Fire of the Phoenix

Chapter18 The truth comes out

Disclaimer; I do not own Harry Potter

Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione met up with Malfoy in the Room of Requirement. They all sat down

and Harry began speaking first. "Well it all started with Prophecy Dumbledore told me at the end of the year."

"What Prophecy," Hermione blurted out loudly. She quickly clapped her hands over her mouth

"Now Mione don't interrupt," Ron sounded like he was scolding a 2 year old.

Hermione stuck her tongue out at Ron. He just smirked back at her again.

"Now children, can't we all just get along?" Draco said tauntingly.

"You're the one to bloody talk," Ron spat back.

"Enough, stop fighting," Ginny exploded.

Hermione, Ron and Draco turned around towards her and muttered sheepishly, "Sorry."

"Ok children," Harry teased. "Dumbledore, told me about the prophecy that was made about Voldemort, and I. It basically said a child who was born at the end of July, whose parents defied Voldemort three times, had the power to defeat him. This child Voldemort would mark as his equal. The last part was neither could live while the other is alive. So basically I've got to murder or be murdered."

"How do you know it was you the prophecy was talking about," Ron questioned.

"Well it could have applied to only one other than me. That was Neville Longbottom," Harry answered.

Ron and Malfoy, snorted in laughter, while Hermione and Ginny looked at them disapprovingly.

"Well, Voldemort marked me, not Neville. I guess it was because I was half blood like Voldie, not a pure blood like Neville is."

Draco's mouth dropped at that news, "You mean The Dark Lord isn't a pureblood?" He was astounded.

Harry smirked at him and replied, "Yep, his dad was what he would call a filthy useless muggle." Draco continued to look at Harry with disbelief.

"Shocking, wouldn't you say Malfoy?" Ginny cut in sweetly. "Now that we know about the prophecy, how about the story on you? I think we all deserve to know, since you put us through so much torture over the years."

Draco slowly looked around at their expecting faces. He saw Harry nod, gathered up his courage and began to speak.

"To make a long story short, I had doubts about becoming a Death eater."

"Well there is a bloody surprise," Ron jumped in.

"Do you want to hear this or not Weasel?" Draco asked him angrily, while pulling out his wand.

"Sorry Malfoy, please continue, we are interested in hearing what you have to say." Hermione said while glaring at Ron, who looked guiltily at the floor turning bright red.

"As I said earlier, I had serious doubts about becoming a Death eater, so my father put me under the Imperious Curse. For a while that worked and I was carrying out all of his orders and plans. After awhile, I began to fight the curse. Then my father used another tactic. When he realized I was fighting back he threatened to torture and kill my mother."

Draco fell silent and shuddered at the thought. He looked up and began again slowly. "Well of course then I was willing to do anything he said. He knew I was very close to my mother. She was the only person that ever really meant anything to me. So I did what my father wished, and went to the Death eater initiation. My task was to torture and kill a muggle baby. Obviously, I couldn't do it and I ran instead. I made it to the surrounding woods and realized I couldn't leave the baby behind. I had to try and rescue the baby. I tried to levitate the baby out of danger, but my father saw me. He shouted Crucio and the baby started to scream in pain. It was an awful sound. I then used the killing curse on my father and went over to the child, but it already was dead."

Draco looked at them all, with tears in his eyes. He refused to let them fall down his face. Gathering his resolve, he spoke in a strong voice. "I will never be able to follow the Dark side. I want to help destroy the Dark Lord."

The whole room fell into silence when Draco finished. No one seemed to know what to say. Ron, Hermione and Ginny looked at the floor guiltily.

Ron broke the silence first. "Well I might not bloody like you, but I believe you."

"I believe you too," Hermione added in quietly. Ginny just nodded with a look of understanding.

"We are all ok, right?" Harry asked anxiously.

"Yeah no more fighting," Hermione replied while looking over meaningfully to Ron.

"What did I do?" Ron asked thickly. Every body just looked at Ron and rolled their eyes.

"Attention everyone, there is one more thing Harry and I would like to bring up," Ginny said rather loudly. Everybody turned around and stared at them with wide eyes. "Tell them about your pendant. They deserve to know." Harry looked at her and quickly agreed.

Ok, here it goes he thought. "Ginny gave me this phoenix pendant for my birthday." He took it off his robes and showed them.

"Well Dumbledore saw this and gave me the history on the pendant. It belonged to Galen Gryffindor and no I am not Godric Gyffindor's heir," Harry explained to them. Galen Gryffindor was Godric Gryffindors father. Well he got into a fight with Slytheryn's father Marius, over a real phoenix. When Slytheryn was defeated, the phoenix gave Galen a pendant that contained phoenix blood. The pendant has the power to stop most curses."

Harry paused for a moment then began again." There was a catch though, the person who wears it must have a good heart or the pendant will disappear. It will only reappear when the world is in a great peril and the pendant can only be received by a descendant of Galen Gryffindor."

"Hey, does that mean you were Godric Gryffindor's heir?" Ron asked curiously.

"No," Harry wispered. The pendant wasn't passed down to Godric. The pendant was passed down to his sister Jocelyn, because she had a pure heart.

"Oh," was all Ron could say.

"Hey you all," Ginny interrupted. "Its getting late I think I'll be heading back to our Common Room."

"Let's all go back," Hermione concluded.

They said goodbye to Draco and headed back to the common room, while he went to the dungeons.

They were all paused in front of the portrait of the fat lady. "Phoenix tears,"called out Ron. They all entered the Gryffindor Common Room. Hermione and Ron looked awkward.

Ron began first, "Sorry we questioned you mate." Hermione interrupted him. "We are sorry,"

Harry smiled and calmly replied, "Don't let it happen again."

"Hey Harry," Ginny called. "I heard about a rumor that they're having a Christmas dance."

Harry gave her a mock smile, but his eyes were sparkling. "Well Milady would you give me the honor of accompany you to the dance.

Ginny couldn't help but giggle. "Why of course Milord." Ginny wrapped her arms around him and began to kiss him softly.

"Oh bloody hell, get a broom closet," Ron sputtered out turning red.

Hermione shook her head in amazement at Ron. She gave him a kiss on the top of his forehead and ran off to the girl's dormitory.

Ron was left standing there with his mouth hanging open. Then he muttered something that sounded like goodnight and went to bed.

Ginny and Harry looked at each other with love, passion, and laughter.

"Well I guess we ought to get to bed too. The broom closet idea does have merit though. Gin, I do have the invisibility cloak" Harry's face brightened up at the thought of spending more alone time with Ginny.

Ginny laughed at him, and gave him a kiss. "Goodnight Harry, I'll see you in the morning."

"Sweet dreams to you too." He called to her as she walked away from him in an almost teasing manner.

Harry groaned, another cold shower was in order.

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