BLOOD OF THE MOTHER By BertaS March-05

Chapter 6

Description: In which we hear Dudley say "We have company and I don't think we want to invite him in to tea."

It all belongs to JKR

Wards

About one week later as they headed home from the gym playing a variation on the Harry Hunting from the past, basically tag, Harry kept feeling a tingle in his forehead, it wasn't the pain he associated with Voldemort, this was a rhythmic pulsing tickle.

As the boys rounded the corner of the garden wall Harry put together that the wards on his home had been activated. And there was a pile of black robes on the front stoop. Harry and Dudley approached cautiously.

"It's Snape, what the hell happened?" Harry said.

"You mean your teacher?" asked Dudley.

Harry nodded, "Yeah, help me get him inside before someone notices."

They maneuvered the tall man thru the door into the foyer where they lay him out flat and Harry checked him over for injuries the only thing he could sense was the Dark Mark seemed to be pulsing and it corresponded with the pulsing of the wards.

"Oh, Crap. It's the wards."

As Dudley shut the door he noticed someone appear across the street in a long black cloak and a silver white mask. He locked the door. "Harry, we got company and I don't think we want to invite him in to tea."

Harry was trying to undo and push up the left sleeve of the man on the floor, he wound up ripping the sleeve to reveal the ugly skull and snake tattoo that was almost flashing red and black on the mans pale arm.

"You said it was the wards that KO'd him? Why? Is he a bad guy?" asked Dudley.

"Sort of, he's a dark wizard, a Deatheater that serves the light." Harry answered distractedly trying to think what to do.

"Huh, how can you be dark and light at the same time?" ask Dudley

Harry looked up stunned, "Mums Diary. The Dark that is Light." Harry whispered

Chapter 7The Dark that is Light

In which a prophecy is revealed and Snape asks, "Is that your blood or mine?"