Chapter twenty one

'You sound real and serious, so I'm not sure if what you're saying is true or not.'

'I know, so I am going to show you.' Harry sighed, then stood up and took his wand from his sleeve, 'This is my wand, we all have them. Now I'll do a couple of basic floating and summoning charms, you might think I've rigged things up with wires or something. There's a few I can show you that you will believe. So just watch for now,' Harry pointed his wand at the small table and both their glasses rose into the air and floated, then Harry sent Cathy's glass to her and he took his glass. Then he thought he'd summon something, 'Accio pillow,' in a second, Harry's pillow flew to him, 'That was a basic summoning charm. But transfiguration is something that might make you believe me, so watch the table for a minute.'

Harry pointed his wand at the table and transfigured it into a rug, then back to a table, 'That day I gave you the tissues, I conjured them, I don't carry tissues with me,' Harry conjured a goblet, 'Conjuring something basic like tissues will last, conjuring things like furniture or cups, they disappear after a while, it's only meant for temporary use, but this next one is called a patronus charm,' Harry lifted his wand again, 'Expecto patronum,' Harry's stag burst forth and ran around the room then stopped in front of Cathy, 'I know this is hard to believe, but it's all true,' the patronus said in Harry's voice before vanishing. Harry sat beside a stunned looking Cathy, 'Say something.'

'Oh my, it's real, everything you said is real?'

'Yes, it's all real and everything I said is true. There's more I have to tell you but I wanted to get the most shocking out of the way. But I need to know if this will affect the way you feel about me or being with me?'

'I love you and if this is who you are, then that doesn't worry me. What does worry me is how do I fit into your life with all this?'

'It happens quite a lot Cathy. See my mother's parents weren't magical, neither is her sister. My mother was the only one in her entire family that was. She found out like I did, when she was eleven. One of my best friends, Hermione Granger, she's another one and what we call muggleborn. Her parents are non-magical, no one in her family was magical. Now my father's family are an old pureblood wizarding family that go back centuries. My other best friend, Ron, he's family is an old pureblood family. I'm what is known as a halfblood, because my father was pureblood and my mother was muggleborn. I have another friend whose father was like you, non-magical, but married a witch and they had a couple of kids, all magical kids. I have another friend, his mother's a muggle, his father's a wizard, my friend is a wizard. But there have been cases when a child is born with no magic, I don't like the name, but their called squibs. So you see, if you do want a life with me, you will see a lot of magic, but you're not allowed to tell anyone, it's all part of the secrecy act and since I enforce the law, I have to make sure it's followed. I need to know if you can keep all this to yourself?'

'I can, and who would believe me anyway,' Cathy squeezed Harry's hand, 'So if we did end up having kids, they might be magical, like you?'

'Yes, but I've been told I'm very powerful, so because of that, our children would be magical, it would be very rare for a powerful person to have non magical children.'

'Okay, so I'll get used to seeing a lot of magic. But how will I teach our children things when I'm not magical?'

'During their younger years, they aren't allowed a wand or to use magic. It can happen by accident. I did and I didn't even know I was a wizard, my aunt hated our world, so she never told me. But I changed my hair colour once, I made it grow overnight, sometimes dishes got broken when I was upset. Magical children can't control it that's why if they are children from both non magical parents, someone from our ministry will go speak to the child and the parents. So if it's about magic, then I can talk to them, if it's another else, then you can. I know it's hard on the non-magical parent, so that's why I need you to really think about that and since we've only just started to see each other, it will give you time to figure out if you can cope with all this.'

'I want a life with you Harry, but yes, it's a lot to take in, so it's good I've got time. What about this travel you do though. What if we want to go somewhere together? The few times we've gone out, we've met somewhere and walked, like here in Godric's Hollow, even if this place is at the far end of Godric's Hollow.'

'Immediate families can travel with us. So I could take you by side along apparition. Now until you're used to it, it's very uncomfortable, but only lasts a few seconds. You can use the floo, again only with me. At the moment we're only dating, so they are a bit strict with these laws. If we were married, it's allowed all the time and you can use the floo by yourself, you need a different powder than the one I use and only you can use it, you can't bring through another non magical person. Now there are a few other things that only the wife or husband of a witch or wizard can be part of, like we don't have doctors or surgeons, we have healers. There is no cancer in our world Cathy, it can be healed, most things can be healed in our world. I used to wear glasses, but I got hurt one day at work and the healer I saw was researching different cures, one was to cure bad eyesight. Now at the moment it's not curable, but I do take a potion every day and that lets me get rid of my glasses, he is working on a cure, but it could take years. Now if we were married, I could take you to see a healer.'

'This is all so incredible but also wonderful. But why doesn't you're healers help people with cancer?'

'It's not allowed, but also if the non-magical world knew about us, they would always want us to fix things, fix their problems and we would never be able to do anything else. Only non-magical immediate families are allowed to know about us, and you're prime minister. He has to be told in case things from our world affect yours, like the bridges collapsing and tornadoes.

'Now I should explain about the dangers and evil people we have in our world. See not long ago we had a war, that's what was happening with the tornados and bridges. There was this really evil dark wizard who had followers called death eaters, there are a few left out there, not a lot though, that's who I go after at work. But this war Cathy, it had been going on for so long, long before I was born. Now this might be hard to hear, but I was a major part of all that. The dark wizard was called Voldemort, Lord Voldemort, he was the one that killed my parents, and he tried to kill me, when I was a baby,' Harry lifted his hair.

'This scar was caused by him. Now we have what's called the killing curse, it's the only thing that instantly kills in our world, I survived that curse, the only person to ever survive that curse and I was known as the boy who lived. People all around our world know me, know my name, who I am because of that, but there's more. A few years ago it was an all our fight between our side and his, and like I said, I was a major part of that. There were hundreds of people fighting at Hogwarts, our school, a lot of people died, from both sides. My friend Ron, his brother died, I saw it happen, saw a lot of death that night. But you see, I killed Voldemort and our war ended, so I'm more known now then I was. Some would say I'm famous and I'm called the saviour of the wizarding world,' Harry summoned an old copy of the Daily Prophet.

'This is our major newspaper, but to you, it doesn't move, to me, it does, I'll explain more about that later. As you can see, that's me, a few years ago and this picture was taken right after I killed him. The people near me are mostly my friends. The girl with the bushy hair, that's Hermione and the red head is Ron, their my best friends a couple and going to be married in just over a week. I want you to meet them, I want to take you to the wedding, I will be best man, but I'll be with you the rest of the time if you want to go with me. So why don't you read that, think about this, because apart from getting used to knowing about our world, if we're seen together, you will get a lot of attention because I still do.'

'You're a hero Harry,' Cathy said softly as she read the article under the picture of Harry, 'You're a real hero.' she put the paper down and wrapped her arms around him, then just sat there holding the man she loved and didn't really know, but was determined to know everything about him.