THE WHOLE WORLD IS AGAINST ME

Chapter 10

Talking to Hermione helped Harry to get up the courage that he needed to confront Dumbledore. Even if the Headmaster didn't allow him to stay at Hogwarts for a few weeks, he still wanted to give the bastard a piece of his mind for how he had been treated in his school years.

He left Hermione at her classroom, she claimed that she had to go to her chambers before going to dinner and she wanted to put her notes back in her office. Harry hadn't realised it was so late. He had thought that it was lunchtime but apparently he had missed a meal in his rush to get to the school.

He followed the familiar root through the school to the great hall were dinner had started and the students were happily chatting to each other as they ate their meal.

Harry peered into the room through the gap between the two doors.

He took a deep breath before entering the room, but staying at the back.

Lizzy saw him and ran over to greet him, attracting unwanted attention to him. It took awhile for the teachers to register that the room had gone quiet but when Dumbledore noticed him he exploded.

"Potter, you have no right to be here." The headmaster said, rising from his seat and moving around the table towards him.

"But Professor you gave me permission to come here." Harry stated, letting go of his daughter and moving towards the Headmaster.

"By deception which makes you being here even worse, it was your choice to leave and you can't change that decision."

"You gave me no choice, maybe if you warned the students that males can become pregnant then neither of us would have been in that position. I was not going to destroy an innocent life."

"Well that may be so, but it looks like you've destroyed your own life." Dumbledore said, gesturing to Harry's worn cloths and slightly sick appearance.

"You wouldn't last one day on the streets without magic." Lizzy snapped at the headmaster.

"Stay out of this Lizzy." Harry told his daughter.

Harry again moved closer to Dumbledore, so that he was right in front of the staff table.

"You know one thing that I hated about the wizarding world is that you put people on a pedestal and then you take delight in watching them fall. Take me for example; I grew up being hated by my relatives, being mentally and sometimes physically abused. Then I came here and found out that everyone seemed to love me for something I couldn't remember. However in my second year everyone turned on me because I could speak Parseltongue, something I couldn't control.

"Then in my 3rd year, Sirius Black escaped and I was coddled again because the wizarding world couldn't chance the 'Boy-Who-Lived' being killed by a mass murderer. Next in my 4th year I was entered into the tri-wizard tournament by a Death Eater but I was blamed because of course the 'famous Harry Potter' can't resist a chance to show off. Can I Professor Snape?" Harry asked stopping in front of the Potions master. He's only reply was a glare from the much hated teacher.

"But that year Voldemort came back and when I tried to warn the Minister of Magic he turn the wizarding world against me. In fifth year, the last year before I defeated Voldemort, you Dumbledore," he turned back to the headmaster, "turned against me without explanation, later saying that you thought that Voldemort had possessed me."

"And I was right," Dumbledore snapped.

"Yes I'll give you that but in my sixth year when I defeated Voldemort the world loved me again. I was repeatedly congratulated and thanked by people I didn't know and I hated it. No matter what everyone said, I hated it." He now turned to another teacher at the table.

"The only comfort I found was with my boyfriend, Neville Longbottom. For a year and a half I thought I had found the one person who loved me for me but I was wrong. The day I turned up pregnant a thought that he would be happy for me but no, when I told you what did you tell me Neville?" Harry asked leaning in close to Neville, looking every inch the powerful wizard he used to be, despite not having a wand.

Neville mumbled something that no one could understand, seeming to have reverted to the forgetful, clumsy and shy person he was at school.

"What was that?" Harry asked, "Or do you regret your earlier statement."

"What was I suppose to do Harry? I was seventeen years old, I wanted to have a life, I didn't want to be tied down by the obligations of marriage and children!" Neville was shouting now not caring that everyone could hear him.

"Well how do you think I felt? You knew that I could never kill an innocent child."

"Then you should have put her up for adoption like you were told to do."

"What? So she could grow up an orphan like me? You know very well that I couldn't do that either, even if the ministry had placed her with a good family, she would always have been the 'Boy-Who-Lived's child' any love that she would have found would be because of who's child she was not who she is.

"I only had two choices and you took away the only one of those which would have guarantied her a happy, healthy life. As soon as the ministry found out that I wasn't going to be married before her birth, my bank account was closed off from me and I was sent out on the streets. I spent 6 months in the London backstreets eating out of the trash and hiding so that no one would see the heavily pregnant male in the shadows.

"If you had just stopped for two minutes to think about the effects that your decision made on me, my daughter could have had a proper childhood, rather then me having the knowledge that my young daughter was playing in the next room while soon sick bastard fucked me so that I could feed her and put cloths on her back."

"Well maybe you should have found a proper job; no one forced you to become a whore." Neville snapped, having long since gotten to his feet he moved around the table to better face Harry.

"What was I suppose to do? I had no money and a two day old daughter plus I was on the run from the ministry who wanted to take her away from me. I went with the first person who offered me a job."

"So what stopped you from changing jobs once you had enough money to get you lives together?" One of the other teachers asked.

"She this is what none of you understand. There are so many sick people out there who want to hire a small whore so that they can pretend it is there son or the boy next door. But most are kill in the first year because people are too rough with them. I have only lasted this long because my magic helps me to heal quickly so that I don't bleed to death in the night. Magic is my blessing and my curse in life. But you know I wouldn't trade the last eleven years on my life for anything. My only regret in that I won't life long enough to see my daughter graduate school or…" Harry stopped short realising what he had just said.

He turned to Elisabeth who was still standing in the middle of the hall with Alex. They stared at each other for a moment before Lizzy ran out of the great hall with tearsstreaming down her cheeks.

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Artemis Moonsong – look I know your trying to help but when your complaining about MY spelling and grammar can you try and get yours right. Sorry to be bitchy but I hate hypocrites.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, and sorry I took so long to update I have just finished my end of year exams. Anyone reading my other fics I will try and update them soon but no promises.

Finally I am stuck on where to go next with this so any ideas are very welcome. Next chapter will be Harry telling Lizzy about the AIDS but after that I'm stuck. Also anyone who knows some side effects of AIDS feel free to tell me I can only find HIV info on the net.

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