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chapter 11
Recap of chapter 10
“Well, I have one reference here. Just let me go get the book.” Malfoy got up and picked up a book from a shelf one far from them. He opened it up and gasped. He walked over to the table and showed Harry and Zabini what he found. “It’s says that a law was passed eighty-one years ago, banning the study of Sirens. No books about Sirens can be sold or traded to anyone without Ministry authorization.”
“What? Why?” Harry asked, looking at the book.
“I don’t know but it says Dumbledore was the one to create the law. It was made into a law in a record of six hours, on his first day of teaching.”
Chapter 11
Ron and Hermione waited patiently for Remus to open the door. After so long of coming here, they had very little to show for it. Remus had told them nothing they did not already know. If only Remus would tell them more about her personality, but he only told them how she was as a student. Again, that information they already knew, as well as how James and Lily had become a couple.
The door yanked open, Sirius stood there, glaring at the two. “Remus told me you might come. He also told me not to talk to you.”
“May we come in, Sirius?” Hermione asked, stepping closer and putting out her foot to keep the door from slamming shut. “Why is it that you were told not to talk to us? Do you have something to hide?”
“Nothing to hide.” Sirius sighed, letting them inside and closing the door quickly. “But I do have something to tell.”
Hermione sat down, pulling Ron down beside her as Sirius sat across them. “Is it something that could help Harry?”
“I’m not sure how much help it could be. Remus doesn’t want to turn Harry against his mother, but I never trusted her. I knew she was up to something, James was just to blind in his love to see it.”
“What do you mean?” Ron asked, leaning forward to make sure he didn’t miss a thing.
“When we first met Lily, it was on the train in second year. We were picking on Snape; it was the first time we ever found him away from his Slytherin friends. James was picking on him for something, I’m not sure... I found them just after it had started. We were surprised when Lily came to his aid. You see, Lily was very much a loner during our first year. Dumbledore had her put in her own room; he called her to his office everyday. By all rights, we thought her to be nothing more then a tattletale. As did everyone, she had no friends before then. But she stood up for Snape, helped him even after James told her it was Snape who started it. After that, they went everywhere together. James had a crush on her even then.”
“Why would she have her own room?” Hermione asked. “Was something wrong with her?”
“Nothing that we could identify, at least at the time. She seemed normal, if a little snobbish. Her eyes though, they were an unearthly shade of green, just like Harry’s are. They reminded me of the most beautiful green water. I knew something wasn’t right with her. During fifth year, she became nicer to James, even agreeing to go out with him. I told James not to fall for it but he wouldn’t listen to me.”
“What was she planning?”
---HPSS---
Harry breathed in slowly, letting the all the air out before speaking. “What does this mean?”
Zabini snorted. “I think it means that Draco was right and Dumbledore does have something to do with your magic being bound. The real question is, why would he do such a thing?”
“But that doesn’t explain who bound it in the first place!”
“Potter’s right. Who ever bound the line would have to be older then Dumbledore. But it still stands that Dumbledore knew what your creature was and didn’t tell you.”
“How? The law was passed before even my mother was in school. And no one in her family had been here before. Who’s to say Dumbledore even knew about my family?”
“Because, to pass a law like that, one would know everything about the subject. He didn’t choose at random, Potter.”
“He’s right, Blaise. Nothing points to Dumbledore knowing about Harry’s blood. Nothing in the books anyway.”
“What does that mean?”
“Think about it, Potter.” Malfoy sneered. “Every student with creature blood was sent a letter, telling the family what blood was carried and who carried it. Who got your letter?”
“I’m not sure, it was never given to me. I think Sirius did but a lot of my mail is sent to Dumbledore or the Burrow during the summer because my relatives don’t like to be reminded of where I go to school. They don’t like magic.”
“There’s your proof!” Zabini said. “He must have gotten the letter and only told Black that you were not pure, but not what and how you came into the blood that makes you different.”
“Why would he?”
“The tales, about the Siren falling in love and killing the man when the feelings weren’t returned, what if that was true?”
“What would that have to do with anything?”
“I’m not sure, but I think with a little more time, we can find the answers.”
---HPSS---
“I thought she was planning on killing James.” Sirius said. He got up and poured himself a drink. “Every time she was with him, she’d hum this stupid little tune. She’d sing James to sleep with it. I told him she was controlling him with it, he told me I was being paranoid.”
“Kill him?”
“Yes. James always trusted me, so when he didn’t believe me about Lily, I knew something was wrong with him. When school got out, I promised him I would try to get along with her. I put my pride aside and was his best man at his wedding, I became the godfather to his first-born, and I never motioned my suspicions about Lily again. One day, before they went into hiding, James asked me to come over.”
Hermione held onto Ron’s hand as they waited for Sirius to calm down and start talking again.
“He said Lily found the box, that he caught her trying to leave the house with it. That was when he gave us the information on how to open it.”
“But Harry said his mother didn’t know about it!” Ron whispered. “You told him that!”
“I did, but only because Remus didn’t think Harry should have any bad memories of his mother. I didn’t like lying to him but I didn’t have the option at the time. Remus talked to Dumbledore and they came up with what to tell Harry and what not to.”
“Why would she do something like that?”
“I don’t know, but James was going to take Harry and leave, go into hiding without her. But they day he was going to leave; she told him she was pregnant. I said he would leave a child in her care. After the baby was born, James was going to take the babies and move in with me. At the time, we thought it might have be Remus who was leaking information to Voldemort so we never told him. Only Dumbledore knew.” Sirius sighed and closed his eyes. He stayed that way for a few minutes before he opened his eyes again and looked at them. “When I heard that Peter was the leak, I went to warn James. I got there after it had happened but when I went to check on James, I noticed something odd about him. The remains of the magical signature on him didn't belong to Voldemort… it was Lily’s.”
---HPSS---
Harry, Malfoy, and Zabini had spent the rest of the day in the Library, thinking of ways that an entire bloodline could be bound. So far, they hadn’t come up with much, but it was a start. Harry frowned as he stared at the chart they had created. It had several people on it, all of which could be behind the plug on his magic. But everything came back to Dumbledore. “I just don’t see why he would do something like this to me. He’s been nothing but kind!”
“Kind? He left you with those muggles. He could have put you in a home with a wizarding family but he didn’t.”
“He did that to protect me!”
“By letting you suffer? Starve?”
There was silence as Harry gapped at Malfoy.
“I recognize the signs, Potter. There are plenty of people in Slytherin who don’t come from good homes. I help Severus give them nutrient potions when term starts. I know my father is strict, but he would never deny me the basics, it’s the least I could do to help. I noticed how thin you were at the start of second year, how you had to work your way up to eating like the rest of your friends.”
“I…”
“It’s fine, Potter. I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.” Malfoy whispered as he stood and started to write on the chart again.
“No, you’re right. I’m not treated… right… when I’m there. And I did ask him to move me from there but he said I had blood protection there.”
Zabini frowned. “But if your blood on your mothers side was bound, then how you it give you the protection you needed?”
Harry looked surprised for a minute. “I’m sure… There must have been something to…”
“Face it, Potter, he lied to you. You had no protection there and I think you were left there so you would see him as a great person who saved you from the bad muggles.”
“But…”
Zabini laughed, shaking his head at Harry. “Were there any wards on your relatives’ place?”
Harry gasped. He remember when he had left that summer and asked Remus why he couldn’t feel wards around the Dursley’s house like he could around the Borrow. Remus had never given him the answer. “No… I asked Remus about it but…”
“Our point, Potter. Me and Blaise don’t want to turn you against Lupin, or Black, but you need to see things as they are, not how they want things to look.”
“I know, Malfoy, but what am I supposed to think when everyone is keeping something from me?”
A/N: Well, now! I felt so bad about the short chapter last time that I’m posting an extra chapter for you all! Don’t worry, I’ll still post on Monday like I should. This is just an… apology chapter. ^.^ And, no, Lily isn’t evil, but her actions will be explained later in the story.
“Well, I have one reference here. Just let me go get the book.” Malfoy got up and picked up a book from a shelf one far from them. He opened it up and gasped. He walked over to the table and showed Harry and Zabini what he found. “It’s says that a law was passed eighty-one years ago, banning the study of Sirens. No books about Sirens can be sold or traded to anyone without Ministry authorization.”
“What? Why?” Harry asked, looking at the book.
“I don’t know but it says Dumbledore was the one to create the law. It was made into a law in a record of six hours, on his first day of teaching.”
Chapter 11
Ron and Hermione waited patiently for Remus to open the door. After so long of coming here, they had very little to show for it. Remus had told them nothing they did not already know. If only Remus would tell them more about her personality, but he only told them how she was as a student. Again, that information they already knew, as well as how James and Lily had become a couple.
The door yanked open, Sirius stood there, glaring at the two. “Remus told me you might come. He also told me not to talk to you.”
“May we come in, Sirius?” Hermione asked, stepping closer and putting out her foot to keep the door from slamming shut. “Why is it that you were told not to talk to us? Do you have something to hide?”
“Nothing to hide.” Sirius sighed, letting them inside and closing the door quickly. “But I do have something to tell.”
Hermione sat down, pulling Ron down beside her as Sirius sat across them. “Is it something that could help Harry?”
“I’m not sure how much help it could be. Remus doesn’t want to turn Harry against his mother, but I never trusted her. I knew she was up to something, James was just to blind in his love to see it.”
“What do you mean?” Ron asked, leaning forward to make sure he didn’t miss a thing.
“When we first met Lily, it was on the train in second year. We were picking on Snape; it was the first time we ever found him away from his Slytherin friends. James was picking on him for something, I’m not sure... I found them just after it had started. We were surprised when Lily came to his aid. You see, Lily was very much a loner during our first year. Dumbledore had her put in her own room; he called her to his office everyday. By all rights, we thought her to be nothing more then a tattletale. As did everyone, she had no friends before then. But she stood up for Snape, helped him even after James told her it was Snape who started it. After that, they went everywhere together. James had a crush on her even then.”
“Why would she have her own room?” Hermione asked. “Was something wrong with her?”
“Nothing that we could identify, at least at the time. She seemed normal, if a little snobbish. Her eyes though, they were an unearthly shade of green, just like Harry’s are. They reminded me of the most beautiful green water. I knew something wasn’t right with her. During fifth year, she became nicer to James, even agreeing to go out with him. I told James not to fall for it but he wouldn’t listen to me.”
“What was she planning?”
---HPSS---
Harry breathed in slowly, letting the all the air out before speaking. “What does this mean?”
Zabini snorted. “I think it means that Draco was right and Dumbledore does have something to do with your magic being bound. The real question is, why would he do such a thing?”
“But that doesn’t explain who bound it in the first place!”
“Potter’s right. Who ever bound the line would have to be older then Dumbledore. But it still stands that Dumbledore knew what your creature was and didn’t tell you.”
“How? The law was passed before even my mother was in school. And no one in her family had been here before. Who’s to say Dumbledore even knew about my family?”
“Because, to pass a law like that, one would know everything about the subject. He didn’t choose at random, Potter.”
“He’s right, Blaise. Nothing points to Dumbledore knowing about Harry’s blood. Nothing in the books anyway.”
“What does that mean?”
“Think about it, Potter.” Malfoy sneered. “Every student with creature blood was sent a letter, telling the family what blood was carried and who carried it. Who got your letter?”
“I’m not sure, it was never given to me. I think Sirius did but a lot of my mail is sent to Dumbledore or the Burrow during the summer because my relatives don’t like to be reminded of where I go to school. They don’t like magic.”
“There’s your proof!” Zabini said. “He must have gotten the letter and only told Black that you were not pure, but not what and how you came into the blood that makes you different.”
“Why would he?”
“The tales, about the Siren falling in love and killing the man when the feelings weren’t returned, what if that was true?”
“What would that have to do with anything?”
“I’m not sure, but I think with a little more time, we can find the answers.”
---HPSS---
“I thought she was planning on killing James.” Sirius said. He got up and poured himself a drink. “Every time she was with him, she’d hum this stupid little tune. She’d sing James to sleep with it. I told him she was controlling him with it, he told me I was being paranoid.”
“Kill him?”
“Yes. James always trusted me, so when he didn’t believe me about Lily, I knew something was wrong with him. When school got out, I promised him I would try to get along with her. I put my pride aside and was his best man at his wedding, I became the godfather to his first-born, and I never motioned my suspicions about Lily again. One day, before they went into hiding, James asked me to come over.”
Hermione held onto Ron’s hand as they waited for Sirius to calm down and start talking again.
“He said Lily found the box, that he caught her trying to leave the house with it. That was when he gave us the information on how to open it.”
“But Harry said his mother didn’t know about it!” Ron whispered. “You told him that!”
“I did, but only because Remus didn’t think Harry should have any bad memories of his mother. I didn’t like lying to him but I didn’t have the option at the time. Remus talked to Dumbledore and they came up with what to tell Harry and what not to.”
“Why would she do something like that?”
“I don’t know, but James was going to take Harry and leave, go into hiding without her. But they day he was going to leave; she told him she was pregnant. I said he would leave a child in her care. After the baby was born, James was going to take the babies and move in with me. At the time, we thought it might have be Remus who was leaking information to Voldemort so we never told him. Only Dumbledore knew.” Sirius sighed and closed his eyes. He stayed that way for a few minutes before he opened his eyes again and looked at them. “When I heard that Peter was the leak, I went to warn James. I got there after it had happened but when I went to check on James, I noticed something odd about him. The remains of the magical signature on him didn't belong to Voldemort… it was Lily’s.”
---HPSS---
Harry, Malfoy, and Zabini had spent the rest of the day in the Library, thinking of ways that an entire bloodline could be bound. So far, they hadn’t come up with much, but it was a start. Harry frowned as he stared at the chart they had created. It had several people on it, all of which could be behind the plug on his magic. But everything came back to Dumbledore. “I just don’t see why he would do something like this to me. He’s been nothing but kind!”
“Kind? He left you with those muggles. He could have put you in a home with a wizarding family but he didn’t.”
“He did that to protect me!”
“By letting you suffer? Starve?”
There was silence as Harry gapped at Malfoy.
“I recognize the signs, Potter. There are plenty of people in Slytherin who don’t come from good homes. I help Severus give them nutrient potions when term starts. I know my father is strict, but he would never deny me the basics, it’s the least I could do to help. I noticed how thin you were at the start of second year, how you had to work your way up to eating like the rest of your friends.”
“I…”
“It’s fine, Potter. I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.” Malfoy whispered as he stood and started to write on the chart again.
“No, you’re right. I’m not treated… right… when I’m there. And I did ask him to move me from there but he said I had blood protection there.”
Zabini frowned. “But if your blood on your mothers side was bound, then how you it give you the protection you needed?”
Harry looked surprised for a minute. “I’m sure… There must have been something to…”
“Face it, Potter, he lied to you. You had no protection there and I think you were left there so you would see him as a great person who saved you from the bad muggles.”
“But…”
Zabini laughed, shaking his head at Harry. “Were there any wards on your relatives’ place?”
Harry gasped. He remember when he had left that summer and asked Remus why he couldn’t feel wards around the Dursley’s house like he could around the Borrow. Remus had never given him the answer. “No… I asked Remus about it but…”
“Our point, Potter. Me and Blaise don’t want to turn you against Lupin, or Black, but you need to see things as they are, not how they want things to look.”
“I know, Malfoy, but what am I supposed to think when everyone is keeping something from me?”
A/N: Well, now! I felt so bad about the short chapter last time that I’m posting an extra chapter for you all! Don’t worry, I’ll still post on Monday like I should. This is just an… apology chapter. ^.^ And, no, Lily isn’t evil, but her actions will be explained later in the story.