A/N: Sorry this is Soooo late. I finally have gotten just a little time in writing a chapter. Nearing the end of the semester and done with my first year of college so in about a month or so I'll be able to write more frequently. This chapter contains Harry explaining all about his life throughout the years so I hope it's not boring. Please please please review and tell me how I did on this chapter! I'd appreciate it!
They all sat in the living room, Harry with his kids and Draco with Scorpius. No one said a word for a few minutes but Harry decided it was time to start telling them the truth.
He cleared his throat. "Well when I was around the age of one my parents were murdered by this man. This man's name is Tom Riddle. He went to school at Hogwarts, but instead of learning the good way to use magic he turned evil. The night he killed my parents he tried to kill me but the spell rebounded and the curse hit him instead. For the longest time everyone thought he was gone, but he was just really weak. Well when I turned eleven I was told I was a wizard." He smiled down at his children then looked at Draco clearing his throat again. "When I got to Diagon Alley with Hagrid everyone looked at me like I was a prize. Little did I know that everyone knew who I was."
"The famous Harry bloody Potter." Draco grumbled under his breathe. The kids looked at him for a second but then looked back at Harry.
James raised his eyebrows. "You were famous?"
"He still is. I can't believe you haven't told them this all yet Potter. It's amazing that they don't know how famous you were and still are. They don't notice anyone drooling over you?"
"No one drools over me anymore Malfoy."
"That you notice."
"Anyway, when I got to Hogwarts Draco here tried to befriend me. He made this rude remark toward Ron and then held his hand out for me to take thinking that I would want to be friends with an arrogant jerk like he was." Harry smirked over a Draco who scowled right back at him. "Well from then on Draco and I became enemies. My first year he tried getting me expelled by telling me to meet him in an empty class room to duel but he never showed and I got away just fine."
"Get to the main point Potter, about…you know." Even to this day Draco had trouble saying his name. He said it when needed but he knew Potter understood.
He nodded. "Right about Tom. Well ever since the night he killed my parents he planned on trying to kill me. First year he wanted the sorcerer's stone. If it's in the hands of someone who wants to use its powers for evil it can give them great power to help them defeat anyone. Well he never got a hold of the stone because it came to me instead. I was there and he tried to kill me in order to get the stone. But he was too weak, so he used someone else's body in order to try and get the stone and over power me. The stone though only shows itself to someone who wants to find it but not use its power. That's why it came to me instead of him."
"So what happened to the stone? Did you keep it?" Lily looked up into her father's eyes.
He shook his head. "No, Dumbledore had it destroyed."
"Why?"
"So no one could use its power for evil." He smiled back down at her. "My second year I had to battle a basilisk. Tom had this diary that held part of his soul and that part of his soul controlled the basilisk. Tom decided to get into your mother's mind and made her do things that she couldn't stop. He had her open the chamber of secrets and he tried using her life to get his life back so he wouldn't be just a memory in a diary anymore. I killed the basilisk with the help of Ron and Hermione, and saved your mother. The diary was destroyed in the process along with Tom's soul."
"You killed a big snake?" Albus's eyes lit up with pride and Harry's heart dropped. He didn't want his children to think of him just for the things he had to go through.
"I did, but I only was able to out of dumb luck. I was only able to do the things I have done with the help of others." He held onto Albus's hand. "Fourth year was the next year I had to face Tom again. But he didn't go by the name of Tom Riddle anymore. He went by the name Voldemort or as his followers would call him The Dark Lord. Well Voldemort wanted to fight me and finally end the endless battle between us. But he didn't win. I got away out of luck again but he killed a friend of mine. That year I told everyone that he was back."
"You never mentioned your third year." Draco looked at him with shameful eyes because he knew what was coming soon enough. Their sixth year.
Harry noticed his hushed tone and the shame he seemed to be giving himself. "The only major thing that happened my third year was that I found my Godfather. Well, he more like found me. He got out of Azkaban, but he was in there for something he didn't do."
"So what happened to him?" James asked.
"I'm about to get to that part." He sighed, trying not to remember the painful feeling of losing Sirius. "My fifth year I got these visions into Voldemort's mind. I saw him attack Mr. Weasley and I was able to save him by alerting the ministry. But then he sent me this vision of him torturing Sirius, my Godfather. So I went to the ministry one night with a few of my friends that wanted to help, your mother included. Sirius wasn't there, it was a trap." Harry looked at Draco for an instant and Draco knew that he was about to bring up his father. He prepared himself for feeling his son move away from him.
Harry continued. "Draco's father was one of Voldemort's followers and he was there that night. He tried to convince me that if I didn't give him the prophecy, which is what Voldemort wanted me to get, then he'd kill my friends. So I gave it to him. But that's when Sirius came and a few of the order." He had explained the order to his children before because it came up in conversation so he knew he didn't need to explain what that was and if Scorpius asked later he'd tell him. "Well Bellatrix, one of Voldemort's other followers, killed Sirius so I went after her. She got away because Voldemort showed up. That was when we made our first connection."
He looked down at his hands feeling shame for himself but looked back up at Draco. Scorpius was still sitting as close to Draco as possible and they were holding hands. He knew Scorpius didn't judge him yet.
Lily spoke up. "Why did Voldemort and his followers want you dead dad?"
"Because he believed that with me still alive that I'd be a threat to him being able to take over the world like he planned to do. I was the piece of the puzzle that he needed to get rid of so his followers tried to help him get rid of that puzzle piece." His eyes were filled with sorrow and his smile was a sad sight to see. Lily had tears in her eyes from hearing her father's pain and James and Albus just looked at the floor.
"My fifth year wasn't a good one to begin with because no one thought I was telling the truth. Everyone thought Voldemort wasn't back and that I was making up lies. But after the connection he made with me he left my body and the minister of magic showed up. It was put into papers that he was back and that Dumbledore and I weren't lying. I was happy people finally found out I was telling the truth but I couldn't bring myself to show how I felt because Ilost my Godfather that year."
He took a breathe and continued. "Then it came to my sixth year. That year I followed Draco around like crazy thinking he was up to something. I didn't know what and I didn't know how but I needed to know." He took another breathe pausing to look back at Draco. His eyes were red like he was just crying and he was breathing heavily. Scorpius kept looking at him every so often. "One night after Dumbledore and I came back from getting something of Voldemort's we heard a noise. Dumbledore told me to hide underneath where he was, so I did. What happened next surprised me the most. Draco came face to face with Dumbledore." He paused again noticing Scorpius tense up. "That night I found out Draco was one of Voldemort's followers, a deatheater they called themselves. He was sent to kill Dumbledore by Voldemort himself but he couldn't do it, so Snape had to."
Draco looked at his son who slid slightly away from him with tears in his own eyes. Draco looked down at his hands and tears escaped his own eyes. He nodded at Harry to keep going.
"Before I go on Scorpius I want you to know your father wasn't all that bad. He was on the wrong side of the war but he did it for his parents. He saved his parent's lives by becoming a deatheater and I don't look down on him for that. Yes, we don't get along but it's not because he made a mistake, but because of something bigger, something that's hard to explain. Your father actually saved my life once, what would have been my seventh year." Draco's head snapped up to look into Harry's eyes then look into his son's eyes. Scorpius moved back to his father and wrapped his arms around him tightly as if he needed protection.
Draco smiled at Harry as a 'thank you' and Harry just nodded. He wrapped his own arms around his children who looked upset themselves. "I never went to Hogwarts my seventh year. I went on the hunt for horcrux's. Horcrux's are the things that kept Voldemort alive all those years. It's when you rip part of your soul in half and put it in a certain object of your choice. They can only be destroyed by a basilisk fang or the sword of Gryffindor. That's what me, Ron and Hermione did our seventh year. Once the battle actually started at Hogwarts we only had two horcrux's left or so we thought. We destroyed the second to last horcrux and we only had his snake, Nagini, left to destroy. We didn't however know about the horcrux he never meant to make. One that we didn't know until I looked into Snape's memories. That night Voldemort gave me a choice, to meet him in the forest or he would kill anyone who tries to step in his way of getting to me if I didn't meet him."
James put his hand on his father's knee. "What'd you decide to do?"
Draco noticed for once that Harry looked even more upset than he had before when he was explaining about Sirius. He never actually knew how Harry lived through the killing curse once again; he didn't even know that he went into the forest until now that it took him a minute to finish his tale. He couldn't believe that he would put his life first before others or why he would, though he was the Golden Boy for a reason. But then the words that Harry said earlier rang inside his head. 'We didn't know about the horcrux he didn't mean to make.' Does that mean what he thinks it means? He kept his gaze drawn on Harry.
It took Harry another second to start talking again. How does he tell his children that he sacrificed himself in order to save everyone? Would they understand or would they think it was a stupid thing to do to put his life in danger after so many people died trying to save his life?
"I walked into the forest that night because I was the horcrux Voldemort didn't even know he created. When he tried to kill me when I was a baby and the curse rebounded, it ripped his soul in half and attached itself onto the only living thing in that room. Me. That's why I could see into his mind and the reason why I could speak to snakes. So I went into the forest that night because I knew he was the only one who could destroy the horcrux in me. I was afraid to die but I also knew that I had to do it to end everything. Ron and Hermione knew they had the snake to destroy still and then they would be able to finally kill Voldemort and end the war. But when Voldemort cast the killing curse at me it didn't kill me, it only destroyed the horcrux. So I was finally able to defeat Voldemort after Neville destroyed the snake."
Toward the last part Lily had put her head into Harry's lap and was silently crying and both James and Albus looked like they were about to cry but they held it back. They both just hugged Harry. Scorpius was still holding onto Draco and Draco moved him up so he could hug his son better. He whispered I'm sorry's into his son's ear while rubbing his back.
"We all did what we needed to survive and after the war I went to Draco and his parent's trials and made sure they weren't put into Azkaban. Though only Draco and his mother were able to get out free. His father had done too much by that time to be able to be let out free. Draco's mother actually saved my life along with Draco. Draco saved my life when I was on the hunt for the horcrux's. We were caught and brought…well here…and Draco lied saying he didn't know if it was me or not. His mother was the one to check if I was truly dead or not in the forest and lied by saying I was. Draco and his mother did a great deed for me and I respect them both for it now. Even though me and Draco still don't get along." Harry smiled at Draco slightly and hugged his children ending his tale.
Scorpius spoke for the first time through the tale. "So that's why you hate being here." Harry just nodded. He then looked at his father. "Why didn't you tell me this before now dad?"
"I didn't want you to hate me for being on the wrong side of the war. I only did it to save my parents but I didn't want you to look down at me for it. I wanted your life as clean from my past as possible."
Scorpius just looked at him with pained eyes. "I would never look down at you. If I had to choose the way you had to I would choose the same decision you did in order to save your life." They both hugged each other tightly, sad smiles on their faces.
Lily, James and Albus looked at Harry with the same question in mind, Harry just sighed. "I didn't tell you all because my past is a past I don't want you worrying about. My whole life growing up was about fighting off so many things. So many people knew me as the famous Harry Potter, and not just regular normal Harry Potter. I didn't want you to know my true past because I didn't want you to think that I made wrong decisions or that I let so many people die for me when I should have saved them. You three are my life and I wanted to cherish that without bringing my past into what I have now. I never meant to keep it from you just protect you from it. There are still people out there who think Voldemort should have won and I was afraid if you three knew my past that they would come after you. I was trying to protect you is all." He smiled sadly when three pairs of arms circled around him. He felt tears touch his skin and he wanted to wipe the tears away but if he did he'd have to move them from their hugs.
Both Harry and Draco knew that they had to stop living in fear that their children might find out about their past from someone else. Now they can live with the fact that all four children knew and was okay with the truth. Harry just hoped that his past wouldn't catch up to him later on. He didn't know who else was out there waiting for a moment to get revenge on him; he only hoped there was no one that would risk the chance.
