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Chapter 10 – Answers
Number 12 Grimmauld Place
“Ugghh… Where am I?” Harry asked as he blurrily opened his eyes.
He took in his surroundings and noticed the familiar living room of 12 Grimmauld Place. He quickly sat up from the plush couch he was sleeping on as he noticed the other person, sipping on a cup of tea, sitting on the matching arm chair beside him.
“Sirius! You’re alright! Oh thank god.” He exclaimed, shocked and relieved.
“Not really pup…” Sirius tried to speak, but his godson wasn’t listening. He was currently pacing, talking to himself.
“… I thought the curse was supposed to destroy your magical core, but it didn’t. I should ask Fleur…” Harry stopped his blabbering and the blood drained from his face. He quickly turned to look at Sirius who was looking back at him. “Where’s Fleur?”
“Harry…”
“Oh my god! She’s dead!” Harry dropped on his knees and started to sob.
“Harry…”
Harry was now sobbing incoherently, “I can’t believe she’s dead. It’s all because of me!” The room started to flicker.
‘SLAP’ “HARRY! Get a hold of yourself! Fleur is fine!” Sirius yelled as he shook his godson on the shoulders, trying to calm him down. The room flickered one last time and cleared.
“She… She’s fine?” Harry asked unbelievingly. “But… the spell… the most powerful spell of light mages… She sacrificed herself for me.” He said as fresh tears fell from his eyes.
“I know all about the spell Harry, but don’t worry Fleur is fine.” Sirius said soothingly.
Harry breathed a relieve sigh, but looked confused. “How can you be sure she’s fine?” He asked as he dried the tears with the front of his shirt.
“Because I died for her.” Came Sirius’ reply.
Harry stared at his godfather for a while, repeating the words ‘Because I died for her?’ Sirius on the other hand was waiting patiently for his godson to comprehend the situation.
Finally Harry’s brain seems to work again and asked a very eloquent question. “Huh?”
“Harry, when my cousin Bellatrix hit me with that curse, she destabilized my magical core. To counter that, Fleur connected her core to mine and pumped her magic around mine to contain it. However, that was only temporary. That curse would’ve still eaten my magic, causing an implosion.” Sirius took a sip of his tea. “Since our cores are connected, I felt her magic stop… it’s weird… it almost felt like her magic was getting siphoned away. I didn’t know what was happening, but I knew something was wrong. So I did the only thing I could. I sent her all the magic I have through our connection. That’s when she performed the spell. Let me tell you something Harry, that was one powerful spell… Its hard to explain…” Sirius then went off like one of the professors in Hogwarts, “…It defies the laws of magic, time, life and death. You see Harry, everything follows the law of balance. When you save a life, you must take also take a life. The life comes from the light mage, the spell was basically to alter time, in order for the exchange to happen. However, instead of taking Fleur’s life, it took mine. At least that’s what I understood from Lily as she explained to me what happened.” Sirius finished explaining.
Harry was a little confused, not comprehending some of the things his godfather just explained. The only thing he understood for sure was that Fleur wasn’t dead and that… “You talked to my mom?”
Sirius smiled, “Yes, and James too. Listen to me Harry, they are very proud of you. They’ve watched you grow, they’ve seen all the hardships you’ve went through as a child, growing up with the Dursleys, they are very sorry… but they also saw your adventures in Hogwarts, your training… and they approve of Fleur and Nymphadora.” Sirius finished with a wink.
Harry laughed, “I’m happy that they do.” He said. Something suddenly clicked in his mind. “Umm… Sirius if you’re dead… what are we both doing in Grimmauld place?”
“Oh this? We are in your mind, your magic created this room since this is the most common and comfortable place for both of us.” Sirius explained.
“Okay…” Harry stared at the person across from him. “There’s something off about you… padfoot you seem different… more mature.”
Sirius started to laugh, “...I guess it took dying for me to finally grow up…” Harry started laughing with him.
They sat there for hours talking. Sirius told Harry about everything… Sirius’s life as a kid, James’ Lily’s times at Hogwarts, the adventures of the marauders… advices on dealing with women. “…Harry trust me… when you meet a witch that you would like to ‘get to know’ just use one of padfoot’s get-the-witch-in-bed lines… just say, ‘did you just cast an accio? Because you just stole my heart’… for sure she’ll be all over you after that.”
Harry was on the floor, laughing until he had tears in his eyes. “…Accio? Because I think you just stole my heart? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!”
“You could laugh all you want, but these lines have earned me the title of the smoothest wizard in Hogwarts, 4 years in a row.” Sirius defended.
They talked a bit after that until Sirius stood up. “Harry, I’ve got to go. My time’s up.”
Harry nodded and hugged his godfather. “Thank you Padfoot… for everything” Harry said as tears started to fall from his eyes, soaking his godfather’s shirt.
“Don’t worry Harry… promise me that you wouldn’t mourn for me. I want you to remember the good times that we have… everytime you think of me I want you to smile.” Sirius said as he hugged his godson back.
“I promise.” Harry said, as he wiped his eyes.
“Good, know that James and Lily love you, I love you, so live on. Live for us, and don’t let our deaths be in vain, by mourning. Watch over Remus and tell him what I just told you… take care of Fleur and Nym. Live a life full of happiness and no regrets.” Sirius said smiling as he started to walk backwards, towards the fireplace.
“I will… tell Mom and Dad I love them both. I love you Sirius…” Harry said as he smiled a genuine smile to his godfather.
“Goodbye Harry, take care of yourself. Mischief Managed.” Sirius said, taking a bow and the fireplace erupted green, taking Sirius away and the room slowly faded away.
Harry heard someone crying, it took him a while to recognize it was Nym’s voice…
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Harry opened his eyes, “That’s how I knew that Fleur was alive. Sirius sacrificed his life for hers.” Harry explained towards the people around him. He was feeling nostalgic as he is currently in the living room of Number 12 Grimmauld Place, once again, telling Fleur, Nym, Remus, Minister Bones, Masters Jefferson, Sophie and Fujiwara, Gabby, Susan and The Queen, about his meeting with Sirius in his mind.
His audiences were on different states levels of sadness. Fleur, Nym, Gabby and Remus had tear stain tracks on their cheeks, Susan and Minister Bones looked on the verge of tears and the 3 masters and the queen had a determined look.
They sat in silence for sometime, until the fireplace erupted green. A man dressed in a black muggle suit and sunglasses came out.
“I’m sorry to interrupt, but there’s some pressing business waiting for her highness back at Buckingham. It seems that princesses are both going on dates tonight and doesn’t know what to wear.” The man said, bowed and went back to the fireplace.
Harry then erupted in laughter. “Seems like your royal council is demanded somewhere else.” The room laughed along.
“It seems so.” She said laughing. She got up and hugged Harry, Nym Fleur and Gabby, and shook hands with the rest. “Take care of yourselves. I love you Harry.”
Harry smiled and nodded. “Love ya too. Tell the two to always have protection.” Harry said mirthfully, which earned him a glare from the queen. “What? I meant bodyguards. You have such a dirty mind, your highness.” The queen shook her head and disappeared in the green flames of the fireplace.
“Alright kids we’re heading off now, got countries to save, dark lords to defeat… Team 2, you know how to reach us.” The three masters dawned their hoods and disappeared in black smoke.
Amelia stood up, “Harry thank you so much for saving Susan. I don’t know what I would do if I lost her…”
“No worries minister, I knew Susan back in Hogwarts, she’s a good kid. Although, we wouldn’t mind if you smooth things out for us when things get a little too hairy in your end.” Harry said smiling.
“That sounded so wrong…” Susan mumbled shaking her head, which made everybody laugh and Harry turn red.
“You know what I mean.” Harry defended his blushing self.
Amelia shook hands with Remus, Fleur and Nym and hugged Gabby and him. “Come now Susie.” She said as she walked towards the fireplace grabbing some floo powder and throwing it at the fire. Susan quickly gave everybody hugs and kissed Harry on the cheeks.
“I didn’t believe it when they said you were a coward and abandoned us.” She whispered and quickly followed her aunt.
“Pup I’m going to be in my room.” Remus said.
Harry nodded, but noticed the unshed tears in the marauder’s eyes. “Remus…”
“I know, I know Harry.” The werewolf quickly said as he made his way upstairs, knowing that a pair of emerald eyes were following him.
Harry watched Remus sadly, knowing how he feels. He sighed and sat on the couch, quickly followed by Fleur and Nym. Gabrielle then sat across from them awkwardly.
They sat in silence for a while until Harry remembered something. “I didn’t have time to ask with all the things going on… but Gabby? What are you doing here?”
“Oui, I wanted to know the same thing.” Fleur added.
“Aren’t you supposed to be in Japan? Don’t you have school?” Nym asked.
Gabby shifted uncomfortably under their accusing gazes. “Umm… you know how I hate being left behind?” The three nodded. “You said you were going to be gone for a while, and I couldn’t let you guys leave me. So, I found out where you were going and followed you here.”
“How did you find out where we were going?” Harry asked, but got a mumbled answer. “I’m sorry?”
“I said… I broke in your computer the night before you left.” Gabby repeated, looking down on the floor.
“What?” The three asked in unison.
Gabrielle’s expression became annoyed, “I said… I broke…”
“No, we heard you. Its just… how?” Nym asked.
“How… what?” Gabrielle asked confused.
“How did you break in Arry’s computer?” Fleur asked clearer.
“Oh… I just planted a trojan virus, to bypass the 512 bit encryption, because cracking that code would probably take me a million years. However, I hit a snag. I had to use some charms and ward manipulation magic to bypass Harry’s the protective wards. It took me most of the night to do that. Then I downloaded your most recent mission on my USB stick. I read through it and found out that you guys were heading to UK.” Gabby explained like it was the simplest thing in the world.
Harry, Nym and Fleur stared at the 14 year old in amazement. “How… what? Gabby where did you learn all that?”
“The computer part from Advanced Placement classes in school.” The young veela answered.
Nym snorted, “Gabby you’re in highschool. They teach you how to type properly and use programs like MS word, not how to hack into top secret government files in computer class.”
“I didn’t tell you but, I don't go to normal muggle or magical school... I got recruited by Tokyo University. I’m doing my masters in computer programming there. They’ve put me there after I was doing some history project and I accidentally got in Japan’s military database last year.” Gabrielle explained.
“Wow… I’m proud of you ma Cherie.” Fleur said, still unable to believe her sister’s accomplishments.
Harry cleared his throat to get everyone’s attention, “Okay, how about the charms and ward manipulation? They don’t teach that level of magic in any school.”
Gabrielle looked sheepish once again, “I read over some of the journals you kept at the storage room.”
Harry and the two girls were once again shocked. “You taught yourself mastery level charms and ward manipulation by reading my journals, and without any help from anyone?” Harry asked.
“Yeah…” Gabby answered sheepishly. “I knew you would never let me go through your stuff… so everytime you guys were gone, I would sneak out one of your journals and read over it.”
“Wow… ma Cherie… You’re a genius.” Harry whispered, making the young veela blush from the praise.
“No… you’re journals were very clear and easy to understand that’s all.” Gabrielle responded, but Harry wasn’t listening.
“… Plus the amount of magic…”
“… she would need…”
“… to pull it off…”
Harry, Fleur and Nym, said finishing each other’s thoughts, as they looked at each other. They slowly looked at Gabby with am awed expression.
“What?” Gabby asked confused.
“I’m going to call Mistress Sophie.” Fleur said getting up. “Let’s go Gabby, we’ll see if she could take on another student.”
“I’m going to check on your computer, see if she got the more delicate files.” Nym said getting up as well.
Harry nodded and watched as the three most important women in his life walk away. He couldn’t help but smile as they talked excitedly among each other.
“Thank you Sirius…” Harry whispered.
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Author's Notes: I broke my ankle from basketball... I got fouled hard going for the last basket. (My team would've became division champions if I made the basket). Therefore I have a lot of time in my hands now. I'm sorry for the wait guys... Last year, my computer crashed erasing all the beta'd chapters and stories I had. It got me so frustrated that I stopped. However, now that I have alot of time in my hands I decided to restart on some stories.
Chapter 10 – Answers
Number 12 Grimmauld Place
“Ugghh… Where am I?” Harry asked as he blurrily opened his eyes.
He took in his surroundings and noticed the familiar living room of 12 Grimmauld Place. He quickly sat up from the plush couch he was sleeping on as he noticed the other person, sipping on a cup of tea, sitting on the matching arm chair beside him.
“Sirius! You’re alright! Oh thank god.” He exclaimed, shocked and relieved.
“Not really pup…” Sirius tried to speak, but his godson wasn’t listening. He was currently pacing, talking to himself.
“… I thought the curse was supposed to destroy your magical core, but it didn’t. I should ask Fleur…” Harry stopped his blabbering and the blood drained from his face. He quickly turned to look at Sirius who was looking back at him. “Where’s Fleur?”
“Harry…”
“Oh my god! She’s dead!” Harry dropped on his knees and started to sob.
“Harry…”
Harry was now sobbing incoherently, “I can’t believe she’s dead. It’s all because of me!” The room started to flicker.
‘SLAP’ “HARRY! Get a hold of yourself! Fleur is fine!” Sirius yelled as he shook his godson on the shoulders, trying to calm him down. The room flickered one last time and cleared.
“She… She’s fine?” Harry asked unbelievingly. “But… the spell… the most powerful spell of light mages… She sacrificed herself for me.” He said as fresh tears fell from his eyes.
“I know all about the spell Harry, but don’t worry Fleur is fine.” Sirius said soothingly.
Harry breathed a relieve sigh, but looked confused. “How can you be sure she’s fine?” He asked as he dried the tears with the front of his shirt.
“Because I died for her.” Came Sirius’ reply.
Harry stared at his godfather for a while, repeating the words ‘Because I died for her?’ Sirius on the other hand was waiting patiently for his godson to comprehend the situation.
Finally Harry’s brain seems to work again and asked a very eloquent question. “Huh?”
“Harry, when my cousin Bellatrix hit me with that curse, she destabilized my magical core. To counter that, Fleur connected her core to mine and pumped her magic around mine to contain it. However, that was only temporary. That curse would’ve still eaten my magic, causing an implosion.” Sirius took a sip of his tea. “Since our cores are connected, I felt her magic stop… it’s weird… it almost felt like her magic was getting siphoned away. I didn’t know what was happening, but I knew something was wrong. So I did the only thing I could. I sent her all the magic I have through our connection. That’s when she performed the spell. Let me tell you something Harry, that was one powerful spell… Its hard to explain…” Sirius then went off like one of the professors in Hogwarts, “…It defies the laws of magic, time, life and death. You see Harry, everything follows the law of balance. When you save a life, you must take also take a life. The life comes from the light mage, the spell was basically to alter time, in order for the exchange to happen. However, instead of taking Fleur’s life, it took mine. At least that’s what I understood from Lily as she explained to me what happened.” Sirius finished explaining.
Harry was a little confused, not comprehending some of the things his godfather just explained. The only thing he understood for sure was that Fleur wasn’t dead and that… “You talked to my mom?”
Sirius smiled, “Yes, and James too. Listen to me Harry, they are very proud of you. They’ve watched you grow, they’ve seen all the hardships you’ve went through as a child, growing up with the Dursleys, they are very sorry… but they also saw your adventures in Hogwarts, your training… and they approve of Fleur and Nymphadora.” Sirius finished with a wink.
Harry laughed, “I’m happy that they do.” He said. Something suddenly clicked in his mind. “Umm… Sirius if you’re dead… what are we both doing in Grimmauld place?”
“Oh this? We are in your mind, your magic created this room since this is the most common and comfortable place for both of us.” Sirius explained.
“Okay…” Harry stared at the person across from him. “There’s something off about you… padfoot you seem different… more mature.”
Sirius started to laugh, “...I guess it took dying for me to finally grow up…” Harry started laughing with him.
They sat there for hours talking. Sirius told Harry about everything… Sirius’s life as a kid, James’ Lily’s times at Hogwarts, the adventures of the marauders… advices on dealing with women. “…Harry trust me… when you meet a witch that you would like to ‘get to know’ just use one of padfoot’s get-the-witch-in-bed lines… just say, ‘did you just cast an accio? Because you just stole my heart’… for sure she’ll be all over you after that.”
Harry was on the floor, laughing until he had tears in his eyes. “…Accio? Because I think you just stole my heart? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!”
“You could laugh all you want, but these lines have earned me the title of the smoothest wizard in Hogwarts, 4 years in a row.” Sirius defended.
They talked a bit after that until Sirius stood up. “Harry, I’ve got to go. My time’s up.”
Harry nodded and hugged his godfather. “Thank you Padfoot… for everything” Harry said as tears started to fall from his eyes, soaking his godfather’s shirt.
“Don’t worry Harry… promise me that you wouldn’t mourn for me. I want you to remember the good times that we have… everytime you think of me I want you to smile.” Sirius said as he hugged his godson back.
“I promise.” Harry said, as he wiped his eyes.
“Good, know that James and Lily love you, I love you, so live on. Live for us, and don’t let our deaths be in vain, by mourning. Watch over Remus and tell him what I just told you… take care of Fleur and Nym. Live a life full of happiness and no regrets.” Sirius said smiling as he started to walk backwards, towards the fireplace.
“I will… tell Mom and Dad I love them both. I love you Sirius…” Harry said as he smiled a genuine smile to his godfather.
“Goodbye Harry, take care of yourself. Mischief Managed.” Sirius said, taking a bow and the fireplace erupted green, taking Sirius away and the room slowly faded away.
Harry heard someone crying, it took him a while to recognize it was Nym’s voice…
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Harry opened his eyes, “That’s how I knew that Fleur was alive. Sirius sacrificed his life for hers.” Harry explained towards the people around him. He was feeling nostalgic as he is currently in the living room of Number 12 Grimmauld Place, once again, telling Fleur, Nym, Remus, Minister Bones, Masters Jefferson, Sophie and Fujiwara, Gabby, Susan and The Queen, about his meeting with Sirius in his mind.
His audiences were on different states levels of sadness. Fleur, Nym, Gabby and Remus had tear stain tracks on their cheeks, Susan and Minister Bones looked on the verge of tears and the 3 masters and the queen had a determined look.
They sat in silence for sometime, until the fireplace erupted green. A man dressed in a black muggle suit and sunglasses came out.
“I’m sorry to interrupt, but there’s some pressing business waiting for her highness back at Buckingham. It seems that princesses are both going on dates tonight and doesn’t know what to wear.” The man said, bowed and went back to the fireplace.
Harry then erupted in laughter. “Seems like your royal council is demanded somewhere else.” The room laughed along.
“It seems so.” She said laughing. She got up and hugged Harry, Nym Fleur and Gabby, and shook hands with the rest. “Take care of yourselves. I love you Harry.”
Harry smiled and nodded. “Love ya too. Tell the two to always have protection.” Harry said mirthfully, which earned him a glare from the queen. “What? I meant bodyguards. You have such a dirty mind, your highness.” The queen shook her head and disappeared in the green flames of the fireplace.
“Alright kids we’re heading off now, got countries to save, dark lords to defeat… Team 2, you know how to reach us.” The three masters dawned their hoods and disappeared in black smoke.
Amelia stood up, “Harry thank you so much for saving Susan. I don’t know what I would do if I lost her…”
“No worries minister, I knew Susan back in Hogwarts, she’s a good kid. Although, we wouldn’t mind if you smooth things out for us when things get a little too hairy in your end.” Harry said smiling.
“That sounded so wrong…” Susan mumbled shaking her head, which made everybody laugh and Harry turn red.
“You know what I mean.” Harry defended his blushing self.
Amelia shook hands with Remus, Fleur and Nym and hugged Gabby and him. “Come now Susie.” She said as she walked towards the fireplace grabbing some floo powder and throwing it at the fire. Susan quickly gave everybody hugs and kissed Harry on the cheeks.
“I didn’t believe it when they said you were a coward and abandoned us.” She whispered and quickly followed her aunt.
“Pup I’m going to be in my room.” Remus said.
Harry nodded, but noticed the unshed tears in the marauder’s eyes. “Remus…”
“I know, I know Harry.” The werewolf quickly said as he made his way upstairs, knowing that a pair of emerald eyes were following him.
Harry watched Remus sadly, knowing how he feels. He sighed and sat on the couch, quickly followed by Fleur and Nym. Gabrielle then sat across from them awkwardly.
They sat in silence for a while until Harry remembered something. “I didn’t have time to ask with all the things going on… but Gabby? What are you doing here?”
“Oui, I wanted to know the same thing.” Fleur added.
“Aren’t you supposed to be in Japan? Don’t you have school?” Nym asked.
Gabby shifted uncomfortably under their accusing gazes. “Umm… you know how I hate being left behind?” The three nodded. “You said you were going to be gone for a while, and I couldn’t let you guys leave me. So, I found out where you were going and followed you here.”
“How did you find out where we were going?” Harry asked, but got a mumbled answer. “I’m sorry?”
“I said… I broke in your computer the night before you left.” Gabby repeated, looking down on the floor.
“What?” The three asked in unison.
Gabrielle’s expression became annoyed, “I said… I broke…”
“No, we heard you. Its just… how?” Nym asked.
“How… what?” Gabrielle asked confused.
“How did you break in Arry’s computer?” Fleur asked clearer.
“Oh… I just planted a trojan virus, to bypass the 512 bit encryption, because cracking that code would probably take me a million years. However, I hit a snag. I had to use some charms and ward manipulation magic to bypass Harry’s the protective wards. It took me most of the night to do that. Then I downloaded your most recent mission on my USB stick. I read through it and found out that you guys were heading to UK.” Gabby explained like it was the simplest thing in the world.
Harry, Nym and Fleur stared at the 14 year old in amazement. “How… what? Gabby where did you learn all that?”
“The computer part from Advanced Placement classes in school.” The young veela answered.
Nym snorted, “Gabby you’re in highschool. They teach you how to type properly and use programs like MS word, not how to hack into top secret government files in computer class.”
“I didn’t tell you but, I don't go to normal muggle or magical school... I got recruited by Tokyo University. I’m doing my masters in computer programming there. They’ve put me there after I was doing some history project and I accidentally got in Japan’s military database last year.” Gabrielle explained.
“Wow… I’m proud of you ma Cherie.” Fleur said, still unable to believe her sister’s accomplishments.
Harry cleared his throat to get everyone’s attention, “Okay, how about the charms and ward manipulation? They don’t teach that level of magic in any school.”
Gabrielle looked sheepish once again, “I read over some of the journals you kept at the storage room.”
Harry and the two girls were once again shocked. “You taught yourself mastery level charms and ward manipulation by reading my journals, and without any help from anyone?” Harry asked.
“Yeah…” Gabby answered sheepishly. “I knew you would never let me go through your stuff… so everytime you guys were gone, I would sneak out one of your journals and read over it.”
“Wow… ma Cherie… You’re a genius.” Harry whispered, making the young veela blush from the praise.
“No… you’re journals were very clear and easy to understand that’s all.” Gabrielle responded, but Harry wasn’t listening.
“… Plus the amount of magic…”
“… she would need…”
“… to pull it off…”
Harry, Fleur and Nym, said finishing each other’s thoughts, as they looked at each other. They slowly looked at Gabby with am awed expression.
“What?” Gabby asked confused.
“I’m going to call Mistress Sophie.” Fleur said getting up. “Let’s go Gabby, we’ll see if she could take on another student.”
“I’m going to check on your computer, see if she got the more delicate files.” Nym said getting up as well.
Harry nodded and watched as the three most important women in his life walk away. He couldn’t help but smile as they talked excitedly among each other.
“Thank you Sirius…” Harry whispered.
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Author's Notes: I broke my ankle from basketball... I got fouled hard going for the last basket. (My team would've became division champions if I made the basket). Therefore I have a lot of time in my hands now. I'm sorry for the wait guys... Last year, my computer crashed erasing all the beta'd chapters and stories I had. It got me so frustrated that I stopped. However, now that I have alot of time in my hands I decided to restart on some stories.
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