Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End

“I’m sorry."
“I’m not interested.”
“I’m sorry!”
“Save your breath. I only came out because Mary told me you were threatening to sleep here.”
“I was. I would have. I never meant to call you a Mudblood, it just-”
“Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends – you see, you don’t even deny it! You don’t even deny that’s what you’re all aiming to be! You can’t wait to join You-Know-Who, can you? I can’t pretend any more. You’ve chosen your way, I've chosen mine.”

Severus shot awake in the dark dormitory. The green and silver paint and banners looked worn and tarnished in the dim light evolving from his lit wand. Mulciber and Avery were both still sleeping soundly in their beds, the curtains only half closed.

The encounter with Lily two years ago still haunted his dreams. It gave him the same chill as when she talked to him. The ice in her voice sent shivers down his spine.

Severus sank back into his pillows, trying to drift back off to sleep. But something out the window caught his eye. Someone in a billowing black cloak and a loping walk. Probably just Potter, out showing off again. Severus thought bitterly. He drifted off to sleep for the third time that night...

"All students please report to the Great Hall immeadialty!" The headmaster's voice rang through the room. The boys in the dormitory grumbled and groped about in the semi-darkness. Severus knew something was wrong. They filed out of the dungeons and down the hallway, up the staircases and round the corner and finally they reached the Great Hall. The teachers all had worried looks on their faces.

"Attention!" Dippet called. The Great Hall immediatly fell silent. Even the Slytherins. Everyone knew, something was very wrong. "Three students have been murdered." You could've heard a pin drop, and there was a chill emancipating through the air.

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