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loose ends to tie up with her. But (yes I know you aren't supposed to
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Family Matters
Chapter 15- Special Talents
"Minerva, I was expecting you to show up just not so soon." Dumbledore said looking at his colleague. He waved his wand and another chair appeared between his and Hagrids. "Have a seat and you'll understand things in a moment." Dumbledore said patting the seat next to his and the woman came over and sat down with a look of bewilderment on her face. "Severus I believe you were going to start." Dumbledore said looking at Snape expectantly. "Yes, how far back should I start Headmaster?" He asked. "Say what you must in order to clear things up between everyone here. Don't say anything you're not comfortable saying." Dumbledore nodded for Snape to begin. "I went to Hogwarts for my magical schooling as you all know," Snape began folding his hands in front of him, "I was sorted into Slytherin along with some other people you may or may not know, one of them was your father, Draco, Lucius Malfoy. All of us were interested in the dark arts so naturally after we left school we all were initiated into Voldemorts inner circle of Death Eaters." Here Snape laughed low in his throat- a self-discriminating laugh. Like he was mocking himself for doing what he did. "I didn't know then what a stupid mistake I had made. I didn't realize until later in my Death Eater career that the constant killings and torturing of innocent people was slowly erasing my soul. When I came to the conclusion what I was doing was wrong I came one night to this exact office and begged for Dumbledore's forgiveness. He trusted me enough to forgive me and give me a mission- to be a spy for our side. I have done that ever since, masqueraded as a true Death Eater while feeding information to Dumbledore. I believe that is all I have to say." Snape finished looking at Dumbledore ignoring the looks everyone in the room was sending him. Mackenzie and Lauren glanced at each other thinking the same thing, 'Oh My God! He's like the unsung hero or something!' "Thank-you Severus. Now I believe Sirius will go next?" Dumbledore said snapping everyone out of his or her thoughts of Snape. Sirius nodded mutely as everyone's eyes slowly turned his way. "I think I'll start from my school days." Sirius began settling in his chair, "I went to school here at Hogwarts as well. Though I was sorted into Gryfindor." Here Sirius sent a silent glare towards Severus who returned the gesture. "There I met the best friends I've ever had: James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew." Sirius seemed to have to ground out Pettigrew's name as if it caused him pain in some way. "Everything was fine through our school years except James and I noticed that Remus happened to be gone once every month for a couple days. We asked him about it but he made an excuse up every time, something about his being sick or another excuse along those lines. Eventually James and I figured out that Remus happened to be a Werewolf" Mackenzie and Lauren visibly jumped at this, not knowing that Werewolf's really exist. "The three of us: Myself, James and Peter, decided to become Animagi." Mackenzie glanced at Lauren who shrugged. Mackenzie tentatively raised a hand in the air as she would have done in school. "What's an Animagi?" She asked looking at Dumbledore then Sirius. Hermione raised her hand in the air as a reaction then put it down quickly at a look from Ron and Harry. "An Animagus, that's the singular form, is a person that can change into the shape of a specific animal at will." Minerva explained. "Oh, ok. Sorry to interrupt." Mackenzie said looking at Sirius who smiled slightly at her. "Well anyway, I took the form of a large black dog, James took the form of a stag and Peter was a rat." Sirius seemed to have some sort of convulsion where he twitched slightly. "We were all friends up until and after graduation from Hogwarts. After we graduated James was married to Lilly Evans who was the love of his life. They had Harry and everything seemed to be just fine. Though we were wrong. Voldemort was in power and people we knew and cared about were dropping off like flies. Dumbledore found out that James, Lilly and Harry were next on his list so he suggested a spell that would protect them from harm but that spell needed a 'Secret Keeper'. The 'Secret Keeper' would be the only one who would be able to find the ones he or she was hiding. James picked me initially though a lot of people offered to help- one being Dumbledore." Sirius paused a moment to catch his breath so Lauren raised her hand this time. "Yes Lauren, do you have a question?" Dumbledore asked looking at her. "Yes I do. The 'Secret Keeper' being the only one who knew where the protected people were would be in immediate danger wouldn't they?" Lauren asked looking from Dumbledore to Sirius. "Yes they would. If someone came looking for the protected persons they wouldn't be able to find them unless the "Secret Keeper' divulged the secret of where they were." Dumbledore said looking at Sirius who seemed to have caught his breath. "But out of everyone James picked me to keep the secret. I thought it was a bad idea and told him to go with Peter instead of me, I would be the obvious choice since everyone knew we were good friends. That was the worst thing I ever did. Peter went straight to Voldemort with the secret of where the Potter's were. Voldemort came and killed both James and Lilly but Harry was shielded because of his mother's love for him so he didn't die just got that scar. I knew what had happened so I went looking for Pettigrew, but he found me. In a crowded muggle street he framed me for what happened to Lilly and James- because no one knew that he was their 'Secret Keeper' except myself. He yelled to the entire street that I had betrayed James and Lilly and then with his wand behind his back said a curse that blew up the street behind him killing innocent muggle bystanders. Right after that he changed into a rat and headed into the sewer. He had cut off one of his fingers earlier so it looked like that was all there was left of him. I was sent to Azkaban- the wizard jail for 13 years. I had nearly lost my mind when I got the newspaper picture with him in his rat form in it. He had been a pet for Ron, who didn't know that his rat was a wizard- a supposedly dead one at that. I escaped from the prison in my dog form and made my way to Hogwarts. It took the entire year to get Peter away from Ron. The entire situation ended up with Peter being loose again and running back to Voldemort. I think that's all I needed to say Dumbledore." Sirius ended with a sigh. "Thank-you Sirius. What should also be said is that Sirius is still a wanted man and has to be very careful where he goes. He will be a wanted man until Peter is caught." Dumbledore said looking around the table. Mackenzie was in her own little world remembering the dream she first had with Lilly and James in it. She felt her heart wrench inside and just managed not to cry. It seemed to her these people had a lot against them. "Now I believe our last speaker will be Mr. Malfoy. Then Mackenzie and Lauren will tell us of their lives." Dumbledore said looking at them with his solid blue gaze. Mackenzie noticed there didn't seem to be any twinkling in those eyes at the moment. Mackenzie looked at Draco who took a deep breath and seemed to organize his thoughts. "I should also start from the beginning so that everything isn't as confusing," Draco began looking at his hands, "My father is not what you would traditionally call a 'Father'. He never really wanted me so he let me know in different ways. Most often he would hit me, not enough to kill me but enough so that I would get the message that I was worthless and he never wanted me. I knew I was an accident and that my father never really loved my mother, they only got married because of me. That hurt my mother too. She always tried to be a mother to me, but it didn't work very much since she was so doped up on medi-potions all the time to dull her own pain. My father gave me the best of everything though so we could keep up our precious image. I acted the way I was supposed to act at school- the big badass that no one really likes. I made fun of and harassed you three" Draco nodded toward where Harry, Ron and Hermione were sitting "because I was told to. One of the reasons I've always been mean to you Granger is because you're better than me in every class. My father hates that I'm beaten by a muggle born and he let's me know that he's angry. Up until this year I've done everything my father told me to do. This year I decided to go to Dumbledore with my problems with my father. I've been getting Dumbledore information that my father tells me ever since I talked to him in September. I suppose that's it." Draco said looking at Dumbledore. Mackenzie was absolutely seething right now. She looked at Lauren and Mackenzie could tell that she was pretty pissed herself. Mackenzie vowed to herself that if she ever met this Lucius Malfoy bastard she would kick his ass from here to hell and back and make sure that if he ever raised a hand to Draco again he would regret it. "Thank-you Draco." Mackenzie reached out and put a hand on his arm to comfort him. He looked up and she saw the gratefulness in his eyes that someone was there for him. "Now Mackenzie and Lauren, who would like to go first?" Dumbledore asked everyone's attention now turning towards the girls again. Lauren and Mackenzie glanced at each other and Mackenzie nodded to Lauren for her to go first. Lauren gave Mackenzie her trademark 'I'm gonna kick your ass later for this' look then looked at Dumbledore and said, "I'll go first." Dumbledore nodded for her to start and Lauren paused a moment thinking what exactly she should say. "Well", Lauren started, "My life hasn't really been interesting at all. I live with my mom and dad and my little sister. I'm 14 years old and my birthday is in May. Mackenzie and I have been best friends since the first grade" Some people had a blank look at this so Lauren paused and said "Ummmmm, that's muggle schooling. I would have been 7 years old and you would have been 8, right?" Lauren asked looking at Mackenzie who nodded. "We are both freshman's in High School this year and I guess that would be it." Lauren said looking at Mackenzie who nodded. "Well then Mackenzie why don't you go ahead." Dumbledore said. Mackenzie immediately felt herself blush- she hated talking in front of people she didn't know that well. "Well my story is basically the same. I live with my mom and my dog- I never knew my dad. I went to the same school Lauren did and I just recently had a birthday so I'm 15 now. That's all there is for me." Mackenzie said looking at Dumbledore. "Well have either of you had anything strange happen at all? Anything you really couldn't explain?" Asked Dumbledore persistent in getting answers. "Well, what would you classify as strange?" Mackenzie asked thinking back on numerous things that she couldn't explain that had happened to her. "Well anything really. Mostly when your emotions were running high." Dumbledore said. Mackenzie glanced at Lauren. As usual they could read each other like books. "Well, there's this thing." Lauren started then stopped looking at Mackenzie, "Do you want to say it or me?" Lauren asked while she was actually thinking that Mackenzie could explain it better. "I suppose I will." Mackenzie started then looked at Dumbledore with eyes that looked so wise it was unnerving in so young a face. "Have you ever heard of telepathy Professor? Maybe Empathy, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, or maybe even Telekinesis?" Mackenzie asked. "I have heard of all of them, why do you ask?" Dumbledore said. Mackenzie looked at Lauren who nodded. "Well would you classify those as strange? Because that's what's happened to us before."
BUM BUM BUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I SHALL LEAVE YOU THERE FOR NOW!!!!!!!!!!! Review please as always and if u have any questions or anything don't hesitate to e-mail me, geeze I won't bite.............. To hard JOKING ONLY JOKING MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well anyway I might have to up the rating on this story cuz I don't know if I will be going into detail on some ....things if you get my drift (Raises eyebrows so as to further give you a hint) At the consulting of my muse I might write that in (hormones people you can't beat them you might as well join them) Well anyway REVIEW RIGHT NOW and have a nice day : )
Yours truly,
~Mongoose
Family Matters
Chapter 15- Special Talents
"Minerva, I was expecting you to show up just not so soon." Dumbledore said looking at his colleague. He waved his wand and another chair appeared between his and Hagrids. "Have a seat and you'll understand things in a moment." Dumbledore said patting the seat next to his and the woman came over and sat down with a look of bewilderment on her face. "Severus I believe you were going to start." Dumbledore said looking at Snape expectantly. "Yes, how far back should I start Headmaster?" He asked. "Say what you must in order to clear things up between everyone here. Don't say anything you're not comfortable saying." Dumbledore nodded for Snape to begin. "I went to Hogwarts for my magical schooling as you all know," Snape began folding his hands in front of him, "I was sorted into Slytherin along with some other people you may or may not know, one of them was your father, Draco, Lucius Malfoy. All of us were interested in the dark arts so naturally after we left school we all were initiated into Voldemorts inner circle of Death Eaters." Here Snape laughed low in his throat- a self-discriminating laugh. Like he was mocking himself for doing what he did. "I didn't know then what a stupid mistake I had made. I didn't realize until later in my Death Eater career that the constant killings and torturing of innocent people was slowly erasing my soul. When I came to the conclusion what I was doing was wrong I came one night to this exact office and begged for Dumbledore's forgiveness. He trusted me enough to forgive me and give me a mission- to be a spy for our side. I have done that ever since, masqueraded as a true Death Eater while feeding information to Dumbledore. I believe that is all I have to say." Snape finished looking at Dumbledore ignoring the looks everyone in the room was sending him. Mackenzie and Lauren glanced at each other thinking the same thing, 'Oh My God! He's like the unsung hero or something!' "Thank-you Severus. Now I believe Sirius will go next?" Dumbledore said snapping everyone out of his or her thoughts of Snape. Sirius nodded mutely as everyone's eyes slowly turned his way. "I think I'll start from my school days." Sirius began settling in his chair, "I went to school here at Hogwarts as well. Though I was sorted into Gryfindor." Here Sirius sent a silent glare towards Severus who returned the gesture. "There I met the best friends I've ever had: James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew." Sirius seemed to have to ground out Pettigrew's name as if it caused him pain in some way. "Everything was fine through our school years except James and I noticed that Remus happened to be gone once every month for a couple days. We asked him about it but he made an excuse up every time, something about his being sick or another excuse along those lines. Eventually James and I figured out that Remus happened to be a Werewolf" Mackenzie and Lauren visibly jumped at this, not knowing that Werewolf's really exist. "The three of us: Myself, James and Peter, decided to become Animagi." Mackenzie glanced at Lauren who shrugged. Mackenzie tentatively raised a hand in the air as she would have done in school. "What's an Animagi?" She asked looking at Dumbledore then Sirius. Hermione raised her hand in the air as a reaction then put it down quickly at a look from Ron and Harry. "An Animagus, that's the singular form, is a person that can change into the shape of a specific animal at will." Minerva explained. "Oh, ok. Sorry to interrupt." Mackenzie said looking at Sirius who smiled slightly at her. "Well anyway, I took the form of a large black dog, James took the form of a stag and Peter was a rat." Sirius seemed to have some sort of convulsion where he twitched slightly. "We were all friends up until and after graduation from Hogwarts. After we graduated James was married to Lilly Evans who was the love of his life. They had Harry and everything seemed to be just fine. Though we were wrong. Voldemort was in power and people we knew and cared about were dropping off like flies. Dumbledore found out that James, Lilly and Harry were next on his list so he suggested a spell that would protect them from harm but that spell needed a 'Secret Keeper'. The 'Secret Keeper' would be the only one who would be able to find the ones he or she was hiding. James picked me initially though a lot of people offered to help- one being Dumbledore." Sirius paused a moment to catch his breath so Lauren raised her hand this time. "Yes Lauren, do you have a question?" Dumbledore asked looking at her. "Yes I do. The 'Secret Keeper' being the only one who knew where the protected people were would be in immediate danger wouldn't they?" Lauren asked looking from Dumbledore to Sirius. "Yes they would. If someone came looking for the protected persons they wouldn't be able to find them unless the "Secret Keeper' divulged the secret of where they were." Dumbledore said looking at Sirius who seemed to have caught his breath. "But out of everyone James picked me to keep the secret. I thought it was a bad idea and told him to go with Peter instead of me, I would be the obvious choice since everyone knew we were good friends. That was the worst thing I ever did. Peter went straight to Voldemort with the secret of where the Potter's were. Voldemort came and killed both James and Lilly but Harry was shielded because of his mother's love for him so he didn't die just got that scar. I knew what had happened so I went looking for Pettigrew, but he found me. In a crowded muggle street he framed me for what happened to Lilly and James- because no one knew that he was their 'Secret Keeper' except myself. He yelled to the entire street that I had betrayed James and Lilly and then with his wand behind his back said a curse that blew up the street behind him killing innocent muggle bystanders. Right after that he changed into a rat and headed into the sewer. He had cut off one of his fingers earlier so it looked like that was all there was left of him. I was sent to Azkaban- the wizard jail for 13 years. I had nearly lost my mind when I got the newspaper picture with him in his rat form in it. He had been a pet for Ron, who didn't know that his rat was a wizard- a supposedly dead one at that. I escaped from the prison in my dog form and made my way to Hogwarts. It took the entire year to get Peter away from Ron. The entire situation ended up with Peter being loose again and running back to Voldemort. I think that's all I needed to say Dumbledore." Sirius ended with a sigh. "Thank-you Sirius. What should also be said is that Sirius is still a wanted man and has to be very careful where he goes. He will be a wanted man until Peter is caught." Dumbledore said looking around the table. Mackenzie was in her own little world remembering the dream she first had with Lilly and James in it. She felt her heart wrench inside and just managed not to cry. It seemed to her these people had a lot against them. "Now I believe our last speaker will be Mr. Malfoy. Then Mackenzie and Lauren will tell us of their lives." Dumbledore said looking at them with his solid blue gaze. Mackenzie noticed there didn't seem to be any twinkling in those eyes at the moment. Mackenzie looked at Draco who took a deep breath and seemed to organize his thoughts. "I should also start from the beginning so that everything isn't as confusing," Draco began looking at his hands, "My father is not what you would traditionally call a 'Father'. He never really wanted me so he let me know in different ways. Most often he would hit me, not enough to kill me but enough so that I would get the message that I was worthless and he never wanted me. I knew I was an accident and that my father never really loved my mother, they only got married because of me. That hurt my mother too. She always tried to be a mother to me, but it didn't work very much since she was so doped up on medi-potions all the time to dull her own pain. My father gave me the best of everything though so we could keep up our precious image. I acted the way I was supposed to act at school- the big badass that no one really likes. I made fun of and harassed you three" Draco nodded toward where Harry, Ron and Hermione were sitting "because I was told to. One of the reasons I've always been mean to you Granger is because you're better than me in every class. My father hates that I'm beaten by a muggle born and he let's me know that he's angry. Up until this year I've done everything my father told me to do. This year I decided to go to Dumbledore with my problems with my father. I've been getting Dumbledore information that my father tells me ever since I talked to him in September. I suppose that's it." Draco said looking at Dumbledore. Mackenzie was absolutely seething right now. She looked at Lauren and Mackenzie could tell that she was pretty pissed herself. Mackenzie vowed to herself that if she ever met this Lucius Malfoy bastard she would kick his ass from here to hell and back and make sure that if he ever raised a hand to Draco again he would regret it. "Thank-you Draco." Mackenzie reached out and put a hand on his arm to comfort him. He looked up and she saw the gratefulness in his eyes that someone was there for him. "Now Mackenzie and Lauren, who would like to go first?" Dumbledore asked everyone's attention now turning towards the girls again. Lauren and Mackenzie glanced at each other and Mackenzie nodded to Lauren for her to go first. Lauren gave Mackenzie her trademark 'I'm gonna kick your ass later for this' look then looked at Dumbledore and said, "I'll go first." Dumbledore nodded for her to start and Lauren paused a moment thinking what exactly she should say. "Well", Lauren started, "My life hasn't really been interesting at all. I live with my mom and dad and my little sister. I'm 14 years old and my birthday is in May. Mackenzie and I have been best friends since the first grade" Some people had a blank look at this so Lauren paused and said "Ummmmm, that's muggle schooling. I would have been 7 years old and you would have been 8, right?" Lauren asked looking at Mackenzie who nodded. "We are both freshman's in High School this year and I guess that would be it." Lauren said looking at Mackenzie who nodded. "Well then Mackenzie why don't you go ahead." Dumbledore said. Mackenzie immediately felt herself blush- she hated talking in front of people she didn't know that well. "Well my story is basically the same. I live with my mom and my dog- I never knew my dad. I went to the same school Lauren did and I just recently had a birthday so I'm 15 now. That's all there is for me." Mackenzie said looking at Dumbledore. "Well have either of you had anything strange happen at all? Anything you really couldn't explain?" Asked Dumbledore persistent in getting answers. "Well, what would you classify as strange?" Mackenzie asked thinking back on numerous things that she couldn't explain that had happened to her. "Well anything really. Mostly when your emotions were running high." Dumbledore said. Mackenzie glanced at Lauren. As usual they could read each other like books. "Well, there's this thing." Lauren started then stopped looking at Mackenzie, "Do you want to say it or me?" Lauren asked while she was actually thinking that Mackenzie could explain it better. "I suppose I will." Mackenzie started then looked at Dumbledore with eyes that looked so wise it was unnerving in so young a face. "Have you ever heard of telepathy Professor? Maybe Empathy, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, or maybe even Telekinesis?" Mackenzie asked. "I have heard of all of them, why do you ask?" Dumbledore said. Mackenzie looked at Lauren who nodded. "Well would you classify those as strange? Because that's what's happened to us before."
BUM BUM BUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I SHALL LEAVE YOU THERE FOR NOW!!!!!!!!!!! Review please as always and if u have any questions or anything don't hesitate to e-mail me, geeze I won't bite.............. To hard JOKING ONLY JOKING MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well anyway I might have to up the rating on this story cuz I don't know if I will be going into detail on some ....things if you get my drift (Raises eyebrows so as to further give you a hint) At the consulting of my muse I might write that in (hormones people you can't beat them you might as well join them) Well anyway REVIEW RIGHT NOW and have a nice day : )
Yours truly,
~Mongoose
