NOVEL NEXT Chapter 22: Chapter 22: Show Them!
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"Throughout your first year I tried to push you, and yet you were afraid to let go. I passed it off, thinking it was just the irrational fear of an eleven-year-old boy."
"Then your second year came, and still you were afraid. So, I changed tactics, teaching you spells and focusing on your rather unique affinities, forcing you to release your power in intervals, gaining more and more control."
"You returned for your third year, and I knew something was different. You finally had unleashed enough to overpower me, now I just had to refine you. It was not until I found your secret room on the second floor that I truly understood."
"You weren't scared of your power, as the havoc you created in that room showed, rather you feared what you would do to people. When I questioned you and questioned why you were so determined to control the storm inside you, you surprised me again with the demand of an Unbreakable Vow."
"Knowing your aunt, I should not have been surprised. That was when you told me that you were not just the Heir of the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Black, but also the Heir of Slytherin, and told me of what you had planned for the future." Aries nodded, he remembered that too, but where was his professor going with this?
"All your power, your determination made sense now. All the missing pieces of the puzzle came together and throughout your fourth year I pushed you and pushed you. Antagonizing you, hoping to make you angry enough to unleash your power until at last this year something inside you snapped."
"I don't know why you reacted, all I know is you finally unleashed that storm inside you. If you want their respect Aries of House Black, you need to unleash it again and again in this tournament."
"I can't." Aries interrupted.
"Then why are you in this tournament?!" Von Reich demanded.
"I'm the Heir to the House of Black!" Aries yelled in return. "And more importantly I'm the Heir of Slytherin. But I'm just a fifteen-year-old boy from Durmstrang who grew up in Germany."
"None of these Englishman will respect me. I did not grow up around here, but I can show them what I'm capable of and make them respect me without unleashing everything."
"Quit lying to me! Despite your childish fears even I can tell that somewhere inside you, you want to unleash that power. Now tell me why you won't do it!"
"I DON'T WANT TO BECOME A MONSTER!" There it was, the deep hidden fear that had always been inside him.
His aunt had never hidden her plans for them, and he even had his own. But too often he saw himself becoming another Voldemort, another monster. He called for the void, as the nightmares of his youth assaulted him.
"Good," Von Reich said softly after a moment, bringing him back to the present. "Then don't." Aries choked out a laugh at that.
"Grindewald and Lord Voldemort have one very important thing in common. They both lost their humanity along the way. Grindewald's 'Greater Good' eventually rivaled the evil of Adolf Hitler, and the Dark Lord turned reform into massacre, not caring for what it did to the magical community."
"We both know of what you have planned Aries and there's nothing wrong with what you desire to achieve but let me tell you there is no handbook that sets any sort of rules for what a dark lord can or cannot be."
"Many have earned that title through their cruelty and through genocide, Grindewald and the Dark Lord included, but you will not earn it as they did. It will be given to you by wizards too ignorant to see that you are only doing what must be done, what others are too weak to accomplish themselves."
"You are so concerned with making connections here that you do not realize this is the perfect opportunity to let other sees that they should be the ones getting on your good side."
"You schooling at Durmstrang and your love for a larger view of magic, rather than the dogmatic view of Dumbledore, will push the Light families away from you."
"So, forget them and unleash your power Aries. Unleash the darkness, that raging storm inside you, and show the dark and grey wizards of England what you are capable of. Show them that you can be the dark lord that Voldemort never could. Keep your rules, keep that part of your humanity, and do only what is necessary."
"Show them why they should fear and respect you. Show them what it truly means to be the Heir of Slytherin. You will only become a monster if you let yourself become one. You are incredibly powerful, Aries, and you will be the Dark Lord of the coming century."
"But that does not mean you will become another Lord Voldemort. It does not mean that you have to be evil, like those who came before you. Put away that childish fear and become who you were born to be."
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Professor von Reich's words haunted him, replaying over and over in his head. His dreams seem to be even worse, as one night he'd see himself standing in the place of the Dark Lord and the next he'd relive the nightmares of his youth.
No screams came from him now as they had when he was younger, but they still troubled him nonetheless.
His friends had taken his sudden solemn mood as symptoms of the upcoming task, but truthfully it did not worry him at all.
Whether he went with his original plan or followed the advice of his mentor, the dragon would be no concern.
There were a few bright spots that did manage to cheer him up, such as the fact that Draco and Daphne began joining the fifth-year Durmstrang students more often to relax or study.
He knew Draco joined them, rather than inviting him to be with his own friends, because Parkinson could not stand Arianna, and vice versa, and thus left him alone.
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