The convocation
04/07/1996 (03:07 AM)
Harry watches as Black's face goes through mirrage of emotions including confusion, hope and triumpant?. God knows what he is thinking while coming to the terms that his brother is not all gone after all.
Will he be happy to have a chance where he can meet his brother or will he not want to ever see him again after getting rid of the blood traitor brother.
Will he help them to solve this mistery or will he just shrug his shoulder and be on his merry way, doing whatever it is that the dead people do after coming back to there teenage self.
"ok. " He says after a few minutes, face set with determination.
That shocked Harry, he had not thought that the young Black will show this much enthusiasm for a brother for whom he did not held high regards. This could either mean that he does care about Sirius on some level or that he wants the information about destroying the Diary as soon as possible.
"I will give you another Oath for working together in bringing Sirius back, but I do need to know about how you destroyed the Diary because I don't want that thing lying around the house, affecting us in merlin knows what ways. Please." Adds Black, his expressions earnest, eyes pleading.
Harry makes eye contact with Hermione and Ron, thinking what is the best course of action.
" I used a tooth of the basilisk " He answers after discussing with his friends.
" ......... and you got the tooth of an extinct animal from ??" He asks after blinking.
" Basilisk was in the chamber" He answers almost defensively.
" Now it is getting too amusing for my tastes, so there is a chamber in Hogwarts, which has a basilisk and then what, it donated its tooth to you?" He snorts, not believing.
"Harry killed the basilisk using the sword of Gryffindor and then stabbed the Diary with its tooth". Hermione says placatingly.
Black stares at him with his cool mercurial eyes and Harry thinks that he is going to ask them to tell him the truth and not joke around on this matter. This is the moment where he like everyone else is going to tell him that he is delusional or ask him not to lies, like the Dursley's, Professor Mcgonagall, Snape, fellow students at the school, even sometimes his friends, the ministry.
At the end his face morphs into that of awe and he asks rehtorically " and you were just a what, a second year that time.? Mother was atleast right about one thing, that Hogwarts was going to dogs if a twelve year old has to fight a giant Basilisk"
Harry blinks, not believing that someone just trust his words like that without being suspicious or over the top thankful for saving the day and once again proving his boy who lived status. Just accepting it. Plain and simple. He lets his comment about Hogworts administration and management slide because Harry himself has asked the same questions in the privacy of his own mind, albeit a little less crudely.
" This must be the good old Potter luck showing" Black comments after a few moments.
"What do you mean by Potter luck?" Harry asks him.
"You don't know about Magic's gifts to the potters?" He asks astonishingly.
"Do you know about the gift given to the House of weasely" He asks Ron after Harry shakes his head.
"Yes, its Fertility and Nurture. " Ron anwers.
"Right, that is why Weaselys always have big families and are one of the oldest families that did not go completely extinct despite of actively participating in two big wizarding wars and are such a tight knit group, while in other families like mine there are branches of family and only one is the main branch. Magic's gift to the potters was luck, chaos and adventure. It is belived that luck in this case includes both good and bad luck as Potters from generations have either did some great work for soceity or were dealt with tragic fortune." He answers.
"What do you mean by magic's gift. Magic is just only a thing and not a being" Hermione asks.
"Magic is one of the deity, Mione."Ron Answers her.
"You know about it?" Hermione asks, perturbed at not knowing about it when even her friend does. "and what are the other deity's"
Regulus appears to be contemplative and Harry thinks he is going to insult his friend like Malfoy Jr. does for being born in muggle world. He is once again surprised by the young Black.
"I think that the wizarding soceity as a whole does not want muggleborns to be educated about the backround and basics of Magic and wixen world despite what the supposed light side says." Regulus says.
" And I think its a bit rich coming from you when you subscribed for the pureblood mania" Hermione tells him, bristled at not getting answers.
"No, you are right, I did subscribe for it and to some extent I still do. But this extinction of our customs and traditions and history was one of the reasons why many of the Pureblood familes joined Him and not simply because of their prejudices against non pureblooded wixens but because of ignorance of these non pureblooded wixens" Regulus says.
"Ohh Common, we are not ignorant. We work harder than all the poncy purebloods, after literally being dropped into another world, so different from the one where we were born and brought up, only to come here and being told that we are not good enough just cause of our parents don't have magic like theirs" Hermione interrupts Regulus.
"Thats what I am trying to tell you that the supposed light side could have done so many things in the last 15 years where the Dark lord was gone and purebloods were either in Azkaban or were keeping there head down and saving faces or were sided with dumbledore and his crusade. So the question remains that why even after one and a half decade of the win of the supposed light side, are the muggleborns still facing prejudices. The answer is plain and simple that even Dumbledore wants muggleborn to remain ignorant and his merry band of followers either wants the same or simply do'nt care either way. And the reason for that is his ultimate want of control and power. ". He states
"Now coming back to the topic, Magic is one of the three Deities of us wixens, the other two are Fate and Death. It is said that Merlin who is supposedly the first person born with magical abilities also got his powers from the Three. In the fight against King Aurther, many magical folks died and it appeared that witches and wizards will go extinct in near future. To cope this, the remaining families collectively performed a ritual to call upon the Deity and ask her to show them a way so that there families can survive the aftermath of the war. Magic granted each family a special power or talent which will help them in their current situation in accordance to the problems they were facing indivadually. For examples for the case of the House of Weasely, there were not many of them remaining in the aftermath and others were facing uncurable diseases so Magic gifted them with fertlity to grow their clan and nurture to cure the others."
"In case of the house of Potter, who were engaged in business before the war but all their capital was lost in providing food and shelter and other necessities to the general public during war. The remaining magical families have shuned them because they were of the opinin that if the Potters had used their resources only for magical people their community would not have reached that stage of almost extinction. While house Potter wanted to help everyone in need and not just magical people. So Magic gifted them with Luck for the future to help them face the magical community which was treating them as traitors and also for boon in their business but also did warn them that their generosity and altruistic ways will not be helped by the gift of Luck. Magic also gifted them with adventure to spread their business outside and chaos for bringing spin to their otherwise humble and compassionate personalities. This is also the reason why Potters are a Noble House." Black explained in his smooth baritone.
Harry was amazed learning about his family history and smiled a little after learning that his ancestors were good people who helped others. He was happy to know about the past of his family that no one bothered to tell him about and felt a moment of comradrie with other potters who have the worst luck to be struck in such situations but also the best luck to come out unharmed from these unexpected situations.
"So what was your families' gift ?" He asks Black.
" The Blacks were split during that war, some sided with King Aurther to save their hides while the main branch of Black family was following orders of the lord Black of the time by fighting alongside the community with other wixens and some others just went away into hiding. The lord of the house Black of the time was very upset of the Blacks who turned their backs on the community or ran away from fighting for their magic, so he asked Magic for retribution for those who did not fight for preserving magic. Thus after war only those who were standing with the family and fighting for them remain. Others died in war or by accident, out of those who ran away or fought on opposite side who were still alive went mad. Which is where the Black family madness comes, stating that those who do not side with family, the family's motto or the current lord Black go Mad. This is why sometimes our family resorts to disowning its members because if they are not a member then they are not bound to follow the Black family way and then they would not go mad for not following it. So in a way the disowned members of the family were cared atleast enough that the head wants to protect them from going mad for not followingg their values or any direct order from the current lord Black by choosing to disown them. Magic gifted The Black House with Stregth when sided for the betterment of Magical community and harm those who are harming the community or not fighting for its survival. From their arose our family motto - Toujors pur - Always pure, in other words always loyal and trustworthy to True Magic. And then the deity Magic referred The House of Black as a noble family because many other family had the same situation whereby not every member of the house was supporting their familiy's view of fighting but only the Lord Black was strict enough to want to create examples for future members of the house." Regulus explained, smiling wryly at the last part. All three of them captured by the story.
"Is that why Sirius was disowned" Harry asks him.
Regulus pauses, framing his answer, "Sirius and mother had completely different views. But their personalties were very much the same. They both viewed world as black and white. For them a situation or person or a problem can be either only. Thus they clashed very often. My father and I, we were both the bystanders of there fights and then we did our best to collect the remaining pieces of their tumultous relationship. It reached to a point where Father knew that Sirius started viewing every fight as a fight with himself against the whole family rather than against our mother and he knew to let him go would be better than to keep holding him from what he called his freedom and mother also started seeing him as some evil miscreant who had spoiled our family rather than the rebellious child that he was. The war brewing and most of our family actively supporting the dark lord and his friendship with Potters also did'nt help the matter."
Black seemed lost in his memories for a long moment.
"So back to the point, using Basilisk Venom helped destroy the Horc....uhmm ... the Diary. So was the Dairy any specail?" Black asks him.
"No nothing special. It just belonged to Tom Riddle" Harry answers him, noticing that he was going to say someting else.
"Who?" Black frowns.
"Voldemorts real name is Tom Marvello Riddle" Ron tells him.
Black's eyes widen a little. Harry thought it might have come as a shock to know the man your family followed was not so Pureblooded afterall.
"Figures" Black mutters. His reaction to the revealations left much to be desired.
"You are not all that surprised." Hermione states also noticing his lack of response to the news.
"No. When I started questioning things a year later, I wanted to know who he was but the lack of a proper name did point that he had something to hide. Then when I came about the Locket which I died retrieving for, I understood the true meaning of his name Voldemort - Flight of death." Regulus states blandly, shocking the remaining three occupants of the room by the casual use of a name that not many who are fighting against him use.
The young Black has once again surprised Harry by proving him that he his not what Harry had assumed him to be. There is a deapth in his personality, resons behind his actions and goodness beneath the cold exterior.
Harry can see the same expression of begrudging acceptance from his friends. Admired Regulus Black's ability to gain trust of the golden trio within 4 hours of meeting them.
Either he was too good in the game that he was playing or he really was genuine.