Name: Marius Sytherin
Age: Deceased
Year: None
House: None
Gender: Male
Skin tone/Ethnicity: White
Hair color: White
Eye color: White
Backgroud info: Marius is the son of Salazar Slytherin. He was killed under mysterious circumstances when he was at Hogwarts. He was only 21 at the time, and had much unfinished business, so he came back as a ghost. He now lurks around in Hogwarts, helping and hindering the students inside of its halls.


Marius was going around the castle, making sure that all of the teachers were occupied in someway or another. He didn't need Adrian's plan to be compromised. If a teacher wasn't occupied, he made them occupied by knocking something over and onto a sudent. After making sure that all of the teachers were occupied, he went on to the grounds to make sure that Dumbledore wasn't back from St. Mungo's yet.

Once on the grounds, he saw Hagrid and a few other teachers getting the trolls into the forest. Quickly scanning the grounds, he saw no sign of Dumbledore. He began to fly around, checking everywhere for some sign of action. As he was going around the Pitch, he saw the tell-tale igns of portkey usage. Dumbledore was back, and he needed to warn Adrian of the Headmaster's arrival. He quickly flew away, flying through the halls in search of the dhampir. He knew that by now the dhampir was away from the Headmaster's office, so he needed to actually search, no matter how boring it was.

 

Adrian made his way out of the wing of the castle as fast as he could. Harry would give him an earfull later, and Adrian would rather wait for the child to calm down, lest Adrian loose his temper and rip the boy's head off. Grooming a future king was a pain in the ass, no wonder he normally just sided with Voldemort in the other memories and killed everything. Life was so much simpler.

Coming down the main staircase from the entry hall he felt a chill coming. Sliding into a side room he opened up his mind and began projecting a call to bring his messenger to him.

"Sir Marius, it's an honor to see you again. What have you found out?"

The ghost told him Dumbledore was incoming, and Adrian swore while he hoped the two fools outside of the office had enough sense to leave quickly. It wouldn't do well for anyone to be caught up there at the moment. Not with Fawke's lifeless body tucked inside his robes, and Harry covered in blood.

Nodding to the ghost thanks, Adrian renewed his promise of continuing the research Marius had requested he finish when they made their alliance. The ghost would spy for him, provided he continued Marius' research into various blood magic.

It was an agreement mostly one sided, as it held nothing but intelligence for Marius for the time being, while Adrian got stronger off the results. Blood of a phoenix forcibly taken had given Adrian's system such a shock he doubted he'd ever have to drink blood again if he wanted to, maybe he's loose the little bit of light sensitivity he did have, as well as removing all of his vunerability to fire.

Yes the ghost was as valuable an ally at the moment as he could hope for. The time would come soon when the experiments would be finished and Marius would hopefully achieve what he was searching for, rebirth.

He'd have to find Milliardo soon and get his this blood soaked carcass to be split up into parts, the power of the wands that could be made from these feathers was astronomical.

Pointing his wand at a chair, Adrian transfigured it into a box, placed the carcass inside, then hurridley etched runes on all 6 sides.
"Fidelius"
Shrinking the box to the size of pebble, he used a sticking charm to adhere it to his skin permentantly until he chose to remove it. No one would know it was there, nor be able to remove it.

 

Milliardo had watch little fight from the shadows. It was funny to watch the students struggle with the trolls while the teachers had to make sure they were all safe. When the fight died down, milliardo pulled out his wand. He had a role to play. After muttering a spell to create a dagger. He made cuts on his body that made it seem like his was in the fight. Luck seem to be with Milliardo because he ran into the Headmaster. "Headmaster...I did...what I could.." He said before faking a blackout. When Milliardo woke up he was in the hospital wing with his cuts healed. When he sat up the nurse and and checked on him. When she was sure that he was ok she dismissed him. When he was out of the hospital wing he simled and walked through the halls.

After walking down a few halls Milliardo saw Adrian. Once they Found a room to talk. Milliardo said " Did you get the bird?" All Adrian did was smile, pull out the bird, and hand it to Milliardo. " I'll take care of the rest. Till we next meet , Adrian." said Milliardo walking to an unused potions room.

Once he entered the room, Milliardo put the strongest locking charms he could think of on the door. Laying the bird on the table, he plucked the feather of the birf and put them into a bad. Then drained the rest of the blood into a vail to better perserve the body. Milliardo then pucked out the left eye of the bird. It was his to keep by the rule of the deal made. And beside a ritual he wanted to do needed the eye.

 

Josh was watching the scene of crime with all of his sences on guard. When he saw that boy, Aden his name he believed sneak past him he didn't worry. Adrian and Harry could easily handle him. He watched with interest as he sneaked on Adrian's back. Hmmm maybe phoenix blood have such a huge affect that it's blinding his sences. Harry on the other hand was on guard and together they disarmed the boy.
Josh rushed over there and talked to the boy "Aden! Run! I will hold Potter off!". The fool took a sprint in the hall and Josh hit him in the back with his Obliviate. He smiled and ran away, after all Dumbledore will not leave the school for too long.

 

Aden stumbled and fell as the obliviate hit him. It wasn't strong enough to wipe his memory, but it confused Aden enough to make him think that it was he who had attacked Harry.

"What? Whats going on?" He muttered dazed. He had a serious headache, stumbling forwards he walked towards the Slytherin common room.

"Spardere?" A voice called, looking up he saw it was Blaise Zabini. He stood up straight he couldn't show weakness no matter who it was.

"What?" He ground out, head still throbbing.

"Draco and Pansy want to meet you." He said eyeing Aden suspiciously.Aden sneered.

"What are you their messenger boy? They come to me not the other way round." Aden barged passed Zabini and walked further into the darkness.

How was he going to silence Harry?

 

Invisible to all, Marius flew back to the Headmaster's office after meeting with Adrian. The dhampir was very useful to him, as the research that he was being asked to do would lead to Marius being able to become coropeal once again. In the meantime, he had to keep tabs on Dumbledore for Adrian and warn him of any move that the Headmaster will make.

Going into the office, Marius saw the Headmaster sitting at his desk organizing papers, obilvious to what had happened inside the office just minutes ago. Marius noticed that Dumbledore didn't seem to notice that his phoenix was gone, probably thinking that it was just out hunting. So, in order to do his job, Marius peered over Dumbledore's shoulder, reading what he was. It was a simple status report on the school damages, nothing more. Marius took some satisfaction in seeing the report of things falling off of walls and shelves and hitting students, especially because all of the reports said that it was Peeves.

Marius mentally sighed. Even if his job was boring, the pay off in the end would be very much worth it.

 

Andrea had been working her way around the school, checking on the people she knew to be the major players in some alliance. She had noticed that Adrian and Harry were the only people not to be found, so she had headed towards the Gryffindor Common Room. Then she had gotten caught by a troll.
"Bleh...a troll" she said to herself, "this is going to be...meh" Andrea drew her wand, and started firing off various spells...

Finally, the troll was dead. And Andrea was bloody. She managed to stumble to the Hospital wing before she collapsed.
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Around an hour later, Andrea woke up. 'Finally' she thought, and hurried off to go loiter by the Gryffindor portraits.

 

Harry smiled at Josh, he didn't quite understand why the young wolf had involved himself, as Harry was quite sure the memory charm didn't flare the correct color as it landed.

Nodding, the two of them split up. Harry walks the emptied halls slowly back to Gryffindor, tryign to decide if he wants to be ballsy or not. Turning the corner into the corridor beside Gry's main entrance, he spies Adrian looking at a mutilated troll corpse.

Walking up beside the dhampir he can see the older man has his hand hidden in the folds of his robe. Adrian knew he was coming, he always does provided he's not preoccupised with something.

"I should deck you and set you aflame you bastard." Harry said, "That wasn't part of the plan."

"No you wanted to befriend an inanimate object to learn Dumbledore's habits and then make a go at the bird while the old man slept." Adrian said, "It was not only foolish, but a waste of time. I told you I'd help you get the job done, and I did."

Harry had to agree, it was painful as hell for a few moments, but the end result is the same, they'd gotten the job done, and no one save those they had already known of where there. Harry had replayed the scene in his head from every angle, there were no animagical patterns, no recording devices, nothing. No means whatsoever of linking them to the death. Dumbledore would just assume his pet went out on it's own for a bit.

Harry shook his head, he was pissed off, but Adrian had gotten the job done no denying that.

"Let's get inside, get the hell away from this smell."

Turning to go into the door they heard a small voice call out their names.

 

Andrea looked up and noticed that Adrian and Harry had finally arrived.
"Hey!" She called, and walked over to them. She had been thinking about how she would broach the topic with them the entire time she had been waiting. Deciding that it would be esiest to be straightforward, she continued, "I want in"

They looked at each other, then back at Andrea.
"Why?" asked Adrian.

"Because I can't stand the other idiots around here"

"We will need to discuss this with the others. Someone will let you know soon." Hary replied.

"No, wait...come with us" Adrian broke in. They strode down the hall.

 

Marius felt the call of Adrian. He knew that he was needed, so he flew out of the office and to where he felt the signal. When he heard the voices, he went invisible and began to listen in on the convorsation. It seemed that another student was trying to join the cause. And it was a girl at that! 'Hmmm,' Marius thought, 'she may be useful to us...'

Adrian made some descrete hand signals towards him, telling him to go to the Chamber. He become hopeful, maybe Adrian was FINALLY going to do the ritual. But he could only wonder who was going to be the human sacrifice...

 

Milliardo receiving a message from Adrian about a meeting. Grabing the items he needed, he made his was to the chamber unseen, Milliardo waited for Marius to appear and open the door way. When the ghost showed up and let him in. Milliardo made his way down with to the heart of the chamber. After nodding a greeting to everyone there Milliardo noticed two new people. "We kill both of them?" asked Milliardo to the group.
"No. This one, Andrea, wants to join." said Adrian pointing at the the girl to his left.

"So this one we're using," said Milliardo, "Very well. I have the items we need. "

Milliardo place a cauldron, big enough to put a body, in the center of the Chamber. Milliardo said" Adrian i need some of the pheonix blood you drank. Harry I need some of your blood for the for the venom in your blood as well as the pheonix tears. Josh I need you blood as well for the animal in you."

Seting the fire under the cauldron, Milliardo put the pheonix body inside the signaled the other to fill it with their blood. Once the liquied truned the right green shade, Milliardo turned towrad the other girl.

"Who picked her?" asked Milliardo.

"I did," said Josh.
"Now kill her." said Milliardo.
As Josh pullled out his wand Adrian said " Wait. Let Andrea do this."

After reciving stares from everyone. Adrian said "To test her loyalty."

"As you wish." Said Milliardo before turning to Andrea " Kill her quick."

As Andrea made her way to kill her Milliardo ask " Whats the girls name?"

"Ginny." came the reply from a smiling Harry.

After the flash of green light, Milliardo Picked up the body and put it into the cauldron and continued chanting before signaling Marius to enter the cauldron. After a flash of Black Light, A corpoal body laid on the ground surrounded by pieces of a broken cauldron.

" He'll need time to come around." Said Milliardo.

 

Marius awoke for the first time in centuries. They had done it, they had given him a corporeal body. He stood, taking in his first deep breath of air in almost a thousand years. "<insert evil, bone-chilling laugh here>, I'M BACK!" Marius exclaimed. He was finally able to feel the ground again, able to smell the castle of Hogwarts, and able finally kill once again. Oh, the adrenaline rush he was getting.

"Adrian, as I recall, the ritual texts stated that I will only be able to hold this body for two days at the longest, right?" Marius asked. When he recieved an affrimative for Adrian, he said, "Well, then I guess I should learn how to switch in and out of this form. Leave me, I will return to you when I have finished. I do hope that if I get killed we won't have to go through all of this trobule again."

 

Meanwhile Jasmine was walking around after curfew she found a piece of paper on the ground. She picked it up and read it. It was some kind of invitation to join a club of Harry Potter's. Along with another boy named Adrian. She wondered who he had given it to. Then she got an idea. She wondered if they would let her join. She wouldn't tell any one. It's not like she had any friends. Her family could care less about what she did, so she wouldn't tell them. She thought for a moment about whether or not they would let her join. "Why wouldn't they?" she thought to herself. She was good at charms, potions, and transfiguration. She could help them with something. Jasmine decided if she saw either boy she'd ask if she could join. What was the worst that could happen?

 

Aden lay tiredly on his bed in the Slytherin common room, he had just attacked Harry Potter and whilst he felt no remorse he couldn't figure out what his incentive for attacking him was.

"Aden." A voice spoke. Aden suppressed a groan of annoyance, opening his eyes he then raked a hand through his hair looking at his caller.

"Draco...Pansy, what a...pleasure." He replied.

"My...cousin." Draco sneered. "Requests a meeting." Aden could sense the animosity in waves.

"Your cousin?" Aden inquired.

"Milliardo Black, a disgrace if you ask me." Draco responded.

"I'm not asking and where can I find this...Milliardo?"

"Drakie." Pansy nudged Draco prompting him into action. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a golden letter.

"Here." He tossed the letter to Aden as if it was diseased who caught it deftly. Draco turned and left the room closely followed by a whimpering Pansy.

Aden looked at the letter and tapped it once with his wand, only one person could open this letter and Aden deduced it was him. He placed the wand down next to him and opened the letter.

Meet me by the forbidden forest
Milliardo Black.

All his slytherin instincts were protesting, telling him he would get himself killed and he should lay low. Sighing Aden reached for his cloak. Curiosity was going to get him killed one of these days.

 

Milliardo waited by the forbidden forest for Aden. That boy had guts, that was for sure, to try to take a member of the group. Milliardo looked into the forest to waste time. It reminded him of the school at the moment. As a whole it looked peaceful but inside it was full of danger. Milliardo heard a voice behind him and saw Aden standing there. Smiling Milliardo said " Do you know why I called you here?"

"No Idea. I just thought it would be rude to dismiss a request." said Aden.

Milliadro laughed "Too true. I would of had to kill you then. But enough of that , lets get down to business. Come walk with me."

As they started walking Aden said " Well, why am I here?"

"Have you been wondering why you attacked Harry?" asked Milliardo.

"What does that have to do with this meeting?" asked Aden.

"Everything. Want me to tell you why you attacked Harry?" asked Milliardo while looking at Aden, " You attacked him because he was becoming stronger. You are amoung the powerful students in this school but, for a slytherin, your foolish. The only reason your not dead right now is because Adrian thinks you could be beneficial to us. I just here to welcome you. Adrian will send you a message soon with more instructions."

"If what you say about me attacking Potter is true then why should i join you, since you work for him?" asked Aden.

"Not for. I work for no one. If you decide not to work for us...very well. Do you know why I asked you to come to the forbidden forest? It was because of the Thestral. Wonderful creatures they are. I can kill you here, put a few deep cuts in you and the thestrals will take care of the rest."

"I see." was all Aden said.

"Like I said, Adrian will contact you with more instuctions." Said Milliardo " One more thing. I'm Milliardo Black, as long as you are with us contact me if you need anything. I'm sure we can work up a trade."

After a few minutes of slience Aden said" Two things. One, if your cousin bothers me again, I'll kill him. Two, I need some Veritaserum."

"Do as you wish with Draco. But what do I get inreturn for the Veritaserum?" asked Milliardo.

"I'll see what I have then I'll contact you." said Aden.

"Very well then, till next time." said Milliardo walking away.

 

Marius sat in the Chamber, reading up on the rituals that he could now do now that he had a body. Even though he could only hold it for two days at a time, it would prove to be very useful. He could hold a wand once again!

He had gotten the hang of switching back and forth between his two forms, he could now switch between the two at will. Going incorporeal, Marius shought out Milliardo. He had found a ritual of worth that needed to brough to his attention.

 

Adrian sat brooding while his pawns carried out their various tasks. So many of his pieces were coming together nicely, even the ones ignorant of the others. No doubt everyone had their own agenda, but due to careful planning he was aware of most of them.

Milliardo simply wanted to control the blackmarket, to lord over the folks who needed dark items. Marius wanted his body back to continue his research for own personal reasons, Harry wanted Dumbledore and Riddle dead and to sit on the seat of power.

The others? Most simply wanted to be on the winning side for a change, those he hadn't approached to work with him or for him would soon see it was far better to be his friend, or even his lackey, then his enemy.

Lost in his thoughts he almost didn't notice the door open and a girl from his current house walk in. Spinning around and deftly snatching her up by her throat he pinned her to the wall and snarled, teeth flashing in the moonlight. Leaning in Adrian made to drain this upstart intruder of a signifigant amount of blood and then Obliviate her, but something made him stop.

The girl didn't react much other then a violent flinch, or scream, she had just looked right into Adrian's eyes and once the bloodlust had passed, she'd asked to join him, saying she'd do anything she had to to prove she could be trusted.

Releasing the girl with a thud, Adrian thought. She was indeed good, and often blindly loyal from other memories he had seen. She would be good for something.

"A test should be in order then... find Milliardo Black, see if he needs help collecting any Acromantula venom... if you find some bring a large fang from on with you, I have a minor annoyance that's terrified of spider's and I'd like to send him a message"

 

Milliardo was about to enter the ravenclaw common room when he heard his name being called. Turning around he saw a girl run to catch up to him."You are?" Milliardo asked.

"I'm Jasmine. Adrian sent me to help you if you need to collect Acromantula venom." said Jasmine while breathing hard.

Milliardo eyes narrowed" Now, why would he send you?"

"He said he wanted to test me to see if I could join." Jasmine replied.

"Hmm...Acromantula. Alright meet me by the forest tonight. We'll work under the cover of darkness." said Milliardo leaving the girl in the hallway as he entered the common room.

Later that night, Milliardo saw a figure waiting by the forest as he approched it. " So she showed up..intresting." He said to himself.

"Well, she we get going?" He said to Jasmine as he reached her. As the two made their way into the heart of the forest Jasmine asked " How are we going to find them?"

Milliardo looked back at her, sizing her up before saying, "Live bait."

"You have some bait in that bag?" She asked while point at the bag that Milliardo had with him. Milliardo smiled "Nope."

"Then what are we going to use as bait?" said Jasmine.

"You. This place is good enough." Said Milliardo.

"What? Why Am I bait?"screamed Jasmine.

"This is your test of course. You, Jasmine are to kill as many Acromantula as you can. Once I believe You've done enough, I'll step in and take care of the rest."

"Fine. How am i-" She said before she was slamed against the tree behind her with a dagger aginst her neck."They like blood." whispered Milliardo as he cut her palms deep enough to draw blood.

"That should do" said Milliardo as he faded into the night. Milliardo watched from a distance as Jasmine was surrounded by Acromantulas. This test might have been hard on the girl but she was a Gryffindor. Milliardo watched as she had dodged a few Acromantulas, only to have her back against a tree.

'Now show me what your made off.' Thought Milliardo.
After a few tense seconds, she had killed her first Acromantula.

"Now lets see how long she can last." said Milliardo to himself. She had just killed her second...third spider. Milliardo judged the spells she used, how much power she put in it. She had some power, Milliardo had to admit. But her spells needed work. Once she made her eighth kill, Milliardo had enough. Milliardo Made his way to her, destroying some spiders that got in his way.

"Enough Jasmine. My Turn." Said Milliardo when he passed her. Standing before the Acromantula, he pulled out his wand and quickly transfigured a copse of trees into huge bear like dogs.

"Kill them." was all Milliardo said as they chased the spiders. Turning back to Jasmine, Milliardo, as he handed her a potion, said "Good Job. Now Drink this. It'll heal you."

Milliardo started collecting the dead Acromantula in to his bag. "I'll take the venom from them later." said Milliardo when he finished putting the last spider into the bag.

"Hey! Where's my fang?" asked Jasmine.

" I could have you hunt some more....but I think you did enough." said Milliardo as he pulled out a Acromantula head from his bag. " Here just take the whole head. Tell Adrian to have you meet with Marius because you need to use more powerful spells. They walked out of the forest and parted. Each going to their own way.

 

Severus Snape loomed menacingly in the shadow of the castle, eyes glinting eeriely in the minimal moon light.

He waited for the two students to enter the castle before moving, stalking towards one of the many staff secret entrances. What he'd witnessed tonight was... strange. Then again, a lot of strange things had been happening at Hogwarts lately.

A werewolf attack was just the tip of the iceburg compared to some of the things he was hearing. Harry Potter and that... Adrian boy forming some sort of aliance being one of them.

It was... weird, but the Boy-Who-Lived seemed... darker, more... Slytherin than he was before. It was a change Severus found intriguing. Albus had once told him that he was supposed to have been placed in Slytherin and he hadnt believe it... but now, it was fairly clear Albus wasnt trying to give him a stroke.

Robes billowing out behind him, he quickly made his way through the staff entrance, appearing in one of the lesser used hallways. He was about half way to his quarters when he spotted Aden, one of his own Slytherin's out of bed. Luckily it was only he who found the boy and not one of the other teachers.

"Spardere!" He barked in irritation. He watched as the boy jumped slightly and spun around to face him. Aden Spardere, one of his smarter students but that wasnt saying much.

"Professor Snape!"

"What are you doing out of bed, Mr Spardere?" He purred dangerously. If it were a student from another house they would have nearly pissed their robes by now, with a few exceptions, but his Slytherin's had better control over their bodily functions.

"I-" The boy began.

"It doesnt matter," Snape waved his hand in annoyance. "Just go, now! And dont get caught unless you want to be cleaning cauldrons everyday for the rest of your school life." With that, he breezed passed and continued on his way.

Yes, strange things were happening and he was going to get to the bottom of it.

 

Marius was back in the Chamber, having not been able to find Milliardo. He was now reading up on the ritual that he had found. It involved using dhampir blood, willingly given, the brain of a werewolf, diced and boiled in wolfsbane for three days, the skin of a dementor, forcibly taken, the wood that was the same as your wand, and a wand core also similar to the one that your wand used. The ingrediants would have to be mixed together in a vat of boiling bassilisk posion during a full moon on a cold night. While all could be aranged, he first would need a wand. Thankfully, Milliardo would be handling that as well. So, after he was done memorizing the instructions for the ritual, he went incorporeal and invisible, as it was time that he went back to information collection. Today he decided to spy on the Slytherins, as there was one boy, Aden or something, that may have some... useful information for Adrian.