[HP] The cursed gift #8

Chapter #8: The price of arrogance, part I.

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The scene was quite a surprise for the experienced death eaters, one of their allies, the Carrow family, and their associates were lying on the ground, well, except the children of course, the younger witches and wizards of the family couldn't be found in sight, there were only adults lying on the ground, so, Harry got an idea of what happened after he looked at some details in the house.

“This family had twin sisters, right? We should look for them if they hid here they will tell us what happened…You guys should take a look here, I’ll check upstairs,” Harry said but he was quickly stopped by Rudolphus.

“What do you think you’re doing? You have no authority, we’re in charge of you and we’re the ones making the decisions here…You look here and I’ll go upstairs…Bella, watch over him,” the older wizard said sternly.

He may be pathetic when he’s around lord Voldemort and he doesn’t care what his wife does with the powerful wizard but when it comes to being a death eater, he’s quite efficient, there’s no doubt about that.

“Well, I guess we better start searching for them,” Harry said with a calm tone, and before Bellatrix could say something, he started searching around the area carefully.

He was walking slowly, he was looking everywhere, however, it didn’t take too long for them to hear Rudolphus screaming and soon, Bellatrix ran as fast as possible to see what was going on.

“Rudolphus!” She said with a surprised tone as she looked at her husband’s hand trying to crawl out the little space between the end of the door and the ground.

“Bellatrix…Run…This place is cursed!” Rudolphus screamed with a scared tone and soon, there was a pool of blood coming under the door, but still, that didn’t stop him from fighting.

“You idiot!” Bellatrix said angrily, it's been so long since she lost respect for her husband but this just made things worse, this was such a cheap trap and he fell for it.

Still, she knew that they weren’t in the right situation in the organization to lose important members like him, so, it didn’t take too long for her to pull out her wand to attack the door, but the only thing this action caused was to make the thing angrier as the screams of pain of her husband got more intense and louder.

“Give me your hand!” She ran as fast as possible to grab his hand. “I can’t believe I can't use magic to help you…What am I? A fucking muggle?!” She said angrily.

She truly hated Rudolphus now, it was his fault that she had to resort to doing things with her own body like a muggle, but the more she tried to pull the wizard’s arm towards her the harder it got, and she tried to use more and more strength but then something happened, she felt an intense pain that reminded her a little of the Cruciatus curse but this was more intense.

And the moment she felt that the arm she was using to pull the man towards her started to burn alongside the dark mark she couldn’t help but release a painful scream that echoed across the house, the pain she was feeling was worse than what she was used to, not even her lord’s torture was this painful and she knew this pain wasn’t Cruciatus because she actually enjoyed being put through that by her master.

But this was the first time in a long time that Bellatrix felt pain and she was scared, this place had a certain aura and it was clear that this was a trap but then she remembered something, she forgot her lord's advice to never be alone when Potter's around.

“I see that you’re having fun Bella,” Harry suddenly appeared and he had a sweet smile on his face.

“Potter…Quick…If you want to prove your loyalty to the dark lord, save Rudolphus!” The older woman said desperately on the verge of tears due to the pain she just experienced not because she cared about her husband.

But she also knew that if Rudolphus died, her master wasn't going to be happy, that’s why even if he was on the verge of dying, they needed to bring him back to report what just happened.

“You’re so funny, Bella!” Harry said before giggling.

The older woman had a confused expression and soon her eyes widened in realization, she couldn’t believe it.

“Potter…You…You had something to do with this, right?!” She asked angrily as she pulled her wand.

“Bella…For being the dark asshat's second in command you surely are dumb as fuck…You should’ve brought more people to this mission regardless of the dark lord’s opinion and now you’re going to pay for that mistake!” Harry said with a smirk before he pulled a key he found when he was left alone downstairs.

And then, as if he owned the house and if he were a normal muggle man, he just opened the door, and Bellatrix couldn’t believe what she was seeing, there was blood everywhere and there were messages written in blood, as for Rudolphus, there was no sight of him, the only thing left was his arm that had the dark mark.

“You offend me Bella if you think I had something to do with this horrible scene!” Harry said with a fake offended tone.

But then he started to laugh, it didn’t matter that the witch had her wand pointed against him and he didn’t even pull Draco’s one, he had more important things to do than taking care of her.

“Harry, we came here to take care of the Carrows, we used a Polyjuice potion to infiltrate Hogwarts with their appearance and we took care of the fourth horcrux,” Harry read on the wall. “You see Bella…I had a lot of time to study while we were on the wilds hunting for your coward of a master's pieces of soul,” Harry confessed.

Bellatrix couldn’t believe what she was hearing, she knew what a Horcrux was but just now she realized that her master made some and now it made sense why he managed to cheat death, but then she realized something, now it made sense why he gave her something to guard in her Gringotts vault, she was glad Potter wasn’t aware of that and even if she gets killed, she's going to happily die with that secret.

“Do not be afraid Bella…All the enchantments in this house were made by me, and are quite brutal, to be honest, you were lucky nothing happened to you but I’m glad it took care of your useless husband,” he said with a cold tone.

“Avada Kadabra!” She screamed but Harry quickly dodged her attack.

Soon, she started to throw more and more spells on the house, and he was just dodging, she was using the worst spells she could think of, and yet, he hadn’t even pulled his wand.

“I need to tell the dark lord about this!” She said to herself but then her eyes widened as she looked at her arm.

The dark mark was gone, it was burned and no matter how much she tried to call for allies, the thing didn’t move or anything.

“Give up Bella…The house has been enchanted so only I could use magic to communicate with the outside world or to apparete, after all…The writings, the rituals, of the house, all of them were made with my blood but don’t misunderstand me, mediocre wizards or witches like you and your friends could never achieve something like this, only the ones who have the talent and the motivation can do this…And trust me…I’m quite motivated when it comes to getting rid of you cockroaches,” Harry said with a cold tone.

Bella’s heart was beating fast, no matter how much she tried to look as fierce and an unbeatable force, she was scared of dying and Harry was happy to see her acting like that, but this was just the start.

“Bellatrix…Do not worry, your time hasn’t come yet, but there’s a business you and I have at Gringotts,” Harry said with a cold tone as he pulled his wand and Bella’s eyes widened after she realized he knew about the Horcrux in her vault. “Imperio!” That’s the last word she heard before she lost control of her mind.