The Fall of the Prey

Chapter one

Knockturn Alley
August 3, 1997

She scratched his face from the photograph. She would get her revenge.
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Madeline watched her father carelessly kill her mother with the flick of his wand, she was only 6 at the time. No one saw except for her, but she was so young at the time that manipulation came easy for her father. Vincent Hart had gotten remarried soon after the death of his previous wife Elizabeth, the mother of Madeline.

Madeline wasn't so young anymore, she was attending her 6th year at Hogwarts and was keeping one of the biggest secrets of her life. Her future had always been planned the way it was after her mother died, she understood the consequences and what would happen if she didn't follow through with the orders given, yet no one could ever be prepared for a moment like this.

"Everything happens for a reason." it was a simple saying she would tell herself when something didn't go the way she wanted it to, but this was merely a few meaningless words from where she was standing and next to her stood Blaise Zabini, both their arms laid out in front of the Dark Lord himself... they were getting the mark most people feared and as for the others it was the mark that determines whether they live or die.

Madeline saw no point in living after her father broke the news about the mark, she knew her parents both had it, but she always dreamt of never going down the same road her parents did, but one can always dream. All she heard was mumbling as she stared out at her arm, refusing to listen to what the Dark Lord had to say, or she might break down in front of everyone. Soon enough, the mark slowly started to appear on the young boys arm next to her.