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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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Déjà vu overcame Harmony once she was inside Shell cottage. Her memories of staying the night there with Voldemort were so vivid; she could imagine him lying naked in the bed with the quilt pulled up to his waist. The large group led her to some chairs that were only a couple feet from the very bed she slept with Voldemort. Harmony couldn't help looking over at it every now and then. It had been her first time. She remembered the fear and the trepidation and the exhilaration. Deep within she knew it was something she wanted and had been wanting for some time.
Harmony looked at everyone's face and wondered: If she told them this was the very room she made love to Voldemort, would they believe her? She unconsciously gave a little shake of the head. Of course not…Voldemort can't love, they would say.
When everyone was settled, Harmony was asked to start from the beginning of her story, and from there she described her time with Lord Voldemort. She told them how Dumbledore wanted more spies among the Death Eaters and of how Snape guided her in the ways of the Dark Lord's followers.
"I was afraid I would be dead within days," Harmony commented after she told them about meeting the other Death Eaters, Bellatrix and Barty, and of Voldemort wanting to teach her. While she told them what he had taught her, she specifically left out all of the moments that contributed to the bond that formed between her and Voldemort. Like when he had shared the story of his family with her, and when he wanted her to sleep in his bed with him. It was more than enough they had to accept her playing spy to Lord Voldemort; they didn't need to know about the intimacy between them as well.
When Harmony reached the part of her story where they went on the mission to retrieve the Vanishing cabinet, Tonks interrupted, "Yeah, I remember you," she said, frowning with recollection. "Yeah, with your face covered, right? You were sticking close to Voldemort." She looked over at Lupin and Moody, "Remember, we were told that day he had a new Death Eater and we were to keep an eye out for her." She faced Harmony, her expression soft. "God, you were right in the middle of all the action. Why in the world didn't you ask us for help?"
"I wanted to so much, believe me," Harmony said, "but Snape had told me just before it wasn't time yet to reveal ourselves, so I couldn't risk blowing my cover." She gave a half smile. "And all of you were trying to kill me, so it was a little difficult."
Her story steadily became harder to describe the further it went on. It was difficult to tell them about her Serpentine charm without revealing how the charm connected her and Voldemort physically and mentally. When she arrived at the part where Voldemort told Harmony the reason of her charm, the reason he taught her and kept her close to him, she couldn't go on.
As silence filled Shell cottage, Harmony heard the words over and over in her mind, "You are the heir to Lord Voldemort. You are the heir to Lord Voldemort." It still felt like that was all a part of her imagination, like they were conjured in the darkest parts of her mind. She could not fully grasp the importance of the words, and she acknowledged that she may never understand.
She skipped the rest of that part and went on to what happened directly afterward.
"Before Voldemort left with his Death Eaters to go to Hogwarts, we were talking and Draco heard my voice and figured everything out. Then he told Voldemort who I was, my real name and that I was a muggle-born."
Mrs. Weasley and Tonks gasped at this, and Ron mumbled, "Git," under his breath.
"He didn't believe Draco at first, claiming muggle-borns weren't capable of the power I had." Harmony paused, "But I didn't deny it. I told Voldemort it was true."
The group started at this.
"How could you be that stupid?" George asked, getting a cold look from his sister.
Harmony could only shrug her shoulders. She bit her lip before moving on. Tears swelled at the memories that stung like a fresh wound. "And then," she continued, sniffling, "Voldemort pointed his wand at me. To kill me."
She knew everyone thought her tears were from remembering her fear, but it wasn't that. She had never felt so much sadness in one moment. His first and only threat to kill her had been like a betrayal, a break in the unspoken promise of the bond they formed, like he was throwing away everything they shared with one another.
"Why didn't he?" Ginny asked softly, patting Harmony's shoulder in comfort.
She shook her head, unable to answer. The thing was, she wondered why herself. Had it been because of the Serpentine charm he hadn't killed her? Or was it something more?
"Anyway," she resumed after a moment to compose herself, "you know what happened with the rest, the battle at Hogwarts and everything."
"Which still leaves my question unanswered," Harry spoke for the first time since she started her story. "Why did you help Voldemort escape?"
Harmony looked over at Harry for a moment. Could she tell him the truth; that she just didn't want Voldemort to get hurt, that she was saving his life? But then that would be followed up with more questions of why she would save his life and that would be too complicated for her to explain.
"I did it partially to save you, Harry," Harmony said. "I didn't want him to kill you."
"He wouldn't have, Hermione," he replied, his voice rising, "We had everything figured out! Having all of his Horcruxes destroyed, he was beatable! You would've known that if you were even here!"
"I told you! Dumbledore asked me to leave! I couldn't refuse!"
Arthur Weasley interrupted, "That's enough, you two." Harry and Harmony shut their mouths and looked away from each other. "This situation can't be helped arguing about what has passed." He looked to Harmony, "You've been through a very difficult time," he turned to Harry pointedly, "and we respect that."
"But all of you are still not quite convinced, are you?" a cold voice said from across the room, and everyone turned to look. Severus Snape had just stepped into Shell cottage, closing the door behind him. Fleur was offering to take his cloak, but he held up a hand and shook his head.
"Severus," Bill said, standing to greet the wizard, his face void of neither warmth nor cruelty.
Snape nodded to him and then to Harry who stood and shook his hand. Harmony stared at this exchange; she had never seen Snape and Harry acknowledge each other before without resorting to violence or harsh words. She looked up into her professor's pale face half hidden behind strings of straight crow-black hair. It was the first time she had seen him since before the Battle of Hogwarts, and a part of her thought he had been killed. Truth be told, she would have been sorry to see him go; he had been a crutch for her when she first went to Voldemort. He made sure she was kept safe, and though she used to hate him before because of his cruelties to her, she appreciated his involvement with her during that terrible beginning. If Snape really hated her, he would have just left her to deal with Voldemort all alone.
Snape looked down his nose at her. "So is it Hermione or Harmony now?"
She ignored him and said while looking from him to Harry, "I've missed something, haven't I?" She knew Snape had been hated among everyone in the room, and yet now they welcomed him into their home without invitation.What had happened over the last two weeks, she wondered.
"Apparently all of us have a little explaining to do," Snape said.
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