Into the Dark: The Story of Selena Snape

Chapter 13

Selena's POV

I was shaking and sweating profusely as Draco and I waitied in the Room of Requirement for the other Death Eaters to show up through the vanishing cabinet. I hugged him and started to sob again at the thought of having to leave my life here at Hogwarts after tonight, and most significantly, my father. I guess you could say we didn't have a perfect father-daughter relationship over the years, but we still loved each other more than anyone would ever know. And now, I'd be going against him and becoming what I'm sure he didn't want me to become ever. But it was too late. As much as I wanted to back out on all of this and just be a normal 16-going-on-17 girl, I couldn't. I was now a dark and dangerous Death Eater, forever plummeting into this dark abyss of evil and power. Why I had done it in the first place was quite hazy at this moment. I knew all of this would be to gain more of a name for myself, and the only thing good about doing this would be getting revenge for Voldemort and killing Potter in the end. He had to go. That was my only reason to continue.

We had been waiting in the room for about ten minutes when we heard a loud sound that was definately pairs of feet hitting a surface from the inside of the vanishing cabinet. I gulped and squeezed Draco's hand as the door to the cabinet slowly opened, revealing the tall and beautiful figure of Bellatrix Lestrange walk out with the familiar faces of Fenrir Greyback and Antonin Dolohov following her. She smiled her evil smile at me once again and giggled quietly, almost to herself. She pressed her wand to her cheek and poked her tongue out a little in a disgusting way. She then walked up closely to me and stared me down as if I had something to hide.

"Something the matter girly? Not...scared to kill the old hag tonight are we?" She asked menacingly. I stared back at her, trying to look as brave and confident as I could be. I put on the best mask to shield my true feelings as best as possible.

"Not at all Bella, I actually am most excited to get this done once and for all so we can eventually get to Potter. I want to kill him too." Half of what I said was true. I really did want to kill Potter after all the grief his father has caused my father back in the day, and to help Voldemort regain his power, but I was dreading having to kill Dumbledore just to get to him. The thought of it gave me a sharp pain in my chest.

"I see, well, what are you waiting for? Let's get him!" Bella cried in an excited way. We all then put our Death Eater uniforms and masks on. Mine looked quite beautiful on me. It made me look like a perfect figure of darkness. I lead the way up to the Astromony tower since I had to be the first one up there to kill him. I then went ahead of everyone else and started climing the stairs. I stopped suddenly when I heard the familiar voice of Dumbledore talking to what I sounded like someone else. I suspected it was Potter, but I wasn't sure after I heard the last couple of words coming out of his mouth..

"No, Severus is who we need..Severus. Tell him what happened and speak to no one else...Severus." his tired voice strained to the mysterious person with him. It couldn't be Potter he was talking to, because he hates my dad and would never go looking for him. I hurredly started up the stairs again to see who was with him. As I came around the corner, I could only see the weary looking figure of Albus Dumbledore who looked like he was struggling to even stand. What had happened to him? No matter, he would have to die anyways. I then slowly walked into Dumbledore's view on the tower, my wand pointed high in his direction. I watched as Dumbledore turned to look at me, his tired eyes still twinkling at me. I tried to look back at him in the most evil way possible, to let him know that I meant business.

"Good evening Selena, what brings you here on this fine spring evening?" As I watched him talk to me, I could tell from my Legilimency skills that he knew all about this little plan. He knew exactly why I was here. He knew everything.

"Don't play dumb Dumbledore. I know you know why I'm here," I said in a cold voice. He still just looked at me with the same twinkling eyes as before, but this time I noticed a difference in them. They had a worried expression in them, a slight sadness and disappointment here in there too. I then remembered that we weren't alone. He had been talking to someone before this.