Misidentified

Chapter 10

In the Pensive, Syed  saw the cliff that had appeared in his nightmare so many times before. Except this time, he saw it from the point of view from the bottom. Syed's younger self stood at the bottom in place of the frightened boy from his dreams. He realized now why the boy's cries weighed so heavily on him. He was the boy. 

Syed's younger self looked beat up and bloody, like the one in his nightmares. He had a long and deep cut in the middle of his chest, his clothes torn apart. Blood was seeping from the wound and he was crying. He looked up and searched for some sign of someone. A boy at the top of the cliff looked down at him. Syed fell to his knees, crying and yelling out to him, "HELP ME!" The sight of this sent chills down Syed's spine. McGonagall put a hand on his shoulder to remind him that he was not alone and that this was not actually happening right now. 

The younger Syed yelled out again to the young boy at the top. "HELP ME!" The boy disappeared from the top for a minute. 

Suddenly, a man and a woman come into view, appearing shocked. They pull out their wands and throw curses down at the young Syed. Before they could reach him however, a black haired girl Apparated next to Syed, shielding him from all the curses. She threw curses back at the man and the woman, but to no avail. The man and the woman began to strengthen their attacks against the girl. The attacks seemed to work, and the girl's defenses became weaker and weaker until the girl's shields were completely destroyed. 

At this point, the girl knew that she was going to lose this fight, so she conjured an illusion spell to make it look to the man and woman at the top of the hill that Syed and she had died. The man and woman at the top of the hill looked confident. They basked in their apparent success, turned around, and went away. 

"Syed," McGonagall called to Syed. 

"Yes, ma'am?" Syed replied, a bit hesitant and confused as to what he just witnessed. 

"Do you recognize that girl?" 

"No, but she does look very familiar. Who is she?" 

"That is your sister Syed."

Syed was dumbfounded. He didn't exactly believe it at first, but figured that this memory did make sense to Syed and did seem right. 

"She saved you that day and altered your memory so that you would not be traumatized by that memory," McGonagall said, looking down. 

"Is there any other reason why she altered my memory? Because my memory was still a bad one," Syed asked, curiously. 

"She didn't want you to know that your parents would do that to you..." McGonagall said, softly. 

"You mean to tell me that the people who were shooting curses at me and were only satisfied when I was dead...are my parents?"

"Yes, Syed. And your mother at the top of the roof...that is Pandora before her evil manifested itself in her eye," McGonagall explained. "Let's get out of this Pensive though.

They both woke back up out of the Pensive in McGonagall's office. 

Syed's eyes fixated on McGonagall, determined to know the full truth about what happened. 

"What happened to my sister?" Syed asked.

"She-" McGonagall stopped before finishing her sentence. "Why don't you ask her for yourself...Ikhrah?" She called out to someone in a dark corner of her office.