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Dumbledore's Secret
Chapter one Unspoken and Spoken agreements
"Where is He?" Ron yelled looking up and down the platform. "Ron, calm down." Herminone said sternly. "Herminone you can't tell me you're not angry with him? "I didn't say that." She said quickly. "I just think we should let him explain himself before we dive on him." "What is there to explain?" Ginny said impatiently "He didn't answer any of our letters other than to be dismissive and when Lupin and Moody went to get him to bring him to the Order he refused to come." "But there must be a reason for that." Herminone said reasonably "and he needs to tell us."
"I don't need to tell you anything because you wouldn't have understood if I had." Said a voice they spun round towards the source of the voice and saw Harry standing against a pillar behind them.
"Harry!" Herminone shrieked throwing herself at him. Harry felt the air get knocked out of him as she threw her arms around him. "Hi, Herminone." He managed to croak past his closed airway. She released him then and looked at him critically "You should have answered our letters."
"Like you did last year you mean?" Harry asked with his head cocked Herminone was about to argue that that wasn't fair when she realised he was smiling.
"Look I'll explain everything later but it was important and you wouldn't have understood anyway." He said looking round them all. "You do know that was totally stupid didn't you?" Ginny said punching his arm. "Not as stupid as coming to the Order would have been." Harry said grimly.
"How can you say that!" Ron said exasperated "There is no where safer than the Order. Harry you know that."
"Then if that's the case why does Dumbledore make me stay at the Dursley's for at least a month before I can escape?" "Don't ask me to fathom out the workings of Dumbledore's mind." Ron said darkly.
"Well I do know and I'm not getting into that here." With that he set off for the train and the others gaped at him before following in his wake.
Harry was sat in a compartment with Neville, and Luna as Ginny had had to go along to the Prefects carriage as she had also been made a prefect this year. It wasn't long before the compartment door slid open and Ginny, Herminone and Ron slid in looking exhausted.
"Harry do you want to take my badge now?" He asked Harry gaped "C'mon guys it can't have been that bad." "Oh yes it was." Ginny said "And it's getting worse." Herminone said grimly. "No one listens to us and Malfoy doesn't help the situation in fact I think he just likes to stir it."
"So what if I am?" Sneered a voice.
Then as if on que Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle slunk into the compartment. "Malfoy how about you go and blow off stem somewhere else because I don't want to listen to your hot air right now." Harry said hardly taking notice of him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Malfoy's fists clench and one hand heading for his wand. Harry was way ahead of him and had his wand out before Malfoy could blink. "Malfoy, look, to be honest I can't be arsed with you right now so do yourself a favour and just piss off." Ron, Herminone, Ginny, Neville and Luna all stood their eyes hard and back up behind Harry their wands raised.
Malfoy recognised at that point that, for the moment at least he was beaten and simply smiled evilly before saying "I'm not done here Potter. You're going to pay for what you did to my father." With that he left the carriage. Harry shrugged but he had the feeling that the hostility that had lasted between them since the first moment they had met was about to get about a hundred times worse.
The rest of the journey to Hogwarts was uneventful.
They got changed and watched the sky darken with black clouds as they when steadily north. Then just as the train slowed to a stop the rain began to spit against the windows and Harry knew it wouldn't be long before it was pouring down.
He only hoped that for the sake of the first years it would hold off until they crossed the lake. They got down out of the train and headed towards the carriages pulled by the Threstrals.
But as they were making their way through the crowd a familiar voice was yelling "first years, First years over here!" "Hiya Hagrid!" Ron and Harry yelled over the tops of the first years.
Hagrid looked up and his beard crinkled as he waved to them before leading the first years off towards the boats. Harry headed to a carriage and patted the Threstrals before getting into the carriage. "What do they look like Harry?" Ron asked. "Well, I guess they kind of look like horses with wings and weird red eyes." He shrugged. "Sometimes it's better that you can't see them." Ron looked up and nodded.
Harry sighed wishing now more than ever that he could go back to when his life had been less complicated but then ever since he had stepped foot in Hogwarts it had been one thing after another.
Not all of it, he conceded, was bad. He would not give up his time here, having friends for the first time in his life, playing Quidditch, finding Sirius, even for the short time was worth everything. Hogwarts was where he truly belonged and knowing that his mother and father had also been here give him a strong sense of comfort.
The carriages stopped and the students filed out, none to orderly, as the rain was getting heavy into the entrance. There was a loud cackling and they looked up to see Peeves bobbing merrily above them throwing water balloons on students making them even wetter than before. Harry ducked as a water bomb came sailing at him and decided the best thing that he could do was get into the Great Hall where at least he could dry off.
As he went to do this however a voice said, "Potter!" he turned to see Professor Magonagall coming towards him. "Could I have a word?"
Harry looked from Ron to Herminone and shrugged. He walked towards Professor Magonagall and looked up. Her face broke into a faint smile and said "Potter you're not in trouble. Come on."
He followed Professor Magonagall into her office and sat down. It was only then that he realised that Remus Lupin was there and that he was smiling at Harry. "Hello Harry." He said quietly. "Hi Remus." Harry said suddenly very confused as to why Remus would be here and not with the Order.
"I trust you can take care of this Lupin." Magonagall said looking at Lupin hard. "Of course." Was all that Lupin said. With that Professor Magonagall turned and left the room. Harry stared after her for a few moments and then turned back to Lupin. Harry realised that he looked more tired than he had ever seen him. But he smiled non-the-less. "We need to talk Harry." Lupin said quietly. "I guessed." Harry shrugged. "I promised Sirius I'd take care of you if anything happened to him." Lupin looked at him and Harry realised that Lupin was probably feeling just as bad if not worse about Sirius' death. He had been best friends with him for a long time and now the last of his Marauder friends with the exception of Wormtail, who in Harry's opinion, no longer counted were gone.
He looked up at Lupin with new awareness. "Will you let me do that Harry?" Lupin looked like this was costing him to do. Harry could see the pain in Remus' eyes and realised he was all Harry had left to connect him to his father and his godfather and since he had known Lupin he had come to care for him as much as he had Sirius after all Lupin had done just as much for him as Sirius had.
Harry nodded feeling his heart gape all over again. He hadn't realised it was possible to miss a person as much as he missed Sirius. Lupin looked Harry straight in the eye and said "I miss them too Harry. More than you know. They were the best friends I ever had they could have been my brothers I cared for them that much and it hurts to think I hated Sirius for twelve years for something he never did.
I never believed in him like I should have done and that hurts more now than it ever did." Harry stared at Lupin and wished he could ease his pain.
"Its unfair that I got to spend so much time with them and you so little but know this Harry. I will do everything I can to keep you safe. I don't want to replace your father or Sirius because I never could and I don't want to but I want you to try and see if you can just let me in the way you were able to let Sirius in."
Harry was gob-smacked. Remus sounded so unsure of himself and not the quiet and confident friend he had come to know.
"I do." He croaked as his throat felt dry.
"I just feel like everyone who gets near me or cares for me ends up getting hurt. I couldn't bare for that to happen to any of you. You, the Weasleys and Herminone are all I have left now for family and I can't bear to think that just by knowing me you're in danger. That's one reason of many I didn't come to headquarters this summer. Voldemort won't just stop at getting me; he'll wipe out everyone around me. I can't-I won't let that happen again Sirius died because I was too stupid to see that I was playing right into Voldemort's hands. I can't lose anyone else. I won't."
He took a deep breath and looked up again and found Lupin looking at him with a smile on his face. He stood up and came round the desk and knelt in front of Harry. "Sirius died the hero he was always meant to be. It had nothing to do with you. It was Bellatrix and Voldemort that killed him Harry not you. Yes he came to rescue you but he could have been killed in a battle the same day without you. The truth is Harry we can play the what if? Game all day but the fact remains as much as we hate it that Sirius is gone and Voldemort is the one to blame. He chocked out the last sentence.
It was smothered in unshed tears but Harry couldn't mistake the anger behind it. "And I am not going to let the son and godson of my two best friends die by the same hand."
Harry nodded slowly.
"Now can I trust you to not take any risks this year and not go wondering as you, Ron and Herminone are so prone to doing." Harry nodded. He knew that would be causing unnecessary risk and since the whole wizarding community had become aware of his existence Voldemort and his Death Eaters had slowly become more and more daring and more and more attacks were being recorded. Lupin nodded smiling at Harry. "Thank-you Harry." He nodded and stood Lupin did the same "Keep in touch." He said and then walked to the fireplace and disappeared in a whirl of green light.
