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Last time:
"How can you be sure? Is there any proof of this?"
Harry nodded and went to tell his mentor his clues as to why he was sure he had erased the memories of himself from the minds of his family.
Now:
"Jasper attacked me," he stated, deciding to be blunt. There was no way to break this news news carefully, so it was best to be blunt.
Dumbledore blinked. That was not something he had expected but he could understand that that was a pretty good clue for Harry to think the vampires did not remember him anymore. None of them had ever attacked him before. Quite the contrary really. They had all been overprotective over him, even Jasper who had the most problems around humans. Maybe he should say especially Jasper. The empath had amazed them all to no end by how fast he had taken a liking to young Harry when they had brought him there the first time.
And it had not only been Jasper who had taken an immediate liking. In the first weeks the young wizard had nearly only been seen around Jasper and Edward. They had been the only ones of the males who could get near him in the beginning. He would always freak out when he was alone in a room with Emmett and was quite uncomfortable around Carlisle. The reason for the first had been that Emmett was so loud and quite burly, and had always triggered flashbacks to Vernon Dursley with Harry. Carlisle ... it was just that he was older; a parental figure to all of them, and that was something Harry had had no trust in at that time.
But Edward and Jasper had been closer to his age physically and closer to his position in their family than the oldest vampire. Besides, Edward and Jasper had both been the ones that had not croweded him when they first laid their eyes on him. They had not wanted to scare him, as they both had known how he felt, Jasper through his gift and Edward through reading Jasper's mind. That had been the mistake that the women in the family had made. In their desire to finally have a child, they had been overeager and had scared the little boy.
It must have been traumatising for Harry to be attacked by Jasper and, most likely, for no reason at all.
"And Edward fought him," Harry continued after a long moment of silence. "I have never heard him snarl like that." The young man shuddered. "Dad wanted to know what I was doing in their house." Harry looked close to tears by then and Albus could more than understand him. They had been his family for half of his life and then they had no recollection at all of him from one moment to the other. Even if that had been what Harry had wanted, he had never imagined that it really could happen. Furthermore, he was quite sure that he was the first who had been told this and that Harry had not yet even admitted this to himself so far. He had bottled that up for the whole duration of the war.
This was one of the few times that he was remembered how emotionally scarred and damaged Harry was.
Albus came around the desk but before he could reach Harry the door to the headmaster's office opened and Severus Snape entered.
"You wanted to see me, Albus? I'm sorry it took so long, I had a potion brewing…" he trailed off as he saw his former apprentice sitting in the chair in front of the headmaster's desk and looking frighteningly like the first time he had seen him, minus the bruises and broken bones. But the broken look on his face seemed even worse since none of them had seen that look in a very long time.
In two long strides he was at Harry's side and gathered him in his arms.
"What is the meaning of this, Albus? What did you do?" he demanded. No one hurt his apprentice and, even worse, his son -- as he had come to see Harry over the years. All of the other teachers had, as well.
"I haven't done something, Severus. But Harry here just told me something rather disturbing. May I tell Severus?" he asked the youngest of them. "Maybe his opinion could help."
Harry nodded, snuggling closer to Severus who had been in Harry's life for as long as the Cullens and longer than most others.
"When he was with his family the last time, Harry seems to have somehow erased their memories. Or at least locked them away. I don't know really and I have no idea how we could find out what happened. At least not without going there and looking into their minds. But maybe I should start from the beginning."
"That would be a good idea, Albus," Severus said, absentmindly stroking Harry's back.
"When Harry told them about the situation with Voldemort and the prophecy, they wanted to come with him to keep him safe. Then he 'wished' for them to forget him so that they wouldn't be at risk and somehow that is what happened. Also all of his things vanished out of the house so that they wouldn't remember him by those. And then, because he was still there after that happened, Jasper seems to have attacked him and fought his brother Edward, who tried to keep him from that."
Severus sat in contemplative silence for a long time as did Albus.
"What do you think?" asked Harry after the silence got too much for him. He wanted to know what he had done to his family.
"I think we should take some time consider what happened and consult some books," Severus answered. "I have never heard of anything like this before."
"That, Severus, is in my opinion a very good idea. Maybe we also should consult Filius as he is the charms master at this school," Albus said to Severus before turning to Harry. "Don't worry. We will find out what happened and a way to get you to your mate and family."
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