Forced to Love Them

Chapter 1- The Beginning of the End.

                                            Courtney's POV

    "Courtney!! Are you getting dressed? Don't you have a dinner to go to tonight before you start classes again?" My father called up to me, I was getting ready to go to the deans dinner meant for the top students in the school.

I had everything picked out down to the accessories and was excited to make it to my 5th year at Ilvermony, the wizarding school in America. Had the next events not happened, I probably would've had a very normal life and I would've been naive to what surrounded me, but the next events did happen and my life is not normal.

DING DONG, DING DONG.

"Burke, open up!!!" Came yelling through the front door, "Burke, it's Severus!!!! Open up!!!"

My dad looked back at me before grimacing and walking to the front door. With one final breath my dad opened the door for the man who was yelling behind it, his body tensing all over. "Snape, what are you doing here? You know we are super busy today, can we talk another day please?" He begged the gentleman at the door.

I'm not like most witches and wizards my age, I have honed a lot of my skills and have a few abilities that not everyone is granted. I was always warned about using these extra gifts, especially in front of strangers, but I couldn't help hearing things repeated in his head "Potter" "lord" "Alive" and "Traitor"

"Who is Potter?" I asked clearly drawing the attention of this man. Now that I had a chance to look at him, I was able to study his features. While he looked okay a first, at a second glance he looked gaunt, his long black hair not helping his appearance. His eyes at a cold expression to it and they almost looked sunken in as if by years of crying. I couldn't tell if I saw sadness or annoyance in his expression but either way I knew that he wasn't here for good reasons. He looked at me with curiosity and impatience and then looked back at my father.

"He's back, and he wants to meet with you, today." Snape snapped at my father.

"Ok, Courtney hun, go ah...."

"No!!! He wants her too, and now I can see why." Snape interjected turning around without waiting for an answer, "Let's go!"

My dad grabbed my hand and we followed Snape to a port key and in about 30 minutes we were at the Malfoy Manor. I've heard my father talk about them and about their sons, while technically they only had one son but adopted the other one, the Riddle boy, Mattheo. When we got inside we were greeted by a man and women sporting the same hairstyle and annoyed faces. They were introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy And further in was a gentleman in a robe, when he turned around he looked absolutely ghastly. He was bald with no nose and the same color as a corpse. He stared at me as if to figure me out and waved his hand off at me.

"Courtney go sit with the boys for now will you?" My father asked me, as a if desperately trying to avoid a situation.

"Burke, you haven't told her yet have you?" The man in the robe taunted.

"My lord, please she's just a child, she..."

"She's sixteen, you can be honest with her!" Mr. Malfoy spat. " Your father is the reason you live in America, the reason your mother isn't alive, and he's the reason that you haven't returned. You father sold out a bunch of people on our side when they caught him and completely threw your mother under the bus by not protecting her."

"YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH CLOSE TILL THE END, KNOW NOTHING SAY NOTHING!!!!" The Dark Lord screamed causing me to jump, "You failed us!!!!!"

All of the air in the room caught in my throat and I couldn't move.

"Dad, tell me he lying please, tell me he doesn't know what he's talking about." I begged, even if he had to lie to me, it would be better than that being the truth.

My father didn't even look at me, just knelt down and started begging for forgiveness, and not from me. The man in front of me was a coward and disgusted me that we were related. I felt like I was being pranked, this man who spoke nothing but beauty about my mom, is the reason she was dead? Not possible. I keep trying to look into the dark lord and see if he's lying but I couldn't get a read on him. He scared me but not enough to make me piss myself like my father is currently doing. In his blubbering my father started promising stuff to the dark lord. First it was he would kill anyone then he started offering items that even I knew he couldn't get. My father wasn't always the nicest and I've known since I was little that my father was a death eater, that never bothered me, what I'm finding out today, bothers me.

"My daughter!!! I'll give you my daughter!!!!"

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A/N : Hello this is my first story in such a long time i hope you show it love. There will be a lot more to come I'm always open to suggestions and advice.

Love Jenn