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onto his chest, she gasped, ”you uld do it you uld do it stead of dra, sever you would eed, of urse you would, and he would reward you beyond all of —”
snape caught hold of her wrists and reoved her ctchg hands lookg down to her tearstaed face, he said slowly, ”he tends to do it the end, i thk but he is detered that dra should try first you see, the unlikely event that dra eeds, i shall be able to rea at hogwarts a little lonr, fulfillg y eful role as spy”
” other words, it doesn39t atter to hi if dra is killed!”
”the dark lord is very angry,” repeated snape ietly ”he failed to hear the prophecy you know as well as i do, narcissa, that he does not five easily”
she crupled, fallg at his feet, bbg and oang on the floor
”y only n y only n ”
”you should be proud!” said beltrix ruthlessly ”if i had ns, i would be gd to give the up to the service of the dark lord!”
narcissa gave a little screa of despair and ctched at her long blonde hair snape stooped, seized her by the ars, lifted her up, and steered her back onto the fa he then poured her ore e and forced the gss to her hand
”narcissa, that39s enough drk this listen to ”
she ieted a little sloppg e down herself, she took a shaky sip
”it ight be possible for to help dra”
she sat up, her face paper-white, her eyes hu
”sever — oh, sever — you would help hi? would you look after hi, see he es to no har?”
”i can try”
she fng away her gss it skidded across the table as she slid off the fa to a kneelg position at snape39s feet, seized his hand both of hers, and pressed her lips to it
”if you are there to protect hi sever, will you swear it? will you ake the un
eakable vow?”
”the un
eakable vow?”
snape39s expression was bnk, unreadable beltrix, however, let out a cackle of triuphant ughter
”aren39t you listeng, narcissa? oh, he39ll try, i39 sure the ual epty words, the ual slitherg out of action oh, on the dark lord39s orders, of urse!”
snape did not look at beltrix his bck eyes were fixed upon narcissa39s tear-filled be ones as she ntued to ctch his hand
”certaly, narcissa, i shall ake the un
eakable vow,” he said ietly ”perhaps your sister will nsent to be our bonder”
beltrix39s outh fell open snape lowered hiself that he was kneelg opposite narcissa beneath beltrix39s astonished gaze, they grasped right hands
”you will need your wand, beltrix,” said snape ldly
she drew it, still lookg astonished
”and you will need to ove a little closer,” he said
she stepped forward that she stood over the, and pced the tip of her wand on their lked hands
narcissa spoke
”will you, sever, watch over y n, dra, as he attepts to fulfill the dark lord39s wishes?”
”i will,” said snape
a th tongue of
illiant f issued fro the wand and wound its way around their hands like a red-hot wire
”and will you, to the best of your ability, protect hi fro har?”
”i will,” said snape
a send tongue of f shot fro the wand and terlked with the first, akg a fe, glog cha
”and, should it prove necessary if it sees dra will fail ” whispered narcissa snape39s hand itched with hers, but he did not draw away, ”will you carry out the deed that the dark lord has ordered dra to perfor?”
there was a ont39s silence beltrix watched, her wand upon their csped hands, her eyes wide
”i will,” said snape
beltrix39s astounded face glowed red the bze of a third unie of f, which shot fro the wand, isted with the others, and bound itself thickly around their csped hands, like a rope, like a fiery snake
chapter 3: will and won39t
harry potter was snorg loudly he had been sittg a chair beside his bedroo dow for the best part of four hours, starg out at the darkeng street, and had fally fallen asleep with one side of his face pressed agast the ld dowpane, his gsses askew and his outh wide open the isty fug his
eath had left on the dow sparkled the oran gre of the streetp outside, and the artificial light draed his face of all lor, that he looked ghostly beneath his shock of untidy bck hair
the roo was strewn with vario possessions and a g