Chapter 9. Our life would change forever.

'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.

The girls sat down and Harry followed them, all of them looking astonished towards Dumbledore.

'Regulus Black was the brother of Sirius Black, Harry, that you knew… What you didn't knew, was that these girls here, Selena and Yasmine were his daughters and -'

Selena interrupted him.

'Hang on - Does… Does this mean I'm the sister of Yasmine?'

Yasmine looked at her, she didn't understood either.

Dumbledore nodded.

'Yes, you are. But not -'

'Oh - my - god!' Yasmine yelled and she moved side-way.

Selena startled too. She jumped up and stumbled a few steps back.

They looked at each other, both unable to say anything.

'But -' Dumbledore continued.

'Only half-sisters. Your mothers were other women. Regulus -'

'Who were they?' Harry asked, saying the question the girls didn't dare to ask.

'Muggle-women, who both died after birth. Regulus knew of his two daughters, but he died before he could claim them or tell Sirius about them -'

'Why would he tell Sirius?!' Harry said aloud. 'They couldn't stand each other!'

'It was, behind all the hatred, still his brother in the first place and he hoped, as Sirius was your godfather too and a person on the Light side, that he would take care of the two.'

Selena and Yasmine listened to the conversation, but the words took a long time to sink in.

Yasmine is my sister, Selena thought and Yasmine thought the same, but then about Selena.

Harry nodded halfly.

'But why would he tell him? Did he knew his life was in danger?'

Dumbledore looked at Harry.

'Yes, Harry. He knew, for he was a spy too on my behalf.'

Harry's jaw dropped that low that it would probably have hit the floor, if that had been possible.

'My father was a spy?'

This somehow made more sense, then anything else Dumbledore had told them now, Selena thought.

'Yes, Selena. But not a spy like you think. No Bond-type,'

Harry looked surprised at this comment.

'But a real spy, who putted his life in stake with every step he took.'

This time Selena's and Yasmine's jaw dropped.

'So, he knew that once Voldemort would've known about his two daughters, he'd come after them, so he tried to get out. Sadly, Voldemort had known Regulus was a spy and murdered him.'

Selena took a sharp breath.

'My father murdered… because of us?'

Dumbledore nodded.

Black started to close in to Selena and she passed out.

'Selena!' Both Harry and Yasmine yelled.

Yasmine ran to her friend and tried to shake her awake.

'Wake up!' She slapped her in the face and Selena awoke.

'Ouch -' She tried to get up, but failed in that.

Harry helped her, but he kind of felt weird of touching a descendant of the Black's.

Sirius' cousin, this is his cousin! Kept on repeating itself in his head.

He let go of her the instant she stood steady on her feet.

'Who was Voldemort?' Yasmine asked, after she was sure Selena was ok.

'A… I must tell you first who you are, before I tell you about him.'

Harry realised this was a moment where the girls probably rather be alone, so he got up.

'No, Harry. Stay - Please?' Yasmine said, stopping him with her hand.

Harry looked at the hand, than to Yasmine and nodded.

'Who are we then?' Selena asked, with a crack in the voice.

'You are both the daughters of Regulus Black, brother of Sirius Black, the late owner of this house here -'

A thought suddenly struck Yasmine.

'Wait - Does, does this mean… Is this - I mean, are we- The only ones-'

Dumbledore looked at her.

'I guess you are. According to law, you are. But this is not relevant now. Regulus was also, besides your father of course, a -'

'What are we now?'

'Selena, we are -' Yasmine explained. 'The owners of this house now. We are the only living descendants of a Black. I realised this.'

Harry looked at her.

'You're what?'

'The owners of this house, I guess.' Selena answered.

'Yes,-' Dumbledore said, sounding impatiently.

'But let me finish first.-'

'Sorry.'

'- Don't apologise, that's not necessary… As I was saying, your father was also a wizard, which would make you, well, a witch.'

The same silence hung over the room, as it had just left it a couple of minutes ago.

'We're a what now?'

'You are witches, and strong ones too with a father like that.'

Dumbledore sounded pride.

This time both of them let out a small sigh and fainted.

Dumbledore immediately got up and tried to wake them, but it didn't go, not even with spells.

He looked and sounded very concerned when he spoke to Harry.

'Harry, fetch Molly, if you will, please. I doubt that these girls would be wanting to see us after this.'

Harry nodded and he ran upstairs, shouting Mrs. Weasley's name.

He acted as if he wasn't experiencing this at all.

It felt so unreal what had happened the past 24 hours and Harry doubted that he could take much more.

Mrs. Weasley came out of her room and answered to Harry's call.

'You must come down! Dumbledore needs you!'

Harry turned round and ran back downstairs, followed closely by Mrs. Weasley, her husband and Ron and Hermione. They had heard Harry yell and had decided to follow him.

'Albus, what's the matter?'

Albus explained quickly.

'They've heard something quite astonishing and fainted. They won't wake up, even with a spell -'

Mrs. Weasley bend down near the girls and looked at them.

She immediately let out a great sigh.

'- and as you are a trained medi-witch, I hoped you could do something about it.'

Harry looked at Mrs. Weasley. 'You're a Healer?'

Mrs. Weasley shook her head.

'No, I'm a nurse-' That's all she said to Harry, the rest was directed to Dumbledore.

'Albus, this doesn't look good. They're -' She stopped for a moment.

'I'm not sure, but they need to get to St. Mungo's right-a-way!'

The following events happened in a few seconds, but it felt like minutes to Harry, Ron and Hermione.

Mrs. Weasley grabbed Yasmine, Mr. Weasley took Selena and Dumbledore threw a handful of Floo-powder in the hearth. They disappeared to the Magical Hospital before any of the three left could protest.

There was a quiet silence for a moment, and then Hermione spoke, just the moment Harry opened his mouth.

'Don't apologise, Harry. We know you didn't meant it and that it was just the rage of the moment that took over.'

Harry looked, still with his mouth open, at Hermione, thinking she really was the smartest witch ever.

Ron nodded, when Harry looked at him.

'The others will forgive you too, never mind them -'

'Look, Harry, enough of this. What happened? We heard you scream again, but we don't know what's been going on.'

Hermione sounded determined and Harry said to them that they would need to sit down.

Ron looked oddly towards Harry, but saw that Harry was being serious.

They both sat down and Harry started to tell the story.

'Dumbledore knew their parents.'

He didn't need to say anything else. Hermione and Ron looked speechless, but weren't at all.

'What? How - He did - Why - I mean he - they-'

'How?' Hermione finished Ron's muttering.

'Because their father was Regulus Black. Sirius' brother.'

This time they were speechless.

'They are half-sisters, but never knew obviously. Regulus wanted to protect them by telling Sirius, but died in his attempt of leaving Voldemort -'

Ron shivered a bit, but less than normal.

'He, Regulus, was a spy for Dumbledore too and he knew that his daughters wouldn't be safe if Voldemort would find out. Sadly, he was already dead before he could tell Sirius.'

'Is that - this - that why they are in that state?' Hermione asked.

Harry shook his head.

'No, they passed out after Dumbledore told them they were witches.'

'Oh…'

AN: This chapter didn't really turn out the way I wanted, but it's OK, I guess… I didn't really knew how they would react, so I tried to see me in their situation and I figured: if I'd discover that much about my parents, I'd freak out too and probably faint too. Tell me what you all think in your review (subtle hint?).