Chapter seven
"Horcruxes, basilisks and the chamber of secrets, I'm not sure I want to hear more Prongs."
"The more we hear the worse it gets. But my son almost ended up in Slytherin."
"It was the soul, the hat sensed a bit of you-know-who."
"Yeah," James sighed, "The chamber of secrets, we've all heard the rumours about that but no one not even Dumbledore ever found out if it was real or not, now we know it is. I wonder where it is?"
"If we had time we could find out, but that is not important right now. Let's write down everything they spoke about, eat then head back outside. So far we've been hearing a lot of important information and the more we have the more we might be able to take back with us."
"Yeah, but I'm worried about what's going on in our time. What if everyone believes we're missing, what will Lily and Moony think?"
"We can't worry about that now James, gathering this information could mean you and Lily don't die and I don't end up in Azkaban."
"You're right, we have to stop that and stop my son having to go through all this shit. You know Padfoot, after hearing what we have, the life he's had, it's amazing that he turned out to be such a good bloke."
"He is and he's like Lily he just looks like you. One thing we've both noticed though, he doesn't sound like someone who is only eighteen, just like his looks he sounds older when he talks. Anyway, what gets me is why Harry and Snape are friends. Snape mentioned when he called Lily a mudblood, now we know why, but how did Harry and Snape become friends, that's what I don't get."
"Snape mentioned saving Harry's life, maybe that's all it was, they talked and became friends. But one thing I didn't like when we were watching them when that bushy haired girl was here."
"Are you talking about the look Harry gave Snape?"
"Yeah, he can't seriously have the hots for Snape, can he?"
"We think of our Snape James, Harry is seeing a completely different bloke to how we knew him. Maybe Harry is seeing the Snape Lily used to know before he became friends with those death eaters."
"Okay, maybe that's why but the age difference, he's our age for merlin's sake."
"You know as well as I do you can't control who you fall for. You thought Lily was a snobby bitch when she was younger, now all you do is snog her and hardly spend time with me."
James laughed, "Sorry Padfoot, but I can't snuggle up to you and Lily's body feels nice."
"Okay, let's forget about that, we have work to do."
James and Sirius wrote and read for the next hour before heading back outside again. They sat only feet from Harry and Severus but made sure they wouldn't be in the way if people moved towards them.
'Harry.'
Harry and Severus looked up, 'Hey Kingsley, why are you back here when you have a country to run, playing hooky?'
'Smart arse Potter, I'm here to explain something to you. But I also want to make sure you're resting.'
'Everyone is making sure I am and I hate sitting around doing nothing.'
'That's because you've always been in the middle of everything so it will take time for you to realise how much your life has changed. Now though, I found out that yes you can live in that house as it's rightfully yours. I also spoke to Albus' portrait, I was going to have the house fixed for you but Albus warded the house using your blood, so you are the only one that can open it to allow the builders in.'
'Thanks for thinking about that Kingsley, but I vaguely remember Dumbledore saying something about the house being protected. Hermione asked me once about the stuff inside, if maybe people got in and stole souvenirs.'
'No one got in, right after Hagrid took you from the house Albus and the order went to retrieve your parents bodies then he sealed it. Have you ever seen it mate?'
'At Christmas time, only the outside though. I used the excuse that we needed to speak with Bathilda Bagshot just to get Hermione to agree to going to Godric's Hollow. She thought it was too dangerous and it was.'
'Why did you need to speak with the woman that wrote history books?' Severus asked.
'We were trying to figure out where the sword was, then we found out that the Dumbledore's lived in Godric's Hollow, this was after Percival Dumbledore ended up in Azkaban and the Dumbledore's were friends with Bagshot. She found us at the cemetery, I went to see my parents graves then we followed her back to her place. The thing is, first she saw us under the cloak, I have no idea how, and second it didn't seem strange that she never spoke considering how old she was we figured it was natural. When she gestured for me to follow her upstairs, not Hermione, that's when I found out why.'
'Since all you said was she was dead, explain,' Kingsley said.
'She started talking,' Harry stared to hiss, 'I don't realise I'm hearing parseltongue, to me it sounds natural. Anyway, I asked her about the sword and she made a small movement like it was in the room, when I turned Nagini came out of her body, she'd been dead for a long time. Hermione heard all the crashing and spells, the snake got me just before Hermione hit it with some spell, she busted my wand though. Anyway, I heard the snake tell Voldemort she had me, I told Hermione he was on his way, she grabbed me and apparated us out right as he turned up, I woke up late the next day.'
'So if Hermione busted your wand, how is it fixed now?' Kingsley asked.
Harry dug into his pouch and pulled out two wands, 'My phoenix feather wand was completely destroyed; when we rescued Ollivander I asked him, he said it couldn't be fixed. I felt like I lost my right arm and a bit of protection from Voldemort since our wands share cores. I had two other wands but they just didn't feel the same. Anyway, right after the fighting and I was able to get through everyone I went up to speak with Dumbledore portrait with Hermione and Ron. I told him I'm putting this wand, his wand back in his tomb, but first I used it to fix my wand.'
'Okay, it's Albus' wand but how could you repair a wand when even Ollivander said it couldn't be fixed?' Severus asked.
Harry stared at the wand in his hand, 'It's my wand now, Malfoy disarmed Dumbledore the night he died, I disarmed Malfoy at the manor,' Harry looked up, 'It's the elder wand, which is another long story that can wait for another day. But that is why I don't want to keep it, it's too dangerous and could have everyone after me again, so I'm putting it back with its last owner.'
'The wand of destiny, the unbeatable wand, I never believed it was real. Is that why Albus was so blasted powerful?' Kingsley asked.
'No, the wand helped but he was powerful,' Harry sighed then put the two wands back in his pouch.
'You're more powerful that Albus ever was, it's going to be interesting seeing what you can do. You were okay as a student, not brilliant and abysmal at potions, now though, I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up beating everyone in every class including Miss Granger.'
'I don't want to think about having that type of power. Being linked to Voldemort for seventeen years; linked to evil, for all I know it could make me want power like him, be evil.'
'Harry,' Kingsley sighed as he knelt down next to him, 'What did Sirius tell you after Arthur was attacked?'
Harry gave a small smile, 'You're not a bad person Harry, you're a good person that bad things have happened to.'
'Exactly, you could never be evil, it's not in your nature.'
'This is hard to say, but the mutt was right.'
'Severus, don't call Sirius a mutt,' Harry sighed, 'I miss him.'
'I know you do, I might not but you and everyone else does. He loved you though even I saw that.'
'I started to think of him as a father, it was nice. I felt guilty though.'
'Why would you feel guilty?' Kingsley asked.
'I wondered what my father would think; he probably wouldn't like it even if they were best mates.'
'That's the idea of godparents; if the parents die the godparents become the parent. It's like with Teddy, you're his godfather and Remus knew if he died you would be taking his place.'
'I'll do anything for Teddy but I will make sure he knows about his parents. You worked with Tonks Kingsley, I know she was clumsy but she was a good auror, helped by being a metamorphmagus. Do you think Teddy will have that ability?'
'It's a good chance, Andromeda is, her father was, it did skip a few generations, so you can never tell. But since I'm here, I have to ask, as the former head auror, do you still want to be an auror? You were always asking me, Tonks and Mad-eye about being an auror.'
Harry stared at Kingsley then at Severus who shrugged, but it got Harry thinking, did he still want to be an auror. He was good at fighting and had experience with dark witches and wizards and now his power. Maybe being an auror is what he was meant to be.
