Don't question the logic on Snape's death, I didn't want him dead but Voldemort still had to get the Elder Wand. So I gave him a horcrux. Snape fans! =)

Snape was dead, but not for long.

I was gathering all my Death Eaters to this one place in the 'Forbidden' Forest.

Harry Potter was supposed to meet me here, and I would kill him. I sat down at the table the Death Eaters had conjured and Bella cackled as ropes were thrown even more so on Rubeus Hagrid. Our first kill if he didn't show.

There were a flash of images immediately. My head spun, they were so different from what I was seeing, what I should be seeing. But one image stuck out to me. Dumbledore and Snape. In a room. The Headmaster office. Talking. About Harry.

"There will come a time when Harry Potter must be told something. But you must wait, until Voldemort is at his most vulnerable."

"Must be told what?"

"On the night Lord Voldemort went to Godric's Hollow to kill Harry… Then Lily Potter cast herself between them… the curse rebounded. When that happened, a part of Voldemort's soul… latched itself onto the only living thing it could find… Harry himself. There's a reason Harry can speak with snakes… There's a reason he can look into Lord Voldemort's mind… A part of Voldemort lives inside him."

"So when the time comes… the boy must die?"

"Yes... yes he must die."

"You've kept him alive, so he can die at the proper moment? You've been raising him like a pig for slaughter." So the boy was a horcrux? So I've been losing to... myself?! Dumbledore's talking again!

"And Voldemort himself must do it. That is essential." I felt myself spinning, going back. I could see the forest again. Bella was shaking me, asking me if I was okay. I shoved her off.

"I am Lord Voldemort, of course I'm fine. Are my Death Eaters gathered?"

"Yes My Lord… but, My Lord, there is.… No sign of him." Who? Harry Potter! It's him I've been waiting for. I stood and walked over to stand where I could see if the boy were coming. So Dumbledore wanted me to kill him, did he? He was a horcrux, was he? Fine. Change of plans. He would become useful instead.

Minutes passed and I still could not see him. "I thought he'd come, sorry Hagrid. You're his first friend. You die first. Get the message here?"

"Harry, no! What're yeh doin' 'ere?"

"Quiet!" One of them.

"Harry Potter… The Boy Who Lived… come to die?" Harry just stared at me. I stared back. He raised his wand, beginning a spell. I lifted my new wand, calling out: "Expelliarmus!" His wand went flying out of the air. "Accio!" His wand went flying into my hand and I used one more spell, a stunning spell, before finishing my work. He wasn't dead but I still let my followers cheer for his apparent death, only Harry and I knew better. "Now we go to the castle, and show them what has become of their hero. Who shall drag the body? No- Wait." I cut the oaf free and swished my wand, forcing him to approach Harry. "You carry him. He will be nice and visible in your arms, won't he? Pick up your friend. Put on the glasses- he must be recognizable." When Harry decided to wake would be the moment of TRUE triumph. His glasses need would be the first to go. I swished my wand again. "Move!"

And with that, we began our trek down to the castle. We walked down, passed the centaurs where Hagrid yelled at them and my Death Eaters yelled insults at them. We passed dead bodies from both sides, I swept them off the grounds and into the vast emptiness underneath.

We reached the edge of the forest before I decided to talk to the others that were still at the school. "Stop." I walked past Hagrid carrying Harry and silently used the spell before to have them listen to me before. "Harry Potter is-" Sleeping "-dead. He was killed as he ran away, trying to save himself while you lay down your lives for him. We bring his body as proof. The battle is over. You have lost half of your fighters. My Death Eaters outnumber you, and the Boy Who Lived is finished. There must be no more war. Anyone who continues to resist, man, woman, or child, will be slaughtered, as will every member of their family. Come out of the castle now, kneel before me, and you shall be spared. Your parents and children, your brothers and sisters will live and be forgiven, and you will join me in the new world we will build together." Actually I'd be in charge, but I wouldn't tell them that. There was nothing but silence. Fine, so be it. Things would be going according to plan if Harry wakes up when we get there, and Snape comes out of no where. I just knew he was still alive. "Come." I kept walking toward the castle, them following me.

/Master./ I looked down at Nagini. She was barely keeping up, so I wrapped her around myself. /Master, the boy is twitching./ she whispered. I nodded.

/Thank you, Nagini./

We reached the castle, the front doors. I still remembered coming through these doors the first time I came here. Morning was coming, that would mean it is almost time to finish this so we could get right to work. Then there was an outbreak of cries at Harry being 'dead'. I was tempted to sneer at them that they were over reacting but I was getting exactly what I wanted. I waited for them to quiet down as I calmed down Nagini by petting her. However there didn't seem to be any silence coming soon.

"SILENCE!" I swished my wand, casting the silence charm on all of them. "It is over! Set him down at my feet, Hagrid, where he belongs!" Hagrid laid Harry at my feet and Nagini curled around him, ready to strike at him. /Nagini, stop./ She stared at me before just curling around my feet. "You see?" I stepped out of Nagini's coils and paced around Harry, readying my wand to Stupefy him, paralyze him so that what I had planned for him. "Harry Potter is dead! Do you understand now, deluded ones? He was nothing, ever, but a boy who relied on others to sacrifice themselves for him. From this day forth, you put your faith in me. Harry Potter is dead." My Death Eaters laughed a bit, and I joined them. "And now is the time to declare yourself. Come forward and join us… or die."

Silence.

"Draco." Lucius. Do NOT manipulate their choice! "Draco."

"Draco." Now Narcissa. "Come." He looked at the ground before walking over to me. I smiled, even though, because of Narcissa and Lucius, it meant nothing.

"Ah, well done Draco. Well done." I embraced him back into the fold. When I let go, he walked into our ranks. And then a boy headed forward. "Who is this?"

"It is Neville Longbottom, My Lord! The boy who has been giving the Carrows so much trouble! The son of the Aurors, remember?"

"Ah, yes, I remember. You are a Pureblood, are you not?"

"So what if I am?"

"You show spirit and bravery, and you come of noble stock. You will make a very valuable Death Eater. We need your kind." He ignored me.

"I have something to say." I motioned him to speak, he didn't.

"Well I'm sure we'd all be fascinated to hear what you have to say."

"It doesn't matter that Harry's gone." Ooh.

"Stand down Neville." … This is a stand? It is laughable.

"People die every day. Friends. Family. Yeah. We lost Harry tonight. But he's still with us, in here." He touched his heart. Ugh sentimental fools. "He didn't die in vain, but you will." He pulled out a sword.

I raised my wand "Expelliarmus! Bella!" The sword went flying toward us and Snape stepped out of the crowd of my followers, holding the sword. "Bella! Take the sword, put it away." Severus gave the sword to her. "Now that that's over. We can begin." I swished my wand and the Sorting Hat came flying over to me. I shook it three times, blasting it with my wand each time. "There will be no more Sorting at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. There will be no more Houses. The emblem, shield, and colours of my noble ancestor, Salazar Slytherin, will suffice for everyone. Won't they, Neville?" I pointed my wand at him and he froze. Petrificus Totalus. I shoved the hat on his head and just as it had me when I was a kid, it shouted out immediately: "Slytherin!"

And that was when Harry Potter shot up, shooting himself straight at me.