By Any Other Name, Part Four

Author: ravenna_c_tan

Title: By Any Other Name, Part 4 of 5

Fandom: Harry Potter

Pairing: DM/SS

Rating: NC-17

Words: 3137

Genre: Adventure, Slash, Darkfic

Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Content, Non-con, Torture, Major HBP Spoilers

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, I am merely a hobbyist/tourist visiting J. K. Rowling's world, for the love, not for the money.


Summary: Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape fled Hogwarts. After Draco learns that among the Death Eaters "safe" house is a relative term, and has to be plucked from their clutches by Snape, he must eventually face his meeting with Voldemort.




By Any Other Name, Part 4 of 5
by Ravenna C. Tan

It was far from their first private lesson. Snape had been teaching Draco on the side ever since the boy's first year at Hogwarts. They both regretted the demise of that ill-fated dueling club of Gilderoy Lockhart's. A pity that hadn't worked out better as Draco had shown a real knack for it. Snape could not have been the one to propose such a thing, especially if it turned into a chance for his prize pupil to manhandle the others. But when Lockhart had brought it up, well... Snape was the one who had taught Draco the Serpentsortia charm, and he had been amazed to find the boy could cast it so strongly, animating a rather impressive snake for such a young wizard.

Draco threw himself into learning the new spells with equal zeal. Snape would have gladly spent all day, a week even, coaching him this way, but their absence was sure to be missed soon. And Draco would do even better with his own wand.
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By Any Other Name, Final Chapter

Author: ravenna_c_tan

Title: By Any Other Name, Part 5 of 5

Pairing: Snape/Draco

Rating: NC-17

Words: 3137

Genre: Adventure, Slash, Darkfic

Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Content, Non-con, Torture, Major HBP Spoilers

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, I am merely a hobbyist/tourist visiting J. K. Rowling's world, for the love, not for the money.


Summary: Draco Malfoy has had nothing but a series of shocks since he fled Hogwarts with Snape and the other Death Eaters. Questioning his own motivations, he finds himself faced with a choice. The story concludes with this segment.




By Any Other Name, Part 5 of 5
by Ravenna C. Tan



Three days later and Draco had read the entire Grimoire. In it he even found the warding charm Snape had used on him, and knew now why it had been ineffective when Snape himself was not present, as well as how to fix that. No wonder Snape had these books hidden away--some of them one could probably land in Azkaban just for owning them. Draco returned the book and exchanged it for another, a hand-lettered volume entitled Nocturnum Minarum, which appeared to be an ancient Defense against the Dark Arts book with spells for fighting vampires and ghouls and other monsters. At least Nocturnum Minarum did not demand he cut himself every time he opened it.

Meanwhile, he ventured out amongst the other Death Eaters a few times. Mostly he kept to his room, feeding himself with the help of the survival spellbook he kept, but he went out several times mostly to see if the others had heard from Snape. Draco kept expecting them to try to play those little parlor games with him again, but the Carrows and the others kept their distance. It took him a while to figure out why, and he eventually narrowed it down to three possibilities.

The first was that maybe all new Death Eaters went through something like that. Hell, even his first year in Slytherin he'd been hazed. The second was that maybe they sensed he was itching for a fight. The third was that when they all thought he was in the doghouse for failing to kill Dumbledore, he had been easy game, but now that he had been to see the Dark Lord and apparently won his approval--given that he was still alive and walking among them--they weren't sure where they stood. The last seemed the most likely. Still, he never left his room without his wand.

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