"They will not be punished, nor will you punish them. In fact, should I hear that they have been punished then I will torment the both of you." Voldemort said in a cold voice before gesturing the boys to come forward. The two gulped but did as they were told and stopped in front of the other death eaters. "Now, tell me what you know about Harry Potter." He commanded.
"Um, my lord..." Draco began. "...when I first met Potter, before the sorting feast, I offered to help him work out which wizards were 'the wrong sort' as my father had instructed me to do so. He then told me that he was capable of doing it on his own but was willing to listen to me. Then during the sorting he was sorted into Slytherin house, which was quite honestly a surprise for everyone. I didn't really expect him to last more than a week."
"Me neither," Theo spoke. "he acted in a very Slytherin like manner during the feast and then when we got into the common room a sixth year boy tried to bully Potter, he grabbed him by the collar and the next thing we know a snake shot out from Potter's clothes, this was the snake that would be his familiar. We learnt that he was a parslemouth. Potter then hit the sixth year boy with a knock back jinx before he used his parslemouth abilities to set all the metal snakes in the common room on him."
"Nott and I have both spent a lot of time with Potter," Draco spoke next. "I...he is truly a great wizard. It would be foolish to deny that. He's consistently the best in our year, his week is not complete if he hasn't mastered advance spells and his day is not finished until he learns or practises some form of magic. He even practises taking his wand out of his holster just so he could do it as fast as possible, he's been doing that since first year."
"He's mastered the patronus charm and Merlin knows how many other spells we're too young to learn." Theo spoke. "I am not saying that he is undefeatable, you yourself have defeated him, but he is not an easy win for the average wizard. He regularly spars and beats older students, most of the time just for fun. Nobody who has been in Slytherin house for a long time is willing to challenge him."
"Um..." Draco coughed before taking a deep breath. "Potter has...also challenged you." Draco added.
"Oh?" Voldemort asked.
"Yes, I can tell you the exact words he used if you wish." Draco offered. "But to sum up, he walked into the great hall with the school nurse following behind him and telling him to get back to the hospital wing. He goes up to the front, pushes Dumbledore out of the way and then basically said that he wasn't a liar and if people didn't believe his words about your return then they could suffer the consequences."
"After that he told everyone to pay attention because he wanted you to hear his words," Theo said nervously. "he basically said that you won their last fight but you won't win their next, and even if you do then he's going to do his best to take part of you with him."
"Hmm." Voldemort hummed, he decided to take a look into the mind of these boys to truly discover what happened without wasting time listening to them, only...he quickly realised that he couldn't. He showed no visible reaction but internally his mind was racing. 'What the hell happened to my legilimency?!' He mentally hissed.
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