She only vaguely registered that he was still talking. Her mind was too busy running through images of her body relieved of its head and innards, with her head on a spike by Traitor’s Gate like they did to criminals. And the snakes... Snakes were found in abundance throughout Slytherin, and an ancient legend said that if every last one were ever to leave Malfoy Manor, the county would fall to its enemies. The snakes were fed on the hearts of criminals; she saw her own heart being carved out of her chest and fed, raw and beating, to a massive poison-green python...