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CHAPTER NINE ❝poisonous❞
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"I'M GOING TO SEND SLUGHORN POISON," Draco told her, "Anonymously, of course, with a note that says to bring it to Dumbledore."
Rosalie frowned at him. They had become much closer since her confession, since he knew her motives for joining the Death Eaters and since she had given him the consolation that she did care. That she wasn't a heartless, little girl with only world domination in her heart. She was a caring girl, too caring for the world, so she pretended that she didn't care at all.
She closed the book she was flipping through, though her thumb stayed in the page so that she didn't completely lose it. "I thought we agreed about not killing Dumbledore until the last possible moment. Until he sends us the signal."
Draco nodded, moving closer to her so sit down opposite of her. "We are, but the Death Eaters are getting restless. All we've given them are reports saying that the Vanishing Cabinet is coming along but it's not quite ready, and how we're still searching for the right way to murder him. They want something more, they want to hear that we've taken action again – like in October."
"Right, when you almost murdered Katie Bell," Rosalie recalled, glad now that the girl was recovering and should be back up in the next month or so. She would hate to see a girl die during this process, especially since she was just a tool and not the target. She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time and now she was essentially still in a coma. It was terrible, but at least she wasn't dead and neither was Dumbledore.
Though now, she was beginning to wish that he was. After he revealed to Rosalie her supposed "legacy", their relationship had been torn. She felt tricked; he said that she would be remembered, loved by all for centuries to come, but now he said that she would just be known as the Death Eater gone rogue who would help Harry Potter find the horcruxes needed to kill Voldemort.
He called it a valiant legacy, but Rosalie didn't see it that way and she doubted that the true story would be printed for all to see. She was sure that in the future no one would know that she was a double agent. She doubted that the papers would recall that this had all been planned. No, they'll write her off as a once true Death Eater who woke up one day and decided to turn against the organization.
She was so young, they would say, getting in over her head because of her abusive father. But she grew up, and when she did, she turned and helped the enemy, leading Harry Potter to the locations of the horcruxes.
Except, she didn't know where they were. Dumbledore had told her nothing else about them yet, only about what they were and how he was going on journeys to find their exact locations. She was supposed to know the rest by the time he died but she wasn't sure she would.
