With all the wards and protections cast in their hide-out it should have been impossible to apparate from the place, yet the only conclusion they reached was that the prisoners, even the muggle children, were being apparated somewhere else.Īs part of his work and his effort to gain the Dark Lord's trust, Severus and Dumbledore agreed to divulge the information that their prisoners were appearing outside of Hogwarts it was an effort to move the Potions Master back to his former place in the circle. Unfortunately, no one had the answers he required.
Voldemort had punished all his followers present first, and then asked questions. Things started to become quite difficult not just for Severus, but all the other Death Eaters as well, as some of their victims started to disappear surrounded by a bright white light. For a couple of days the Potions Master had to comply to the crazed Dark Wizard's every command even if it meant participating more actively on the raids and tortures -as much as doing this sickened the wizard- it was important to gain Voldemort's trust. Severus was being cautious with his reports he did not want to seem too obvious, as there was one of Voldemort's own spies set in the Ministry that insisted the teacher was betraying his calling this only complicated the situation for him. It had been hard, most of the times he returned suffering from the after effects of the Cruciatus curse, or mauled after participating on one raid or another, and on top of that, he had to prepare poisons and torture potions for Voldemort. Since Voldemort's return Snape had been out almost every night on errands and missions for the Dark Lord. His word eventually saved him from a 'Dementor's Kiss' but he still spent six months in that prison. The Ministry Aurors captured him, charged the younger man with being a Death Eater, and sent him to Azkaban without a trial. Back then, after Voldemort's first defeat at Lily's and Harry's hands, Albus had vouched for Severus. They knew getting back into the Dark Lord's most trusted ring was not going to be an easy task. To give his Potions Master credit, he had accepted to take the risk without question. It was a little bit more than a month since he asked the younger wizard to return to his active spying days at Voldemort's side. Not that he had that much time to start spying for him. The most important of those being that Severus Snape was exposed as a spy. The old headmaster opted that day for roaming the deserted halls and corridors of Hogwarts, letting his mind wander to the things that kept him worried and awake. At his age, 150 years, Albus Dumbledore really did not need more than four hours of it but still he had to rest at some point. By the third, it was clear that he needed to do something more productive than lying awake in bed.
The first two he had tossed and turned on his bed fighting for sleep. This was probably the eight night in a row that he could not sleep.
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