A/N M'kay here is the next chapter.
Chapter 21: The Secret that destroys him on the inside.
"From the time I could walk I was taught how to hold a dustpan, and from there sweep and mop. By age 4 I was cooking breakfast, age 5 I was cooking all three meals. I was to stand in a corner and watch them eat. Any leftovers I'd get, but since Ver..Uncle Vernon didn't want me to eat, he would usually eat even if he over ate. Dudley doing the same." Harry hugged his arms to himself. "I was given Dursleys clothes, which range from 3-9 times to big on me. I could probably wear his elementary clothes now," He added "And they might be a little loose," He admitted he smiled looking down. He looked to Emma then to Amelia and opened his mouth.
"In my first year, I had asked Dumbledore to let me stay at Hogwarts during the summer," He sighed lightly "He said I couldn't, I even told him the Dursley's had kept me in a broom cupboard. He said that he had seen my room, and it may have been the smallest in the house, it wasn't a 'broom cupboard'." Harry said. "I went home and found out they'd moved my room upstairs." He explained "So it is a possibility that Dumbledore had no idea what you said was true." Amelia said calmly Harry shook his head. "My Hogwarts letter was addressed as "The cupboard under the stairs." He said "that is not my job, that is Minerva Magonigle's job to send the letters." Dumbledore said simply "Did you get Harry's authorization before you started to remove money from his vaults?" Rose asked quietly Amelia sat up, as did two Gringotts Goblins. "What is the meaning of your accusation?" "Feure roared he was head goblin of Gringotts. "I mean Feure, that Albus Dumbledore has been removing about," Rose picked up a folder flipped through a few pages "Two hundred galleons a week," She said "That is a weekly stipend that James set up for Hogwarts," Dumbledore snorted "I thought that to at first, but he also allowed you to take up to twenty thousand galleons whenever you wished?" Rose asked "Yes, For the Order Of The Phoenix" He said "Dumbledore, Voldemort isn't alive right now there is no need for the order yet." Rose said she smiled then and looked to him "And what about the ten thousand you removed, and the ten thousand that magically landed in the Weasley volts, a week BEFORE harry got his acceptance letter?" She asked Harry paled staring at her "Rose…"He started she stared at him then looked away. Snape was frowning at her. "Rosalice, what exactly do you know?" He demanded Rose stared at Harry "Albus Dumbledore is and always will be a manipulator" She stated staring at Snape "He knew the people he gave me to would abuse me, just as he knew the Dursleys would abuse harry. He wished for harry to come to Hogwarts easily manipulated he would look up to and worship him as his saving grace." Rose blinked "Tell me more," Snape ordered she fought visibly Harry wondered if it was some sort of spell. Amelia was slack jawed and Dumbledore pale. "He knew if I was abused he could control me, I would as well worship him. He wanted me to not let harry find out about who I was. In fact I was supposed to not know who I was. Except be a monster, Voldemorts daughter." Rose said "Unfortunately he didn't count on them molesting and raping me. After a year of that type of abuse when still he ignored my letters of help. Even those I sent to you Severus I gave up. I hardened per say. An abused child is weak, and helpless. But given the circumstances given the amount of suffering. Their heart would harden, and become cold." She closed her eyes then "Had I continued the abuse I probably would have followed in my fathers footsteps. Take my anger out on the wizarding world. Unknowingly, unaware that they had had no idea I was abused, no idea Dumbledore had ignored my pleas. Much like he did with my father. Voldemort, Tom Riddle" She said slowly "Grew up in a muggle orphanage. He was abused by the caretakers. And the children beat him. When he was fifteen unallowed to do magic, unaware he had the right to the magic in the circumstances. He was raped by his fellow orphans. For being a freak of nature, a …wizard" she said quietly Harry's breath caught she stared at him. His eyes went to the floor "you know" He whispered simply and she made a whine sound in her throat in distress. "I knew the moment Harry was molested by his Uncle." She started this time glaring at Severus anger evident. "I knew the moment Vernon Dursley started prostituting harry to people for monetary gain." She said cries of anger rang through the room. "Severus Snape please order her to stop." Amelia said "that is quite enough." She added "Enough Rosalice," He said Harry was surprised when she slapped Severus in the face. "No one" she hissed "Orders me around SPECIALLY when Harry is involved" She growled "I am tired of you keeping secrets from me, we could have saved him sooner had you not." Severus yelled over her she shrunk near a cower but glared at him with icy eyes. "" harry said the eyes of the court when soft looking to harry, having found out the truth. Severus turned to him. "If you don't stop yelling at her, she will never trust you," Harry said quietly "She's only trying to protect someone she loves. If you don't stop, she will see you as a threat. And I think Tom Riddle has seen what happens when I protect someone I love. Rose is stronger than me, don't get between her." He said Severus looked to her her eyes had softened but there was still some anger in her eyes."We will talk later," She said to him (Severus) she looked to Amelia "I find them guilty, you may speak with a auror and myself at a later time, sooner the better, over Fudges crimes. I believe you, and harry are tired after this day. I will have a social witch draw up some papers for the rest of summer and we will have someone check in on you randomly to see if you are truly fit to take care of harry. He is after all much older then an infant." Amelia said Rose smiled in relief. "The Dursley's will also be arrested," Amelia said "Petunia Dursley is completely innocent," Rose said harry looked to her "She beat me," Harry said "If she didn't what would have happened?" Rose asked him he was silent "Vernon probably would." He said quietly "If he didn't punish you for not having been beaten, who would he punish for not beating you?" She asked then Harry looked at her "And if he did punish the person who didn't beat you, who would have fed you?" She asked him. "I couldn't walk often.." He said quietly "He would have beaten aunt petunia, and then I wouldn't have even been fed when I was." He answered her quietly "you would have died if she didn't. She saved her ass, and she saved yours." She said "Do you honestly think Dudley's friend would have taken delight in giving you a good beating by giving you a slice of Dudley's birthday cake?" She asked "she didn't know…." Harry started "It wasn't her who gave you it." Rose said softly "Petunia gave you the cake, She was called away by one of the visitors and couldn't get the plate back before Vernon caught you with it." She explained Harry felt tears brim his eyes. "I've always hated her…" he started "She hates you," Rose replied harry raised an eyebrow "you are a living reminder of her sister, her ONLY sister. Her DEAD sister, you are a reminder of what our world took from her, and she believes if she hates you, if..this world was to take you away as well. She wouldn't feel that pain again." She said softly. "Dudley, on the other hand , he enjoys your pain. But he is redeemable. His dad beating you is all he's known. He knows you'll come back, that your at school, so he isn't losing you. But if you were to leave, and not return, he would, I'm sure feel bad about what he did to you." She explained. "I will set their court date for one week, they will be apprehended and put in Azkaban for that time and we'll have dementors farther away. They will not be allowed to experience the full horror of the prison, until after the court date. will feel exactly what her husband and son will face I'm sure." She glanced around at the people murmuring quietly the tiredness is Roses eyes and the shame in Harry's. "How does this court view Albus Dumbledore?" She asked "Guilty" rang the room "Sentence?" She asked normally everyone could figure it out but there was murmurs about you-know-who being afraid of him. Rose took a step forward. "Do you know how to corrupt someone with power?" She asked allowed they all looked to her "If You are in high standing, if you allow that someone to break rules, and not punish them like anyone else. They will see that they can get away with anything, He got away with allowed Tom Riddle to be abused. He knew it was going on and he didn't care. Now over fifty years later he did it again but this time with TWO children. In fifty years will it be three? Or four?" She asked "how many of his students must be hurt by him before even his status no longer counts?" She asked She pointed at her brother "If he killed someone you wouldn't turn a blind eye, you'd throw him in Azkaban. If he kills a deatheater you might praise him or you might throw him in because the deatheater says that he was under imperious" She shrugged "Do you know if they lied or not?" Amelia asked softly Rose stared at her blankly "She wont answer you, because she would give to much away." Harry said "Isn't Severus Snape a deatheater?" Someone asked Amelia raised an eyebrow to Rose who stared blankly Severus took a deep breath worried "I will not answer that question, not here, not now" She said simply some Auror's stood up "But Dumbledore protected him from Azkaban how do we know that he's safe to be around when Dumbledore is out of the way?" He demanded "Besides the fact Harry's been living with us most the summer? Or that I have been living with him two summers, we had a wizard look for dark artifacts, though they did miss my dark arts potions book.." Rose said going off uproar instantly. "Magic is magic, it's the wizard that makes it light or dark." She replied "besides, I'm researching and that book is the only one with the antidote to lycanthropy." She said "there is a book with a cure?" Amelia asked "it involves the heart of an infant," Rose explained "the book has rather horrid potion ingredients." She explained She shook her head "I tried to brew a potion called diarkí̱s ef̱tychía, Greek for lasting Happiness. Its like the one charm to make people all happy and giggling, only …a more calmer style. I was brewing it for Sev to give to me. I tend to get depressed on certain days and no spell works." She said shrugging she stared at them at Harry. "Have you seen a mediwitch?" Amelia asked her "They can't treat me," Rose said "this takes good old fashion healing." She smiled at Severus "TLC" He said softly "Tlc?" some murmured "muggle term Tender, Love, and Care" Rose replied she stared at Amelia. "A mediwitch would just end up frustrated, i know poppy has once or twice." She murmured sadly "Exactly what is the issue?" Amelia asked Rose blushed and looked to Severus. whom blushed and glanced to Harry "I don't believe that is appropriate in front of the boy" Severus said "Answer the question" Amelia said simply "She suffers through three different issues." Severus explained "Random, but some clues. In the morning if she doesn't eat breakfast, doesn't drink coffee, doesn't get Anna-Marie even when i ask her. I know that today she's in her mind" Severus said slowly "remembering, being alone." He said quietly "She's outside, its snowing, she's so cold." he was going off now "And inside Lily and James are laughing and coddling Harry who finished saying his first word. He is surrounded by presents." He looked at Amelia who looked ashamed "If she doesn't show those signs and instead mechanically does them, if she doesn't make a sound she's lost in her mind, in a different memory." Severus stared at Rose who was trembling lightly, her eyes looking off. "This memory, is the young Rose, whose been beaten and unable to talk. She tries to get through the day without another beating, I will usually have to go searching for her and she's screaming into a pillow in my sub basement." Severus said "you have two basements?" Amelia asked curious "The first level is my potions room. The sub basement holds exotic potion ingredients. each having to have their own climate. Rose tends to them." He explained "The...third..ailment?" Amelia asked quietly "This happens twice a year" He said "For the entire day she is completely lost, her mind stuck repeating the same memory. She...for some reason, feels those pains as well." He said quietly "What is this memory?" Amelia asked even quieter then before everyone was leaning in "Of being molested," He said simply "over, and over again. most of the day i feel the pain, as if it really is happening. There is a point even i cannot continue teaching, and have to go to my rooms. The other time it happens is with the delivery of Anna-Marie" He explained "I wonder why those loop." Amelia murmured to herself Severus shrugged.
a/n Dear Readers,
Sorry its taking so long to post these. Its just finals are coming up at my college, and i just get so tired with the courseload. I'll keep posting them, but its easier during breaks.