Half a Life

Chapter 12

Voldemort

I didn't want to do what I did to they young man. I didn't harm him or anything, but I did petrify him, that I'm not proud of it. But it was the only way to get Helena away from Askaban.

After I got her out of the car and I did what I had to do, we both dissaperated. I didn't know where to, but then I suddenly thought of ...

the house of Black (Sirius Black's house before he died). I remembered someone telling me that it was now abandoned and the order didn't use it anymore.

I can see why.

As soon as we opened the door part of the ceiling came down. We went into a room with one big brown sofa, and two little wooden chairs, the wood had started to rot so they were to unstable to sit on.

It took me about half an hour to tell Helena about my life and the thing. By the end of it we were both speechless.

Then two arguing house elves broke the silence. I'm surprised that we didn't here them, they were yelling each others heads off! I think they were arguing about being freed or something like that. But any way, as soon as they saw me and Helena they both shut up.

I recognised both of them, there was creature, who was saying that he was only ever loyal to me, and dobby, who was trying to hit me with this lamp and them hit himself with the lamp saying 'bad dobby, bad dobby, bad dobby!!!'

It was Helena who was to stop the commotion.

'SHUT UP! Creature! Tom, I mean Voldemort isn't you master and dobby, Voldemort isn't really the bad guy here its something else, and hitting yourself isn't going to help anyone.'

I took awhile to explain, but nether of them believed us. In fact they both thought we were mad and weren't who we said we were, so they dissaperated off.

Just as we thought things were going to get quieter, there was a big slam of the door. Severus Snape stormed in and didn't even realise we were here until Helena whispered his name.

Helena

I don't thing Severus was very happy about me being with Tom ( I'm not going to say Voldemort now, as I know that he wasn't guilty of the crimes he was said to have committed). In fact the first thing he said to me was.

'Helena, not you please no, you said you wouldn't, in fact you promised you wouldn't, and I call you a sister!'

Yes Snape is my brother, sometimes in my life I kinda disowned him.

Like the time he first became a death eater, but then he explained why he became one and I believed everything he said.

But I don't thing that this will be that easy to persuade him that Tom isn't the one who murdered Lilly though...