Seduction of the Snake God

Seduction of the Snake God

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul...and mountains will move out of your way-
Kate Seredy

Part Three

Snake Charming

Harry didn\'t move. Severus walked out of the room and returned within a minute. He handed Harry a wine glass.

\"Drink.\"

Harry tossed it back like a shot.

\"Mmm. What was that?\"

\"Pomegranate juice.\"

\"That\'s good.\"

\"How could you possibly tell?\"

\"Well, I\'ve never had pomegranate juice, before, so I don\'t know what it\'s supposed to taste like. I couldn\'t taste the Veritaserum, though. I was-\"

\"Mr. Potter, why are you here?\"

\"I have so much to ask you, and to tell you. I missed you more than I ever thought I would. I never expected you to leave, straight from the battlefield. Especially since I was injured! I figured you would have at least taken me with you.\"

\"What do you want from me?\"

\"Whatever you are willing to give. I\'d like for us to be together, to be a family, to make a life together. If you don\'t like men, I can live without sex. I\'ve managed so far. I still want to be your friend, even if you don\'t fancy me. I don\'t have anyone else that I care about, the way I care about you. Hermione? I love her. But Gods, she drives me batty. Anyway, I\'m not attracted to witches. I think about you all the time. You wouldn\'t believe some of the dreams that I\'ve had about you. I\'ve always thought you were sexy. That\'s why I could never concentrate in Potions, I think. It\'s hard to care about how much newt\'s eye to add, when all you can think about is what your professor might look like naked, and-\"

\"What did you find out about me after the war?\"

\"Well, I found out that I was your chosen heir. You could have knocked me over with a feather. I couldn\'t believe how much stuff you had, too. I didn\'t think they paid teachers that well. I suppose being a Death Eater would have benefits. Maybe you inherited it. Anyway, it\'s none of my business. I was pretty certain that you weren\'t dead. Well, I wasn\'t anywhere close to a hundred per cent on that, at first. I was having dreams, similar to the dreams I had about Voldemort; but was seeing you, travelling, making potions, speaking foreign languages. Then I started to worry that I was fooling myself thinking that you were alive and that we had some kind of mental link. Then when I started trying to talk to you, you shut it down. I felt it, felt you doing it! That was when I was pretty sure I wasn\'t imagining that the link had existed, especially because I was off painkilling potions by that time. That\'s pretty much it, until I found you today. Well, you found me, I suppose. I thought about trying to investigate your personal papers, and such. Might have done, if I had tried for several months to find you, and couldn\'t. I didn\'t want to, though, because I\'d invaded your privacy once with the pensieve. I didn\'t want to do it again. I guess in a way, I\'m doing it right now, just by being here. That was never my intention. I just needed to see you, to know you are all right. I\'d like to keep seeing you. If you can\'t stand the sight of me and don\'t want to stay in touch, I\'ll leave you alone after tonight. I will miss you, though.\"

\"What do you think caused the mental connection?\"

\"I don\'t know, sir. Maybe it was some curse that hit both of us in battle. Maybe it was something that Dumbledore did. If it was, I\'m sure he meant well. I don\'t think he\'d try to drive us crazy on purpose. Maybe it has something to do with my scar, and you killing Voldemort. The Dark Marks disappeared. At least Lucius Malfoy\'s did. As you can see, my scar didn\'t budge.\"

\"Would you like to harm me?\"

\"No. I\'d hate it.\"

\"Would you like to own me, Mr. Potter?\"

\"Own you? Like a slave? Of course not.\"

\"Do you want to use me against my will?\"

\"No. Like rape? I would never do that to anyone.\"

\"What -are- your intentions toward me?\"

\"They\'re entirely honorable. I\'d marry you if you wanted. If you are not interested in me, it doesn\'t matter, I\'ll still do anything I can, for you.\"

\"Do you regret taking Veritaserum?\"

\"I don\'t know. It\'s horribly embarrassing just sitting here unable to keep from spouting out these things. I do want you to trust me, though. I know you can\'t trust me any other way. I want you to be sure that I\'m not out to rape you or enslave you or hurt you in any way.\"

\"Are you a bottom or a top?\"

\"I don\'t know which I\'d prefer. I\'d like to try both. I\'d like to try everything. Not women, though.\"

\"What is the extent of your sexual experience?\"

\"Wanking myself raw, kissing, if that even counts at all. Sirius bought me an hour with a prostitute once. I quite liked her. She was nice about it. She didn\'t mind that I only wanted to talk. I never told him that I\'m gay. He never asked me. I felt bad about it later. That Sirius had spent the money, and all. I paid him back a bit at a time by putting money in his purse. He wasn\'t good with money. He never knew how much he had. I just didn\'t want to do it. I don\'t think that it would have mattered if he\'d paid for a male prostitute, either. I didn\'t want to give my virginity to a complete stranger, who only wanted me for money.\"

\"What did you talk about with her?\"

\"Being gay, blow jobs, Gilderoy Lockhart. Well mostly, she talked about him. She\'d had a kind of a crush on him for years. Let\'s see. Our families, her ex-husband. That was pretty much it, I think. Lockhart and her ex-husband took up most of the hour.\"

\"Tell me about your Muggles.\"

\"They starved me for punishment. I\'m sure you can imagine how often -I- got punished. They never fed me proper meals, in the first place. I think that\'s why I\'m so short now. The nurse at my Muggle school thought I had scurvy once. She was afraid my teeth were going to drop out. She gave me a big bottle of vitamin C, 1000 milligrams each tablet. You really don\'t need that much, so I broke them all up. That bottle lasted me for years. When I was little, they locked me up in the dark a lot. I was terrified of the dark, but soon got used to it. Even when I was locked in for punishment, they\'d let me out to use the loo, once a day, at least. Well, sometimes they\'d forget, or just not do it. They made me feel that being a wizard was the worst thing anyone could be. My room was the closet under the stairs, until I got my Hogwarts letter. After that they gave me a proper bedroom. They used to lock me up a lot in that, too of course; but it wasn\'t bad for me. I was used to it. It was really hard on Hedwig. That was the part that bothered me most. It wasn\'t right for her to suffer, just because they hated me so much. That\'s about it, really.\"

\"Was there other physical abuse, besides starvation, confinement in a dark cramped place, and denying you access to proper facilities?\"

\"Not a lot from my aunt and uncle. Sometimes she\'d throw things at me- knives, mostly, but she had lousy aim. Boiling water was the worst. He punched me a couple of times. Mostly, though they didn\'t like to touch me, and avoided it when possible. Like magic was contagious or something. Dudley, my cousin, didn\'t seem to mind, hitting me, I mean. He and his friends beat me up all the time, until Hogwarts. Mostly he was too frightened of me, to hit me after that. Sometimes he would forget.\"

\"Did you steal potions ingredients from me?\"

\"I didn\'t.\"

\"Who did?\"

\"Hermione and Dobby. But they did it to help me.\"

\"Dobby?\"

\"House-elf.\"

\"On your orders?\"

\"No, but he did it to help me.\"

\"A house-elf stole from me, but not on your orders?\"

\"Well, I asked him for it. I didn\'t know where he was going to get it. He always meant well, but nearly got me killed half a dozen times.\"

\"Did you talk to anyone about what you saw in my pensieve?\"

\"Yes, Remus and Sirius. They already knew, anyway. I wanted them to know that I knew. I wanted them to explain to me how they could do something like that.\"

\"What did they tell you?\"

\"Basically, that they were sixteen. I was sixteen. I could see how wrong it was. A first year should know better.\"

\"What is the worst thing you ever did to Draco Malfoy?\"

\"I guess the worst thing was not shaking hands when he was trying to be my friend, beginning of first year. That\'s the thing that I regret the most. I don\'t think that we could have been friends. I do regret not trying though. I always wondered if things would have gone differently if I had.\"

\"Why did you not want his friendship?\"

\"Mostly because he was so nasty to Ron, insinuating that there was something wrong with his family, just because they weren\'t wealthy like Malfoys.\"

\"Why did you talk the sorting hat out of putting you in Slytherin?\"

\"I listened to silly House prejudice, sir. I\'d heard that all dark wizards were Slytherins. I didn\'t want to turn out that way. Sometimes I used to regret that too. Especially when the Gryffindors were suspicious of me, or driving me round the bend with concern and pity. Your lot probably would have strangled me in my sleep, though. Anyway, even if I had been a Slytherin, you wouldn\'t have been able to treat me any better. If I\'d thought that my Head of House hated me, I probably would have been even more confused and depressed.\"

\"Had you been in my House, I could have treated you much better, Mr. Potter. I would have convinced Voldemort that I was grooming you to join him. I believe you would have made quite an interesting Slytherin. Tell me a lie.\"

\"If I told you I wasn\'t enjoying myself, that would be a lie, sir.\"

\"Tell me you want to sleep with Miss Granger.\"

\"I don\'t, sir.\"

\"Has the Veritaserum worn off?\"

\"Yes sir, just after you asked me why I didn\'t want to be in Slytherin House.\"

\"I can tell time, Mr. Potter. Why did you not inform me when it ran its course?\"

\"I was trying to impress you with my sneakiness, sir.\"

\"Not a bad attempt, for a Gryffindor.\"

\"I\'ll certainly take that as a compliment. The Weasley twins were Gryffindors.\"

\"Fred Weasley, who was sorted first, threatened the hat, thank Merlin.\"

\"How did you know?\"

\"I asked them.\"

\"If you\'d like to ask me the Slytherin question again, sir, I\'ll take more Veritaserum.\"

\"No need. How is your headache?\"

\"It\'s nothing. Did you really think that I might rape you?\"

\"I did not say rape, Mr. Potter. You said rape.\"

\"You said use. What did you mean?\"

\"I meant use, in any way, shape, or form. Did you assume that I meant rape because your primary interest in me is sexual?\"

\"It\'s not my primary interest. I am interested in you sexually. I\'d be happy with this, though. This is my primary interest, just talking, spending time together, getting the chance to know you. If we could do just this, occasionally, if I could send you owls. You could pick a name, get your mail somewhere else. Hedwig would be the only one who knew. I don\'t think anyone else is looking for you, anyway, sir. As you say, Malfoy is the only one left. You\'d kill him in a fair fight, any fight at all, really.\"

\"I merely asked the question as it related to your intentions, in coming here.\"

\"Why are you so suspicious of me, sir?\"

\"Sexuality baits many a trap, Mr. Potter. Far better to err on the side of caution.\"

\"Why did you think that I came here, sir?\"

\"I still have no earthly idea -why- you are here.\"

\"Of course you do! I submitted to Veritaserum!\"

\"Why me?\"

\"Would you like me to take more, sir? I don\'t mind.\"

\"No Potter. Just answer the question.\"

\"I don\'t really know why. I know all the things that I see in you. I know when I first noticed how attractive I find you. I don\'t know why you. Do you think it matters?\"

\"Perhaps. Why did you give me the necklace?\"

\"Well, I gave it to you because I bought it for you. I was hoping to find you, at the Wizarding Bazaar. It made me think of you, the snake wrapped around the Light. It\'s got eleven protections, fire, poison, general shield, jinxes, hexes, curses, and well, the rest; I\'m not sure what they are. There are three charms. One animates the snake. I was going to try talking to it; but you stupified me before I had the chance. There\'s an unbreakable charm on the chain. If you cue your magic to the clasp, you\'ll be the only one who can remove it.\"

\"Never wear a magical item until you are familiar with every single aspect of it!\"

\"It\'s not a Dark artifact, sir.\"

\"What does -that- have to do with what I am telling you? Have we taught you nothing? Do you think Light spells can cause no harm? Can not blind? Can not paralyze? Can not kill?\"

\"No sir, but these are all protections!\"

\"One might say that your Muggles protected you from proper nutrition. Shall I protect you from breathing for an hour or two, or do you see my point, now?\"

\"I do see your point, sir.\"

\"Moronic, reckless, ignorant, foolhardy, Gryffindor!

\"Guilty, sir.\"

\"I suppose I should test the necklace in case you currently require some sort of treatment.\"

\"I won\'t move, sir.\"

\"Do not mock me, Potter. I was in a foul mood long before you were born.\"

\"Yes sir.\"