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The betrayal:
Everyone sat down in Dumbledore's office, Harry chose a seat next to Sirius, he didn't want the man to think he would leave him alone now his parents were back. Besides he didn't wish to be next to his father when he found out what had happened, not only to him, but also to Sirius, as far as he could tell the man had quite a temper. At his other side sat Hermione and next to her Ron, leaving the other two seats for his parents. Remus sat next to Sirius while everyone else took places behind them. Dumbledore sat in his seat behind his desk with Fawkes perched comfortably at his shoulder. The old wizard looked around and sighed, knowing this was going to be one long morning, not exactly what he had expected on Christmas day. Finally, when everyone had stopped moving around he cleared his throat and started to talk.
"I'm sure you have lots of questions, James and Lily, but first I would like for Miss Granger, Mr Weasley and Mr Potter to tell us how this came to be." The teenagers looked at each other and Harry nudged Hermione to be the one to talk since she would be able to do a better job of it than Ron or he. The girl nodded and started her explanation.
"We have told you before we have been studying the killing curse for the last months. After founding the way to stop it we wanted to get further with it because we had discovered a little fact everyone else had thought unimportant. When someone is killed by the killing curse their bodies die, as such they should discompose but we have proof enough that it doesn't. That's in no way natural and we began to look for a reason for that phenomena. It took us several weeks but then Ron found a possible theory." She paused smiling at Ron but then continued. "You may not know this but Ron here is good at physics, really good, reading through some books he found theories about how the human body can be kept alive for long periods of time if you freeze the cells, some people with incurable diseases have been put under this frozen sleep in hopes that in the future they will be able to heal them. We thought that could explain why the bodies didn't discompose, and we started working on something that could pull the people of that frozen sleep. Finally, last week, we found a possible way of doing it, we have been working at it almost none stop since then and yesterday we brewed the potion." Hermione took out one of the little vials they had used the night before and put it on Dumbledore's desk. "This is what we have dubbed as the Vitae Potion, it awakens people from the killing curse just as it did with James and Lily." Hermione sat back in her chair and looked around, most people was looking at her impressed, they couldn't understand how these sixteen year olds had been able to pull of things that adult wizards had spent years trying to figure out. Finally James broke the silence, that was all very nice, but he had more pressing matters at this time, he wanted, no he needed to know what had happened to his son, so he looked at Dumbledore and spoke.
"That's all very impressing, and I'm sure it'll do lots of good in the future, but I have more pressing questions. I want to know exactly why my son was expelled, and I want to know now. I also want to know what has been going on." Dumbledore sighed, knowing that James had a right to know, but also dreading the other man's reaction. With a calm voice he started to speak. He told James and Lily all that had been happening since their deaths, about how Sirius had been framed and how Harry had been put in the Dursley's care and then came to Hogwarts. He told them about the years their son had spent attending school and trying to dodge Voldemort. Finally he started on the fifth year of the trio.
"It had barely been two weeks when an horrible news reached me through the minister, a village near London had been attacked by death eaters, that was a common occurrence by then but the most terrible news was that the leaders of the attack had been recognised without doubt, they were Harry Potter, and his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley. At first not the staff nor me wanted to believe that that was true. In an attempt to find the out where the trio had been the evening before, we questioned some of their friends, but no one could remember seeing them. I talked with some of the people involved in the attack and there was no doubt about the identity of the leaders. I had no reason to believe that what they had told me was true. Even if Harry had fought against Voldemort more than once, I could tell he had changed a lot since the end of his four year, and Ron and Hermione had changed too. When they told me about the attack I attributed the change due to the fact they had gone to the dark side, a thing I regret very much." The old wizard looked down on his table and continued his story. "Fudge insisted on their immediate imprisonment in Azkaban and I agreed. I still can remember their disbelieve and confusion when they were told, I had already warned their families and they were all there when their wands were snapped, even Sirius had managed to get there but no one did anything to help them. The aurors dragged them away, but then something happened, I'm still not able to explain it, but I think something inside Harry snapped. He threw all aurors away from him and his friends, took Ron and Hermione's hands and then they apparated away, to god only knows where. During the following months there were more and more attacks and the ministry looked for them, combing out all Britain. They didn't find them. Finally, about a month ago, the ministry succeeded on catching them, at lest they caught the ones who had been attacking and they were most definitely not Harry, Ron and Hermione but rather Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy and Peter Pettigrew using pollyjuice potion." After that the room stayed silent. The three teenagers were looking ahead with closed expressions on their faces, Sirius had buried his head in his hand, relieving the day his godson had been accused. James and Lily on the other hand were completely stunned. They weren't sure what to think. They were mad at Dumbledore and the other teachers for what they had done, but they couldn't help but wonder if in their position they would have acted differently. Also they were horrified by what Sirius had been forced to go through and they couldn't bring themselves to blame him for not helping Harry, besides, as Harry had said, it was a matter between the two of them. Finally Lily's shaking voice asked something most people had been wondering since the trio had returned.
"What happened to you after you apparated out of Hogwarts? What did you do?"
To be continued...
A/N: Thanks for all reviews.
The betrayal:
Everyone sat down in Dumbledore's office, Harry chose a seat next to Sirius, he didn't want the man to think he would leave him alone now his parents were back. Besides he didn't wish to be next to his father when he found out what had happened, not only to him, but also to Sirius, as far as he could tell the man had quite a temper. At his other side sat Hermione and next to her Ron, leaving the other two seats for his parents. Remus sat next to Sirius while everyone else took places behind them. Dumbledore sat in his seat behind his desk with Fawkes perched comfortably at his shoulder. The old wizard looked around and sighed, knowing this was going to be one long morning, not exactly what he had expected on Christmas day. Finally, when everyone had stopped moving around he cleared his throat and started to talk.
"I'm sure you have lots of questions, James and Lily, but first I would like for Miss Granger, Mr Weasley and Mr Potter to tell us how this came to be." The teenagers looked at each other and Harry nudged Hermione to be the one to talk since she would be able to do a better job of it than Ron or he. The girl nodded and started her explanation.
"We have told you before we have been studying the killing curse for the last months. After founding the way to stop it we wanted to get further with it because we had discovered a little fact everyone else had thought unimportant. When someone is killed by the killing curse their bodies die, as such they should discompose but we have proof enough that it doesn't. That's in no way natural and we began to look for a reason for that phenomena. It took us several weeks but then Ron found a possible theory." She paused smiling at Ron but then continued. "You may not know this but Ron here is good at physics, really good, reading through some books he found theories about how the human body can be kept alive for long periods of time if you freeze the cells, some people with incurable diseases have been put under this frozen sleep in hopes that in the future they will be able to heal them. We thought that could explain why the bodies didn't discompose, and we started working on something that could pull the people of that frozen sleep. Finally, last week, we found a possible way of doing it, we have been working at it almost none stop since then and yesterday we brewed the potion." Hermione took out one of the little vials they had used the night before and put it on Dumbledore's desk. "This is what we have dubbed as the Vitae Potion, it awakens people from the killing curse just as it did with James and Lily." Hermione sat back in her chair and looked around, most people was looking at her impressed, they couldn't understand how these sixteen year olds had been able to pull of things that adult wizards had spent years trying to figure out. Finally James broke the silence, that was all very nice, but he had more pressing matters at this time, he wanted, no he needed to know what had happened to his son, so he looked at Dumbledore and spoke.
"That's all very impressing, and I'm sure it'll do lots of good in the future, but I have more pressing questions. I want to know exactly why my son was expelled, and I want to know now. I also want to know what has been going on." Dumbledore sighed, knowing that James had a right to know, but also dreading the other man's reaction. With a calm voice he started to speak. He told James and Lily all that had been happening since their deaths, about how Sirius had been framed and how Harry had been put in the Dursley's care and then came to Hogwarts. He told them about the years their son had spent attending school and trying to dodge Voldemort. Finally he started on the fifth year of the trio.
"It had barely been two weeks when an horrible news reached me through the minister, a village near London had been attacked by death eaters, that was a common occurrence by then but the most terrible news was that the leaders of the attack had been recognised without doubt, they were Harry Potter, and his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley. At first not the staff nor me wanted to believe that that was true. In an attempt to find the out where the trio had been the evening before, we questioned some of their friends, but no one could remember seeing them. I talked with some of the people involved in the attack and there was no doubt about the identity of the leaders. I had no reason to believe that what they had told me was true. Even if Harry had fought against Voldemort more than once, I could tell he had changed a lot since the end of his four year, and Ron and Hermione had changed too. When they told me about the attack I attributed the change due to the fact they had gone to the dark side, a thing I regret very much." The old wizard looked down on his table and continued his story. "Fudge insisted on their immediate imprisonment in Azkaban and I agreed. I still can remember their disbelieve and confusion when they were told, I had already warned their families and they were all there when their wands were snapped, even Sirius had managed to get there but no one did anything to help them. The aurors dragged them away, but then something happened, I'm still not able to explain it, but I think something inside Harry snapped. He threw all aurors away from him and his friends, took Ron and Hermione's hands and then they apparated away, to god only knows where. During the following months there were more and more attacks and the ministry looked for them, combing out all Britain. They didn't find them. Finally, about a month ago, the ministry succeeded on catching them, at lest they caught the ones who had been attacking and they were most definitely not Harry, Ron and Hermione but rather Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy and Peter Pettigrew using pollyjuice potion." After that the room stayed silent. The three teenagers were looking ahead with closed expressions on their faces, Sirius had buried his head in his hand, relieving the day his godson had been accused. James and Lily on the other hand were completely stunned. They weren't sure what to think. They were mad at Dumbledore and the other teachers for what they had done, but they couldn't help but wonder if in their position they would have acted differently. Also they were horrified by what Sirius had been forced to go through and they couldn't bring themselves to blame him for not helping Harry, besides, as Harry had said, it was a matter between the two of them. Finally Lily's shaking voice asked something most people had been wondering since the trio had returned.
"What happened to you after you apparated out of Hogwarts? What did you do?"
To be continued...
A/N: Thanks for all reviews.
