house comp but then I kinda figured that pretty much everyone who reads this would be in Slytherin, which means it wont really be a competition.

**Let me know if you're a reader and not in Slytherin, then I may consider doing a internet-house-competition thing.**

Baby Sphinx: Wow Bellatrix? I can see where you're coming from with that. But I had an idea for and Tanathos/Bellatrix meeting a bit later on.

Keebler-elmo: If you thought it was stupid then don't read it. Simple as that.

To everyone else who reviewed THANK YOU!!!

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LS