Harry Potter And The Phoenix King

FAMILY AND FORGIVENCE

As he was inspecting the surrounding decorations a voice from behind said, "Hello Hadrian it's nice to meet you at last" a voice belonging to a woman said.

Harry immediately put on his emotionless mask that was drilled into him during occlumency lessons and turned to see a regal and noble looking couple standing in front of him; he recognized them as Arcturus Black and Melania Black from the albums his grandfather showed him. He bowed down slightly as pureblood customs indicated and said, "Lord Black and Lady Black I humbly thank you for your invitation." Harry looked completely emotionless during saying this and internally he was on guard as he did not trust anyone there yet, after all he had come here at the request of his grandfather to give them a chance that did not mean he had to forgive them yet.

"You can drop the formalities Heir Hadrian James Potter, this is an informal meeting where we would like to explain certain misconceptions to you and ask for your forgiveness for failing you and the faith you family placed on us, please follow us to the office room, everyone are already waiting for you and you can call us by our names." Arcturus said sombrely.

"Certainly Lord Black, please lead the way." Harry said as he did not want to call them by their first names as he did not want to believe anything without hearing their side of the story. Arcturus and Melania then lead him across the hallway towards the office, he was feeling conflicted and wanted to leave and never return again but he decided he would give them a chance. As they were going to the room Harry noticed some of his Grandmother's photos in which she was younger and a teenager. His gaze lingered on the photo and he stopped for a moment when a hand was placed on his shoulder. Harry flinched as this was the first external physical contact he had since the Dursleys but he did not pull away as it felt comforting and soothing. Looking up he noticed Melania looking at him with what appeared to be genuine worry, he had hoped she would not notice his flinching.

"Yes she is Euphemia Dorea, my dear sister and your grandmother. She is in a coma now. If you want I can take you to visit her after the meeting." Arcturus offered. Arcturus's expressions became soft as he was viewing the photo of his sister. Both he and Melania noticed the flinching but decided not to mention it as they wanted Harry to feel comfortable.

Internally Arcturus swore to torture those filthy muggles after finding them and he will be damned with the consequence but he knew that they had somehow managed to escape the muggle prison they were put in. When the news was out most of the wizarding world was seething and furious, and unofficial private bounties were set up for the Dursley's heads for daring to hurt their saviour never mind that they never bothered to check in on him.

As he was led into the room he noticed there were entirety of the Lestranges, Malfoys, Tonks, Bones, Longbottoms and Blacks present except for the heirs and the children. As he went inside and took a seat everyone in the room were staring at him. They exchanged greetings and Arcturus took his seat and the meeting began. Harry was eyeing everyone carefully and noted that all showed some expressions as this was an informal meeting. He also noted that most of them had a guilty expression especially the one he recognized as Sirius Black and Alice Longbottom, his godparents.

"Harry, pup it has been a long time since I have seen you pup. You look like an exact replica of James and Uncle Charlus but you have your grandmother's jaw and face structure and your mother's eye, I missed you." Sirius said with heavy emotion.

"I have been told but I would like to know why I was abandoned at the doorstep of those muggles." Harry said harshly and coldly. He was harsher than he intended to be but he did not care as the years of suffering, abuse and neglect came to his mind, Harry thought that he was over the time spent at Dursleys but he did not realise that just pushing the matter away did not help. He also did not realise his bottled up rage for being left all alone at his relative's house. Most of them in the room were taken aback by the anger shown by the young heir in front of them.