Harry was thrilled. Severus had been changed as the most hated to the hottest teacher in school. His body which had been covered by the numerous baggy clothes he wore was now being shown and everyone was much approved. Ron and Hermione were still doing their jobs of keeping everything from him and he was throwing out certain questions and was watching them squirm around trying to give him answers to the questions and trying to cover up what was happing. A few times they had accidently let the real truth slip and he had made a much bigger deal of it than he normaly would have done. It was pleasing his sadistic side to watch them squirm. What was also pleasing was what they were doing to find out who had killed caradoc. He had been getting letters after letters from tom telling him about the groups of order members who had been snoopng around caradocs house and the houses' of inner circle members trying to find information about other possible murders. He needed to get the body of Emmeline to the order to give a message. He had already decided the way to send the message in a gruesome way.
Le Lis walked through the forest heading toward the manor for a meeting. Le Lis flung open the doors and walked into the room silencing all the usless chatter. Everyone stared at the infamous form of The assassin Le Lis. With the grace only an assassin could have he sat on the arm on the throne that tom would be sitting on in a few minutes. Le Lis sat there watching the entering forms of the other less important death eaters. The only inner member who had yet to show up was Severus and that was because he was sitting in lions territory. Two minutes before tom walked in Severus showed up. Only his trained eyes showed the discomfort the man felt. He allowed a grin to show on his face that caused the skin of many a men to crawl and many people to feel pity for one Severus snape. The noise quited the nano-second tom showed up in the guise of voldemort. Tom smirked hen he saw the stress radiating from Severus through the dark mark.
After an hour of asking many boring guestions it was severus' time to play. "Severus any information from the old fool" Tom commanded Severus "yes my lord. Harry Potter has been pulling away from the old man. He's been arguing with his friends and have been seen with my slytherins more than the Gryffindors. Not to mention that his grades have been improving to the point that he was almost failing to being top student in one day" he said.
"Has there been any news on what is being done with the death of caradoc " tom asked "Dumbledore has been sending numerus people to the houses of the death eaters and known dark supporters. Other than that the old man has been keeping his lips shut tight about what hes been thinking."
Le Lis nodded that sounded like the old Lis jumped down and walked down the steps to the ground floor.
"Severus "he said making sure he body swayed making him look like a poised snake ready to strike the hand that once fed him if need arise "I need you to give the old man something". He put his hand into the pocket of his cloak and pulled out a small box. "Inside this box is something very important and I need you to send them to the old fool. Do not fret. It will not harm you nor will it cause any one pain. " after a pause and a sly smile Le Lis added "physical pain that is. Mental torment however is a different matter". You could see the fear and shivers roll off the death eaters in waves. "Also tell The old fool that it comes from me. I want him to know who it is that threatens him so. You will tell him, wont you Severus?". With a shaky nod Severus accepted.
"Now "he said with a smile" I must go. Dumbledore is having a Meeting in a few and I need to make sure that i am there." He turned to tom "torture him a bit for me. You know how pleasuring it is to see grown men whimpering in pain on the floor" he said with a full tooth grin that could scare a dementor. He turned to the door on the side that led to the back chambers of the manor. As he walked he pulled off his mask letting his long hair flow down his back and making sure that every death eater could tell that his mask was off and that there was nothing covering his face. He heard a ring of gasps fly through the room at the thought. Le Lis let a loud laugh escape his lips and allowed the door close behind him.
Jumping from place to place was entertaining and it caused him to never have a dull moment but it was very tiring and he feared that he would lose his strength and vigilance through this weakness and would fall from a simple spell if he didn't end this war soon. Harry walked down the halls of Hogwarts heading to a large open window that looked out to the lake. This place was very important to him it allowed him to think about many things. First off was who to kill next. He wanted to kill someone that lived inside the school so that dumbledore would believe that the school as no longer safe and he would tire himself out all the more was having quite alot of fun with the others. He had taken to pranking the teachers and students in such a way that was very dangerous. He had made trawnly believe that the oracal was calling her making her follow it blindly off the castle wall, but unfortunately a student had been walking up there to see her and had stopped her from falling just in the nick of time. Harry had been quite angry and had targeted the student for a few pranks and he had ended up in the infirmary with a concussion and a very near death experience to gloat about. Harry had put a few drugs into the drinks of different people, making sure to add a similar amount to each house. He wouldn't want them the figure out he wasn't doing too much to one group of students. Dumbledore had fallen victim to a deep sleeping potion and Hermione had taken a hair removal potion that he had switched around to make it impossible to grow it back for another 5 years. Pansy had been naming off all her deepest darkest secrets with a nonstop vigor that made all the girls blush. Apparently she had been sleeping with her own family, her mother and grandparents included, she also had liked it. The school had had a field day with that and had called the ministry to stop them from doing such a "vulgar" thing. Needless to say things were interesting but it really had not bared much fruit since he had yet to kill some one but he would get some idiot killed and they would win. He needed to get someone that would frighten them. Trawnly wasn't much fun since she was fairly weak and he really had no desire to kill Fillius as he was his favourite teacher, barr Severus of course. These petty little trick were nothing. It gave him something to do but it did'nt actually solve anything and they weren't really afraid of anything other that being pranked. "Harry?" . With a sigh harry looked over to see Hermione with Ron. "Ya" he said returning his gaze to the reflection of the moon on the black lake.
"its almost time for the meeting. We have to go now" Hermione said. Ron was glowering with what was apparently hatred and harry not being happy that THEY had come to get HIM. "Hmmmmm..." harry replied getting off the window sill. He headed off towards the direction of the headmasters office. Harry smiled at the the thought of hanging the old man and himself as headmaster or even better Severus. That man did not like children but he would make an excellent Headmaster. No one would dare do something that would cause them to be sent to his office. The children would all be on their best behavior. Harry couldn't help but hum in appreciation of the ideas of different classes that he would have added to the curriculum. He never under stood the outlaw of the dark arts. Why would you attack someone who would know just as much or more dark arts than them? It didn't make much sense to him but he would rectify that.
They entered the office and harry looked around notting all who had come. There was Severus, Mad-eye,tonks, remus, magagonal,Hagrid, aurther, molly, all her children and the old man himself. Harry threw on his face making the typical unotticing look of Harry James Potter. Severus snarled at the sight of him but in a few months he would pale at his master entering the room and would beg for forgivness without knowing if he had done any thing wrong because of his fear. That was the severus he desired. Strong infront of others but a spineless survant before his feet.
"ok" Dumbledore started pulling harry from his thoughts "Moody have you any idea who is killing so many of our people?". Moody just shook his head "All the people have said that there is a man who stands by Voldemorts side but they have never seen his face and he goes by the name Le Lis. Other than his love of torturing people and his high strength nothing much is known about him. They wouldn't even tell me what his hair color is much less anything else ". Dumbledore looked grim. With a solum nod he turned to Remus. "How goes your talks with the other wolf tribes?" He asked.
"Not good "Remus said sighing looking even older than he really is "They too have told me of a man. "one who dances with the shadows" and "rides the moon". They claim him to be god bringing to them a good life and never ending food. He has promised them things that make it impossible for us to even think about getting them to side with us." Everyone looked sad at this statement.
"What has he promised?" Molly asked "Land. He promised them that they could live in some remote land surrounded by mountains and that he would teach them how to raise animals and grow food so that they can survive there. He asked that they don't kill the people aimlessly and travel over to the other villages." Remus answered.
"Can you tell them that hes wrong?" Harry asked. Remus nodded looking grave.
"I told them that he was wrong and I had to fight for my life. He is a saint to them and calling him anything else is blaphmesy" he said. Dumbledore nodded and looked at Hagrid.
"How about the Giants?" He asked. Hagird looked saddened "it is no different than what Remus had said. The giants feel that this le Lis is a god and he has promised them rights and freedom from tyrany. with the oath that they wont kill a bunch of people he has promised them all this. Even Giants I had on my side before have turned against me" he said alone tear running down his face and into his beared. Dumbledore sighed.
"This is not looking good for us my friends. we must figure out who this man is and kill them."He said "Severus any idea who this man is?"
"No. He keeps his mask on the entire time and only sits there. Occasionally he'll say somethings having to deal with the war but he normally keeps quite" Snape said "What does he look like?" Moody asked. Harry felt the turmoil in his slaves mind. He was trying to figure out if it was a breach in the oath to answer. Harry sent a sliver of thought into the mans mind *Tell them *he said. The only reaction Severus had was a slight widening of his eyes.
"He has long black hair that reaches mid waist and pale skin. He also has green eyes but the rest of his upper face is covered in a mask" he answered "seems he looks alot like our dear Harry here" Moody said. All eyes looked at him.
"You couldnt actually think that I was the one who did this" he said making his voice sound Hystarical and panic rise in his eyes. "I dont even know what the name means" he finished.
"The lilly" Dumbledore answered looking at harry. Harry let his mind slip a bit of words to snape.
*Tell them that I told you I wanted to model myself after the potter brat to cause a darkness to the golden boy and slander his mothers sacrifice* The voice in Severus head said. When Severus replayed this Harry made sure to snap.
"What? Hes using my mothers name? How dare he. I dont care what he does to my name its my mothers i care about. He has no right" He shouted "calm down my boy" Dumbledore said looking relieved at the outburst "Is there anything else Severus". Dumbledore smiled at the nod the black-haired man gave him.
"He told me to tell you that he was the one who has taken you your people and that there will be more taken. He told me to bring this to you" He said pulling the box out of his pocket. "He said that it will not cause anyone physical pain nor is it cursed". Dumbledore nodded for him to continue. Severus nodded and set the box on the ground and stepped back. For a few seconds nothing happened than there as a blinding light. Everyone closed their eyes but held there grip on their wands. When the light died away they were able to see a woman dead on the ground. Her shirt was ripped off and there was a hole cut where her heart was supposed to be. Through her forehead was a piece of parchment kept there with the knife that Severus had used to cut out her heart. He paled at the look at the body and harry smiled on the inside. This was good. Moody bent over and picked up the parchment and read it out loud:
two down and more to go lets wait for your terror to grow I will continue to play with my favorite toys who ever said that dolls wernt for boys For this game I will take one of you well old man what are you going to do
No sound could be heard but the quickened breathing of all present. One of them would die and they had no clue who this masked murderer could be...This was bad.