Summary: After his fifth year, Harry's summer is downright depressing, but when Remus lets him sort through Sirius's things he makes a discovery that could change his whole life.
Angelkitty77: Always.
Orlin: Thanks, I really hope I'll pass the exams. I'm going to be really annoying and not say anything about how the letter will turn out or how long you'll have to wait to find out.
The Silver Serpent: Read and find out.
Queen-of-monkey-magic: Of course I've got msn! I've even got aim! Harry is not going to be mad at Dumbledore, but neither is he going to be a good boy and listen to what his headmaster tells him. The only think about the letter is that you won't directly find out what's in it, so there will be no Elisabeth reading it. You'll just have to wait and find out what I've got planned. You know, I found it quite funny I got a better mark for English than my own language, but then again, I find English the more fun language since almost everyone can understand me when I talk it.
Dutch Lily Flower: Of course we can play Quidditch again, what would Harry be without Quidditch? I would die if Harry couldn't play Quidditch. Nope, you didn't miss anything, though I will tell you Wesley is an existing character who just hadn't been mentioned by name in my fics yet, but he's already in one, passively. Yeah, my birthday is the 30th, I'LL FINALLY BE OFF AGE! Sorry, had to do that.
James-Padfoot: No need to wait any longer.
Dark Secrets
Chapter 5: Wesley Byrne
"Alright Harry, concentrate on…" Remus was cut of by an owl flying in through the window.
They were on Harry's room. Dumbledore's spare pensive stood on the desk. Remus had decided that the sooner Harry could use a pensive the better, so that was what he was trying to teach him now.
Harry held his breath, hoping against all hope it wasn't a letter from Elisabeth all ready. He breathed a sigh of relieve when he saw the Hogwarts seal. Yet he couldn't help but feel a little bit disappointed. He knew he was expecting it too soon, but knowledge of the possible existence of a family member who might not hate him with passion was getting to him.
Suddenly it was as if an iron fist closed around his heart. What if she didn't like him? What if she was a squib and hated magic because of it? He quickly dismissed those thoughts. Last night he had been reading some of the girl's letters to Sirius, starting with the most resent and working his way back.
In her letters she had failed to not complain at least once about 'The Institute', as she called it. Saying they were always being told they were superior, but she seemed to think it was even greater 'bull shit' than 'blood superiority'. Harry had yet to find a letter not containing her wish to be at Hogwarts.
"Hey Harry, are you in there?"
Harry quickly blinked a few times, blushing when he noticed how deep in thought he had been because of an owl.
"Welcome back to Earth." Remus laughed. "Hogwarts letters are early this year."
Harry had to agree, even in his first year the letters weren't this early. Opening his letter, he frowned at it.
"What is it, Harry?" Remus asked.
"Nothing, it's just… I haven't been to Diagon Ally the past two years and I was wondering if Dumbledore would allow me to go." Harry mumbled.
"I'm sure we can arrange something." Remus assured.
Brightening up a little, Harry shot Remus a thankful look,
"So what was it I should be concentrating on?" He asked, getting back to the original topic.
"Oh yeah, well you should be concentrating on…"
The next day
Dumbledore had been right, dumping memories in a pensive was easy. Dumbledore had been informed Harry was able to restart his lessons and any minute now the Order meeting could be over and he would meet this Wesley Byrne. For once Ron and Hermione had accompanied Ginny in keeping him company and had put the OWL's out of their minds for a while.
They we quite happily discussing what kind of DADA-teacher they would have this year and how full of himself Snape would be. The topic of Sirius being carefully avoided by his three friends and Harry was happy for that, it didn't hurt as much as he had thought to talk about Sirius, but besides the few words he had Ginny had said after he had gone through Sirius's things, he had only talked with Remus about him and he was quite happy to keep it that way.
Suddenly there was a soft knock on his door. The lack of a voice told Harry it wasn't Remus. Frowning he called out to whoever it was to enter.
A man in his mid forties stepped in. He had dark brown hair and soft brown eyes. He was not exceptionally tall, but he was a bit taller than most people and he was well build, with broad shoulders and well toned muscles. He smiled when he looked at the occupants of the room.
"Hello." He greeted friendly.
"Hello." The four greeted back.
"I don't want to be rude, but who are you?" Harry asked after a moment of silence.
"Oh, sorry. I'm Wesley Byrne." The man smiled and held out his hand.
"Harry Potter." Harry replied, shaking the man's hand.
"Hermione Granger." Hermione introduced, also shaking the man's hand.
"Ron Weasley." Ron said, looking at the man suspiciously.
When the Wesley turned to Ginny, he saw she was studying him carefully.
"What? I don't have anything on my face, have I?" He asked jokingly.
Ginny quickly shook her head and turned bright red, mumbling a soft reply.
"Sorry, I didn't quite catch that."
"I said, you look like a classmate of mine, Matt. I'm Ginny by the way."
Surprisingly the man laughed at that.
"Matt's my son." He explained.
"Wait a minute, that would be the smart and cute Matt you were talking about at the beginning of the summer, right Gin?" Ron asked.
"I don't have a crush on him, if that's what you think." Ginny replied quickly. "It's common knowledge in our year he has a girlfriend somewhere in America and isn't thinking about breaking up any time soon despite the distance between them. That doesn't stop him from being popular though."
Ron looked relieved to hear that, though Harry knew that like him, Ron had his doubts about the girlfriend in America being real and if she was, the future of the relationship.
"Yeah, Liz is a sweet girl." Wesley agreed. "He met her while we were in America for a few years for my job, we visited her a few times during the summers and they got together two years ago. They're almost in constant contact."
"What kind of job do you have?" Hermione asked curiously.
Wesley took Harry's chair and sat down with the backrest at the front. It shocked Hermione to see a grown up do something like that, but Harry and Ron grinned. Obviously this Wesley was a cool guy.
"I'm an Auror." He replied.
"Aurors get send to foreign countries?" Ron asked surprised.
"You'd be surprised what's included in an Auror's job."
"Will you tell?" Harry asked eagerly.
"I should be teaching you Occlumency." Wesley said sternly. "I'll be staying her for a while, so how about I'll tell you all about it at dinner and we get to closing up your mind first?"
The proposition sounded fair to Harry and so he agreed to it. Saying goodbye to his friends, Ron, Hermione and Ginny left the room. Harry put all memories he didn't want Wesley to know about in the pensive and his second attempt at Occlumency started.
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