Chapter 8. A Lie Unfolded

At that last sentence, Sell suddenly woke up startled.

'Why? Why…' Harry sank down and hid his face in his hands.

Sobs were heard and Sell, although she was still in shock, knew something severe had happened and that she shouldn't think about herself, but about Harry.

'Harry?' She whispered. Harry looked up.

'What happened?' Sell asked, after she took a look to the tears and the red-hot scar on Harry's forehead.

She got up and sat down next to Harry.

He immediately grabbed her and hugged her that hard, she thought he might break a rib.

'I'm sorry,' Harry whispered. 'I didn't mean anything I said. I just miss him, I miss him.'

Selena patted on his back, while looking at the old man.

He too had wet cheeks and his eyes were very sad and worried.

Yasmine suddenly also stirred and opened her eyes.

She saw the scene and met Selena's eyes.

'What happened?' She mouthed. Selena signalled with her eyes that she too had no idea, but that Yazz had to help her.

Yazz also kneeled down and tapped Harry too on his back.

'Harry, calm down-' She said. 'Tell us what happened.'

Harry calmed down a little and let go Selena.

He breathed heavily as he told what had happened, oblivious of Dumbledore being there.

'But I didn't mean it.' Harry said and he believed it, but Selena didn't.

'You meant it.' She said. Harry looked at her.

'I didn't.' His voice started to raise again.

'You did mean it, Harry. Just admit it and say it out loud. You meant the words you said.'

It seemed to Dumbledore that Harry was going to yell again, but instead of doing that he nodded.

'I meant it…' He whispered. 'I did meant it. It's all true…'

Yasmine nodded too.

'You don't have to bottle up your rage like that. If you have something on your mind, just say it. Never mind the consequences, it's that moment that counts, not the future.'

Harry looked into her eyes.

'You're right… You're both right.'

He was more talking to himself instead of to the girls.

'I did mean it… Remus has no right to treat me as a friend of his. Sirius was my godfather, not him. Sirius, and only him-' He kept on muttering. 'Was my godfather. No one else is… Not Arthur, not Remus… No one…'

Sell knew that this Sirius meant a lot to Harry, and she figured that ever since his death, Harry could not accept the fact that he's gone.

'Harry,' She started, but she couldn't make herself continue.

She drew breath and tried again.

'I-I… I know what you mean… I guess.'

Harry looked up.

'Our real parents died when we were a couple of days old, we were sent to foster-parents… We've never known who they were and we've only known about our adoption for a couple of years - We lost our parents twice, Harry. Just like you did…'

Harry looked at Yasmine, who nodded.

'How did you knew-'

'You lost your parents and so? We just knew, Harry. We just knew.'

Yasmine decided not to get in to it, not to tell how Sell and her had talked about Harry and how they made up a theory of his life. It would probably be too much information to bear at the moment.

'How am I going to solve this…' Harry sighed, talking more to himself, then to anybody else.

'It'll solve itself,' Selena said. Harry seemed to want to ask how that's going to be possible, and Selena answered to unspoken question.

'How do I know? Because, for the short time I've known you, you seem to be a very loyal person and you choose your friends carefully and you use your head doing that. They'll forgive you, if they wouldn't, you wouldn't have become friends with them for the start.'

Dumbledore, who was still witnessing the scene, seemed to be willing to say his word in this, but Yasmine, who had noticed, warned him with her ice-cold eyes.

'Zip it.' Her eyes read. Dumbledore understood and gave a small, barely noticeable nod.

Harry on the other hand, had noticed the silent communication between the two.

'And you-' His voice started to turn colder again.

'You'll tell everything about the reason of your reaction, how it came you couldn't believe they were here and that you knew them and you'll tell it now!' Harry had said it aloud, but not that aloud.

It was more in a strict tone, a tone which made you obey.

Dumbledore thought about it, just a second too long from Harry's point of view.

Harry pulled his wand and Selena and Yasmine shrieked silently.

'Dumbledore? Do not tempt me.'

The old man sighed.

'I knew them, because I knew their parents.'

(AN: should I leave a cliff-hanger here? Nah!)

There was a big silence that hung over the room suddenly.

Silent, but a pressing kind of "silent".

It hurt their ears, it undermined their thoughts. It seemed as if the two girls couldn't breathe almost.

They had forgotten how.

Harry on the either hand was breathing heavily.

'How could you have known them?!' He said, starting to sound angry again.

'Because, Harry, they were-' Dumbledore stayed quiet for a second.

It seemed to take whole his strength to say it.

'They were what?!'

'They were the children of -'

'Of whom?!' Harry started to lose control again and he was probably close to the edge of panicking.

'They were the children of Regulus Black, Sirius' brother.'

Harry's mouth fell open. That answer he hadn't expected.

The two girls didn't knew how to behave themselves.

Was this person really their father? Who was he?

'They - they - WHAT?!'

Harry's knees felt weak, and black spots were tumbling in front of him.

This couldn't be true, his face read.

'It's true, Harry.' Dumbledore said silently.

'No-' Harry whispered unbelievingly.

'No! No! IT CAN'T BE! He was a Deatheather! It can't be!'

Selena and Yasmine suddenly were able to talk again.

'Who was Regulus Black? And what's a Deatheather?' Selena said, whispering.

Harry and Dumbledore looked round to the girls, both breathless.

'Please sit down, all three of you.' Dumbledore said.

AN: Was this unexpected or what?! I believe it was, if it wasn't… To my defence, it was 1h15 in the night when I suddenly came up with this idea. I'd had a writer's block for two days now : Who on earth could've been their parents, without being obvious.. So, Sirius, James and Remus were out, and Severus or so also couldn't be and suddenly it hit me… Thanks to Christmas, I think (it's Christmas now, while I'm writing this)…

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