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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
$Parseltongue$
Chapter 8: Findings
Harry was slowly getting used to his new life. It seems like his parents were beginning to believe that he had changed for the better and was not going back to his old self.
He had gotten very close to his youngest sister, Holly. She was very fun to be around and always cheerful.
His other sister, Lyra is still distant but at least, she has stopped trying to provoke him. Harry didn't mind and just found her attempts entertaining, to be honest.
After all, it was just a nine-year-old using childish insults against someone who had gone through two wars. It would be needed a lot more than that to provoke him into action.
Harry had spent a great deal of his time exploring the library, looking for any useful information or anything that he could have missed.
He will not let his guard down after finding out that Voldemort is still alive even if he is hiding in a different country.
Using old newspapers that thankfully Mipsy kept stored and some new History books about the recent war, He had managed to gather a lot of information.
As the 'Boy Who Lived' book had said, Voldemort seemed to have suffered some crippling injury instead of dying and fled the country.
Neville was acclaimed as the 'Boy Who Lived' and everyone considered him a national hero.
It is rumored that he was raised by his grandmother in a distant castle since the main Longbottom household was severely damaged. But the exact location of this castle was never revealed to protect him.
Harry felt sorry for Neville. The boy now will have to deal with some of the things he did in his past life. Fame had brought him nothing but misery, with people turning against him at every turn.
Even with Voldemort's absence, many death eaters remained in England and would launch attacks every so often to remind the country that they were not completely gone. That meant that the war had never ended, officially at least, but the public had mostly moved on since there hadn't been any big attacks.
Another big difference was that Sirius never went to Azkaban since his parents were not attacked by Voldemort directly, but they were still important enemies of the Dark Lord and were attacked by death eaters many times.
Many did not survive the war, and unfortunately, Sirius was one of the victims.
Wormtail was revealed to be a traitor when he and some other death eaters got into a fight with Sirius and some other wizards that Harry remembers being old members of the Order of the Phoenix.
In the resulting fight, Sirius and Marlene McKinnon died, along with several muggles who were caught in the crossfire.
Wormtail became a wanted man that day and has not been seen since then.
Harry's best guess is that Wormtail disclosed the secret location of the Order Headquarters and they took the chance to launch a big attack.
Remus was still alive and well. His father had mentioned that He would be visiting for Harry's birthday.
'Sirius…' He felt nothing but bitterness at the thought of not being able to see his Godfather and felt like he had lost him all over again.
'I'll make sure that Wormtail suffers for this…I swear this to you, Sirius.' He made another promise to himself.
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It was the day before his birthday and Harry had decided to go make breakfast by himself.
He was surprised to find his sister, Lyra, already in the kitchen.
"Good morning, you got up very early today." Harry greeted.
Lyra looked up from her glass of milk.
"I was thirsty…what about you?."
"I'm going to make breakfast for everyone." Harry walked to the counter and started picking up the ingredients he needed.
"By yourself? Are you sure you know what you are doing? I don't want to be poisoned." Lyra smirked.
"Well, you can stay and try the food first if you want." Harry offered while He kept working.
"You have been spending a lot of time with Holly lately," Lyra said with a serious expression.
Harry raised an eyebrow and looked at his sister, wondering where this was going.
"I have not told Dad everything about what happened that day. Only that you were playing with grandma's wand and got hurt on accident." Lyra said.
Harry was surprised.
'She lied to protect me? That would explain why his parents weren't more angry with him, especially his father.
"But…If you hurt my sister -"
"Our sister." Harry corrected her. "And, I would rather die than hurt any member of this family."
Lyra was taken aback by how intense was Harry when he said that, and she didn't doubt that He meant every word.
"You…you really have changed…" Lyra was forced to admit.
After a moment of silence between the two of them, she spoke once more.
"Fine, I'll stay and be the first one to try your food. It better be good." She pointed her finger at him and went back to her drink.
'I'll give you one last chance Harry…last one, I swear.' Lyra thought to herself.
"You'll see." Harry smiled and went back to work.
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"Yummy," Holly said happily while eating.
There were Cornish potato cakes, sausages, eggs, bacon, and seared tomatoes.
"This is really good, Harry," James said while eating and drinking his coffee.
"You know you don't have to, right Harry? I only prepare breakfast once a week because Mipsy gets upset if I take too much work away from her." Lily said.
"I know Mom, I just felt like doing it today," Harry answered before looking at Lyra who gave him a reluctant thumbs up.