The Deceiving Truth
Ch. 4 – "Confidential Information…"
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Dumbledore's office behind the gargoyle statue…
"Miss Granger, Mr. Potter, I need to know if either of you have any ideas to discuss at tomorrow's Prefect meeting?" asked Dumbledore.
"Yes we do."
"Good. After all Prefect meetings please come here and discuss the outcome with me. Miss Granger you can leave now, I need to talk to the others."
Harry and Hermione got up. "No, Harry you stay. I need you to be here when I talk to everyone."
Hermione left and everyone else crowded around Dumbledore's large mahogany desk. "Please sit for this is every confidential information…"
"Albus, please hurry up, 'cuz I have to get back to Olyme 'cuz the birth date is in a few days. I hope it's a boy. Mother and my half-sister Tai are coming to visit tomorrow and we need to get ready!" exclaimed Hagrid.
"Hagrid that is what I need to talk to you about. Please make sure that your mother and sister doesn't get out-of-hand around the students."
"'Course. Well I'll be leavin' now." Hagrid got up and left.
"Like I said before. This is very confidential and secret information, so please sit down."
Sirius, and Remus sat themselves on the huge blue couch to the left of the desk. Harry and Esmeralda sat themselves on red armchairs in front of the desk.
"Everyone, I would like you to meet Esmeralda Lily Potter!"
Everyone looked around. "Who?" asked Harry.
"Harry, Esmeralda is your twin sister and Sirius' goddaughter. She was given up at birth."
"I had a dream about that!" exclaimed Esmeralda.
"What dream?" asked Dumbledore.
"Well a man and a woman were arguing with… oh yea, you. You said something about 'the time was now', 'seers', and other things."
"I remember that. Lily and James were devastated that little Esmeralda had 'died'. Me and Remus didn't know what to do with them," said Sirius.
"I remember too. Lily cried as much as Harry. It was horrible. James got depressed. They got over it after about 6 months. Well, they never really got over it, but Harry, you helped them," said Remus.
"So, let me get this straight. Esmeralda is my twin sister. Ok. She was given up at birth because of what the seers saw. My parents became depressed, and… am I missing anything?" asked Harry.
"No that's pretty much it," said Dumbledore. "Any more questions?" He looked around the room.
"How do you know for sure that I am Esmeralda Lily d'Rav… I mean Potter?" asked Esmeralda.
"I kept track of you through out the years. If you want, we can do a DNA test right now," said Dumbledore.
"I think that's the best thing to do. It will confirm it," said Sirius.
Dumbledore took out his wand from his pocket and said, "Harry, Esmeralda, please put your hand here on the desk on top of each other."
Harry placed his hand where Dumbledore had pointed. Esmeralda placed her hand on top of his. Dumbledore muttered an incantation and a piece of parchment appeared before him. He grabbed it, read it, and then handed it to Sirius. "Like I said, you two are twins."
Sirius nodded in confirmation. "So… what do we do now?" asked Sirius.
"I will leave you three to catch up and then I expect you all to go to your rooms. Esmeralda, I want you to stay with Harry tonight in the Head dorms. Good night all." Dumbledore walked out a wooden door that had just recently materialized to his left.
"So…" said Sirius
"Umm…" said Remus while eating a piece of a Toblerone bar.
"So… What's new with… umm… everyone?" asked Harry nervously.
"Let me see," said Esmeralda quickly. "I was living in an orphanage for eleven years, thinking I had no family. Than I found out I was a witch and Sorceress, than I found out the Dumbledore knew my parents and they had died after giving me up. Than I came here, made some new friends, and found out I had a boring brother. For that matter, I have a boring godfather, and whatever Mr. Lupin is too."
Harry, Sirius, and Remus looked at each other. THEM? BORING? This just kind of upset Harry.
"Boring?" asked Harry. "YOU THINK WE'RE BORING?"
Esmeralda nodded.
"Let me tell you something darling sister, I am not in any way boring, neither is Sirius or Remus. Do you want to know why?
"Why" questioned Esmeralda.
"Remus here has been a werewolf since he was a young child. He then came to this school and couldn't tell anyone he was a werewolf. Remus, Peter, dad and Sirius, the three Animagus, were the greatest pranksters the school had ever seen. If you plan on doing any pranks just ask them about it and they could help you make it a better one. Then his friends found out that he was a werewolf and became Animagus for him. Two of those Animagus just happen to be Sirius and stag old dad. When they got out of school Remus had trouble getting a job because of this. Then one of his friends died and then one supposedly died and Sirius was suspected to have murdered both. Then he found out that Sirius hadn't murdered their two friends and that it was the friend who was supposedly dead. So then they wanted to kill their friend but I didn't think that our dad would want that. Remus has been running from Voldemort for all those years until I killed him last year. Satisfied?" asked Harry.
Esmeralda looked at Remus and nodded. "So you're a werewolf?" she asked.
Remus nodded his head and was about to speak, but Harry beat him to it, for he was not done.
"Sirius was Remus' friend. He was a prankster and an animagus for Remus. He was about to become our parents 'secret keeper', but decided to make Peter, that rat, the 'secret keeper' because they know someone close to them was a spy for Voldemort and they thought it was Remus. The spy was really Peter so our parents died. Sirius came to check on them but they were dead. He confronted Peter in a muggle street and before he could accuse him, Peter said he had killed Lily and James, blow up part of the street, killing twelve muggles, turned himself into a rat, and went down into the sewers. Sirius was taken to Azkaban for twelve years until he escape in our third year because he knew that Peter was alive. He than confronted Peter with Remus. Sirius was in hiding until this summer."
"Me, I lived with the dreaded Dursleys, our relatives, for ten years, knowing nothing about myself, my family, or even the magical world. I was then accepted into Hogwarts after watching Hagrid add a pigs tail to our cousin. In year one a battled a troll, met Voldemort twice, went into the forest, was almost gnawed to death by a dog, than I went into a trap door, fell into Devil Snare, had flying keys attack me, played a live game of chess, almost drank poison, got a stone from a mirror, and almost died. In my second year, a basilisk was set lose in the school petrifying people, because I am a parslemouth, I found I could talk to snakes, the school thought I was attacking people, I went into the forest, crashed a flying car into the Whomping Willow, was almost eaten by spiders, found the snake, killed the snake, while almost dying. In my third year Sirius escaped. We followed him into the Whomping Willow with Wormtail, found out Wormtail was the traitor, had Dememtors making me go unconscious, was practicing the Patronous spell, finally made one, went back in time with a time-turner, saved Sirius and a hippogryff. In the fourth year the Triwizard Tournament took place, I became one of the contestants, I watched a friend die, I battled with Voldemort, I saw our parents, met mer- people, almost last both of my friends and my life, fought a dragon, met Voldemort's servant who was supposedly dead, and had a nosy reporter on my tail for the whole year. Year five was the same with meeting Voldemort, etc… Last year I met Voldemort and killed him. Every summer except this one I stayed with the Dursleys who took all my magical stuff away and locked Hedwig, my owl, up. This past summer I stayed with them again but I was allowed to use magic so they left me alone. They also hated opur parents and myself. Then today I found out I have a sister who only liked exciting people."
Harry sat down for he had been standing during his 'little, and exciting' speech.
Remus and Sirius were as shocked as Harry was.
Esmeralda sat there stunned. Her brother, HER BROTHER, had fought with Voldemort and killed him. Her brother had lived with muggels who hated him for 17 years. Ouch!
Esmeralda looked at everyone with wide eyes. "Sooooo……"
There was a long pause. "What's next?" asked Esmeralda.
Remus and Sirius looked at each other. "Well," said Sirius. "Welcome to the family!"
"What?!?" asked Harry and Esmeralda.
"Never mind. We'll tell you later."
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