The Black prophecy #39

Chapter 39: Chronicles of life and death part III

Andy, Bella, and Cissy were still staring at the older version of Harry which according to himself, he came from the future, they were looking at him with curiosity, the older man looked at Andy and smiled at her.

- Come on Andy, just say it – He told her.

- Say what? What do you mean? – Asked the oldest Black sister.

- Ask me the question that you wanted to ask… You wanted to know about your future, don’t you? And I’m pretty you’re curious to know about your daughter’s future – Andy stared at him for some minutes, she felt confused but curious at the same time.

She couldn’t pretend anymore, she wanted to hear everything he had to say.

- It seems like you know me too well… - He smirked at her – You’re right, I want to know everything about my future, I’m curious about that and about some of the things that happened in your timeline, I must admit that as a writer I'm rather curious about your story – Andromeda had a stoic expression as always.

The older Harry looked at her for some seconds before he chuckled.

- Well, I guess that you have the right to know about that, don't worry, I'll tell you everything – He nodded at her.

The older man stared at the horizon for seconds before he looked at them again.

- Okay, let’s start with a little background – He had a serious expression once again – I’ve met your daughter during my fifth year, during that time I was living with my relatives, and I was so depressed that summer – He mumbled.

- WHAT!? Yo lived with my aunt's family? What a horrible experience - The younger Harry looked with pity at his older self, he never talked with them, but according to the stories Sirius told him about them, they didn't look like great persons - What happened? – Asked the younger Harry worried.

- It was an awful experience, indeed, but I wasn't depressed because of them, I had already get used to them during that time... Do you know Cedric Diggory right? – Harry nodded with disgust at his older counterpart.

- Yeah, how can I not? He has always been a jerk towards me due to the jealousy that he felt each time his girlfriend was around me, why? – The older Harry looked at him for a few moments.

- He had been murdered at the end of the fourth year… At the end of the tri-wizard tournament – The younger man’s eyes widened – I understand that the relationship between you and Cedric isn’t on the best terms but… I was getting along with him, we weren’t the best friends but we didn’t hate each other and we even supported each other during the tri-wizard tournament… Did you participate in that tournament? – Asked the older man and Harry nodded as an answer to that question.

- Yes, some idiot placed my name as some kind of prank or revenge I don't know, I think it was Diggory himself, he hated my guts – He answered.

- Well that sucks, it seems like the butterfly effect is something real… Well, coming back to the context, as I said, I was too depressed because I won that tournament and I felt guilty because Cedric saw something that he shouldn't have seen… The resurrection of Voldemort – Those words shocked the other persons.

- What the fuck – Mumbled Bella, she couldn't believe that she was hearing that, if it wasn't because they stopped them some weeks ago, the same thing might have happened in this timeline.

- He did many horrible things… Disapparations, murders, mayhem… All the worst things that you could imagine… He did it all – The older man coughed – I’ll explain more about him soon, but getting back to those days as I said, it was a lonely and sad night, and I was trying to sleep after my nightmares had interrupted me from sleeping all summer and then, she destroyed my door… IT was an accident apparently – He sighed and the other persons laughed.

- It seems like it doesn’t matter the timeline… Dora is still the same – Young Harry laughed.

- Yes, she was a ball full of surprises, but I was glad that I've met her, she lighted the darkest days of my life and I was grateful to her – He smiled softly – Well, moving in time, at the end of my fifth year something happened… Sirius had been murdered by Bellatrix as I told you before… I wanted to die, but there was one person that stopped me from feeling that way… Nymphadora – He smiled as he remembered her – Shee took me during that summer, Dumbledore tried to stop her, but he didn’t manage to get me out of her grip, so… I spent the summer in your little home at Liverpool with your husband Ted – Andy’s eyes widened as she heard that.

She and her husband living happily, that was something that she dreamed many times had happened before he disappeared mysteriously.

- We both comforted each other and as things ran their natural course, we fell in love – The older man blushed as he remembered those times – I thought that my life finally was going to change after that but… Dumbledore had been murdered at the end of my sixth year and your husband too had been murdered in the Christmas of 96… I’m sorry – Andy was suddenly embraced by her sisters.

Andy looked at the ground saddened to hear that her husband's life ended like that, but she still felt jealous about her own self from that future, at least she knew about Ted’s destiny.

- So, what happened with you and Dora? – Asked Andy trying to know more about that relationship and distract her thoughts.

- We broke up at the end of my sixth year… The war started and I wanted to protect her – They all nodded – But still, we ended up as good friends, we slept occasionally, she helped me to search about the Horcruxes so we could destroy them alongside my friends Hermione and Ron – The younger Harry was surprised to hear that his older self didn’t get together with Hermione – As I said before, during the war happened a lot of stuff, at first, the four of us were separated and I worked alone, in that way Voldemort would find it hard to locate me… But I had to gather information – Said the older Harry looking a little troubled.

- So, what did you? – The younger Harry was curious.

- I kidnapped Bella and Narcissa… Cissa was glad to help me, she wanted to get revenge against Voldemort for killing her first and only son, and thanks to the ritual that we did to get out the dark mark from Bella, we managed to know about a Horcrux that was stored in Bella’s vault… With that, Narcissa proved to be a trustable person, but still, I let Bella chained to Grimmauld place, thanks to a powerful spell, I managed to bond her to the house, so she couldn’t get out of it, but Cissa had freewill to enter and get out of the house – Harry explained… That’s how we spend more and more time together, I wanted to thank Cissy for everything that she had done for me, and also, I wanted to make a special person feel better – He smiled at them – I managed to get Andy to bond with you again, after so many years, it wasn’t easy at the start, but in the end, your love for each other prevailed, it was hard for her to accept Bella again, but when she knew about her condition, you both cried and hugged – He smiled as he remembered that moment.

The older Harry tried to end the conversation here, but he had to keep talking.

- And then, what happened? – Andy was curious.

- Well, Grimmauld place turned out to be an important place for meetings, and the three of you practically lived here and I was spending a lot of time with you three, we were all desperate and we didn’t know if we were going to see the next day so… We ended up having sex – He confessed.

The women looked at him with blushes on their faces.

- Yes, I know how you feel – He told them a little embarrassed – Anyway, Once the year 1998 came I had to get out of the house, I was going to get back with all my friends including Dora… We had reunited a lot of information so we didn’t walk in circles – They nodded at him – A diary that I had destroyed in my second year, a ring, a cup, a locket, a diadem, his snake, and finally… I, Harry James Potter... I was the last Horcrux and the one that Voldemort didn't intend to create – He confessed.

- And you managed to find them all – Asked the younger man surprised at him.

- I’m not going to bore you with details about it but yes, I found them all – He confessed – That’s why once I came here I couldn’t kill Voldemort as I had intended, so, I had to search for them, that's why even if the death eaters could have found them, it would have been pointless, I destroyed all of them, but the places where he hid them were different from the ones in my timeline, the items were the same, but the places had been changed, that’s why I couldn’t manage to kill him before he murdered your... Our parents Harry… I’m sorry, the prophecy about you and Voldemort, that was real – he confessed to his younger counterpart.

- You did what you could, there’s nothing to forgive – The younger man nodded a little serious.

- As I said before I had to experience the same thing that you did Harry, I had to die – With exception of Harry they all gulped after their heard that – I had nothing else to live… Cissa had been already murdered, Bella sacrificed the little life she had left for me so I could live and kill Voldemort – The older Harry was sad again – And you Andy… You were killed in the war alongside Nymphadora... You both were killed by the Lestrange brothers... Needless to say that I killed both of them after that, but that didn't bring you back to me – He couldn’t contain his tears anymore – The worst thing of all and the thing hadn’t let me sleep since it happened… It’s the fact that Nymphadora was pregnant – They all were shocked to hear that.

The older man couldn’t contain himself anymore, the tears that were threatening to fall for a long time, finally started to fall, he continued crying until he felt that someone embraced him, the three Black sisters hugged him and he continued sobbing for some time, his younger counterpart looked at him with pity.

- So… That’s why you planned all of that… You loved them all and wanted them to have a better life – The younger Harry told him once he was calmer.

The older man looked at him.

- That’s just a half-truth… I must confess that I wanted the four of them, just for myself… As I said before, I landed before they were born, I wasn’t successful at reaching the year that I was looking for so, I had to improvise another plan – They nodded at him – You three told me in the future that your parents had problems to conceive, so, I took advantage of that to manipulate your parents to get together with me… But once you three were born, they started to formulate what to do with you… Andy was going to marry an older and powerful wizard… Lord Voldemort, your parents were his best supporters, they put a lot of money on his movement, they really believed in his project – Andy gulped after she heard that – Bella was supposed to be married to Rudolphus Lestrange and Narcissa to Lucius Malfoy, both families were rich and also obsessed with the purity of blood – He got serious again – I couldn’t let that happen to you again, as time passed by and I searched around the world to destroy Voldemort’s Horcruxes as the plan to make you four into my wives was getting polished, but I had to take care of the nuisances – He was still serious and he didn’t flinch a bit.

The women were looking at him with shocked expressions.

- I killed the whole Lestrange family… And not just because they were going to take Bella away and kill Andy and Dora, they did many awful things in the future, they had to be deleted from existence – He bit his lower lip – I did the same to your parents and the Malfoy family too… I used a polyjuice potion and presented myself as a waitress at the reception of the wedding… I poisoned them all except Bella and Cissy, you were always safe – He smiled at them.

The Black sisters didn’t know what to say, a part of them was glad that he did that because the future that awaited them if their marriages were successful wasn’t so good, but they still couldn’t help but feel angry at him, he did everything just to fulfill a selfish wish.

- So… You did the same to my husband uh? – Andy looked at him angrily.

The older man had a hurt expression on his face as she told him those words, but still, he didn’t say anything bad, using a wandless spell, he made a knife appear, Harry and the Black sisters raised their wands before the older man used the knife to cut himself, more specifically on his palm.

- I swear that I didn’t do anything to your former husband – The older man’s blood suddenly started to glow, the color was white, and it was suddenly linked to Andy's heart.

A magical swearing, some people may believe that isn’t a sourceable way to prove your innocence, but it works actually, the only problem why the rest of the people or the government doesn’t use it it’s because it only works a situation that involves two persons, in this case, it was between the older Harry and Andromeda.

- Fine… - Mumbled the brown-haired woman sad to still don’t hear any answer about her husband’s whereabouts.

- Andy, I don’t what happened with him, but I think it could be the work of Voldemort’s other faction – She looked at him confused – You see, when Voldemort started with his movement, he gained the support of tons of people, it seems like the movement was supposed to be a peaceful one, I don’t know what happened with them I don’t know if they were betrayed by Voldemort or if they just left the movement after they saw the way he acted… I have been around this world and I have seen a lot of things, so I guess, that they could be linked – Harry mumbled.

- So then, do you know anyone who had been on that organization? – Asked Andy and Harry looked at her for seconds.

- Yes… You will not believe this but… The current minister of magic was in that group at the start – The older man told them and they couldn’t help but feel surprised.

- Fudge? – Asked Narcissa a little skeptical about it, the minister is an idiot, but this reached another level of idiocy.

The night finally came, the full moon was on the sky as the stars decorated the skies, this would take more time than they intended.