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Coming up just shy of Harry, Magnus cleared his throat as he spoke, "Harry Potter," he said as Harry turned to him as he spoke his name and his eyes seemed to widen when he saw him in recognition.
"I was hoping that we…" Magnus began to say before he was interrupted by a certain red-headed boy who was sitting on the other side of Harry.
"What do you want traitor!" Weasley snapped as he rose up from his seat.
Magnus eyes instantly went to Weasley with a narrowed glare, "I do not believe I was addressing you, Weasley," he said with a small amount of annoyance in his tone before looking back to Harry.
"As I was saying before I was interrupted, I was hoping that I might have a moment of your time to talk about some delicate matters."
Before Harry even got a chance to speak, Weasley once again butted in, "Why would he want to talk to you Black? Everyone knows your family's dark, and are nothing but traitors! What trying to finish what your uncle started!?"
The entire hall had fallen dead silent as the confrontation had started with Weasley's opening statement, while his second one drew gasps and whispered mutterings around those in the room.
Harry for his part was looking at Magnus with a conflicted expression on his face.
He wasn't sure what to make of things entirely, last night Ron had told him about how his parents had been betrayed by their best friend at the time and that had lead to their deaths.
He had been angry at the fact that someone they saw as their friend had betrayed them and this alone had made him wary about Magnus.
The way Magnus had rebutted Malfoy at first made him think he wasn't all that bad, he hadn't been pompous like Draco, but at the same time, he didn't have much of an interaction with the other boy to really judge him.
Magnus, upon hearing the statement turned his attention back to Weasley with a heated glare.
While Magnus had been expecting some form of confrontation with the redhead, but the blunt accusation was not what he was expecting.
And while he could use his occlumency to control himself, the anger that boiled up inside him wanted him to lash out at the boy.
The combination of his knowledge of Sirius's innocents, alongside the new childlike desires for a family that he was feeling, made him want to rebut the boy and declare his uncle's innocents.
And it was with great difficulty that Magnus used all his occlumency restraint to keep from doing so at that very moment so as not to cause a scene.
But that still didn't keep some of the anger he felt from showing on his face as he glared at the redhead as his brown eyes turned red in his anger before he spoke.
"Kindly keep your trap shut Weasley unless you want to face me in an honour duel for insults rendered to the house of Black," Magnus said in a growling statement that caused the entire hall to fall silent and for the redhead's eye to widen seeing the red-eyed glare he was getting.
While Magnus may not have wanted to risk facing a death eater like Malfoy so early he was betting on Ronald's pig-headed arrogance to take the challenge himself if it came down to it.
And he was certain he would be more than a match for the pathetic excuse for a wizard, though it looked as though his little eye change had been enough to scare the boy off from saying anything further.
Magnus took a moment to close his eyes and let out a breath as he tried to steady his emotions before once more opening his eyes as the red faded from them as his eyes returned to normal.
"I am quite aware of the actions of my uncle, and what those actions lead to. I do not need for you to remind me of the shame that my uncle brought upon my house by his traitorous actions."
Magnus said as he felt his guts knot, feeling like absolute shit for saying such things about Sirius.
"But that is exactly what I have come here to apologize for," he added getting another round of whispers from the tables around them before he turned his attention from the shocked Weasley to the one he wanted to talk to.
"Harry Potter," Magnus stated as he looked at the boy, "I, on behalf of the house of Black, and myself, offer you our apologies for the actions of my former uncle."
"Neither I or the remaining members of the house of Black condone his actions. If he hadn't already been banished from the family because of his previous decisions then I would have already seen it done."
"Though I have never personally met the man, his actions in betraying your parents and his obligations and vows prove to me that he isn't worthy of my house and the values I hold." Magnus said with as much composure as he could muster through his gut was still knotting.
"I can only ask that you do not hold the rest of House Black or myself responsible for the actions of one of us, we are responsible for our own actions not those of our misguided relatives."
Feeling as though he was about to be sick if he continued any more, and not waiting for an answer, Magnus turned and exited the hall with a brisk pace, his gut tightening with every step.
Seconds after he'd left the hall, the whispers started up once more growing in volume as they talked about what they had all just witnessed.
At the Ravenclaw table, both Tracey and Daphne shared a look at each other and rose from the table at the same time and quickly started after Magnus both wanting to make sure he was okay.
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