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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
$Parseltongue$
Chapter 50: The truth
"Right…I'm supposed to cast a spell now." Harry gave his wand a flick and in turn, James' wand was ripped from his hand and flew onto Harry's.
James' shock was replaced by a wave of uneasiness as he felt his wand missing.
Harry noticed the look his father was giving him but paid it no mind.
He walked towards James and returned the wand to its owner.
James took it with some hesitation.
"I have proven that I am who I claim to be and that I have no hostile intentions towards you or the rest of my family…what else would it take to convince you?" Asked Harry.
"Must I take a blood pact?" he added.
"No!" James was quick to say.
"Those things are extremely dangerous. People have died for the minor of mistakes."
"Fine then….what else?"
James remained silent for a moment.
"What happened to you?"
"I came from a future…a distant one, many years from now." He tried to choose his words carefully in order to reveal as little as possible.
"You come from the future…distant travel to the past is….wait!" James recalled something important.
"This is not how time travel works, even if you did somehow manage to travel to a distant past, you would still be in your own body. "
"True. But I doubt this was normal time travel, after all…I died."
"You died?!" James cried.
"Yes, I died…and then I woke up in my ten years old body. No memories of any childhood before that." He avoided mentioning that the future he came from was from a completely different timeline.
"And before you ask…no, I don't know how did happened or why I'm here. I was as confused back then as you are now."
"The day that you woke up in the hospital, after the…incident. You were acting very strange and you had amnesia but the doctor said it was normal…that was you then." James looked at him.
Harry nodded.
"I didn't want to deceive you and Mom, but I didn't know how you were going to react if I suddenly started talking about time travel and stuff like that. When the doctor talked about the amnesia…I just took advantage of that opportunity. And considering your reaction…" Harry's eyes moved to the wand that was still being highly held by James.
His father noticed this and stored the wand back in its holster. But by the posture, Harry could tell he wasn't completely relaxed.
"Wait, you said you died before. How did that happen?" James asked.
"Voldemort…he comes back, there is a very long war…most died…even me. Is best if I avoid telling you too many details about the future."
"So me and Lily also…" James said solemnly.
"Yes…very early."
"And even Lyra and Holly too?" James asked with dread.
Harry chose to remain silent. He hated having to lie to his father.
James took Harry's silence as a 'yes'.
"My little girls…"
"I can make another oath if you don't believe me." Harry offered. After all, the things he said were technically true. He just omitted some information. Although he would prefer to avoid another oath, no matter what, there were always some risks.
"No…you don't need to do that…Harry." James looked somewhat regretful.
"Sorry for doubting you, son."
"Thanks, dad. So…what are we doing now?"
"We should tell your mother. We cannot hide this from her. " Said James.
Harry nodded.
"She deserves to know, I supposed. How do you think she is going to take it?"
"Probably better than me… don't worry too much about it. Oh…before we go, there is something else I need to know. "
"Is this about the missing professor?" Asked Harry.
James nodded.
"I would like to know what truly happened."
Harry explained to his father about the information discovered by Lord Greengrass and how Professor Nayar was hired by Lucius Malfoy.
He then talked about his meetings with Daphne during the year and how the professor found them.
Some of those things, James already knew but there were many details that he and Daphne had avoided telling to the aurors and Headmaster.
"So you thought it was a good idea to put tracking charms on a veteran hit-wizard?. Did I not teach you any better?. Tracking charms, even the best ones are not that hard to detect. And any decent assassin is going to be an expert at avoiding being tracked down."
"Yes, well…I have no excuse. Let's move on…" Harry could only blame this mistake on his lack of experience in this type of war.
"So, what happened next? I know he didn't just run away without a fight."
"Oh…I killed him and hid the body. You don't have to worry about finding him."
Harry did consider hiding that bit of information but there was no advantage to it. It was just a matter of time before his father discovered that professor Nayar was no longer alive. And then, what little trust Harry had managed to acquire so far, will be completely shattered.
His father will never trust him again after that. And if he had learned something from today's events was that…he could not do this alone.
In his past life, he had many friends and companions who helped along the way. Without them, he would never have survived long enough to destroy Voldemort.
He had been too naive to think he could do everything by himself.
"You killed him…" James gave him an incredulous look.
Harry nodded.
"I told you that I lived through a war, remember?. Don't be that surprised by those things."
"How can I not be surprised when my eleven-year-old son tells me he just killed someone?!"
"It was self-defense thought…" Harry explained.
"Okay…" James calmed a bit.
"When we tell your mother…we are skipping this part."