Hey thanks for the reviews for the last chapter y'all, they were wonderful. Like I said in the last chapter this one turns over to Harry and his friends sometime after they left the wedding at the Burrow. It takes on a little info on what Harry, or more likely Hermione knows about the dark twins with a little unexpected turn of events regarding the mirror.
Enjoy and review please!
Grimmauld Place: 7:00 p.m.:
"Harry…Harry!"
"Uh…wha…oh sorry Hermione, dozed off for a bit." The golden trio had escaped from Bill and Fleur's wedding from a gang of death eaters and were now taking refuge at Grimmauld Place.
"Been dazing alright mate….dazing at that mirror since two nights ago." Hermione looked at Ron with curiosity.
"Two nights ago?"
"Yeah…said he saw two pairs of eyes inside the mirror, and one of them was a girl." Hermione looked at Harry.
"A girl? Did you see her face?"
"Only part, mainly her eyes…" he trailed off there.
"Did you recognize her?" Harry wasn't so sure.
"I don't think so, but there's something about her that makes me…I don't know…"
"I think you like her." Hermione nudged Ron's arm. "Ow 'Mione what was that for?"
"Harry can't be falling in love right now, he doesn't even know who that girl is. She could be a death eater for all we know."
"Hermione the only two female death eaters we know of are Bellatrix Lestrange and Alecto Carrow."
"That doesn't mean anything more than if there are more supporters of You-Know-Who out there."
"Here let me see it…" Ron reached for the broken mirror in Harry's hand. He stared at it for a minute before handing it back.
"Didn't see anything."
"Here let me…." Hermione took it and stared for a few minutes longer then handed it to Harry. "Nothing…"
"Maybe she only comes out when Harry's holding it." Ron gave a sly smirk and Hermione glared. "What? Just trying to lighten the mood here." Harry glanced back at the mirror again before looking back down at the same eyes he'd been wanting to see.
"She's there." Both Hermione and Ron looked over into the mirror and saw the eyes. "Hello…who are you?" he saw a flicker of fear in the eyes, and then they vanished.
"I don't think she's open to conversation Harry. Besides you don't even know who she is."
"Really, wouldn't hurt to try eh?"
"Really mate, I don't think you should say hello to every set of pretty eyes you see. You never know…" Harry just nodded and slipped the mirror back into his pocket.
"Hey, I'm going to check out the place for a bit." Hermione and Ron let him go; Harry wandered into the drawing room seeing Kreacher polishing the wood.
"Harry Potter…" the elf mumbled not bothering to look at him. Harry paid him no mind and moved over to one of the cabinets looking for some plates so he could help Hermione make dinner, figured he'd give Kreacher a little break since he'd been rather rough on him. He started digging through drawers looking for silverware that Fletcher hadn't stolen, and in one of them he spotted some documents under some dirty spoons. He pulled them out and opened them, and inside he found a couple of photos, all with two infants in arms, St. Mungo's records, and two birth certificates without names.
"Kreacher." The elf turned to him. "What're these birth certificates doing here?" he showed them to Kreacher and he backed away gasping a little. "Kreacher?"
"St. Mungo's records…Dumbledore…"
"Dumbledore, Dumbledore had these?"
"Letter…"
"What letter?" Harry flipped through the thing again and out slipped a small envelope, bearing Dumbledore's seal. He picked it up and read it carefully.
Sirius,
By this time I'm sure you've finally made it back to your family's home for protection, therefore you can be sure this is only read and seen by you. It is with great secrecy and concern for you and young Harry that I tell you of an event that occurred years ago.
Fourteen years ago after the first war, after you were arrested, your cousin Bellatrix gave birth to twins. She had given birth to them in Azkaban prison, and I was there with the birth along with Kingsley and Fudge. Truthfully, they are Voldemort's children; the Dark Lord specifically selected Bellatrix to carry his children due to her strong bloodline and his own, and thankfully he didn't live to see them brought into our world. If you wonder why they haven't appeared on your family tree, it is because they were unknown by our world and I made sure they wouldn't appear unless he finds them. If you require more information concerning this matter you may contact me whenever you get the chance, but be discrete.
Sincerely,
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Harry reread the letter carefully again and again until the words actually sunk into his brain. He looked back at the gaping Kreacher and then showed him the picture.
"Kreacher, who are these children? Whose are they?" Harry made himself sound stern to get a quick answer from him. If he could question the elf then he might've learned more than what Dumbledore had written.
"Mistress Bellatrix's…children."
"Why aren't they around?"
"Stolen…stolen by the ministry, raised by bloody muggles…"
"Have you ever seen them other than this picture?"
"No…Kreacher never had the honor of meeting…Mistress Bellatrix's children."
"Are you sure, what about on the family tree? Are they there?" Kreacher looked at Harry and then towards the door that led to the tree. Both of them carefully walked into the room and examined the tree.
"Here…" Kreacher pointed under Bellatrix's name and picture, showing the names of her children.
"Pandora, and Ivan Lestrange…" there wasn't much of a picture for either twin, only faces covered in plants or flowers and only their eyes showed. Harry looked at the girl's eyes and took out the mirror from his jacket. The eyes weren't there, but he looked back at the tree's picture and then turned to Kreacher. "Kreacher, did Sirius ever say anything about this?" Kreacher touched the picture with his long gnarly finger not even looking at Harry.
"Master Sirius…only spoke…to Dumbledore. Nobody else…" Harry realized Kreacher was now infatuated with the pictures, and left the elf in silence to find Ron and Hermione in the main room at the piano. He made his way over and set the documents and the photo in front of them.
"Harry what…?"
"She had children, Bellatrix did. She gave birth to twins just after she was imprisoned in Azkaban."
"How do you know?" Ron asked and Hermione looked over the papers.
"Harry, there's nothing in here but blank birth certificates and hospital records."
"No not blank, they just don't have any names but look at the dates and the signatures." He pointed to the fine writing in the certificates' lines.
"That could only mean they weren't filled out properly, this doesn't mean that Bellatrix…"
"Hermione she had children, look at this letter! It's from Dumbledore to Sirius stating what happened the day they were born." He handed her the letter and she read over it.
"Harry I don't think…"
"AGH! Come with me!" he grabbed both their arms and led them back to the family tree where Kreacher was still admiring the pictures. "Kreacher move aside." Kreacher reluctantly followed and Harry pointed to the two names under Bellatrix's head. "Look there, you can see two small pairs of eyes in those flowers." Hermione looked at the pictures and then back at the letter.
"Ok, Harry it seems you're right. But if Bellatrix did have children then how come no one's ever heard of them or seen them?" no one said a word.
"Let me see the letter." Ron took it from Hermione and looked it over. "Maybe they gave them up for adoption, since it says here Bellatrix was in Azkaban and You-Know-Who gone."
"There are no records of adoption in here."
"Maybe they kept those concealed too, I mean the tree doesn't lie."
"Even so, how can we be sure that You-Know-Who hasn't found them yet?"
"Because he already has." Ron and Hermione looked at him shocked. "The letter said they wouldn't appear on the tree until after he found them."
"But they haven't fully appeared on the tree."
"Which means no one but him has seen them, and do you realize what this means?" both nodded.
"We've got possibly two more dark wizards coming."
"Harry I don't think so, if they really were adopted then Dumbledore must've picked a special place for them knowing they'd grow up better."
"Even so if You-Know-Who manages to turn their heads we're in serious trouble."
"Mate c'mon, if we ever meet these two then we're bound to figure out something on the search for the horcruxes." Harry sighed and looked back at the mirror in his hand, and there were the eyes.
"Hello." The eyes didn't disappear that time.
"Hello." She said back, and Harry looked at her with shock.
"So you can talk?" she leaned back and he saw her smile, then she vanished again. He put the mirror back inside his pocket and turned to his friends. "Well, let's get some rest. If anything it's possible somehow these two may help us defeat Voldemort."
"Doubt it." Hermione mumbled and Ron led her out. Kreacher had left ahead of time, and Harry gave one glance back at the picture before his eyes widened wider than his glasses. Those eyes, it was the same girl.
Cliffy danger! DANGER DANGER DANGER! Lol, just picking around. Sorry if it's too short but I don't want to rush anything up at all. Next chapter flips back to the twins and Voldemort's decision on Pan's baby, but she won't hear of it. And another side of Bellatrix no one's seen in years.
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