Chapter 27: Talking to Harry

It was finally time for the Hogsmeade weekend. Most of the gang went on to Zonkos to get some more prank stuff. Megan, however, went to her brother's like she had been doing the past three years.

KNOCK KNOCK

The door swung open to reveal a redheaded woman.

"Hello." Megan said to Ginny casually.

"Megan!" Ginny exclaimed. "Hogsmeade weekend?"

"Yes Ginny." Megan told her older sister-in-law. "Is Harry here?"

"Room of Memories." Ginny told her. "Dobby said that you found it."

"Thanks." Megan said and took off up the stair. She didn't notice Colin in the kitchen helping Dobby tiding up the kitchen.

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Megan found her brother looking in the closet at the different memories. He chuckled at one of the titles.

"What's so funny?" Megan asked her brother.

"Megan?" Harry said turning around as he held the memory. "What are you doing here?"

"Hogsmeade weekend." She told him. "Which memory is that?"

He handed it to her.

Neville's Boggart: Snivelus Snape in Drag

"Oh yeah." Megan laughed as she remembered that memory.

"How many did you get to see?" Harry asked her as he took the memory back and placed it back on the shelf.

"All of them. That's why I came." She told him. "I wanted to talk to you about them."

"All of them?" Harry repeated. "How many weekends did you waste?"

"We didn't waste them." She told her brother. "But basically all of the weekends and breaks. Whenever I came to check on Dobby, I would watch about five memories."

Harry nodded. "I'm sure you have questions."

"Tom Riddle talked a lot." She told him.

"Yes. Sometimes it was like he wouldn't shut up."

"Did…Did Ginny really open the Chamber of Secrets?" Megan asked.

"Well, Voldemort did it through her. But it was her body. Why do you think she hates diaries so much?"

"I don't blame her." Megan said.

"Did any of the others see?" Harry asked her.

"Well, I was alone your first and second memory you had prepared. Then Colin showed up for the third, and then Vega appeared for the fourth and the end."

"So Colin got to see a werewolf transformation first hand?"

"I guess. I think the only time when I saw him that upset was when he found out."

"And Vega?"

"She was shocked. Apparently Uncle Sirius had downgraded the story."

"I was afraid of that." Harry sighed.

"A couple of times," Megan told her brother. "I had forgotten that they were memories. I actually threw a punch at Tom Riddle in the second memory."

"At what point?"

"When he said that he was just going to sit there and watch you die." She told him.

"Oh yeah." Harry remembered with a wince.

Megan thought for a little bit.

"What was that mirror in the first one?"

"That was the Mirror of Erised. If anyone was to look in it, they would see their greatest desire."

"How did you get the Stone?" Megan asked him.

Harry smiled sadly.

"It was a plan of Dumbledore's. If you looked in the mirror wanting the stone more than anything, but not for use, then it will magically appear."

There was silence as they thought of the old headmaster.

"Why couldn't that man in the first memory touch you?" Megan finally asked.

"Because Voldemort was a part of him." Harry explained. "At the time, Mum's protection of love was still shielding me."

"In the second memory," Megan continued with the questioning. "You pulled a sword out of the hat, but you never mentioned what that sword was. There was another memory about you getting Dobby away from Mr. Malfoy, but it started with you placing the sword down."

"Follow me." Harry told her. He led her to the library. When they got there, he took some books off the shelf and reached into the gap pulling out the sword.

"Dumbledore, gave this back to me after I married Ginny." Harry said handing her the sword. "Read what it says on the blade."

"Godric Gryffindor?" she read.

"He told me only a true Gryffindor could pull that sword out of a hat. At the time, I thought it meant that I really did belong in Gryffindor house. About three years later, I found out what he REALLY meant."

"What?" Megan asked.

"A true Gryffindor by blood."

Megan still looked confused.

"You haven't read Hogwarts, A History yet, have you?"

She shook her head.

"Our ancestor, Proteus Potter, married Julia Gryffindor." Harry told her.

She dropped the sword just as Harry took it from her. Her mouth was wide open in shock.

"I know." Harry said to her. "Mind boggling isn't it. Dad told me about that before I defeated Voldemort. He gave me this book."

Harry grabbed a book from the pile he took off the shelf that hid the sword and held it up.

"Only someone with Gryffindor blood can read it." He told his still shocked sister.

"We are related to Godric Gryffindor?" she managed to ask.

Harry nodded.

The words of the Sorting Hat came back to her.

Flashback

"However, like your brother, I sense Gryffindor blood. Literally."

End Flashback

"Oh boy." She said as Harry conjured a chair for her to plop down on.

"Let's come back to the Gryffindor subject later." Harry told her. "I'm sure you have other questions about the memory."

"Yes. That man who read Buckbeak's death sentence. I found out in another memory he was the Minister of Magic. What ever became of him?"

"Last I heard, he was asked to leave after denying Voldemort's return. I don't know what ever became of Fudge."

"And Buckbeak?" she asked.

"You'd have to ask Sirius." Harry told her.

She nodded as she made a mental note to do so.

"There's something else bothering you." Harry read her like a book.

"I never understood this." She started. "I watched the memories of him over and over trying to figure it out. This might be difficult for you to answer."

"Megan. What is it?" Harry asked.

"Why…Why did…" she tried to think of the best way to ask this. "Why did Pettigrew do what he did?"

Harry frowned and thought for a minute.

"There is one thing that you HAVE to remember, Megan," he started. "It took me a long time to accept this, but Peter Pettigrew wasn't always a member of the Dark Side. After all, he was one of Dad's friends."

"That's why I don't understand it." She told him. "If he WAS one of Dad's friends, why did he join Voldemort."

"When you were two, and I disappeared for three years, two of those years I spent time-traveling so I could try out teaching without everyone gawking at me. I taught in the late 70's."

"YOU taught Mum and Dad?" she asked.

"Yes. And the others, including Peter." He continued. "Peter, was just your average student. Not the brightest of the bunch. He was constantly in the Hospital Wing because of either a prank gone wrong, or the Slytherins got to him. I remember talking to Mum and the other girls. They told me that Peter was easily manipulated. I guess some Slytherins managed to get a hold of him and told him that going to the Dark Side was the best thing for him. Being who he was, he listened to them. He was always a follower."

"When I saw him in the graveyard," Megan told him. "I hated him. He hit you, tied you up, took blood from you, and…brought Voldemort back."

"Well," Harry said to her, "We don't have to worry about him anymore."

"What ever became of him? His body?"

"It's in Azkaban for safe keeping." Harry told her.

"And his soul? What happens when a dementor sucks out the soul?"

"I…I don't know." Harry told her after thinking about it. "I guess the soul disappears." (A/N: Thank you Paradise for answering the question about that.)

Megan involuntarily winced.

"I was talking to Dad and Remus the other day." Harry continued. "They mentioned that they missed the old Peter. The one from school. And after meeting the old Peter, I don't blame them."

"One day," Megan started to ask. "Can I see your memories of you teaching Mum and Dad?"

"Sure." Harry told her "But not today. It's starting to get late."

"Right." She agreed as she noticed the time.

TBC

"Isn't this the room that held Fluffy?" Ariel asked. They had seen when Harry first saw the giant dog. (Or is it dogs)

"Yes." Megan said as she opened the trap door. "Hagrid must have moved him. Who's first?"

"Meg. I saw that part of the memory." Vega said. "There's Devil Snare down there."

"Then light a fire. You're a witch." Megan said as she got behind her friend and cousin and pushed.

"AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh!"

A/N: For imakeeper's question, she knew that Dumbledore was still going to be Headmaster at Hogwarts when she arrived. Remember, she had only just turned five in the memory, so she hasn't been to Hogwarts yet.