The Snake's Secret

Practice

If you don't want to listen to the music or are not a fan of K-pop feel free to skip the songs or play your own music. 

none of the music is important to the chapter.

For those of you that do like K-Pop, well me too, and here are some songs I listen to when I am writing that I can just imagine Harry listening to when he is doing all of this. I personally find it hard to concentrate without background noise and this is some of the stuff that helps me work.

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Harry turned on the first song, waiting for the singing to start after the violins as he stretched out his limbs.

Fighting the prisoners was all well and good but he needed to actually practice a little, and the doll that he had been given as a present was about able to keep up with him. 

Having vacated the inside of the Castle he set up in one of the fields to the side and paid no attention to what was going on around him as he geared up for the fight. He knew that there was going to be a meeting starting soon and the death-eaters might see him so he had his mask on but his mouth uncovered. Wearing a black pair of jogging bottoms and a t -shirt he was finishing tying up his laces on his trainers when he was finally in the "Zone." He had done his best to get around Voldemort and wear Muggle sports clothes when training and so far he had gotten away with it but he was sure at some point he was going to be reprimanded. 

He had wrapped his wrists and ankles in anticipation and jumped up testing everything out. Once he was sure he was ready he flicked his wand at the dummy and watched as it came to life, stashing his wand in its holster afterwards. He set the difficulty all the way up and prepared for bruises that he wasn't going to let get treated away. 

The dummy lurched to life and took a stuttering step forward before seeming to gain proper consciousness and stand up properly. 

Harry felt his muscles tighten in anticipation, faster than he thought the doll threw a hand forward aimed at his neck. 

Harry parried it away and swept his leg down trying to at least to knock it off balance or at best off its feet entirely.  Unhappily he had to admit that his kick had weakened since he started at Hogwarts, he barely made it flinch. In response it tried to hit him in the back of the head, swinging himself around with his momentum Harry griped it's shoulder and leant back to avoid the blow. He narrowly missed a smack to the back of the skull and used his weight to flip the doll. 

Once he had it on its back he wrapped a thigh around its neck and squeezed. it tapped out in a second. 

He released it and stood back so they could go back into positions, fingertips sparking with energy he leapt at it this time instead of waiting for it to make the first move, he feigned a hit to the stomach, and when the doll went to defend he had a clear shot so he took it. He jabbed, with his elbow, where a human kidney would be. 

It crumpled down with fake pain and Harry took hold of the back of its head, twisting it so that the neck would have snapped had this been a real person. There is a lot more effort involved than is shown in the movies to it took him a few seconds but once he had the spun it 360 degrees he dropped the doll and got ready for the next round.

The strain was starting to become apparent in this muscles but he was pretty sure nothing could stop him from his fight, he was pretty sure if he put his mind to it he could find some way to make the wood bleed with his bare hands. There was a noise on his peripheral but nothing was registering to him at that moment. 

As the Doll sprang at him again he pushed away the punch and let it unbalance itself with it's own momentum. Taking the opportunity he was presented with Harry curled his fingers and struck with his nails, digging them into the wood where the eyes should be, the doll once again feigned pain, dropping down and holding its hands to it's eyes. It just took one swift kick to the back of the head and it collapsed dead. 

He stood back and finally the noise registered enough for him to stop the fight and look over. He saw Voldemort, death-eaters and even his friends looking at him, they were all about to go into the meeting but had gotten side-tracked watching Harry and never made it inside, prompting an investigation by the dark lord that lead to this inevitable scene.

Most of the assembled crowd were looking at him with fear in their eyes and Harry could only shrug and look to his dad for help.

"I do not know what to tell you. Harry, they all just saw you kill a doll of a grown man with ease without a wand." Voldemort said in parsletounge  and the you younger of the two almost sighed in relief. 

"But you can fix this though?"

"Why?"

"I thought they weren't supposed to know...." Harry answered back as the silence reigned on in the quiet field, the only other audible sound was that of the wind whistling through the bare branches of the trees. 

"Honestly Harry this just saves us having to show them later, and now they will all be scared of your every move, with or with out you wand which shall be fun to watch."

"Aren't I supposed to like be keeping all of this a secret?"

"You are doing that by wearing your mask. Now why don't you finally head inside so that I can start my meeting."

"Yeah, sorry dad." 

"You do of course understand that you are now my little assassin right? You will be the enforcer, they are already terrified of you." 

"Wait, do you mean I get to kill those who are disloyal to you?!" Harry asked, eyes lighting up with excitement.

"Yes, although I must admit I did not expect you to be this excited." Voldemort said, Harry having now packed away followed him dutifully to the throne room.

"Are you kidding? This is awesome, I know that I have an important job right now but this is something I can do for you whenever you need it and I also get to hurt those who wanna stop you! What more can I ask for?!" Harry gushed, Voldemort refrained from even smiling at Harry in the presence of other people but his did express his feelings via telepathy. 

"Well for the next meetings keep them on their toes. I don't need them feeling secure enough to oppose me as I discuss our actions with Bethany. I am aware I ask a lot of you, so feel free to drop unifying the houses for now and focus on the Diary and this new job. Also I want to hear about how the library is coming along. Go get dressed" Voldemort said "and meet us in the throne room. Be quick."

And with a nod, Harry ran off.