A/N: I swear, I have given up trying to understand exactly what file size they want here.

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CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE PART B: I'M JUST DOING MY JOB

Treaks stood in a large open room, facing a huge dais where a man clothed in long, dark robes stood. For all the times he had stood here, he had yet to see the man's face. A tactic he was sure was carefully arranged.

"Well?" The man's voice filled the room, echoing off the walls as he stared down at the Elite Deatheater before him.

"I did all you ask." Treaks answered, fighting to keep his voice steady. "I prepared the spell exactly as you told me and only gave it to Voldemort this morning."

"And he did not question it?"

Treaks shook his head. "No, my lord. He was very pleased with it."

"And he placed it on the boy?"

"Yes, my lord."

"You did well, Treaks."

Treaks executed a small bow. "My reward is to serve you, my lord."

"Then return to your duties. I am done with you."

Treaks paused, causing the figure to raise its hooded head to him.

"You have more?" He ask.

Treaks paused, debating again the wisdom of his next words. "The other one who serves you, my lord, Charly Miser, would bare watching."

The figure stood silently looking down at him, but said nothing in reply.

"His partner is now on this journey, my lord. And Misser has already shown where his true loyalties lay. He has once before tried..."

Treaks stopped and looked around him as the air in the room positively vibrated with the power passing through it. When Treaks looked back up at the dais, a woman now stood next to the figure in the dark robes. She wasn't very old that he could tell. Little more than in her mid-twenties, if even that.

"You're concern is not Charly Misser nor his loyalties, Mr. Treaks." She stated in a deceptively well cultured, if not casual, voice. "You're only concern is to serve. Was that not made clear to you before?"

Treaks couldn't recall having ever seen the woman before. Always he had dealt only with the figure in the dark robes. But as that she stood on the dais with his master, he figured she had to yield some sort of power within his rule and he would do well to show her respect...for now.

"I regret my oversight." He stated with another bow. "I only sought to warn our master..."

"You have been dismissed." The woman stated in a firmer, higher tone. "Now leave."

Treaks quickly snapped his mouth shut and bowed once more before beating a hasty retreat. If he had learned one thing about the figure in the dark robes, it was that patience was definitely not his long suit. A trait his new female companion obviously shared.

'Just as well', he thought. After all, why should he waste his time warning them about Misser's potential for disloyalty when such an act would only serve his own purposes?

Leaving the room, Treaks apparated back to the lair as soon as he was able, glad just to be out of the man's presence.

Q&A

Skahducky:

Can Bo apparate people away like he did to Orion in a previous chapter? In that case, he'll probably be very useful on this trip since he could apparate Harry and the others out of any trouble they'll run into.
I guess Harry's fears are going to be assuaged in the morning once he finds out Arabella is coming as well. If he can convince Voldemort to let Professor Lupin come along, then he'll probably never have to be alone with Voldemort. He might even have some fun on the trip; well, the relatively peaceful parts of it.
Anyway, this is a great chapter. Please update soon!

Well, as you'll recall in several previous chapters, Bo can apparate people whenever he likes. Just ask Voldemort.

However, remember, Bo, so far, does very little on his own. His actions are usually answers to Orion's orders or general requests. So, could he apparate them out of trouble if they needed him to? That would depend currently on Orion.

Harry actually did a pretty good job of asserting himself here. And Voldemort made a major blunder by backing down. One that will come back to haunt him in the future.

Thank you, Dear. And I do appreciate the review.

MasterLupin:

As always you have written a good chapter(s). I now give my new prediction and character analysis for this story; I think that I'm close with this one.
With Harry now aware of this new information I believe that he will make some rather rash decisions later on intending to do well and protect his new found aunt, uncle, and cousins from what he perceives as his fate (loss of parents).
Harry has been told by Katlin that if he is stubborn enough he can make demands on Voldermort for this upcoming quest to the north. A teenager told to be stubborn, is bad, a teenager with Harry's past and a hero complex who is told to be stubborn to get his way is a recipe for disaster.
Here is why:
Harry is a teenage boy who has glimpsed what family he could be apart of. He is not yet apart of this family by legal means, and I think that he doesn't feel he is apart of it(on an unconscious level)until Sirius and Arabella can yet again provide a home for him. He is known for acting irrationally when he perceives a threat to his family, and will go to any length including risking his own life to protect them.
As Harry stated, he is painfully aware of what it is like to grow up without parents, even now he has a possible adoptive mother and father who can not complete that last step to be his official mom and dad. He now knows that he could render his same fate upon his new found cousins if he slips up. This sets up Harry to do something stupid; I think that out of concern for his new potential family, it will not be Voldermort that pulls a midnight slip on Orion, but rather Harry telling him to do it.
I think that Harry, out of concern that this mission might kill his cousin's parents, will tell Voldermort that he would be willing to pull a slip on Orion, if they can bring Remus Lupin instead. Which Voldermort would be all too happy to agree to, considering that it would allow him greater chance at killing Harry, when Remus is out of the picture once a month. Orion will somehow find them either by Harry's amulet that contacts Katlin or with Bo.

Wow! I could have written another whole story based solely on your prediction.

The bad news is, that means most of it has nothing to do with this story.

OK, let see...,

Harry doesn't really need to rely on any newfound sense of control to make what could be perceived as 'rash' decisions. He's pretty much capable of doing that now. Will he get the chance to? That depends. After all, he's got four adults with him now, and two of them are right up for making rash decisions all by themselves as well.

Well, technically, Katlin never told Harry to be 'stubborn'. She told him to hold his ground against Voldemort's demands. (I know. Semantics.) Will this amount to any disaster? Well, that remains to be seen. So far, the group is pretty much just doing what the wizard in the north wants them to do. He can't stop them, so he's doing the next best thing. He's controlling them.

Sorry. No one is doing a runner here. And even if Harry had wanted to, things simply moved too fast for him to get things together quickly enough to even try. He had no idea when they would be leaving any more than anyone else did. So even after talking to Katlin, if he had hoped to have one more day to get his act together, he didn't.

Boy oh boy, you really thought this one out.

OK, true. But Harry is concerned for everyone on this journey. He's not so naive as to think this is going to be some walk in the park. He knows it's dangerous. But he's willing to trust that Orion can take care of himself. And with Arabella now also going, he especially wants the Unspeakable around to look after her.

Without Harry pressing the issue, Voldemort would have rather sucked raw eggs than accepted Remus Lupin as a tag-along. He doesn't like werewolves, and he has a very short tolerance for them. So, nothing short of Harry offering the deal he did, or a winning lottery ticket, would have gotten Voldemort to agree to allow Lupin to come along.

Voldemort may not like Orion, but he really doesn't see him as that great of a threat.

And as for doing him any injury, that is not currently in his plans. For his own reasons, Voldemort very much wants Orion alive, well, and functioning. You see, things are starting to come together in Voldemort's mind as to what is really going on. And the person he feels holds the key to everything is the last person he wants dead. At least until he has learned everything he can from them.

Work with that for a week, Dear. Lot of information in those few sentences.

Just remember, theorize all you want. I love it when you do. And I'm more than willing to tell you when you're wrong. But I'll never tell you when you're right. So, if I don't answer one of your questions, you were right!

All reviews are as of 01/07/2007.

And remember,

Always forgive your enemies.

Nothing annoys them more.