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 24
Tanathos stormed through the corridors his cloak still billowing in his wake. As his manoeuvred his way up to the seventh floor, a fierce scowl emblemised on his face, students up to 4th year darted out of his way. His thoughts were on what had just happened in the boys dormitory between himself and Granger.
He smirked 'That, was what I call fun. I should use her more often. Maybe she could be my relaxant, par se.' Tanathos reached the corridor where the room of requirement was and paced back and forwards three times. On the third pass a door appeared. Tanathos walked over to it and stepped into the room.
It was once again out-lined in dark mahogany wood and lining the walls were tall bookshelves filled with books on the Dark arts.
He walked towards one of the plush dark red chairs and sat down, admiring the setting. His school bag was at his feet/ he reached down and opened it, taking out the notepad he had bought in Hogsmeade on Halloween. He placed the book into his lap and held his right hand over it
"Notarrum." The small black note book glowed a dim purple then that died away. Tanathos picked up the book and flicked through the pages, they never ran out. Smirking to himself he pulled out one of the three books that Blaise had got out of the library. He rested it on his lap and placed the notepad on top of it. In the centre of the cover. Once again he held his right hand over them and muttered
"Transfi" Both the notepad and the book glowed blue before it faded. Tanathos put the book on the floor and flicked through the notepad. It had everything that was in the book. He then pulled out the second book from Blaise and did the same thing again. He then repeated the process with the third book.
The notepad now had the contents of all three books from the restricted section 'I'll ask father if he can give me a note to get some more out from there, I can transfer all their information into here.'
Tanathos looked through the notebook and smiled when he realised not only had the pages from the three books been copied in to it but the page with the Veilskurn potion had been dog-eared just like the page in the original book.
"Perfect."
'I need a drink' he thought 'Oh I know, I'll have what father had in his office case' Tanathos pictured the image of the bottle in his fathers office. He looked around the room and spotted it on the table with a glass next to it, waiting.
"Now if that's not an invitation, then I don't know what is." He said out loud to himself. Pocketing the notepad he stood and made his way over to the table. The drink it turned out was green in colour and looked quite thick in texture.
"I wonder" he said allowed again. Picking up the bottle he filled the glass. Picking up both Tanathos walked back over to the chair where his bag lay and sat back down.
Cautiously he sniffed the drink and was immediately intoxicated by it's scent. He lifted the glass to his lips and took a sip. The drink was so full of flavour it was difficult to grasp a definite one. He swallowed.
"Wow." He refilled the glass and drank it again. After his fourth glass he was having difficulty focusing "I'll talk to Campaspe later. Yeah that's a good plan." He drank another glass. He thought back to his summer at the Dursley's
"Stupid scared twats." He mumbled. "Hey wait a minute, Dudley got in shit once for something this year too! Wonder why?" he stopped talking to himself and thought back to the day he heard Petunia shouting . . .
~S~
"Why would you do something like this Duddykins?" Petunia was half asking half shouting at her son. They were standing in the kitchen. Harry was outside once again mowing the lawn. By hand.
Hearing his aunt shout he stopped and moved closer to the kitchen window. 'What's going on? Aunt Petunia never shouts at her darling Duddley.'
He didn't hear if Dudley answered, but whether he did or not, it didn't matter. Aunt Petunia came storming out of the back door with something in her hand. She walked stiffly over to the dustbins and threw whatever she was carrying into one of them. On her way back she spotted Harry.
"Hurry up and finish boy!" she hissed, but Harry, who had been doing the gardening all day and was sick of it stood up.
"No, I think I'll go inside. It's getting too hot and I'm beginning to burn." 'Thank you Remus, Moody and Mr Weasley'
Aunt petunia fumed "You'll do as you're told boy!"
Harry stood his ground "No I wont! Unless you want all those wizards and witches coming over"
She visibly flinched when he reminded her of the threat her and her family had received at the end of the year.
"Be quiet boy and get inside!"
Harry didn't need telling twice. He darted into the shade of the kitchen and spotted Dudley at the table with a bowl of ice cream in front of him.
"What are you looking at Potter?" his cousin had hissed
"Getting something to eat then I'm going to my room." He replied happily heading over to the fridge.
"What! No you wont, this is my food, and you can't have any of it!"
"What did Aunt Petunia take off you?" he asked casually
Dudley stumbled slightly in his reply
"Nothing!"
"Nothing that causes nothing less than lung cancer" Aunt Petunia was back "Potter go to your room, you can eat when dinner is served not before."
Harry smirked at Dudley before disappearing upstairs.
~S~
"I wonder what it was?" 'Nothing that causes nothing less than lung cancer!' were his aunt's words. Tanathos thought, then his face lit up "Oh course, cigarettes!"
At his proclamation and thought of them a pack of cigarettes appeared on the arm of his chair.
Tanathos regarded them for a while. "Oh what the hell, I'm gonna die any way."
He picked up the pack and took one out.
"Incendio" Using his wandless magics again, he lit the cigarette, put it to his mouth and inhaled slowly. Breathing the smoke out again he contemplated how they made him feel.
"Calmed slightly, still focused and muscles more relaxed. Not bad." He smirked and inhaled again.
After he had finished his third one the door opened. The room was now very Smokey and Tanathos couldn't clearly see who had entered.
The stranger laughed lightly
"I didn't know you smoked Harry" It was Blaise
"Yes it is surprising that the golden-boy smokes." Draco stood behind him
Tanathos frowned slightly
"Are you two gonna come in or are you just gonna stand there all day?"
Draco scowled, but Blaise just laughed and entered the room.
As Draco and Blaise neared him Tanathos thought of two more chairs. All three now made a triangle and I the middle of them a small table appeared on it quite a lot of packs of cigarettes. Getting the hint the two Slytherin's sat down. Both picked up a pack and took out a cigarette, lit it and started to smoke them. Tanathos raised an eyebrow as Draco after his first puff visibly relaxed. Tanathos laughed lightly
"Wouldn't have thought that Draco Malfoy would take part in a Muggle activity" he teased, in the other chair Draco scowled over at him
"For your information Potter, I partake in a few muggle activities"
Tanathos was intrigued
"Oh like what? And call me Harry, not Potter."
"Smoking obviously" Tanathos raised an eyebrow "Drinking and attending and hosting parties"
Tanathos lit another before answering
"I knew that last one." Blaise lit up again in the other chair carefully monitoring the conversation
Tanathos smirked "Well mister Malfoy what would you like to drink?"
"Absinth"
Tanathos thought, and it appeared. As soon as Draco poured himself a glass, Tanathos recognised it as what he had been drinking earlier.
He looked down to the bottle at the base of the chair and his half empty glass. 'So that's what it's called.'
He shrugged to himself and picked up his glass. Draco noticed it and raised a perfectly trimmed eyebrow
Tanathos noticed the look and recognised the un-asked question
"This is my fourth glass" Draco stared and Blaise asked
"You're on your fourth?"
Tanathos looked over to his friend
"Yeah so?" he asked confused
It was Draco who answered
"Absinth is incredibly strong stuff, normally after three glasses someone is moderately tipsy if not already drunk."
Tanathos blinked. Then looked at the now empty glass in his hand.
"And I've just drunk four. Oh boy" he leant back into the chair and closed his eyes.
The three boys sat in silence for a while smoking gently.
"So Harry, are you up for a little duel?" Tanathos opened his eyes and looked over at Draco. HE was smirking, Tanathos mirrored it and stood up.
"You got it. The Dark Lord's rules but no unforgivables. Deal?"
Draco stood. "Deal."
The three of them walked over to the newly erected duelling area. Draco and Tanathos stood at either end and Blaise in the middle, acting as referee.
"Take your positions" Blaise said loudly, they did so "And Start!"
"Gelo!" Tanathos dodged the freeze spell Draco sent at him and countered it with
"Obvolvo!" the spell hit Draco before he had time to block it and Tanathos started laughing as Draco became wrapped up in duck tape.
While Tanathos was laughing he didn't notice that Draco had ripped his way out of the duck tape and sent a spell at him
"Verto Worm!" The pale blue light of the spell encased Tanathos and then it faded away as Tanathos now became a worm.
"Engorgio!" Tanathos' s voice was very high pitched and almost not heard, but in the next minute a giant worm was chasing Draco around the room, Blaise was clutching his side with laughter
"Finite!" Draco cried pointing his wand at Tanathos/worm. There was a puff of smoke then Tanathos appeared again. Having got his body back he quickly aimed his wand at Draco and cast
"Alacer Casus!" Draco legs collapsed underneath him and he landed hard on the floor
Draco quickly cast a shield spell "Murus!" before Tanathos could hit him with anything else. Instead he pointed his wand at Tanathos and cast "Inflo" Tanathos' s body began to inflate quickly and soon he was floating up to the ceiling. Scowling at Draco he sent a spell back down onto him, breaking through the shield
"Pluo!" he then pointed his wand onto himself and muttered "Finite!" and fell back down to the floor. He landed on his legs with a sickening crunch "Ow! Fuck." He looked over to Draco who was sitting on the floor too, being drenched by the rain cloud Tanathos had charmed to rain on to Draco personally.
"Finite" Draco said to himself. "Aridness!" the drying charm worked quickly. He looked over to Blaise who was leaning over Tanathos 's legs with his wand in his hand. Draco rushed over
"What happened?" his voice was slightly panicky
"When he fell he landed on his legs I think they're broken" Blaise replied. Draco looked at Tanathos 's, his skin was pale and his eyes were going out of focus.
"Move!" Draco hissed at Blaise as he pushed him aside. Draco levelled his wand over Tanathos 's legs and muttered "Medicor!" A pale pink covered Tanathos 's legs. The spell took a little over a minute but Tanathos could feel the blood returning to them. Draco stopped the spell
"Try to move them" he said to Tanathos
Slowly Tanathos shifted his legs. They moved. Relief filled his face and he looked up at Draco and was shocked to see relief there too.
Both Draco and Blaise helped him stand.
"Thanks" Draco looked over to him, and smiled
"No problem. Just don't play quidditch anytime soon nor partake in any duels within the next week. Okay."
Tanathos grinned "Of course."
The three sat back down on the chairs. They had a few more cigarettes each then Blaise who was facing the clock said
"Come on, curfew finishes in 10 minutes. Lets head back to our common rooms."
They stood and Tanathos picked up his bag. Just as they were leaving he said to Draco
"Next time we duel. You might win."
Draco turned to him as they walked along the corridor
"What! I won that match!"
Blaise laughed at them as they continued to banter over who won and who lost.
Once they reached their staircase that would separate them they stopped and faced each other.
"It's a pity you weren't put in Slytherin Harry, we would of made a good team." He smirked
"Yeah, pity. See you in class tomorrow, we have Potions first thing." He grinned at Blaise 's disgruntled look.
"G'night, Blaise, night Draco."
"Night Harry" they both replied, and Tanathos turned off away from the two retreating Slytherin's and made his way back to the Gryffindor common room.
~S~
AN: I'm not so sure about Draco in this. He seems very OOC to me *Shrugs* oh well.
The following spells are from Not Myself by Saerry Snape. As I have mentioned before: GO AND READ HER STORY!!
Gelo = To Freeze
Obvolvo = Wraps victim up in duck tape
Verto _ = Transforms victim into what ever is said after the spell
Alacer Casus = Causes victims legs to give way under them
Murus = Shield
Inflo = Causes victim to inflate and float upwards unless tied down
Pluo = causes a rain cloud to appear over the victims head
Medicor = A healing spell
The following spells are from my own twisted little mind:
Notarrum = Makes a book [or note book] never run out of pages
Transfi = causes whatever object the spell is cast on the copy itself onto something else
Aridness = A drying charm
Review replies:
Keebler-elmo: I'm looking forward writing that bit too! It will be fun to write everyone's reactions
Kemenran: Thank you!
Selua: Because he is going dark and evil and she's a mudblood, and has recently pissed him off so he decided to take advantage of that. And as for questions; he's [Harry] going to die soon so he doesn't really care
Henio: I'm not sure if this chapters longer or not. Hope you liked it though! Yeah I might have Tanathos accost Granger again, but as for her allowing it?? *Shrugs* I don't think she would, especially since she is going out with Weasley still. Also she'll tell Weasley who will hate Tanathos even more which is very good seeing as he and Tanathos have a duel coming up (Though Weasley doesn't know that)
Resggal: I totally agree, Granger is weak and she is just so easy to take advantage of.
AtieJen: Ginny doesn't know that Harry is Tanathos, all she knows is that he is using the Dark arts, and isn't getting in with his *friends* atm, so that's not really much to tell, also she thinks that Harry is dating Blaise. All in all she is very confused.
Icedragon: *Grins* I can't really forget about the prophecy, though I can promise you that it does not go as Dumbledore first planned. *Laughs evilly*
Happy-evo7: this fic isn't a humour fic, it's a dark fic, though I think there are a few funny bits in it; for instance Draco being chased around the room of requirement by a giant worm . . . . . . .
Shattered Diamond: No there aren't any intended parings except from Granger and Weasley, though there might be more later on, but I don't think there will be. Just lots of usingness [yes that is a word] and possibly some rape and stuff. It's gonna get heavy and dark and evil later on, once Cercis comes into play. Hope you get over your snag! I love your story!!
Terra4: Sorry that there's no Severus in this chapter, but he was still at the Death Eater meeting, the next chapter is gonna be mostly him if not all! Tanathos is most likely to end up using quiet a lot of the characters as he become Cercis and pure evil.
As for everyone else who has read this but hasn't reviewed I have one little message to you, but please don't take it to heart, it's just my true Slytherin nature coming through:
REVIEW YOU STUPID TWATS! DON'T YOU REALISE THAT LEAVING A REVIEW HELPS THE WRITER?!?! EVEN IF ALL IT SAYS IS "Love it" OR "Keep Going!" *Growls in annoyance* I AM SO TEMPTED TO START FIRING CRUCIO AT YOU ALL!!!
*coughs*
So . . . um . . . yeah . . . Review.
LS