The Memory

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I fell in the Pensieve with Ernie to see the memory. I saw my father sitting on a couch in a t-shirt and jeans looking grave. Dad  looked exactly like me, except for Mum's eyes which I had inherited. Dad had hazel eyes.I saw him and looked up in wonder.This was my father standing before me.He even had my taste in clothes. He was wearing Griffindor colors. My father spoke"I'm so sorry,Harry.I was going to show you the wonders of the Knight Bus.Too bad,I went and got myself killed.I'll just tell you the history of the Knight Bus and what us Potters do every ten years."
I was so frightened.I lways heard of my dad as a easy outgoing dude,that was an arrogant toerag. I also heard that he was really smart and was a pranking animagus too.
"My grandfather, Charlus Sirius Black, wanted everyone to  be able to travel in the wizarding world, if they were squibs, or underage wizards. He used the most advanced magic of his time, which is now lost to the world,but is  kept in the Potter Family Vault.He also  created his own magic which is now used all over the world.Thankfully, he kept his head his entire life, and didn't have the Black insanty gene.Sirius, who is your godfather and Charlus's namesake, doesn't have that gene either. Charlus bought a brand new doubledecker bus.He used many charms,spells, and many of his own spells to create the bus to where t is now. Every 10 yars,the spells are deactivated,which is why a Potter or Black must come to fix the bus. Right before you were born,the Blacks decided to stop fixing the bus, since they decided to follow Voldemort's path.They thought it was doing good, to muggleborns, and squibs. They were also forgetting to read the Family memoirs of theirs, which reminded them,that their ancestor Salazar Slytherin was a muggleborn too.He's also our ansector since Grandfather was a Black, who married a Potter by the name of Thea Cheryl Potter daugher of James Potter,my namesake, the legendary Light Lord, the leader of the Light, and his wife Rose Ann Longbottom, the aunt of Augusta Longbottom. You must read the notebook that Ernie will give you. Then cast the spell from the inside of the bus. That way the entire bus will receive the effects of the spell. I'm sorry for not being there for you. I wanted this time to be a father-son moment and a bonding moment, which you'll never have. I'm so sorry Harry."
The memory ended, and I flew out of the Pensieve and I felt tears rolling down my cheeks.

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