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Chapter Three: Revelations

"W-what," stuttered Harry "you're joking aren't you?" "I told you he would take it that way, James" said Sirius with an I-know-more-about-my-godson-more-than-you-do hint in his voice. "Well, how do you expect me to tell him?" said James angrily "tell him in French or something".

"Nah, troll language would be great" said Sirius sarcastically.

"Oh, give me that," said Lily impatiently "Harry, when you were born Dumbledore told us about the prophecy and we panicked, what if you really were the one in the prophecy? We performed some spells on you to find if you had any special powers when we came across a spell in which we can find if a person is a metamorphmagus or not. James told me to skip the spell as we knew that metamorphmagi were really rare but I did it anyway much to your father's dismay," she grinned at James "we saw the result same to that of a metamorphmagus. We performed another spell on you so that no one will find about you being a metamorphmagus and that Voldemort would think that the prophecy would be about some other wizard boy. We thought that Voldemort was most likely to wait and see which wizard boy was from the prophecy but we were very wrong,"

Harry was shocked at the revelation that he was a metamorphmagus. He looked blankly at his mother before saying

"I-is this spell's effects forever?" he asked his mother "no, the effects were designed to wear off after fifteen or sixteen years. Hasn't there been a time in your life when you concentrated on changing your appearance?" "Yeah, there has, when Aunt Petunia (Lily raised her eyebrows) cut my hair and I concentrated on it growing back, it did," replied Harry grimly.

"Well, try it" cried Sirius excitedly "try what?" Harry asked "try to change your appearance, of course" Harry thought for a moment, what part of his appearance would he like to change. His first thought was his scar; he was fed up with people staring at it, on the otherhand if he did hide his scar, people he knew were sure to notice and would question him about it, unless he wanted them to know that he was a metamorphmagus, he couldn't just go babbling about it to people who weren't close to him.

He decided he would try to change his scar. He concentrated on hiding his scar when pain shot through his head. He was stunned by the pain. "Harry, are you alright?" asked his mother concerned. "Yes" said Harry after he had recovered. "It's just my scar, happens all the time," Harry looked at his mirror to see if his scar had vanished but to his disappointment it was still there. "I don't think Harry's scar hurt because of the Voldemort connection or anything rather Harry trying to change his appearance" said James wisely "Harry, don't do it again without some teaching assistance," "but who will help me" said Harry

"Sirius told us of a metamorphmagus named Nymphadora Tonks, maybe she can help" said Lily.

"Yes but I don't want to tell too many people I'm a metamorphmagus" said Harry apprehensively. "I mean if Voldemort finds out about this, what do you think he'll make of this information?" "How else do you think you'll be able to learn how to change your appearance?" asked Sirius "Harry you're right about one thing, these days you should trust no one, especially house elves like Kreacher". Harry wore a very bitter look at the sound of Kreacher. "Why that little…" began Harry when he was interrupted again by Sirius. "Harry I know how you feel about Kreacher, but I don't want you to hate him"

Harry looked at Sirius incredulously. "Are you mad, he betrayed you, if it wasn't for him and me, you'd still be alive," said Harry outraged.

Sirius looked at him with concerned eyes before saying. "Harry I know that you still blame yourself for my death but you have to understand that the only people truly responsible for my death are Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange"

Harry didn't press the subject; however, he knew that his godfather was right.

"Dad, I got seven O.W.Ls in my exam but I don't know how Snape accepted me into his class" said Harry deciding to change the subject. James frowned deeply "That slimy git, Sirius here has told me all about him and apparently he loathes my son more than me"

"But you did embarrass him in front of the whole school and after I got out from the Pensieve he hated me even more," said Harry in an accusing tone "and I didn't see him start the fight" he added as an afterthought

"I see you're more like your mother than I thought, Harry" he said grinning.

"And is that supposed to be a bad thing?" asked his mother angrily.

"N-no lily dear not at all" said James stuttering madly. Harry sniggered; his father really was scared by his mom.

Lily was glaring at her husband before turning to speak to Harry. "Back to important things Harry, we also have to tell you something about your heritage,"

"What about it?" asked Harry.

"Well lets just say that your ancestors weren't the most innocent of wizards," said James slowly. Lily looked at him angrily.

"Tell him,"

"But Lily dear…"

"He has every right to know James, and if you don't tell him I will," she added

"Oh well, Harry, you know about Grindelwald don't you?" he said nervously

"Yes I think I've read about him somewhere, he was a dark wizard wasn't he?"

"Yeah he was, you see the thing is Harry, he's you're…" said James

"Yes?" Harry asked anticipating the worst.

"He's you're…" said James once again stopping in the middle of his sentence

 "OH WILL YOU JUST TELL HIM OR SHOULD I?" yelled Lily

"Ok, ok don't push me. Harry, he's your paternal great-grandfather" said James darkly.

Harry felt as though he could collapse under the information that he was the heir of a dark wizard. He looked at his mother and father dumbfounded.

"Why didn't anyone ever tell me?" he said

"No one ever knew except Dumbledore" said James. "Look Harry, I made Dumbledore swear he wouldn't tell anyone. I didn't want you to hate me or anyone else in our family for that matter,"

"I don't hate you, Dad I'm just surprised to find that I'm the heir of a Dark Wizard," said Harry

"Yes that's what I thought too when my father told me," said James thoughtfully

"But dad, I don't have any Dark powers like he does, do I?" Harry asked anxiously.

Lily and James looked at each other uneasily.

"We can't tell you Harry you have to find out for yourself." said Lily

"Why?"

"I told you have to find out for yourself" said Lily annoyed

Harry looked at his mom and dad and said "Look you can quit the whole hiding information from the child thing because one man has already lost his life because of it," he said nodding at Sirius.

"Well I don't think this information is that sensitive," said Sirius smiling "nice try, though"

Harry glared at Sirius before turning to his parents "Any more bad news for me…oh wait let me guess, mom's related to Salazar Slytherin, isn't she?

James laughed but Lily frowned. "No rather I'm related to Albus Dumbledore, dear".

Harry felt as if a bolt had struck him in the face. He was related to a dark wizard and one the most powerful wizard of all time, Albus Dumbledore.

"Mum, how are you related to him?" he said.

"He's my grandmother's cousin" said Lily proudly.

"Your mother has an ego Harry, I'm glad to see you didn't inherit it," muttered James out of the corner of his mouth.

Harry sniggered "Ok, so who was this Grindelwald anyway he sounds like a cute little bunny rabbit compared to Voldemort," said Harry.

The three of them exchanged dark looks "Never underestimate dark lords especially…"said Sirius darkly when the rest of his sentence was drowned by a loud bark downstairs.

~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.Hmm I wonder who barked (though I know all of you have a very good idea who) so back to business I was so surprised when I woke up one morning, checked my email and there were 7 new e-mail messages. "Probably junk mail" I thought, I got a surprise however when I saw that all the mails were reviews and my threat had worked. So I will probably threat a lot more next time I receive 1 or 0 reviews *Readers take out bio-logical and nuclear weapons* hehe just joking. I will be away for the next 3 r 4 days. Anyway thanks to:

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