Squib

Chapter 15: The Brotherhood

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The Brotherhood

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"Take a seat" Dumbledore gestured as he sat himself on his own seat. Both Harry and Ginny sat down on the seats opposite. Ginny had a confused look wondering what this was about. Harry meanwhile had a pretty good idea what the meeting entailed. And he was already planning for how to answer Dumbledore's questions as he sat down.

Harry felt something warm in his pocket but ignored it as he sat down. Dumbledore was about to speak something when all of them heard a rattling sound. Harry felt his pocket grow warm again and this time, he could feel his dagger vibrating inside it.

Looking on top of a shelf Harry could see a sword, as beautifully carved as it was, rattling inside its case. Dumbledore stood up. Harry put a hand in his pocket to calm the dagger but he instantly withdrew it as he felt an electric jolt coming from the dagger.

Looking at the sword once again, Harry winced as the sword broke through it's glass casing and flew out of it.....straight towards Harry. Harry gulped, he didn't want to pull out his dagger to deflect it in case Dumbledore saw it. He didn't want to use any of his powers either.

Dumbledore raised his hand and Harry was brought out of his musings, the sword immediately stopped, a faint glow around it indicating magic was at work. Dumbledore had a strange expression on his face, he waved his arm and the sword went to the back of Dumbledore's office and into a back room.

"Wow Professor, that was amazing!" Ginny said. But Dumbledore was staring straight at Harry. Before Harry had a chance to think, Dumbledore was using Legilimency on him. . This was different to the attacks by Grindelwald or Snape. Dumbledore approached his shields at a single point and concentrated on breaking through. Dumbledore sliced through the three outer layers of his shields before Harry knew what was happening.

Harry soon got the situation under control and ejected Dumbledore rather forcefully. Harry would've been very angry right about now if his occlumency hadn't been at full force right now. Instead, Harry spoke in a calm manner that even Dumbledore was amazed at the boy's level of occlumency.

"What you just committed Professor is an offense punishable to the extreme by the Ministry." Harry spoke. Dumbledore shook his head, "I'm sorry Harry, curiosity got the better of me." Dumbledore replied, seemingly in a sad tone.

"Nevertheless, I will be pushing for charges." Harry said though his face was still an emotionless mask.

Dumbledore gave a small smile, "I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean."

A little irritation shown on Harry's face when Dumbledore continued to smile. "Was I speaking in French? Or are you deaf?" Harry asked. Ginny gasped at the obvious insult to the Headmaster.

Dumbledore however adopted a semi-sad smile, "It saddens me to tell you Harry, that squibs have rights equal to those of Werewolves and Centaurs in the magical world or more specifically...none."

This time, even Ginny could notice the anger in Harry's eyes as he stood up. Harry made to leave as Dumbledore told him that he had not been dismissed yet. But Harry ignored Dumbledore as he stormed out of the office.

Dumbledore meanwhile proceeded to hear the story from Ginny. She had acquired the diary of Voldemort. It must've had a compulsion charm upon those who read it which explained Ginny's infatuation with Tom. Then Harry Potter had destroyed it, although Dumbledore couldn't get a clear answer as to how. The image he got when searching through Ginny's mind was hazy and blurred, but it seemed like Harry had pierced the diary with something.