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The Great Below	By : aldallia Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 2128 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 6
- 7
- 8
A/N: This story is set 3 years
before Harry�s arrival at Hogwarts and will be more or less following canon
articles wherever applicable, but when not its all
original fiction guys.

Disclaimer: I don�t own the characters created by JKR soooo, don�t sue, thanks.

A/N: Lacerta pronunciation: la-SIR-tah

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As she and her friends walked into the Great Hall for
dinner, Caroline was grinning widely with Nadia and Meagan chuckling from
nervous laughter. Neither of them knew exactly what Caroline had in mind but
they were certain they were soon going to find out. They separated as usual and
sat at their respective tables, Meagan had turned away from Caroline to slide
her bag under the table giving Caroline the chance she needed to cast the storm
spell at the ceiling. She held her wand under the table in her lap, just the
tip of it flush with the edge of the table aimed at the ceiling. A small flash
was emitted from her wand but was quickly hidden by the reflecting light from
the brightly lit torches. Grinning at her successful spell casting she prepared
to eat light, it would only take about 10 minutes for the full size of the
storm to rain down on them and she had no intention of being among the drenched
students. She looked across the sea of heads towards Nadia who was constantly
shifting her gaze up while she ate. Caroline finished her light meal of a
banana with yogurt and sweet tea calmly and leaned over to Meagan.

�In a minute, it�s going to be torrential in here!� She beamed, �I�m going to get up and leave,
don�t follow me, if anyone asks, I was going to the bathroom.�

Meagan nodded quietly and watched her go, she mouthed to
Nadia to stay put. The moment Caroline had stepped out the door and turned the
corner she heard the low rumbling of the storm clouds. She turned to see a
flash of light and the booming sound of thunder echoing down the halls. Many of
the first year students screamed but were told to calm down by their older
peers. Several had rushed to the windows to see the formidable storm clouds
outside and upon seeing now shouted to the rest of the students in the hall.
Meagan jumped up and ran outside the Great Hall to get Caroline at the same
time Nadia did, before Meagan reached the doors Nadia stopped and was pointing
at the ceiling stone still.

�Look everyone! It�s raining!�

Everyone stopped what they were doing to look up as the
start of the downpour commenced drenching everything. Meagan shouted for
Caroline among all the other shouts from students who were fortunate enough not
to be under the clouds to come see. Meagan found Caroline leaning against a
stone pillar checking out her nails.

�Took you long enough, come on!�

They rushed back to the Great Hall along with all the other
students coming to see. Many of the students were pushing their way out of the
hall or seeking cover under their tables to no avail because there were massive
puddles all over. The professors were frantically trying to get everyone
together and out of the hall to stop the storm but amid all the noise they went
unheard. Caroline pushed to the head of the crowd to get a better look at her
masterpiece. She spotted Nadia playing in the rain jumping into puddles and
thoroughly enjoying herself as were a few others. Caroline was beside herself
laughing at the chaos she had caused very much pleased with her handiwork. From
across the hall she felt someone�s eyes on her, Snape. She thought. Fuck it, why is he staring at me?
Caroline felt a twinge of panic but immediately stifled it and stared boldly
back as if saying: Yea it was me who did
that, but how are you going to prove it? Snape
gritted his teeth and went on with getting students out of the hall in groups.

Days later students were still
talking about the flood in the Great Hall during dinner. Mr. Filch was seen
muttering about the halls about what he�d do to the person once he caught them,
lamenting at the fact that he could no longer string the offender up by their
toes like in the good old days. For the past
week Caroline had been getting nasty red letters via owl post from her parents
during breakfast, somehow they had heard a version about her first day at
school other than her well mannered and well written note. They were glad she
was doing so well in her studies but she had always been an excellent student
academically, it was behaviorally that always brought trouble. By some means
they had found about the flooding in the Great Hall and mistakenly identified
her as the culprit. Unfortunately this time they no longer sent her angry red
letters which she could read in her own time privately, though she had always
thrown them away unread. This time, they sent her a Howler. Caroline looked at
the unfortunate red letter and tossed it aside, it bounced back towards her,
she threw it away again, but it kept coming back. Meagan took note of this odd
behavior.

�Caroline�have you never gotten a Howler before?�

�The hell is a Howler? I don�t have a monkey.�

Meagan shook her head, �No, that red letter you keep trying
to throw away.�

�Yea, I�ve always gotten red letters from my folks when they
were particularly angry with me. All I do is burn them or toss them in the
trash and that�s the end of it. Except this one doesn�t want to stay in the
trash.� She glared at it.

�The reason why it keeps coming back is because that�s a
Howler, and if you don�t open it soon it�s going to��

The letter had opened up by itself with a booming male
voice.

�CAROLINE LACERTA BLACK! JUST WHAT
DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING FLOODING THE SCHOOL AGAIN? THIS IS THE LAST STRAW, IF YOU DON�T WANT TO SHAPE UP THEN
WE MIGHT AS WELL DISOWN YOU RIGHT NOW!�

An angry female voice followed.

�MI HIJITA! ARE YOU CRAZY OR JUST
STUPID? WE ASKED YOU, WE�VE TOLD YOU, WE�VE DEMANDED THAT YOU STOP THIS
NONSENSE YET YOU CONTINUE TO DEFY OUR BEST OF WISHES FOR THE FINEST YOU CAN
RECEIVE AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY US? YOUR FATHER IS VERY UPSET AND WILL BE TRUE TO HIS WORD, EITHER YOU
LEARN TO BEHAVE OR WE�LL TOSS YOU OUT, YOUR CALL.�

With that the bellowing mouth ate itself up into little red
pieces of paper; the entire hall had gone quiet. Everyone had stopped to listen
to Caroline�s Howler, the teachers had stopped and stared, everyone one of them
had their brows furrowed, Snape
looked pissed. All the students started whispering to themselves more fervently
than ever, �So it was HER all along!�, �Imagine that, a SLYTHERIN pulled that
off!�

Caroline acted like nothing had changed and continued eating
amid the staring. Meagan looked incredulous at Caroline�s reaction.

�Aren�t you the least bit worried? My god! Caroline! They
threatened to disown you!�

Caroline shrugged, �Yea, they do that a lot, but since
they�ve as yet fallen short of making any attempts I fail to see the threat in
their lies.�

Meagan was beside herself, �But, now everyone knows! You�re
going to be expelled!�

�They don�t know anything, all they know is that my parents
shouted at me for flooding a room, which ironically coincides with that
incident a few days ago, when I accidentally
made the girl�s loo flood down the main steps. Don�t
worry I�ve made sure to cover my tracks carefully.�

Caroline stood up on the table and cleared her throat loudly
so all attention was on her.

�Everyone heard the Howler, we all know about the bathroom
incident. Why my parents are being harsh like that I am not exactly sure except
that by now, they�ve developed a zero tolerance for these things. Thank you for
your attention.�

Caroline dropped back down off the table, as she was
collecting her things Dumbledore called her up to the raised table.

�Miss Black, pending this investigation I must ask that you
come with me to my office immediately.� He said in his ever calm manner.

Caroline nodded and followed Dumbledore out of the Great
Hall. Inside his office he showed her to a seat and slowly made his way around
his desk to sit opposite her.

�Ah, Lucius I see you have arrived
on time.�

Caroline turned around to see an elegantly dressed man with
platinum blonde hair and piercing gray eyes. On his hand he wore an intricately
carved silver serpent set with emeralds.

�Indeed. One can hardly expect tardiness under circumstances
as important as this, Dumbledore.� He cooed coolly. �Allow me to introduce myself
Caroline, I am Lucius Malfoy,
it is a pleasure to finally meet you.�

Caroline nodded her head and turned back to Dumbledore who
looked very distraught as if he bore most unfortunate news that he sadly must
be the bearer of. He sat across from her and folded his hands on top of the
desk.

�Caroline. We know you had some part to play in the ruse on
the Great Hall�s enchanted ceiling a few days ago.�

Caroline did not react to this news, she was used to the
headmasters of the different schools she attend try to get her to admit her
guilt and would not be phased by Dumbledore�s calm and gentle expressions. She
watched Lucius warily as he hovered just out of her
eyesight.

�I also know that that Howler you received today was not a
threat and is fact.�

At this Caroline merely raised her eyebrows and crossed her
arms, �Do tell.� She said nonchalantly to Dumbledore in response.

�I know that you are quite used to this sort of treatment so
I will make this brief. Your parents have decided to go through with their
threat and HAVE disowned you. You are no longer their child in the eyes of the
law. Fortunately for you, this means we cannot kick you out as it is our duty
as a live-in institution of education to provide you with room and board should
a student become orphaned. At least until the end of the year, after that I am
very sorry to say that we must send you back with the others.�

Caroline shook her head and laughed, �I�m sure you�ve put
great effort into this plan but let me tell you right now, it�s just not going
to work. I am innocent and you can�t prove it was me. As for the whole orphaned
thing, I don�t believe it my parents for years have been using that threat and
have done nothing of the sort through worse events. They hadn�t gone through
and done it then and they won�t go through with it now.�

Dumbledore looked twice as sad as when he had begun speaking
shaking his head sadly.

�My dear, allow me to show you the proof for your own eyes to
see.� Lucius moved swiftly to her side removing from
inside his cloak a folder which he passed to Caroline.

Upon inspection of the emblems on the folder by Caroline, Lucius pulled out several pieces of paper with multiple
insignias and fancy lettering.

�These are copies of the letter they provided me just this
morning, as you can see that is their signature protected by anti-forging
spells from the firm they went to. There can be no lies here, they have
disowned you and now you are considered an orphan. I�m sorry.� Lucius said gravely.

He handed her the papers for her to look through, indeed
they were authentic. Caroline stared at the pages hard, she wanted to rip them
into pieces and shout at Dumbledore and this stranger for lying so harshly to
her. But she knew this was no lie. They had done it. They had actually done it
this time. She tossed the last straw unto the camel�s back and now she was
alone.

�They have left me access to an account which I will
transfer to you. It contains a small amount of money for you to purchase the
rest of your books with and a little bit extra. I thanked them on your behalf
for their generosity.� Dumbledore added gently.

Caroline was focused on a particular spot on the floor,
angry and shocked beyond words. Tears were stinging her eyes, all she could
think was, how could they?

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Lucius watched the way she entered
Dumbledore�s office with a slight air of arrogance and grinned in delight. He
watched her just out of her peripheral vision content with observing for now. She
had left her robe somewhere so was clad only in her school uniform, a white
blouse with a green and silver necktie, gray vest with a gray skirt a little
longer than mid-thigh in length. He marveled at her evenly tanned skin and wavy
curling dark honey colored hair. The tightness of her blouse reflecting the
growing tightness in his pants and the persistence of her waving curls as they
refused to be tamed in the hair clip she wore reflecting her inner stubbornness.
He made a mental list comparing all her features with those of his frigid wife Narcissa. Where Narcissa was pale
skinned with an ethereal beauty about her, Caroline was lively and earthly.
There was a tangible, physical nature about her which appealed to Lucius immensely. So
haughty and proud and no doubt cunning and devious as well, how wonderful a
specimen of the Slytherin house I�ve never seen
before. After Lucius
had handed over the papers legally abandoning her did she even show the smallest
sign of weakness in the form of a few tears surrounding the rims of her eyes. He felt like slamming her into the stone walls and
giving her a real reason to cry.
Pushing her face into the stone while he pinned her arms to her sides pressing
up against her. The feel of her round bottom caressing the bulge in his pants
as he pushed against her. Oh yes, I�d
make her cry then, Lucius thought greedily.

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Bill and his friends were seated at the Gryffindor table on
the other side of the hall for breakfast that morning. As usual the owls flew
about for a few minutes during breakfast to deliver any mail to the students
for that day. Just then Caroline�s Howler echoed throughout the silenced hall.
At the end of the angry message the letter ate itself up into tiny shreds of
red paper. They watched as she stood up on her table to proudly proclaim that
she had indeed flooded the girl�s bathroom a few days back and stared as
Dumbledore lead her away outside of the Great Hall towards his office. One by
one they watched all the teachers leave to follow Dumbledore. Snape was out the instant Dumbledore had left to take
Caroline to his office, followed by Professor McGonagall. The rest stayed with
the students ushering them to finish with their meals and to continue with
their scheduled classes much to the dismay of the students.

The emotion in the air after Caroline left was mixed. Those
who knew her abilities and what she was capable of doing, which were a select
few, were awed by her. The rest who knew next to nothing about her other than
she was Snape�s favorite were sure she was going to
get off without so much as a detention, Snape would
see to that. Bill stared across the hall at Caroline�s friend Meagan who
mouthed the words �I don�t know� to him. Jeremy and Paul tried to get more from
her but since she was too far away they were all frustrated by
miscommunication.

�Damn. I didn�t know she could do something like that. I
mean, I knew she knew more stuff than most but, not like that.� Paul spoke in
awe.

Jeremy looked towards Bill, �Hey man, I�m sure she�ll be
alright, she is Snape�s
pet, I�m sure he�ll want to make sure she won�t get punished.� He snorted
derisively.

Bill scowled back at him, �Don�t talk about her like that,
it�s not her fault she�s his pet. You�ve seen her, talked to her when I was
with her, she�s a nice person!�

Jeremy nodded, �Yea, but she�s also a Slytherin
Bill, and didn�t I tell you that you couldn�t trust that lot?�

The professors that remained did their best to quiet down
the students, so early in the morning and she had already caused a sort of
riot. When the professors had quelled the noisier of students they signaled for
the end of breakfast and had all the students proceed to their classes in an
effort to refocus their attention. Prefects appeared to order the younger
students to their classes and help out the professors. But class was no where
near quiet, after the first class period ended things were beginning to ease
but the talk of that morning still was fresh in all their minds.

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Back at Dumbledore�s office, the door was locked preventing
anyone from interrupting. Only if Dumbledore had requested their presence was
anyone allowed to enter. Snape pounded an angry fist
at the door as he was barred from entering.

�She is MY student Albus! I should
be allowed to enter!� Snape roared.

The door simply refused admittance and Snape
grudgingly left to go teach Potions to some second years. Before he left he
pressed his ear to the door and heard only muffled voices. Disgruntled he left
hexing a statue on his way out. As he stalked his way back to his dungeon
classes Snape replayed the Howler message Caroline
had received. Her middle name, where have
I heard a name like that? He pondered, I�ve
seen that name somewhere before, in a book? A map?� I know I�ve heard it before� Snape stopped dead in his tracks, a star chart! A constellation! At this his eyes flew open in possible
realization of just who Caroline might be. He ran over to his office and took
out the copies he had made of her file and cross referenced the names on her
father�s side with those of a star chart and found each and every one of the
Black family members were named after constellations. He looked at the dates
for their births and brought out a family tree of the Blacks here in England
and circled all those whom her family could possibly be tied to. Snape looked through the historical information about who
married whom and how many children each had but had found nothing of interest.

�There�s got to be something missing, something I�m not
paying close attention to.� Snape speculated aloud.

Just when he was about to give up he saw it. Under a heading
for a Regulus Black and his penchant for running
overseas companies all over the world, of particular interest to Snape was the mention of a wealthy American corporation
during the 40s where he spent a majority of his time at. The family disapproved
of his actions but not enough to rid him from the family�s history because he
would work the Muggles to death in his factories,
something they liked. At his death there was some argument with some American
half-blood witch who claimed Regulus wanted to be
buried there in the States but was flatly refused by the family. Unfortunately for me her name is not listed
anywhere so I could still be grasping thin air here. Snape
thought in annoyance. All I have to go on
are the dates on this Regulus and her grandfather Richard,
both died the same day of the same year, but that can be coincidence too, eerie
coincidence but there�s no hard proof!

Snape looked up the names of the
family members who were disowned from the family, one name that was
contemporary with the Regulus in question was listed
as deceased in the Wizarding Records, but the Squib,
Marius, whom some information may have been passed on to might provide Snape with the answers he seeks. He hurriedly wrote a note
and rushed up the steps to the Owlery choosing the
fastest owl to deliver his message. With
any luck I might find out what I need to know.

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