Chapter 38: Dark Meetings
"Dumbledore forces me to go back to them every year, did you know that?" Harry asked, Fudge quickly shook his head to say that he did not. "I have begged and begged Dumbledore to not do it but he always forces me back there."
"Mr Potter they are your family and..."
"They are not!" Harry interrupted, shocking Fudge with the amount of venom and hatred in his voice. "I would sooner die then call those horrible excuses for human beings family! Do you know what they did to me?!" Fudge, more than a little scared, quickly shook his head. "They starved me, they treated me like a house elf! They made me do all their work only to be given the bare minimum to survive! My muggle uncle is quite fond of using his belt if I don't meet his standards of work." Harry said, shocking Fudge. "They beat me, starved me, belittled me, treated me like I was not even human and would then call me ungrateful and freak. Did you know minister that I did not even know my own name until my first day at primary school?"
"What?!"
"They called me freak and boy for so long that I had genuinely no idea what my name was, that is how I ended up in a class full of muggles laughing at me because I did not know my own name. I did not know that I was Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived, son of James and Lily Potter. I thought I was 'Freak, burden of the Dursley's, and son of two drunks'. They told me my parents were drunks, my parents who gave their lives for me and those muggle told me they were drunks who died in an accident!"
"My goodness, this is horrible!"
"That's only part of it, did you know they made me sleep in a cupboard?"
"What?!" Fudge's eyes went wide with disbelief, the boy-who-lived was not only abused but kept in a cupboard?
"They kept me in there for years and years until my Hogwarts letter arrived, then they gave me an actual bedroom. Their son's second bedroom."
"Second bedroom?"
"Yes, they made me sleep in a cupboard while their precious spoilt brat got one bedroom to sleep in and another bedroom to keep toys that he did not play with."
"I...I can't believe this..."
"You need to believe this!" Harry said as he grabbed Fudge by both arms, causing the man to look at him. "Listen to me," Harry said in a low voice with an intense look that quite frankly frightened Fudge. "if Sirius Black is free then I can escape! If you don't help get Sirius Black his rightly deserved trial then sooner or later there will be a Daily Prophet article talking about one thing, either me killing them or them killing me!" Harry hissed, to say Fudge looked uncomfortable was like saying Voldemort was okay at magic. "You need to help me before either of those happen!"
"I...Is it really that bad?" Fudge shivered under his gaze.
"Worse." Harry said in a quiet voice. "Get me out of there!" Harry ordered before his face shifted into a kinder one. "Please." Harry added as he smiled at Fudge, Harry gently wiped some dust of Fudge's shoulders before he let go and took a step back.
"I...I will do my best." Fudge eventually spoke. "But it will take some time what with Sirius Black and Pettigrew and..."
"I can survive another summer." Harry interrupted. "Just get Sirius his fair trial please."
"Uh...yes, yes of course." Fudge quickly nodded. "Oh and I was supposed to award you with the Triwizard cup and your rewards for winning but with all that happened..." Fudge trailed off, not really needing to explain what happened.
"I completely understand sir." Harry nodded.
"Yes, the cup is being kept as of the moment so it can be checked for dark magic and the like but once it's done it will be sent along with your rewards to your home unless you would prefer it sent to Gringotts or some other place."
"Gringotts sir." Harry answered.
"Right, well...I had better be going." Fudge said before he turned and quickly walked off. If he looked back then he would have noticed Harry smirk and walk off to the owlery.
"Headmaster," Snape said as he arrived in Dumbledore's office find just as McGonagall had left. "I am pleased to see that the brat and buffoon have gone. But I sadly do not have the time to celebrate that as I must go."
"He calls?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes." Snape hissed, feeling the mark burn. "I must go now, the dark lord does not appreciate being late. Especially after all of these years."
"Very well," Dumbledore nodded. "once you return come straight to my office, I have some pain relief potions in case you should need them."
"Headmaster." Snape nodded before walking off.
Snape entered a dark room to find a great many death eaters kneeling on the floor while wearing full death eater clothing, their heads bowed, all facing in the direction of none other than Lord Voldemort himself. Lord Voldemort sat on his chair looking down on them like a king looking down on peasants.
Voldemort had pale white skin, a skeletally thin body, and dark scarlet eyes with cat-like slits for pupils. He had a chalk-white face that resembled a skull, snake-like slits for nostrils, and large hands with unnaturally long fingers like spider's legs.
Voldemort had no hair or lips, he had long, sharp, pale blue fingernails and was wearing a black hooded cloak and several sets of elegant black robes but no shoes which meant that his feet were visible. Next to his chair was a large, green snake, roughly twelve feet long and as thick as a man's thigh.
"Ah Severus," Voldemort said upon noticing Snape. "so nice of you to join us at last."
"My apologies my lord," Snape said as he walked forward and knelt down in front of Voldemort. "I was delayed by the old fool, if not for him then I would have come much sooner."
"Of that I have no doubt," Voldemort said as if the very idea of someone not instantly doing as he asked was amusing. "how have you been Severus? It has been such a long time." Voldemort asked in a voice that most would use if they were discussing the weather. "I trust you have been well, how could you not be? While many of my followers willingly went to Azkaban rather than renounce my name, you have been happily brewing and stirring and creating potion after potion at Hogwarts."
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