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- All HPMOR parseltongue v3
- This is a list of paragraphs which appear to contain parseltongue in HP:MoR. It has been manually pruned for the false positives I could find at a glance, and should by now contain most (99%+) of all parseltongue spoken in HP:MoR.
- Everything within <em></em> tags is italics.
- This is v3 of the document - I refined the search script quite a bit, making it only search chapters in which parseltongue had previously been found, to rule out false positives, and making it a lot less critical so I'd catch more. It now contains all paragraphs with one occurrence of "ss" in italics or an occurrence of the word hissed, which should really be most of it. A few single lines might still possibly have been missed, but I doubt that there's anything important missing by now.
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- CHAPTER 12 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/12
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- Harry was still trying to process everything that had happened
- during the Incident with the Sorting Hat. Not the least of which
- was what had happened the instant Harry had lifted the Hat off his
- head; in that moment, he'd heard a tiny whisper as though from
- nowhere, something that sounded oddly like English and a hiss at
- the same time, something that had said, "<em>Ssalutations from
- Sslytherin to Sslytherin: if you would sseek my ssecretss, sspeak
- to my ssnake."</em>
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- CHAPTER 47 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/47
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- "<em>Hsssss ssss sshsshssss,</em>" said Harry.
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- CHAPTER 49 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/49
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- Harry swallowed hard and said, "Greetings - ah, hssss, no, ah,
- <em>greetingss.</em>"
- "<em>Sso,</em>" hissed the snake. "<em>You sspeak, I hear. I
- sspeak, you hear?</em>"
- "<em>Yess, I hear,</em>" hissed Harry. "<em>You are an
- Animaguss?</em>"
- "<em>Obvioussly,</em>" hissed the snake. "<em>Thirty-sseven
- ruless, number thirty-four: Become Animaguss. All ssensible people
- do, if can. Thuss,</em> <em>very rare.</em>" The snake's eyes were
- flat surfaces ensconced within dark pits, sharp black pupils in
- dark gray fields. "<em>This iss mosst ssecure way to sspeak. You
- ssee? No otherss undersstand uss.</em>"
- "<em>Even if they are ssnake Animagi?</em>"
- "<em>Not unlesss heir of Sslytherin willss.</em>" The snake gave
- a series of short hisses which Harry's brain translated as sardonic
- laughter. "<em>Sslytherin not sstupid. Ssnake Animaguss not ssame
- as Parsselmouth. Would be huge flaw in sscheme.</em>"
- "<em>I am not regisstered,</em>" hissed the snake. The dark pits
- of its eyes stared at Harry. "<em>Animaguss musst be regisstered.
- Penalty is two yearss imprissonment. Will you keep my ssecret,
- boy?</em>"
- "<em>Yess,</em>" hissed Harry. "<em>Would never break
- promisse.</em>"
- The snake seemed to hold still, as though in shock, and then
- began to sway again. "<em>We come here next in sseven dayss. Bring
- cloak to passs unsseen, bring hourglasss to move through time
- -</em>"
- "<em>You know?</em>" hissed Harry in shock. "<em>How
- -</em>"
- Again the series of short quick hisses that translated as
- sardonic laughter. "<em>You arrive in my firsst classs while sstill
- in other classs, sstrike down enemy with pie, two ballss of memory
- -</em>"
- "<em>Never mind,</em>" hissed Harry. "<em>Sstupid question,
- forgot you were ssmart.</em>"
- "<em>Foolissh thing to forget,</em>" said the snake, but the
- hiss did not seem offended.
- "<em>Hourglasss is resstricted,</em>" Harry said. "<em>Cannot
- usse until ninth hour.</em>"
- The snake twitched its head, a snakish nod. "<em>Many
- resstrictionss. Locked to your usse only, cannot be sstolen. Cannot
- transsport other humanss. But ssnake carried in pouch, I ssuspect
- will go with. Think posssible to hold hourglasss motionlesss within
- sshell, without dissturbing wardss, while you turn sshell around
- it. We will tesst in sseven dayss. Will not sspeak of planss beyond
- thiss. You ssay nothing, to no one. Give no ssign of expectancy,
- none. Undersstand?</em>"
- "<em>Ansswer in sspeech.</em>"
- "<em>Yess.</em>"
- "<em>Will do as I ssaid?</em>"
- "<em>Yess. But,"</em> Harry gave a wobbling rasp that was how
- his mind had translated a hesitant 'Ahhh' into snakish, "<em>I do
- not promisse to do whatever thiss iss, you have not ssaid
- -</em>"
- The snake performed a shiver that Harry's mind translated as a
- severe glare. "<em>Of coursse not. Will disscusss sspecificss at
- next meeting.</em>"
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- CHAPTER 51 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/51
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- - hissed, "<em>Hungry, boy? Eat your fill sswiftly, we sshall
- need both sstrength and time.</em>"
- Harry's eyes were a bit wide, but he hissed, "<em>I ate well at
- breakfasst,</em>" and then rapidly began forking noodles into his
- mouth.
- The snake watched him for a moment, with those flat eyes, and
- then hissed, "<em>Do not wissh to explain here. Prefer to be
- elssewhere firsst. Need to leave unobsserved, without ssign we have
- ever departed room.</em>"
- "<em>Sso no one can track uss,</em>" hissed Harry.
- "<em>Yess. Do you trusst me that much, boy? Think before
- ansswer. I will have important requesst of you, which requiress
- trusst; if ssay no regardlesss, then ssay no now.</em>"
- "<em>I trusst you,</em>" hissed Harry.
- Harry took out his wand and said "<em>Lumos</em>", lighting the
- room with white glow; he took his pouch from his belt (the sense of
- doom growing a little sharper as he grasped it with his fingers)
- and lightly tossed it to the opposite side of the room (the sense
- of doom fading almost completely). And then he began to take off
- the Cloak of Invisibility, even as his voice hissed, <em>"It iss
- done.</em>"
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- CHAPTER 52 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/52
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- "<em>Casst your Patronuss,</em>" hissed a snake from the floor,
- looking more discolored than green in the dim orange light.
- And then, "<em>It iss sstable,</em>" Harry hissed, and began
- feeding his broomstick into his pouch. His wand stayed in his hand,
- and a slight, sustainable flow from him replaced the slight losses
- from his Patronus.
- "<em>I ssee nothing,</em>" hissed Harry.
- "<em>Sshe iss alone,</em>" hissed the snake.
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- CHAPTER 53 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/53
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- "<em>Sshow her your face,</em>" hissed the snake at Harry's
- feet.
- <em>"Ssay ssomething in Parsseltongue,"</em> hissed the
- snake.
- Harry's face turned to the snake, to make it clear that he was
- addressing it, and hissed, "<em>One two three four five ssix sseven
- eight nine ten.</em>"
- The snake hissed, "<em>Will be conssumed by it.</em>"
- "<em>You'll need to float her out,</em>" Harry hissed to the
- snake. "<em>Sshe can no longer think of
- esscaping.</em>"<em><br /></em>
- "<em>Yess,</em>" hissed the snake, "<em>but do not
- underesstimate her, sshe wass the deadliesst of warriorss.</em>"
- The green head dipped in warning. "<em>One would be wisse to fear
- me, boy, even were I sstarved and nine-tenthss dead; be wary of
- her, allow no ssingle flaw in your pretensse.</em>"
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- CHAPTER 58 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/58
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- <em>"What wass... that noisse?</em>"
- "<em>Teacher,</em>" Harry hissed. So many emotions bubbling up
- in him, all at once. He knew, though he could not see, that the
- green snake around Bellatrix's shoulders, was slowly lifting its
- head to look around. "<em>Are you... all right, teacher?</em>"
- "<em>Teacher?</em>" came the weak, confused hiss. "<em>Where
- iss thiss?</em>
- "<em>Prisson,</em>" Harry hissed, "<em>the prisson with
- life-eaterss, we were to resscue a woman, you and I. You tried to
- sslay the protector man, I blocked your killing cursse, there was a
- ressonance between uss... you fell unconssciouss, I had to defeat
- the protector man mysself... my guardian Charm wass disspelled, the
- life-eaterss could tell the protectorss that the woman had
- esscaped. There iss ssomeone here who can ssensse my guardian
- Charm, probably the sschoolmasster... so had to disspell my
- guardian Charm, find different way to hide you and the woman from
- life-eaterss without guardian Charm, learn to protect mysself
- without guardian Charm, sscare off life-eaterss without guardian
- Charm, then devisse new esscape plan for you and the woman, and
- finally, cut hole in thick metal wall of prisson even though I am
- only firsst-year sstudent. No time to explain, you musst go now. If
- we never meet again, teacher, then I was glad to know you for a
- time, even though you are probably evil. It iss good to have the
- chance to ssay thiss much: Goodbye.</em>"
- "<em>Sstop!</em>" said the snake. Its voice was stronger now.
- "<em>Sstop, sstop, sstop! What do you mean, goodbye?</em>"
- "<em>Esscape plan iss rissky,</em>" said Harry. "<em>My life iss
- not at sstake, only yourss and herss. Sso I am sstaying, turning
- mysself in -</em>"
- "<em>No!</em>" said the snake. The hiss was forceful.
- "<em>Musst not! Not permitted!</em>"
- "<em>No longer trusst you,</em>" Harry said simply. "<em>Not
- ssince you tried to sslay the protector man.</em>"
- And the snake hissed, "<em>I did not sseek to sslay the
- protector man! Are you fool, boy? Sslaying him would not make
- ssensse, evil or no!</em>"
- The snake's hiss was now more furious than anything Harry had
- ever heard from the human Professor Quirrell. "<em>Sslay him? Had I
- ssought to sslay him he would have been dead within ssecondss, fool
- boy, he wass no match for me! I ssought to ssubdue, to dominate,
- force him to drop sshieldss upon hiss mind, needed to read him, to
- know who awaited hiss reply, learn detailss for memory sspell
- -"</em>
- "<em>You casst killing cursse!</em>"
- "<em>Wass hiss life worth sso little? What if he did not
- dodge?</em>"
- "<em>Would have pusshed him out of the way with own magic, fool
- boy!</em>"
- "<em>Witlesss dunce of a plotter,</em>" hissed the snake, so
- angrily that the hisses seemed to overlap and slither over each
- other's tails, "<em>clever imbecile, cunning idiot, fool of an
- untrained Sslytherin, your missplaced misstrust hass ruined
- -"</em>
- "<em>Thiss iss not a fair time to argue,</em>" Harry observed
- mildly. The surge of relief trying to flood through him was
- canceled by the increased tension. "<em>Ssince I cannot get angry
- at you properly, without opening mysself to life-eaterss. Musst
- russh, ssomeone may have heard noisse -"</em>
- "<em>Explain esscape plan,</em>" the snake said imperiously.
- "<em>Sswiftly!</em>"
- There were a few short hisses, the snakish equivalent of a bark
- of surprised laughter, and then, snapped commands. "<em>Tell woman
- to look away, casst sspell of ssilence, sset guardian Charm outside
- door. Will transsform mysself, make few sswift improvementss to
- your invention, give woman emergency potion sso sshe can sshield
- uss, transsform back before you disspell Charm. Plan will be
- ssafer, then.</em>"
- "<em>And am I to believe,</em>" Harry hissed, <em>"that healer
- for woman truly awaitss uss?</em>"
- "<em>Usse ssensse, boy! Ssupposse I am evil. To end usse of you
- here iss obvioussly not what I planned. Misssion iss target of
- opportunity, invented after ssaw your guardian Charm, whole affair
- meant to be unnoticed, hid when left eating-place. Obvioussly you
- will ssee persson pretending to be healer on arrival! Go back to
- eating-place afterward, original plan carriess on
- undissturbed!</em>"
- "<em>Sso,</em>" Harry hissed, "<em>what iss your plan for me,
- precissely?</em>"
- "<em>You ssaid no time,</em>" came the snake's hiss, "<em>but
- plan iss for you to rule country, obvioussly, even your young noble
- friend hass undersstood that by now, assk him on return if you
- wissh. Will ssay no more now, iss time to fly, not
- sspeak.</em>"
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- CHAPTER 59 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/59
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- After that, once Harry could hear himself think again, when
- there was only the howling wind from their ridiculous speed, and
- Harry's enchantment-assisted fingers gripping the broomstick were
- merely resisting the decelerating drag of moving way faster than
- terminal velocity, <em>that</em> was when Harry actually thought
- all that stuff about Newtonian mechanics and Aristotelian physics
- and broomsticks and rocketry and the importance of curiosity and
- how he was never going to do anything this Gryffindor ever again or
- at least not until after he learned the Dark Lord's secret of
- immortality and <em>why</em> had he listened to Professor Quirinus
- "<em>I asssure you, boy, I would not attempt thisss if I did not
- anticipate my own ssurvival</em>" Quirrell instead of Professor
- Michael "Son, if you try anything to do with rockets on your own, I
- mean <em>anything whatsoever</em> without a trained professonal
- watching, you will die and that will make Mum sad"
- Verres-Evans.
- Harry's mind remembered then, the Pepper-Up potion came at a
- cost; Bellatrix would <em>ssleep for a conssiderable time,</em>
- Professor Quirrell had said.
- Harry looked back, and hissed, "<em>Teacher?</em>"
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- CHAPTER 65 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/65
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- "<em>Sso,</em>" hissed the venomous creature. "<em>What did you
- wissh to ssay?</em>"
- And Harry hissed, "<em>Sschoolmasster thinkss that woman'ss
- former Lord iss the one who sstole her from prisson</em>."
- "<em>He believess that one iss alive?</em>" the snake finally
- said. The divided, two-pronged tongue flickered rapidly from side
- to side, sardonic snakish laughter. "<em>Ssomehow I am not
- ssurprissed.</em>"
- "<em>Yess,</em>" Harry hissed dryly, "<em>very amussing, I am
- ssure. Except now am sstuck in Hogwartss for next ssix years, for
- ssafety! I have decided that I will, indeed, sseek power; and
- confinement iss not helpful for that. Musst convince sschoolmasster
- that Dark Lord iss not yet awakened, that esscape was work of ssome
- other power -</em>"
- Again the rapid flickering of the snake's tongue; the snakish
- laughter was stronger, dryer, this time. "<em>Amateur
- foolisshnesss.</em>"
- "<em>Pardon?</em>" hissed Harry.
- "<em>You ssee misstake, think of undoing, ssetting time back to
- sstart. Yet not even with hourglasss can time be undone. Musst move
- forward insstead. You think of convincing otherss they are
- misstaken. Far eassier to convince them they are right. Sso
- conssider, boy: what new happensstance would make schoolmasster
- decide you were ssafe once more, ssimultaneoussly advance your
- other agendass?"</em>
- "<em>Iss it not obviouss?</em>" hissed the snake. Again the
- tongue flickered sardonic laughter. "<em>To free yoursself, to gain
- power in Britain, you musst again be sseen to defeat the Dark
- Lord.</em>"
- "<em>Sso,</em>" Harry said finally. "<em>Let uss be clear on
- what iss propossed. You ssuggesst that we sset up imposstor to
- imperssonate Dark Lord."</em>
- "<em>Ssomething like that.</em> <em>Woman we resscued will
- cooperate, sshould be mosst convincing when sshe iss sseen at hiss
- sside.</em>" More sardonic tongue-flickering. "<em>You are
- kidnapped from Hogwartss to public location, many witnesssess,
- wardss keep out protectorss. Dark Lord announcess that he hass at
- long lasst regained physical form, after wandering as sspirit for
- yearss; ssayss that he hass gained sstill greater power, not even
- you can sstop him now. Offerss to let you duel. You casst guardian
- Charm, Dark Lord laughss at you, ssayss he iss not life-eater.
- Casstss Killing Cursse at you, you block, watcherss ssee Dark Lord
- explode -"</em>
- "<em>Casst Killing Cursse?</em>" Harry hissed in incredulity.
- "<em>At me? Again? Ssecond time? Nobody will believe Dark Lord
- could posssibly be that sstupid -</em>"
- "<em>You and I are only two people in country who would notice
- that,</em>" hissed the snake. "<em>Trusst me on thiss,
- boy.</em>"
- "<em>What if there iss third, ssomeday?</em>"
- The snake swayed thoughtfully. "<em>Could write different
- sscript for play, if you wissh. Whatever sscenario, sshould leave
- open posssibility Dark Lord might return yet again - nation musst
- think they are sstill dependent on you to protect them.</em>"
- "<em>Well?</em>" hissed the swaying form.
- "<em>Will think about it,</em>" hissed Harry. "<em>Will not
- ansswer right away, thiss time, will enumerate risskss and
- benefitss firsst -</em>"
- "<em>Undersstood,</em>" hissed the snake. "<em>But remember
- thiss, boy, other eventss proceed without you. Hessitation iss
- alwayss eassy, rarely usseful."</em>
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- CHAPTER 66 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/66
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- <em>Hessitation iss alwayss eassy, rarely usseful.</em>
- "<em>No,</em>" hissed Harry.
- The green snake cocked its head, tilting it slightly; no emotion
- was conveyed by the gesture, not that Harry's Parselmouth talent
- conveyed to him. "<em>Reasson not?</em>" said the green snake.
- "<em>Too rissky,</em>" Harry said simply. That was true whether
- or not the Dark Lord was out there. Forcing himself to decide in
- advance had made him realize that he'd just been using the
- unanswered question as an excuse to hesitate; the sane decision was
- the same, either way.
- For a moment the dark pitted eyes seemed to gleam blackly, for a
- moment the scaled mouth gaped to expose the fangs. "<em>Think you
- have learned wrong lessson, boy, from previouss failure. My planss
- are not in habit of failing, and lasst one would have gone
- flawlesssly, but for your own foolisshnesss. Correct lessson iss to
- follow ssteps laid down for you by older and wisser Sslytherin,
- tame your wild impulssess."</em>
- "<em>Lessson I learned is not to try plotss that would make
- girl-child friend think I am evil or boy-child friend think I am
- sstupid,</em>" Harry snapped back. He'd been planning a more
- temporizing response than that, but somehow the words had just
- slipped out.
- The <em>sssss</em>-ing sound that came from the snake was not
- heard by Harry as words, only as pure fury. A moment later,
- "<em>You told them -</em>"
- "<em>Of coursse not! But know what they would ssay.</em>"
- "<em>You sserioussly care what thosse two think?</em>" came the
- snake's final hiss. "<em>True younglingss thosse two are, not like
- you. Could not weigh adult matterss.</em>"
- "<em>Might have done better than me,</em>" Harry hissed.
- "<em>Boy-child friend would have assked after ssecret motivess
- before asssenting to resscue woman -</em>"
- "<em>Glad you undersstand that now,</em>" the snake hissed
- coldly. "<em>Alwayss assk after other'ss advantage. Next learn to
- alwayss assk after your own. If my plan iss not to your tasste,
- what iss yours?</em>"
- "<em>If necesssary - sstay at sschool ssix yearss and sstudy.
- Hogwartss sseemss fine place to dwell. Bookss, friendss, sstrange
- but tassty food.</em>" Harry wanted to chuckle, but there wasn't
- any gesture in Parseltongue for the kind of laughter he wanted to
- express.
- The pits of the snake's eyes seemed almost black. "<em>Eassy to
- ssay that now. Ssuch as you and I, we do not tolerate
- imprissonment. You will losse patience long before sseventh year,
- perhapss before end of thiss one. I sshall plan
- accordingly.</em>"
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- CHAPTER 102 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/102
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- "<em>Sspeak on,"</em> hissed that snake, its flickering tongue
- its only motion.
- "There is... <em>there iss a ritual, I heard of from the
- sschoolmasster, by which he thinkss the Dark Lord might have lived
- on. It iss called -"</em> and Harry stopped, as he realized that he
- did know how to say the word in Parseltongue. "<em>Horcrux. It
- requiress a death, I have heard. But if you are dying in any casse,
- you might try to adapt the ritual, even at great rissk for the new
- sspell, sso that it can be done with a different ssacrifice. It
- would change the whole world, if you ssucceed - though I don't know
- anything about the sspell - the sschoolmasster thought it tore off
- a piece of ssoul, though I don't ssee how that could be true
- -"</em>
- The snake was hissing laughter, strange sharp laughter, almost
- hysterical. "<em>You tell me of that sspell? Me? You musst learn
- more caution in the future, boy. But it matterss not. I learned of
- the horcrux sspell ssince long ago. It iss meaninglesss."</em>
- "<em>Would be pointlesss sspell from beginning, if ssoulss
- exissted.</em> <em>Tear piece of ssoul? That iss lie. Missdirection
- to hide true ssecret. Only one who doess not believe in common
- liess will reasson further, ssee beneath obsscuration, realisse how
- to casst sspell. Required murder iss not ssacrificial ritual at
- all. Ssudden death ssometimes makess ghosst, if magic burssts and
- imprintss on nearby thing. Horcrux sspell channelss death-bursst
- through casster, createss your own ghosst insstead of victim'ss,
- imprintss ghosst in sspecial device. Ssecond victim pickss up
- horcrux device, device imprintss your memoriess into them. But only
- memoriess from time horcrux device wass made. You ssee
- flaw?"</em>
- The burning sensation was back in Harry's throat. "<em>No
- continuity of -</em>" there wasn't a snake word for consciousness
- "- <em>sself, you would go on thinking after making the horcrux,
- then sself with new memoriess diess and iss not resstored
- -"</em>
- <em>"Yess, you do ssee. Alsso Merlin'ss Interdict preventss
- powerful sspells from passing through ssuch a device, ssince it iss
- not truly alive. Dark Wizardss who think to return thuss are
- weaker, eassily disspatched. None have perssissted long by ssuch
- meanss. Perssonalitiess change, mix with victim'ss. Death iss not
- truly gainssaid. Real sself is losst, as you ssay. Not to my
- pressent tasste. Admit I conssidered it, long ago."</em>
- "<em>I learned how the Killing Cursse workss. Requiress true
- hate to casst, not much hate, but musst want target dead, they
- ssay. In prisson with life-eaterss, you casst Killing Cursse at
- guard - ssaid you did not want him dead - wass that lie? Here, now,
- at thiss disstance - you may sspeak truth - even if you fear it
- reflectss poorly on you - it sshould not matter now, teacher. I
- wissh to know. Musst know. Will not abandon you, either
- way."</em>
- The Defense Professor chuckled wetly. "Good. You are...
- learning. So you see..." A pause of transformation. "<em>I did not
- wissh guard dead, after all. Casst Killing Cursse, but not with
- hate.</em>" And then a man.
- <em>"The Philossopher'ss Sstone,</em>" hissed the snake.
- <em>"I read of it in a book,"</em> Harry hissed. <em>"Concluded
- it wass obviouss myth. No reason why ssame device would provide
- immortality and endlesss gold. Not unlesss ssomeone wass jusst
- inventing happy sstoriess. Not to mention, every ssane persson
- sshould have been ressearching wayss to make more Sstoness, or
- kidnapping maker to produce. Thought of you sspecifically,
- teacher."</em>
- A hissing of cold laughter. <em>"Reassoning iss wisse, but not
- wisse enough. Like with horcrux sspell, abssurdity hidess true
- ssecret. True Sstone iss not what that legend ssayss. True power
- iss not what sstoriess claim. Sstone's ssuppossed maker wass not
- one who made it. One who holdss it now, wass not born to name now
- ussed. Yet Sstone iss powerful healing device in truth. Have you
- heard it sspoken of?"</em>
- <em>"Jusst in the book.</em>"
- <em>"One who holdss Sstone iss repossitory of much lore. Taught
- sschoolmasster many ssecretss. Sschoolmasster hass ssaid nothing of
- Sstone'ss holder, nothing of Sstone? No hintss?"</em>
- <em>"Not that I can eassily recall,</em>" Harry replied
- honestly.
- <em>"Ah,"</em> hissed the snake. <em>"Ah, well."</em>
- <em>"Could assk sschoolmasster -"</em>
- <em>"No! Do not assk him, boy. He would not take quesstion
- well."</em>
- <em>"But if the Sstone only healss -"</em>
- <em>"Sschoolmasster doess not believe that, would not believe
- that. Too many have ssought Sstone, or ssought holder's lore. Do
- not assk. Musst not assk. Do not try to obtain Sstone yoursself. I
- forbid."</em>
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- CHAPTER 105 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/105
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- "An obvious concern," Professor Quirrell said. "There is a
- simple answer, and I would have enforced it upon you in any case.
- <em>Ssnakes can't lie</em>. And since I have a tremendous distaste
- for stupidity, I suggest you do not say anything like 'What do you
- mean?' You are smarter than that, and I do not have time for such
- conversations as ordinary people inflict on one another."
- Harry swallowed. Snakes can't lie. "<em>Two pluss two equalss
- four.</em>" Harry had tried to say that two plus two equalled
- three, and the word <em>four</em> had slipped out instead.
- "Good. When Salazar Slytherin invoked the Parselmouth curse upon
- himself and all his children, his true plan was to ensure his
- descendants could trust one another's words, whatever plots they
- wove against outsiders." Professor Quirrell had adopted his
- lecturing pose from Battle Magic, like someone putting on a
- well-worn mask, but the gun remained pointed in his hand.
- "Occlumency cannot fool the Parselmouth curse as it can fool
- Veritaserum, and you may put that to the trial also. Now listen
- well. <em>Come with me, promisse your besst aid in getting Sstone,
- and I sshall leave thesse children behind unharmed. Hosstagess are
- real, hundredss of sstudentss die tonight unlesss I sstop eventss
- already sset in motion. Will sspare hosstagess if I obtain Sstone
- ssuccessfully.</em> And mark also this, mark it well: <em>I cannot
- be truly sslain by any means known to me, and lossing Sstone will
- not sstop me from returning, nor sspare you or yourss my
- wrath.</em> Any impetuous act you are contemplating cannot win the
- game for you, boy. I do credit your ability to annoy me, and
- suggest you avoid doing so."
- "Fine and good," said Professor Quirrell. "Now come with me,
- help me to obtain the Stone, and I will resurrect Hermione Granger
- on your behalf. Her death has had unfortunate effects on you, and I
- would not mind undoing them. That, as I understand you, is your
- greatest desire. I have done you many kindnesses, and I would not
- mind doing you this one more." A blank-eyed Professor Sprout had
- now risen from the ground and was pointing her own wand at Harry.
- "<em>Help me obtain Sstone of Transsfiguration, and I sshall try my
- hardesst to ressurrect your girl-child friend to true and lassting
- life. That ssaid, boy, I am sswiftly running out of patience with
- you, and you sshall not like what comess next.</em>" This last line
- was hissed out in a voice that conveyed the impression of a snake
- rearing its head to strike.
- <em>"Agreed,</em>" hissed Professor Quirrell. "<em>Help me, and
- you sshall have ansswerss to your quesstions, sso long ass they are
- about passt eventss, and not my planss for the future. I do not
- intend to raisse my hand or magic againsst you in future, sso long
- ass you do not raisse your hand or magic againsst me. Sshall kill
- none within sschool groundss for a week, unlesss I musst. Now
- promisse that you will not attempt to warn againsst me or esscape.
- Promisse to put forth your own besst efforts toward helping me to
- obtain the Sstone. And your girl-child friend sshall be revived by
- me, to true life and health; nor sshall me or mine ever sseek to
- harm her.</em>" A twisted smile. "<em>Promisse, boy, and the
- bargain will be sstruck."</em>
- "<em>I sshall help you obtain the Sstone... I cannot promisse I
- will usse my besst efforts, my heart will not be in it, I fear. I
- intend to try. Sshall not do anything I think will annoy you to no
- good end. Sshall call no help if I expect them to be killed by you
- or for hosstagess to die. I'm ssorry, teacher, but it iss besst I
- can do."</em> Harry's mind was settling, composing itself, as the
- decision was made. He would stay with Professor Quirrell, go with
- him to get the Stone, save the student hostages, and... and... and
- Harry didn't know, except that he'd go on thinking.
- "You actually are sorry about that?" Professor Quirrell looked
- amused. "I suppose it shall have to do. Then keep two other things
- in mind: <em>I have plan to sstop even sschoolmasster, if he
- appearss before uss.</em> And also this: I will occasionally ask
- you to say in Parseltongue whether you have betrayed me. <em>The
- bargain is sstruck.</em>"
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- Harry looked back. "<em>Wass sseriouss,</em>" hissed Harry.
- "<em>Would have done ssame if came by mysself.</em>"
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- <em>"Have not betrayed you yet,</em>" Harry hissed.
- <em>"Yess,</em>" Harry hissed. It might not be safe to withhold
- information, not even thoughts and ideas... "Therefore, the point
- of this room is to delay Lord Voldemort for an hour. And if I
- wanted to kill you, believing what Dumbledore believes, the obvious
- thing to try would be a Dementor's Kiss. I mean, they think you're
- a disembodied soul - are you, by the way?"
- "<em>Do not ssensse life-eaterss.</em>"
- "<em>Wass honesst. Not trick.</em>"
- "<em>Don't know,</em>" Harry hissed.
- "<em>Life-eaterss cannot desstroy me, I think,</em>" hissed
- Professor Quirrell. "<em>And I will ssimply abandon thiss body if
- they approach too closse. Sshall return sswiftly thiss time, and
- then there will be no sstopping me. Will torture your parentss for
- yearss, to punissh you for balking me. Hundredss of hosstage
- sstudentss die, including thosse you call friendss. Now I assk
- again. Will you usse power over life-eaterss to protect me, if
- life-eaterss come?</em>"
- "<em>Yess,</em>" Harry whispered. The sadness and horror that
- Harry had pushed down flared up again, and his dark side had no
- stored patterns for handling the emotions. <em>Why, Professor
- Quirrell, why are you like this...</em>
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- Professor Quirrell was smiling evilly. "<em>Your guesss iss
- right, boy, for all the good it doess you.</em>"
- "<em>Tell me, teacher,</em>" Harry hissed, "<em>would
- desstroying thosse five anchors sslay you?</em>"
- "<em>Why do you assk?</em>" hissed the Defense Professor, with
- a lilt to the hiss that Parseltongue translated as snakish
- amusement. "<em>Do you ssusspect that ansswer is no?</em>"
- <em>"Your ssusspicion iss right, boy. Desstroying thosse five
- would not render me mortal.</em>"
- Harry's throat felt a bit dry again. If the spell had no
- disastrous cost associated with it... "<em>How many anchorss did
- you make?</em>"
- "<em>Would not ordinarily ssay, but iss clear you have already
- guesssed."</em> The Defense Professor's smile widened. <em>"Ansswer
- iss that I do not know. Sstopped counting ssomewhere around one
- hundred and sseven. Ssimply made a habit of it each time I murdered
- ssomeone in private.</em>"
- <em>"Great creation maintainss life and magic within devicess
- created by ssacrificing life and magic of otherss.</em>" Again that
- hissing snake laughter. "<em>Liked falsse desscription of
- previousss horcrux sspell sso much, sso dissappointed when
- realissed truth of it, thoughtss of improved verssion came out in
- that sshape."</em>
- "<em>Yess. I sshall return sswiftly, if thiss body iss killed.
- Will be greatly annoyed, and vengeful.</em> I am telling you this,
- boy, so that you do not try anything stupid."
- After a time Professor Quirrell picked up the next Potions
- ingredient, a strand of what looked like unicorn hair. "I tell you
- this as a caution," said Professor Quirrell. "Do not expect me to
- be delayed another nine years, if you somehow destroy this body of
- mine. I set horcruxes in better places at once, and now even that
- is unnecessary. Thanks to you, I learned where to find the
- Resurrection Stone. The Resurrection Stone does not bring back the
- dead, of course; but it holds a more ancient magic than my own for
- projecting the seeming of a spirit. And since I am one who has
- defeated death, Cadmus's Hallow acknowledged me its master, and
- answered all my will. I have now incorporated it into my great
- creation." Professor Quirrell smiled slightly. "I had many years
- earlier considered making that device a horcrux, but decided
- against it at the time, since I realized that the ring had magic of
- unknown nature... ah, such ironies does life play upon us. But I
- digress. <em>You</em>, boy, you brought that about, you freed my
- spirit to fly where it pleases and seduce the most opportune
- victim, by being too casual with your secrets. It is a catastrophe
- for any who oppose me, and you wrought it with one finger drawing
- wetness on a tea-saucer. This world will be a safer place for all,
- if you learn the rectitude that wizardborns absorb in childhood.
- <em>And all thiss that I have jusst said iss the truth.</em>"
- "<em>None of it iss known to me to be falsse,</em>" said
- Professor Quirrell. "Telling a tale implies filling in certain
- gaps; I was not present to observe when Perenelle seduced Baba
- Yaga. <em>The bassicss sshould be mosstly correct, I
- think.</em>"
- Without taking his eyes from the cauldron, Professor Quirrell
- drew a folded parchment from within his robes, hissed at it
- <em>"Sshow our ssurroundingss</em>", and tossed the folded
- parchment toward Harry. It cut unerringly through the air, an
- increase of doom breathing on Harry's senses as it moved toward
- him, and then it fluttered gently to Harry's feet.
- Harry gazed at the parchment, an unpleasant chill coming over
- him. It was one thing to hear Lord Voldemort claim that your name
- was Tom Riddle; it was another thing to find that Hogwarts's magic
- agreed. "<em>Did you tamper with thiss map to achieve thiss
- ressult, or did it appear before you by ssurprisse?"</em>
- <em>"Wass ssurprisse,</em>" replied Professor Quirrell, with an
- overtone of hissing laughter. "<em>No trickss.</em>"
- "<em>Not sso far ass I know,</em>" hissed Harry.
- "Fascinating," said Professor Quirrell. "You may be interested
- to know this as well: <em>Potionss-maker had to work in ssecret
- because hiss plot oppossed sschoolmasster's plot.</em>"
- "Disappointing. You have not learned enough cynicism, you have
- not grasped the <em>flexibility</em> of what moralists call
- morality. To fathom a plot, look at the consequences and ask if
- they might be intended. Dumbledore was deliberately sabotaging
- Slytherin House - don't give me that look, boy, <em>I am sspeaking
- truth.</em> During the last Wizarding War, Slytherins filled out my
- ranks of underlings, and other Slytherins in the Wizengamot
- supported me. Look at it from Dumbledore's perspective, and
- remember that he has no native understanding of Slytherin's ways.
- Think of Dumbledore becoming increasingly sad over this Hogwarts
- House that seems the source of so much ill-doing. And then behold,
- Dumbledore puts in as Head of Slytherin the person of Snape. Snape!
- Severus Snape! A man who would teach his House neither cunning nor
- ambition, a man who would impose lax discipline and make its
- children weak! A man who would offend students of other Houses, who
- would ruin Slytherin's name among them! A man whose surname was
- unknown in magical Britain and certainly not noble, who went about
- half in rags! Do you think Dumbledore ignorant of the consequence?
- When Dumbledore was the one who brought it about, and had motive to
- bring it about? I expect Dumbledore told himself that more lives
- would be saved during the next Wizarding War if Voldemort's future
- Death Eaters were weakened." Professor Quirrell dropped into the
- cauldron a chip of ice, slowly melting as it touched the surface
- froth. "Continue the process long enough, and no child would want
- to go to Slytherin. The House would be retired, and if the Hat kept
- calling the name, it would become a mark of ignominy among children
- who would afterward be distributed among the other three Houses.
- From that day on, Hogwarts would have three upstanding Houses of
- courage and scholarship and industry, with no House of Bad Children
- added to the mix; just as if the three Founders of Hogwarts had
- been wise enough in the beginning to refuse Salazar Slytherin their
- company. That, I expect, was Dumbledore's intended end-game; a
- short-term sacrifice for the greater good." Professor Quirrell
- smiled sardonically. "And Lucius let it all happen without protest
- or even, I expect, <em>noticing</em> that anything was going awry.
- I fear that in my absence my former servants have been quite
- outmatched in this battle of wits."
- "<em>Ssent her to a peaceful place to recover sstrength</em>,"
- Professor Quirrell said. A cold smile. "I had a use remaining for
- her, or rather a certain portion of her, and on my future plans I
- shall not answer questions."
- "Oh, a fair number, but not many more that concern you, not that
- I can think of offhand. The true reason I demanded to try to teach
- the Patronus Charm to first-years was to bring a Dementor before
- your own person, and then I arranged for your wand to fall where
- the Dementor could continue to drain you through it. <em>Wass no
- malice in it, only hopess that you would recover ssome of your true
- memoriess.</em> That was also why I arranged for certain witches to
- pull you down from the air during your rooftop episode, so I could
- appear to save your life; just in case any suspicion fell on me
- during the Dementor incident I had scheduled for shortly after.
- <em>Alsso no malice there.</em> I arranged some of the attacks on
- Miss Granger's group, so that the attacks could be defeated; I do
- rather dislike bullies. <em>Think that iss all ssecret plotss
- concerning you from thiss sschool-year, unless I have forgotten
- ssomething.</em>"
- "<em>Not valuess difference. True misstake, given your goalss.
- Will you hurt me, if I act the part of the teacher toward you, and
- teach lessson? Or if misstake is ssimple and obviousss, and makess
- you feel sstupid?"</em>
- "<em>No,</em>" hissed Professor Quirrell. "<em>Not if lessson
- iss true.</em>"
- Harry swallowed a lump in his throat. "<em>There wass way for
- you to tesst your horcrux ssysstem without dying.</em> The general
- lesson is important. Do you see it now?"
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- "<em>Iss there,</em>" Harry hissed back. "<em>Not
- moving.</em>"
- "Read them anyway. <em>Iss not dangerouss.</em>"
- <em>"Do you undersstand what wordss mean, boy?"</em>
- <em>"Don't think sso."</em>
- Finally Professor Quirrell sighed. "I have outwitted myself, I
- fear. Neither you nor I dare be reflected in this Mirror. I suppose
- I must command Professor Sprout to undo my Obliviations of Mr. Nott
- and Miss Greengrass... You see, the other great difficulty of the
- Mirror is that the rule by which it treats those reflected will
- disregard external forces, such as False Memories or a Confundus
- Charm. The Mirror reflects only those forces arising from within
- the person themselves, the states of mind they arrive at through
- their own choices; so it is said in several places. That is why I
- had Mr. Nott and Miss Greengrass, believing different stories about
- why the Stone's extraction was necessary, ready to appear before
- this Mirror." Professor Quirrell rubbed at the bridge of his nose.
- "I constructed other stories for other students, ready for me to
- set into motion with the chosen trigger... but as this day
- approached, I began to feel pessimistic about the project. Such as
- Nott and Greengrass still seem worth trying, if we cannot think of
- something better. But I wonder if Dumbledore has tried to construct
- this puzzle to specifically resist Voldemort's cunning. I wonder if
- he might have succeeded. If you devise an alternative plan which I
- approve enough to try, <em>I promisse that whatever pawn I ssend
- forth sshall not be harmed by me, then or ever; nor do I expect to
- break that promisse</em>. And I remind you again of the hostages I
- hold to my failure, both Miss Granger and all the others."
- "<em>Iss it truth or trickery that I hear?</em>"
- "<em>Am being honesst,</em>" Harry said.
- "<em>My mind that you assked to devisse sstrategy may perhapss
- have been influenced by ssuch an intent - who knowss? Knew you
- would be ssusspiciouss, assk thiss very question. Decission is up
- to you, teacher. I know nothing you do not know, about whether
- thiss iss likely to trap you. Do not call it betrayal by me if you
- choosse thiss for yoursself, and it failss.</em>" Harry felt a
- strong impulse to smile, and suppressed it.
- Harry put on the Cloak of Invisibility, at Professor Quirrell's
- orders, to <em>sstop the man who sshall believe himsself to be
- sschoolmasster from sseeing you,</em> as Professor Quirrell said in
- Parseltongue.
- "You <em>will not</em> cross this circle once it is active,"
- Professor Quirrell said. "That would cause you to touch my magic,
- and while Confunded I might not remember how to halt the resonance
- that would destroy us both. And further, since I do not want you
- throwing shoes -" Professor Quirrell made another gesture, and just
- within the Greater Circle of Concealment, a slight shimmer appeared
- in the air, a globe-shaped distortion. "<em>Thiss barrier will
- explode if touched, by you or other material thing.</em> The
- resonance might lash at me afterward, but you would also be dead.
- Now tell me in Parseltongue that you do not intend to cross this
- circle or take off your Cloak or do <em>anything</em> at all
- impulsive or stupid. Tell you me you will wait quietly here, under
- the Cloak, until this is over."
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- "Ahahahaha! Why, yes, little child, you were always along on
- this adventure as my hostage, it was your whole purpose in being
- here. Ha, hahahaha! You are decades too young to play this game
- against the real Tom Riddle, child." The Dark Lord drew back the
- hood of the Cloak, his head becoming visible, and began to remove
- the rest of the Cloak. "And now, boy, <em>you have helped me, yess
- indeed, and so it iss time to ressurrect your girl-child friend. To
- keep promisse.</em>" The Dark Lord's smile was cold, cold indeed.
- "I suppose you have doubts? Mark well, I could kill you this
- instant, for there is no longer a Headmaster of Hogwarts to be
- informed of it. Doubt me all you wish, but remember that." The hand
- was once more holding the gun. "Now come along, foolish child."
- "<em>Yess. Sstop worrying. Will do on our way out.</em>"
- The Dark Lord was still smiling, he had never stopped smiling.
- "I did not say that part in Parseltongue, child. All I said in
- Parseltongue was that I had set events in motion to kill students,
- events that I would stop if I obtained the Stone. The rest was in
- human speech. I would also have stopped the Blood Fort sacrifice if
- I had not obtained the Stone, so long as I was not discovered and
- restrained. The students of Hogwarts are a valuable resource, whom
- I have already spent much time training." Then the Dark Lord hissed
- to the wall, "<em>Open.</em>"
- The pipe came to a solid metal wall. <em>"Open,"</em> the Dark
- Lord hissed, and a crack appeared in the metal; it seemed to fold
- into itself.
- "This," said the Dark Lord in Professor Quirrell's cadences, "is
- a workspace I made for myself, convenient to either Hogwarts or
- Hogsmeade." The Dark Lord flourished a hand at the altar. "That is
- where Miss Granger shall revive, and also where I shall be reborn
- into my true body. I shall remake myself first, of course.
- <em>Magicss to revive girl-child eassier with true body.</em>" A
- strange snakish laughter accompanied these words. "<em>Resst
- asssured that though ssome asspects of girl-child'ss ressurrection
- sshall be what otherss conssider Dark, girl-child will not be
- harmed or made ugly by it. Sshall sstill look like hersself, mind
- sshall be her own, nor sshall I or mine harm her after."</em>
- "<em>To resstore to you girl-child friend'ss counssel and
- resstraint. To make ssure sshe iss part of the world for you to
- care about. That, boy, iss truly the greater part of the reasson I
- am doing thiss deed.</em>" Again snakish laughter accompanied these
- words, conveying sardonic awareness of some vast irony.
- "Frightened, child?" Voldemort hissed, like there was an
- undercurrent of Parseltongue even to the Dark Lord's human speech.
- "Good. Place the girl on the altar, and break your Transfiguration.
- <em>Iss time for me to revive her.</em>"
- "<em>There iss an obsstacle,</em>" hissed Voldemort.
- In Harry's mind the expectation of betrayal or other failure had
- already been so strong that the confirmation came only as a dull
- shock, not a sharp one. "<em>What obsstacle?</em>"
- "<em>Girl'ss body iss resstored. Ssubstance iss repaired. But
- not magic, or life... thiss iss body of dead Muggle."</em>
- Voldemort turned from the altar, began to pace. "The full ritual
- would solve this. But that would require time... time and the blood
- of Granger's enemy, and I do not think Draco Malfoy still
- qualifies, nor can I take my own blood unwillingly... foolish."
- Voldemort's voice was a lower hiss. "Foolish, I should have
- foreseen this, and prepared. Her brain might awaken with an
- electrical shock, I know that much of Muggle medicine... but would
- her magic return to her? That I do not know, and I suspect if she
- awakens as a Muggle she will be a Muggle forever. Still, I can
- think of nothing better." The Dark Lord raised his wand -
- "<em>Think I have ssomething that might work,</em>" Harry
- hissed. "<em>Needss wand. Have no intentionss to usse it againsst
- you.</em>" Harry said nothing about expecting his intentions
- wouldn't change; he'd simply blurted out the idea fast enough that
- he hadn't formed any specific intentions yet.
- <em>Because you wish to live, because my best guess is that you
- would wish to live...</em>
- "Interesting," said the cold high voice. "Your Patronus draws
- upon your life as well as your magic... I guessed that much, for it
- was too powerful for a first-year to fuel with magic alone. And yet
- there must be more to the puzzle, since not just any life-fueled
- spell would have done... was your happy thought the image of her
- returning to life? Was that all it took?" Lord Voldemort was again
- toying with his wand, a dark interest in those red-slitted eyes. "I
- suspect I will feel quite stupid when I finally comprehend that
- spell, someday in my eternity. Now step away from the girl.
- <em>There iss more work I intend to do, to give her besst chance of
- continued life.</em>"
- Another obelisk turned, lay flat upon the ground. "<em>There iss
- old, losst ritual to ssacrifice magical creature, transsfer magical
- nature to ssubject. Limitationss are great. Transsfer iss
- temporary, only few hourss. Ssubject ssometimess diess when
- transsfer wearss off. But Sstone will make permanent.</em>"
- Voldemort's mouth was stretched in a wide smile; it looked
- <em>horrible</em> on him, like his face had too many teeth.
- <em>"Sshall ssacrifice my fallback weapon, and girl-child sshall
- gain troll'ss power of regeneration. Transsfiguration ssicknesss
- iss nothing before that, if perchance it wass not fixed by
- previouss ritual. And no knife sshall sslay girl-child, nor cutting
- cursse, nor ssicknesss take her.</em>"
- "<em>Have not the tiniesst intention of letting girl-child die
- again, after going to ssuch lengthss to ressurrect her."</em>
- "<em>Power of unicorn'ss blood to presserve life makess
- excellent combination with troll'ss healing. Only Fiendfyre and
- Killing Cursse sshall girl-child fear, from thiss day."</em> A
- flicker of snakish laughter. "<em>Bessidess, had sspare unicorn
- left over, might ass well usse."</em>
- "<em>That iss only when power of unicorn'ss blood iss sstolen by
- another. Thiss sspell will make power of unicorn belong insside
- girl-child, ass if sshe wass alwayss born that way."</em>
- "<em>Diary wass exactly what it sseemed, a gift meant to sseduce
- you to my sside.</em>" Voldemort made intricate gestures in the air
- with his wand, not even looking at what his hand was doing, as he
- held the diary in his other hand. For a moment Harry thought he
- could see a trail of darkness in the air, but the moonlight was too
- faint for certainty. "And now, my dear boy," Voldemort's high voice
- was laced with grim amusement, as his wand briefly tapped Hermione
- Granger's forehead with a casual gesture, "I make this diary into a
- far more precious gift, a sign of how much wisdom I have learned
- from you. For I would never want you to be deprived of Hermione
- Granger's counsel and restraint, not ever while the stars yet live.
- <em>Avadakedavra.</em>"
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- "My curse thinks differently. That is the puzzle piece that you
- missed. Did you think I would leave the peace between us to mere
- fortune? Before I created you, I invoked a curse upon myself and
- all other Tom Riddles who would descend from me. A curse to enforce
- that none of us would threaten the others' immortality, so long as
- the other made no attempt upon our own. Typical of that ridiculous
- fiasco, the curse seems to have ended up binding me, but taking no
- hold upon the infant with his self so lost." A low, lethal chuckle.
- "<em>But you tried to end my true life jusst then, sstupid child.
- Now cursse iss lifted, and I may kill you any time I
- wissh.</em>"
- "Still a fool. If no further matters remained between us, I
- would already have killed you." The dirt wall crumbled at another
- gesture of the wand, and Voldemort moved smoothly back toward the
- heap of items by the altar. The Dark Lord stretched out a hand, and
- the diary of Roger Bacon flew to him. "<em>Thiss iss, indeed,
- horcrux of girl-child, my ssuperior verssion.</em>" In his other
- hand appeared a parchment. "<em>Thiss iss ritual for ressurrecting
- her, if it musst be done again. Insstructionss are honesst, no
- trapss. Remember that girl-child'ss sspirit cannot float free like
- ghosst, Ressurrection Sstone iss my horcrux, not herss. Do not
- losse her horcrux, or her sspirit may be trapped within it.</em>"
- Voldemort reached down, picked up Harry's pouch, fed both the diary
- and the parchment into it. "<em>Remember that, in casse something
- goess wrong with next movess.</em>"
- The Dark Lord was now regarding Harry with a grim look.
- "<em>When girl-child died, wass in company of sschool'ss Sseer,
- heard prophecy sspoken that you would become force of vasst
- desstruction. You would become threat beyond imagination, beyond
- apocalypsse. That iss why I went to ssuch lengthss to undo my
- killing of girl-child, keep it undone."</em>
- "<em>Dare not ssay sspecificss to you. Prophecy I heard of
- mysself led me to fulfill it. Have not forgotten that
- dissasster.</em>" Voldemort backed further away from Harry, red
- slitted eyes fixed upon the Boy-Who-Lived, gun unwavering in the
- left hand. "<em>All thiss, all I have done, iss to ssmassh that
- desstiny at every point of intervention. If ssome fate makess me
- fail in what comess next, idiot-child of foretold desstruction,
- then you musst kill yoursself to ssave girl-child. Elsse all you
- claim to value diess by your own hand.</em>"
- "<em>Ssilence, fool. Remain ssilent unlesss given leave by me to
- sspeak. Keep your wand pointed down and do not raisse it unlesss
- told. Elsse you die upon the sspot, and mark that I ssaid that in
- Parsseltongue."</em> Voldemort reached into the altar again.
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- CHAPTER 113 - http://hpmor.com/chapter/113
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- "Useless, the lot of you," Voldemort said with bitter scorn.
- "Now I shall ask Harry Potter one final question, and he is to
- answer that question for my ears alone, in Parseltongue. Strike the
- boy down at once if he answers with anything but hisses, if he
- tries to speak one word of human speech." Then Voldemort hissed,
- "<em>Power I know not, it wass ssaid that you would have. The
- Muggle Artss I have now learned of from you, and I am already
- sstudying them. Your power over life-eaterss musst be comprehended
- for onesself, or sso you ssay. If there iss any other power you
- posssesss, that I may come to have, tell me of it now. Elsse, I
- intend to torment certain of thosse you care for. Ssome livess I
- have already promissed you, but otherss I did not. Your mudblood
- sservantss in your little army. Your preciouss parentss. All sshall
- ssuffer for what will sseem to them like eternitiess; and then I
- sshall ssend them, broken, into the life-eater prisson to remember
- it, until they wasste and die. For each unknown power you tell me
- how to masster, or other ssecret you tell me that I desire to know,
- you may name one more of thosse to insstead be protected and
- honored under my reign. Thiss alsso I promisse and intend to
- keep.</em>" Voldemort's smiling expression now came through as if
- it were a snake's gaping fangs, and the meaning that expression
- bore among snakes, a promise that whoever beheld the teeth was to
- be consumed by them. "<em>Wasste not time in thoughtss of esscape,
- if you care for thosse oness. You have ssixty ssecondss to begin
- telling me ssomething I wissh to know, and then your death
- beginss."</em>
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