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Chapter 29: The boy

On his way to Dumbledore's Harry passed a boy with short white hair in the hallway and stopped and looked back the other boy had stopped and gestured for Harry to follow him but Harry looked back at the gargoyle statues guarding the office and then back at the boy who seemed to be waiting for Harry to follow him but to Harry the most important thing was getting Pettigrew arrested. So the boy who lived headed to the office and recited the password. "Lemon drops." Harry said, causing the gargoyles to spring to life and reveal the door leading to the moving spiral staircase.

He walked through the doorway and stepped onto the spiral staircase, as the doorway closed the white haired boy disappeared. Harry knocked on the door to the office. "Enter." Dumbledore said from within the office. Harry pushed open the door and walked inside. "Professor, we need to talk." Harry said. Dumbledore looked up from grading papers at the eleven year old boy.

The next few hours resulted in Sirius being released from Azkaban after examination through Veritaserum and examining his memories in the Pensieve and him being taken to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries as a precaution due to his long term exposure to Dementors. The arrest of Peter Pettigrew, who nearly had an arm ripped off by Shadow, and a serious inquiry into Hogwarts staff and security. During that time Ren returned, he had faced the nesting queen and was lucky to even be alive. Harry was just happy to have his dragon back. Ren was taken to the hospital wing where Ron was staying due to his fainting spell.

Everything happening made things rather tense in the great hall that evening. Harry personally skipped dinner in favor of going to the library. As he was walking he passed the white haired boy again. Again he gestured for Harry to follow him since the pack was in the hospital wing with Ren wanting to make sure he was ok and to discuss what happened. Harry stared at the boy, ready to draw his sword if anything happened. The boy had bangs covering his eyes. "Follow me." The boy said softly. Harry took a deep breath and followed the boy through the school to an empty classroom with the Mirror of Erised sitting inside and the boy disappeared.