Evil and Necessity
Oh, how I loathe you,
Your arrogance, your strutting superiority.
I hate you and yet you may be our only hope.
I owe a debt and I shall pay it,
But I will not like you.
That quivering fool thought I wouldn't know,
He thought I couldn't tell his loyalty was false.
I know evil; I know it like few have.
I scared him, I goaded him, I knew that eventually he would slip,
That he would reveal himself, allow me to expose him,
But he feared his master more.
Still he didn't succeed, evil's return delayed.
I hoped your struggle would humble you,
But you returned just as bad.
I still laugh at your ineptitude,
At how foolishly you exposed yourself,
Your rush to help others just made them fear you.
Again luck let you succeed, but you surprised me,
You killed, you killed a monster,
And you killed a soul.
I thought perhaps you finally understood,
But the next year you showed me the truth.
You refused to kill, and by doing so you gave the enemy an ally.
You gave him the power to act; you gave him the power to kill.
You let the enemy return, and forced me to return to him.
You forced me to kill, to sacrifice Dumbledore for our cause.
You hate me,
But now you begin to understand,
You finally realize the truth.
ALL THAT MATTERS IS STOPPING THE DARK LORD!
I will do whatever it takes to stop him,
I would kill Dumbledore a thousand times,
I would banish his soul to an eternity of torment,
And I would do the same to myself,
As long as it would cause the Dark Lord to fall.
If you want him dead, you will have to do the same.