Chapter Three:
Reunions
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'Harry's not the only one that deserves to know,' Remus finished, a meaningful look in his eye.
Finn thought of this for a moment before agreeing with a nod of his head. He was right, she deserved to know.
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'Say Remus, do you think I could possibly tag along to that meeting?' Finn said after making up his mind. If he was going to see her, he would have to do so as soon as possible or he would lose his nerve.
Remus smiled, 'of course Finn. But I'm going to have to speak with Dumbledore first.'
'No problem, so how is the old fellow?' Finn asked as they headed out the front door and began walking down the street.
'Well you know Dumbledore.'
'Aye I do, he still headmaster?'
'Yes he is. And good thing too, Voldemort would have surely captured it by now otherwise'
'Voldemort? But I thought he- '
'You have years of catching up to do, Finn,' Remus pointed out.
That topic was closed for the time being, and they continued down the road.
'Say where are we going, my friend? Last I checked this wasn't where Hogwarts was located, nor if I recall can you apparate into the grounds,' Finn spoke up.
'Good memory. I'll use the floo out of Arabella Figg's home to Hogwarts, and then return to collect you. Then I'll apparate us to headquarters'
'I have lived here for a good few weeks now, and had yet even to realize Figgy was living so close by. Why I haven't spoken to her in years, not since-'Finn trailed off, those times, those memories still haunted him sometimes.
'Well you'll have the chance to speak with her soon enough, here we are,' Remus said, carefully avoiding that painful subject, he knew even after all these years it was still a raw memory, same as lily and James' death was for him.
Remus led Finn up, a small path to the front door of Arabella Figg's. Remus was glad that did not attend the summer meetings- as they needed to make sure she was home incase something happened with Harry- otherwise they would have to find a different way of getting to Dumbledore.
He knocked on the door, twice, and then waited. A minute or so later, a small head of an elderly woman peered through the window, making sure it was safe to open the door.
When Figg saw who it was, she quickly opened the door and welcomed them in hurriedly.
'Why Remus, what are you doing here? The order meeting is going to start soon, and I was just heading up to bed,' Arabella asked before turning to look at the other man, whom had entered with Remus.
She gasped when she recognized him, 'what? When? How did you- goodness gracious.'
'Hello Figgy, it has been awhile hasn't it?' Finn asked, with a small smile.
'Why, however did you end up here Finn?'
'That's a long story, for another time, and I believe Remus here needed to ask something of you.'
'Yes, Arabella. I need to use your Floo please.'
'Why of course dear, go right ahead.'
'Thank you, I'll be back in a few minutes Finn,' Remus said before he took some Floo Power and proceeded to shout out the address.
As Remus left through a blaze of green flames, Finn and Figg stood there awkwardly waiting for the other to speak.
'Well how have you been, Figgy?'
'Quite good Finn, I've been watching over Harry for the past fifteen years, as my new assignment from the order. He has become quite a good young man over the years, so much of his parents are in him yet he is on his own level at the same time'
'That he is, figgy, that he is'
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Remus steadied himself as he landed in Dumbledore's office at Hogwarts, for the second time that night.
'Professor Dumbledore, are you here?'
'Remus, how many times do I have to tell you to call me Albus?' Dumbledore asked from where he was stroking his phoenixes' head.
'Sorry Albus.'
'Quite all right, son. So how did your little meeting go?'
'Quite well, sir. In fact he wishes to be allowed to come along to the meeting. There is someone he wishes to speak with.'
Dumbledore smiled, 'of course, I wouldn't want to prolong this reunion much further than it has already been prolonged. So I imagine you have come for the address?'
Albus took out a small bit of parchment and quickly scratched down the address to headquarters, and handed it to Remus.
'Good luck, we both best be off, before we are both late, after you,' the headmaster said kindly.
'Thank you, Albus' Remus said before he left through the Floo, back to Mrs. Figg's.
Dumbledore left directly afterwards, flooing to #12 Grimmauld Place.
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Soon enough Remus had returned to Mrs. Figg's, where they said goodbye to Arabella before Remus side-along apparated them to the empty lot (in Finn's eyes) that was #12 Grimmauld Place.
'Here read this,' Remus told Finn, handing him a slip of parchment.
Finn knew enough about wizard protection spells to know that he was reading what would allow him to pass through the Fidelius Charms shield. He read it quickly and then looked up to see a battered black-painted front door appear along with a house which exterior looked quite grimy.
Remus quickly set the parchment on fire, burning all evidence of an address.
'Quickly let's get inside, before someone sees us,' Remus said quickly already hurrying to the front door.
Finn followed and soon enough they were standing in the hall of the Ancestral House of Black.
No sooner had they shut the door then did the portrait of Mrs. Black start wailing like no tomorrow.
'FILTHY MUGGLES AND HALF-BREEDS SETTING FOOT IN THE HOUSE OF MY FATHERS! VILE SCUM-'Mrs. Black screamed.
Quickly Remus moved forward and forced the curtains close, which seemed to muffle the noise though the woman in the portrait continued to scream, it seemed she had realized that a muggle was in her house, and was dreadfully insulted by it.
The loud screams, had seemed to alert the order, whom barring Lupin and a few others were all present downstairs.
Remus and Finn waited patiently as many footsteps traveled up the stairs from the basement kitchen.
Soon enough a great mass of highly skilled wizards and witches were all crammed in the entrance hall, wands out. Apparently they had expected trouble.
When they realized who in fact had been at the door, they lowered their wands with apologies in their eyes, they had been about to curse them.
Then slowly members who had been in the order the first time round started to recognize Finn, who was standing there looking only at one particular witch, and she was staring straight back, slightly pale and her jaw dropped from shock.
'Hello Minnie,' Finn spoke, a small nervous smile on his face.
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Ron and Ginny were sitting in the room that Ron and Harry had shared last summer, quietly cursing the order for once again shutting them out of a meeting.
They knew by now that they weren't going to be able to sit in on the meeting, but they couldn't help but want to know what was going on out there in the world. They had the right to that knowledge didn't they? They were citizens of the world currently at war and any knowledge about what was happening could help them protect themselves and others from the present dangers out there.
But no, their mother and Dumbledore both did not want them involved. Your too young, is what they said, they both scoffed at that.
The amount of times that they had been pulled in to the dark happenings of these times was a great deal more than half the order members. They had seen their fair share of what was occurring and they just wanted to help.
'I wish they'd finish up down there, I'm hungry,' Ron whined.
'Stop thinking about your bloody stomach for once, this is more important than your need for food. Aargh why can't they just let us sit in on the meeting really, we're involved in this war too,' Ginny rambled on, as she paced the room back and forth in a temper.
'Calm down Ginny, its no use. We've been trying to get into those bloody meetings since summer started and have yet to manage it. Anyways, I don't want think it would be wise to try to sneak a listen tonight, mums still made about the fireworks we set off yesterday at lunch, this'll put her over the edge!'
'I'm so sick of this though, Ron. If Harry were here he wouldn't stand for this. Why should we have to?'
'yeah, well Harry's not here right now, and if he were, I'm sure Dumbledore or Mum would stop him from getting in as well,' Ron replied, slightly grumpy that his best mate was still stuck with the muggles, it was quite boring here without his friend to talk and hang out with.
Just then they heard a commotion down stairs, they stopped talking for a moment to listen. When they discovered that it was just Mrs. Black's portrait wailing they continued talking forgetting all about the regular occurrence of the household.
A few minutes later, they heard another shrill yell they both knew, though it wasn't Mrs. Black's.
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'JULIUS FINN WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN! FIFTEEN YEARS WITH NOT ANY WORD FROM YOU AND THEN YOU SUDDENLY TURN UP ON THE DOORSTEP WITH JUST A 'HELLO MINNIE' AND YOU KNOW I HATE THAT NAME!' Minerva McGonagall erupted.
She was unaware that the order- which consisted of her friends and past students- had all just heard her bellow and curse, something that was not entirely in her nature; as far as they knew.
Finn had seemed quite ready for his sister to blow up at him, and had seen fit to protect his ears from her shrill yell.
He tried to look innocent, but knew that she was right. He had probably just given her the fright of her life, and for once it was something he had not intended to do.
'Sorry minn- Minerva,' He stuttered out her full name at her warning glare, which even after fifteen years of not seeing her, he remembered all too well.
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Ron and Ginny, after hearing their transfiguration professor's, out of character display, quietly crept out of their room and watched the reunion of brother and sister from the top of the stairwell well hidden from their mother's view.
They heard an old man apologize to her though they did not recognize the face or voice, but it was certain that McGonagall sure knew him.
What McGonagall said next made both their eyes widen, 'oh Finny, I've missed you.'
They were surprised to see a hint of tears in McGonagall's eyes and it made them wonder even more who this man was. Ron reacted to the name though he had heard it somewhere before, but at the present moment he couldn't remember from where.
'I've missed you to sis,' Finn spoke.
That solved that mystery for them, and made their eyes widen even further. McGonagall had a brother!
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Minerva was practically frozen in shock after seeing her brother standing before her, after fifteen years of no contact. She had no idea that he was even still alive!
After his abrupt, yet almost understandable take off-which she still did not completely understand- here he was standing in front of her.
After screaming at him a good bit and telling him that she had missed him, she did probably the most uncharacteristic of all the things she had displayed tonight.
Minerva went straight up to her brother and swept him into a bone-crushing hug, much like the ones Mrs. Weasley gave her children and Harry, and began to cry into his shoulder.
'Don't cry Minnie, what happened to the fun loving prankster who swore that she had never cried, and never intended to, hmm?' Finn asked in a teasing tone, knowing that if it weren't for trying to save his small ounce of pride he would probably be crying as well.
'Oh shut it you,' Minerva replied with a smile, 'and don't call me Minnie.'
"Well hold up just a minute there!' Fred spoke up, interrupting the sibling's reunion.
'McGonagall has a brother!' George continued.
'Even more than that she was a prankster!' Fred spoke again.
'I think I am going to faint,' George said and fell back into his twins arms, which made Fred stumble from the added weight.
Seeing as the moment was broken, the Order members who had known Finn stepped forward to greet him.
Finn had lost a bit of the nervousness now, but knew that once he and Minerva got down to discussing this, he was done for! But for now, he greeted those he had once known, his old friends and acquaintances.
There was one person, who he had known quite well back when he was among wizards, but who was standing back from the rest of the group. He looking at the floor and had gone even paler in the face then he usually was. A shadow of a memory past over him, from that night, he had been there too.
'Ahem,' the quiet voice of Albus spoke. It was a wonder how it was heard above all the noise, but it was.
The hall quieted down and Albus spoke again, 'As splendid as this reunion is, there is still business to attend to and we don't want to disturb the children upstairs.'
As he said this his eyes flickered to where he knew Ginny and Ron were watching from the top of the stairs, luckily their mother hadn't noticed and after his announcement they had quickly scattered.
'Right you are, Albus. Let's get on with the meeting then I believe Severus you were just about to speak about Voldemort's activities,' Moody said with an interest in his voice, he was always eager to hear the dark lords plans so he could find a way of destroying them.
Snape who had been standing off to the side and his normal expression of a scowl had changed to one of guilt and surprise. The old Slytherin muttered under his breath, and followed Moody back down to the kitchens.
'Well Finn, would you like to stay for the meeting or shall someone bring you back home now?' Albus asked a twinkle in his eye.
Finn had once been quite a close friend of Dumbledore's and despite not having seen him for fifteen years he still considered him to be a close friend.
'Well if it's possible, do you think I can stay?'
'Of course you may Finn, it's been a little while but you're still an order member in my books,' Dumbledore replied as he led the way down to the kitchen.
Following him were Finn and Minerva, and just before they entered the kitchen Minerva pulled Finn back and mumbled, 'we'll talk about this later'
Finn gulped, and reluctantly nodded, before they both headed through the doors and settled into the meeting.
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The following morning, Harry woke from yet another restless night of sleep. This night had to have been the worst so far, all the memories and twisted things his mind had made him witness had built up into one long event, which had ended with him screaming.
It wasn't fair, why was it that his friends and relatives could all sleep through the night, dreaming of quidditch and… normal things and he was stuck watching deaths and horrible torture. But at the same time Harry wouldn't wish this on anyone he knew, not even his overweight arse of an Uncle, no one should have to see such horrific things every time they shut their eyes.
Harry yawned and stretched out his tired limbs, and then proceeded to go take his shower. He couldn't wait until one o'clock when he could go over to Finn's and begin to forget again.
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Finn rolled out of his bed, he had finally gotten home at about one in the morning, and well he was not a youth any longer and it weighed on him.
The order meeting from the night before was of standard, nothing to enormous had occurred but as always the order never undervalued any of the issues discussed. They unlike Voldemort knew that they had to consider every possibility before taking any road of action.
Finn was at first surprised to hear that Voldemort was back, he had believed for sure that he was gone for good; pity. Remus had briefly told him a little ways in to the meeting that Harry had witnessed and was forced to aide in Voldemort's return. He had also mentioned that Harry and Voldemort had met numerous times over the last several years.
The thought that Harry had been battling a dark, fully-grown wizard for years was astounding and horrible to have to picture, surely he hadn't escaped that unharmed in some way. Yet Harry hid it well, with the exception that his eyes were saying he was in pain and was even somewhat haunted by his experiences.
Minnie and he had not yet gotten around to discussing what needed to be discussed. He knew that the further he put it off, the madder she would be with him for leaving. But right now he had someone else to tell, and he had to figure out a way of doing so with not much time.
Another thing that was discussed at the meeting was for Harry's arrival at Headquarters, they had talked about his means of arrival and when in fact he would be coming. And by the end of the meeting had a firm date set.
Finn knew one thing, Harry would be getting at least one owl this morning.
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Finn's knowledge had proved to be correct to an extent, for when Harry had returned from his shower Pig was walking about his bed; in fact there were two owls.
Harry moved forward and opened what looked Pig's letter first, the other owl he didn't recognize.
He was surprised to see that it was not Ron's messy scrawl on the parchment, but Hermione's neat and curvy letters.
Dear Harry,
I'm sorry that it has taken me so long to send you this, but I had to wait for Ron to send Pig to me, so I had an owl to use. And Ron being Ron forgot!
Anyways, how are you holding up Harry? I hope you're not moping about in your bedroom, Sirius' memory deserves more than that. Also, I hope you realize that it wasn't your fault, what happened was a tragic thing, but you can't blame yourself! Promise you won't!
I hope your relatives aren't being as harsh this year, I know that they have been a bit –well you know, in the past.
I'm at home right now, just spending some time with my parents. They really miss me when I'm away at school and I miss them, so we've been spending a lot of time together. I haven't told them about the war or anything that's been going on, I'm scared they'll try and take me out of Hogwarts or something. I don't want to go back to the regular muggle education it's hardly as interesting as arithmancy and transfiguration.
The order have arranged for me to come spend the rest of the summer with the Weasley's at headquarters in a week or two so hopefully you'll be there by then. I do hope you and Ron have been doing your homework, you can't start 6th year off with none of the assignments completed!
Well I've got to go but hopefully I'll see or hear from you soon,
Take care Harry,
Your Friend,
Hermione.
Harry thought over Hermione's letter as he finished up reading it, he felt bad that she thought she couldn't tell her parents about her life. She shouldn't have to hide all that, it was probably bad enough hiding that she was a witch from her muggle friends.
He ignored the entire paragraph about Sirius for the moment, he knew she was just trying to help heal him, but the truth was he wasn't ready to hear it all yet. He wasn't ready to actually deal with the pain, it was just easier for him to just forget it. He watched it over and over at night, and then when he was spending time with Finn and talking about muggle things, his mind temporarily erased all those thoughts from his mind.
He took out some parchment and sent a reply along.
Dear Hermione,
The muggles are treating me quite well this year actually, thanks for asking.
I've been spending my afternoons with the new neighbor who has moved in next door, and I believe he has more stories to tell then any book you might ever pick up!
I think you should tell your parents Hermione, it's no use trying to hide it they'll find out eventually and it would be better if they heard it from you, don't you think? Oh well that's just my opinion, but I'm sure that if your scared they'll take you out of Hogwarts you could always ask Dumbledore or McGonagall to assure them your safe there.
I think that I'll be off to headquarters soon as well, I don't know when yet, no one's told me anything about coming to get me yet, I hope that I won't be hear the whole summer.
Well anyways I have some more mail to read so I'll see you soon
Harry.
Harry reread the letter, before sending it off with Pig. He found that the whole note was in general quite more open of him then he usually allowed. S
Shaking his head of the thought, he moved towards the other owl. Who was waiting patiently on his bed, licking its feathers clean?
Harry untied the note from its leg, and opened it up.
It was from Ron, the owl was obviously one of the order's.
Harry-
Be ready for a five a.m. wake up call tomorrow! We're springing you, well the order is.
See ya soon,
Ron.
A smile appeared on Harry's face, he was going back unfortunately back to Grimmauld Place but it was just another thing to deal with, and he thought he could manage it.
He looked at the clock on the side of his bed and realized he had a few hours to kill before going to Finn's, and figured he might as well start packing.
He decided to send Hedwig off to Grimmauld Place early to save her having to journey there by whatever means the Order was planning to use.
He pulled all his things into a pile on his bed, and began folding them carefullybefore placing them in his trunk- again he had time to kill.
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Finn paced his living room nervously, something he rarely did. Harry would be arriving any minute now, and well the truth was about to come out, again!
Just then he heard the front door open and Harry call out, 'Finn, you here'
'y-yes in here Harry,' he stuttered back.
Harry walked through, and despite the still darkened rings around his eyes he looked happy.
'Hey Finn, how ya doing?' Harry asked with a grin on his face.
'I'm just fine Harry, how are you?' Finn answered, going through the beginnings of their every day talk as best he could.
'I'm great Finn. I'm going, my friend just er… called and said I can come stay with him now, I know that means that I won't be seeing you for a while which of course I don't like, but no more Dursley's. Can you believe it! I thought it would take me ten times longer to get out of there but only a few weeks,' Harry rambled, which was quite unusual of him
All the while, Finn had been trying to get Harry's attention by calling his name over and over, if he didn't tell him soon he didn't think he would be able to.
'HARRY!' He finally called loudly.
'What is it?' Harry asked, concerned; Finn looked quite nervous about something.
'I need to tell you something, it's important'
'Okay then, go ahead,' Harry said happily.
After quite a long minute of silence, Finn spoke up.
'There's no great way of telling you this Harry but you see… I…em… I know – I know who you really are. I know that you're a wizard and I know of your world in fact I used to even be a part of it and well I figured that you should know, I didn't think that we both should have to keep that secret any longer,' Finn spoke quickly, searching Harry's face for a reaction.
Harry himself had gone quite pale, before his face turned red with anger, ' All this time, you've known who i am? You lied to me. Your working for Dumbledore, aren't you? He sent you to watch over me because the Order wasn't enough! I trusted you! And all this time you've been reporting back to the Order about me, haven't you? How could you do that to me, Finn?'
After his small, yet loud, accusation, Harry tore out of #6, ignoring Finn's calls for him to come back.
Finn, himself, sighed and sat down with his head in his hands. That wasn't exactly how he had wanted things to go, he really had botched that one up!
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Harry raced up the stairs of the Dursley's in a rage, and threw open his door.
Slamming it shut after he entered, Harry fell onto his bed, and turned his face into his pillow, shaking with rage at Dumbledore and Finn had both betrayed him in one way or another.
Dumbledore had once again gone behind his back and kept things from him, and Finn had helped him do it.
He couldn't help but be as angry as he was, he felt so stupid that he hadn't realized or picked up on it, surely it was obvious.
Harry lay like that for a few hours, just sighing and letting his anger and irritation about the constant watching consume him.
Before he knew it, had fallen asleep but tonight his anger had prevented his regular nightmares and he had an almost restful night sleep, for once.
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Something was shaking him, and a gentle voice was calling for him to wake up.
Annoyed, he finally opened his eyes into his pillow; his glasses had been digging into his face and left his surrounding skin slightly red from the pressure.
He squinted into the light of a wand tip, to see Remus standing above him.
'Harry, hurry up we have to leave. We can't be here to long, they might be watching,' Remus said quickly, checking the window for any sign of trouble on the road.
Harry opened his eyes more, and looked at the clock. To see that it was about 5:10 in the morning, he had been asleep for quite a while and with no nightmares at that.
'Where are the others,' Harry said referring to the other members of his guard.
'There waiting for us down stairs, now we really need to be going,' Remus said hurriedly, leading the way into the hall.
Before Harry knew it, he was flying his recently returned Firebolt out of Privet Drive, under the disillusionment charm, and with 7 guards surrounding him.
His excitement at being free from the Dursley's, was not as grand as it had been earlier. He was still furious with Dumbledore, Finn, and the Order, but knew that he would rather be angry and be away from the Dursley's then stuck there for longer because he blew his escape plan by yelling and giving them all away.
After many detours, that Moody had insisted on, they finally had arrived outside #12 Grimmauld Place.
Harry stared up at the shabby-looking house, and almost wished he could turn around and head back to the Dursley's. He wouldn't have much of a chance to forget what had happened if he was here. Though he did not really have that option back at Privet Drive now either, now that he had discovered Finn to be one of the Order and not just a regular muggle.
'Come on then Harry, we best be getting inside,' Remus said considerately, he knew that it would be hard for Harry to be here, he himself found it difficult.
He knew that Harry had just found out about Finn, though he seemed far too angry about it. Remus hoped that Harry wouldn't hide it all away; he had been making progress with his grief when he was talking with Finn, or so it seemed.
But, now that he looked closely at Harry, he could tell that the same pain still lingered and the bags under his eyes had only darkened since he had last caught a glimpse of him.
Harry followed Moody and Tonks, up to the front door where they were trying their best to open it with out alerting Mrs. Black, they should have known that that would be impossible.
Harry entered the house, the screams of Mrs. Black piercing his ears. Harry scowled at the portrait, as moody and Tonks moved to close the curtain back around it.
He remembered quite suddenly that just last year, upon his arrival, it had been Sirius that had shut those curtains and told his mother to shut up. This was going to much more difficult to handle than he had originally thought.
'Harry? Is that you?' The mothering voice of Mrs. Weasley asked from the top of the basement steps.
Harry looked up at her and gave her a small smile; in return she walked up to him and pulled him into one of her famous bone-crushing hugs.
Hesitating, Harry slowly hugged her back.
'Oh thank goodness you made it back safely, I was so worried that something might happen. But your okay, right Harry?' Mrs. Weasley asked in a concerned voice.
'I'm Fine, thanks. Just a bit tired,' Harry lied, he wasn't fine and he was certainly not tired.
'Of course dear, why don't you go upstairs and get a few more hours sleep. We'll talk later,' She said, smiling at him though her eyes still held concern in them.
'Thanks see you in a bit then,' Harry said, before he climbed the stairs to the room that he had and Ron had shared last summer.
'Of course dear,' Mrs., Weasley replied, her worry-filled gaze following him up the stairs before she led the guard members down to the kitchen for a cup of tea.
Harry sat on his bed, staring up at the grimy ceiling; Sirius was all he could think about. Avoiding the subject for the past couple weeks, had been wonderful he had been able to forget all the guilt and pain at Sirius' absence. And now he realized that that was all he was doing, forgetting it, but it was still there and it still hurt just as much if not worse. He felt as if by ignoring it he was offending Sirius' memory in a way which just added to his already guilty conscience.
He sat deep in thought for what felt like hours but was probably only about forty-five minutes before he let his eyes close and fell asleep. He guessed he was more tired than he thought, though unlike earlier his dreams weren't merciful.
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Finn was sitting at his chair, in the living room, reading the morning paper like always. He was thinking about Harry and how much he had screwed up telling him the truth. He felt horrible about it, not only did he give Harry the wrong impression but he had lost Harry's trust and that had meant so very much to him.
Suddenly, he heard a great crack behind him, that almost had gave him a heart attack. He whipped around to see Albus and Minnie standing there trying to spot him.
'Merlin, you two what are you doing sneaking up on me like that?' Finn asked.
'My apologies, Finn,' Dumbledore said kindly.
Minerva was too busy looking around her brother's home, to make sure it was suitable for him. The amount of houses she had seen man go through was unbelievable!
'Is it worthy of your presence dear Minnie,' Finn asked teasingly.
'Oh shut it Finn, and don't call me Minnie!' McGonagall spoke back, she sounded years younger than she was.
'As much as I love to hear you two squabble, Finn I was wondering, if you could tell me how Harry is doing?' Albus asked.
Finn suddenly became frustrated with Dumbledore. He was putting him in exactly the position that Harry had accused him of being; a spy, set to watch Harry and report back his findings. Well it wasn't going to happen; he wasn't going to let it.
'Why don't you ask him yourself Albus? Its time you learnt that Harry is a person too; he is not just someone you can toss about and guard as if he were a prisoner. And if you really must know how he is doing, I would say he is pretty pissed off with everyone right now, and if you want to know why than I suggest you open your eyes and ears and ask him!' Finn spoke loudly.
Albus looked quite surprised at Finn's outburst –as did Minerva- but stayed silent for a few minutes and thought it over.
'You are right Finn; I have not been considering Harry's feelings here. I apologize, it was not intended I assure you,' Albus replied quietly.
'I'm not the one who needs that apology, Albus.'
'Right, right, of course, well then I must be on my way and I am sure that you two have a lot to catch up on so , good luck,' and Dumbledore apparated out, heading for the ministry to attend to a few errands.
'So fess up Finny, I want to hear everything,' Minerva said with a glare on her face and her arms crossed impatiently.
Her appearance just then reminded him so much of her when they were both younglings.
'Are you sure you want to hear it all, cause fifteen years is a hell of a lot to cover in-'
'Oh I assure you I have all the time in the world, now start talking,' Minerva interrupted.
And so Finn began his story, this one was probably the most painful and life changing one he had told yet.
A.N. okay then, well that's it for chapter three, what did you think? Sorry it took me a few days extra to get it updated but some of the parts of this chapter I was having a bit of trouble writing and it probably shows, but I hope that you guys were a little surprised with the sister/brother, Finn/ McGonagall thing and that you don't hate that relationship.
Well then, please, please, please, tell me what you think in a nice long review, tell me some of your favorite parts or your favorite character so far, anything that has a bit of feedback in it, good or bad I don't mind really, anything you feel like typing out!
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