4
(Harry's POV)
We listened to Dumbledore tell his sstory of when he had first met Tom and upon seeing the memory of that first meeting I knew that what we had to learn we would not learn all of it tonight.
We sat in silence upon exiting the pensive quietly thinking of what we just saw and heard after a few minutes Dumbledore spoke again.
"I see I have given you 4 a lot to think about I have much more to show you still perhaps we should do this over a period of time. Right now though I wish to dis use what we just saw."
I looked up at him and asked what I could only asume we were all thinking, "Sir did you know then what he would become?"
"Aw, Harry alas I did not, but even if I had I do not think it would have made much of a difference I am afraid."
I nodded and looked at the others trying to see what they were thinking but all I could see on their faces were looks off deep concentration. We would have to make a trip to the 7th floor to discuss this as a group on the way back to Gryfindor tower.
Dumbledore spoke again, "Now I know your mission is important and time sensitive but I must ask you to be patient with me I have more memories to show you and I feel it best to show you one at a time. Another thing is I do not have all of the memories I need to show you in order to help you." he paused and I nodded and he continued, "Harry I suspect I know what is in your scar but until I know for sure I think it best to wait to tell you what it is." again I nodded I agreed with him guessing wouldn't help us and I understood that he needed to be sure before he told me what he suspected, "Harry I am going to ask you not to dwell on it guess work can make the mind go wild and it will do you no good."
"I understand professor and I agree, I can see what it does to a person I spent the last year dwell g on what could be and the whys of my situation."
We talked for a little while longer with Ron Hermione and Ginny each adding in their thoughts here and there. After agreeing he would send word with information regarding our next meeting the 4 of us left his office.
When we had reached the corridor outside of Dumbledore's office I had everyone follow me to the room of requirement.
The room of requirement agave us a different setting then we were used to, the room we were looking at suprisingly resembled Ron's room at the Burrow. It made sense though seeing as that's where we usually met to talk about things. Although instead of beds large cushions resembling beanbag chairs we all took a cushion.
"We need to talk about our situation." I said as soon as we were all seated.
"I agree with Harry," Ginny began, "as much as we need to figure how we are going to stop what we know we can we can't do that if people start thinking we are hiding something." we all nodded in agreement.
"I think we should try to act as normally as possible," I looked at Hermione as she spoke, "continue acting out our back story that the Time Pool gave us. Now if we do that I am Hermione Potter adopted sites to Harry and James, and Ginny is Ginny Evens twin sister to Lily. And Ron is still a Weasley, from what I have observed the four of us are a tight group and did is not unusual to those around us for us to stay as close as we were in our own time."
Ginny suddenly rummaged through her bag pulling out what apeared to be a journal, "I found this this morning, it's my journal. In our time I wrote a lot in one before our second year but stopped in this time though nothing like that happened so the person I m hadn't been afraid to write." she paused and looked at us but then looked back at the journal, "this will help I think, aparently I write about everything. Accourding to this I already suspected Peter of being a rat so there's that, also one thing I found is someone we can save."
"Who?" Ron, Hermione and I said at once
"Snape," she held up her hand when she saw we were going to protest, "I know what your thinking, and your wrong. You should hear the way Lily defends him to the other girls and boys even whatever happened in their 5th year hasn't happened yet Sirius said something happened this year to make Lily hate him, also the whole Snape whomping willow incident didn't happen till next year. Lily hating Snape is what drove him into joining the death eaters." she ripped through to the middle of the journal, "I wrote this a few months ago." she flipped the book so we could all read the three of us leaned over and read together:
It seems to me that mine and Lily's friendship with Severus is saving him from the fate most Slytheryns seem to suffer from. I think he is in love with Lily but I know she has a crush on James, I think Severus only loves her because she was the first to show any kindness to him me being the second. He told us once that he was glad to be our friend he didn't say why but I think he fears what I do that without us he would join You-know-who. I need to make James and his friends see that Severus is a good guy despite his house may a Harry and Hermione could convince him. I would hate for Severus to fall down that path because of what they do to them.
The entry ended there and I looked up at Ginny, "That's why he hates me, my father bullying him made him believe what he feared the most that he was no better than those others who joined Voldemort." I re read the entry, "Ginny's right we need to save him."
We talked a bit longer all of us agreeing once again to try and act as normal as possible.
When we reached the common room before parting ways I stopped the gifs from going to there dormitories, " you know I never thought of it till now but I think Ginny got the worst of us as far as back stories go."
They looked at me confused, "you have another sister and I must admit I feel bad for you."
Understanding flew a cross their faces but Ginny just smiled, "oh I have plans for her don't you worry her outlook on wizards will change before long." and with that she looped her arm into Hermione's and took off up the stairs. I just shook my head I didn't want to know, with that I want to bed thinking about all the people we could save it made me smile for the first time in forever!
