Disclaimer: Iris Hecate and the plots involving her belong to me. Old and
familiar characters and plots belong to the wonderful J.K. Rowlings.
A New Beginning
Chapter 5 The Beginning of it All
I feel that I must tell you about my relationship to you. I am your second cousin on your father's side. My real name would be Iris Potter.
Iris wrote on a piece of parchment while she sat in the middle of her four- poster bed surrounded just in moonlight.
Sixteen years ago I witnessed a devastating event that ultimately changed your life. I would like to say it changed mine but I can't since my life changed long before you were even thought of.
You maybe wondering why are you finding out that you have another relative other than the Dursley's.
Where do I begin? I best be safe and start at the beginning for you.
Iris sat in the middle of her bed pondering how she was going to tell her story to her young cousin when she all of the sudden heard this pecking noise coming from her office. Iris got up picking up her wand and peered out her bedroom door. Everything in her office seemed quite normal. Pictures of friends and family on the fire place mantel. Her old wooden desk in the back of her office was still covered with graded and yet to be graded scrolls on top of it. All her books seemed to still be in order. Iris grabbed her bathrobe and headed into her office.
PECK PECK PECK. Iris heard as she tightened her robe around her waist. Iris heard the same blasted pecking again but didn't know where it was coming from. She checked the fireplace, her classroom and out in the hallway. She returned back to her office and stood in the middle of the room listening for it to happen again. Iris stood there for ten minutes motionless when the pecking started up again. She spun around her office looking for the source of the noise but when she stopped she was dizzy. She regained her balance and continued to look. The pecking was becoming louder and more agitated.
Finally she caught the sight of something fluttering outside one of her office windows. She walked over and stood on the chair in front of the window. With all her might she pushed open the large old window and a large black owl swooped into her office and dropped a package in the middle of her office and then left her office immediately. Iris picked up the package and brought it over to the fireplace to exam it.
"What on earth is this?" Iris questioned sitting down in front of the fireplace.
Iris picked up the package and turned in round and round in her hands. It was a plain black cube. It wasn't a box because there was no way of opening it at all. Iris tried all kinds of different spells but nothing worked on it. Iris placed it back on the ground and just stared at it. Suddenly the top of the black cube disappeared and the four sides folded down to reveal a black glowing orb.
"OHHH!" Iris exclaimed as she picked up the magnificent black orb.
Iris held it up to the fire to get a better look at it then suddenly she felt a pulling sensation in her gut just below her bellybutton. She felt herself slipping backwards into darkness.
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Snape was working in his private potions lab preparing more Veritaserum for Professor Dumbledore. Professor Snape was working hard and off in his own little world. Snape was deep in thought that he didn't hear the soft tapping at his dungeon door. The tapping grew intensely louder until it became a loud banging.
"What the hell?!" A startled Snape cried out.
Snape drew his wand out and headed to the door.
"Who could it be at this time of night?" Severus wondered to himself.
Severus pulled open the heavy dungeon door.
"What do you want?" Snape growled out in to thin night air.
Professor Snape walked out in to the dungeon hallway and looked around to see who could have possibly disturbed him at this ungodly time of night. Snape stood there for several minutes with a puzzled expression on his face. He turned back around and headed back inside the dungeon when his foot brushed up against something. Snape bent down and picked up a black box. He brought it back inside and examined it very closely. He didn't dare open without checking for jinxing spells. After he checked for jinxing spells Severus then tried to open the box but couldn't because it was a solid black cube. He tried several spells to open it and those didn't even work. Snape then went and rummaged through his storage cabinets and pulled several vials of different concoctions and poured them over the box trying to open it. Getting annoyed Snape placed it off to the side and went back to completing the Veritaserum potion. As he was placing it into vials when he realized that something behind him was glowing eerily. Snape turned around slowly and saw that the mysterious black cube and collapsed to reveal a glowing black orb.
"Bloody hell!" Severus exclaimed as he moved closer to the black orb.
Severus bent down to observe the orb. His long crooked nose was barely inches from the orb. Against his better judgement Snape picked up the glowing orb and rolled it around his hands. Suddenly he felt like someone had taken a giant hook and grabbed him around his waist and pulled him backwards into darkness.
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Iris was falling backwards in to total darkness. Any light around her was swirling out of sight. Iris then landed in a cold and dark room. It took her eyes several minutes to adjust to the darkness. She had situated herself so she was crouching on her legs and her hands placed firmly on the ground to balance herself.
Iris was standing up only to be violently knocked on to her back by something black and heavy. Iris started kicking and hitting anything that her fists or bare feet made contact with.
"GET OFF! GET OFF!" Iris screamed as she thrashed on the ground trying to get out from under whatever had fallen on top of her.
Suddenly the thing that Iris had been kicking and hitting on let out this animal like growl that sent a chill down her spine. Iris gave one last effort to remove herself from her attacker. She got up and tried looking for an exit. She felt her way around the dark cold room trying to find a way out but she couldn't. She found a corner and crouched down.
"Where is my wand?" She cried to herself.
Iris sat crouching in the corner trying to not give herself away to her attacker again. She held her breath and just waited for something bad to happen to her.
"LUMINOUS!" She heard someone growl from the other side of the room. Iris shielded her face from her attacker.
"WHO ARE YOU?" He growled moving closer to Iris.
Iris sat there motionless from fright but was suddenly grabbed by her shoulder and drug into the middle of the room.
"WHO ARE YOU?" He yelled at her again this time holding his glowing wand close to her face.
"Iris?!" He exclaimed.
He then released his grip from her shoulder and held his wand up to his own face.
"Severus?!" Iris exclaimed confusingly. "You're bleeding!" She cried out as she reached up and touched his face.
"Thanks to you." Severus said angrily pushing her hand away from his face.
Iris and Severus stood in the middle of the room looking around them trying to figure out where they were.
"Do you have your wand with you?" Severus asked noticing she was only in a nightgown.
"Yes. But I dropped in the confusion of everything." She said.
"Accio wand." Severus hissed.
Suddenly Iris's wand flew in to Severus's empty hand and he shoved it in to her hand.
"Luminous." Iris whispered.
Iris started to walk off to investigate there whereabouts but Severus grabbed her arm. She took the hint and stayed near him. Iris pressed her body up against Severus's back. He could feel her shivering so he took his cloak off and handed it to her.
"I'm fine." She hissed at him refusing it.
"Take it!" He growled at her.
Iris grabbed it from Severus and put it on. She was thankful for his warm cloak because she was chilled to the bone.
"Do you know where we are?" Severus asked.
"No clue." Iris said puzzled.
POP!
"Ah I see my two faithful servants have made it." Lord Voldemort hissed.
Voldemort walked forward surveying Iris and Severus who stood before him.
"These are for each of you." Voldemort said as he reached his gnarled hand, which contained the two black orbs, that had brought Iris and Severus to him.
Iris and Severus took the offered orbs from their Master.
"When they glow black you are to touch it immediately. Understand?" Voldemort hissed.
"Yes Master." Iris and Severus said in unison.
"Now the reason why I brought you two here tonight." He said walking around his two servants. "I need to get in to Hogwart's and what better why then to use two Professors." Voldemort laughed evilly.
"How may we be of service my Master?" Iris said lowering her head to Voldemort.
Severus noticed just how easily Iris fell under his control and realizes this is not a charade.
"I need the Potions Master to make me some Polyjuice potion." Voldemort said eyeing Severus.
"Master it takes up to a month to make." Severus stuttered.
"That is plenty of time to finalize the rest of my plan." Voldemort said.
"Now Iris, I need for you to get the boy by himself." Voldemort hissed.
"Yes my Dark Lord." Iris said in a voice that was not her own.
"I will call for you two in the next month." Voldemort growled as he disapparated from the room that Iris and Severus were standing in.
Iris looked at Severus.
"It is time to leave." Iris stated coolly.
"What? How do you know?" Severus questioned.
"The orbs are glowing." Iris said as she disappeared from Severus's sight.
A New Beginning
Chapter 5 The Beginning of it All
I feel that I must tell you about my relationship to you. I am your second cousin on your father's side. My real name would be Iris Potter.
Iris wrote on a piece of parchment while she sat in the middle of her four- poster bed surrounded just in moonlight.
Sixteen years ago I witnessed a devastating event that ultimately changed your life. I would like to say it changed mine but I can't since my life changed long before you were even thought of.
You maybe wondering why are you finding out that you have another relative other than the Dursley's.
Where do I begin? I best be safe and start at the beginning for you.
Iris sat in the middle of her bed pondering how she was going to tell her story to her young cousin when she all of the sudden heard this pecking noise coming from her office. Iris got up picking up her wand and peered out her bedroom door. Everything in her office seemed quite normal. Pictures of friends and family on the fire place mantel. Her old wooden desk in the back of her office was still covered with graded and yet to be graded scrolls on top of it. All her books seemed to still be in order. Iris grabbed her bathrobe and headed into her office.
PECK PECK PECK. Iris heard as she tightened her robe around her waist. Iris heard the same blasted pecking again but didn't know where it was coming from. She checked the fireplace, her classroom and out in the hallway. She returned back to her office and stood in the middle of the room listening for it to happen again. Iris stood there for ten minutes motionless when the pecking started up again. She spun around her office looking for the source of the noise but when she stopped she was dizzy. She regained her balance and continued to look. The pecking was becoming louder and more agitated.
Finally she caught the sight of something fluttering outside one of her office windows. She walked over and stood on the chair in front of the window. With all her might she pushed open the large old window and a large black owl swooped into her office and dropped a package in the middle of her office and then left her office immediately. Iris picked up the package and brought it over to the fireplace to exam it.
"What on earth is this?" Iris questioned sitting down in front of the fireplace.
Iris picked up the package and turned in round and round in her hands. It was a plain black cube. It wasn't a box because there was no way of opening it at all. Iris tried all kinds of different spells but nothing worked on it. Iris placed it back on the ground and just stared at it. Suddenly the top of the black cube disappeared and the four sides folded down to reveal a black glowing orb.
"OHHH!" Iris exclaimed as she picked up the magnificent black orb.
Iris held it up to the fire to get a better look at it then suddenly she felt a pulling sensation in her gut just below her bellybutton. She felt herself slipping backwards into darkness.
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Snape was working in his private potions lab preparing more Veritaserum for Professor Dumbledore. Professor Snape was working hard and off in his own little world. Snape was deep in thought that he didn't hear the soft tapping at his dungeon door. The tapping grew intensely louder until it became a loud banging.
"What the hell?!" A startled Snape cried out.
Snape drew his wand out and headed to the door.
"Who could it be at this time of night?" Severus wondered to himself.
Severus pulled open the heavy dungeon door.
"What do you want?" Snape growled out in to thin night air.
Professor Snape walked out in to the dungeon hallway and looked around to see who could have possibly disturbed him at this ungodly time of night. Snape stood there for several minutes with a puzzled expression on his face. He turned back around and headed back inside the dungeon when his foot brushed up against something. Snape bent down and picked up a black box. He brought it back inside and examined it very closely. He didn't dare open without checking for jinxing spells. After he checked for jinxing spells Severus then tried to open the box but couldn't because it was a solid black cube. He tried several spells to open it and those didn't even work. Snape then went and rummaged through his storage cabinets and pulled several vials of different concoctions and poured them over the box trying to open it. Getting annoyed Snape placed it off to the side and went back to completing the Veritaserum potion. As he was placing it into vials when he realized that something behind him was glowing eerily. Snape turned around slowly and saw that the mysterious black cube and collapsed to reveal a glowing black orb.
"Bloody hell!" Severus exclaimed as he moved closer to the black orb.
Severus bent down to observe the orb. His long crooked nose was barely inches from the orb. Against his better judgement Snape picked up the glowing orb and rolled it around his hands. Suddenly he felt like someone had taken a giant hook and grabbed him around his waist and pulled him backwards into darkness.
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Iris was falling backwards in to total darkness. Any light around her was swirling out of sight. Iris then landed in a cold and dark room. It took her eyes several minutes to adjust to the darkness. She had situated herself so she was crouching on her legs and her hands placed firmly on the ground to balance herself.
Iris was standing up only to be violently knocked on to her back by something black and heavy. Iris started kicking and hitting anything that her fists or bare feet made contact with.
"GET OFF! GET OFF!" Iris screamed as she thrashed on the ground trying to get out from under whatever had fallen on top of her.
Suddenly the thing that Iris had been kicking and hitting on let out this animal like growl that sent a chill down her spine. Iris gave one last effort to remove herself from her attacker. She got up and tried looking for an exit. She felt her way around the dark cold room trying to find a way out but she couldn't. She found a corner and crouched down.
"Where is my wand?" She cried to herself.
Iris sat crouching in the corner trying to not give herself away to her attacker again. She held her breath and just waited for something bad to happen to her.
"LUMINOUS!" She heard someone growl from the other side of the room. Iris shielded her face from her attacker.
"WHO ARE YOU?" He growled moving closer to Iris.
Iris sat there motionless from fright but was suddenly grabbed by her shoulder and drug into the middle of the room.
"WHO ARE YOU?" He yelled at her again this time holding his glowing wand close to her face.
"Iris?!" He exclaimed.
He then released his grip from her shoulder and held his wand up to his own face.
"Severus?!" Iris exclaimed confusingly. "You're bleeding!" She cried out as she reached up and touched his face.
"Thanks to you." Severus said angrily pushing her hand away from his face.
Iris and Severus stood in the middle of the room looking around them trying to figure out where they were.
"Do you have your wand with you?" Severus asked noticing she was only in a nightgown.
"Yes. But I dropped in the confusion of everything." She said.
"Accio wand." Severus hissed.
Suddenly Iris's wand flew in to Severus's empty hand and he shoved it in to her hand.
"Luminous." Iris whispered.
Iris started to walk off to investigate there whereabouts but Severus grabbed her arm. She took the hint and stayed near him. Iris pressed her body up against Severus's back. He could feel her shivering so he took his cloak off and handed it to her.
"I'm fine." She hissed at him refusing it.
"Take it!" He growled at her.
Iris grabbed it from Severus and put it on. She was thankful for his warm cloak because she was chilled to the bone.
"Do you know where we are?" Severus asked.
"No clue." Iris said puzzled.
POP!
"Ah I see my two faithful servants have made it." Lord Voldemort hissed.
Voldemort walked forward surveying Iris and Severus who stood before him.
"These are for each of you." Voldemort said as he reached his gnarled hand, which contained the two black orbs, that had brought Iris and Severus to him.
Iris and Severus took the offered orbs from their Master.
"When they glow black you are to touch it immediately. Understand?" Voldemort hissed.
"Yes Master." Iris and Severus said in unison.
"Now the reason why I brought you two here tonight." He said walking around his two servants. "I need to get in to Hogwart's and what better why then to use two Professors." Voldemort laughed evilly.
"How may we be of service my Master?" Iris said lowering her head to Voldemort.
Severus noticed just how easily Iris fell under his control and realizes this is not a charade.
"I need the Potions Master to make me some Polyjuice potion." Voldemort said eyeing Severus.
"Master it takes up to a month to make." Severus stuttered.
"That is plenty of time to finalize the rest of my plan." Voldemort said.
"Now Iris, I need for you to get the boy by himself." Voldemort hissed.
"Yes my Dark Lord." Iris said in a voice that was not her own.
"I will call for you two in the next month." Voldemort growled as he disapparated from the room that Iris and Severus were standing in.
Iris looked at Severus.
"It is time to leave." Iris stated coolly.
"What? How do you know?" Severus questioned.
"The orbs are glowing." Iris said as she disappeared from Severus's sight.