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Chapter Three: Explanations and Punishments
Harry looked up and immediately drew his wand to protect himself. He had seen far too many tricks and had heard too many lies and deceits in the last few days to trust anyone at this point.
"Harry", said Professor Dumbledore in his usual quite manner, " I understand how you feel right now and trust me I would not blame you if you chose to hex me right here and now, but before you do let me explain what has happened."
"How do I know that it is really you?" Harry asked with more than a questioning look.
"Quite simply this way, you see I know how you got the sorcerer stone in your first year, defeating Professor Quirrell. Then in your second year you defeated the basilisk in the chamber of secrets and saved Ms. Weasley. It was your third year that you won the Quidditch cup and rescued your now late godfather Sirius Black. In your fourth year, you won the triwizard tournament and witnessed the come back of Lord Voldemort. Finally in your fifth year, you were banned from Quidditch by Professor Umbridge and discovered the truth about your destiny. And if that is not enough for you I believe that my phoenix, Fawkes, would only come to the true me and as you can plainly hear."
As the professor spoke the phoenix song was playing and then Fawkes appeared on Professor Dumbledore's shoulder.
"I do believe that this will be enough proof for you Harry" Dumbledore observed with a twinkle in his eye.
All Harry needed was that twinkle in his eyes everything seemed to make sense and the calmness of his voice could tame a Hungarian Horntail with ease.
"Yes Professor I do believe that it is you" Harry replied.
They talked for a few minutes to try and make some sort of sense out of what happened at Lord Voldemort's castle before Harry asked,
"Professor how did Voldemort and the death eaters get into my room and how did they look like you? And how was it possible to be two groups?"
"Well Harry quite simply this, we have, well actually I should say we had a traitor in our midst. Luckily for us we did discover who it was before anything else could happen. I do believe that Ms. Granger will be most displeased with what we had to do but we had no alternative. It was discovered (far too late as you can already tell) that Sirius's house elf, Kretcher, was to blame for the past few days of your torment. Before we knew what he was planning it was too late. Kretcher was hiding in the room where The Order of the Phoenix was having its meeting, and overheard our plans to pick you up rather soon, hopefully before your birthday. There are some legal and personal matters we need to discuss at a later time, not now but before tomorrow is over."
"But Professor," Harry interrupted, "how did the death eaters look like you?"
"Relax Harry, I am getting to that."
"Sorry Professor."
"No need to be sorry Harry, it is quite alright. Anyway, Kretcher reported to Tom and was informed of the polyjuice potion, a potion which you are familiar with as well I believe," Professor Dumbledore said this with a faint mischievous look in his eyes.
"Kretcher was told to gather some hairs off the floor, as we sometimes shed so to speak. He was told to gather more than one from each of us, so when the Order found out, we had to change our plans. However we were not fast enough and Voldemort acted before we could."
"So what happened to Kretcher?" Harry asked
"Well, we had no choice. He defied the Black ruling and rules of house elves so we took drastic measure and chopped of his head and put it on the wall with his family. But unfortunately for him Remus could not stand to look at him anymore and he burnt the wall down to the ground. Something I am sure that Sirius would have been happy to do himself."
"Ouch, that could not have felt good at all," Harry replied with a grin.
A/N: See no cliff hanger this time, sorry it was so short but the next two chapters should make up for it. Like I said before I have up to Chapter 5 written not typed but I am going to try and have Chapter 5 up before the end of the week, but I start back to college on Monday so my time to write will be less. As always, looking forward to your reviews.
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