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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Flynn Docherty
First Year
Ministry RPG Name:
Crystal Zitsburg
Department of Mysteries | 
Number 4 from the DEFC Quote:
Chapter 4 – Deception
Bellatrix was not surprised the next morning when there was no sign of Lucius anywhere. Well, he must have met his end after all, she thought. She knew the Dark Lord would be wanting to see her and give her further instructions for what the Death Eaters would be doing next.
She entered the house gleefully, thinking she would once again find special favor with the Dark Lord, that he was going to be commending her for the fine job she had done and bestowing special honor on her.
Bellatrix walked toward the Dark Lord’s room humming softly to herself, really looking forward to this meeting. She strolled into the room, which was always kept dark because this was the way he preferred it, even in the middle of the day. Bellatrix figured that, like a snake, he enjoyed the cover of darkness more than the bright light of day. She figured the Dark Lord would be in a great mood.
Instead, she found him angry, worse than she had seen him in some time. His red eyes glinted in the dark room and he appeared more reptilian than usual, as if he were about to strike some unsuspecting creature and devour it. Bellatrix did not want to be that creature and wondered what could have happened to make him so angry in such a short period of time.
“Snape and Draco have managed to escape from this house!” the Dark Lord thundered at Bellatrix.
Bellatrix was shocked. “But my Lord, how could they? How dare they?” Bellatrix couldn’t imagine Snape being a traitor, or didn’t want to. She knew him to be very private, but the thought of him being disloyal to the Dark Lord, something that had crossed her mind from time to time, was never proven to be true. She did wonder why he had interfered with Draco’s task and killed Dumbledore himself, but she figured that he did it only because Draco was too weak to do it himself and Snape simply wanted to speed things along, just as he had said the other day. Perhaps there was more to this story than meets the eye, she thought in amazement. After all the years that she had known Severus Snape, never once would she imagine him turning his back on the Death Eaters. She questioned his motives at times and tap-danced around the idea to goad him but never took the idea seriously. It made her wonder if he had ever truly been with them, if he could not turn his back on them like this and sneak out into the night. What could he be thinking? Whose side had he really been on?
“You have done such a good job in bringing Lucius back to me that I hereby order you to go and find the two of them and bring them back here,” the Dark Lord said angrily. “They will not be dealt with gently and if you fail me, you won’t be, either.”
Bellatrix knew better than to question any of this. “Yes, my Lord,” she answered meekly. “When would you like me to set out on this task?”
“We’re already losing time. Go now!” he screamed. “Surely even you can figure out something as simple as that.”
“I won’t fail you, my Lord,” Bellatrix answered.
“Make sure that you don’t,” he answered, serpentine eyes glinting in the dark room.
With those words, Bellatrix left the room and walked out of the house and into the graveyard. At least her sister wasn’t hanging around out here whining and screaming her fool’s head off. She had a pretty good idea of some places where Snape might possibly have taken Draco and she decided to follow up on her hunches. Taking out her wand, she decided to apparate to Spinner’s End. If Snape wasn’t there, she knew that there were certain to be some clues as to where he might have gone. She would not return to the Dark Lord’s presence until she had found the both of them. Shaking her head and shivering slightly, she thought to herself that this was going to prove a far more difficult task than bringing Lucius back from Azkaban. Severus Snape was a lot craftier and resourceful than Lucius Malfoy and it was even possible that he might be able to elude her efforts. “But not for long,” she said determinedly, gritting her teeth and setting forth on her mission. She had made it her life’s work to serve the Dark Lord, and she would not fail him now. Snape would answer for his crimes and so would Draco, be he her nephew or not, she didn’t care. There was no disobeying her Lord.
With a sigh and the soft crack of her wand, she disappeared.
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