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Serpentine Series	By : HarmonyB Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Hermione/Voldemort Views: 12060 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Harmony found her Master several bookcases back trying to look at the contents of one of the shelves above him. She came to stand by his side without a word while he searched.
"This book is one of my most prized possessions," Voldemort said softly. "It took me several years to attain this one, so handle it with great care."
"I always do," Harmony reminded him.
Master raised his wand above his head and flicked it. A book about five shelves above them slid out and started down towards them.
"So," Master asked as he waited for the book to reach him. "Why did you have your wand drawn on Barty just now?"
When she hesitated to answer, he continued, "The wand is a witch or wizard's most powerful weapon, and you should not hesitate to use it—but Barty is one of my most loyal followers; he'd know better than to cause trouble for you. He wouldn't dare. If he did, he'd know I'd punish him."
She remained silent. Barty was a pain, but not in an overly serious way. He was no more annoying than a mosquito constantly buzzing about her head. She could deal with him herself when she needed to.
"Ah, here it is," he said.
Voldemort extended his hand and took the book out of the air. He dusted it off with a quick hand and gave it to her. It was relatively small and light in weight. Harmony read the gold letters on the cover and her eyes opened wide in amazement.
"I think I've seen this book before," Harmony said quietly. "Not for real but…in a dream." She held it up to show him the cover, which read the title: Horcruxes and How to Obtain Them. She nodded then added firmly, "Yes. It was exactly the same one."
Master frowned in thought, and then commented, "Maybe you were meant to read it, then."
"What? Like I'm some kind of seer now?" she scoffed. "I never did well in Divination class. I thought the whole thing was just a load of rubbish."
"And now?"
Harmony pursed her lips as she flipped through the pages of the small book with delicate fingers. "I have no idea."
"Take a look through it, and do not hesitate to ask any questions," he said, and Harmony nodded. "You're lucky, you know," he said. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders as he guided her out of the lesson hall. "When I wanted to learn more about Horcruxes everyone discouraged me from looking into it. They even tried to stop me." His fingers dug into her shoulder at this thought, and made Harmony wince. "You need to learn about them, and I can assure you, I will let no one stop you."
The day that followed was the worst and the best day in Harmony's life.
"You are acting like a weak little squib!" Master shouted at Harmony during her lessons. He'd been at it all day, trying mercilessly to provoke her into producing a Cascadia Maxima.
"I'm not weak!" Harmony shouted back behind the tears she'd been trying to hold back all day. She had completely given up on the promise she'd made herself to hold her tongue at Master's insults. No matter what she said, his hurtful words kept coming.
"What are you, a Muggle-born? Do it already!"
That cut it way too close. She began to felt the magic boiling in her blood. With every word that passed his lips, Harmony was closer to drawing her wand and cursing the man to oblivion. She growled at him in response. She'd had enough!
Master rushed up to her and yelled right in her face, "What's the matter? Did I upset you? Well, what are you going to do about it? Can't you do anything?"
Harmony bit her lip until it bled. He was so close to her, much too close. If he so much as touches me now, he'll regret it, she seethed in her mind. Her fists were balled up tight, ready to take a swing if she felt the need. She said the words she most hated to say between her gritted teeth.
"I-I can't!"
"Don't you say it!" Voldemort shouted so loud it made her flinch. "If you give up now, then you give up everything we've worked towards." He mocked back at her, "I ca-a-a-an't! Well, that's no bloody excuse!"
He backed away and strode around her in tight circles, like a lion circling its prey. Harmony looked down at the floor in overwhelming frustration. She could feel the power surging through her. It was right where it should be. She was dizzy with intense concentration.
Wait, she thought as she looked up. She couldn't see Voldemort anywhere. She felt his eyes on the back of her head and turned to glare at him, when suddenly his arms snaked around her, pinning her tightly to his chest. She screamed in surprise, but as soon as the shock was gone she grew hot with anger.
"Let me go!" she screamed at him as she tried to wriggle free of the suffocating grasp.
"Do you really want me to let go?" he hissed. He tightened his grip the more she struggled to free herself. "Then make me!"
"Oh!" she exclaimed. She clawed at his arms, but the gloves kept her nails covered and were completely useless. She tried to elbow him in the gut, but his grip on her was unwavering. Harmony yelled, exerting every ounce of anger she had possessed since she first came to Riddle mansion in her words, "I hate you!"
"Good," Voldemort replied, his breath hot on her skin. "Use that incentive to force me away. Escape me."
"I can't!" she wailed.
"You can, Harmony. We both know you can, so escape me."
Harmony wanted to kick and scream, but instead she dove deep within herself to tap into the power she so desperately wanted. The power was there, but Master's close proximity stopped her from setting it free. It was ready to boil over inside her, but if she forced it out of her it would rip him to shreds. Harmony forced herself to stop struggling in his arm and gasped, "I…I don't want to kill you."
Master moved his mouth so it was right against her ear. "If that's what it's going to take, then kill me," he said. "Go ahead. Do it."
Harmony sucked in a breath at his touch, then another deeper breath as if she were about to dive a thousand miles into the ocean. On the next breath she broke through the magical barrier, and it shattered like a glass window. An incredibly bright light shot through her, and with another breath she forced the surge of power away from her body.
Just like when she first conjured the Cascadia, she felt the light pass over her like flames from a fire within her. Eerily, the Cascadia Maxima was completely silent, but she felt every single thing that the power did. The light came out in a pulsing rhythm that matched the pounding of her heart. She was mesmerized by the awesome majesty of its blue, blinding color, and she smiled as tears filled her eyes, content to watch it forever.
But Harmony soon realized that with every pulse of light that beamed out of her body, her energy drained along with it. In an attempt to stop it from sucking out all the energy she possessed, Harmony took a deep breath and relaxed every muscle in her body. The bright blue light ceased to fill the lesson hall, and everything returned to darkness.
Harmony's body grew limp, and she collapsed to the ground on her hands and knees. Sapped of most of her energy, she felt as though her insides had been hollowed out. Feeling faint, Harmony lay on her side on the cold ground and wanted desperately to go to sleep.
She heard Master's shout as though it were a distant and hazy dream, and realized with a sudden start that he no longer held her in his arms. She could hear him running up to her as he continued to call out, "Don't close your eyes! Don't let the weakness overtake you!"
Oh, please, she begged in her tired mind, let me be. Just let me sleep. Her eyes drooped as she felt sweet rest coming closer.
Master scooped her up off the floor. In a voice filled with pride and relief, he whispered in her ear, "You're alive."
Harmony laughed feebly. "I am alive," she said in a satisfied mumble.
"But how can I sleep now?" Harmony exclaimed as he set her down on their bed. "I've never felt so energized—like I could do fifty Cascadia Maxima's."
"You could really kill yourself if you did that," he said.
Harmony couldn't believe it had only been half an hour since Voldemort had carried her back to their room. She had been completely exhausted. But now she was starting to feel ten times stronger than she had that morning.
It was like she was waking up from a hundred-year slumber, feeling completely rejuvenated.
They ate a delicious dinner, and then Voldemort insisted Harmony get some rest. The idea seemed crazy to her now. Sleep was just a waste of time when she wanted to look at the world around her. Everything seemed different: the colors around her were more vibrant and alive; her senses of hearing and smell were sharpened. The energy within was almost overwhelming. She felt like a burning rocket waiting to go off and blaze around the walls and ceiling. She felt as if her pores were completely filled with magic. With it came a sense of invincibility.
Unable to be still, it took Master three tries before he could successfully set her on the bed and lie her down.
"Rest, Harmony," he insisted. "You're going to hurt yourself."
"I feel like the magic is going to burst right through my skin," she told him as she sat up again. "Like I have to use up some of it somehow or it might make me explode." She burst out laughing and jumped up from the bed.
"You're hysterical," Master said worriedly as he grabbed her and took her back to the bed again. "I'd be impressed if you could duel all my followers with this unused power of yours."
"I could do that," Harmony said. "But why duel them one at a time? Now I can blast them all at once. Oh!" She had tried to jump out of the bed again, but this time Master was quicker. After a stern tap on her head with his wand, she went limp and he caught her in his arms. Delicately, he set her on the bed again.
"That wasn't very nice," Harmony gargled hazily.
"It's for your own good," Master insisted. "You need to rest before you kill yourself."
Harmony's eyes rolled around in her head, and she groaned at the strange sensation at the site on her head where he'd cast his spell. For a second she felt like she had a splitting headache, but it quickly grew numb. The numbness spread quickly throughout her body, and she grew heavy with fatigue.
She sighed loudly, and then mumbled to herself. The moment before she drifted off to sleep, Harmony squinted up at Master as he watched her from above. She gave a large sloppy smile and gurgled at him, "I really don't hate you, you know."
"And I don't think you're a weak little squib," he replied. He watched as Harmony closed her eyes and her head fell onto its side on top of the sheets. When he was positive she was well under the effects of the spell and would not wake, he moved her so her head rested on a pillow and gazed down at her sleeping form.
"She's alive," he whispered with a smile as he brushed her feathery bangs away from her long eyelashes.
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