Suicide Solution.
Notes: this is a Severitus Challenge; go to his bio to find out the 'rules' for
a Severitus Challenge piece.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that is recognisably Harry potter-ish, and
the Severitus challenge-ness belongs to the writer Severitus, userid=123967
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 26
Severus apperated to just outside the borders of Hogwarts. He knew Dumbledore would ask what the Dark Lord was planning next and Severus already had a plan forming in his mind. But first he had to talk to Tanathos.
Grinning evilly to himself Severus strode across the sloping lawns and entered the grand castle by its main doors. His footsteps were silent on the stone floors of the deserted castle.
Severus smirked as he heard two voices echoing along the corridor
'Not as deserted as I thought'
His best I'm-scary-so-don't-bug-me sneer in place as he stood waiting to dish out punishment for being out past curfew. Hr glanced at the clock on the wall
'Hogwarts truly is a fantastic place.' He mused to himself 'whether you want a clock there is one. And damn its not past curfew.'
The two voices came around the corner of the corridor. Severus recognised them at once
"Mr Malfoy and Mr Zabini. Would you be so kind as to tell me why you are not in your common room" he moved towards them slightly and gently sniffed the air "And would you be so very kind as to tell me why you both smell strongly of that muggle drug – Tobacco and Nicotine?"
Draco paled slightly, yes he had got better at hiding his emotions but he was not quiet as good at it as Snape and Tanathos were. It was Blaise who answered him
"We've been with Harry sir. In the room of requirement."
Draco looked at Blaise. He had not expected him to tell Snape the truth. Severus sneered at them
"I assume that Mr Potter is now back in his common room correct?" he asked the two teenagers
"Yes sir, we left him a short while ago" Draco replied
Snape nodded "Very well. Return to your dormitory."
"Good night sir" Draco said as he moved past his head of house.
"Good night Mr Malfoy."
Blaise looked at Snape and asked
'Is Tanathos' plan nearly ready to be put into action?'
'That is what I am going to see him about now.' Severus replied mentally before bidding him good night out loud.
"Good night sir" Blaise replied before he and Draco walked swiftly down to the dungeons. Severus then continued on his way to the Gryffindor common room.
~S~
In the Gryffindor common room, Harry and Ron were once again arguing. According to what Tanathos had figured out from his once best friends shouting was that he, Ron, had come up to the boys dormitory only to find Hermione collapsed on the floor with her robe ripped open, crying her heart out.
It was Ron who was shouting now. Tanathos himself was staring calmly back at him which in turn infuriated Ron even further. It was this scene that Severus walked in on.
"I can't believe you! You fucking son of a bitch! How dare you do that to Hermione!?" Ron screamed at him, Tanathos stared calmly back and asked politely
"Do what Weasley?"
Ron spluttered "Do what? Attack Hermione that's what!"
Tanathos' eyes darkened "I didn't attack her. You must have me mistaken for someone else." His voice betrayed no emotion of any kind. Out of the corner of his eye Tanathos saw his father enter the common room and smirked slightly
"You did attack her!" Ron screamed "She says that you pinned her against the wall when she was trying to talk to you and you accosted her!"
By the entranced, Tanathos saw his father raise a questioning eyebrow at his son, who smirked in return. Ron was oblivious to his most feared teacher standing just a few feet behind him watching the scene.
Slowly Tanathos stood up from the chair he had been relaxing in and moved over towards Ron.
"Accosted her you say?" he hissed quietly so that only those near could hear him. On the stairs leading to the girls dormitory Tanathos spotted Ginny watching him expectantly
'Does she know?' he wondered to himself before turning his attention back to Ron.
"I deny that I accosted her." Ron began to object but Tanathos cut him off "But I do not deny pinning her against the wall" he smirked evilly as Ron' s facial expressions changed from hurt to anger and then to fear
"Then . . . Then you admit to what . . . what happened?"
He asked Tanathos quietly
He sneered before saying the one thing that hurt both Ron and Hermione more than anything else in the world
"That little mudblood slut didn't exactly refuse me now did she." He laughed lightly at Ron's expression. Also at his words Hermione started crying again.
"She basically offered herself to me like the little whore that she is. Of course being a mudblood means she'll never be anything more than a relaxant to me."
Ron's face changed to one of anger and he launched himself at Tanathos who back out of his reach. He circled around the chair and stood in front of his father. Who had a delightful look upon in his face.
Ron stopped dead
"Now, now Mr Weasley." He said smoothly in a voice that sounded so much like that of Lucius Malfoy's it was disturbing "Fighting is against Hogwarts rules. Follow me. Mr Potter, come with me too. Even though you did not participate in the fight" here he sneered at Ron, before turning his attention back to Tanathos "You were the victim of the attack."
Snape exited the common room, with a gleeful Tanathos and a furious Ron in tow. Ginny stared after Tanathos with a distant look in her eyes and turned away from the scene in the room and headed up to her bed to think about the recent events
'I think my Lord would like to hear of this little situation. Harry and Ron fighting again. Harry calling Hermione a mudblood. Snape doing nothing to stop the fight until Ron notices him. Yes, yes and I think Luna should hear of this too.'
Back in the common room mayhem ensued. Lavender and Pavati were trying to comfort Hermione who was still crying over what had happened. All those who had been there as witnesses and were in 4th year or under were looking very scared and quickly disappeared up to their dormitories. Those in 5th year were to shocked to speak, unlike those in 6th and 7th who were making their thoughts known to the others who would listen. They went along the lines of this:
"Cant believe Harry called Hermione a mud-you-know-what!"
"He's never been like this before!"
"Ron, Hermione and him have been fighting since the start of term, it's never been this bad before nor gone on as long!"
"He's been hanging around with Zabini and Malfoy lately, maybe they've cursed him!"
This comment brought and uproar of agreement
"That's it!"
"Damn that Malfoy!"
"I'm gonna curse him next time I see him!"
"How could they do that to Harry?"
"They're supporters of you-know-who, why else would they do it?"
"They're probably on his orders"
"I still can't believe he's back!"
"Harry and Dumbledore were right all along!"
"I can't believe he's back"
The conversation topics dwelled on the last though of the Dark Lord being back before they too slowly made their way to their beds. Contemplating the year and everything that had happened.
~S~
Snape stalked through the corridors his cloak billowing out behind him. Tanathos was walking at the back smiling to himself and Ron was shaking, but be it with anger or fear Tanathos didn't know.
Snape led them down to the dungeons and to his office. The three entered it silently. Snape went and sat behind his desk. Tanathos took the seat at the side of the room and Ron, although rather hesitantly took, the seat in front of Snape's desk.
"Now Mr Weasley" Snape began in a dangerously soft voice "Would you care to tell me what that little rant you had going on in your common room was about?"
Ron stared at the floor and spoke to it too
"Hermione said that Harry attacked her sir."
Snape looked over at Tanathos, who shrugged
"Attacked her how?" Snape asked looking back at Ron
"She . . . She said that he kissed her and f . . . felt her up and them began to strangle her and then he hit her head against the wall and left her."
Snape looked back over to his son and saw that he was regarding the youngest male Weasley with a strange look
"She told you all that did she?" he asked his once friend. Ron turned to him
"Of course she did! What you think I made that up!?"
Tanathos regarded Ron coldly and shrugged "It's funny it sounds so much better when listed by her boyfriend about what her best friend did to her" he sneered at Ron who unwillingly backed away
Tanathos stood up and walked over to Snape's desk
"Shall we duel now?" he asked absentmindedly, forgetting that Draco had advised him not to only half and hour earlier. Ron looked confused and scared and looked towards Snape
"Yes, I think you both need it. Follow me"
He stood up and walked around his desk to the door, Tanathos followed
"Hurry up Weasley" he snarled. Ron immediately stood up and followed the other two.
Snape led them to an empty classroom a short way down from his office.
As he entered he banished all the furniture to the side of the room and went and sat down on one of the chairs at the edge. Tanathos walked calmly into the centre of the now empty classroom
"In your own time Weasley" Tanathos drawled
Cautiously Ron moved onto the centre of the room too. Once he was away from the door Snape pointed his wand at it and hissed
"Locoom. Secretus. Quiitarrum."
Next he turned towards the two sixth years.
"Right the rules are:
Anything goes except the unforgivables.
There is no time limit and the duel will only stop when Weasley – I mean one of you passes out. Clear."
"You got it" Tanathos replied
"Weasley" Snape hissed venomously
"Yes sir." He replied timidly.
"Good. Take your positions then." They did so "And start!"
Tanathos reacted first and sent the same spell he sent at Draco
"Gelo!" Ron, surprisingly dodged it and tried to counter it but Tanathos was too fast
"Alacer Casus!"
Ron's legs, much like Draco's did, collapsed underneath him. Wand out Tanathos advanced in him
"Come now Weasley, fight back. It's not as much fun as a one-way duel. Commoveo!"
Ron began to be thrown about the classroom violently. On the sidelines Snape was beginning to laugh. As was Tanathos.
"Finite. Dolor Acidus!" Tanathos commanded flicking his wand in a star-shaped patter. Ron shrieked in pain as the curse was inflicted upon him. This just made Tanathos and Severus laugh harder.
"Finite. Perverto." Tanathos stopped the pain and instead cast a curse, which made Ron think he was upside down. Tanathos moved over to join his father and together they watched as Ron stumbled around the classroom
"Cast the ELD" Severus suggested
Tanathos looked at him "ELD? What's that?"
"Surly you know it, it's one of Lady Campaspe's favourites."
Tanathos shrugged "I havent had many lessons from her lately so all I know is what's in those three books Blaise got out. Speaking of which would you give me a note allowing entrance to the Restricted section?"
"Of course. But this spell the incantation is Perpes Acerbus"
Tanathos nodded then looked over at Ron who had just walked into a table
"Perpes Acerbus"
Ron screeched again and both the Snape's laughed.
They watched him wander around blindly for 5 minutes then Ron's sight came back.
Growing bored Tanathos decided to be evil and cast one last spell on Ron
"Fervidus Ictus" again Ron screamed but this time it was very similar to that of his older brother; Meredith Weasley. They listened to him scream for a little while before Tanathos cancelled the spell.
"Well my little Weasley that wasn't very fun now was it. You didn't even try to curse me back. Tut tut tut." He smirked. Ron was shaking all over from the amount of pain Tanathos had put him under
"I hate you" Ron hissed, "I hate you!"
Tanathos sneered at him and knelt down to his level
"The feelings mutual Weasley." He stood again then waved his hand over Ron and muttered
"Miniviate"
As if in a trance Ron stood and moved towards the door. Tanathos took down the spells over it and allowed Ron to leave.
He turned to his father, who was smiling at him slightly
"Come, I have a few plans to discus with you."
And with that they left the classroom and returned to Severus' office.
~S~
AN: there you go! Over 2000 words! And it's up on Monday like I said, yay go me!
Spells
The following spells belong to Saerry Snape, (The best hp fanfics author ever in my opinion)
Gelo = Freeze
Alacer Casus = Causes victim's legs to collapse
Commoveo = to move violently
Dolor Acidus = sharp pain
Perverto = turn upside down
Perpes Acerbus = never ending darkness
Fervidus Ictus = fiery wound
The spell Miniviate is one of my own and is a precise version of the Obliviate charm, only this gets rid of the memory of who, what and when it happened but not how it felt.
Also the spell Quiitarrum is one of mine and is a silencing charm, much like Secretus but stronger.
Review replies:
Selua: This chapter should of answered you're question, if not completely don't worry because that'll be the next one.
MarsMoonStar: *grins* thank you, I do try to keep it interesting
Elssha: I have already explained why I had Harry kill Kretcher. Sirius' mum doesn't hate everyone, not in my opinion and seeing as this is my fic, I'll write her how I like. Severus is portrayed in this fic exactly how I see him in the books, if her were not a 'oh forgive me forever betraying the Dark Lord im ever so sorry. Im so weak and pathetic' idiot. I love dark Severus and again seeing as this is my fic, I'll portray Severus as dark and evil as I like epically seeing as it goes with the story I am writing. You can tell em as much as you like about rushing this story makes it bad, but I don't care I have had over a hundred reviews saying that they love this story and how I'm writing it, so if you are going to tell me like that then fine but It wont effect how I write my story. My Harry is lacking in logic, and in my opinion he has never had it, and so chanting logic logic logic isn't gonna do any more than use up review space.
But besides all that thanks for your review and I'll take it as constructive criticism.
StormyBelle: Thank you! Your kind of review makes me feel so happy and more enthusiastic about writing the next chapter!
Mad-hatter . . . mad as a hatter: *grins* Yay!! Thank you!!
Terra4: I love absinth too! But have sadly never tried it, I would love too though. My mission in life: find absinth and drink it. The smoking harry was had for me to write – I'm trying to give up atm, and so writing it made me want to have a cigarette. But I didn't – I resisted, yay go me! Tanathos kinda er forgot about the 'no duelling' bit, silly Tanathos. But in a way it dint really matter because Weasley never managed to hit him back *laughs evilly* stupid Weasley!! Severus and Tanathos smoking – Severus knows, but doesn't really care at this point. He might do later, havent decided yet, and he drinks absinth himself so I doubt he'll be against that. And for it being illegal – his entire life is pretty much illegal so that wont be a problem either. The Dark Lord is one of my favourite characters – I have very strong views on what he's like. I'm glad you like him like that too! Your fic roks! So you have to update soon!!
Fyllraen: Imperious?? Im not one to be controlled unless it's the Dark Lord or Severus or Draco asking me to do something of course. Tanathos' plan to kill potter is coming along nicely. Severus and Tanathos will be discussing it in the next chapter. As for the wands I will be sorting that out later – I hadn't forgotten, but it hasn't occurred to Tanathos yet.
Shania Maxwell: Thank you!
Shattered Diamond: yay for you getting out of your snag! I love your story! I might write in a Severus/? A bit later on, but im not sure yet.
Prophetess of Hearts: Did you get my email?? *smirks*
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SlytherinDamian: Draco will definitely get some comeuppance don't you worry, as for the Dark Lords orders; he thinks that the finnegans, thomas' and Grangers are all friends with harry even though he knows that harry and hermione have had an argument he thinks that the death of his friends families will affect harry and the other will distance themselves from him leaving harry open to attack from him.
Dir en Grey: thank you!!
Resggal: Severus is going to discus what to do with Tanathos . . . thank you btw!!
Henio: this one is longer!!
ChildOfDarkness: yes, yes Master is very good. Mwahahahahaha *LS goes off laughing to herself – people run away quickly*
Coriel: short yes. Pointless no – those plans come into play in a bit – v. important those plans are.
Kemenran: friendship with Ron and Hermione? Not bloody likely after this chapter. Tanathos help dean? Would he though after all Dean is a mudblood.
Thanks to every one who has read my story!
And special thanks to everyone who reviewed!!
LS