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Chapter VIII -Political Games, Shinny Knight and Essays-

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Chapter VIII

–Political Games, Shinny Knight and Essays–

Tuesday, 26 October 1971

LV's POV

The Dark Lord watched as the boy before him was more embarrassed at Voldemort's protection than about the scars themselves.

"Did you redo your essays?" He asked instead of the what he really wanted to ask.

"Yes." Evie walked away from him towards where he'd left his backpack and picked the scrolls from the inside.

Voldemort sat on the desktable and opened each scroll, looking through them so he could keep his mind focused on something instead of striking at the Muggles who had abused his Equal.

"What's your views on Muggles?" He asked to keep the boy busy and to keep him from finding more Creatures.

"There are bad and good people everywhere." Evie shrugged. "You can't separate people in Good or Bad, everyone has a little of both." Voldemort hummed as he set down beside him the first scroll. "I'm against the torturing and killing that Dark follows, but I'm also against the all Creatures are beasts that the Lights have."

Voldemort looked up at Evie surprised and the boy shrugged.

"Muggle raised?"

"Muggleborns are children or grandchildren of Squibs. All the nonsense of Purebloodness and then the people they call Mudbloods can actually make a claim to their Family Inheritance if they feel like it. Then again, we are just picked from the Muggle houses and thrown into a new world without any teaching. No one to explain the new world. So no wonder we fight against the new rules and laws." Evie shrugged yet again and approached the window, looking outside. "At the least the Muggles' attacks are ones that I can see. Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon could be many things, but they told me to my face what they fought of me. In the Magical World"

"Wizardry World." Voldemort amended.

Evie looked back confused, then realized his wording and nodded.

"In the Wizardry World I never know who I can really trust and even then when I believe I can trust someone: that person can still be going behind my back. It's all a massive web. All for show. All fake." Evie looked out again. "On the day you met me I heard Aunt Genevieve ill-speak of me. Cousin Lucius tried to apology to me, to what I said that I preferred the Muggle World, at the least there I knew what to expect. I still believe in that."

Voldemort's eyes narrowed at Evie's wording. She had met him before he met her?

"You believe the Wizardry World needs a change." He offered instead of demanding information. He knew that with him it was best to not make direct questions. As hilarious as it was considering the ranting, Evie spoke more to Voldemort when he wasn't being forced to, when he was being manipulated, than when Voldemort was direct to the subject.