Albus was tossed back into the room with his family. He sat beside Harry.
"Are you alright?" his father asked Albus tentatively.
"No."
"What happened?"
"Why don't you tell me?" Albus responded harshly. Next to him, he heard Harry sigh.
"How much did they tell you?"
"No one has told me anything. But I know I'm involved in something serious. It's the reason they've captured us, isn't it?"
"Yes."
"You know you owe me an explanation Dad. You need to do it before it's too late," Albus said. Quickly, Harry remembered when Dumbledore had died, and how Harry had felt abondoned, and even betrayed, by him.
"Fine," Harry said. "After I finished my training at Hogwarts, I made it my goal to find out more about Horcruxes. You know what those are, don't you?" Albus nodded. He had heard enough about Voldemort to guess what they were. "Now, I didn't want to make any. I knew what that could do. But I had a feeling that a person, like me, wasn't made to be a Horcrux. I was right. There are…sideeffects.
"It appears that when a person's Horcrux inside them is destroyed, a small part always cling on. That's why ex-Horcrux objects are still considered dangerous. Well, it turns out that the leftover part of the Horcrux was passed onto you, Albus."
"So, what does it matter? Voldemort is dead, isn't he?" Albus asked.
"Technically, yes."
"What do you mean by 'technically'?"
"I mean that right now, he can't come back. He's not alive. But, er, he can be brought back."
"How?"
"Through you, Albus. And only you. That is, not Lily or James. Voldemort can only be brought back by you."
"What?" Albus asked. The information wasn't making sense. Voldemort was dead. How could he be brought back?
"There's a process," Harry explained. "I found it in a book once. It states that if the person with
the leftover Horcrux does certain tasks, they can bring the Horcrux's owner back to life."
"You have to tell me the tasks," Albus said. "I have to be prepared."
"I can't. The Death Eaters here thought I'd told you all. That's why they tortured James, Ginny and Lily."
"And why wasn't I tortured?"
"Because, Albus, he told us the process himself," answered Denver, who'd silently sneaked into the room. "The first step, for example, is for you to kill your father."