Year 3: Chapter 28

The rest of the term flew by for the students, and with it, the news of the relationships. It had reached the Slytherin common room by the beginning of December and that wasn't good.

Over the years, Slytherin had changed and now within its own house there was a hierarchy that had to be followed. The monarchy role that the year previous had been Rodolphus Lestranges had now fallen to his queen, Bellatrix Black.

Her most loyal 'counsellors' were filled by four people; Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Black, Severus Snape and Rabastan Lestrange.

Below them, sat the 'knights' which were made up the likes of Avery, Nott, Crabbe, Goyle, Macnair and surprisingly, two first years Adrian Dixon and Regulus Black, who were moving up the chain faster than any other.

The 'Peasantry' were made up by the rest of the house; they knew who had the power and it was not surprising that they were all absent from the common room on this day.

The 'queen' had taken the high seat and looked down at the others. Malfoy was sat on the green sofa with Narcissa; arm loosely around her shoulders with Dixon on her other side.

Sitting on the arm of the chair was Black and then Lestrange and Snape were situated on the floor.

"We all know why we are here. We're the ones with power and influence and its time we get to work. It seems that no good sister of mine is corrupting our three targets."

Everyone was quiet and it was a surprise when it was Dixon that answered.

"Andromeda is doing a good job but we could do better. Only Pettigrew has gotten himself a girlfriend so we'll convince him that she isn't good enough for him."

He turned to look at Snape sitting on the floor.

"That Cawkwell girl in your year, she has a thing for Black, so you convince her to follow him. Stop any other girl from getting him and Lestrange, you get Dixon. We'll prevent them from getting close to anyone and then it'll leave us with only Pettigrew to deal with."

"Yes, father was right about you Dixon. Very much like your father. Snape, Lestrange you work on them and we'll take care of Pettigrew."

Before she could continue Malfoy had moved forward in his seat. His hand connected with the back of Lestranges head.

"You will not handle her in the same manner as Halloween; all you did was get her closer to them."

Lestrange nodded as Malfoy leaned back.

"I hope you have a plan Bellatrix, because he's got more balls than we thought."

"What, because your scare tactics didn't work? Maybe you're just losing your touch, Lucius."

The amusement in Bellatrix's voice caused the boy's eyes to flash with anger as they drew up their plans to destroy the lives of the three Gryffindors.

Okay so here's another chapter yet again for you all. Annie my lovely beta has pointed something out that I want to explain and that's the fact that Lucius is only a sixth year, and in actual fact he shouldn't even be in Hogwarts. Originally I planned for him to be six years older than them but I need him to be around for year 4 so I had to make him younger. I hope you understand that, so he is suppose to be younger that Bellatrix, its just to fit some things in the story, to make sense of it.

Firewalker32 yeah conversations between people can be confusing I should really fix that. I think the families are important and you'll be seeing a bit more of families in later years, they shall be very important. As for Andromeda yeah she has taken more of a back seat than I planned, but oh well, it works anyway.

So that's all I gotta say please review when you're done reading

Kristina