Chapter four
Harry was given a huge room, he cleaned up then Amelia shrunk his clothes to fit better. She explained she would be taking him shopping on the weekend.
Susan looked up when she heard footsteps, 'Harry.'
'Hi Susan, thank you for the letter, it was nice to read not everyone thought I was the next dark lord.'
'No one would listen to me, not until Hermione ended up petrified. They knew you would never hurt your friends.'
'I wouldn't hurt anyone.'
'Let's have lunch then I have to get back to the office. Susan after we eat I want you to show Harry around.'
'Yes Aunty.'
Amelia, Susan and Harry sat at the table, a house elf loaded up the table with food and drink.
'Thank you,' Harry smiled at the elf who jumped then gave a small bow.
'We sometimes forget to thank the house elves,' Amelia said.
'A house elf saved my life just before the end of the school year, after I helped set him free from his abusive owner. I never knew anything about them until Dobby appear in my room before I returned to Hogwarts.'
'How did he save your life?'
'Oh, um, well,' Harry sighed, 'Lucius Malfoy went to use the killing curse on me. This was after I saved Ginny Weasley. The diary that possessed her belonged to Voldemort, Lucius Malfoy had it then slipped it to Ginny. I only worked it out when I saw Dobby then I remembered when Malfoy he was making the Weasley's feel bad about Ginny's second hand books. He took one of her books out of the cauldron then dropped it back but slipped the diary in. Dumbledore said it would be hard to prove so there wasn't anything we could do.'
'I would like to see both those memories if you wouldn't mind Harry. If it shows Lucius Malfoy was about to use the killing curse he will go straight to Azkaban. If I can see proof that he slipped one of Lord Voldemort's possessions to a young girl then he may end up going through the death veil.'
'Okay, I didn't know you could watch memories until Auror Jones told me.'
'I plan to ask for many of your memories Harry so we can get to the bottom of all these dangerous events that has happened at Hogwarts. I also need to know why my department was not notified when a dangerous monster was attacking students.'
'I told Aunty about the chamber of secrets.'
'The moment the first student was petrified my office should have been notified so we could investigate. Keep eating, but tell me Harry, do you know anything about the disappearance of the defence against the dark arts teacher, Professor Quirrell?'
Harry's eyes widened then he lowered his head. He nodded, 'He died…because of Voldemort, and me.'
'I doubt his death had anything to do with you Harry. Now how was Voldemort involved when he died trying to kill you as a baby?'
'Dumbledore said he didn't die, not his soul, only his body died. Um okay,' Harry took a deep breath, 'I kept getting pain in my scar, Hermione, Ron and I worked out that Quirrell was after the philosophers stone which was hidden in the castle. At first we thought it was Snape since he had been acting suspiciously. We got through the enchantments but I ended up alone where I faced Quirrell who was possessed by Voldemort. There was a lot going on but Voldemort told Quirrell to kill me, when he touched me it hurt him. Dumbledore said it was because of my mother's sacrifice. The second time he grabbed me I knew I had to do something or I was going to die, so I grabbed him…and he died. Voldemort left his body and the last thing I remember was this black smoky substance flying towards me. I woke up a couple of days later in the hospital. I thought I was in trouble, but Dumbledore said Quirrell would have died when Voldemort left him but I still caused it.'
'The headmaster was right, eventually the possessed person would have died. I will need to see those memories as well. Now the chamber, how did you save Miss Weasley's life?'
'Hermione worked it out but she ended up petrified. When I was visiting Hermione in the hospital I found paper in her hand. Basilisk was written on it along with pipes. You see ma'am, I kept hearing this voice saying it was going to kill. I thought everyone would believe I was insane or something since no one else could hear the voice. It was the snake talking and I could understand it. Well, Ron and I found out that Ginny had been taken so we went to Lockhart, he was running away. We figured out he was a fraud. Well, I disarmed him when he was going to remove our memories, I threw his wand out the window. Ron and I forced him to go with us, to moaning Myrtles bathroom. We asked the ghost how she died and she explained about hearing a boy speaking some weird language then all she saw was a big yellow eye before she died. This happened fifty years ago. Well, Ron noticed there was a tap with a serpent on it and Myrtle said that tap never worked. After a couple of tries of speaking parseltongue I got it to open. It revealed a large pipe, we jumped down. Lockhart pretended to faint then took Ron's broken wand and was going to obliviate us but the spell backfired, it hit him and brought down the roof at the same time. Ron was stuck on one side with Lockhart and I was on the other side so I went on while Ron tried to move some of the rubble. We found out that Lockhart had been obliviating people's memories then taking credit for the things they did.'
'Before you continue, did you see a mind healer after this happened?'
'I only saw Madam Pomfrey, she doesn't like me for some reason.'
Amelia sighed, she realised she had more people to investigate. She waited until Harry had more of his dinner before she asked him to continue.
'Um, well, I got inside the chamber and found Ginny, who looked dead. Then this boy appeared, at first I didn't know who he really was, just that he was called Tom. It was Voldemort when he was a student at Hogwarts. He was sucking the life out of Ginny through the diary, and he was becoming stronger. He called the basilisk. After a lot of running Fawkes flew down and blinded it the basilisk. It could still smell me so more running until Fawkes dropped the sorting hat. I had no idea why but then I felt something. I pulled the sword of Gryffindor out of the hat then killed the basilisk. It bit me at the same time and I knew I was dying. Voldemort thought it was funny and decided to watch me die. But Fawkes used his tears on my arm and I was okay. Voldemort was going to kill me but for some reason I used the fang I pulled from my arm and stabbed the diary that had possessed Ginny. Voldemort screamed as he vanished, it was black and smoky again before he disappeared. The thing is ma'am, I felt like my scar was being ripped open, there was a black smoky thing that came out of it then it vanished just as Voldemort vanished. Ginny woke up and told me what happened, what she could remember. Fawkes came back and took all of us out, he took us to McGonagall's office where the Weasley's were waiting. Afterwards I went to Dumbledore's office with him and told him what happened. He said only a true Gryffindor could call for the sword. I was worried, Voldemort said we were alike, we did sort of look alike, when he was a teenager. We could speak with snakes, we were also raised by muggles. He showed me how he got the name ma'am, Tom Marvolo Riddle is his real name, Tom and Riddle after his muggle father and Marvolo after his wizard grandfather. When you mix those letters around you get I am Lord Voldemort.'
'So he's a halfblood,' Amelia said, 'alright, I will need to see those memories as well. Now I plan to speak with a mind healer about seeing you. After the event with Quirrell and the chamber you should have been seeing one to help you through those traumatic events. Since they happened at the end of the school year you should have remained at Hogwarts or gone to St Mungo's.'
'Dumbledore said I had to return to the Dursley's, for the protection. Hermione wrote to me a lot, at the end of my first year, she kept asking how I was, she did the same this time. The only other letter I got was from Susan. I thought Ron would have written but he didn't,' Harry slowly looked up, 'I really don't have to return to them?'
'You don't, you will remain here,' Amelia knew she could not say anything about Sirius, not until he had been seen by a mind healer, 'Your parent's wills were sealed, I plan to find out why. I was able to unseal them so I could read what your parent's wanted, for you. But there was a letter left with their wills, it explained a few things. This might be a shock Harry but you were supposed to go to a list of people if your parent's died, I was named third. I will explain about the other two soon. But your parent's had to go into hiding because of a prophecy, one about you and Voldemort. Now in this letter from your father he mentions that the first part of the prophecy was heard by a death eater who told Voldemort. That's the reason he went after your family. Now apart from finding out about these events at Hogwarts, I will be arresting Severus Snape. He was the death eater who told Voldemort and your father believed it was his way of getting back at your parent's because you're mother fell in love with your father and not him.'
'That's why Snape is always cruel to Harry,' Susan said but she reached across and took his hand. At first Harry flinched then he relaxed when he realised holding hands with Susan was like holding hands with Hermione.
Amelia had noticed how Harry reacted to touch, it saddened her that the hero of their world had been mistreated so much that he had trouble when a friend wanted to show him affection.
