Sometimes It's Good to be Bad

A/N--- Alrighty. I am now in the process of editing this fic for grammar. Well, technically, I've edited it over the past month but I'm only going to repost a few chapters a day. Each time I do, I'll let you know which ones they were in the description and if you see any issues still there please let me know. I intend on taking out pretty much any answers I made to reviewers unless it particularly pertains to the story. So sorry everyone but I still thank you all for reviewing and just because I'm not adding anything new doesn't mean that I wouldn't still love a review here or there from any new readers. Oh, and if anyonne can tell me just exactly why I felt so compelled to put an exclamation point between the words dark and Hermione, it would make my day as I really don't know whay that's done.

I will also be taking out the warnings from the beginning from each individual chapter and I will now list every warning that you need here so if you can't deal with any of them then please don't read and flame me for writing something that you don't like. And I have added more violence and gore and even taunting to the last chapter in accord with reviews, so that version is up now with the first round of edited chapters making it almost 50% longer. But I will tell you that it is semi gruesome. Well to some people it may be horrible, but gore has never bothered me so to me its just like whatever. I also lengthened the torture scene in chapter 15.

WARNINGS----- This is a DARK FIC. If you don't believe me, then read on to the rest of the warnings. There is body modification in the form of tattoos. There is quite a bit of violence. There is graphic descriptions of torture and murder/murderous gore. There is forced sexual acts but I wouldn't go so far as to call it rape. While there are no vampires, there is vampiristic tendancies, i.e. imbibing someone else's blood. There is one scene where my origional warning was that torture and masturbation go hand in hand, so to say. There are a bunch of character deaths. Most are in the last chapter, but not all. The second half of chapter 51 is in the form of a songfic because the song inspired the chapter. Oh, and everything I write pretty much involves swearing but in this story that's barely even worth mentioning what with everything else. Another really really stupid warning. Includes HBP spoilers. It is of my personal opinion that anyone who needs such a warning a year and a half or so after the book had been published should not be reading any fanfiction since they're obviously not so big on the 'fan' part.

Lemons include... (I'm not going to tell you the number of times)Draco/Hermione, (1 or 2 it's hard to say, so we'll go with 1and a half) Harry/Hermione and (1)Draco/Hermione/Pansy that has some Hermione/Pansy as well.

This fic starts about one week after HBP ends. The main AU in it, other than the obvious entire plot, is that I had Draco kill Dumbledore, and Snape wasn't woken up about the whole castle invasion thing until it was too late. So, on with the show.


Chapter 1 The Offer


My Lord,

I have been wanting to contact you for a while now, but as a mudblood, I did not think you would believe my sincerity. I felt that if you granted me the meeting I am seeking, I would be killed on sight. While that may still happen, I do not really think it to be the case. But I should more properly explain myself so you will understand what I am talking about.

As one of the so-called "Golden Trio" I have been friends to Harry Potter for six years now. In our first year, I was ecstatic that he triumphed over you. After all, I am a mudblood, and I was 11. When in our second year when he triumphed over your 16 year old self, I was happy for my friend Ginny to still be alive. Also, no offense, but I don't really think your followers would be too keen to follow him. After all, he wasn't aware of most of what you did or thought or felt after he ws sealed into the diary. He may have wanted to be the Dark Lord, but he didn't have your history to properly take the title.

I spent a lot of time fourth year helping Harry prepare for the Triwizard Tournament, and I must say, if Barty Crouch Jr. hadn't "helped" him out, there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that he wouldn't have even made it through the first task. At the end of that year, you came back into a proper form. All throughout fifth year, everyone spent their time trying to discredit this feat you had accomplished. It was annoying, but I hope it worked out in your best interests.

Then came the battle at the Ministry. This is when my epiphany occurred. It was glaringly obvious the the light is not going to win this war, and I wanted to align myself with the winning side. Yours. But, as previously stated, I doubted that I would live through the meeting. I believe that the situation has now changed. Not only could I be an invaluable spy for you, I have information for you, also, in my posession is an object that no doubt you would kill for, but I will willingly give you as a sign of my allegiance.

The only thing I ask of you, other than you accept my meeting and hear me out before you decide whether to still kill me or not, is that Severus Snape not be allowed to know anything of this request or any of the information I reveal to you, or even that I want to align myself with the Dark. I am not convinced of where his loyalties lie. Harry wholeheartedly believes him to be yours, but Harry sees with blind eyes. Personally, I believe Snape is for the Order, and so anything he knows, they will know and that would be detrimental to my position.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely, Hermone Granger.

~~~~~oOo~~~~~


Hermione placed a charm on the letter so that if it were opened by anyone other than the Dark Lord it would immediatly catch fire, as well as notify her of the development. She then apparated to the post station in Hogsmeade to send out her letter. As she watched the owl fly away, she lightly fingered the gold locket necklace she had worn aroud her neck under her robes for the past two years.