In the hour of the Dark Lord's greatest triumph, an ancient ruthlessness awoke, bound by no laws of magic. One night redefined the world, placing its fate in the hands of a being who bears no resemblance to a hero. How deep does the vengeance run when there is nothing left to lose?
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1. A Lesson in Agony
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Important:
Wow. When I started writing in December, I never could have imagined the level of support I'd be receiving by late January. Every sub, like, and comment means the world to me.
Since launching YOU-KNOW-WHAT, that support has felt even more intense. To be honest, I couldn't sleep a wink the other night—I was just tossing and turning, overwhelmed with gratitude and ideas. That's when I decided to write something special for you.
This story is a bit different. It's dark, tragic, and filled with blood, death, and dark magic. My goal is to make sure some of YOU can't sleep either (evil laugh).
The full story is 15,000 words long! This is the first of six chapters, which I've freshly translated and edited into English for you. Thank you so much for being here and for your incredible support!
I sat upon my throne, my fingers tracing the cold scales of Nagini almost tenderly as I watched the pathetic display before me. Lucius was crawling. A once-proud man was now sliding his belly across the cold stone like a gutted worm. He ruined everything he touched. The fiasco at the Ministry had been the final straw for my patience. He had squandered his political influence, his magical ability was mediocre at best, and I had begun to doubt his loyalty. Yet, he possessed something I still required: contacts. And he had a task.
"This is your last chance, Lucius," I spat through my teeth. My voice echoed in the freezing hall like a blade being sharpened against stone. "It must reach him. He has stood in our way for far too long. Once he is removed, the path will be clear."
"Yes, my Lord... thank you... I won't fail you," Lucius stammered. He struck his forehead against the ground in a humiliating gesture, not a trace of his aristocratic pride remaining. He knew that another failure meant not just his death, but the erasure of the entire Malfoy line from the face of the earth. I decided to sear this realization deeper into his memory.
"Crucio!"
His screams shook the room. I relished it. The wave of pure euphoria that washed over me was addictive. After years spent as a mere shadow, I felt power over life and pain once again. With distaste, I broke the spell. Lucius lay there in a pool of his own urine, a trembling wreck of a man.
"Can I eat him, Tom?" Nagini hissed. Her voice was a gluttonous rasp that promised a slow death. When Lucius heard the sound, he began to sob even louder. His fear was almost palpable, reeking of sweat and desperation.
"No, my dear, not yet," I replied to her in the noble tongue of my ancestors. "He has his part to play." I leaned toward him with a smile that was never intended to comfort. "My dear, slimy friend... this is your last chance."
However, his sobbing was starting to get on my nerves. I hated that sound—it reminded me of the weak children at the orphanage crying into their pillows at night. "Get out!" I barked.
Lucius began to crawl away frantically, leaving a wet, foul-smelling trail behind him on the polished floor. The air in the hall grew heavy with the scent of ammonia. "If you mess up this time, Lucius, I will make you lick this hall clean with your own tongue. And then I will let you spend days dying," I thought with hateful calm.
"You are slow," I noted coldly as the doors remained open. "Do you require another spell to help you?" In mortal terror, Lucius quickened his pace, wheezing like a wounded animal until the doors finally closed behind him with a heavy thud.
I settled back onto my throne of bone. The cold beneath my hands soothed me. "When I get my hands on you, Harry Potter, you will regret ever being born," I spoke chillingly into the empty hall. My voice bounced off the walls, and in the silence that followed, I felt only Nagini's satisfied hissing.
"When I get my hands on you, Harry Potter, you will regret ever being born..."
I sat up abruptly in bed, gasping for air. I was shaking so violently that the bed creaked beneath me. Him again. I saw that dark hall and some poor soul crawling away from him like a beaten dog. That last sentence kept ringing in my head like a death sentence.
I felt terribly alone. Sirius was dead, and it was my fault. If I hadn't been so stupid, if I hadn't succumbed to those cursed dreams... if Dumbledore had told me the truth just once. I knew I didn't stand a chance. According to that stupid prophecy, how was I supposed to defeat someone like Voldemort? I didn't possess even a tenth of his power. Even Dumbledore couldn't defeat him.
My throat burned from suppressed tears. I envied everyone who had normal families so much, while I suffered at the Dursleys'. First Cedric, now Sirius... Who would be next? Ron? Hermione? The image of their dead eyes made it hard to breathe. And that prophecy kept playing in my head like a broken record:
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."
I was sure I had no chance. Completely lost.
"Pff, love," I snorted bitterly into the darkness of my room. "Love is supposed to defeat him? The most powerful Dark Lord in the last hundred years?" It sounded ridiculous. Harry Potter, the boy who is barely surviving, is supposed to destroy a monster with the power of some abstract emotion. In that moment, I felt nothing but pure, cold anger toward Dumbledore and his noble speeches. Love didn't bring back my parents, it didn't save Cedric, and it didn't stop Sirius's death.
I wallowed in that foul depression for a while longer until a scream from downstairs pierced the silence.
"Potter! Get down here and mow the garden this instant!" Aunt Petunia shrieked in that disgusting, grating voice that made my teeth ache. "Lazing around all day like a good-for-nothing! Move it!"
I clenched my fists so hard my knuckles turned white. "I'm coming!" I shouted back. There was no point in arguing. At least I'd get out of this room for a while, where the walls were starting to suffocate me.
On Friday, I woke up unusually early. I only jolted awake once from a dream where Sirius fell behind the veil over and over again. Considering I usually wake up three times a night, it was almost a success. But the pain hadn't gone anywhere. I missed him so much it made my stomach churn.
I had no plans; I just drowned in my own thoughts. I ignored the letters from Ron and Hermione. They lay in a pile in the corner, unopened. What could they possibly write to me? Their empty, sympathetic words would only piss me off. None of them had any idea what it was like to have a murderer's thoughts in their head.
Read books on Defense? Pointless. I'll never catch up to him. I watched Hedwig soaring gracefully outside. I envied her freedom. I wish I could just spread my wings and vanish. This heavy apathy was eventually replaced by exhaustion. Without even realizing it, I fell into a heavy, dreamless sleep.
Petunia's sharp voice drifted up from the ground floor, immediately jarring me awake: "Potter! Come down here this instant. We want to talk to you!"
I snapped out of my daze, put on my glasses, and sluggishly made my way downstairs. My head was throbbing. "What do they want now?" I asked myself. I hated them, but in my current state, I almost didn't care what they did to me.
Petunia stood in the hallway. Uncle Vernon towered beside her. He looked strange. His face was tired and his eyes were glassy, empty, as if he didn't even see me. He held a business card in his hand. As soon as I stopped in front of them, Vernon mechanically reached out his hand. He was handing it to me. I expected him to start screaming, to throw me out, but he just remained silent. That calm was more terrifying than his anger. Hesitantly, I reached for the card.
The moment my fingers touched the paper, Vernon let out a dry rasp: "Mors."
The world instantly tore apart before my eyes. I felt that familiar, violent jerk somewhere near my navel. A Portkey. I tried to throw the card away, but my fingers were stuck to it with invisible glue. Space twisted, colors blurred into a single smear, until the centrifugal force spat me out.
I slammed hard onto the ground. I buried my face in the gravel of some vast, manicured garden. The hysterical screeching of white peacocks echoed around me. Before I could recover, a shout pierced the silence: "Stupefy!"
A bolt of red light struck me in the back. My lungs failed me, the world went black, and I collapsed into the void.
Finally. Harry Potter was in my hands. Lucius had found some scrap of usefulness after all and fulfilled his duty. I looked down at that scrawny body in round glasses—he looked more like a ghost on the verge of death than my fated enemy. It was almost insulting that this boy, protected only by the sacrifice of his Mudblood mother, had managed to resist me for years.
"Your arm, Lucius," I commanded coldly. A faint, cruel smile settled on my face. I had decided that my triumph would not be a quiet one. All the Death Eaters would witness this legend finally being extinguished. Lucius proudly offered me his forearm. "Fool," I thought. "Branded like cattle and yet he takes pride in it."
I pressed the tip of my wand to the Dark Mark. The skin beneath it blackened, and Lucius suppressed a hiss of pain. I settled comfortably onto my throne of bone while the limp Potter lay on the cold floor like a discarded doll.
My faithful began to arrive in the hall one by one. Masked figures emerged from the shadows like wraiths, bowing subserviently at my feet and lining up in a motionless rank along the sides of the hall. A deathly silence took hold, broken only by the ominous rustle of heavy robes. I savored this moment. I wanted Potter, when he finally opened his eyes, to see nothing but a motionless army of masks and to feel my presence like a cold blade against his throat. His suffering would be legendary.
Finally, everyone was here. The performance could begin.
"Rennervate!"
With a flick of my yew wand, I pulled him out of the darkness. Potter inhaled with a jerk and immediately began to look around in a panic. His eyes behind his glasses searched desperately through the gloom of the hall until they landed on me.
"Welcome, Potter. Did you sleep well?" I asked, and my quiet, cruel laughter rang through the room.
"What do you want, Tom?" he snapped, though his voice wavered. "Are you going to fail again?"
"Crucio!"
His agonizing screams immediately filled the hall. He bellowed like an animal being skinned alive, thrashing on the floor, his fingernails clawing at the hard stone. I enjoyed it; it was pure, warming euphoria that I couldn't get enough of. With reluctance, I lowered my wand. I didn't want him to go mad so soon. That would rob me of all the fun.
When I broke the spell, the hall became so quiet that only Harry's desperate struggle for breath could be heard. My followers stood there like motionless specters in the shadows. Bellatrix was trembling with excitement, her breathing too fast and loud, while Lucius stared intently at the floor, as if afraid that if he looked up, he would be next.
"Harry, Harry..." I spoke into the silence, where only his intermittent, bubbling sobs were audible. "I'm sorry you don't know how to behave. But don't worry, I shall teach you."
I savored the sight. Harry Potter, the great hero of the wizarding world, lay at my feet. But he wasn't broken yet. Oh, no. That brat still had that disgusting, shapeless piece of courage in him that got on my nerves so much. I stepped closer to him to see the moment when the defiance in his eyes would finally go out. Harry pushed himself up onto trembling elbows with effort. His face was covered in dust and tears, but when he looked up at me, I saw no plea.
He coughed. It was a wet, gagging sound. Before I could react, Potter spat a thick, bloody glob of saliva onto my boot. A deathly silence fell over the hall. I heard Bellatrix gasp in shock and Lucius freeze completely beside her. No one dared to move. Slowly, I lowered my gaze to my foot and then back to him. My smile didn't vanish. It just became something much, much worse.
"Crucio!" I screamed hatefully.
The spell pinned him to the ground with even greater force. He began to thrash like an animal again, digging his nails into the hard floor until blood seeped from beneath them. His screams echoed through the hall, gradually losing their human sound and turning into a helpless, wet rattling. Again, I lowered my wand. I was waiting for that look. I was waiting for him to break.
"Still, Harry?" I asked quietly.
"Go… go… f-f-f… fuck yourself, Tom," he rasped. The words left his mouth only with great effort, mixed with blood and foam, but the same fire still burned in his eyes.
I gripped my wand so tightly my knuckles turned white. How was it possible that this brat had more pride in him than the adult wizards who crawled at my feet and kissed the hem of my robes? He was just an ordinary boy, and yet he defied me in a way that was starting to unsettle me. After a moment, however, I burst out laughing. The sound was unnatural in the freezing silence of the hall.
"Your suffering will be legendary, Harry Potter. We have only just begun," I promised him, dark excitement burning in my eyes. "Spatha Cutis!"
A sickly yellow beam shot from my wand and hit his forearm. A pleasant, tearing sound shook the hall, like old canvas being stretched. Harry's skin slit and, with a squelching, wet sound, began to slowly peel away from the raw flesh. I began to skin him alive.
He screamed like a pig at a slaughterhouse, his shrieks bouncing off the high walls until they nearly tore at my ears. But even through this unimaginable agony, even as his muscles trembled in the exposed meat, he still didn't beg. He still didn't give up. His entire left forearm was flayed. The red, wet muscles glistened and pulsed under the hall's light. Fortunately for me, he had a second one.
"Spatha Cutis!"
Again, that delicious, tearing sound. With a squelching rip, I peeled the skin from his right forearm as well. His screams didn't last long, however; after a moment, he fainted from the pain.
"Rennervate!"
He woke with a jerk, gasping for air like a drowning man, so I happily continued where I had left off. I hadn't even finished when the brat escaped into the darkness of unconsciousness again.
"Rennervate!"
The spell woke him for only a second, but his mind was already refusing to cooperate. He fainted again. It was starting to become a bore, but I had promised him his suffering would be legendary, and I keep my promises. With a wave of my wand, I pulled a chair from the corner, smashed it to pieces, and transfigured them into long, thick nails.
I conjured his body against the wall and, with blunt strikes, nailed him by his bloody palms to the stone. I didn't want him running off anywhere once he finally regained full consciousness. He hung there now like some twisted monument to my victory.
After a moment, I turned to my Death Eaters. The room reeked of blood and the animal fear radiating from them. None of them dared to move; none of them wanted to be next. The only ones finding pleasure in this bloody spectacle were Macnair and Bellatrix. I saw a morbid hunger for more violence reflected in their eyes. It didn't matter to me, though; servants are meant to serve, and the entertainment belonged to me.
I had promised Potter legendary suffering and I intended to keep it. For an enemy who refused to break even under my wand, I needed to bring out something worse.
"Bellatrix, Macnair. You will stay here and guard our precious guest. Don't you dare let him escape," I commanded them. Their faces lit up with twisted joy. Then I fixed my gaze on the rest of the masked crowd. "The rest of you... you have two hours to bring me forty-nine adult Muggles. They must be in good condition, without a single scratch. Whoever fails me, dies."
A movement swept through the hall. No one asked questions. Fear of my power was stronger than any compassion for the worms they were to lead to the slaughter.
"Dismissed!"
In an instant, they hurried off to fulfill my orders. Only the thundering of feet followed by the quiet cracks of Disapparition could be heard until the hall was empty. Satisfied, I settled back onto my throne and stretched my fingers across the armrests. I enjoyed the view. Potter hung there on the stone wall like a broken doll, his blood slowly trickling down the cold masonry, forming a dark puddle beneath him. Bellatrix and Macnair stood below him like an honorary guard in hell. Bellatrix occasionally touched the hem of her cloak as if trembling with anticipation, while Macnair just quietly, appreciatively observed my work on the boy's forearms.
It was just us. The silence in the hall was broken only by the occasional heavy drip of blood hitting the floor. Two hours. That was plenty of time to fine-tune the details of what was to come in my mind. Potter had no idea that being skinned was only the beginning of the lesson I had prepared for him.
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Important:
Wow. When I started writing in December, I never could have imagined the level of support I'd be receiving by late January. Every sub, like, and comment means the world to me.
Since launching YOU-KNOW-WHAT, that support has felt even more intense. To be honest, I couldn't sleep a wink the other night—I was just tossing and turning, overwhelmed with gratitude and ideas. That's when I decided to write something special for you.
This story is a bit different. It's dark, tragic, and filled with blood, death, and dark magic. My goal is to make sure some of YOU can't sleep either (evil laugh).
The full story is 15,000 words long! This is the first of six chapters, which I've freshly translated and edited into English for you. Thank you so much for being here and for your incredible support!
I sat upon my throne, my fingers tracing the cold scales of Nagini almost tenderly as I watched the pathetic display before me. Lucius was crawling. A once-proud man was now sliding his belly across the cold stone like a gutted worm. He ruined everything he touched. The fiasco at the Ministry had been the final straw for my patience. He had squandered his political influence, his magical ability was mediocre at best, and I had begun to doubt his loyalty. Yet, he possessed something I still required: contacts. And he had a task.
"This is your last chance, Lucius," I spat through my teeth. My voice echoed in the freezing hall like a blade being sharpened against stone. "It must reach him. He has stood in our way for far too long. Once he is removed, the path will be clear."
"Yes, my Lord... thank you... I won't fail you," Lucius stammered. He struck his forehead against the ground in a humiliating gesture, not a trace of his aristocratic pride remaining. He knew that another failure meant not just his death, but the erasure of the entire Malfoy line from the face of the earth. I decided to sear this realization deeper into his memory.
"Crucio!"
His screams shook the room. I relished it. The wave of pure euphoria that washed over me was addictive. After years spent as a mere shadow, I felt power over life and pain once again. With distaste, I broke the spell. Lucius lay there in a pool of his own urine, a trembling wreck of a man.
"Can I eat him, Tom?" Nagini hissed. Her voice was a gluttonous rasp that promised a slow death. When Lucius heard the sound, he began to sob even louder. His fear was almost palpable, reeking of sweat and desperation.
"No, my dear, not yet," I replied to her in the noble tongue of my ancestors. "He has his part to play." I leaned toward him with a smile that was never intended to comfort. "My dear, slimy friend... this is your last chance."
However, his sobbing was starting to get on my nerves. I hated that sound—it reminded me of the weak children at the orphanage crying into their pillows at night. "Get out!" I barked.
Lucius began to crawl away frantically, leaving a wet, foul-smelling trail behind him on the polished floor. The air in the hall grew heavy with the scent of ammonia. "If you mess up this time, Lucius, I will make you lick this hall clean with your own tongue. And then I will let you spend days dying," I thought with hateful calm.
"You are slow," I noted coldly as the doors remained open. "Do you require another spell to help you?" In mortal terror, Lucius quickened his pace, wheezing like a wounded animal until the doors finally closed behind him with a heavy thud.
I settled back onto my throne of bone. The cold beneath my hands soothed me. "When I get my hands on you, Harry Potter, you will regret ever being born," I spoke chillingly into the empty hall. My voice bounced off the walls, and in the silence that followed, I felt only Nagini's satisfied hissing.
"When I get my hands on you, Harry Potter, you will regret ever being born..."
I sat up abruptly in bed, gasping for air. I was shaking so violently that the bed creaked beneath me. Him again. I saw that dark hall and some poor soul crawling away from him like a beaten dog. That last sentence kept ringing in my head like a death sentence.
I felt terribly alone. Sirius was dead, and it was my fault. If I hadn't been so stupid, if I hadn't succumbed to those cursed dreams... if Dumbledore had told me the truth just once. I knew I didn't stand a chance. According to that stupid prophecy, how was I supposed to defeat someone like Voldemort? I didn't possess even a tenth of his power. Even Dumbledore couldn't defeat him.
My throat burned from suppressed tears. I envied everyone who had normal families so much, while I suffered at the Dursleys'. First Cedric, now Sirius... Who would be next? Ron? Hermione? The image of their dead eyes made it hard to breathe. And that prophecy kept playing in my head like a broken record:
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."
I was sure I had no chance. Completely lost.
"Pff, love," I snorted bitterly into the darkness of my room. "Love is supposed to defeat him? The most powerful Dark Lord in the last hundred years?" It sounded ridiculous. Harry Potter, the boy who is barely surviving, is supposed to destroy a monster with the power of some abstract emotion. In that moment, I felt nothing but pure, cold anger toward Dumbledore and his noble speeches. Love didn't bring back my parents, it didn't save Cedric, and it didn't stop Sirius's death.
I wallowed in that foul depression for a while longer until a scream from downstairs pierced the silence.
"Potter! Get down here and mow the garden this instant!" Aunt Petunia shrieked in that disgusting, grating voice that made my teeth ache. "Lazing around all day like a good-for-nothing! Move it!"
I clenched my fists so hard my knuckles turned white. "I'm coming!" I shouted back. There was no point in arguing. At least I'd get out of this room for a while, where the walls were starting to suffocate me.
On Friday, I woke up unusually early. I only jolted awake once from a dream where Sirius fell behind the veil over and over again. Considering I usually wake up three times a night, it was almost a success. But the pain hadn't gone anywhere. I missed him so much it made my stomach churn.
I had no plans; I just drowned in my own thoughts. I ignored the letters from Ron and Hermione. They lay in a pile in the corner, unopened. What could they possibly write to me? Their empty, sympathetic words would only piss me off. None of them had any idea what it was like to have a murderer's thoughts in their head.
Read books on Defense? Pointless. I'll never catch up to him. I watched Hedwig soaring gracefully outside. I envied her freedom. I wish I could just spread my wings and vanish. This heavy apathy was eventually replaced by exhaustion. Without even realizing it, I fell into a heavy, dreamless sleep.
Petunia's sharp voice drifted up from the ground floor, immediately jarring me awake: "Potter! Come down here this instant. We want to talk to you!"
I snapped out of my daze, put on my glasses, and sluggishly made my way downstairs. My head was throbbing. "What do they want now?" I asked myself. I hated them, but in my current state, I almost didn't care what they did to me.
Petunia stood in the hallway. Uncle Vernon towered beside her. He looked strange. His face was tired and his eyes were glassy, empty, as if he didn't even see me. He held a business card in his hand. As soon as I stopped in front of them, Vernon mechanically reached out his hand. He was handing it to me. I expected him to start screaming, to throw me out, but he just remained silent. That calm was more terrifying than his anger. Hesitantly, I reached for the card.
The moment my fingers touched the paper, Vernon let out a dry rasp: "Mors."
The world instantly tore apart before my eyes. I felt that familiar, violent jerk somewhere near my navel. A Portkey. I tried to throw the card away, but my fingers were stuck to it with invisible glue. Space twisted, colors blurred into a single smear, until the centrifugal force spat me out.
I slammed hard onto the ground. I buried my face in the gravel of some vast, manicured garden. The hysterical screeching of white peacocks echoed around me. Before I could recover, a shout pierced the silence: "Stupefy!"
A bolt of red light struck me in the back. My lungs failed me, the world went black, and I collapsed into the void.
Finally. Harry Potter was in my hands. Lucius had found some scrap of usefulness after all and fulfilled his duty. I looked down at that scrawny body in round glasses—he looked more like a ghost on the verge of death than my fated enemy. It was almost insulting that this boy, protected only by the sacrifice of his Mudblood mother, had managed to resist me for years.
"Your arm, Lucius," I commanded coldly. A faint, cruel smile settled on my face. I had decided that my triumph would not be a quiet one. All the Death Eaters would witness this legend finally being extinguished. Lucius proudly offered me his forearm. "Fool," I thought. "Branded like cattle and yet he takes pride in it."
I pressed the tip of my wand to the Dark Mark. The skin beneath it blackened, and Lucius suppressed a hiss of pain. I settled comfortably onto my throne of bone while the limp Potter lay on the cold floor like a discarded doll.
My faithful began to arrive in the hall one by one. Masked figures emerged from the shadows like wraiths, bowing subserviently at my feet and lining up in a motionless rank along the sides of the hall. A deathly silence took hold, broken only by the ominous rustle of heavy robes. I savored this moment. I wanted Potter, when he finally opened his eyes, to see nothing but a motionless army of masks and to feel my presence like a cold blade against his throat. His suffering would be legendary.
Finally, everyone was here. The performance could begin.
"Rennervate!"
With a flick of my yew wand, I pulled him out of the darkness. Potter inhaled with a jerk and immediately began to look around in a panic. His eyes behind his glasses searched desperately through the gloom of the hall until they landed on me.
"Welcome, Potter. Did you sleep well?" I asked, and my quiet, cruel laughter rang through the room.
"What do you want, Tom?" he snapped, though his voice wavered. "Are you going to fail again?"
"Crucio!"
His agonizing screams immediately filled the hall. He bellowed like an animal being skinned alive, thrashing on the floor, his fingernails clawing at the hard stone. I enjoyed it; it was pure, warming euphoria that I couldn't get enough of. With reluctance, I lowered my wand. I didn't want him to go mad so soon. That would rob me of all the fun.
When I broke the spell, the hall became so quiet that only Harry's desperate struggle for breath could be heard. My followers stood there like motionless specters in the shadows. Bellatrix was trembling with excitement, her breathing too fast and loud, while Lucius stared intently at the floor, as if afraid that if he looked up, he would be next.
"Harry, Harry..." I spoke into the silence, where only his intermittent, bubbling sobs were audible. "I'm sorry you don't know how to behave. But don't worry, I shall teach you."
I savored the sight. Harry Potter, the great hero of the wizarding world, lay at my feet. But he wasn't broken yet. Oh, no. That brat still had that disgusting, shapeless piece of courage in him that got on my nerves so much. I stepped closer to him to see the moment when the defiance in his eyes would finally go out. Harry pushed himself up onto trembling elbows with effort. His face was covered in dust and tears, but when he looked up at me, I saw no plea.
He coughed. It was a wet, gagging sound. Before I could react, Potter spat a thick, bloody glob of saliva onto my boot. A deathly silence fell over the hall. I heard Bellatrix gasp in shock and Lucius freeze completely beside her. No one dared to move. Slowly, I lowered my gaze to my foot and then back to him. My smile didn't vanish. It just became something much, much worse.
"Crucio!" I screamed hatefully.
The spell pinned him to the ground with even greater force. He began to thrash like an animal again, digging his nails into the hard floor until blood seeped from beneath them. His screams echoed through the hall, gradually losing their human sound and turning into a helpless, wet rattling. Again, I lowered my wand. I was waiting for that look. I was waiting for him to break.
"Still, Harry?" I asked quietly.
"Go… go… f-f-f… fuck yourself, Tom," he rasped. The words left his mouth only with great effort, mixed with blood and foam, but the same fire still burned in his eyes.
I gripped my wand so tightly my knuckles turned white. How was it possible that this brat had more pride in him than the adult wizards who crawled at my feet and kissed the hem of my robes? He was just an ordinary boy, and yet he defied me in a way that was starting to unsettle me. After a moment, however, I burst out laughing. The sound was unnatural in the freezing silence of the hall.
"Your suffering will be legendary, Harry Potter. We have only just begun," I promised him, dark excitement burning in my eyes. "Spatha Cutis!"
A sickly yellow beam shot from my wand and hit his forearm. A pleasant, tearing sound shook the hall, like old canvas being stretched. Harry's skin slit and, with a squelching, wet sound, began to slowly peel away from the raw flesh. I began to skin him alive.
He screamed like a pig at a slaughterhouse, his shrieks bouncing off the high walls until they nearly tore at my ears. But even through this unimaginable agony, even as his muscles trembled in the exposed meat, he still didn't beg. He still didn't give up. His entire left forearm was flayed. The red, wet muscles glistened and pulsed under the hall's light. Fortunately for me, he had a second one.
"Spatha Cutis!"
Again, that delicious, tearing sound. With a squelching rip, I peeled the skin from his right forearm as well. His screams didn't last long, however; after a moment, he fainted from the pain.
"Rennervate!"
He woke with a jerk, gasping for air like a drowning man, so I happily continued where I had left off. I hadn't even finished when the brat escaped into the darkness of unconsciousness again.
"Rennervate!"
The spell woke him for only a second, but his mind was already refusing to cooperate. He fainted again. It was starting to become a bore, but I had promised him his suffering would be legendary, and I keep my promises. With a wave of my wand, I pulled a chair from the corner, smashed it to pieces, and transfigured them into long, thick nails.
I conjured his body against the wall and, with blunt strikes, nailed him by his bloody palms to the stone. I didn't want him running off anywhere once he finally regained full consciousness. He hung there now like some twisted monument to my victory.
After a moment, I turned to my Death Eaters. The room reeked of blood and the animal fear radiating from them. None of them dared to move; none of them wanted to be next. The only ones finding pleasure in this bloody spectacle were Macnair and Bellatrix. I saw a morbid hunger for more violence reflected in their eyes. It didn't matter to me, though; servants are meant to serve, and the entertainment belonged to me.
I had promised Potter legendary suffering and I intended to keep it. For an enemy who refused to break even under my wand, I needed to bring out something worse.
"Bellatrix, Macnair. You will stay here and guard our precious guest. Don't you dare let him escape," I commanded them. Their faces lit up with twisted joy. Then I fixed my gaze on the rest of the masked crowd. "The rest of you... you have two hours to bring me forty-nine adult Muggles. They must be in good condition, without a single scratch. Whoever fails me, dies."
A movement swept through the hall. No one asked questions. Fear of my power was stronger than any compassion for the worms they were to lead to the slaughter.
"Dismissed!"
In an instant, they hurried off to fulfill my orders. Only the thundering of feet followed by the quiet cracks of Disapparition could be heard until the hall was empty. Satisfied, I settled back onto my throne and stretched my fingers across the armrests. I enjoyed the view. Potter hung there on the stone wall like a broken doll, his blood slowly trickling down the cold masonry, forming a dark puddle beneath him. Bellatrix and Macnair stood below him like an honorary guard in hell. Bellatrix occasionally touched the hem of her cloak as if trembling with anticipation, while Macnair just quietly, appreciatively observed my work on the boy's forearms.
It was just us. The silence in the hall was broken only by the occasional heavy drip of blood hitting the floor. Two hours. That was plenty of time to fine-tune the details of what was to come in my mind. Potter had no idea that being skinned was only the beginning of the lesson I had prepared for him.
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While Bellatrix and Macnair guarded our guest and the other Death Eaters gathered Muggles in Muggle London, I was preparing the ritual chamber.
I erected seven ritual circles around the central altar of black obsidian. Into each of them, I wove immobilizing and numbing spells; the Muggles had to be calm, submissive, and unaware of what awaited them, so that their fear would not taint the ritual blood. I fitted the altar itself with silver chains, enchanted so that any victim in their grasp would freeze in absolute immobility. I carved runes into the stone, which now pulsed with a dim light, suppressing any foreign magic on the altar. Deep grooves—funnels designed to ensure the blood from the victims flowed exactly where it was meant to—stretched from the ritual circles toward the center. To the altar.
Finally, everything was ready. I had a few minutes, so I sank into my memories through deep meditation.
Shortly after my studies at Hogwarts, I traveled the world seeking forbidden knowledge. In the ruins of ancient Alexandria, I stumbled upon scrolls covered in ancient hieroglyphs. I had to completely subjugate the mind of an Egyptian professor to have him translate those bloody secrets into Latin. It was there that I found the foundations for my Horcruxes, but those scrolls hid something else. A ritual so cruel and dark that even the most depraved ancient priests did not dare to perform it.
That is exactly what I will bestow upon my greatest enemy.
I had long since lost the translated scrolls, but thanks to Occlumency, every single symbol, every step, and every effect of the ritual was etched into my mind.
I returned to the main hall. With a flick of my wand, I ripped the nails from Harry's palms; he fell to the stone floor limp and with a heavy thud. I motioned for Bellatrix and Macnair to take him.
As soon as we entered the ritual room, I let his body levitate and placed him on the cold obsidian altar. With a wave of my wand, I activated the silver chains. With a metallic clink, they wrapped around his throat, chest, and mangled limbs so tightly that he couldn't even move. I noticed he was already alert. Even through that unimaginable pain, he perceived his surroundings—he was only playing helpless, desperately waiting for the slightest chance to escape. Fool. There is no escape from this place.
"Bellatrix, forearm," I commanded with a cruel smile. With a brief touch of my wand to her Mark, I summoned the others. It was time. My servants began to pour into the hall, leading confused Muggle victims with them. The Muggles had glassy, vacant stares; under the influence of the Imperius Curse, they walked obediently like cattle to the slaughter.
"Seven Muggles in each circle! Exactly!" I hissed at them.
I watched as my faithful mechanically divided those pieces of meat into the prepared circles. Forty-nine pairs of empty eyes, seven circles, and in the center, Harry Potter. The geometry of the ritual was perfect.
The ritual could finally begin. I raised my yew wand and, in a deep, guttural voice, began to recite words that the world had not heard for millennia:
"Septem circuli, septem fata, ad unum finem coeunt."
The air in the ritual chamber immediately thickened and began to pulse with raw magic. The ritual circles glowed with an unnatural light, and I felt a dark, euphoric power filling me. I closed my eyes in bliss.
"Sanguis quadraginta novem, flumen ad inferos, aperi januam tenebrarum!"
The circles pulsed one last time. At that same moment, blood began to pour from the Muggles with unnatural violence. It flowed directly into the pre-prepared grooves and, with a squelching sound, filled the space around the obsidian altar.
"O, Spiritus Abyssi, exhauri hanc formam fragilem. Intra in vas paratum!"
The magic sucked the last remains of life from the Muggles. All that remained of them were shriveled, dried pieces of meat and bone, tossed in the circles like waste. Potter disappeared. In his place on the altar pulsed a massive bloody cocoon, absorbing all that life essence.
"Harry Potter, non iam puer, sed vinculum daemonis! Fiat lux obscura!"
Immediately after I spoke the last word, the magic in the room grew so heavy it was almost impossible to breathe. All that darkness began to be violently sucked into the cocoon. Its color changed from a menacing red to an impenetrable, pitch black, and its surface hardened to stone.
An absolute, deathly silence reigned in the hall. Then came the first dry crack. The cocoon shattered into a thousand black shards. The enchanted silver chains that were supposed to hold Potter in place could not withstand the pressure and flew apart like threads.
Potter stood up abruptly with a guttural growl. He was no longer that weak boy. His eyes now shone piercingly with the unnatural color of the Avada Kedavra curse. He no longer looked like a phantom on the verge of death—his body was tall and powerful, every single muscle perfectly defined, with bulging veins pulsing under his taut skin.
His skin, however, was no longer human. It was deathly, dark black, as if it absorbed even what little light was in the room. Spikes of sharp black bone protruded from his shoulders and elbows, and from his forehead, exactly where the lightning bolt scar used to be, curved hellish horns now grew. Only tattered rags remained of his clothing. What stood there was not a man, but a wild beast ready to kill.
I smirked. The ritual was a success, and I felt victory in every breath. Without a word, with only a brief nod of my chin, I gave Macnair the command to attack. I wanted to see what this creature could do.
"Crucio!" Macnair screamed.
The red bolt hit the Beast's chest with full force. However, it didn't even flinch. It didn't double over in pain or cry out. It just stood there, watching Macnair with those glowing Avada-colored eyes. The Unforgivable Curse didn't even move it; it took it as a silent invitation.
In a fraction of a second, a black shadow flickered through the space. The Beast was upon him before Macnair could take another breath. It grabbed him by the throat with one hand and lifted him high like a ragdoll. Macnair thrashed helplessly, his legs flailing in the air, pure terror in his eyes. I saw the Beast smile—it was the wide, jagged grin of a creature enjoying its prey's agony.
Then the Beast squeezed sharply. In the silent room, the sound of crushing cartilage and bone rang out so loudly it hurt the ears. Macnair's throat was instant mush. He was left a wheezing shadow of a man, but for the Beast, it wasn't enough.
It opened its jaws unnaturally wide, the joints in its jaw snapping loudly. In one fluid motion, it bit into Macnair's head and tore off a massive chunk of flesh and bone. Warm blood sprayed in all directions, staining the monster's black chest and the obsidian altar. Behind my back, I heard muffled gagging sounds—some of my faithful Death Eaters couldn't mentally handle the sight.
The Beast, however, lapped up the blood and chewed its prey with a squelch. Harry Potter was dead. This was something else.
After a while, the Beast collapsed. It was accompanied by the foul sound of snapping bones and contracting muscles, until Harry Potter lay on the ground again. He was different—tall, strong, and muscular, but his skin had a human color again and the horns had vanished.
This was exactly how it was meant to be. The demon within him would now sleep, feeding on his trauma and gradually taking control. Potter himself would murder his loved ones and eventually, when not a shred of humanity remained in him, he would destroy himself.
"Severus?" I called into the huddle of Death Eaters, who were still reeling from Macnair's death.
My favorite half-blood immediately stepped forward with a deep bow. I respected his abilities, but I never trusted him. He was a true Slytherin—too cunning for me to risk him informing Dumbledore about what happened here today. Potter had to be my secret trump card. A perfectly disguised Trojan horse.
I didn't wait.
"Avada Kedavra!"
A flash of green light illuminated the ritual chamber. Severus Snape didn't expect it; he didn't even raise his wand. He simply slumped dead at my feet with a vacant stare fixed on the ceiling. A murmur of horror rippled through the hall.
"Lucius," I called coldly.
Malfoy literally crawled toward me. Where was that famous pride of his? Now he was just a broken dog.
"Ye... yes, my... my lord? What can I do for you?" he let out in a trembling voice. At least he didn't wet himself this time.
"Apparate Potter to Diagon Alley. But first, discreetly tip off someone from the Order of the Phoenix so they find him there," I ordered with a cruel smile.
"Right away, my lord!" he blurted out and immediately ran to fulfill the order. Once, he might have dared to doubt, to ask if I was sure. Now, however, he knew very well that every hesitation separated him by only a millimeter from the fate that befell Snape.
I woke up. My heart was pounding wildly, my ears strained to hear the sound of torture. For a moment, I just lay motionless, but around me, there was only a familiar, quiet breathing. I was lying in a soft bed and could smell the scent of the Burrow—old wood, dried herbs, and Molly's freshly laundered sheets. I was safe.
It must have been just a dream. Voldemort would never let me go, not like that. But what happened? Why am I here? I had to get answers, even though it was the middle of the night.
I started nudging Ron. He only snorted, "Whaat... go to sleep, Harry," and rolled onto his other side. I nudged him harder. He could sleep later; I needed to know if I hadn't gone mad.
"Ron, wake up! It's important!" When he still wouldn't move, I yanked the duvet off him.
"Alright, alright... keep your hair on. You're worse than Mum," he yawned and finally sat up, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
"Ron, how did I get to the Burrow? I was supposed to be at the Dursleys', wasn't I?" I asked tensely.
Ron stared at me for a moment as if I'd lost it, but then he started talking. With every word he spoke, I felt something cruel and alien awakening within me.
"The Order brought you in last night. They found you dumped and tattered in Diagon Alley. Thank God you're alive!"
The blood froze in my veins. Ron didn't notice; he just stared vacantly into the darkness. "Dumbledore got a message from Snape that Voldemort had gotten you. We were all out of our minds with worry." He paused for a moment and then added with admiration, "How did you escape him? You're bloody lucky, mate. But... what the hell were you doing all summer? You look different. You're huge, all muscle. Was Hagrid sending you some kind of supplements?"
A single thought exploded in my head.
"Fuck, it wasn't a dream."
I felt the darkness rising within me. It clawed its way to the surface with an insatiable, animal hunger. I looked at my hands, and although they were smooth and clean, I could still smell the scent of Macnair's blood.
"By the way, Hermione is here too. When she found out you'd been kidnapped, she came immediately!" Ron blurted out with relief in his voice, completely unaware that death was already sitting on the next bed.
"Ron, please... run! Get away!" I screamed, but in that second, agony paralyzed me. I felt my bones breaking and knitting back together at unnatural angles, my skin turning black under the onslaught of darkness. I lost control. The demon within me took the helm, and I was pushed into the background, trapped inside my own head.
Instead of running, Ron did the worst thing possible—he lunged toward me and started screaming desperately, "Dad! Dad, something's happening to Harry!"
I pleaded desperately in my mind, screaming in that dark void my mind had become: "Please, leave him! Get away from him!" But the demon ignored me.
Stupid, loyal Ron... he believed it was me. He should have given up on me; he should have left me alone like he did during the Tournament. Now his kindness would kill him.
With horror, I watched as my own body grabbed him by the waist and lifted him high. My mouth opened unnaturally wide and, with a violent, wet snap, tore out his entire throat. Hot blood sprayed onto the walls, onto Ron's posters, onto everything. A shocked Ron just stared blankly ahead while his soul escaped his fading eyes. He died within seconds.
I could taste the iron and salt of Ron's blood flowing down my throat. In every crushing snap of his bones, I heard the end of my old life. I had killed him. My best friend, the brother I chose. And the Beast just purred contentedly.
Suddenly, footsteps echoed in the hallway. Rapid, frightened. I heard the thumping of feet on the stairs, but the Beast didn't care. It continued to feed contentedly on the body of my best friend as if it were just some prey in the forest.
The door burst open. Molly and Arthur were standing there. Mrs. Weasley immediately began to scream—it was a sound that tore at my ears and my soul. Arthur just stood there, incapable of word or movement, staring in shock at the bloody remains of his youngest son.
"Please, please, leave them..." I prayed in my mind, desperately trying to regain control over at least one muscle. In vain. Mrs. Weasley's scream was only an annoying noise to the demon, one that needed to be silenced.
The Beast lunged. Its speed was unnatural, just a blurred black shadow. With one violent swing of a hand tipped with claws sharp as razors, it decapitated Molly Weasley. A geyser of hot blood immediately erupted from her neck, which I could feel all the way inside. The room filled with a heavy, metallic smell of blood mixed with excrement and the scent of pure terror.
While Arthur watched this bloody spectacle motionless, the Beast savored the sight of her collapsing body. Why wasn't he running? Why didn't he pull out his wand and hit me with a curse that would end us both? He should have killed me.
But he just stood there, a broken man in petrified horror.
In a second, the Beast was behind his back. Arthur didn't even have time to scream. A sharp claw sliced his back open from his neck to his tailbone. I felt the resistance of bones and tendons as, with one brutal yank, it tore out his entire spine along with part of his ribs. Arthur fell to the ground like a deboned rag.
In the bloody silence that followed Arthur's last rattle, the Beast paused for a moment. A deep, rhythmic growling came from its (my) chest. It surveyed the massacre with satisfaction—the room that was once a sanctuary had turned into a slaughterhouse. Blood dripped from the ceiling to the floor in regular, heavy drops.
But the hunger within me was far from satisfied. That alien intelligence now controlling my limbs was only just warming up. It felt other lives in the house. The sweet, pulsing warmth of blood hiding behind the thin walls of the Burrow. It felt their fear—and that tasted the best.
"Enough! Stop it! Please, leave them!" I screamed in the darkness of my mind, but my voice was only a quiet whisper against its hunger.
Author's note:
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6. Epilogue: A World Apart
While Bellatrix and Macnair guarded our guest and the other Death Eaters gathered Muggles in Muggle London, I was preparing the ritual chamber.
I erected seven ritual circles around the central altar of black obsidian. Into each of them, I wove immobilizing and numbing spells; the Muggles had to be calm, submissive, and unaware of what awaited them, so that their fear would not taint the ritual blood. I fitted the altar itself with silver chains, enchanted so that any victim in their grasp would freeze in absolute immobility. I carved runes into the stone, which now pulsed with a dim light, suppressing any foreign magic on the altar. Deep grooves—funnels designed to ensure the blood from the victims flowed exactly where it was meant to—stretched from the ritual circles toward the center. To the altar.
Finally, everything was ready. I had a few minutes, so I sank into my memories through deep meditation.
Shortly after my studies at Hogwarts, I traveled the world seeking forbidden knowledge. In the ruins of ancient Alexandria, I stumbled upon scrolls covered in ancient hieroglyphs. I had to completely subjugate the mind of an Egyptian professor to have him translate those bloody secrets into Latin. It was there that I found the foundations for my Horcruxes, but those scrolls hid something else. A ritual so cruel and dark that even the most depraved ancient priests did not dare to perform it.
That is exactly what I will bestow upon my greatest enemy.
I had long since lost the translated scrolls, but thanks to Occlumency, every single symbol, every step, and every effect of the ritual was etched into my mind.
I returned to the main hall. With a flick of my wand, I ripped the nails from Harry's palms; he fell to the stone floor limp and with a heavy thud. I motioned for Bellatrix and Macnair to take him.
As soon as we entered the ritual room, I let his body levitate and placed him on the cold obsidian altar. With a wave of my wand, I activated the silver chains. With a metallic clink, they wrapped around his throat, chest, and mangled limbs so tightly that he couldn't even move. I noticed he was already alert. Even through that unimaginable pain, he perceived his surroundings—he was only playing helpless, desperately waiting for the slightest chance to escape. Fool. There is no escape from this place.
"Bellatrix, forearm," I commanded with a cruel smile. With a brief touch of my wand to her Mark, I summoned the others. It was time. My servants began to pour into the hall, leading confused Muggle victims with them. The Muggles had glassy, vacant stares; under the influence of the Imperius Curse, they walked obediently like cattle to the slaughter.
"Seven Muggles in each circle! Exactly!" I hissed at them.
I watched as my faithful mechanically divided those pieces of meat into the prepared circles. Forty-nine pairs of empty eyes, seven circles, and in the center, Harry Potter. The geometry of the ritual was perfect.
The ritual could finally begin. I raised my yew wand and, in a deep, guttural voice, began to recite words that the world had not heard for millennia:
"Septem circuli, septem fata, ad unum finem coeunt."
The air in the ritual chamber immediately thickened and began to pulse with raw magic. The ritual circles glowed with an unnatural light, and I felt a dark, euphoric power filling me. I closed my eyes in bliss.
"Sanguis quadraginta novem, flumen ad inferos, aperi januam tenebrarum!"
The circles pulsed one last time. At that same moment, blood began to pour from the Muggles with unnatural violence. It flowed directly into the pre-prepared grooves and, with a squelching sound, filled the space around the obsidian altar.
"O, Spiritus Abyssi, exhauri hanc formam fragilem. Intra in vas paratum!"
The magic sucked the last remains of life from the Muggles. All that remained of them were shriveled, dried pieces of meat and bone, tossed in the circles like waste. Potter disappeared. In his place on the altar pulsed a massive bloody cocoon, absorbing all that life essence.
"Harry Potter, non iam puer, sed vinculum daemonis! Fiat lux obscura!"
Immediately after I spoke the last word, the magic in the room grew so heavy it was almost impossible to breathe. All that darkness began to be violently sucked into the cocoon. Its color changed from a menacing red to an impenetrable, pitch black, and its surface hardened to stone.
An absolute, deathly silence reigned in the hall. Then came the first dry crack. The cocoon shattered into a thousand black shards. The enchanted silver chains that were supposed to hold Potter in place could not withstand the pressure and flew apart like threads.
Potter stood up abruptly with a guttural growl. He was no longer that weak boy. His eyes now shone piercingly with the unnatural color of the Avada Kedavra curse. He no longer looked like a phantom on the verge of death—his body was tall and powerful, every single muscle perfectly defined, with bulging veins pulsing under his taut skin.
His skin, however, was no longer human. It was deathly, dark black, as if it absorbed even what little light was in the room. Spikes of sharp black bone protruded from his shoulders and elbows, and from his forehead, exactly where the lightning bolt scar used to be, curved hellish horns now grew. Only tattered rags remained of his clothing. What stood there was not a man, but a wild beast ready to kill.
I smirked. The ritual was a success, and I felt victory in every breath. Without a word, with only a brief nod of my chin, I gave Macnair the command to attack. I wanted to see what this creature could do.
"Crucio!" Macnair screamed.
The red bolt hit the Beast's chest with full force. However, it didn't even flinch. It didn't double over in pain or cry out. It just stood there, watching Macnair with those glowing Avada-colored eyes. The Unforgivable Curse didn't even move it; it took it as a silent invitation.
In a fraction of a second, a black shadow flickered through the space. The Beast was upon him before Macnair could take another breath. It grabbed him by the throat with one hand and lifted him high like a ragdoll. Macnair thrashed helplessly, his legs flailing in the air, pure terror in his eyes. I saw the Beast smile—it was the wide, jagged grin of a creature enjoying its prey's agony.
Then the Beast squeezed sharply. In the silent room, the sound of crushing cartilage and bone rang out so loudly it hurt the ears. Macnair's throat was instant mush. He was left a wheezing shadow of a man, but for the Beast, it wasn't enough.
It opened its jaws unnaturally wide, the joints in its jaw snapping loudly. In one fluid motion, it bit into Macnair's head and tore off a massive chunk of flesh and bone. Warm blood sprayed in all directions, staining the monster's black chest and the obsidian altar. Behind my back, I heard muffled gagging sounds—some of my faithful Death Eaters couldn't mentally handle the sight.
The Beast, however, lapped up the blood and chewed its prey with a squelch. Harry Potter was dead. This was something else.
After a while, the Beast collapsed. It was accompanied by the foul sound of snapping bones and contracting muscles, until Harry Potter lay on the ground again. He was different—tall, strong, and muscular, but his skin had a human color again and the horns had vanished.
This was exactly how it was meant to be. The demon within him would now sleep, feeding on his trauma and gradually taking control. Potter himself would murder his loved ones and eventually, when not a shred of humanity remained in him, he would destroy himself.
"Severus?" I called into the huddle of Death Eaters, who were still reeling from Macnair's death.
My favorite half-blood immediately stepped forward with a deep bow. I respected his abilities, but I never trusted him. He was a true Slytherin—too cunning for me to risk him informing Dumbledore about what happened here today. Potter had to be my secret trump card. A perfectly disguised Trojan horse.
I didn't wait.
"Avada Kedavra!"
A flash of green light illuminated the ritual chamber. Severus Snape didn't expect it; he didn't even raise his wand. He simply slumped dead at my feet with a vacant stare fixed on the ceiling. A murmur of horror rippled through the hall.
"Lucius," I called coldly.
Malfoy literally crawled toward me. Where was that famous pride of his? Now he was just a broken dog.
"Ye... yes, my... my lord? What can I do for you?" he let out in a trembling voice. At least he didn't wet himself this time.
"Apparate Potter to Diagon Alley. But first, discreetly tip off someone from the Order of the Phoenix so they find him there," I ordered with a cruel smile.
"Right away, my lord!" he blurted out and immediately ran to fulfill the order. Once, he might have dared to doubt, to ask if I was sure. Now, however, he knew very well that every hesitation separated him by only a millimeter from the fate that befell Snape.
I woke up. My heart was pounding wildly, my ears strained to hear the sound of torture. For a moment, I just lay motionless, but around me, there was only a familiar, quiet breathing. I was lying in a soft bed and could smell the scent of the Burrow—old wood, dried herbs, and Molly's freshly laundered sheets. I was safe.
It must have been just a dream. Voldemort would never let me go, not like that. But what happened? Why am I here? I had to get answers, even though it was the middle of the night.
I started nudging Ron. He only snorted, "Whaat... go to sleep, Harry," and rolled onto his other side. I nudged him harder. He could sleep later; I needed to know if I hadn't gone mad.
"Ron, wake up! It's important!" When he still wouldn't move, I yanked the duvet off him.
"Alright, alright... keep your hair on. You're worse than Mum," he yawned and finally sat up, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
"Ron, how did I get to the Burrow? I was supposed to be at the Dursleys', wasn't I?" I asked tensely.
Ron stared at me for a moment as if I'd lost it, but then he started talking. With every word he spoke, I felt something cruel and alien awakening within me.
"The Order brought you in last night. They found you dumped and tattered in Diagon Alley. Thank God you're alive!"
The blood froze in my veins. Ron didn't notice; he just stared vacantly into the darkness. "Dumbledore got a message from Snape that Voldemort had gotten you. We were all out of our minds with worry." He paused for a moment and then added with admiration, "How did you escape him? You're bloody lucky, mate. But... what the hell were you doing all summer? You look different. You're huge, all muscle. Was Hagrid sending you some kind of supplements?"
A single thought exploded in my head.
"Fuck, it wasn't a dream."
I felt the darkness rising within me. It clawed its way to the surface with an insatiable, animal hunger. I looked at my hands, and although they were smooth and clean, I could still smell the scent of Macnair's blood.
"By the way, Hermione is here too. When she found out you'd been kidnapped, she came immediately!" Ron blurted out with relief in his voice, completely unaware that death was already sitting on the next bed.
"Ron, please... run! Get away!" I screamed, but in that second, agony paralyzed me. I felt my bones breaking and knitting back together at unnatural angles, my skin turning black under the onslaught of darkness. I lost control. The demon within me took the helm, and I was pushed into the background, trapped inside my own head.
Instead of running, Ron did the worst thing possible—he lunged toward me and started screaming desperately, "Dad! Dad, something's happening to Harry!"
I pleaded desperately in my mind, screaming in that dark void my mind had become: "Please, leave him! Get away from him!" But the demon ignored me.
Stupid, loyal Ron... he believed it was me. He should have given up on me; he should have left me alone like he did during the Tournament. Now his kindness would kill him.
With horror, I watched as my own body grabbed him by the waist and lifted him high. My mouth opened unnaturally wide and, with a violent, wet snap, tore out his entire throat. Hot blood sprayed onto the walls, onto Ron's posters, onto everything. A shocked Ron just stared blankly ahead while his soul escaped his fading eyes. He died within seconds.
I could taste the iron and salt of Ron's blood flowing down my throat. In every crushing snap of his bones, I heard the end of my old life. I had killed him. My best friend, the brother I chose. And the Beast just purred contentedly.
Suddenly, footsteps echoed in the hallway. Rapid, frightened. I heard the thumping of feet on the stairs, but the Beast didn't care. It continued to feed contentedly on the body of my best friend as if it were just some prey in the forest.
The door burst open. Molly and Arthur were standing there. Mrs. Weasley immediately began to scream—it was a sound that tore at my ears and my soul. Arthur just stood there, incapable of word or movement, staring in shock at the bloody remains of his youngest son.
"Please, please, leave them..." I prayed in my mind, desperately trying to regain control over at least one muscle. In vain. Mrs. Weasley's scream was only an annoying noise to the demon, one that needed to be silenced.
The Beast lunged. Its speed was unnatural, just a blurred black shadow. With one violent swing of a hand tipped with claws sharp as razors, it decapitated Molly Weasley. A geyser of hot blood immediately erupted from her neck, which I could feel all the way inside. The room filled with a heavy, metallic smell of blood mixed with excrement and the scent of pure terror.
While Arthur watched this bloody spectacle motionless, the Beast savored the sight of her collapsing body. Why wasn't he running? Why didn't he pull out his wand and hit me with a curse that would end us both? He should have killed me.
But he just stood there, a broken man in petrified horror.
In a second, the Beast was behind his back. Arthur didn't even have time to scream. A sharp claw sliced his back open from his neck to his tailbone. I felt the resistance of bones and tendons as, with one brutal yank, it tore out his entire spine along with part of his ribs. Arthur fell to the ground like a deboned rag.
In the bloody silence that followed Arthur's last rattle, the Beast paused for a moment. A deep, rhythmic growling came from its (my) chest. It surveyed the massacre with satisfaction—the room that was once a sanctuary had turned into a slaughterhouse. Blood dripped from the ceiling to the floor in regular, heavy drops.
But the hunger within me was far from satisfied. That alien intelligence now controlling my limbs was only just warming up. It felt other lives in the house. The sweet, pulsing warmth of blood hiding behind the thin walls of the Burrow. It felt their fear—and that tasted the best.
"Enough! Stop it! Please, leave them!" I screamed in the darkness of my mind, but my voice was only a quiet whisper against its hunger.
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With a slow, predatory stride, we stepped out of the room that had become a grave for Ron and his parents. We were completely soaked in blood – a warm, sticky liquid that trickled down our black chest. The air in the house was so thick with horror that it was almost impossible to breathe. The stench of death mingled with the smell of excrement and urine, creating a stifling cocktail of terror.
The demon led us down the stairs, drawn by the sweet pulsing of blood it sensed in the lower part of the house. As soon as we descended, two red flashes erupted from the shadows of the hallway.
"Stupefy!"
Two stunning spells hit us square in the chest. But instead of stunning us, they merely absorbed harmlessly into our black skin. I felt that energy surging through my veins – the demon absorbed the magic and forged it into pure strength. I knew there was no way back for the twins now.
"Fred! George! Run, for God's sake, get out of here!" I pleaded desperately in my head, but my consciousness was merely a spectator in a horror experience.
Hysterically, they tried again: "Stupefy!"
The result was the same. The beast stopped on the last step, and a sound like a human laugh crossed with the snarl of a wolf tore from its throat. It was enjoying their fear. It relished the sight of yellow liquid pooling under Fred and George's feet. Their terror was sweeter to the demon than the blood itself. It wasn't hungry – it was malicious. It wanted to be entertained.
Why did they just stand there so stupidly? Why didn't they try to run while they had that one, fleeting second? I felt like tearing my soul from my body in despair as I watched the Beast walk toward them slowly, almost casually.
Finally, they snapped out of it and turned to flee, but it was too late. The Beast didn't move like a human – it lunged forward like a living shadow and was behind them in a fraction of a second. It grabbed a skull in each hand. I felt their sweaty skin and red hair under my (its) fingers as it began to slowly, methodically increase the pressure.
Guttural, painful screams and pure hysteria echoed throughout the Burrow. The Beast only laughed raspingly, a sound reminiscent of stones grinding together. The twins kicked their legs helplessly in the air, their fingers vainly trying to loosen that iron grip. After a moment, their bodies went completely limp. A sickening, wet crack rang out. Only a bloody pulp remained of their heads; pieces of brain and skull bone splattered in all directions like ripe grapefruits.
The Beast simply tossed the lifeless husks into a corner like useless waste. It didn't stop. Blood from the twins ran down my hands, but the demon was already fixing its gaze on the living room. It felt another pulsing. Another warmth.
More victims.
Why did they have to hide in the living room of all places? They couldn't escape anymore; between them and the only way out stood the Beast. It walked casually, with the confidence of a predator that knows its prey has nowhere to run. It enjoyed this bloody hunt all the more because it felt my helplessness. My prayers were nothing but sweet seasoning for the main course to it.
The living room door was locked. The Beast tried to open it with an almost human movement of the handle, and when the resistance didn't give way, it laughed throatily. The sound of that laughter did not belong to this world. With a single punch, it shattered the massive wood into a thousand splinters that flew into the room like shrapnel.
Before I saw them, I heard them. Those helpless, high-pitched girlish screams pierced me to the very marrow of my bones. The Beast stepped calmly into the wreckage of the door. With dark amusement, it surveyed the room where Hermione and Ginny huddled in the corner, pressed against the wall. Both had their wands pointed directly at us, but their hands were shaking so violently they could barely hold the wood.
"Please, stop. Please! I'll do anything, just leave them alone!" I screamed desperately in the darkness of my mind. I felt a sudden flicker of interest. The Beast was beginning to find my pleas annoying, but after a moment, it simply moved toward them again.
Suddenly Ginny, with that unyielding Weasley courage of hers, took a step forward. "Stupefy!" she cried. The red beam hit us, but in the silence of the room, only another guttural laugh from the Beast was heard. The spell was swallowed in a second.
Ginny fell to her knees. "Please, Harry, if you're in there somewhere... please..." she began to sob. In a second, the air was filled with the smell of ammonia and urine; her body gave way under the weight of horror.
The Beast ignored her pleas completely. It grabbed her roughly by the hair and lifted her trembling body high. It looked her straight in the eyes, and in that moment, I felt that foul, unquenchable hunger. With a sharp movement of its clawed hand, it ripped open her belly and, with one yank, tore the liver from her body. Ginny just thrashed helplessly in the air, sounds coming from her throat that were not of this world. She was still alive. She felt everything. And I felt it with her.
The Beast placed the liver into its mouth slowly, almost ritually. It didn't take its eyes off Ginny and, with a twisted laugh in its gaze, began to chew. Only its satisfied smacking echoed through the dark room, punctuated by Ginny's fading wheezing and Hermione's muffled sobs. Hermione had curled into a ball in the corner with her eyes closed, trying to pretend she didn't exist. That this wasn't reality.
After a moment, Ginny finally went limp in my grasp. Her body became heavy, lifeless. The Beast grew bored; for good measure, it tore the still-warm heart from her chest and threw it, along with the dead girl, behind it like a piece of unnecessary junk. A deathly silence followed, in which only Hermione's ragged breathing could be heard.
We headed straight for her. Our steps, smacking in the puddles of blood on the floor, approached her slowly, relentlessly. Every step was like a hammer blow to my soul.
Hermione suddenly stopped sobbing. She clenched her hands into fists as if crushing the last remnants of her humanity in them and opened her eyes resolutely. There was no fear in them anymore, only pure, searing hatred. She looked directly at us – and with a throat full of tears and rage, she screamed the darkest of all curses:
"Avada Kedavra!"
The green flash of the Killing Curse hit me directly in the chest, but the Beast merely fed on it. The curse dissipated harmlessly within it like a drop of water in the ocean. Hope was dying within me, but I knew I couldn't let the last person I cared about end up as a bloody smear on the floor.
"Please... let her go!"
The demon ignored me, but I began to focus on every muscle fiber with superhuman effort. For a moment, the Beast froze. I felt its pure, animalistic surprise. After a while, however, it moved forward jerkily again. I stopped it once more. A battle for control raged in my mind, during which my soul literally burned. I felt its mounting rage.
Hermione broke down completely. When she saw that even the Avada did nothing, she sank to the ground like a broken doll. She knew it was over.
The demon finally broke through my defense. It moved forward until it stood directly over her. I couldn't prevent it. I fought so hard I felt my consciousness would explode, but the Beast took back control. Its black, clawed hand rested on Hermione's forearm.
I felt the impulse – it wanted to yank violently. I froze in that movement, holding the hand in place with all my will until it shook under the immense pressure of two consciousnesses.
Where is Dumbledore? Please, anyone, save her from me!
It was in vain. I lost the battle. With an inhuman snarl, the Beast yanked sharply. There was a sickening sound like tearing parchment – the sound of muscle, skin, and tendons giving way. A long, endless scream full of unimaginable pain rang through the night at the Burrow.
Hermione was still alive. Her ragged breath was the only thing keeping me sane. I felt the demon's surprise; it didn't expect to find so much will in my broken consciousness. It knew now that I was capable of fighting for control – and if I were to do so with every single one of its movements, its bloody fun would turn into constant agony.
"Stop! Leave her, or I will always fight. I'll ruin every hunt, every bit of bloody fun for you!" I screamed in the darkness of my mind, resisting it with everything I had left.
I felt its dark interest. For a moment, it observed me like a curious insect, until a twisted amusement woke within it. Eventually, however, with a foul, dissatisfied snarl, it turned away from Hermione. With a slow, heavy step, we headed out of the Burrow. Behind us in that devastation remained only the painful sobs and desperate crying of a girl I had just stripped of almost everything.
How will I be able to go on? How will I breathe, knowing that because of my body, people I loved more than my own life have died? I was a murderer, the gravedigger of the surrogate family that had taken me in.
Without aim and without hope, we set out directly into the night. Into the darkness that was now my only home.
I sat contentedly on my throne in the freezing hall. Nagini was out hunting, but I felt something much more satisfying – the dark, pulsing bond that connected me to the demon within my fated enemy.
Harry Potter had been cursed for a week now. The Wizengamot was in session today, and I expected fresh information. Finally, there was a muffled knock. With a wave of my wand, I let the doors fly open, and a wizard in Death Eater robes, but without a mask, entered. It was the son of my former classmate, Adrian Nott. He walked with his head bowed until he stopped before my throne with deep respect.
"My Lord, I bring news," he began, and I could hear blatant dark pleasure in his voice. I pierced him with a gaze and signaled for him to continue.
"The Weasleys are almost wiped out. The only survivor is some visitor – mad with horror. The Aurors who entered the Burrow couldn't keep their stomachs down. According to the testimony, some demon tore them... literally to pieces. Some corpses were half-eaten. Only the three oldest sons, who didn't live there, remain of the family."
He paused for a moment to savor my smirk. "No one has any idea who is behind it. Dumbledore is trying to keep it from the public. Furthermore, a small village near Devon was razed to the ground last night. The people were massacred in the same way. The old fool blames us."
I leaned back into the headrest blissfully. My weapon was working flawlessly. Harry Potter had slaughtered the people he called family, and now the Ministry or Dumbledore himself would have to hunt him down.
"Excellent news, Adrian. While we aren't responsible for that village in Devon, it doesn't matter. Discreetly spread the word that Harry Potter has gone mad. That his mind has succumbed to darkness, he slaughtered the Weasleys, and is now massacring innocent Muggles," I commanded with amusement.
The path to taking over the British Isles was clear. Dumbledore, that sentimental old man, would now have to chase his beloved hero like a rabid dog.
Nott bowed deeply once more. Fanatical devotion and blatant relish for the task he had been given gleamed in his eyes. Without a word, he backed away and disappeared into the shadows of the manor with a happy grin on his face.
My greatest obstacle had become my best tool. Victory was within reach.
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The demon led us down the stairs, drawn by the sweet pulsing of blood it sensed in the lower part of the house. As soon as we descended, two red flashes erupted from the shadows of the hallway.
"Stupefy!"
Two stunning spells hit us square in the chest. But instead of stunning us, they merely absorbed harmlessly into our black skin. I felt that energy surging through my veins – the demon absorbed the magic and forged it into pure strength. I knew there was no way back for the twins now.
"Fred! George! Run, for God's sake, get out of here!" I pleaded desperately in my head, but my consciousness was merely a spectator in a horror experience.
Hysterically, they tried again: "Stupefy!"
The result was the same. The beast stopped on the last step, and a sound like a human laugh crossed with the snarl of a wolf tore from its throat. It was enjoying their fear. It relished the sight of yellow liquid pooling under Fred and George's feet. Their terror was sweeter to the demon than the blood itself. It wasn't hungry – it was malicious. It wanted to be entertained.
Why did they just stand there so stupidly? Why didn't they try to run while they had that one, fleeting second? I felt like tearing my soul from my body in despair as I watched the Beast walk toward them slowly, almost casually.
Finally, they snapped out of it and turned to flee, but it was too late. The Beast didn't move like a human – it lunged forward like a living shadow and was behind them in a fraction of a second. It grabbed a skull in each hand. I felt their sweaty skin and red hair under my (its) fingers as it began to slowly, methodically increase the pressure.
Guttural, painful screams and pure hysteria echoed throughout the Burrow. The Beast only laughed raspingly, a sound reminiscent of stones grinding together. The twins kicked their legs helplessly in the air, their fingers vainly trying to loosen that iron grip. After a moment, their bodies went completely limp. A sickening, wet crack rang out. Only a bloody pulp remained of their heads; pieces of brain and skull bone splattered in all directions like ripe grapefruits.
The Beast simply tossed the lifeless husks into a corner like useless waste. It didn't stop. Blood from the twins ran down my hands, but the demon was already fixing its gaze on the living room. It felt another pulsing. Another warmth.
More victims.
Why did they have to hide in the living room of all places? They couldn't escape anymore; between them and the only way out stood the Beast. It walked casually, with the confidence of a predator that knows its prey has nowhere to run. It enjoyed this bloody hunt all the more because it felt my helplessness. My prayers were nothing but sweet seasoning for the main course to it.
The living room door was locked. The Beast tried to open it with an almost human movement of the handle, and when the resistance didn't give way, it laughed throatily. The sound of that laughter did not belong to this world. With a single punch, it shattered the massive wood into a thousand splinters that flew into the room like shrapnel.
Before I saw them, I heard them. Those helpless, high-pitched girlish screams pierced me to the very marrow of my bones. The Beast stepped calmly into the wreckage of the door. With dark amusement, it surveyed the room where Hermione and Ginny huddled in the corner, pressed against the wall. Both had their wands pointed directly at us, but their hands were shaking so violently they could barely hold the wood.
"Please, stop. Please! I'll do anything, just leave them alone!" I screamed desperately in the darkness of my mind. I felt a sudden flicker of interest. The Beast was beginning to find my pleas annoying, but after a moment, it simply moved toward them again.
Suddenly Ginny, with that unyielding Weasley courage of hers, took a step forward. "Stupefy!" she cried. The red beam hit us, but in the silence of the room, only another guttural laugh from the Beast was heard. The spell was swallowed in a second.
Ginny fell to her knees. "Please, Harry, if you're in there somewhere... please..." she began to sob. In a second, the air was filled with the smell of ammonia and urine; her body gave way under the weight of horror.
The Beast ignored her pleas completely. It grabbed her roughly by the hair and lifted her trembling body high. It looked her straight in the eyes, and in that moment, I felt that foul, unquenchable hunger. With a sharp movement of its clawed hand, it ripped open her belly and, with one yank, tore the liver from her body. Ginny just thrashed helplessly in the air, sounds coming from her throat that were not of this world. She was still alive. She felt everything. And I felt it with her.
The Beast placed the liver into its mouth slowly, almost ritually. It didn't take its eyes off Ginny and, with a twisted laugh in its gaze, began to chew. Only its satisfied smacking echoed through the dark room, punctuated by Ginny's fading wheezing and Hermione's muffled sobs. Hermione had curled into a ball in the corner with her eyes closed, trying to pretend she didn't exist. That this wasn't reality.
After a moment, Ginny finally went limp in my grasp. Her body became heavy, lifeless. The Beast grew bored; for good measure, it tore the still-warm heart from her chest and threw it, along with the dead girl, behind it like a piece of unnecessary junk. A deathly silence followed, in which only Hermione's ragged breathing could be heard.
We headed straight for her. Our steps, smacking in the puddles of blood on the floor, approached her slowly, relentlessly. Every step was like a hammer blow to my soul.
Hermione suddenly stopped sobbing. She clenched her hands into fists as if crushing the last remnants of her humanity in them and opened her eyes resolutely. There was no fear in them anymore, only pure, searing hatred. She looked directly at us – and with a throat full of tears and rage, she screamed the darkest of all curses:
"Avada Kedavra!"
The green flash of the Killing Curse hit me directly in the chest, but the Beast merely fed on it. The curse dissipated harmlessly within it like a drop of water in the ocean. Hope was dying within me, but I knew I couldn't let the last person I cared about end up as a bloody smear on the floor.
"Please... let her go!"
The demon ignored me, but I began to focus on every muscle fiber with superhuman effort. For a moment, the Beast froze. I felt its pure, animalistic surprise. After a while, however, it moved forward jerkily again. I stopped it once more. A battle for control raged in my mind, during which my soul literally burned. I felt its mounting rage.
Hermione broke down completely. When she saw that even the Avada did nothing, she sank to the ground like a broken doll. She knew it was over.
The demon finally broke through my defense. It moved forward until it stood directly over her. I couldn't prevent it. I fought so hard I felt my consciousness would explode, but the Beast took back control. Its black, clawed hand rested on Hermione's forearm.
I felt the impulse – it wanted to yank violently. I froze in that movement, holding the hand in place with all my will until it shook under the immense pressure of two consciousnesses.
Where is Dumbledore? Please, anyone, save her from me!
It was in vain. I lost the battle. With an inhuman snarl, the Beast yanked sharply. There was a sickening sound like tearing parchment – the sound of muscle, skin, and tendons giving way. A long, endless scream full of unimaginable pain rang through the night at the Burrow.
Hermione was still alive. Her ragged breath was the only thing keeping me sane. I felt the demon's surprise; it didn't expect to find so much will in my broken consciousness. It knew now that I was capable of fighting for control – and if I were to do so with every single one of its movements, its bloody fun would turn into constant agony.
"Stop! Leave her, or I will always fight. I'll ruin every hunt, every bit of bloody fun for you!" I screamed in the darkness of my mind, resisting it with everything I had left.
I felt its dark interest. For a moment, it observed me like a curious insect, until a twisted amusement woke within it. Eventually, however, with a foul, dissatisfied snarl, it turned away from Hermione. With a slow, heavy step, we headed out of the Burrow. Behind us in that devastation remained only the painful sobs and desperate crying of a girl I had just stripped of almost everything.
How will I be able to go on? How will I breathe, knowing that because of my body, people I loved more than my own life have died? I was a murderer, the gravedigger of the surrogate family that had taken me in.
Without aim and without hope, we set out directly into the night. Into the darkness that was now my only home.
I sat contentedly on my throne in the freezing hall. Nagini was out hunting, but I felt something much more satisfying – the dark, pulsing bond that connected me to the demon within my fated enemy.
Harry Potter had been cursed for a week now. The Wizengamot was in session today, and I expected fresh information. Finally, there was a muffled knock. With a wave of my wand, I let the doors fly open, and a wizard in Death Eater robes, but without a mask, entered. It was the son of my former classmate, Adrian Nott. He walked with his head bowed until he stopped before my throne with deep respect.
"My Lord, I bring news," he began, and I could hear blatant dark pleasure in his voice. I pierced him with a gaze and signaled for him to continue.
"The Weasleys are almost wiped out. The only survivor is some visitor – mad with horror. The Aurors who entered the Burrow couldn't keep their stomachs down. According to the testimony, some demon tore them... literally to pieces. Some corpses were half-eaten. Only the three oldest sons, who didn't live there, remain of the family."
He paused for a moment to savor my smirk. "No one has any idea who is behind it. Dumbledore is trying to keep it from the public. Furthermore, a small village near Devon was razed to the ground last night. The people were massacred in the same way. The old fool blames us."
I leaned back into the headrest blissfully. My weapon was working flawlessly. Harry Potter had slaughtered the people he called family, and now the Ministry or Dumbledore himself would have to hunt him down.
"Excellent news, Adrian. While we aren't responsible for that village in Devon, it doesn't matter. Discreetly spread the word that Harry Potter has gone mad. That his mind has succumbed to darkness, he slaughtered the Weasleys, and is now massacring innocent Muggles," I commanded with amusement.
The path to taking over the British Isles was clear. Dumbledore, that sentimental old man, would now have to chase his beloved hero like a rabid dog.
Nott bowed deeply once more. Fanatical devotion and blatant relish for the task he had been given gleamed in his eyes. Without a word, he backed away and disappeared into the shadows of the manor with a happy grin on his face.
My greatest obstacle had become my best tool. Victory was within reach.
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I woke up in the darkness, just like every morning for the past year. Slowly, I opened my eyes and stretched. I was in my cave somewhere in the wilds of Wales. All around me, bones lay scattered across the ground – a mixture of animal and human remains.
Nearby was a pool, but if anyone expected cold mountain water, they would be bitterly mistaken. The beast within me preferred the blood of its victims, and it took us a long time to fill this pool to the brim. I stood up and headed toward the surface. The bones cracked under my weight like dry branches. With a splash, I submerged myself in the thick, red liquid. The demon's blood was soothing. It was our shared ritual.
After that hellish year, where my only company was a demon and corpses, this blood bath was the only moment of peace.
The demon wasn't just a parasite. In the beginning, it was unimaginable – on the very first night after its awakening, it slaughtered almost everyone I loved. But over time and with an iron will, I forced it into symbiosis. It forced us to kill constantly, it craved pain, but it no longer murdered the innocent. No more destroyed villages, no more dead families. It became my tool. From my once gaunt and shattered body, it created the perfect predator. I was superhumanly strong, fast, and my senses were sharper than a wolf's. Glasses were a thing of the distant past, as were illnesses. My new body could digest raw meat and bones without the slightest trouble.
We had abilities that wizards never even dreamed of. The demon could smell the scent of a soul – it could distinguish good from true evil, allowing us to focus only on those who deserved death. During every hunt, I felt something tracking us, some distant magic. But the demon's presence blocked any clairvoyance or divination. We were invisible. We always vanished before they could lock onto us.
We learned to move through shadows like smoke and summon green hellfire – a power that knew no resistance and, in a single second, burned everything in its path to nothingness. It left no ash, no bones, not even smoke; only emptiness. We could burrow into the minds of others and rip out memories like chunks of raw meat. Yet, the beast did not think for itself. It was merely an uncontrollable storm of animal instincts and unquenchable hunger, a force that could not be destroyed, only directed with every ounce of my strength. I was the consciousness, it was the unrestrained destructive force – I was the one who chose the target, it was the one who tore it to pieces.
A bounty had long been placed on my head. Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix and the corrupt Ministry were searching for me, while from the other side, through my scar, I felt only Voldemort's slimy, dark amusement. To ordinary wizards, I was just Harry Potter – the boy who went mad under the weight of fame. Instead of the Ministry focusing all its strength on the real threat, they hunted me. It was a sad testament to the rotten world we live in.
Did I deserve this? My entire bloodline was slaughtered, my parents fell victim to a madman, and I ended up cursed with a demon that wouldn't even let me die. All I ever wanted from life was to have a home. I wanted a family of my own and one day, many decades later, to die in peace, surrounded by those I love.
But thanks to the incompetence of this nation, Voldemort's obsession, and that fucking prophecy, I was left with nothing. Only blood under my fingernails and the silent scream of the Beast in my head.
But the time for self-pity has expired. I have cried all the tears I had left in me. Now it is time for something else. It is time for revenge.
The night was dark and freezing – the perfect time for a hunt. Thanks to the blood bond in my scar, we felt the Death Eaters like rotting stains on a map of the world. Their dark presence beckoned us, pulsing in our temples and calling us to the feast.
With the demon, we had reached a rare consensus. He craved any life, but I uncompromisingly directed his hunger toward the Dark Lord's servants. I will slaughter them one by one. I will strip Voldemort of every Death Eater, every wand, until he is alone. And then, his turn will come.
We tracked the nearest scent of rot until it led us to a half-collapsed, damp castle near Feldcroft. I felt him there. He was hiding in the bowels of the stone like a rat in a hole. A thick web of protective spells rippled around the castle, but we passed through them as if they didn't exist. The ancient barriers didn't even shiver; to the magic of this world, we were invisible, a phantom without a name or essence.
Calmly, without haste, I reached out my hand toward the massive door. Green hellfire erupted from my fingertips. The handle vanished in silence, not even liquid metal remained, only an empty hole. The door creaked open slightly.
I stepped inside. I walked soundlessly, guided by the rhythm of his pulsing, corrupted soul. I felt my mouth watering – that reflex wasn't mine, it belonged to the Beast, which could no longer wait for the feast. Every one of my senses was heightened to the maximum.
I walked slowly through the corridors until I stopped before massive mahogany doors. Without hesitation, I opened them. The sound of the hinges must have resonated in that silence, because the figure inside didn't even turn, only growled irritably, "What is it, Ribo? What do you want now? If it's another piece of nonsense, I'll cut off your other ear too!"
He was sitting in a deep armchair, his back to the door, holding a thick book. I didn't answer. Instead, I began to stalk toward him, my movements fluid and predatory.
The air in the room froze in a fraction of a second. I saw the hair on the back of his neck stand up in pure, primal fear. He turned sharply, the book hitting the ground with a thud, and with his wand drawn, he roared, "Imperio!"
The yellow beam hit me directly in the chest. But instead of succumbing to a foreign will, the spell merely dissolved harmlessly against my skin. The demon swallowed that pathetic attempt at control with an almost audible, mocking belch in my mind.
I released the grip of my will and gave the Beast space. Since we were in perfect alignment, the transformation was instantaneous. Instead of a man, there suddenly stood a great demon with black, unnaturally taut skin and protruding spikes, from whose throat came a satisfied, raspy laugh.
"Avada Kedavra!" the Death Eater screamed in the mortal agony of fear. A green flash illuminated the room, but it ended just like the previous one – the demon simply absorbed it.
We stopped right beside him and looked him directly in the eyes. In his dilated pupils, I saw the reflection of the monster I had become. The Beast calmly stepped toward him and grabbed the hand in which he desperately clutched his wand. It snapped his fingers as if they were dry twigs and tossed the wand aside.
Then, it slowly placed his hand into its mouth. It enjoyed every note of his helpless scream. It bit deep into the flesh with gusto, and a stream of hot blood immediately poured from the open wound.
However, over that year, I had taught the demon discipline. It knew that if it let him bleed out now, the fun would end too soon.
With a wave of our hand, we summoned a flame that cauterized the wound in a second. The room filled with the foul stench of burnt human flesh, mixing with his unceasing roar. Now he was ours. And the night was still long.
The Beast savored his agony with loathsome pleasure. It slowly tore the fingers from his other hand and chewed them in front of him with relish while staring into his eyes. His screams shook the room, the air heavy with the smell of ammonia and excrement, but the Beast only laughed gutturally. I watched the spectacle with chilling indifference. I felt that he deserved every second of that suffering.
But we needed information.
I nudged the demon mentally. The laughter stopped instantly. Half of my face returned to its human form, while the other remained the black mask of a monster. Without warning, I broke into his mind.
His name was Augustus Rookwood. He once worked as an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries. His mind was armored with oaths intended to prevent him from revealing secrets under the penalty of death. But to the demon's hunger for magic, that was nothing. We devoured those oaths like sweet nectar and penetrated to the core of his consciousness.
From what I saw, my stomach churned. Rookwood was a sadist who, under the protection of the Ministry, performed the most depraved experiments on people, children, orphans, and animals. Hundreds of lives were extinguished at his hands in the name of "research" that the Ministry kept silent about.
Over the last year, Voldemort had almost completely taken over political structures. Dumbledore was on the defensive, abandoned by most of his supporters. While the old Headmaster desperately searched for me to "help" me, the Ministry put a bounty on my head with orders to kill on sight. To the rest of the continent, I was just crazy Harry Potter, a mass murderer, while Voldemort was almost forgotten in the shadow of fear.
"Revenge will be mine," I thought with a hatred that burned hotter than hellfire. The Beast growled in agreement. It didn't understand politics, but it felt my hunger for vengeance. And in that, we were in perfect harmony.
The last six months have been a time of pure terror. We, who under the leadership of the Dark Lord hunted Muggles and "mudbloods," suddenly found ourselves in the role of prey, trembling in the dark. The list of massacred and devoured Death Eaters grew longer every day. At first, we tried to set traps, but Potter walked into none of them. Instead, he systematically slaughtered our entire bloodlines. After two months, the recruitment of new followers for Voldemort completely ceased – the fear of the mad Potter was stronger than loyalty to the Dark Lord. Now, after half a year, I am one of the last ones left.
I sent my family to America under the protection of MACUSA with a fraction of my wealth. I stuffed the rest of the gold and jewels from the Gringotts vaults into chests. I myself fled to Barcelona. I was no longer afraid of Voldemort – compared to what was hunting us, he seemed almost harmless. Joining him was the greatest mistake of my life; he helped create the monster that was eating us alive.
I knew I couldn't hide. Death would find me. My only hope, as fragile as glass, lay in those chests. I hoped that if I couldn't buy Potter's mercy for myself, perhaps he would take those mountains of gold and jewelry in exchange for the lives of my wife and children.
I sat on the villa's terrace in total darkness, staring at the calm sea, but in the depths of my soul, I felt only the approaching storm. I didn't want to die yet. I was too young to become food for the Beast.
Suddenly, the air on the terrace chilled so sharply that steam began to rise from my breath. The shadows on the white walls of the villa began to stretch and ripple unnaturally, as if they had come to life. I knew death had found me. I didn't need to turn around to know that he was standing right behind me.
"The gold is in those chests, Potter," I whispered in a trembling voice, fixing my eyes on the horizon. "Everything is there. My family's wealth. Take it... and leave my family alone. Please."
"Look at me," he commanded in a cold voice.
I obeyed immediately. I didn't dare reach for my wand; it would have been suicide, and I still believed that my obedience was a ransom for the lives of my wife and children.
When I turned, my breath hitched in my throat. Standing before me was not the boy I knew from the Wizengamot courtroom or Lord Voldemort's ritual chamber. He was a grown man in his prime with an athletic, perfectly sculpted physique. His skin was unnaturally pale, as if the sun had never touched it, and long raven hair reached down to the middle of his back. It was no longer that untidy nest; he had it neatly clipped back with a white pin, which I realized with horror after a moment was carved from human bone. But the most terrifying were his eyes – in the darkness of the terrace, they glowed neon like the green flames of hell itself.
Suddenly, a sharp pain flashed through my head. I felt him penetrating my mind with brute force, but I didn't dare resist. He read my every memory, every sin, every emotion. I breathed raggedly, paralyzed by fear, until my voice returned.
"Please... take the gold. All of it. Just leave my family alone. I beg of you!"
Potter measured me thoughtfully for a moment with those burning eyes, and finally, he gave a curt nod.
"You've bought your family's life, Yaxley. In the end, you weren't one of the worst; at least you knew the meaning of loyalty to your own blood. You may die in peace."
In that moment, a wave of indescribable gratitude washed over me. How twisted was it to feel gratitude toward your own murderer? But I knew that his power was absolute. No one could stop him – not Dumbledore, nor my former Master.
"Thank you... thank you," I whispered with tears in my eyes, bowing deeply to him as tears of relief ran down my face.
In a fraction of a second, Potter's human form dissolved. In his place, there suddenly stood a black, pulsing shadow of a demon. He reached out a hand, and I closed my eyes. Without resistance, without fear, and almost voluntarily, I stepped forward to embrace my own death.
Author's note:
So, we've finally made some progress. Harry has mastered a degree of symbiosis with the demon, and as you can see, the hunt has officially begun.
This version of Harry is a far cry from the boy who lived in a cupboard under the stairs. He's evolved into something primal, something the wizarding world isn't prepared to face. I wanted to explore the dark consequences of the prophecy and what happens when the "Chosen One" stops being a savior and starts being a predator.
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Nearby was a pool, but if anyone expected cold mountain water, they would be bitterly mistaken. The beast within me preferred the blood of its victims, and it took us a long time to fill this pool to the brim. I stood up and headed toward the surface. The bones cracked under my weight like dry branches. With a splash, I submerged myself in the thick, red liquid. The demon's blood was soothing. It was our shared ritual.
After that hellish year, where my only company was a demon and corpses, this blood bath was the only moment of peace.
The demon wasn't just a parasite. In the beginning, it was unimaginable – on the very first night after its awakening, it slaughtered almost everyone I loved. But over time and with an iron will, I forced it into symbiosis. It forced us to kill constantly, it craved pain, but it no longer murdered the innocent. No more destroyed villages, no more dead families. It became my tool. From my once gaunt and shattered body, it created the perfect predator. I was superhumanly strong, fast, and my senses were sharper than a wolf's. Glasses were a thing of the distant past, as were illnesses. My new body could digest raw meat and bones without the slightest trouble.
We had abilities that wizards never even dreamed of. The demon could smell the scent of a soul – it could distinguish good from true evil, allowing us to focus only on those who deserved death. During every hunt, I felt something tracking us, some distant magic. But the demon's presence blocked any clairvoyance or divination. We were invisible. We always vanished before they could lock onto us.
We learned to move through shadows like smoke and summon green hellfire – a power that knew no resistance and, in a single second, burned everything in its path to nothingness. It left no ash, no bones, not even smoke; only emptiness. We could burrow into the minds of others and rip out memories like chunks of raw meat. Yet, the beast did not think for itself. It was merely an uncontrollable storm of animal instincts and unquenchable hunger, a force that could not be destroyed, only directed with every ounce of my strength. I was the consciousness, it was the unrestrained destructive force – I was the one who chose the target, it was the one who tore it to pieces.
A bounty had long been placed on my head. Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix and the corrupt Ministry were searching for me, while from the other side, through my scar, I felt only Voldemort's slimy, dark amusement. To ordinary wizards, I was just Harry Potter – the boy who went mad under the weight of fame. Instead of the Ministry focusing all its strength on the real threat, they hunted me. It was a sad testament to the rotten world we live in.
Did I deserve this? My entire bloodline was slaughtered, my parents fell victim to a madman, and I ended up cursed with a demon that wouldn't even let me die. All I ever wanted from life was to have a home. I wanted a family of my own and one day, many decades later, to die in peace, surrounded by those I love.
But thanks to the incompetence of this nation, Voldemort's obsession, and that fucking prophecy, I was left with nothing. Only blood under my fingernails and the silent scream of the Beast in my head.
But the time for self-pity has expired. I have cried all the tears I had left in me. Now it is time for something else. It is time for revenge.
The night was dark and freezing – the perfect time for a hunt. Thanks to the blood bond in my scar, we felt the Death Eaters like rotting stains on a map of the world. Their dark presence beckoned us, pulsing in our temples and calling us to the feast.
With the demon, we had reached a rare consensus. He craved any life, but I uncompromisingly directed his hunger toward the Dark Lord's servants. I will slaughter them one by one. I will strip Voldemort of every Death Eater, every wand, until he is alone. And then, his turn will come.
We tracked the nearest scent of rot until it led us to a half-collapsed, damp castle near Feldcroft. I felt him there. He was hiding in the bowels of the stone like a rat in a hole. A thick web of protective spells rippled around the castle, but we passed through them as if they didn't exist. The ancient barriers didn't even shiver; to the magic of this world, we were invisible, a phantom without a name or essence.
Calmly, without haste, I reached out my hand toward the massive door. Green hellfire erupted from my fingertips. The handle vanished in silence, not even liquid metal remained, only an empty hole. The door creaked open slightly.
I stepped inside. I walked soundlessly, guided by the rhythm of his pulsing, corrupted soul. I felt my mouth watering – that reflex wasn't mine, it belonged to the Beast, which could no longer wait for the feast. Every one of my senses was heightened to the maximum.
I walked slowly through the corridors until I stopped before massive mahogany doors. Without hesitation, I opened them. The sound of the hinges must have resonated in that silence, because the figure inside didn't even turn, only growled irritably, "What is it, Ribo? What do you want now? If it's another piece of nonsense, I'll cut off your other ear too!"
He was sitting in a deep armchair, his back to the door, holding a thick book. I didn't answer. Instead, I began to stalk toward him, my movements fluid and predatory.
The air in the room froze in a fraction of a second. I saw the hair on the back of his neck stand up in pure, primal fear. He turned sharply, the book hitting the ground with a thud, and with his wand drawn, he roared, "Imperio!"
The yellow beam hit me directly in the chest. But instead of succumbing to a foreign will, the spell merely dissolved harmlessly against my skin. The demon swallowed that pathetic attempt at control with an almost audible, mocking belch in my mind.
I released the grip of my will and gave the Beast space. Since we were in perfect alignment, the transformation was instantaneous. Instead of a man, there suddenly stood a great demon with black, unnaturally taut skin and protruding spikes, from whose throat came a satisfied, raspy laugh.
"Avada Kedavra!" the Death Eater screamed in the mortal agony of fear. A green flash illuminated the room, but it ended just like the previous one – the demon simply absorbed it.
We stopped right beside him and looked him directly in the eyes. In his dilated pupils, I saw the reflection of the monster I had become. The Beast calmly stepped toward him and grabbed the hand in which he desperately clutched his wand. It snapped his fingers as if they were dry twigs and tossed the wand aside.
Then, it slowly placed his hand into its mouth. It enjoyed every note of his helpless scream. It bit deep into the flesh with gusto, and a stream of hot blood immediately poured from the open wound.
However, over that year, I had taught the demon discipline. It knew that if it let him bleed out now, the fun would end too soon.
With a wave of our hand, we summoned a flame that cauterized the wound in a second. The room filled with the foul stench of burnt human flesh, mixing with his unceasing roar. Now he was ours. And the night was still long.
The Beast savored his agony with loathsome pleasure. It slowly tore the fingers from his other hand and chewed them in front of him with relish while staring into his eyes. His screams shook the room, the air heavy with the smell of ammonia and excrement, but the Beast only laughed gutturally. I watched the spectacle with chilling indifference. I felt that he deserved every second of that suffering.
But we needed information.
I nudged the demon mentally. The laughter stopped instantly. Half of my face returned to its human form, while the other remained the black mask of a monster. Without warning, I broke into his mind.
His name was Augustus Rookwood. He once worked as an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries. His mind was armored with oaths intended to prevent him from revealing secrets under the penalty of death. But to the demon's hunger for magic, that was nothing. We devoured those oaths like sweet nectar and penetrated to the core of his consciousness.
From what I saw, my stomach churned. Rookwood was a sadist who, under the protection of the Ministry, performed the most depraved experiments on people, children, orphans, and animals. Hundreds of lives were extinguished at his hands in the name of "research" that the Ministry kept silent about.
Over the last year, Voldemort had almost completely taken over political structures. Dumbledore was on the defensive, abandoned by most of his supporters. While the old Headmaster desperately searched for me to "help" me, the Ministry put a bounty on my head with orders to kill on sight. To the rest of the continent, I was just crazy Harry Potter, a mass murderer, while Voldemort was almost forgotten in the shadow of fear.
"Revenge will be mine," I thought with a hatred that burned hotter than hellfire. The Beast growled in agreement. It didn't understand politics, but it felt my hunger for vengeance. And in that, we were in perfect harmony.
The last six months have been a time of pure terror. We, who under the leadership of the Dark Lord hunted Muggles and "mudbloods," suddenly found ourselves in the role of prey, trembling in the dark. The list of massacred and devoured Death Eaters grew longer every day. At first, we tried to set traps, but Potter walked into none of them. Instead, he systematically slaughtered our entire bloodlines. After two months, the recruitment of new followers for Voldemort completely ceased – the fear of the mad Potter was stronger than loyalty to the Dark Lord. Now, after half a year, I am one of the last ones left.
I sent my family to America under the protection of MACUSA with a fraction of my wealth. I stuffed the rest of the gold and jewels from the Gringotts vaults into chests. I myself fled to Barcelona. I was no longer afraid of Voldemort – compared to what was hunting us, he seemed almost harmless. Joining him was the greatest mistake of my life; he helped create the monster that was eating us alive.
I knew I couldn't hide. Death would find me. My only hope, as fragile as glass, lay in those chests. I hoped that if I couldn't buy Potter's mercy for myself, perhaps he would take those mountains of gold and jewelry in exchange for the lives of my wife and children.
I sat on the villa's terrace in total darkness, staring at the calm sea, but in the depths of my soul, I felt only the approaching storm. I didn't want to die yet. I was too young to become food for the Beast.
Suddenly, the air on the terrace chilled so sharply that steam began to rise from my breath. The shadows on the white walls of the villa began to stretch and ripple unnaturally, as if they had come to life. I knew death had found me. I didn't need to turn around to know that he was standing right behind me.
"The gold is in those chests, Potter," I whispered in a trembling voice, fixing my eyes on the horizon. "Everything is there. My family's wealth. Take it... and leave my family alone. Please."
"Look at me," he commanded in a cold voice.
I obeyed immediately. I didn't dare reach for my wand; it would have been suicide, and I still believed that my obedience was a ransom for the lives of my wife and children.
When I turned, my breath hitched in my throat. Standing before me was not the boy I knew from the Wizengamot courtroom or Lord Voldemort's ritual chamber. He was a grown man in his prime with an athletic, perfectly sculpted physique. His skin was unnaturally pale, as if the sun had never touched it, and long raven hair reached down to the middle of his back. It was no longer that untidy nest; he had it neatly clipped back with a white pin, which I realized with horror after a moment was carved from human bone. But the most terrifying were his eyes – in the darkness of the terrace, they glowed neon like the green flames of hell itself.
Suddenly, a sharp pain flashed through my head. I felt him penetrating my mind with brute force, but I didn't dare resist. He read my every memory, every sin, every emotion. I breathed raggedly, paralyzed by fear, until my voice returned.
"Please... take the gold. All of it. Just leave my family alone. I beg of you!"
Potter measured me thoughtfully for a moment with those burning eyes, and finally, he gave a curt nod.
"You've bought your family's life, Yaxley. In the end, you weren't one of the worst; at least you knew the meaning of loyalty to your own blood. You may die in peace."
In that moment, a wave of indescribable gratitude washed over me. How twisted was it to feel gratitude toward your own murderer? But I knew that his power was absolute. No one could stop him – not Dumbledore, nor my former Master.
"Thank you... thank you," I whispered with tears in my eyes, bowing deeply to him as tears of relief ran down my face.
In a fraction of a second, Potter's human form dissolved. In his place, there suddenly stood a black, pulsing shadow of a demon. He reached out a hand, and I closed my eyes. Without resistance, without fear, and almost voluntarily, I stepped forward to embrace my own death.
Author's note:
So, we've finally made some progress. Harry has mastered a degree of symbiosis with the demon, and as you can see, the hunt has officially begun.
This version of Harry is a far cry from the boy who lived in a cupboard under the stairs. He's evolved into something primal, something the wizarding world isn't prepared to face. I wanted to explore the dark consequences of the prophecy and what happens when the "Chosen One" stops being a savior and starts being a predator.
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"Today it ends," I thought to myself in the freezing silence of the Godric's Hollow graveyard. The demon within me let out a guttural growl in agreement; it felt nothing but an unquenchable thirst for blood and the suffering that was to come.
With crushing sorrow, I gazed at the snow-covered graves of my parents. For a brief moment, I allowed my human side to dream – of what it would be like to be an ordinary man, to be happy and to have them by my side. But it was only a cruel, unreachable dream. The reality was etched into the cold stone before my feet: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
I smiled, but it was a smirk without a trace of joy. I was ready to fulfill the prophecy to the last letter. I was ready to take Riddle with me and drag him deep into hell, where we both belonged.
With one last, long look at the names of Lily and James Potter, I turned away. The world around me lost its colors and contours. The air blurred, and without a single sound, I dissolved into the shadows that willingly swallowed me.
I found myself in the Hogwarts Headmaster's office. Aside from Fawkes, who watched me silently from his perch, it was empty. I merely nodded to him in greeting. I didn't dare reach out and scratch his feathers as I once had; I was too afraid that the pure phoenix would reject my touch. The bird replied with a soft, mournful trill, and I saw deep sadness in his eyes.
"Could you go get Professor Dumbledore, please? I've come to say goodbye."
Fawkes immediately burst into flames and vanished. A minute later, he was back, and with him, the Professor. The second Dumbledore saw me, he drew his wand. Something dark radiated from that piece of wood in his hand – I could sense blood, suffering, and death from it.
Dumbledore eyed me warily. He stood tense, ready for anything, looking as if he had aged fifty years in the last two. The legendary spark in his eyes had finally gone out. He looked like a man utterly destroyed by life and his own decisions.
"Professor," I greeted him with a slight bow of my head.
"Harry... I didn't expect to ever see you again," he said softly.
"I've come to say goodbye, Professor. Today, both Riddle and I end up in hell," I replied without emotion.
"What has happened to you, my boy?" he asked with a broken voice. His compassion burned me more than the hatred of my enemies.
Instead of answering, I mentally released the Beast. Half of my face immediately deformed, the skin turning black, and my eye flooded with a neon glow. "A curse," I spoke with a rasping, dual voice. "By the time I negotiated a deal with it, it was too late. Everyone I cared about is dead."
A tear rolled down Dumbledore's cheek, which he quickly wiped away with the hem of his robe. "I am so immensely sorry, Harry. You did not deserve such a fate." After a moment, however, he continued with a sudden hope in his voice: "I have spent the last year and a half partly in Egypt, searching for old counter-rituals. So far without success, but please, hold on a bit longer... I will find a ritual to get that demon out of you."
"How do you even know about the ritual?" I asked curiously as my face returned to its human form.
Dumbledore sighed heavily and began to explain. "When you were kidnapped, Severus sent me a message immediately. Then there was silence until you appeared in Diagon Alley – battered, but physically stronger than ever. At first, we were relieved. But after that first massacre, we understood that something was wrong. Thanks to Miss Granger, we knew what you had turned into, though we didn't know why."
He paused for a moment and swallowed hard. Tears were now flowing uncontrollably. "Voldemort killed Severus on the same day he cursed you. It took us months to track down the truth. It was only through Legilimency that I forced information about that bloody ritual out of a captured Death Eater. But by then it was too late – your crusade against them had already begun."
I was silent for a while, staring into the void, but then I just shook my head sadly. "It doesn't matter anymore, Professor. Everyone I loved is under the ground. As long as I am alive, Voldemort will live too. Today, I close the circle."
"Not everyone, Harry. Miss Granger still thinks of you and works tirelessly to find a solution to your condition," Dumbledore shook his head sadly.
"Oh? I thought she would hate me after everything. Actually, I came to say goodbye to her as well," I admitted with surprise. After she cast an Avada at me back then, I expected nothing but hatred.
"No, Miss Granger feels no hatred toward you, but love and understanding. Perhaps at the beginning, when she had no idea what was happening to you... but now, she would be glad to talk to you, even if only for a moment."
I just nodded silently. A heavy silence filled the room, broken after a while by the Professor's trembling voice.
"Harry, Voldemort cannot simply die. He has hidden parts of his soul scattered across the world. As long as they exist, he will return."
I raised my hand, and in my palm, a green hellfire ignited by my mere thought. "Professor, there is no coming back from hell. This fire will burn everything, even the parts hidden outside his body. Voldemort dies today. He, and his last Death Eaters."
Dumbledore continued to look at me sadly, as if he saw the end of the world he knew in that flame.
"I see you are determined, Harry. But can you do one last favor for this old fool?" he asked with a broken voice.
"Depends on what it is, Professor."
"Mercy for Draco Malfoy. He does not deserve to die for the sins of his parents. He had no choice but to follow in their footsteps."
I studied him thoughtfully, but then I just shrugged indifferently. "I can sense good and evil directly in a soul, Professor. If I don't see only rot in him, I will let him live," I promised seriously.
"Thank you," he whispered, and I saw him visibly relax in that second. The burden of Draco's life, which he had taken upon his shoulders, became a little lighter.
I nodded and slowly stood up from the chair. "Professor, could you please contact Hermione? I will be waiting for her in that classroom where Fluffy used to be," I requested.
"Yes, I will send for her immediately," he agreed without hesitation.
I turned and walked toward the door. But before I could close it behind me, I heard his whispered question. It was so quiet that he was clearly afraid to say it out loud – he probably hoped I wouldn't hear him anymore: "What is my soul like, Harry?"
I stopped with my hand on the handle.
"White, Professor. But with subtle shades of grey," I answered honestly and slammed the door behind me without another word.
As I walked down the spiral stairs, his desperate, muffled crying echoed through the castle. It was the sound of a man who, after years of uncertainty, had finally found peace, though at the cost of losing everything.
With a slow, melancholic pace, I walked from the West Tower to the third floor. I was heading to the room where Hagrid had once hidden Fluffy. It was a safe place, forgotten and dusty, where no one had set foot for years.
The corridors were empty. The students were in class, which suited me – if any of them saw me, panic would break out immediately. Along the way, I mentally revisited all the experiences, both good and bitter, that I had shared here with Ron and Hermione.
What wouldn't I give for one last game of chess with Ron? To play Quidditch for Gryffindor again, or to go back in time and feel that pure terror while stabbing the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets? Back then, the world was clear.
Finally, I was there. I slowly opened the heavy door and stepped into a dark room full of cobwebs. Only the three-headed dog was missing. Although I could see in the dark as clearly as in the day, I knew Hermione would have trouble. I snapped my fingers, and the braziers in the corners of the room immediately flared up.
The room came alive with warm, dancing light.
I was honestly afraid of her reaction when she saw me again, but I couldn't go to my death without seeing her one last time. It didn't take long. Quick, hesitant footsteps echoed from the corridor.
The door opened cautiously and Hermione stepped inside. I was immediately hit by her familiar, pleasant scent of strawberries, old parchment, and books. She stopped for a moment, noticed me right away, and looked me over with undisguised surprise. But that shock lasted only a second – she immediately ran toward me.
She had changed. She was no longer the girl from the library, but a mature, confident, and attractive woman with a strong build, even though she was missing one forearm because of me. Despite all the evil she had endured, there was enough courage left in her to voluntarily walk into a room with a monster like I had become.
"Harry," she whispered. I felt her gaze searchingly pass over my long hair, the pale features of my face, and down to my feet. I was wearing a dark robe made of acromantula silk – a trophy I had taken from one of the Death Eaters. There had been so many of them that I couldn't even remember his name.
"Hermione," I breathed.
"Oh, Harry!" she cried and threw herself into my arms without hesitation.
I stood like I was carved from stone. Her warmth was so foreign, so alive. The Beast within me stirred restlessly, confused by the proximity of someone it couldn't kill. Carefully, fearing I might break her with my unnatural strength, I hugged her back.
After a moment, I gently let her go and stepped back to create a safe distance between us again.
"I've come to say goodbye, Hermione. This whole nightmare ends today," I said in a voice that sounded far too final.
"What do you mean, goodbye? You'll come back, Harry... won't you?" she cried, despair reflected in her eyes. "We'll rid you and the world of that curse! I'm studying Arithmancy, I'm doing my Mastery... if I don't find an existing counter-ritual, I'll invent one myself! Just give me time."
"It's not possible, Hermy," I replied bitterly. "According to the prophecy, we both must die, otherwise a piece of soul will always remain here for Voldemort to return from." I paused and looked at my pale hands, which had shed so much blood. "And truthfully... I can't live anymore. I've left too many dead behind. The wizarding world hates me, and the Ministry sees me as a greater threat than Riddle. If they knew I was standing in this room, they would burst in here immediately with the intent to kill me."
Tears welled up in Hermione's eyes and began to stream uncontrollably down her cheeks. She pressed her hand to her mouth to stifle the sobs rising from her throat. She saw her best friend before her, but deep in her soul, she felt the chilling certainty that she was seeing me for the last time.
"You will live, Hermy," I answered with unexpected tenderness in my voice. "You will have a family, a husband, and children. You will become the Minister for Magic and finally fix this corrupt country where young people and children die just for the whims of old fools. You are the one who will change it all."
"But I don't want anyone else! I only want you!" she cried desperately and threw her arms around my neck again, as if she could hold me in this world with her embrace.
She whispered brokenly into the heavy silence of the room while her tears soaked my black robe: "Please... don't leave me. I can't do this without you."
I closed my eyes and felt the Beast within me go quiet for a moment. But I knew that if I wavered now, the shadow of Voldemort would never vanish. I had to be strong for both of us.
"I'm sorry, Hermione. In an ideal world, we would have grown old together, happy, surrounded by children and grandchildren. You would have been the Minister and I an Auror. Unfortunately... my life ended the night I was born," I said quietly.
Only her desperate sobbing echoed through the room. I didn't allow myself to stop: "I have left all the Potter and Black estates to you. You have the best lawyers money can buy at your disposal. There is also money from many Death Eater families in the vaults – you are by far the wealthiest person in the wizarding world. When you become Minister, please, make sure no wizarding child ever has to be a servant to Muggles again. Destroy the foul corruption that forces us young ones to die."
I gently pulled away. I lifted her face with my hand and pressed one last, fragile kiss onto her lips. They were wonderful – full of life and warmth. Not even the salty taste of her tears could ruin this moment, which I wanted to take with me into the darkness.
With immense heaviness, I stepped away from her completely. I knew that if I stayed one more second, I would lose the last remnants of my resolve.
"I believe in you, Hermione Granger. Be happy."
The moment I began to dissolve into the darkness of the shadows, her last heart-wrenching cry shook the room:
"Harry!"
I paced restlessly through the hall, waiting for my fated enemy. Who could have guessed that the demon would focus exclusively on the Death Eaters? The whole time he was systematically slaughtering my servants, I felt his dark amusement. But whenever I tried to track him down and kill him, he evaded me like smoke between my fingers.
I convinced myself that he feared my power... but the more of my faithful died, the louder that quiet, nagging voice in my head became. It whispered that he was just savoring me. That he was saving me for the very end.
Only the last three Death Eaters remained in the manor. Lucius – a worm who today resembled a molting chicken more than a proud nobleman; only a wreck with thinning hair remained of the once powerful wizard. Then his son Draco, who had no choice, and finally Bellatrix – my loyal fanatic, who still blindly believed in victory.
I waited for him to finally come. He had caused me incredible damage. Even if I kill him now, it will take another twenty years to gather my strength again... and I had the Ministry almost under my thumb a year and a half ago. At least thanks to the Horcruxes, I have all eternity.
The night was black, but sleep would not come. I sat on my throne, clutching my wand, when I suddenly felt Lucius's magic extinguish through the Dark Mark. He died. The silence in the manor was cut in that second by a piercing, desperate female scream.
"Lucius!"
Narcissa Malfoy's voice carried through the corridors like a death knell. The demon was in the manor.
I didn't even move; I sat motionless on my throne. Bellatrix was close, lurking in the shadows of the corridor, and had a chance to surprise him.
"Avada Kedavra!" her hateful voice shrieked.
Instead of the sound of a falling body, however, I only heard the dry snap of breaking bones and a painful whimpering that crawled toward the hall. The doors then burst open and Bellatrix fell at my feet. Her lower jaw was missing and her right hand was crushed to a pulp.
Harry Potter entered the room with a slow, predatory step. How is this possible? He was supposed to be a demon, but a man stood before me. His eyes, however, blazed with a neon hellish glow and he approached me with the certainty of a predator.
"Avada Kedavra!" I cast my most trusted curse.
I hit him directly in the chest. For a moment, a sense of triumph washed over me, but it was immediately replaced by a chill. Potter didn't even waver. He walked on with a cruel, motionless smile.
"Avada Kedavra!" I shouted again. A hit. No effect.
Half of Potter's face transformed into the face of a demon. A booming, guttural laugh began to echo through the hall, drowning out even Bellatrix's last dying rattle. He was already too close. In a hysterical fit of fear, I tried my luck one last time: "Avada Kedavra!"
Nothing again. In a surge of despair, I decided on a spell that leaves no survivors. A spell that devours existence itself.
"Pestis Incendium!"
The entire hall immediately burst into ravenous green flames. The fire turned Bellatrix to ash in a second and began devouring the furniture and walls. Potter stopped just before the cursed fire. I smiled contentedly and gripped my wand tighter.
"Did you think you were more powerful than me, Potter?" I shouted through the crackle of the magical inferno. "I will kill you and then wipe out everyone who dares to stand in my way!"
I smirked cruelly, intoxicated by the destructive power of my own spell.
He stared at me motionless for a moment. Then he just shook his head contemptuously and took a step forward, directly into the gluttonous flames.
I watched as the fire immediately consumed him, but then my blood ran cold. Potter walked through the middle of that hell completely untouched. The only thing the flames managed to digest was his clothing and the clip in his hair.
It wasn't the Potter I knew who stepped out of the fire. A dark, muscular demon was walking toward me, with the very center of hell dancing in his eyes.
In despair, I began to fire one curse after another at him. Everything I knew, every dark magic I had ever studied. Nothing stopped him. With chilling calm and without haste, he came right up to me. Before I could react, he grabbed my wand and brutally ripped it from my grasp – along with my fingers.
My roar echoed through the hall. I hadn't felt such burning physical pain since my days at Hogwarts.
The demon only laughed gutturally, with amusement. The hellfire raged around us, and my hot blood flowed onto the floor I had once considered my throne.
"I cannot die, Potter!" I screamed in agony as soon as I caught my breath. "I am immortal!"
He took his time. With undisguised cruelty, he amused himself with my suffering, as if every drop of my blood were nectar to him. Then he reached out again. He grabbed my forearm and, with a terrifying sound of tearing skin and snapping bones, ripped it from my body.
I desperately began to crawl toward the hellfire. Better to be consumed by my own spell and hope for a return through Horcruxes than to be slowly and methodically tortured to death.
Behind me, the metallic scraping of claws against the floor echoed. He followed me with inhuman patience. When I was within reach of the flames, a dry snap of fingers echoed through the hall. In that second, all the fire vanished. Only a cold, dark hall remained, in which his hellish eyes shone like two beacons of doom.
"I will kill you, Potter! I will kill you!" I shrieked at him in a fit of madness. "I will torture you to death, revive you, and kill you again! I'll let your friend rot just like her parents! You'll regret ever being born! I will return!"
At that moment, Potter stopped laughing. The atmosphere in the room grew even colder. He stepped toward me in a single fluid motion and, before I could open my mouth again, ripped the tongue right out of my throat with a lightning-fast flick of his hand.
Now, only my choking gurgles and helpless wheezing echoed through the room. The demon was no longer laughing.
In a second, he changed back into Potter. He turned toward the throne where he had previously tossed my wand and my fingers, and headed there with a slow, victorious step. When he returned, he was clutching my yew wand.
"Time for your own medicine, Riddle," he announced with cruel amusement. Then, without a single hesitation, he cast the curse: "Crucio!"
My body immediately began to thrash uncontrollably on the ground. It was indescribable – as if white-hot needles were being driven into every millimeter of my skin. I clawed at the hard stone floor with my fingernails, in the same spot where my own victims had once dug in agony.
When he released the spell for a second, I tried to beg for mercy. Instead of words, however, only an unintelligible, bloody gurgle came from my throat. Tears of burning pain and total humiliation flowed from my eyes.
"Oh, Tom... you had no problem when you were torturing others, but when you are the one being tortured, you're just a small, pathetic wreck," he spat through his teeth in a voice full of hatred. "It's time for round two. And I promise you, this will be worse."
"Crucio!"
The pain that followed was a thousand times more intense. I lost track of time and space. My entire universe shrunk to one endless scream that my throat could not produce. My body shook in spasms so violent that my muscles tore. The smell of ammonia and my own excrement filled the air, but I didn't care. In that moment, I desired only one thing – for him to finally kill me.
Just as I was finally losing myself in my own madness, that burning pain receded. I lay there like a gutted piece of meat, unable to move.
"You are a weakling and a coward, Riddle. You've destroyed an incredible number of lives, but your era has just ended," Potter's voice spoke above me, cold as a tombstone. "You aren't coming back. You're going back to hell with me, where we both belong."
In the corner of my darkened mind, I still clung to one single hope. My Horcruxes. They would save me.
"Oh, I see those desperate thoughts in your bald head, Tom," he remarked amusedly, as if reading an open book. He leaned over me so close that I could smell the blood on his breath. "No one gets out of hell at all. No part of you. All the pieces of your broken soul will go into the void along with us."
He transformed into the demon again. His massive hand grabbed me by the head and lifted me into the air like a rag doll. With a slow, methodical movement, he began to tear my limbs from their joints. He enjoyed my every spasm, my every twitch. Although the pain was different from the Cruciatus Curse, the sounds of snapping bones and tearing tendons finally broke my psyche. Blood poured from my wounds, and I prayed in my mind that the loss would finally kill me and end my suffering.
But he saw directly into my mind. Hellfire immediately flared in his palms, and the choking smell of burnt flesh joined the scent of blood and waste. My wounds immediately sealed under the heat of the flames – he wouldn't let me bleed out. He didn't want me to die before he took me with him.
"Ready for the journey, Tom?" he asked with chilling amusement in his voice. He didn't wait for my answer. He simply snapped his fingers.
In that instant, his hellfire consumed us both. It wasn't just the death of the body. I felt the fire bite into the very essence of my soul. In a single blinding flash of green flames, we vanished from this world.
In the abandoned wreck of a house in Little Hangleton, where someone had nailed a snake to the door, the box containing the ring suddenly burst into flames in the silence. Green fire turned it to ash in a second.
In the dusty house at Grimmauld Place, where an elf's corpse rotted in a cupboard, a necklace with the sign of a snake suddenly began to burn out of nowhere. It flared with green fire until nothing was left of it at all.
Deep in the Lestrange vault, among heaps of gold, a cup with the sign of a badger ignited.
At Hogwarts, in a room full of old junk, a silver diadem exploded with green flame.
And in a Wiltshire forest, a massive snake turned into a living torch mid-motion. Green fire consumed it before it could let out its final hiss.
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With crushing sorrow, I gazed at the snow-covered graves of my parents. For a brief moment, I allowed my human side to dream – of what it would be like to be an ordinary man, to be happy and to have them by my side. But it was only a cruel, unreachable dream. The reality was etched into the cold stone before my feet: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
I smiled, but it was a smirk without a trace of joy. I was ready to fulfill the prophecy to the last letter. I was ready to take Riddle with me and drag him deep into hell, where we both belonged.
With one last, long look at the names of Lily and James Potter, I turned away. The world around me lost its colors and contours. The air blurred, and without a single sound, I dissolved into the shadows that willingly swallowed me.
I found myself in the Hogwarts Headmaster's office. Aside from Fawkes, who watched me silently from his perch, it was empty. I merely nodded to him in greeting. I didn't dare reach out and scratch his feathers as I once had; I was too afraid that the pure phoenix would reject my touch. The bird replied with a soft, mournful trill, and I saw deep sadness in his eyes.
"Could you go get Professor Dumbledore, please? I've come to say goodbye."
Fawkes immediately burst into flames and vanished. A minute later, he was back, and with him, the Professor. The second Dumbledore saw me, he drew his wand. Something dark radiated from that piece of wood in his hand – I could sense blood, suffering, and death from it.
Dumbledore eyed me warily. He stood tense, ready for anything, looking as if he had aged fifty years in the last two. The legendary spark in his eyes had finally gone out. He looked like a man utterly destroyed by life and his own decisions.
"Professor," I greeted him with a slight bow of my head.
"Harry... I didn't expect to ever see you again," he said softly.
"I've come to say goodbye, Professor. Today, both Riddle and I end up in hell," I replied without emotion.
"What has happened to you, my boy?" he asked with a broken voice. His compassion burned me more than the hatred of my enemies.
Instead of answering, I mentally released the Beast. Half of my face immediately deformed, the skin turning black, and my eye flooded with a neon glow. "A curse," I spoke with a rasping, dual voice. "By the time I negotiated a deal with it, it was too late. Everyone I cared about is dead."
A tear rolled down Dumbledore's cheek, which he quickly wiped away with the hem of his robe. "I am so immensely sorry, Harry. You did not deserve such a fate." After a moment, however, he continued with a sudden hope in his voice: "I have spent the last year and a half partly in Egypt, searching for old counter-rituals. So far without success, but please, hold on a bit longer... I will find a ritual to get that demon out of you."
"How do you even know about the ritual?" I asked curiously as my face returned to its human form.
Dumbledore sighed heavily and began to explain. "When you were kidnapped, Severus sent me a message immediately. Then there was silence until you appeared in Diagon Alley – battered, but physically stronger than ever. At first, we were relieved. But after that first massacre, we understood that something was wrong. Thanks to Miss Granger, we knew what you had turned into, though we didn't know why."
He paused for a moment and swallowed hard. Tears were now flowing uncontrollably. "Voldemort killed Severus on the same day he cursed you. It took us months to track down the truth. It was only through Legilimency that I forced information about that bloody ritual out of a captured Death Eater. But by then it was too late – your crusade against them had already begun."
I was silent for a while, staring into the void, but then I just shook my head sadly. "It doesn't matter anymore, Professor. Everyone I loved is under the ground. As long as I am alive, Voldemort will live too. Today, I close the circle."
"Not everyone, Harry. Miss Granger still thinks of you and works tirelessly to find a solution to your condition," Dumbledore shook his head sadly.
"Oh? I thought she would hate me after everything. Actually, I came to say goodbye to her as well," I admitted with surprise. After she cast an Avada at me back then, I expected nothing but hatred.
"No, Miss Granger feels no hatred toward you, but love and understanding. Perhaps at the beginning, when she had no idea what was happening to you... but now, she would be glad to talk to you, even if only for a moment."
I just nodded silently. A heavy silence filled the room, broken after a while by the Professor's trembling voice.
"Harry, Voldemort cannot simply die. He has hidden parts of his soul scattered across the world. As long as they exist, he will return."
I raised my hand, and in my palm, a green hellfire ignited by my mere thought. "Professor, there is no coming back from hell. This fire will burn everything, even the parts hidden outside his body. Voldemort dies today. He, and his last Death Eaters."
Dumbledore continued to look at me sadly, as if he saw the end of the world he knew in that flame.
"I see you are determined, Harry. But can you do one last favor for this old fool?" he asked with a broken voice.
"Depends on what it is, Professor."
"Mercy for Draco Malfoy. He does not deserve to die for the sins of his parents. He had no choice but to follow in their footsteps."
I studied him thoughtfully, but then I just shrugged indifferently. "I can sense good and evil directly in a soul, Professor. If I don't see only rot in him, I will let him live," I promised seriously.
"Thank you," he whispered, and I saw him visibly relax in that second. The burden of Draco's life, which he had taken upon his shoulders, became a little lighter.
I nodded and slowly stood up from the chair. "Professor, could you please contact Hermione? I will be waiting for her in that classroom where Fluffy used to be," I requested.
"Yes, I will send for her immediately," he agreed without hesitation.
I turned and walked toward the door. But before I could close it behind me, I heard his whispered question. It was so quiet that he was clearly afraid to say it out loud – he probably hoped I wouldn't hear him anymore: "What is my soul like, Harry?"
I stopped with my hand on the handle.
"White, Professor. But with subtle shades of grey," I answered honestly and slammed the door behind me without another word.
As I walked down the spiral stairs, his desperate, muffled crying echoed through the castle. It was the sound of a man who, after years of uncertainty, had finally found peace, though at the cost of losing everything.
With a slow, melancholic pace, I walked from the West Tower to the third floor. I was heading to the room where Hagrid had once hidden Fluffy. It was a safe place, forgotten and dusty, where no one had set foot for years.
The corridors were empty. The students were in class, which suited me – if any of them saw me, panic would break out immediately. Along the way, I mentally revisited all the experiences, both good and bitter, that I had shared here with Ron and Hermione.
What wouldn't I give for one last game of chess with Ron? To play Quidditch for Gryffindor again, or to go back in time and feel that pure terror while stabbing the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets? Back then, the world was clear.
Finally, I was there. I slowly opened the heavy door and stepped into a dark room full of cobwebs. Only the three-headed dog was missing. Although I could see in the dark as clearly as in the day, I knew Hermione would have trouble. I snapped my fingers, and the braziers in the corners of the room immediately flared up.
The room came alive with warm, dancing light.
I was honestly afraid of her reaction when she saw me again, but I couldn't go to my death without seeing her one last time. It didn't take long. Quick, hesitant footsteps echoed from the corridor.
The door opened cautiously and Hermione stepped inside. I was immediately hit by her familiar, pleasant scent of strawberries, old parchment, and books. She stopped for a moment, noticed me right away, and looked me over with undisguised surprise. But that shock lasted only a second – she immediately ran toward me.
She had changed. She was no longer the girl from the library, but a mature, confident, and attractive woman with a strong build, even though she was missing one forearm because of me. Despite all the evil she had endured, there was enough courage left in her to voluntarily walk into a room with a monster like I had become.
"Harry," she whispered. I felt her gaze searchingly pass over my long hair, the pale features of my face, and down to my feet. I was wearing a dark robe made of acromantula silk – a trophy I had taken from one of the Death Eaters. There had been so many of them that I couldn't even remember his name.
"Hermione," I breathed.
"Oh, Harry!" she cried and threw herself into my arms without hesitation.
I stood like I was carved from stone. Her warmth was so foreign, so alive. The Beast within me stirred restlessly, confused by the proximity of someone it couldn't kill. Carefully, fearing I might break her with my unnatural strength, I hugged her back.
After a moment, I gently let her go and stepped back to create a safe distance between us again.
"I've come to say goodbye, Hermione. This whole nightmare ends today," I said in a voice that sounded far too final.
"What do you mean, goodbye? You'll come back, Harry... won't you?" she cried, despair reflected in her eyes. "We'll rid you and the world of that curse! I'm studying Arithmancy, I'm doing my Mastery... if I don't find an existing counter-ritual, I'll invent one myself! Just give me time."
"It's not possible, Hermy," I replied bitterly. "According to the prophecy, we both must die, otherwise a piece of soul will always remain here for Voldemort to return from." I paused and looked at my pale hands, which had shed so much blood. "And truthfully... I can't live anymore. I've left too many dead behind. The wizarding world hates me, and the Ministry sees me as a greater threat than Riddle. If they knew I was standing in this room, they would burst in here immediately with the intent to kill me."
Tears welled up in Hermione's eyes and began to stream uncontrollably down her cheeks. She pressed her hand to her mouth to stifle the sobs rising from her throat. She saw her best friend before her, but deep in her soul, she felt the chilling certainty that she was seeing me for the last time.
"You will live, Hermy," I answered with unexpected tenderness in my voice. "You will have a family, a husband, and children. You will become the Minister for Magic and finally fix this corrupt country where young people and children die just for the whims of old fools. You are the one who will change it all."
"But I don't want anyone else! I only want you!" she cried desperately and threw her arms around my neck again, as if she could hold me in this world with her embrace.
She whispered brokenly into the heavy silence of the room while her tears soaked my black robe: "Please... don't leave me. I can't do this without you."
I closed my eyes and felt the Beast within me go quiet for a moment. But I knew that if I wavered now, the shadow of Voldemort would never vanish. I had to be strong for both of us.
"I'm sorry, Hermione. In an ideal world, we would have grown old together, happy, surrounded by children and grandchildren. You would have been the Minister and I an Auror. Unfortunately... my life ended the night I was born," I said quietly.
Only her desperate sobbing echoed through the room. I didn't allow myself to stop: "I have left all the Potter and Black estates to you. You have the best lawyers money can buy at your disposal. There is also money from many Death Eater families in the vaults – you are by far the wealthiest person in the wizarding world. When you become Minister, please, make sure no wizarding child ever has to be a servant to Muggles again. Destroy the foul corruption that forces us young ones to die."
I gently pulled away. I lifted her face with my hand and pressed one last, fragile kiss onto her lips. They were wonderful – full of life and warmth. Not even the salty taste of her tears could ruin this moment, which I wanted to take with me into the darkness.
With immense heaviness, I stepped away from her completely. I knew that if I stayed one more second, I would lose the last remnants of my resolve.
"I believe in you, Hermione Granger. Be happy."
The moment I began to dissolve into the darkness of the shadows, her last heart-wrenching cry shook the room:
"Harry!"
I paced restlessly through the hall, waiting for my fated enemy. Who could have guessed that the demon would focus exclusively on the Death Eaters? The whole time he was systematically slaughtering my servants, I felt his dark amusement. But whenever I tried to track him down and kill him, he evaded me like smoke between my fingers.
I convinced myself that he feared my power... but the more of my faithful died, the louder that quiet, nagging voice in my head became. It whispered that he was just savoring me. That he was saving me for the very end.
Only the last three Death Eaters remained in the manor. Lucius – a worm who today resembled a molting chicken more than a proud nobleman; only a wreck with thinning hair remained of the once powerful wizard. Then his son Draco, who had no choice, and finally Bellatrix – my loyal fanatic, who still blindly believed in victory.
I waited for him to finally come. He had caused me incredible damage. Even if I kill him now, it will take another twenty years to gather my strength again... and I had the Ministry almost under my thumb a year and a half ago. At least thanks to the Horcruxes, I have all eternity.
The night was black, but sleep would not come. I sat on my throne, clutching my wand, when I suddenly felt Lucius's magic extinguish through the Dark Mark. He died. The silence in the manor was cut in that second by a piercing, desperate female scream.
"Lucius!"
Narcissa Malfoy's voice carried through the corridors like a death knell. The demon was in the manor.
I didn't even move; I sat motionless on my throne. Bellatrix was close, lurking in the shadows of the corridor, and had a chance to surprise him.
"Avada Kedavra!" her hateful voice shrieked.
Instead of the sound of a falling body, however, I only heard the dry snap of breaking bones and a painful whimpering that crawled toward the hall. The doors then burst open and Bellatrix fell at my feet. Her lower jaw was missing and her right hand was crushed to a pulp.
Harry Potter entered the room with a slow, predatory step. How is this possible? He was supposed to be a demon, but a man stood before me. His eyes, however, blazed with a neon hellish glow and he approached me with the certainty of a predator.
"Avada Kedavra!" I cast my most trusted curse.
I hit him directly in the chest. For a moment, a sense of triumph washed over me, but it was immediately replaced by a chill. Potter didn't even waver. He walked on with a cruel, motionless smile.
"Avada Kedavra!" I shouted again. A hit. No effect.
Half of Potter's face transformed into the face of a demon. A booming, guttural laugh began to echo through the hall, drowning out even Bellatrix's last dying rattle. He was already too close. In a hysterical fit of fear, I tried my luck one last time: "Avada Kedavra!"
Nothing again. In a surge of despair, I decided on a spell that leaves no survivors. A spell that devours existence itself.
"Pestis Incendium!"
The entire hall immediately burst into ravenous green flames. The fire turned Bellatrix to ash in a second and began devouring the furniture and walls. Potter stopped just before the cursed fire. I smiled contentedly and gripped my wand tighter.
"Did you think you were more powerful than me, Potter?" I shouted through the crackle of the magical inferno. "I will kill you and then wipe out everyone who dares to stand in my way!"
I smirked cruelly, intoxicated by the destructive power of my own spell.
He stared at me motionless for a moment. Then he just shook his head contemptuously and took a step forward, directly into the gluttonous flames.
I watched as the fire immediately consumed him, but then my blood ran cold. Potter walked through the middle of that hell completely untouched. The only thing the flames managed to digest was his clothing and the clip in his hair.
It wasn't the Potter I knew who stepped out of the fire. A dark, muscular demon was walking toward me, with the very center of hell dancing in his eyes.
In despair, I began to fire one curse after another at him. Everything I knew, every dark magic I had ever studied. Nothing stopped him. With chilling calm and without haste, he came right up to me. Before I could react, he grabbed my wand and brutally ripped it from my grasp – along with my fingers.
My roar echoed through the hall. I hadn't felt such burning physical pain since my days at Hogwarts.
The demon only laughed gutturally, with amusement. The hellfire raged around us, and my hot blood flowed onto the floor I had once considered my throne.
"I cannot die, Potter!" I screamed in agony as soon as I caught my breath. "I am immortal!"
He took his time. With undisguised cruelty, he amused himself with my suffering, as if every drop of my blood were nectar to him. Then he reached out again. He grabbed my forearm and, with a terrifying sound of tearing skin and snapping bones, ripped it from my body.
I desperately began to crawl toward the hellfire. Better to be consumed by my own spell and hope for a return through Horcruxes than to be slowly and methodically tortured to death.
Behind me, the metallic scraping of claws against the floor echoed. He followed me with inhuman patience. When I was within reach of the flames, a dry snap of fingers echoed through the hall. In that second, all the fire vanished. Only a cold, dark hall remained, in which his hellish eyes shone like two beacons of doom.
"I will kill you, Potter! I will kill you!" I shrieked at him in a fit of madness. "I will torture you to death, revive you, and kill you again! I'll let your friend rot just like her parents! You'll regret ever being born! I will return!"
At that moment, Potter stopped laughing. The atmosphere in the room grew even colder. He stepped toward me in a single fluid motion and, before I could open my mouth again, ripped the tongue right out of my throat with a lightning-fast flick of his hand.
Now, only my choking gurgles and helpless wheezing echoed through the room. The demon was no longer laughing.
In a second, he changed back into Potter. He turned toward the throne where he had previously tossed my wand and my fingers, and headed there with a slow, victorious step. When he returned, he was clutching my yew wand.
"Time for your own medicine, Riddle," he announced with cruel amusement. Then, without a single hesitation, he cast the curse: "Crucio!"
My body immediately began to thrash uncontrollably on the ground. It was indescribable – as if white-hot needles were being driven into every millimeter of my skin. I clawed at the hard stone floor with my fingernails, in the same spot where my own victims had once dug in agony.
When he released the spell for a second, I tried to beg for mercy. Instead of words, however, only an unintelligible, bloody gurgle came from my throat. Tears of burning pain and total humiliation flowed from my eyes.
"Oh, Tom... you had no problem when you were torturing others, but when you are the one being tortured, you're just a small, pathetic wreck," he spat through his teeth in a voice full of hatred. "It's time for round two. And I promise you, this will be worse."
"Crucio!"
The pain that followed was a thousand times more intense. I lost track of time and space. My entire universe shrunk to one endless scream that my throat could not produce. My body shook in spasms so violent that my muscles tore. The smell of ammonia and my own excrement filled the air, but I didn't care. In that moment, I desired only one thing – for him to finally kill me.
Just as I was finally losing myself in my own madness, that burning pain receded. I lay there like a gutted piece of meat, unable to move.
"You are a weakling and a coward, Riddle. You've destroyed an incredible number of lives, but your era has just ended," Potter's voice spoke above me, cold as a tombstone. "You aren't coming back. You're going back to hell with me, where we both belong."
In the corner of my darkened mind, I still clung to one single hope. My Horcruxes. They would save me.
"Oh, I see those desperate thoughts in your bald head, Tom," he remarked amusedly, as if reading an open book. He leaned over me so close that I could smell the blood on his breath. "No one gets out of hell at all. No part of you. All the pieces of your broken soul will go into the void along with us."
He transformed into the demon again. His massive hand grabbed me by the head and lifted me into the air like a rag doll. With a slow, methodical movement, he began to tear my limbs from their joints. He enjoyed my every spasm, my every twitch. Although the pain was different from the Cruciatus Curse, the sounds of snapping bones and tearing tendons finally broke my psyche. Blood poured from my wounds, and I prayed in my mind that the loss would finally kill me and end my suffering.
But he saw directly into my mind. Hellfire immediately flared in his palms, and the choking smell of burnt flesh joined the scent of blood and waste. My wounds immediately sealed under the heat of the flames – he wouldn't let me bleed out. He didn't want me to die before he took me with him.
"Ready for the journey, Tom?" he asked with chilling amusement in his voice. He didn't wait for my answer. He simply snapped his fingers.
In that instant, his hellfire consumed us both. It wasn't just the death of the body. I felt the fire bite into the very essence of my soul. In a single blinding flash of green flames, we vanished from this world.
In the abandoned wreck of a house in Little Hangleton, where someone had nailed a snake to the door, the box containing the ring suddenly burst into flames in the silence. Green fire turned it to ash in a second.
In the dusty house at Grimmauld Place, where an elf's corpse rotted in a cupboard, a necklace with the sign of a snake suddenly began to burn out of nowhere. It flared with green fire until nothing was left of it at all.
Deep in the Lestrange vault, among heaps of gold, a cup with the sign of a badger ignited.
At Hogwarts, in a room full of old junk, a silver diadem exploded with green flame.
And in a Wiltshire forest, a massive snake turned into a living torch mid-motion. Green fire consumed it before it could let out its final hiss.
Author's note:
What do you think about his visit to the graveyard? A sad conversation with a man broken by life and a romantic moment with Hermione. And finally... the ironic twist of fate where Voldemort himself provided Harry with the power necessary for his own death.
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6. Epilogue: A World Apart
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So, this is the second story I've ever started, but the first one I've actually managed to finish—and honestly? I'm pretty proud of this fic. It's been a real emotional rollercoaster. It started as pure horror, full of murder and blood, followed by a dark path of revenge. I think anyone would have to sympathize with Harry after the tragedy and grief he went through.
When you think about it, we actually have it pretty good in our lives. In my version of this horror story, Harry lost absolutely everything and ended up as the last of his line. In the end, he made the ultimate sacrifice—choosing to die just so he could drag Voldemort down to hell along with him.
2018 – approximately 20 years after the death of Lord Voldemort
Finally, I could breathe a sigh of relief. I have dedicated the last twenty years to eradicating corruption from the magical British Isles. Harry made my job significantly easier – he slaughtered ninety-nine percent of the pure-blood racist elite who held the laws in their grip through the Wizengamot. When the old houses died out, the aristocratic system collapsed, and true democracy took hold.
Of course, I secretly used Harry's gold—which made me the wealthiest woman in the world—for the "greater good." I paid bribes where necessary, all to fulfill the promises I made to my best friend before he vanished forever.
I spent every free moment in Godric's Hollow by his empty grave. Harry's body disappeared along with Voldemort's on that fateful night at Malfoy Manor. Only a charred ruin remained of the manor, from which only Draco and Narcissa escaped. Today, that site is a world monument to a hero.
It took me ten years to convince the public that Harry wasn't a madman, but the kindest person the world had ever broken. Draco Malfoy helped me unexpectedly in that regard. He spoke about Harry's curse and the fact that he laid down his life so the world could have a better future. Draco became my most loyal ally. Today, he has two children and still tries to set me up on dates, but I have chosen to remain alone. I wanted to give my life to the country. I want to ensure that no boy ever has to suffer the way Harry suffered.
The world knows me today as the "Iron Lady" and the leader of magical Europe. I am both admired and hated, but I have achieved my goal. Every magical child is now protected so that the story of Harry, or the orphan Riddle, never repeats itself. The magical world has made a giant leap – we have phones, laptops, and television powered by magic. We have subtly infiltrated the Muggle world, curing global warming and cancer. We developed a cure for dragon pox. Hogwarts has changed – Binns has finally retired, and the school is led by Minerva McGonagall.
Albus Dumbledore passed away a year after Voldemort's defeat. After Harry's death, he suffered a mental breakdown, resigned, and withdrew into seclusion. He took Harry's fate as his personal failure. He died quietly, with only Fawkes present. In his final months, he managed to reconcile with his brother and visit Nurmengard. Rumor has it that the guards saw him kiss Grindelwald before he died.
The magical world is healthier and better today. But whenever I gaze at the starry sky at night, I know who I have to thank for it.
Hell was different from what people imagined. It was divided into the exterior, where billions of souls in agony filled the air with endless wailing in thousands of languages, and the interior – the elite. Where sulfur reeked and scorched earth burned outside, a chilling, stony silence reigned within the long hall.
Lucifer sat upon the throne. No horns, no hooves. He was a fallen angel with a perfect, almost supernaturally attractive face and black wings casually draped over the sides of the throne. He watched the suffering below him with a smile, as if watching a masterpiece in a cinema.
After twenty years, I was at home here. And I wasn't being punished. Lucifer explained to me with amusement that Voldemort had made a fatal error in Egypt while translating the ritual. Instead of an intelligent demon that would have controlled me, he bound me to a powerful but mindless beast – Lucifer's personal "pet." Tom caused his own downfall through his own ignorance.
Lucifer was genuinely amused by my story, so I was granted relative freedom. My job was torture, but I also had privileges. Occasionally, I stopped by Voldemort. Every day, he was tormented by the most inventive torturers of the underworld. He had made a second mistake – declaring himself the most powerful Dark Lord of all time. Lucifer took that as a personal insult.
"Tom Riddle was just an amateur with a big mouth," Lucifer explained to me with a laugh. "Normally, he would have ended up outside, in that mass cauldron. The seats in this hall are reserved for heavyweights like Alexander the Great, Temüdžin, Hitler, or Stalin. But for that arrogance, I granted him personal care."
Lucifer was, in his essence, a fair master. When I finished my shift torturing the transgressors, he allowed me to watch Hermione. I watched her for the full twenty years – my "Iron Lady." It pained me that she remained alone and had no family, but at the same time, it warmed me to know that my sacrifice had meaning. She was magnificent.
However, I knew one thing that brought sadness to my eyes: once Hermione breathes her last, she certainly won't end up here with me. She will go to heaven. And I will have to serve in hell for all eternity without her.
Author's note:
Poor Harry, Hermiona, Weasleys, Dumbledore, Named Deatheaters, Nameless Death Eaters, Voldemort, Nagini and lots of innocent people.
How did you like the story? Did it leave you feeling frightened, sad, satisfied, or perhaps something else entirely?
I'd absolutely love to hear your thoughts, so please feel free to leave a comment! This turned out to be a deeply horrific and tragic tale. I managed to write the original version in about 40 hours, and honestly, the story practically wrote itself.
If you enjoyed this journey, feel free to check out my profile for more of my work!
Join our Discord community: tgdTNZYVKt - Vote on the plot, chat, and get the best FF recs!
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When you think about it, we actually have it pretty good in our lives. In my version of this horror story, Harry lost absolutely everything and ended up as the last of his line. In the end, he made the ultimate sacrifice—choosing to die just so he could drag Voldemort down to hell along with him.
2018 – approximately 20 years after the death of Lord Voldemort
Finally, I could breathe a sigh of relief. I have dedicated the last twenty years to eradicating corruption from the magical British Isles. Harry made my job significantly easier – he slaughtered ninety-nine percent of the pure-blood racist elite who held the laws in their grip through the Wizengamot. When the old houses died out, the aristocratic system collapsed, and true democracy took hold.
Of course, I secretly used Harry's gold—which made me the wealthiest woman in the world—for the "greater good." I paid bribes where necessary, all to fulfill the promises I made to my best friend before he vanished forever.
I spent every free moment in Godric's Hollow by his empty grave. Harry's body disappeared along with Voldemort's on that fateful night at Malfoy Manor. Only a charred ruin remained of the manor, from which only Draco and Narcissa escaped. Today, that site is a world monument to a hero.
It took me ten years to convince the public that Harry wasn't a madman, but the kindest person the world had ever broken. Draco Malfoy helped me unexpectedly in that regard. He spoke about Harry's curse and the fact that he laid down his life so the world could have a better future. Draco became my most loyal ally. Today, he has two children and still tries to set me up on dates, but I have chosen to remain alone. I wanted to give my life to the country. I want to ensure that no boy ever has to suffer the way Harry suffered.
The world knows me today as the "Iron Lady" and the leader of magical Europe. I am both admired and hated, but I have achieved my goal. Every magical child is now protected so that the story of Harry, or the orphan Riddle, never repeats itself. The magical world has made a giant leap – we have phones, laptops, and television powered by magic. We have subtly infiltrated the Muggle world, curing global warming and cancer. We developed a cure for dragon pox. Hogwarts has changed – Binns has finally retired, and the school is led by Minerva McGonagall.
Albus Dumbledore passed away a year after Voldemort's defeat. After Harry's death, he suffered a mental breakdown, resigned, and withdrew into seclusion. He took Harry's fate as his personal failure. He died quietly, with only Fawkes present. In his final months, he managed to reconcile with his brother and visit Nurmengard. Rumor has it that the guards saw him kiss Grindelwald before he died.
The magical world is healthier and better today. But whenever I gaze at the starry sky at night, I know who I have to thank for it.
Hell was different from what people imagined. It was divided into the exterior, where billions of souls in agony filled the air with endless wailing in thousands of languages, and the interior – the elite. Where sulfur reeked and scorched earth burned outside, a chilling, stony silence reigned within the long hall.
Lucifer sat upon the throne. No horns, no hooves. He was a fallen angel with a perfect, almost supernaturally attractive face and black wings casually draped over the sides of the throne. He watched the suffering below him with a smile, as if watching a masterpiece in a cinema.
After twenty years, I was at home here. And I wasn't being punished. Lucifer explained to me with amusement that Voldemort had made a fatal error in Egypt while translating the ritual. Instead of an intelligent demon that would have controlled me, he bound me to a powerful but mindless beast – Lucifer's personal "pet." Tom caused his own downfall through his own ignorance.
Lucifer was genuinely amused by my story, so I was granted relative freedom. My job was torture, but I also had privileges. Occasionally, I stopped by Voldemort. Every day, he was tormented by the most inventive torturers of the underworld. He had made a second mistake – declaring himself the most powerful Dark Lord of all time. Lucifer took that as a personal insult.
"Tom Riddle was just an amateur with a big mouth," Lucifer explained to me with a laugh. "Normally, he would have ended up outside, in that mass cauldron. The seats in this hall are reserved for heavyweights like Alexander the Great, Temüdžin, Hitler, or Stalin. But for that arrogance, I granted him personal care."
Lucifer was, in his essence, a fair master. When I finished my shift torturing the transgressors, he allowed me to watch Hermione. I watched her for the full twenty years – my "Iron Lady." It pained me that she remained alone and had no family, but at the same time, it warmed me to know that my sacrifice had meaning. She was magnificent.
However, I knew one thing that brought sadness to my eyes: once Hermione breathes her last, she certainly won't end up here with me. She will go to heaven. And I will have to serve in hell for all eternity without her.
Author's note:
Poor Harry, Hermiona, Weasleys, Dumbledore, Named Deatheaters, Nameless Death Eaters, Voldemort, Nagini and lots of innocent people.
How did you like the story? Did it leave you feeling frightened, sad, satisfied, or perhaps something else entirely?
I'd absolutely love to hear your thoughts, so please feel free to leave a comment! This turned out to be a deeply horrific and tragic tale. I managed to write the original version in about 40 hours, and honestly, the story practically wrote itself.
If you enjoyed this journey, feel free to check out my profile for more of my work!
Join our Discord community: tgdTNZYVKt - Vote on the plot, chat, and get the best FF recs!
Support my writing over at: YOU-KNOW-WHAT/patrikwriter