The Consequence Of Power

Mud Blood

He sat in the lounge with his mother because his father went off to Hogwarts to snoop around with Severus's old things, something about a diary. "Mother, why is father wanting this diary so bad?" He asked "Because Draco, Severus had a lot of information about Rhiannon, very useful information for the Dark Lord" He shook his head "Why do you go along with this? why don't you to stand up to father anymore? are you not tired of his actions?" Narcissa stopped reading her book, she placed the book on her lap "Draco, I understand you don't agree with this, but you will not make it everyone's issue, I have kept it a secret that you like this girl, I shouldn't even be allowing you to speak of her in my house but I love you, if you start making issues I will make sure you never see her again" She picked up her book and started reading "But-" He tried to speak "ENOUGH DRACO" She yelled, his heart sank, he felt like a child getting yelled at. He stood up, grabbing a vase off the side table and throwing it across the room, shattering it into millions of pieces. He looked at his mother, her face was shocked by what he had just done "I will not let anything happen to her, and I won't let you or father hurt her" His eyes started to tear up, Narcissa stood up "Draco, that was wrong of me, I wouldn't hurt her, I know she means everything to you, I would never take that away, I am sorry my dear" She walked over to him, hugging him. He wrapped his arms around her, crying "Mother, I don't want her to die. I hate this" She held him in her arms "I know my dear, I know, I am sorry things are like this, one day you will be happy I promise, I am doing my best for you" She wanted him to be happy, but that girl happened to be their enemy. "Draco, I want you to go get some sleep, I will clean up everything before your father gets home, please go" She kissed him on the cheek holding her tears in "You still promise you won't tell him that you know how I feel about her" She smiled "I promise son, now go to your room okay" He nodded at her wiping his tears and walked to his room. Narcissa stood there looking at the broken glass, she didn't know what do with herself and her family was falling apart, her husband was a murderer, her son was depressed, she was scared. Everything was falling apart. Draco sat on his bed, he hated the fact his father was at the school, disrespecting Severus like that by snooping in his things. He knew about that because he overheard his father speaking with the other death eaters to go into the school in the middle of the night and find any information about Rhiannon that Severus might of had, Draco was offered to go but he declined. He didn't want to step foot in the school in case him and Rhiannon crossed paths, he would be obligated to fight against her, be never wanted to do that so he avoided that school. He started to become worried about her now, he really didn't want them to find anything about her that they could use against her, so he had to warn her. He quietly walked down stairs, trying not to be noticed by his mother, he walked out the back door into the backyard. He had very deep and powerful intentions to warn her. He took out his wand and casted his patronus, a white peacock. He watched as his patrouns flew through the air, off to Hogwarts.

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Rhiannon woke up in the middle of the night, from a blue light shining in her dorm, she slowly opened her eyes and looked over and saw the glowing peacock again. She sat up in bed, rubbing her eyes "Do I need to follow you again?" She whispered, trying not to wake the other girls. She got out of bed, putting on her sleeping robe and slippers. She grabbed her wand and followed the patronus out of the dorms, still wondering whose patronus this was. She wanted to think it was Draco's but Hermione did say he had no happy memories to cast one. She walked next to it "Who do you belong to?" Obviously she got no response back, the patronus led her to Severus's office and when she got closer to the door, the peacock vanished. She heard something moving around inside the office, almost like someone was snooping through his stuff. She put her ear up to the door "Where is it, Lucius?" She heard a man's voice sound annoyed and eager to find something, what were they doing snooping in his office? She just wanted to storm in there and kill them for disrespecting his things like that and disrespecting him. She felt scared that Lucius was in the room right in front of her, she could have him right there but she knew if she killed them it would cause a disturbance in the school, plus Draco still didn't deserve the death of a parent. She stood here, listening to them destroy his things, whoever sent that patronus wanted her to see what was going on in there, this might be a mistake but she slowly creaked the door open and looked inside, she saw two men and Lucius. She wanted to revenge Severus, but she needed to play it smart this time. The whole office was destroyed, papers everywhere, statues destroyed and glass broken, what was so important for them to find? "We need to look harder, it has to be here, Severus was that girl's mentor and guardian, he had to have a book or diary of everything he knew" Lucius started to rummage through the desk drawer, she looked on the ground by the door and saw a book, almost like a diary. She had a strong feeling that was what they were looking for, she looked closer at it, engraved on the front said "Diary of Severus Snape". She got down on the ground and put her hand through the door crack to tried to grab it, she didn't want to get caught. She almost could touch the book, her finger tips just grazed it. As she was about to finally grab it, the door swung open and she looked up and saw Lucius standing in front of her "Rhiannon, spying are we" He must not have realized the book was right in front of his feet. She stood up "I could say the same thing, Lucius, what do you think you are doing destroying Severus's things, I should report you for this" He put his wand under her chin, lifting her head "Oh really now? With what army?" The other men walked over with evil smiles on each of their faces "Well, if I remember correctly, I killed half of your death eaters plus almost you, with my bare hands" She smiled. Lucius had an angry look on his face, before she could think of what to say next he grabbed her and pulled her into the office, slamming the door behind him "Pick up that chair" Lucius demanded one of the men, he threw her into the chair "Make sure she doesn't pull anything, she is one sneaky witch, restrain her if you must" Both the men point their wands at her as she sat in the chair, clearly they forget she still had her wand on her, they were to stupid to remember to search the person they captured. "Now Rhiannon, I know Severus meant so much to you, and I know he was teaching you, things no other student learned, I know how strong your powers are, I need you to find something that belonged to him" He walked closer to her "I demand you to use your powers to find it"
"Fuck you" She spit on him "I really hate children" He raised his wand "Crucio" She felt the pain all through her body, she saw nothing but bright light. One of the men covered her mouth so her screams weren't heard. It felt like thousands of knives stabbing her over and over. Her muscles tightened, causing her to jolt and seize from the pain "Tell me where the diary is" He shouted at her as he stopped the painful curse she was enduring "I don't know where it is" She cried from the pain, scared he would curcio her again "You are lying to me girl, tell me now" She tried to calm herself down to speak, she knew where it was she just needed to buy time to distract them "Lucius, I have question for you" She took a deep breath in "What is it?" He started to get annoyed and impatient, turning around to look at the stack of papers on the desk
"Do you remember my mother?" He turned around and looked at her confused "Who?" He squinted his eyes "Come on Lucius. Ezra Black, ring any bells" His face completely changed from confused to shocked "You remember don't you. Yeah, you tried to kill her because she didn't like the way you turned out, you tend to try and hurt people who are in your way, people far more stronger, like her, and me, Is that right?" Lucius didn't know how to respond to that accusation but he knew it was true "You are Ezra's daughter?" She lifted her chin and gave him a firm look "Yes, I am, she tried to beat you and so will I, I will finish what she couldn't do, stop you for good" She tried to pull out her wand "Expelliarmus" Lucius casted, her wand went flying and she flew back into the chair. Lucius walked up to her, grabbing her neck "Your mother was a crazy woman, she stood no chance against me, and neither will you, she may have been a powerful witch but she was mud blood, and so are you. A pathetic little mud blood" He looked over to the man holding her down in the chair "carve her, for a little reminder" A smirk appeared on his lips "Carve me? What?!" She started to panic, the man grabbed a knife out of his pocket and held her arm out "Will do sir" The other guy held her down in the chair, covering her mouth so she couldn't scream for help. He begun to carve her arm, she kicked and struggled to scream, gagging on the air that was trying to escape her mouth. She could feel the blood leave her arm, a warm liquid running down her arm. She knew if she used her powers with this amount of energy and anger the whole castle would be awake and others would get hurt, she couldn't let that happen again. She needed to deal with this alone this time, didn't matter how painful it would be. Lucius was still trying to find the diary, smiling and laughing to himself as he heard her struggle, her cried for an escape, an escape from tall this pain she had gone through. She needed to wait for the right moment to grab it and run away, she just needed to deal with the pain for now. The pain of the point of the blade carving her skin, making her feel dizzy, hearing her skin rip with each stroke, she was terrified and all she could do was cry and think of how will she get out of there, but each time she tried to think she was interrupted by how unbearable the pain was. "All done sir" It felt like an eternity for it to finally be over. The man looked over at her, his smile was hideous, his gold tooth almost blinded her from the reflection coming off of it. Her face was beat red almost purple form her not being able to breath. All the flashbacks of her attackers were coming back. The man pulled the knife away and instant relief hit her, the cold air hitting her exposed skin. He stood up "It's perfect" Lucius turned around and smiled "Show her," Lucius said as the man restringing her still, he grabbed her head and forced her to face her arm. "That is what you are, a mud blood, just like your mother, now this will be a reminder when you try to think you are more powerful than us pure bloods. Now you and your mother match, you just have to die now then you two will really be matching" She was forced to look at her arm, she saw the word "Mud blood" carved into it, all she could do was cry at the sight of it, she felt so powerless, all she could think was how her mother felt being treated like that. "Now, tell me where the diary is" The men make her stand up, she stood there, dead-faced and slowly glanced her eyes to where the diary was on the floor, making sure she could swiftly grab it and run. "I may be mud blood, but I know my blood status doesn't define how strong I may be, you can torture me, carve my skin, belittle me, go ahead, but in the end, I will always win Lucius" She bolted to the diary, picking it up and running out of the room "Catch her!" Lucius yelled as the men chased her down the corridor, it didn't help the blood coming from her arm made a trial wherever she went. She ran as fast as she could, her lungs felt like they were going to explode, her legs wanted to give out but she knew if she stopped running they would catch her, she dodged their wands, she ran down another corridor catching some distance. She needed to find a place to hide, quickly she turned a corner, standing in the middle of the corridor, looking around for a spot. Then from behind her, she heard the walls move, she turned around and saw the wall develop into a huge door. She could hear the men approaching so she quickly ran inside, the doors sealed closed, she stood there, trying to catch her breath, leaning her forehead on the door, crying from how stressful this was. She covered her mouth and leaned off the door "She has to be near, the blood stops here" She heard from the other side, they couldn't see the door? but how.