XII – A Child Speaking His Heart

I'm not stupid and had seen Harry share several looks with Arthur before the boy had asked Arthur's wife about this supposed English Tea Party. I shake my head at the ridiculousness of it all and see the room has changed quite significantly, thanks to Harry and Kreacher, who now happily took orders of the grandson of one of his mistresses.
The room is still long and rectangular, but now with two round tables in the room – one big for five or six to sit at and one for two – along with all cabinets, closets and other stuff moved out to the kitchen underground. I shake my head again and while Sora and Riku take their seats at the smaller table, do I seat myself next to Harry.

The boy smiles at me and I whisper: "What are you up to, cub?" He looks shocked and scared, like a deer caught in a headlight, and whispers back: "I want to show –." But I smirk and say: "Harry, you can maybe fool one Marauder, but not both of them. Now what are you up to, really?" The boy sighs and says:
"I just want us all to have an important heart to heart and want to have my verbal revenge on Mrs. Weasley for what she said to Sirius on the night I arrived here. I just want everything sorted out." I smile and ruffle the boy's hair, before asking: "And the reason you won't allow us adults to do that is what exactly?"
And Harry says: "Because I have spend more time around reliable kids than around adults and because I have been practically raised by two kids, so I'm a little too independent to trust adults to take care of things I can handle myself." I sigh and ask: "And this is the reason for you constantly looking for dangerous situations, I presume."

But the boy retorts: "I don't go looking for them, they find me." I laugh at this and Sirius asks: "Anything you want to share, old pal?" And I answer: "Nothing, Sirius. Just Harry's cheeky retort on my comment of him always seeking out dangerous situations." This makes my best friend - and secret crush – smile as he asks:
"Oh, and what was that?" And Harry says: "Sirius, I don't go looking for trouble, trouble finds me." Making the man laugh, just like it did me. I then see Riku and Sora smile at this and smile at the fact they seem to care so much about us already. I then ask: "Shall we start, cub?" Harry nods at me and uses his spoon to tap his teacup.

Everyone – Riku and Sora as well as Arthur, Molly and Sirius – look his way and he sighs before he says: "Thank you all for coming. Sora, Riku, I trust you as my brothers and hope you can bear witness to this important conversation as I hope to use this Tea Party to positively change the atmosphere between three of the guests here."
Everyone looks at each other and Harry says: "I speak, of course, about Mrs. Weasley, Sirius and myself. Mrs. Weasley, you have seen my behavior towards yourself for the last week or so and have seen how it has been cold and distanced since your comments to Sirius – my Godfather – on the night of my arrival.
The problem is that you have yet to see the problem in those comments and worst is, you don't at all see the, already, close bond between myself and my Godfather and that, together with your need to keep us apart and be rude to your own host, causes an endless cycle, I just can no longer bare to be witness off."

The woman looks shocked and says: "Harry really, I –." But while Harry's lips turn thin, does Arthur lie a hand on her arm and says: "Molly, you were at wrong that night and Harry is right. You and your behavior to your and the host to your children is disgraceful and nothing like you. Exactly the reason Harry called us together."
The woman looks at him and then Harry says: "Mrs. Weasley, you see someone in my Godfather he isn't and therefore keep pushing him and me apart. This makes Sirius angrier and angrier at you and together with the terrible memories just attached to this house's name, he will never be able to heal, thus further lowering your opinion of him."

The woman looks shocked and then Harry lies a hand on Sirius' knee and the words I have been wanting to say for a very long time come out of the boy's mouth as he says: "Sirius, you've risked loads for me and are doing things for me and my safety that make words unable to describe how honored and grateful I am.
But your worst memories were turned against you in Azkaban and those concern things you still need to grieve over. And because, after your escape, all you could focus on was your own freedom and my safety, you still didn't get any chance to heal. And this place is only worsening the effects of Azkaban, because of the memories you keep to this place.
You might be getting fitter in body, but in mind you're worsening – and don't deny it, I can tell when someone is feeling worse than he lets show." The boy then glances at Riku who shows him a playful glare and Harry goes on: "You've suffered 12 years of emotional and mental terror and 1 year freedom doesn't fix that."

He then turns back to Molly, who actually looks as if she just won the lottery and Harry spats: "And why you are now smirking like that is beyond me as you are the last who is trying to help him heal." The woman looks shocked and Harry asks with a sneer I have never heard before: "Forgot about the cycle already?"
The woman shrinks back and Harry says: "You constantly force Sirius away from me, insult his still growing ability as Godfather without allowing him any chance to develop that ability and force him, on his own, into rooms that only further remind him of the terrible youth he had, thus further worsening his healing process."

"Harry, surely I –." Molly starts, but Harry shouts: "No, Mrs. Weasley, you're detrimental to Sirius' health and I will no longer allow it. Why you don't treat him like you do me – like someone who needs a true mother – is beyond me, but if I have to go by your actions and words spoken, I'd say you really believe him to be a dangerous criminal."
The woman lowers her head and Arthur gasps as he says: "Molly, surely you don't." But Harry spats: "I'm not even surprised." She looks up, Harry now standing in front of his own seat and while Riku and Sora have also stood up and are halfway on their way to us and Harry goes on, shocking me as he speaks and says:
"Last summer, Mrs. Weasley, you told your sons not to believe a word Skeeter wrote. I heard, later at school, from Charlie that you actually believed her article about me and my supposed crying for my parents. Later, on the Morning of the Third task, you criticized Amos Diggory over the same and then showed you believed her article about me and Hermione.
So that you now believe Sirius to a mass-murderer, just because the Daily Prophet said so, doesn't even surprise me, but that you dare believe it now that that same paper is bad-mouthing his own Godson is downright disgusting." The woman looks down at this and then Harry sighs and the boy sits back down.

Riku and Sora instantly go to stand behind him and Sora sits down in-between us, softly rubbing Harry's leg with his hand while Riku hugs the child from behind and rubs his cheek against that of the poor lad. This actually seems to calm Harry down and I smile at the amazingly close bond the three boys have created together.
Harry then looks up and says: "I care for you, Mrs. Weasley, just as I do Sirius and I just can't take it to see the two people I consider the best to take over where my parents left off fighting with each other like this. But Sirius shouldn't even focus on fighting you right now, let alone on a house that is only detrimental to his health.
This is why Mr. Weasley and I have talked with each other and have come with a solution." He then turns to Riku and asks: "Riku, does Luxord's power over the Darkness allow him to create portals between worlds?" The silver-white haired boy looks confused at the sudden question and nods before Harry goes on and says:

"Sirius, hearing the name of this house alone gives you a walk down memory-lane, let alone being here. You've spend 12 years in a mental hell and have just moved from a small mental prison to a larger one, where you're – like in Azkaban – still stuck within the same walls, constantly reminding you the worst things of your past.
You need somewhere you can, in no way, be reminded of your past. A new place, somewhere you have never been before. That's why Mr. Weasley and I think it's better for you if you go to the Destiny Islands." This seems to shock Sora and Riku as much as it seems to confuse myself, Molly and Sirius.
Then Sirius says: "Harry, I've stayed at multiple sunny, new and interesting islands before I came back to England. I probably already came to this Island you're talking about, so your plan does have a small hitch." But Riku shakes his head and says: "You haven't, Mr. Black. Destiny Islands – is the name of our world."

Sirius looks shocked and then turns to Harry and says: "No way." But then Harry interrupts and says: "But Sirius, I'll be going there every Christmas and Summer Holiday from now on. Luxord might even be able to take me every other weekend or so. I'm not going back to the Muggles, so we can really live together this way."
"But Harry –." Sirius tries to say and then Harry cringes and says: "I'm sorry, Sirius, but I'm not stupid. You might try to deny it to yourself, but as long as you can't grieve over the loss of my dad, you will never really see the difference between me and him. And I'm not saying it's your fault – but that of your imprisonment.
You have to heal because – well, if you don't, nobody will give you even the slightest chance of taking care of me. And I know the mothers of Sora and Riku. They're exactly like Mrs. Weasley, so if I tell them –." But then Sirius grabs Harry's shoulders and with tears in his eyes, he says: "Harry, I want to be here, for you."

Harry looks down and says: "But you can't." Sirius looks absolutely devastated and Harry says: "Sirius, I've just been through a mental hell, just like you. But you've yet to heal from that mental hell and if you're not healed, how can you be expected to heal me. I need you to heal me, but for that you have to be healed first."
Sirius looks at Harry devastated and needy and Harry says: "Please, don't get me wrong. You're the best thing that's happened to me since I lost Sora and Riku, but I need you all there. And as long as you're not healed, you will always be pulled down the terrors of memory lane and that will be detrimental to the both of us."
Riku then says: "Mr. Black, trust your Godson. Trust his words, because I can tell he's right." Now Sirius snaps: "What do you know about any of this?" And Riku says: "Everything. I was lured in by the Darkness so deeply I became Darkness myself. I still feel the Darkness trying to take over from me and it has given me certain abilities.
One of them the ability to sense Darkness and I can sense several straps and blotches of Darkness stuck to your brain. I can also sense an Aura of Darkness surrounding your heart and I can tell you here and now – if that grows, then in one way or another, it will mean your end." This causes us all to blanch in pure fear.