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Chapter Four: The Truth will set you Free

Evan was restlessly pacing around his lounge, though after 10 minutes and coming up with no sort of plan of action and painfully bumping his knee into the coffee table, he settled for sitting on his couch wringing his hands nervously.

I must've been blind or stupid not to realize the Nat was hiding something! Evan thought bemusedly. That must be why Nat always called ahead to her flat mates before I dropped her off…probably to make sure that all the magical things were hidden…wow…I must've been really stupid!

Evan's thoughts were interrupted when the doorbell rang…

Ding dong.

"Shoot! Is it six already!?" Evan cursed softly to himself.

Looking at his watch he grinned, it was exactly 6pm and as always Natalie hadn't come a minute earlier or late.

Evan opened the door with his silly grin still fixated to his face.

"Hey Evan, how are you…how are you coping with me being a witch and all…do you even believe me though…what did you want to tell me that you couldn't tell me over the phone, and what the hell are you grinning about?!" Natalie said all of this in one long breath and was now panting slightly.

It was all too much for Evan and despite the events that were to occur in the next due hour or so, he laughed.

"Evan James Black! What's so funny?"

"Don't worry Nat…come in" Evan gestured inside. Natalie obediently came in and together they went into the lounge, sitting next to each other on the couch.

"Nat…," Evan began but was cut off by Natalie.

"No wait Evan…before we go on, I need to know if you believe me, believe me when I say that I'm a witch, that magic is real and most importantly that no matter what happens tonight, no matter what it is that you tell me; I still and will always love you!" Natalie's eyes held back tears that were threatening to fall.

"I know Nat, and I believe you," Evan replied sincerely. Natalie visibly brightened.

"Do you believe in magic though?"

"That's what I need to talk to you about."

"You think I'm crazy, don't you?" Natalie looked defeated.

"No, of course not! I'm a wizard Nat."

Silence followed Evan's statement, it seemed like this was happening a lot lately…

Uh oh, great move Black, now she probably hates you! Evan berated himself.

"Evan…that's awesome!" Natalie exclaimed excitedly.

"Huh? Really?"

"YES! Now we don't have to hide anything from each other, we can be a normal wizarding family…that is if you still want to marry me…"

"Whoa, one thing at a time…and yes of corse I still want to marry you. Now my turn to ask a question, why did you leave the wizarding world?"

"Why did you?" Natalie countered.

"I asked first."

"Oh fine!" Natalie pouted adorably but never-the-less told her story. "Technically I never left the wizarding world; I'm still in contact with it. I get the newspaper and everything. My flatmates are all friends of mine from school; Salem's, if you're wondering. Anyway, after leaving school I didn't know what I was going to do, so one of my friends suggested applying for a muggle job until we got a better idea of what we wanted to pursue magically. I was going to quit at New York Central Hospital and try getting a job in the American Ministry of Magic as a secretary or something but then I met you…so the rest is history!" she grinned triumphantly. "Alright Dr. Black…now that I've spilt out my sleep worthy life story, let's hear your reason to leave the wizarding world!" Natalie stuck her nose in the air in a snotty fashion. Evan couldn't help but laugh.

"It wasn't that boring"

"You're not getting off the subject that easily," she replied whilst glaring at him.

Evan sighed, his plan had failed. Time for him to come clean and tell her the truth, it was, after all, inevitable.

"What's so bad about your past?" Natalie asked softly. "Wait a minute…" a look of comprehension crossed her face, "Black…Black…I've heard your name somewhere, I swear it was in a book, a magical one, but which one?"

Evan cringed inwardly; whatever she had read in that book couldn't have been good.

The Black's were a very well known wizarding family in Britain but not in a good way. They were a pure blooded family that were known for their 'dark' activities, especially their open support for one of the darkest and most powerful wizards to ever live; Lord Voldemort, well not all the Black's were evil, twisted, dark lord supporters…

"Evan…please tell me," Evan couldn't resist the combined force of Natalie's puppy-dog eyes and her adorable pout.

"Well," this was going to be harder than Evan thought, "how much do you know about the British wizarding community, more precisely; its wars?"

"What's Britain got to do with you?"

"Everything, I'm from England, so what do you know?"

"I know what everyone else from my generation up knows," said Natalie after recovering from the shock of finding out that her boyfriend (possibly still fiancé) was English.

"What's that…I've cut all ties from the wizarding community for years remember," Evan added at Natalie's disbelief.

"Oh yeah…well the latest war that was fought originated from Britain the dark lord; He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named grew too powerful for Britain's greatest to defeat, not even Albus Dumbledore could stop him," Natalie paused when Evan's expression changed from wonder to murderous at Albus Dumbledore's name but as quickly as the change had come, it vanished. Natalie shrugged it off as a trick of the light and continued.

"Anyway, the war grew to such a scale that it became the first World-Wide Wizarding War and was deemed as the darkest war ever fought in all of magical history. I'm sure that you would've heard of it Evan, it was too big to go unnoticed!"

"I cut my ties with the wizarding world completely Nat…what happened to Vol…the dark lord?" Evan mentally kicked himself at his slip up but then sighed inwardly as Natalie didn't show any signs of having noticed his mistake.

"He was defeated just over five years ago by a guy called Harry Potter, being British you should've at least heard of him!"

"Yeah…I have," Evan replied almost regrettably.

"Evan, what's up? Did you know Harry?"

"You could say that…"

"What do you mean…you're not making any sense Evan!"

"Nat do you know what happened… where Harry Potter was before the war ended?"

"Yea, the bloody Ministry chucked him in Azkaban for something he didn't do!" Natalie looked disgusted.

"I left England because of something that happened to me…"

"What's you leaving the wizarding world got to do with Harry Potter and the war?"

Natalie looked beyond confused now.

"My real name isn't Evan Black,"

"What?"

"It's Harry Potter."

Evan/Harry had prepared himself for any situation but he never expected Natalie's reaction to his confession…

She was laughing.

"Evan, you can't be serious, you're going pretty low now. Honestly, you're Harry Potter and I'm Merlin!"

"Nat, its true…look, I'll show you…"

Natalie gasped, Evan/Harry's eyes flickered from a deep hazel to a vibrant, almost glowing emerald then slowly his hair darkened until it was an unruly mop of raven hair. Evan/Harry's body remained the same but out of all the changes, what scared Natalie the most was a lightening bolt shaped scar appearing on his forehead.

Sitting in front of Natalie was no longer Evan but the most powerful wizard of all time, with power to rival Merlin himself, Harry James Potter; the Boy Who Lived

"Hey…" Harry began uncertainly.

He was the last thing Natalie saw for several hours before darkness enveloped her vision.

"Well that went well," Harry exclaimed sarcastically to himself.

Author's Notes: I'm sooooooooo sorry about the long update, but you may have to prepare for an even longer one (don't hurt me!!).

Thanks to everyone that has read and reviewed my story. From now on Evan/Harry will be referred to as Harry. Concerning the story; I'm not sure as to put Sirius into it (this is Post-OOTP) so any feedback on that idea (or any others that you might have) are very much welcome.

Thanks for reading

Fire-Pawz