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Chapter 16The three of us sat in Dumbledore's office not speaking. Fawkes flew over landing on Erin's lap making little noises of inquiry and cocking his head. "Hello, Fawkes." She said stroking his reddish head.
"Well, you two have a lot of explaining to do…for starters, what are your names? You don't go to Hogwarts…but you look too much like certain individuals not to be related to them in some way…and you know more about magic than some seventh years…"
"Harry Potter."
"Erin Black."
He looked at us for a moment with that penetrating gaze of his. "You are a Legilimenist…who are you?"
"We are the children of Sirius and Xenia and James and Lily." Harry said quietly.
"Explain yourselves."
Taking turns Harry and Erin told him everything from when Erin went to Harry's almost two weeks previous and ending with Dumbledore stopping the fight. The man nodded as they finished. "Erin, Harry, there is something you aren't telling me…"
"Something we can't tell you." Harry said. "The future, however, is 'riddled' with evil, there is a space of peace…evil however will always try to return."
"We stop Him then?" Dumbledore asked sitting a little forward and knowing he really shouldn't be asking that question.
"No." Harry said. "We do."
"The Phoenix…" Erin said suddenly still petting Fawkes. "Remarkable creatures, they die and are reborn, which makes you wonder are they really dead? Or do they just lie dormant? Are there connections between people and animals that cannot be explained? And for that matter between a person and someone else?"
"Perhaps…" Dumbledore said getting more out of that than he probably should have. "You are the Woman-Child then…" He sighed.
Harry had heard Erin called that before, by a certain Centaur by the name of Firenze when they were in first year. "Excuse me, sir, but what does that mean?"
"It is a title…" Dumbledore began. "A prophecy came into being long ago about a girl of Black and Lyancomp blood. Not many know the full prophecy. I don't, but I will look it up sometime…" He looked a little distracted. "Erin, may I see your Time Turner?"
Erin slipped the chain from her neck and Dumbledore took it. "Can it be fixed?"
"Oh, yes." Dumbledore said. "I shall let Flitwick see it. He shall have it ready by morning."
"Thank you, sir."
"That means you shall leave in the morning."
"Yes, sir." The both said.
"You may go now, and you don't have to sneak around. I am sure everyone has been alerted to your presence, though not whom you are. I will see you in the morning."
They got out of there fast. They wanted to spend as much time with the others as possible before they left.
