Title – The Last Curse
Author – Artemis Potter-Snape
Rating –R for (NC17 (posted to my LJ))
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter that is left to JK Rowling, the only thing we have in common is that our youngest children have the same name, mine is a boy (20mths old) and hers is a baby girl, aww, so cute. Anyway the only thing that is mine is the curses, etc that I make up.
Warnings – Group sex implied on implied incest on some others too that I couldn't decide on yet. Anything with detailed will be cut to my LJ.
Summary – Voldey tries to get the last laugh.
AN – CONTEST cancelled, I had a review pointing out that it isn't allowed, I didn't know it wasn't allowed within the story chapter pages, and I don't want to risk it, I may not be a good writer but it is all that keeps me sane at the moment so I won't risk losing my account here. Ravenclaw Still RULES.
If you don't know to which house you belong visit my LJ page for the link.
Darkpyroangel06 – thanks, I promise to update as often as I can.
Xrazystoritellre – Merissa isn't me, I try not to put myself in stories, well only feelings concerning certain things, but all people in those situations feel similar feelings anyway, so nope, read and find out:)
Smoothncreamy – I tried to pace it faster but it came out feeling wrong.
Xikum – you got the curse figured out, but the ramifications come out next chapter. I believe that there are always things that we neither know nor understand, I believe in the love we parents have for our kids, but I don't trust in that aspect of Harry surviving the killing curse as a baby.
Beth5572 – Next chapter coming soon, already writing it, and the first chapter of the prequel to this will come soon too.
Sweet now and hiei lover – your welcome.
Wolflady – Happy birthday for the 22nd.
Kat15 – Good answer,
Silverfated – thanks, I had planned on killing Ron anyway, but I asked to be sure if people would still like me.
Jbcna – your welcome, and your right for the spell.
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Dedicated to – Wolflady coz it's your birthday on the 22nd
!Dream sequence!
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
Chapter 4 – Voldemorts Last Curse
After asking Minerva McGonagall where Merissa was Harry tore out of the room and ran towards his destination like the devil himself was after him, constantly berating himself, 'What kind of person am I to forget about that beautiful tiny being, I am so biased, I wonder if this is what it is like for everyone. I should ask Poppy about the forgetting things when I go back to the infirmary later. How could I forget her.'
He slowed to a walk and entered the room where Merissa was; inside the room also was a young girl who he assumed was Snape's niece.
"Hi, your Harry Potter right, she's been crying for you since you woke up, but we didn't know if it was safe to bring her to you, and an infirmary isn't the kind of place to take her anyway." Claratine babbled.
"Yes, I'm Harry thank you for looking after her."Claratine nodded and left the room, Harry turned towards the crib beside the bed and bent down to pick the tiny infant up,
"Hello there my little angel, Daddy's here, no one will try and hurt you ever again, I promise."
Merissa cooed at her father and batted her long eyelashes at him, she was a beautiful girl with thick black hair, so fine and straight, she didn't get the hair texture from him, his wasn't so fine or straight. Her eyes were part him, and what he assumed was her other father too, they were a brilliant green with black flecks in them, for all he knew the flecks could have been in his own mothers eyes. Her mouth was pink and full and at the moment he was looking at her they were pouting, waiting for the snuggling she normally got when her father reappeared after disappearing for a few hours, she had Harry's nose and for now the plump cheeks associated with the Potter family.
"Hey cutie, your 6 months old now and even more beautiful than ever, daddy lost a whole month watching you grow, but I'm here now I'm never leaving you ever again, I'll even take you with me to classes that are not dangerous. My little angel." Harry snuggled the baby in his arms and cried, cried for forgetting about his baby, cried for his best friend and brother Ron and cried for his first friend ever Hagrid, surely life couldn't get any worse.
Harry stayed with his daughter for several hours, feeding her, changing her nappies and playing peek-a-boo and spin the teddy. Her favourite teddy was a small life like replica of her fathers animagi form, that of a pitch black panther, it was the first thing that she used her magic on aged three months, which is rare for any magical baby to show their abilities that young.
Finally after her afternoon feed Harry settled her into her cot for a nap and called Dobby,
"Dobby can you fetch me Claratine Snape, ask her to come to my rooms as soon as she can."
"Yes sir Harry Potter sir, right away sir" he popped away leaving Harry squirming, Dobby always embarrassed him like that.
Ten minutes later there was a knock at the door,
"Hello, Mr Potter,"
Harry opened the door with a grin on his face, "Come in and please call me Harry, I'm not your teacher, I'm only a student."
Claratine nodded and looked around, this room was similar to her uncle's except it wasn't in the dungeons. "What did you want me for Mr…um…Harry?"
"I was pleased with how well you have been looking after Meri, may I ask about your age and stuff?"
"Sure, what do you want to know?"
"I'll give you the questions and you can answer them that way we don't have to keep going backwards and forwards. How old are you? How did you cope with looking after Meri? Do you want a part time job? Is your uncle really a nasty greasy git all the time?"
"I'm only 10, but my mother always said I was more grown up than my age. I love looking after babies, mother couldn't have any more or else she would have had loads, she worked in a children's unit in a muggle hospital keeping them happy, I sometimes went with her, so yes I would love a part time job, it isn't like I can do anything else all day. Uncle Sev is not that bad when he comes to see me, but I know he has to act nasty at school, I heard him talking to my mother about it a few months ago, he did a bad thing, he was in love but was forced to hurt someone else looking like who he loved. Do you understand what I mean Harry?"
Harry looked a little shocked, and a little bit thoughtful, but answered Claratine straight away.
"You mean he hurt someone polyjuiced to look like someone he loved?"
"Yes, he cried for hours in his room."
"Claratine, you seem to be holding up ok from losing your parents do you need to talk about it?" Harry asked the young girl after a few minutes of silence.
"No…I mean yes, but not yet, I'm too worried about Uncle Sev to think about me, he acts like he is under some kind of spell, I can't reach him with my empathic gift even."
"How strong is your gift"
"Quite strong, I know how you feel about certain people, don't worry I won't say anything though."
"I believe you. Now I asked you here for a favour if you wanted a part time job."
"Anything."
"Thanks, I need a part time babysitter for Meri, I can't take her to classes that are dangerous which is most, especially potions. I also need you to look after her when I need to go somewhere for a while without her in the evenings. Do you accept? I will pay you 5 sickles for half hour, and train you in defence or charms theory."
"Great, this is so cool. When do I start? And when do I get paid? When can I start training?"
"How about we keep a tally of what I owe you that way you can save up for what ever you want, and when you want paying at the end of a session of babysitting I could give you it then? The training can begin whenever you feel you want to. What do you think?"
"Um, I need to save for uncle Sev's present, what mother and I brought him was destroyed when Voldemort blew up the house. So I will take the first half hours pay and anything after that can go in a moneybox, or pouch spelled to accept you or me only. I want to learn everything I can as soon as I can."
"Smart girl, must run in the family. I have a box that we can use I'll look for it later, I know what spells to use, I did one for Meri after all." Harry said with a grin holding out his hand for Claratine to shake in a deal.
"Do you need to go now?"
"Unfortunately Dumbledore and I need to discuss something, I should be about an hour, and if I am longer I will send word with Dobby. Have food and drink delivered here if you don't want to take Meri to the Hall, but leave a note or tell Dobby to let me know that you have gone out of the room please. If anyone asks whose baby it is has Dumbledore told you what to say?"
"Sure, I know where everything is, you should really put everything in a more organised pattern. They also told me to say that she was left on a doorstep in Hogsmeade and was brought here until her father can be found."
"Thanks Claratine, I'll see you later." He leaned over the crib and kissed Merissa's forehead, kissed Claratine on the top of her head and left the room.
"Wow, he is so nice." Claratine whispered to herself when the door shut behind Harry.
It took Harry a few minutes to get to the Headmasters office; he was not looking forward to this at all. The gargoyle let him past easily and he stood on the stairs as they moved to the door, tapping his foot in nervousness.
"Harry come right in." Dumbledore called out.
"Hello sir."
"Harry my boy, I hope you found Merissa to be to your satisfaction?"
"She's grown, I missed so much."
"Unfortunately Harry babies tend to do that. Now I believe that we have a curse to discuss."
Harry sat in the seat of the desk and nodded feeling more nervous than before on his way up.
"The curse 'Cupio Caleo Adepto Gravida Imperium Harry Potter' is basically a bonding curse, pointing at his mark should have bonded you and made you a slave for all the remaining death eaters, a brood mare would also be a word that could be used. I am well aware that you know that wizards can get pregnant and carry babies like a witch, his intentions we may never know, we can only surmise that he wanted you to produce some of the next generation of inner circle death eaters."
"A slave to the desire I suppose, inflame so that it will drive me mad if I didn't?"
"Yes my boy, but there was a factor that Voldemort over looked, one that saved you and unfortunately ensnared others into it."
"I don't like the sound of this, I won't like itwill I?"
"Most likely not Harry. As far as we can tell, or rather what Hermione found the only way to beat the curse was for you to have been intimate with your soul mate or to be physically near you soul-mate for a period of time. Who is Merissa's father I believe that he is your soul-mate."
Harry mumbled the answer, which made Dumbledore glare at him.
"Harry this is important, there is a ceremony that has to be performed soon or else the others will become insane, so that no amount of magic may cure them."
"I said I don't know who the father is." Harry was looking at the floor so he didn't see the flash of pain across the elder man's face.
"Harry my boy, what happened?"
"I was…I was attacked by death eaters…they said…Malfoy said that they had to…to break me…they beat me…cursed me and they…ra…r…" Harry broke down, 'damn hormones, do they ever settle?'
"They raped you? I would have helped you sooner if you had told me, you're like my own grandson Harry." He rose from his seat and sat in the chair beside the sobbing boy and pulled him into a hug. "Do you know who was there besides Malfoy?"
"The whole inner circle, I never heard voices or saw faces, Malfoy was the only one bare faced and speaking, I only know what he said." Harry sobbed out.
"Was Severus there?"
"Yes…he…"
"Did he?"
"Ye…I could smell it was him, he has this unique scent to him, I suppose from the potions, but it was like he was a puppet, he wasn't the only one like that there were three like that."
"I remember that incident, he told me that it was a muggle man, it was to be practice for when they really caught you. Severus told me that he knew what he was doing but that it was like looking at someone else doing it. There is a form of imperious that does that unfortunately, it also makes you do what the caster has done or intends to do. If he knew it was really you he would have port-keyed you out some how."
"He was so gentle Headmaster, I never blamed him for it, I knew he couldn't stop it. In fact before they dumped me at the park he healed all my cuts and marks."
They both sat quietly for a few moments, thinking over what had been said.
"Harry I believe we should go to the infirmary, I think you should see what is happening there."
Harry nodded his head and looked at the time.
"I need to get a message to Claratine, she is looking…" Harry never got to finish because at that moment Dobby popped in.
"Harry Potter sir, Miss Snape wants me to say she has took baby to Hall for supper sir."
"Thanks Dobby, can you let her know I may be a few more hours yet."
"Yes sir Harry Potter sir." With a loud pop he was gone again, Harry looked into Dumbledores questioning eyes.
"She did a good job before so I am paying her to help with Meri."
"Ah yes, wonderful child that one, so much like her mother, less like her father and uncle though which is a good thing."
"Why does she have Snapes last name, you didn't tell me much about her."
"Lets talk and walk shall we." They left the room together, "Claratine is the daughter of Celestra Snape and her very muggle husband Montgomery Chase. In Wizarding law a woman of pureblood birth has to keep her maiden name in the event of no one to carry on the name, as it was deemed that Severus was not going to have a relationship early on the task of producing an heir to the Snape line was left to Celestra, but if Severus was to have a child it would go down his line and Claratine would be free to take her husbands last name, do you understand Harry?" Harry nodded thoughtfully and Dumbledore carried on, "The women of the Snape line are empaths, the ability grows with age, I would like you to read up on empaths as it follows the female Potter line too, I was going to wait until Merissa was a year old to tell you, but I see her gift is already showing, she knew when you woke from your exhaustion, Claratine felt it too which alerted me. We did not alert anyone to her gift so she is safe from anyone wanting to exploit her."
"Thank you sir."
"Call me Albus, just not in front of all the students."
"Yes sir…Albus."
At that moment they arrived at the infirmary doors, Harry had only opened it a tiny amount when the screaming hit his ears, he closed the door again quickly.
"What in Merlin's name is going on in there?"
"That is the complication to the back firing of Voldemorts curse I am afraid Harry."
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'Interfectio-onis Tutamen Tego' – literally means – act of killing, means of protection and shield, so it is a shield to protect the caster from the killing curse, but as it is a shield I decided that it would disrupt any other type of shielding, like a concealment charm, which would shield others from seeing what is there.
The story behind Merissa will be in the prequel that I am writing (trying to anyway) at the moment. It isn't coming together too well at the moment though, there are many issues that I have to deal with in my life and my muse is being awkward, which isn't helping any.
As I cancelled the competition I decided because Slytherin was in the lead anyway they can win the cup.
Artemis Potter-Snape (xx)