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Chapter 8

Dumbledore sat in his office, his pensieve out on his desk going over past events.The tips of his white beard lighting up significantly with every major incident. He stopped to look as Harry's face float up in the sink. This was the last night before Harry disappeared from the hospital wing after the battle. Looking back now, he wished he would have trusted his instincts, he knew what was going through the boy's mind and the possibility of him leaving the wizarding world completely, had occured to him but as he reflected on it he knew he wouldn't had changed anything the second time round.

He knew Harry had to sort out this for himself. Dumbledore himself had channelled his powers to Harry with use of ancient magic and it drained all his magic to finally destroy Voldemont. Harry had howled into his shoulder at the hospital wing that night, bitter sweet tears of a seventeen year old boy who had shown the world the light while losing it himself.

The old man had felt his own tears flow as he clung on to him giving him comfort and reassurance through both magical and physical strength. He had hoped with all his heart that happiness would find himand stick with him for the rest of his life, that's why he had sent Ginerva Weasley, to bring him back. The time to be healed had to be hurried cause there wasn't much time left and Dumbledore needed to this before..., no he would rather not think of that now.

He had never married. Everyone had accepted that like a fact from a history book. Nobody had ever bothered to question why.Dumbleddore himself had never raised any comments about it. Many students at Hogwarts had suspected Minerva Mcgonagal and himself to be romantically involved .

He chuckled at the mere thought of it. Perhaps looking at the greying hair of the transfiguration teacher one might link the two, but he was a couple hundred years older than her and had infact been close friends with her grandfather. He was there to see her grow up and was very proud when she had joined Hogwarts staff. Although he had done nothing to prevent the rumours from floating around he had always cared for her as a father.

Dumbledore's love affair was a mystery, and so was his secret to his long life. Ofcourse now and then there was the odd article in the Quibler which had established the fact that Dumbledore was infact was the reincarnation of the great Merlin himself, but it was as far away from the truth as the article about Dumbledore keeping a secret bottle of the immortality potion in his pocket.

It had been a long time since he had allowed himself to think of her. A very long time. It was when Hogwarts was a brand new

castle, that had just been built by the four founders. Magic was always practiced in it's purest form and the rare magical creatures today roamed around in big numbers. Sigting a flock of phoenix's flying or unicorns running through the meadows was a daily site for students attending the school. There was no fear that existed on either side and trust came naturally.

Dumbledore had asked her out in his fifth year, after carrying her books to and from class for over a year and gathering up enough courage to do the deed. No he wasn't always as brave as everyone thought, nor did he have the long beard and white long hair people associated him with.

She had told him she was a muggle born when they had met, but later he had found out about her true heritage. She had hair like the colours of a sunrize a blend of red and gold that curled around her face giving it a soft impression of purity and innocence. Her eyes were blue with depth of an ocean and her name... it was a name he had never heard been used on a lady before or on anyone else for that matter ... it was Fawkes...

Sorry to end it in a cliffy promise to update soon... before u ask no she is not fawkes the phoenix the link will be told in next chapter ... Please read and review