"I don't think we have anything to talk about, director," I said firmly.
"I do not agree, and I must insist that we talk," Dumbledore insisted.
"Director, I don't think that -"
"Let him talk Lucy." Bellatrix interrupted Lucius, I looked at Bellatrix who was approaching, she seemed almost drunk with her glassy gaze as she staggered in my direction "Sera." Bellatrix moaned my name as she dropped on top of me, I held her easily as she took the opportunity to bite my neck drawing blood, to my surprise she pulled away almost immediately, but not before licking the blood from my neck that came out before she healed the wound without anyone noticing anything strange "they all tasted horrible." Bellatrix moaned in a low disgusted voice as she walked away now more sober "Serena will talk to you headmaster."
"Thank you, Miss Black."
"But I will be present," Bellatrix interrupted firmly, surprising Dumbledore. He sighed, "I hope this ends well."
After much back and forth, talking to Aurors and enduring Moody's questioning, Bellatrix and I were in the Headmaster's office, Dumbledore turned around and looked at both of us.
"How much does she know?" Dumbledore asked looking in my direction, I shrugged as I stood guard, I doubted Dumbledore would attack us in his office but it was better to be safe than sorry.
"Everything." I said simply, Dumbledore sighed and nodded "Then I suppose I owe you an apology Miss Snape, I'm glad there was no permanent damage." Dumbledore started and I snorted, something he ignored as he continued "and I must also offer my condolences, no one deserves to be a plaything in Tom's hands like you and your mother were." I blinked confused, what was he talking about? "Though I must say, you have some really good control over the dark magic put on you by the rituals Tom did, it never ceases to amaze me." Bellatrix looked just as confused, but I finally knew what he was talking about.
"I've had time to handle it." I huffed as I wordlessly communicated to Bellatrix that I would explain it to her later, I had really forgotten about Paper Trail, I had created paper trails and people trails about my powers, and Baiser's was that Voldemort had performed experiments, rituals it would seem, on my mother while she was pregnant with me, it wasn't something I remembered until now, but I'm not surprised that Dumbledore found those trails if he was investigating me.
"Still, I cannot allow him to harm other students, and I'm not just talking about Evan Rosier… the question is, where is Rabastan Lestrange?"
"I have no idea Headmaster , I'm not Lestrange's mother so I don't see why I would know where he is." I narrowed my eyes at him, he just stared back at me before sighing.
"Do we have to do that?" Dumbledore asked tiredly, I raised an eyebrow in his direction.
"I hope you didn't bring Serena here just to accuse her without proof, Headmaster… that would be unprofessional of you." Bellatrix glared at Dumbledore, who just shook his head.
"Of course not." Dumbledore dismissed, "I just thought Miss Snape would have an idea of young Rabastan's whereabouts, I would never accuse her of anything." He said honestly, and I almost believed he meant it. "That aside, did you have a chance to think about my offer?" I gritted my teeth.
"We both know that wasn't an offer," I spat angrily in his direction, Dumbledore barely flinched, "but since we're talking about this, I'll make you a deal." Dumbledore raised an eyebrow and waved his hand, as if giving me permission to speak, I snorted, "Information, important information about Voldemort- no, about Tom Riddle- in exchange for information about ancient magic." Dumbledore's expression didn't change.
"You got bored of raiding the forbidden section of the library?" Dumbledore asked simply, of course he knew about my forays into the library "And what makes you think you would have information that I don't have about Tom?" he asked boredly.
"The same way I found out about you." I said simply, I could finally see a slight twitch above Dumbledore's lip, I reached into one of Aria's pockets, pulled a box out of my inventory and placed it on Dumbledore's desk, Dumbledore frowned, he was about to touch the box before quickly retracting it, he looked at me almost accusingly, he took out his wand and cast several spells, with each spell he cast his face fell more and more.
"What's in there Miss Snape?" Dumbledore asked gravely, with Cia still inside my clothes trying to peek through my cleavage, I moved my hand and opened the box, Dumbledore raised his wand immediately before opening his eyes widely "The lost Diadem of Ravenclaw." He muttered to himself completely fascinated, yes, he had plans for the piece of Voldemort's soul, but if he could get information on Dumbledore's ancient magic for its exchange, it was a good deal.
"It's a Horcrux ." That stopped Dumbledore stiffly as he paled, he brandished his wand again, but more frantically over the diadem.
"It's Tom's." Dumbledore stated, though he practically spat it out. I nodded. Dumbledore massaged his temple solemnly. "I have you to thank Miss Snape. I never would have imagined that Tom would go to such an extreme... but I must say that I'm not surprised. This confirms what I always assumed about him, that what Tom fears most is death, but with this, he can be defeated." I smiled mockingly.
"Who said he made just one?" I asked mockingly, Dumbledore stopping stiffly once again.
"No." I murmur in horror, almost pleading that he was lying. "How many? Which ones ? " he asked almost demandingly, my eyes narrowing in his direction.
"You know the price for information Dumbledore." He looked at me incredulously, I rolled my eyes.
"You really want to negotiate for this?!" he asked incredulously, I shrugged.
"I told you it was a deal, you know my price, I'll tell you everything about the other Horcruxes in exchange for instructions on ancient magic, you'll need the information if you want to get rid of Voldemort." I said simply, he glared at me.
"So what? Then Tom will be replaced by you? " he asked scathingly. "How sure am I that you won't become something worse than Tom when you have access to ancient magic?" I rolled my eyes.
"Just make the damn Unbreakable Vow," Bellatrix interrupted, who had been silent until now, and I looked at her incredulously, something that Dumbledore replied to, apparently not expecting Bellatrix to be on his side as well.
"What?! Whose side are you on?!" I asked in her direction, Bellatrix rolled her eyes, grabbed her wand and cast a muffliato "What?!" I asked her as she looked at me.
"Sera, you're being stupid." she said simply, and I looked at her offendedly, she raised her hand to silence me "tell me, what's the problem with a Vow? You said it, we're looking for a world where we can settle down long term and that world, not this world, we won't be around long enough for the vote to really affect you in any way, so what's the problem? " she asked with a raised eyebrow, I stopped stiffly and gave her a bitter look.
"I don't want a chain around my neck." I said childishly, she huffed as she rolled her eyes, I sighed tiredly as I ran my hand over my face, Bellatrix was right, depending on the wording of the vow, I really wouldn't be limiting myself in any way, we had decided to try our luck in another world after the Yule holidays, and we would be staying there for who knows how long "fine." I spat resignedly, Bellatrix gave me a smug smile as she lowered the muffliato.
"She will." Bellatrix said firmly, Dumbledore looked at Bellatrix in shock as if he hadn't expected this turn of events "let's make the vows, I'll be the witness." she said simply to which Dumbledore nodded, after a short discussion, it came to the following.
'I, Serena Eileen Snape, will tell Albus Dumbledore everything I know about Tom Riddle 's Horcruxes .'
'I, Serena Eileen Snape, will not use ancient magic to harm in any way other people in this world'
Dumbledore raised an eyebrow at the latter's wording , but said nothing, for Dumbledore it was simpler.
'I, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, will grant Serena Snape everything she needs to begin learning ancient magic.'
Once we finished the Unbreakable Vow I told him everything I knew about the Horcruxes , the diary, the ring, the locket, the cup and his possible plans to make Nagini one of them, 6 in total, 7 pieces of soul, I even mentioned that he got the idea from Slughorn to make 7 pieces, Dumbledore seemed alone the more he listened.
I couldn't really tell him much more, the horcruxes weren't yet in the places I knew they would be in the future, I only told him that it's possible that he gave them to his most trusted Death Eaters to keep them in secret places.
Once he finished everything he knew, Dumbledore stared into space thoughtfully before sighing and standing up, he walked over to one of his shelves and pulled out a book before tapping it twice with his wand, the book changing appearance.
"This is a book with all the basics you need to know in order to learn ancient magic." he handed the book to me almost regretfully "I had written it for the next holder of ancient magic, it was enchanted so that it would reveal itself under certain conditions, now it is yours." I took the book in my fingers in anticipation, I couldn't wait to read it, a smile threatening to grow on my face "Now, Miss Snape, Miss Black, if you could please leave, I have much to think about." Dumbledore dismissed us from the room, almost anxiously I stood up, Bellatrix walked over to me and put her arm around me and we walked out of the office.
It didn't turn out as expected, but I finally got what I needed.
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December 22 , 1976 – Serena PoV
Rodolphus Lestrange(T5) from Harry Potter --SOLD
Goyle Sr.(T5) from Harry Potter --SOLD
Crabbe Sr.(T5) from Harry Potter --SOLD
Evan Rosier(T5) from Harry Potter --SOLD
[228]
It had been four days since the attack on Hogsmeade, the required 72 hours had passed and I had sold out the 4 Death Eaters, netting myself another 64 credits, which was always welcome.
It had also been 2 days since we had left Hogwarts for the Yule holidays, the last two days I had spent at the mansion in my pocket dimension, but now I had been invited to spend Christmas at the Black house, brilliant.
Now, most importantly, Ancient Magic is completely fascinating, it is a primordial force, embedded in the world around us, woven through life itself. It exists beyond our standard spells, wands, or incantations and is immensely powerful. Ancient Magic harnesses raw, untamed energies, allowing a wizard to affect life, memory, even the elements themselves.
At first glance, it didn't really seem any different from normal magic, in fact, it reminded me a lot of Nasuverse 's Magecraft and True Magic , all Magecrat was True Magic, only it became Magecraft when science and technology advanced more and more to be able to replicate magical phenomena which degraded True Magic.
The same was true of Ancient Magic, all magic had been Ancient Magic to some degree, raw, untamed, highly emotional, but as wands were made, spells, wand movements, chants, words, incantations were created to use it, it became simply Magic, something much more controllable and rigid, that could be harnessed much more efficiently than Ancient Magic, but much weaker as well.
Ancient Magic was great for improvisation and spontaneous spell creation, as most of it was about intention, it could achieve some truly spectacular things if mastered correctly, though there were other uses for Ancient Magic.
The most basic form of using Ancient Magic is the amplification of the simplest of spells to extraordinary levels of power, wielders instinctively call upon Ancient Magic in times of great stress or fear.
And that made sense, I had Stress Defense from the beginning, I could act calmly under ridiculous levels of pressure, the only time I could truly feel fear and panic, was simply at the end of my fight against Dumbledore.
I had been caught off guard by the pain, the helplessness when he cut my hand, and I simply wanted to get away from the place, I had been using alchemy instead of my wand, so that could really explain why I didn't have any attacks of ancient magic during that moment, I was more focused on running away than fighting.
Actually, this wasn't one of the uses I cared about for ancient magic, yes, it was nice to have another magic enhancer, another battery so to speak, but I hoped that ancient magic wouldn't simply be reduced to that.
But hey, leaving that aside, ancient magic had other uses, the book detailed how ancient magic could remove or reduce emotions, but it could also magnify them, letting ancient magic expand positive emotions was a way to be able to take advantage of ancient magic more easily and in a not so... destructive way.
And that… was exactly what I was looking for.
La Verità, was something I hadn't been able to master, oh, I could keep it permanently activated, in fact, I kept it for the entire 20 hours while I was training against Bellatrix, but I couldn't keep it in a diminished state like my transformation into normal Baiser.
To put it simply, as long as I wasn't fighting, I was very horny, much more than my base form, and that's bad for my transformations, the more lust I feel, the stronger I become, and the more Baiser magic I use, the hornier I feel, it was some kind of loop that ended up fucking me over, there came a point where I couldn't contain either of them and I would just randomly explode and let out bursts of dark magic.
The last thing I wanted was for them to know about me La Verità, so it wasn't sustainable to keep it up, and it had gotten worse now that I'd actually had sex with Bellatrix, before it was bad what we did, but at some point it just got completely out of hand.
But now, I could heighten, magnify my other emotions and try to drown out the lust, or at least keep it at bay without having to suppress it with Occlumency, which would cause me to lose the transformation to begin with.
And of course, the book was about love, I shouldn't have expected anything else from a book written by Dumbledore, not that it was a bad emotion to highlight, but I hoped it would be enough to keep the lust at bay.
Author's Notes: Okay, first, happy belated new year! And second, unfortunately, this was all I got around to writing this week as well. The good news is that I won't be busy anymore and my writing time should be back to normal, so I'll hopefully be back to posting the same amount of chapters next week.
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