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Chapter 2: "Shattered dreams"

They entered the house and Harry led them to his bedroom. When they got there, Lupin looked amazed by the mess in which that room was.

"Hey Harry, what happened to this room? Has there been an earthquake recently?" Lupin asked laughing.

"Sorry" Harry mumbled.

"It's ok; you haven't seen you know where... without Molly to help us it's a mess, and..."

"Wait, has something happened to Mrs. Weasley?" Harry asked worried. With the events of the previous months, he had grown very worried about the people in the magical world.

"What happened to Mrs. Weasley is that she's got four children to look after; and a husband." Lupin answered.

"Ok, kid, hurry up that Molly is cooking tonight and I haven't tasted one of her meals for ages." Moody said.

Harry picked up all his clothes, including his robes. However, would he be in Grimauld Place all summer?

"Wait, am I going to spend the rest of the summer there?"

"Potter! Please think for a second... we come and get you from a muggle neighbourhood, with all the trouble that implies... Do you really think we are going to take you just for a week?" Moody said, "I really thought you were more intelligent, for Merlin's sake, Potter! Of course, we are taking you there all summer; we cannot risk coming here again! Now are you going to hurry up or what?"

"Yes, sir, yes." Harry answered. He started picking up all his books and stuff from school as fast as he could. Then he found the Sneakoscope and it was not making any noise, so that left him a bit less worried. When he finished, he closed his trunk and put Hedwig inside her cage. She was happy because she knew that once they got to Grimauld Place, she would be able to get out and stretch her wings a bit often.

When he was about to leave he remembered the loose floorboard where he kept all his birthday presents... from his world, of course.

"Wait! Give me a second!" He shouted at the others who were already in the bottom of the staircase.

He pulled the floorboard and looked inside. As his birthday was in two days, it was quite empty. Well, in fact, the only thing that was there was the shattered mirror he had broken before leaving school. He wished he had never remembered that damn loose floorboard, but took the mirror and for a moment, he wished that he had never broken it. He put the mirror inside his pocket and left the room with his eyes full of tears.

"Are you ready, Harry?" Lupin asked.

Harry knew Lupin did not mean that if he had all his personal belongings with him, he meant if Harry was ready to go back to the place where Sirius had spent his last days with him.

"Yes, I am" He answered, wondering what the surprise would be.

The port key was a teacup that Harry remembered having seen in Dumbledore's office the previous year. Everyone touched the teacup, but Harry felt someone holding his arm. It was Uncle Vernon.

"Oh, no, you are certainly not going!" He roared.

"Let go!"

"Hey, leave the kid alone!" Tonks shouted.

When Harry finally got rid of Uncle Vernon, he touched the port key, which was quite cold, by the way. They were flying at high speed, but when Harry was starting to feel his insides were going to explode; his knees collided with that cold stone floor he knew so well.

"Finally!" Harry heard Mrs. Weasley say. "I thought something had happened"

She hugged Harry so hard he thought she was trying to choke him.

"Oh, Harry dear, how are you?"

"I'm fine, Mrs. Weasley, thanks for asking. Is Ron here?"

"Yes, but first, the Order has to show you something"

"Come, Harry, someone is waiting for you in the hall." Tonks said.

She led him to the hall where he saw Dumbledore talking to a man who Harry could not see because of Dumbledore's height.

"Professor, Harry is here." Tonks said, as she smiled and closed the door behind her.

"Harry! How are you?" Dumbledore said, still neglecting to let Harry see who the man behind him was.

"I'm ok, professor, how are you?"

"Couldn't be better, Harry. There's something you need to know, please have a seat." He said as two handsome chairs appeared.

Harry sat, but Dumbledore remained standing. Harry now wondered who was going to sit in the other chair.

"Last year, I told you the whole truth I knew about you. However, there was something that my old age did not let me remember, and when I did, I did not have the courage to tell you... Voldemort was trying to make all the sons of Death Eaters, to be his followers too. Some came to my aide, but some did not. The first person that came to my aide was your worst enemy, Draco Malfoy."

"He came to your aide? You did not help him, did you?"

"Yes, Harry, I did help him. He was terrified, his father tried to kill him when he told him he didn't want to be a Death Eater, but he escaped and came to me."

"And you believed him..."

"Of course, why wouldn't I?"

"Oh! Let me see... he HATES US! DON'T YOU SEE? IT'S TRUE! YOU ARE A STUPID OLD MAN! HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE HIM! HE'S EVIL! HE'LL DO ANYTHING TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORDER! HIS FATHER IS A DEATH EATER FOR GOD'S SAKE! HIS FATHER'S FRIEND KILLED SIRIUS!"

"Harry! Calm down! I know you don't like him! But you're wrong! He's not gone!"

"YEAH! HE'S INSIDE ME! I KNOW THAT! NOW TELL ME HOW TO GET HIM OUT!"

"Harry, if you just let me tell you something I swear you can shout anything you want at me once I have finished!"

"As you wish, professor" Harry said ironically.

"As I was saying, Malfoy escaped, as I know you still don't trust Severus, I made the Veritaserum potion myself and gave it to Mr. Malfoy, he told me the exact same version that he had told me before taking it." And seeing Harry's sceptical face, "and no, Harry, there isn't any antidote whatsoever that could prevent you from telling the truth when you take Veritaserum. When I finally believed Mr. Malfoy's story I took him here with all his belongings, he doesn't know where he is, so if you please do not tell him just for safety, I would be really grateful."

"So you don't trust him completely"

"I can't trust anyone, Harry, not even myself. Well, after this episode with Mr. Malfoy, I gave all the kids that had come to me the potion, but Draco was the only one who passed the Veritaserum test. After two days the term had finished, Draco came to me with this interesting investigation about the archway in the Department of Mysteries. It said that people who fell in the archway were suspended in an ancient spell that made them disappear from the physical world."

"So now you know he's dead! Please, professor, tell me something I don't know." Harry said exasperated.

"No, Harry, that's where you're wrong, he's not dead, his body has disappeared. The only thing we had to do was to get his body back with a spell. The problem was that he was in a bad shape when he 'died', so it was going to be very difficult to get him back."

"So, you didn't bring him back, and you're just trying to make me cry, so you tell me 'see Harry, that's your greatest power' and be happy to have done a good job..." Harry said sarcastically.

The man behind Dumbledore laughed. Harry knew that laughter, but it couldn't be. He hadn't heard that laugh in a long time, in fact, now he barely remembered that laugh. It was impossible. Was that he? Could they possibly have brought him back? Harry couldn't believe his ears.

"Now Harry, I thinkyou have to tell me if I have done a good job." Dumbledore said.

When he stepped aside, Harry found himself in the flowerbed of Number 4 Privet Drive. It had all been a dream, a very vivid dream.