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THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 28 - Tensions Mounting The door to the room opened, and for a moment it seemed as though it had done so of its own accord, but Peter could smell them: two people, reeking heavily of something he couldn't quite identify. His rat form made his brain foggy enough, but being awake at one in the morning after being kept awake for a week by James to study Transfiguration was just making things worse. However, he had promised James that he would be on the lookout for any suspicious activities by the Slytherins, and from the look of things, he'd hit the gold. He'd been staring at the four Slytherins sitting on their

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 27 - The Dark Lord Severus had thought that he would feel considerably less nervous after he looked smart enough. However, after Lucius and Narcissa had had their way with him, he thought he looked like a circus clown. It had nothing to do with the clothes they had picked for him. The robes he wore were impeccable and completely fashionable, and had been tailored to fit his scrawny figure as best as anyone could hope. His hair had been combed and Narcissa had attacked it with a nauseating number of hair products, but it remained stubbornly limp and, in a fit of desperation, Narcissa had tied it back into a p

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 26 - Mayhem at Hogwarts "Don't you think there's something wrong with Professor Molups?" asked Lily, as she sat down on her desk at the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. James, sitting next to her, turned to look at Professor Molpus's empty desk. "Well, I'd be late to class too if I'd just swallowed a wad of owl dung," he said, unable to contain a snicker. Next to him, Sirius burst out howling in laughter. "Priceless!" he declared, banging his fist on the table. "I don't think it's funny," said Alice, leaning forward on her desk. The door to the classroom opened, and all of the heads turned around, but

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 25 - Infelix Infelicis Severus suppressed a sigh of relief when Slughorn finally signaled the end of the class. His head was starting to hurt a bit, and it would be quite a relief to just let his thoughts wander a bit, instead of having them so tightly constrained by Occlumency. Still, practice was good, and if he tried hard enough, he would eventually stop feeling the headaches as well. It would all be incredibly easy once he got used to it. He looked at Lily, who had immediately started packing things and seemed to be in a rush to get out of there. She was no longer looking at him, and every single one of

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 24 - The new Snape Lily spent half of Sunday on the Hospital Wing. Iracunda's spell had broken her nose and caused some damage to her cheekbones, but Madam Pomfrey had been able to mend it all in a minute. The problem was that either Iracunda had butchered something, or she'd deliberately modified the spell, since Lily's ears still rung shrilly and every once in a while she'd have fainting spells, which Madam Pomfrey hadn't been able to remedy yet. James had spent the entire night with her, and had sneaked back into the room in his Invisibility Cloak after Madam Pomfrey had thrown him out around two a.m. She

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 23 - A new mask Severus spent the rest of the day brooding, hiding in the unlikeliest corners of the castle. He didn't know who he dreaded meeting more: his friends or his enemies. With his friends, he ran the risk of being on the receiving end of their pity. Worse still, they would find out for certain that we was in love with a Mudblood, and a Gryffindor to top it off. They wouldn't understand. He'd probably lose their respect once and for all, an unbearable thought taking into account that their friendship was all he had left in the world. With his enemies, he ran every other single conceivable risk. Mond

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 22 - Despair At first Severus thought he couldn't have possibly heard right. His mind went off in a daze, as though the whole world around him had suddenly lost its colours, had suddenly plunged into the deepest, most impenetrable darkness. A roaring in his ears sent his mind spinning even more than it already was. He blinked, he tried to understand, to process the information that had just been given to him, but there was absolutely no way that the idea could get into his mind without blowing it to pieces, without tearing his heart apart, without destroying the last shreds of hope that forced him to open his

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 21 - His worst nightmare Severus woke up the next day too early for a Sunday. He looked at the dormitory around himself, but the rest of the boys were still snoring in their beds, Avery the loudest of them all. He pushed off his covers, excited, and began to get dressed in absolute silence. Last night had been incredibly interesting, and he had made a huge breakthrough with the potion, especially after Iracunda had come back carrying a container full of unicorn blood. He hadn't asked where she had gotten it (with these people it was always best not to ask), but it had still done miracles to his mood. Now, th

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 20 - All about blood Lily couldn't remember ever having had so much fun in her life. Instead of going straight to Madam Puddifoot's, she and James spent a couple of hours wandering around the allowed streets of Hogsmeade, trying to discover the traces of the battle that had taken place a little more than a week ago. Normally, Lily would have considered the activity out of the question, as much for sensibility reasons as for safety reasons. Security had been tightened in the extreme: large squads of Aurors patrolled every single street, sending the more sensible students into a nervous frenzy. The atmosphere

THE DEATH EATER Part 1 Chapter 19 - Nerves and Schemes "I told you," said Alice. "I told you, Lily, that one day you'd end up caving in." "Oh, shut up," said Lily, pulling up her hair. She looked at herself in the mirror and decided it looked better down. She then began shuffling through all her jewelry, tossing earrings and necklaces into the ground in a frantic search. Any pretence that she was just casually getting ready for a Hogsmeade trip had been abandoned about twenty minutes ago, when Lily realised that she did not want to look ordinary. At least, not today. "Who would've thought James Potter could make you so nervous?" insisted