Ch. 3

The snake man and the three men Apparition into his chambers; in a grand manor, in his chambers there was a big bed that is the double the size of a normal king size bed, which was settled in his bedroom. This is where the snake man and one of the other men and laid down the two Granger girls. The other two men laid down their trunks at the end of the bed.

When the girls were lying upon the bed; they woke up and moved towards the headboard to get away from the men, this caused the snake man to look shock for the girls were awake and not asleep like they were.

Hermione spoke up, "What do you want Voldemort, and why are we here?"

The said man smiled, "Good to know that you know who I am Miss Granger. As for why you are here, you do know about the Marriage Law; well I have taken the two of you to have one of you to marry and have the other to marry one of my men. Tell me Potter's friend, who out of my men would you be willing to marry?"

Hermione Granger was not expecting this out of the Dark Lord, of anyone to use the Marriage Law for his own means of control. She thought about it and only came up with one man that she would marry out of his men, the only one that she would trust. "Snape," was the answer that Hermione gave to Voldemort.

The snake like man smiled; a very thin smile, "Yes, good choice. Out of all of my men, he would be the smartest man who would feed your brain the most. For you are what, the smartest witch of the age? As many have said about you."

Lyra squeaked out, "What about me?"

The dark wizard smiled, "You will be marrying me. I will be making sure that you will be going to Hogwarts with your cousin, but I will be making arrangements for Severus Snape to share his chambers with not only with his-soon-to-be-wife, but also mine. He will keep an eye on you and protect you, while I cannot at Hogwarts. This way I can come to Hogwarts at night, and spend my time with you and the only one to know this will be Severus." He gave off a dark laugh. "Now I must get Severus to come over as soon as he can. We have contracts to fill out for you girls, so we can start marrying to two of you off before the Order can do anything about it."

Lyra asked, "The Order? What Order?"

Voldemort smirked, "The Order of the Phoenix, a group of people who are trying to cause my downfall. They are people who fight for the light, while I fight for the darkness."

Hermione hugged her cousin closer to her. She did not like how Lyra had to become the Dark Lord's wife, she felt sorry for her cousin. She just hopes that Voldemort will treat her better than his followers would have.

One of the men; known as Rabastan Lestrange; laughed, "I would love to see how my sister-in-law Bellatrix's face when she finds out that you are getting married my Lord. She would not be happy."

Voldemort's eyes flashed a bright red, before saying, "She will not harm any of the Grangers or she will find herself dead, if she ever tried doing anything to one of them." He walked over to Lyra and lightly petted her face with the back of his hand. "No one is going to harm you, my little wife. For I will be giving you some protection amulets for you to wear, not even I would ever harm you while you wear them. You will be protected from all unforgivables, even the death curse will not even harm you." Lyra looked up at the mad man before her; she looked scared but protected from the words that he was providing her. "Yes my sweet, you will be protected."

Hermione laughed, "Don't listen to him Lyra, he is nothing but a mad man who care for no one but himself. Well he may have cared about Bellatrix Lestrange though."

The snake man growled, "As for your information Miss Hermione, but I no longer care what happens to Bellatrix. She could fall from the sky and I would not save her. As for Miss Lyra; your cousin, I would do anything for her though. You see; before I had seen her, I never understood the term; 'love at first sight' but it happened when I have with her."

Lyra gave a slight grin; she really did not know what to do or say about anything, from the stories that she heard from Hermione and the Daily Profit. It was hard to understand the man that kidnapped them, just to marry them off with the Marriage Law that was active. Lyra said, "Well Voldemort; I am going to say this, as long as you don't ask me to fight the war that you have started then all is good with me, but kill Hermione though or our family."

The feared man of the wizarding world; thought about what Lyra had somewhat had asked of him, and really did not want Lyra anywhere close to the war, except maybe research things, but that would be it. Then he thought about Potter's friend; how Lyra does not want any harm to come to her or anyone else in their family, he knew it would be a price to pay if he would not go through with what she had asked for. He said, "Done."

Rabastan asked, "What my Lord? Are you really going to do what this little woman tell you what to do? I can't believe this."

"Crucio," growled Voldemort. "You don't ask the questions here Rabastan and I will not hear you say another bad thing about Lyra again."

Once the curse was lifted from the big man that was upon the ground, he panted, "Yes, sir."

Lyra and Hermione were huddling with one another; watching what the crazed man had done with one of his own men. Hermione wished that he would not be doing that to her or Lyra.

Then they saw Voldemort grabbed one of his men and laid his wand over their marked arm, within moments; a dark man upon a bended knee stood before him from a whiff of black smoke. Once the Dark Lord gave the okay for the man to stand up; Hermione saw that it was Severus Snape, her potions professor from Hogwarts.

Severus asked with his velvet voice, "You summoned me, my Lord?"

"Yes I have Severus," then with a wave of his hand, Severus was shown to the girls that were in his Lord's bed. "I have called you here Severus, telling you that you will be marrying Miss Hermione Granger tomorrow afternoon."

Severus asked, "Who is the other girl, my Lord?"

"She is Lyra Granger, your wife's cousin; who I will be marrying tomorrow night. We have contracts to fill out tonight and we will have to send them off to the Ministry before anyone else tries to sign contracts for the two of them. Once we marry them; then we will use them against Mr. Harry Potter, who will fall apart finding out whom the golden girl married."

Voldemort waved his wand and brought forth two contracts; which they had both signed and then the two girls had also signed their own contracts, then the men send them out with an owl that one of the men and brought into the room.

Severus then asked, "Is there anything else you would like me to do sir?"

"Yes there is Severus. I want you to make me a potion; I want to have my younger body again, and to look human again. I want to be able to marry tomorrow looking like a real man and not like this, I don't want her to wake up in the morning and scream because of the way I look right now."

"I'll see what I can do, sir." Then Severus walked over to the other side of the bed, to look at Hermione closer. "I will see you in the afternoon, wife." Then he turned on the spot with a loud 'pop' and he was gone.

Then the Dark Lord waved his hand for the rest of the men to leave. Once they were all gone; he glanced over at the girls one last time, "Good night ladies; you will have the bedroom for the night, and I will be right out there in the living room. There is no escaping from here. Goodnight, ladies."

With that the Dark Lord of the Wizarding World had left the two cousins to themselves. Hermione sighed, "I am sorry Lyra. It looks like you are marrying the weird psycho, not just the mad man that he known to be."

Lyra glared, "At least you're marrying a sexy looking Dark Wizard tomorrow. Let's get some sleep Hermione, while we can still sleep that is."

Together the two girls moved down the bed a ways, to where they could fall asleep upon the bed. Once sleep had found them, they were tossing and turning all night long, with strange visions of what is yet to come.