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Chapter #19: Hermione’s quest, part 2.

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The first order from the second in command of the dark lord was that now she had to live with him six days a week. The Snape manner as far as she knew used to belong to a pureblood family that was killed because they were considered traitors.

It seems like Voldemort gave this place to Snape after he successfully killed that family by himself, but he didn't stop there he also killed the army of fifty hit wizards hired by the family to protect this place, the event was in the daily prophet and they praised Snape as if he were a hero, and with that Snape was hoping the public to fear him and yet.

The last time he fought against James Potter, he was completely overpowered, if it weren’t for the dark lord who always appears when he feels that his followers are in danger, he would have been dead a long time ago.

When Hermione was informed that her talent caught the attention of the second in command of the dark lord she couldn’t help but feel excited in a way, not because she wanted to serve the death eaters, no, it was because being under someone so important might give an extra layer of protection to her family.

She was also excited because she thought she was going to get taught many interesting things, because even if she excelled at it, potions weren’t her favorite subject, she preferred charms, however, she was surprised to find out that serving Snape doesn’t mean he’s going to teach you something useful, serving him is technically being his maid.

The first day she stepped into Snape's manor she couldn't help but feel disgusted, and to say she was shocked would’ve been an understatement, the place was grim but that’s not the thing that disgusted her the most, it was the fact that the muggle-born girls that he took under his wing were disguised with as Lily Potter thanks to the help of polyjuice potion.

When you’re in Snape’s manor, his servants will always have to look, behave, and talk like Lily Potter, the only difference is the treatment, they had to treat him as if he were the most amazing man in the world, Hermione never understood the reasoning behind his obsession with her former favorite teacher until she spoke with Henry about it.

It seems like the potions master was childhood friends with the redhead and to say Hermione was shocked would be the understatement of the century. The redhead always knew Snape had a crush on her but she could never see him as more than a friend.

Of course that enraged Snape and things got worse when Lily was getting along with Snape’s supposed enemies, and to be fair, that was a deserving reputation as James and his friends pranked Snape a lot to say the least, the death eater in training was so frustrated that he thought that by being a jerk like James he would gain Lily’s love.

He couldn’t be more wrong even if he wanted to, the day he decided to call her a mud-blood, he earned himself a very well-earned slap in the face from Lily and the official end of their friendship, and unknowingly to him, he was saved from being punched and beaten by James as the marauders stopped him.

This event caused trauma to the dark wizard, and that’s why he recruits muggle-born witches and makes them use Polyjuice potion from the days after they graduated from Hogwarts, he was able to collect many hairs from Lily after stalking her and also when the dark lord attacked the Potters.

Still, even if all of them looked like her, he was never satisfied, and surprisingly for someone in his position, he didn’t seem to ask for too much from his servants, he only wanted them to look and behave like Lily was, or at least the idea he has of how Lily was back then.

However, he’s not easily pleased, no matter how much he tries to instruct his subordinates, from time to time they make mistakes that destroy his fantasy and make him get back to reality and this results in him lecturing them and even using the cruciatus curse to make them behave in the way he likes.

Hermione hates knowing that until then she has been one of the best Lily impersonators, and yet, even with that, she has also been put under the cruciatus curse from time to time, but at least she hadn’t met the fate of some of her predecessors, the first ones were test subjects who were put under the cruciatus curse for too long until they lost their minds.

Lily Potter is a master potioner, that’s why Snape puts his subordinates to brew potions twelve hours, six days a week, they all have Snape’s version of the dark mark tattooed on their arms, however, it’s completely hidden so the dark lord won’t think that Snape is trying to replace him.

Their potions are the ones that supply St. Mungo’s and most of all, the dark lord’s army reserve, they’re stacking as many potions as they can for the day when the dark lord decides to take over the world, they need to use the time wisely, after all, some potions like the luck potion take months and they also have to stack and scalp as many important potion ingredients as they can, and even with the Greengrass’ company supplying them with rare ingredients, they need more.

Snape sometimes takes a few of his subordinates with him when he goes hunting for rare materials from monsters and other magical creatures, and even if some girls had tried to sleep their way to get in the good graces of the second-in-command of the dark lord, he always rejects them because virgins are necessary when you want materials from unicorns.

Yes, that’s the way Snape has acted since the dark lord took over the country and he thought that this was going to continue until the end of his days, right now he was not only focusing on serving the dark lord but he was working on a way to clone a person.

He wanted to bring back Lily, the one from the days after she became famous for being in the battle that destroyed Voldemort's body, it was her home the one that was destroyed, so, it was obvious that she was going to appear in many newspapers.

He was in that battle actually and the first thing he did when they raided the Potter home was accio her hair, the day she saw him carrying her son she looked so perfect, but seeing the bundle in her arms that looked exactly like his most hated enemy made him rage, he wanted both the child and the father dead so Lily could finally love him, after all, she loved bad guys right? He thought he was bad enough back then.

However, that couldn't last forever as he was now shaking violently on the floor while he was in the presence of the dark lord, he had no idea that it was his enemy’s son from another universe the one that was causing him a lot of pain.

It’s been ten minutes since Harry removed Hermione’s tattoo but he still had the snake on his hands and he was electrocuting the thing so the creator of the seal could feel the same thing.

“Harry…Harry…Harry!” The dark-haired wizard suddenly saw his mother’s concerned expression as they saw Snape going through so much pain from the screens.

“Yes Mrs—I mean Mum?” Asked Harry innocently.

“Stop that already, I know that after hearing Hermione’s story you want him gone, and trust me, I want him gone too…That’s why I want you to leave him alone…We want to destroy him…Me and James, please don’t take that from us, son,” Lily begged him.

Harry wanted to continue putting that monster through more pain, however, his mother’s expression suddenly made him sigh and do as he was told and yet, he could not help but smirk before he killed the snake once and for all, he was surprised by how good having parents felt like.