sSuicide 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 27

Tanathos followed his father and sat down in the seat that Ron had previously occupied.

"Well?" he asked Severus after he too had sat down "What plans are you talking about? Mine to kill off Potter or the Dark Lords?"

Severus smirked at his son

"Both" he replied simply.

Tanathos blinked

"Okay" he dragged out the 'O' as he said it trying to think what his father was going on about. "Well my plans to kill-potter-and-become-me have yet to be made so let's start with the Dark Lord's plans, yeah?"

Severus pointed his wand at the cupboard on the wall beside him, "Accio Absinth" the cupboard opened and a bottle of absinth sped towards Severus' outstretched hand. He then waved his wand in the air above his desk and two crystal glasses appeared on his desk. He opened the bottle and poured the drink in to the glasses. One full, one half full. He handed the half full on to Tanathos. Who didn't take it, Severus raised an eyebrow

"It's half empty" Tanathos replied to the un-asked question

"How do you know if you even like it?" his father asked curiously

Tanathos shrugged

"'Cause I was drinking some earlier"

"You were drinking my absinth?" Severus hissed at his son

"No" he replied "I was in the ROR and thought of some, it appeared and I drank it."

"ROR?" Severus asked confused – though he didn't show it

Tanathos rolled his eyes "Room of Requirement. ROR."

Severus nodded slightly "Fair enough."

"I nickname or shorten everything by the way" Tanathos answered while his father filled the glass up before handing it to Tanathos who took it "Right these plans of yours. What did the Dark Lord say?"

Severus drank some from his glass before answering

"He has set plans for his top three DE's to attack the families of the friends of 'Harry Potter' and the other members of the IC – Inner circle" he added at Tanathos' confused look "To just go out and have fun" Severus smirked

"Have fun?" He questioned his fathers words

He smirked "Of course, you didn't seriously think that we Death Eaters worked all the time then answered the call of the Dark Lord and not have fun?"

"Well yeah" he answered simply

Severus blinked

"You're kidding right?"

Tanathos smirked, then shock his head

"Nope"

Severus blinked again

"Right. Back to the plans. Who would you rather have pissed off at you; Dean Thomas or Seamus Finnegan?"

"You . . . What?" he asked confused

"Who would you rather have pissed off at you; Dean or Seamus? The Dark Lord is having Lucius and Philip attack their families to alienate themselves from Potter"

"Ah," he thought for a while "Seamus"

"Seamus" Severus repeated

"Yeah, he was pissed off at me last year so why not this year too?"

Severus contemplated this, before shrugging his shoulders

"That makes sense. Okay then in that case I will inform Dumbledore that the Dark Lord is planning on attacking Dean Thomas' family. Now my Lord has asked me to capture the Granger family. I assume, from your confrontation with Mr Weasley, that things are not at best with Miss Granger and yourself"

Tanathos let out a harsh bark of laughter

"Not at best? Father things have never been worse. Not only did I pin her against the wall, force myself onto her, knocked her head against the stone I did the worst thing possible."

He grinned

"What was that?" his father asked him

"I called her a mudblood and said that she'll never be anything more than a relaxant to me." He smirked "In other words I said that she means nothing to me any more."

Severus was looking at Tanathos the entire time while he described his attack on Granger, now he was looking at his son with a note of pride.

"Cercis" he began, calling him by his real name for the first time "Cercis, who do me proud"

Cercis beamed with pride at his fathers words

"Thank you" he whispered quietly

Severus smiled slightly at him, "Now the death of Potter shall come quickly what I think we shall do is, take you out of Hogwarts briefly, there is a very private magic school in Oxford that we can send you too. They are against my Lord and so the attack there won't pose questions. You shall only be there for a week tops."

Tanathos sat back in his chair

"How do we explain Potter's absence from here?" He asked curious

"We'll say that his relatives are ill and need someone to watch over them." He shrugged off the question with a simple answer before continuing "On the night of the attack I'll meet you outside the boarders of the school and you then can either join in with the attack or watch. Meanwhile Philip shall be attacking the Finnegan's sand Potter shall visit the Grangers and die in an attempt to save them. We can get some Polyjuice potion and have someone stand in as you. A muggle will work. Then you will come to Hogwarts under your true name and be enrolled here, obviously you will need to be re-sorted and questions will be asked about your parentage. But they will pass."

"What shall I say if asked if I'm related to you?" Cercis asked

"Tell them the truth"

Cercis raised an eyebrow "The truth?"

"Say that yes, you are my son."

The four last words left the two occupants of the office in silence once again.

"I" Cercis began "I have a father" his voice was so quiet that Severus almost couldn't here it. Cercis seemed to bring himself together again and asked "When does this plan go into action?"

"I will contact Philip tomorrow evening, to see if he has found the Finnegan's. If he has then I will send an owl to Dumbledore saying that the Dursley's have asked for you to go back and help them 'get better', in other words do all their work for them, and I shall take you to the Dragon school, in Oxford. The headmaster, Skipper Lynam, owes me a favour, I assure you that he will except you at his school. If Philip hasn't found the Finnegan's family then you will go to the Dragon school anyway and I will keep you informed. But before you settle in at Dragon you will need to make a trip to Diagon alley"

"What! Why?" Cercis asked shocked

"Because one, you need a new wand, two you need new robes and three the Dragon has a different uniform so you will need that too."

"Oh, okay. What about Hedwig, she is recognisably Harry Potter's owl."

Severus thought for a while then answered "There is a potion that will change the colour of her feathers, the book is in the restricted section" Severus looked away from Cercis briefly and signed him a permission note for access to the entire restricted section of the library.

"Here" he handed the note to Cercis. Who took it read it quickly then pocketed it.

"When will you go to Dumbledore?" he asked his father

"When I send you back to your common room. Now, find me the book by Wednesday, I will have the Potion done by Thursday and on Friday Harry Potter will be at Hogwarts for the last time in his life." He smirked and laughed lightly

"Well father it is time I went to bed, I will bring the book to you in two days time. Good night."

"Good night Cercis."

They both stood up and Severus held the door for his son.

"See you tomorrow. You have 6th years 1st thing" he grinned at the look on his fathers face then made his way back up to his common room, half hoping that no one was awake.

~S~

AN: 1,300 words, not too bad. But yay I got another chapter up!! The Dragon school in Oxford is a real place and Tim Henman went there when he was younger (That's my useless fact for you all *grins*)

Question: I have been a member of Fanfiction.net for over a year and have come across the term 'mary-sue' but have yet to figure out what it is. Can some one please tell me?? *puts hands together in pray position (see Pirates of the Caribbean to know what I am going on about)*

Review replies:

Kemenran: *grins* you'll find out soon! The dream team is falling apart *does dance* stupid gryffindors!

SlytherinDamian: Thank you!!! They are trying and failing to figure out why Harry is changing, though it will become clear soon. *Laughs evilly* thanks for your support on the whole smoking thing! I haven't smoked any in almost a month! (Which is very good for me – cause I used to smoke 40 – 60 a day)

Fyllraen: *Smirks* yes we could as you are not the only one who has had training from the Master. This chapter should have provided some more detail, but i know that it's not every thing. The story is reaching a point soon, one which I am very exited about writing!! The side of the light ie Dumbledore are trying to figure out what is going on, there will be a Cercis /Dumbledore confrontation soon *grins evilly again*

Cr1Ms0n^D3v1L: *LS joins in with lil' jig* more muggle activities will be coming back into the story at some point – not quite sure when – but they will! Promise!!

Ice Lupus: I like my character development, and if you don't – I don't care. Yes I take constructive criticism but the start of your review I take as a flame, and I don't accept flamers, (I tend to stalk them and fire Crucio at them at every possible moment) thank you for saying my plot is good – I like my plot too – but I also like my style as do all my other reviewers.

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Henio: Harry wont be in Slytherin, Cercis will be though. I do try to make the chapters longer but sometimes the places where I leave them are just to tempting to miss.

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Resggal: question what does WTG mean? My friend (jackspirateprincess go read her Pirates of the Caribbean story its really good) and I spent a while trying to figure it out, we had an idea that it was 'wow that's good' but we weren't sure *Grins sheepishly* Luna comes back into play soon hehehehehehe *LS wanders off laughing to herself again*

Selua: Dumbledore does have a vague idea (see next chapter) of what is going on, because Ron, Hermione and Ginny went to see him (Chapter 17) And as for Hermione-damsel-in-distress-Granger she's in shock and is unlikely to tell any one and if she does – it doesn't matter seeing as the-boy-who-lived is going to 'die' soon.

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Michelle: *grins* you're not the only one to suggest and Tanathos/Blaise but I don't think I will write it in, I might to a: B & T get drunk and have 'fun' then pass out in the morning they don't remember – or they do remember and a big bad happens but its unlikely.

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