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Welcome to the OT7 Hogwarts Story. Everything will be a shade darker now.
Mood Music (Don't forget to open in a new tab/window) James Newton Howard - Thestral Chase
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world..."
― Hermann Hesse. Demian.
The cold was unbearable.
Seokjin tried to open his eyes. His body felt stiff and numb, pangs of chill coursed like a current through his limbs, stabbing his skin incessantly. There were voices around him, low echoing whispers but he couldn't see who it belonged to, the cold clung to his lashes.
Slowly he started to feel strength returning to him. His eyes open, vision blurry. His younger friend was lying unconscious at a distance, the bright yellow Hufflepuff scarf thrown over his still form. Seokjin crawled over the icy floor and moved towards him.
'Tae!' Jin's voice cracked. The unconscious 14 year old boy showed no signs of waking up. Taehyung's body was ice cold but the locket hanging from his neck burned and glowed. Jin looked to the other side, towards the voices of two girls. He recognised one of them without doubt - dark hair, purple eyes. She was the infamous Slytherin. She stood with her wand pointed at the other girl who was whimpering on the floor. Worry settled deep in his stomach, he had to get out of here before things got worse.
Seokjin lifted Taehyung up in his arms laboriously, the cold locking his muscles. Only one thought ran through his head, he had to get his friend out of the frosty dungeons of Hogwarts Castle.
The Slytherin girl watched him go, regret etched in her otherwise cold face. She turned her purple eyes toward the other girl slumped in front of her, her friend and roommate of the past five years. The stone walls were damp and icy, offering no warmth to the shivering girl on the floor. Her faint whimpers echoed in the vast empty dungeon.
'Laura please,' the poor girl bit out in pain, teeth clacking together.
Laura inched forward, movements much like the slither of a snake with her wand lit to guide her way in the darkness. The ice glittered wherever the light touched. Her hand, glistened red with blood as she stroked her friend's hair.
'It was you, wasn't it?' she asked in a softly, eyes looking at her friend intensely. 'I know it was you. Why are you denying it? Do you wish to suffer more?'
Her friend violently shook her head. Blood ran down her shaking arms. Laura's lip turned up in distaste. Pathetic, she thought.
'Then tell me the truth Gwen. Why did you do it ?' She asked in the same soft tone again.
'I only... wanted to...' Gwen wheezed, 'Wouldn't you have done the same!'
Laura pushed her aside, 'You disgust me,'
Gwen slumped to the floor in pain. Laura stood up and walked towards the door, wiping her hand on her black robes. 'You call this honour? If it were in my hands I would throw you out of house Slytherin right now. You don't deserve to breathe the same air we do.'
Gwen sobbed and Laura left her there.
As Laura walked out of the door, she found her head of house, Professor Snape standing in the corridor. His usually placid expression was twisted in anger. The black hair falling on the sides of his face made him even more sinister.
'Miss Dracwyn,' he said to her in his deep nasally voice. 'My chambers, now. If I don't find you there by the time I get back, then consider yourself expelled.' He walked past her into the dungeon, his jet black robe flying behind him, making him look like a large bat.
Another figure hurried into the corridor, a boy with pale hair and paler skin. His lilac eyes flickered over Laura in the dim light and his brows narrowed in worry.
'Are you alright?' he asked her, pulling his velvet cloak tighter around his shoulders. It was getting colder by the minute, seeping past the dungeon and into the castle.
'Yoongi!,' Laura rasped. ' What are you doing here? And who told Snape?'
'I did,' Min Yoongi replied, looking away.
'Yoon, I can't believe you-' but she was cut off.
'Listen to me. You had lost your mind. Do you have any idea what you have done?' Yoongi ran a hand through his hair. 'You would have been expelled if I hadn't told Snape. He is going to take care of the situation. Gwen needs to keep her mouth sealed about this,'
Laura's anger was rising inside her. But she knew what Yoongi had done was right. She realised if she hadn't had her cousin to look out for her all these years, she would've gotten expelled ages ago, thanks to her short temper.
'Go to Snape's chambers and tell him all that happened. He will help you. He won't invite trouble from the Dracwyn family for himself,' Yoongi said. Laura nodded, feeling pissed off with the whole situation and then walked towards Snape's chambers.
Yoongi watched her go and hoped she would do as he had told. They had spent five years at Hogwarts with barely any regard for the rules. But they were always clever about it. No student dared to cause them trouble and they always had Snape on their side. But this time, his cousin Laura had created a rather serious mess, going against another pureblood Slytherin, who's family too belonged to the Dark Lord's inner circle. The inner circle was to always stick together, not attack each other.
Yoongi walked into the dungeon room where the girl was. Snape was making the girl drink a clear potion from a vial. There were healing wounds on her arms, but there was blood everywhere. Gwen finished drinking her potion and slumped to the ground, unconscious.
'Leave her on the side and help me clear this place out,' Snape said to Yoongi. He did as was instructed. He carried the girl to one side while Snape cleared all the blood off the floor with swishes of his wand, but his eyes were scanning the entire frosted surface of the room.
'Who did this?' Snape asked sharply.
Yoongi's eyes darted unsurely from one side to the other, 'Must have been either Laura or Gwen,'
Snape pressed his palm on the iced floor and ran his fingers over it, feeling it... trying to understand something about it. 'This does not seem like a simple charm,' the potions master inferred. 'This... this is... true elemental transformation,'
'I don't know what that is. But it must've been a burst of magical energy. You know Laura's temper,'
Snape gave Min Yoongi a long hard look before making a affirmative sound that clearly spelled suspicion. It was time for Yoongi to change the course of conversation.
'What did you give Gwen?' Yoongi asked him.
'Oblivean,' Snape replied curtly. 'She won't remember a thing.'
Oblivean could leave damage to the brain, Yoongi thought to himself. It could cause dementia, or make her hallucinate. Yet Snape gave it to her to save Laura. Was this his degree of loyalty to the Death Eaters?
*
On the other end of the castle, Seokjin ran with Taehyung in his arms and he did not stop until they were in their empty clubroom.
Suddenly, Taehyung opened his eyes wide, heavily gasping for breath.
'Tae, I'm here, it's fine,' Seokjin cradled his head as he kneeled on the floor, laying Taehyung's head on his lap.
'I... Laura...' Taehyung gasped, pupils constricting in horror. He was grasping hard at Seokjin's arms, fingers clawing at the older, trying to get a hold of reality.
'She's gone. They're all gone. We are safe here,' Jin hugged him, trying to warm his cold body. Taehyung was shivering in fear, not knowing what had exactly happened, except that it was something extremely terrible. What had he done to deserve this?