Truth's And Lie's

Gifts & Memories

Sitting on the train back to Hogwarts with Hermione you smiled talking about the small vacation “I got rollerblades for Christmas and I thought I'd bring them to show the others! I wonder if it'll be ok if I could ride the to around to some of my classes?” You asked holding your chin as you looked at your suitcase. Shaking her head with a smile. “Most certainly not, that's something I could see Ron doing. But I'm sure it would be fine if you road them around your common room. Well as long as you get permission first.” Hermione said petting her fluffy cat Crookshanks. Reaching over and petting him you remembered the Christmas present you got her, standing quickly you took down your luggage and grabbed your bottomless satchel. “I nearly forgot I got everyone a present!” You said reaching in up to your shoulder as you snickered at Hermione's surprised face before pulling out her gift. Smiling happily you sat back down next to her handing the neatly wrapped present to her and watched as she opened it to find two gold lion shaped hair clips “Oh they're so pretty! You didn't have to get me anything.” She said with a happy smile as you helped clip the hair pieces in place. “I know I didn't have to but I wanted to! I love all my friends like there my family! I get presents for all my family.” You hugging the burnett as she smiled and hugging you back just as tight. Getting off the train you chatted with Hermione running into Neville and Seamus “Hey you two! Got was you holidays?” You asked running up to the blood with a hug. “Oh it was fine. My gran and I went to visit my parents and spend some time with them.” Neville said waving at Hermione as Seamus shrugged “I spent it with my dad's side of the family. Lemme tell you my cousins are horrible! They wouldn't leave me alone for a minute!” He said pointing at you as you scoffed “You think that's bad, did any of your your cousins douse you in freezing water? Cause a food fight every night? Or how about threw snowballs at you in the house until you fled outside with no shoes on?” You asked poking Seamus as Hermione gasped “Did they really do that to you?!” She asked as you laughed scratching the back of your head “Yeah but I got them back by locking them outside for a half hour while eating cookies in front of them.” You said climbing into a carriage. During the carriage ride back, Neville noticed the clips in Hermione's hair “Oh, those are pretty. Did you family get them for you?” He asked making you smile “Nope~ I got them for her! And that reminds me I got the both of you something for Christmas as well.” You said digging around in your sachle trying to find their presents “You didn't have to get us anything!” Both Neville and Seamus said looking at you with both shock and surprise. Giggling “I know, Hermione said the same thing but I like get presents for people I care about. And you two are friends I care about, so hush up and here, you can open them later if you want.” You said handing them their presents, hearing them mutter about opening them later you smiled as the carriage pulled up to the castle. As you slip off from the Gryffindor's Hannah and Sarah both ran up to you with a hug. “I'm so sorry I took my eyes off him for a moment and he was gone!” Hannah cried cried hugging you tighter. Squeaking at the strong death hugs you tapped the girls backs making them let go. Gasping you looked at the two with a sad and regretful face “If your talking about Bobbie I knew he wasn't feeling well and was going to die soon. I'm sorry I left him in your care Hannah, I just didn't want to wake up to him gone one day during the holidays.” You said looking down as your heart ached for your pet gerbil. Feeling the girls hug you again, you smile and hugged then back as they told you they had buried him in one of the potted plants in the common room with Professor Sprouts permission. Sitting by bobbies tiny grave with both Hannah and Sarah you sniffled rubbing your eyes as they rubbed your back. Giving them a small smile you put one of Bobbie's favorite treats next to his grave. “Thank you so much for taking care of him, Hannah. You guys are the best. You said hugging them again, after you pulled away you opened your satchel and handed both of them two identical boxes. “Sorry for the late Christmas presents but here.” You said as they smiled opening their gifts and gasping at the pretty charm bracelets. Grinning as they thanked and hugged you, you laughed trying to escape from there death hug so you could give your other presents. After finally getting away from them you went around trying to find everyone you had gotten a present for. As you were passing the library you spotted a familiar tuban  down the hall making you sprint after them. “Professor Quirrell!” You yelled catching the DADA teachers attention. “O-oh (First/Name), i-is there someth-thing you n-needed?” he asked as you grinned happily “No but I made you a Christmas present! I didn't know if you celebrated Christmas or not, but here!” You said taking a long neatly folded purple satin fabric out of you bag and held it out for him to take with a bright smile on your face. A little more than surprised at you gift Quirrell slowly took it from your hands. “Th-thank you, i-its very n-nice of you b-but I hope I-im n-not the only one y-you got a pr-present for.” He said looking at you as you nodded “I got all the teachers a present! Though some of them were hard to shop for, but I got everyone I know a present! I hope you like yours, I had to get my mom to help me make it.” You said happily unfolding the fabric to show him the embroidered name written at the end. Snickering at his shocked face you backed up a few steps “I got  going to go give the other teachers there presents. See you in class tomorrow Professor!” You said waving at the happy teacher as you ran down the halls. Stopping by every class you made sure all the to’s and from’s were right before levitating the gifts over to the teachers desks. Skipping down the hall happily you rounded a corner to quickly and ran right into a fluffy white beard. “Ah young (First/Name) what has you hoping around the school?” Dumbledore asked happily as you giggled “Oh I'm just delivering all my Christmas presents to all my teachers!” You said happily holding your hands behind your back with a smile. “Ah, might there be a present for me then?” The headmaster asked as you walked next to him grinning wide “Maybe, are you hoping for one?” You asked as you both stopped by a statue that spiraled into stairs. Watching in amazement you heard Dumbledore chuckle before heading up the stairs. Hesitating for a moment you followed and looked around the office until you spotted a red and orange bird on a perch near Dumbledore's desk making you sprint over to look at the stunning bird. “Oh he’s so pretty! What breed his he?” You asked raising your hand to pet the gorgeous bird. Turning to the headmaster “Fawkes is a phoenix. I’ve had him for quite some time.” dumbledore said with a smile as Fawkes moved under your hand enjoying the attention. Giggling you moved away from the phoenix and hand your headmaster his present. “I thought everyone would get you the same thing so I tried to think outside the box and out you these.” You said smiling as a happy gasp left your teacher “Ah! Socks just what I was hoping for, everyone always gets me books. Quite dull sometimes, thank you for the much appreciated gift my dear.” Dumbledore said smiling as he played with the little tag making you smile. “Your very welcome! I know it gets cold in the castle sometimes and thought these would be perfect.” You said walk backwards to leave when you ran into a cabinet. Jumping back you turned quickly to make sure you hadn't knocked anything over when the cabinet opened and a wide and shallow dish made of stone and  elaborately decorated came out in front of you. “Oh, sorry I didn't mean to open whatever this is…Um, what is it?” You apologised then asked poking the liquid within the basin. “Aw, that miss (Last/Name) is a Pensieve, a tool for wizard's to look back or though memories.” Dumbledore said getting up from his desk to look at the basin as you looked at it with both curiosity and longing. Seeing this “Is there something you wish to relive?” He asked making you snap your head away from the pensieve to look at him guilty then slowly looked back at it “I'm actually adopted into my family. Do… Do you think I could see who and why my parents gave me up?” You asked holding your arm as you lightly dug your thumb nail into your elbow scratching the shik a bit. Tilting his head in thought, “I have never heard of a wizard family giving up there child unless they were a squib. If you wish to know I would need to draw the memory from you. Is this alright?  Dumbledore asked taking out his wand humming in thought you nodded slowly, “Alright for me to do this I need you to think back to the earliest memory you can.” He said bringing his wand up to your temple. Nodding a again you closed your eyes trying to remember what you could as you got the feeling of something being both pulled and drained from your head making your body weak and strained. When it stopped you looked at the wand holding what you assumed to be your memory. Watching as the memory was tapped off his wand on the brim of the basin as you got closer the darkness of the memory mixed with the shining liquid with in. “How, how does this work? Will it hurt?” You asked looking at the headmaster as he smiled reassuringly. “Not to worry, it does not hurt. And all you must do is look into the basin and you'll be brought into the memory.” Dumbledore said resting his hand on your back as you looked at the pensieve then back at him with a mixture of worry, guilt, and a bit scared of what you might see. Reading your eyes with a soft smile “If you allow me to see your memory I will accompany you through your memory.” He said making you nod your head pleadingly, seeing him smile with a nod you turned back to your memory and dipped into the liquid. Feeling as if you were falling you gasped hugging yourself and shutting your eyes until you felt Dumbledore's hand on your shoulder. Opening your eyes you looked around in confusion as your surrounding looked blurred and distorted. “What's going on why is it like this?” You asked spinning to look around “This memory is nearly forgotten you were trying to revive it when I pulled it from your subconscious. But as we go through it should come back to you.” Dumbledore said when an distorted and ecod cry caught your attention making you look over at a tall dark wooden crib. Glancing at the teacher behind you, you walked over you is yourself as a very young baby wrapped in the only clear thing in the whole memory a black blanket with shimmering stars that moved slowly over the fabric. “As you touched the blanket the blurred door opened quickly showing a blurred faceless elf rushing through you and on top of a step stool. Backing away slowly as a muffled voice came from the creature over your younger self shaking an extremely loud ratle in front of you try to calm you down. Slowly feeling yourself shake you grabbed your headmasters hand as you turned to look at the door as your heart picked up is pace. “(First/Name) what the matter? Why are you so frightened?” Dumbledore asked looking at your face as you glanced from the blurred house elf to the door then back breathing heavily “I-I don’t know. S-something bad is going to h-happen I can feel it.” You muttered as loud stomping came from the door making you take a step back. Just as the figure came into the room you jumped in front of the elf as a flash of bright green flew from what you knew was a wand. Turning sharply you screamed when the elf fell to the floor in a heap. Covering your mouth you stumbled out of the man’s way as he went to the side of your crib. Hearing Dumbledore gasp sharply you turned to him as he muttered out a name that made your heart stop “Voldemort.” He said watching the man before him turn to the child in the crib and in a voice of nothing but hisses spoke to you reaching into the crib to pick you up. As you watched you saw Voldemort hold you close whispering nosens while crocking you slowly until you calmed down. Looking at the ashy face of your father you trembled as his red eyes turned away from you when another entered the room saying the only clear words with in this whole memory making your blood run cold. “We’ve found the Potters.” Just as you screamed you were pulled from the memory by Dumbledore who looked regretful, terrified, and more than anything worried. “(FIRST/NAME)! (FIRST/NAME)! Look at me! It's alright! Your safe, your fine calm down.” He said as you shakily took in a breath before feeling like your stomach was about to be thrown out your mouth. Causing you to drop to the floor covering it and holding your stomach as tears streamed down your face. As your were breathing hard your headmaster knelt down next to you lightly rubbing your back making you jerk away suddenly under a table. “(First/Name) I know this must be a lot to take in and process. Please look at me, I did not intend for this to happen.’’ He sighed looking at you as you clung to the tables piler for dear life as tears continued to fall from your eyes. Watching Dumbledore reach out for you trying to calm you when you snapped and interrupted him “Everything will be fine an-” “Fine?! My biological father was the person that hurt and scared Harry!” You screamed smacking the hand away “He killed, controlled, and tormented people! People are so scared of him that they won't speak his name! And I'm his child!” You blurted out dragging your nails along your arm until they dug into your palms nearly causing them to bleed as you gasped into a sobbing mess. Sitting on the floor now Dumbledore grabbed and pulled you out from under the table by your arm and into a tight hug. Fighting against him until you gave in you cried your heart out as you were rocked and hushed quietly. Swallowing thickly and hiccuping you looked up at the half moon glasses blinking the last of the tears away as Dumbledore helped you up. “It would be best for you to go back to your dorm and rest now. And it would be best to keep this a secret from your classmates and staff for now until the time is right.” He advised walking you to the door, nodding numbly you walked quietly down the corridors until you heard your friends voices coming down the corridor. Taking in a quick breath you sprinted down the hall making the group look up just as you collided into Harry with a bear like hug nearly sobbing again repeatedly apologizing to him “I'm so sorry! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!” You chanted burying your face in Harry's shoulder confusing the three around you. Slowly hugging you back looking at both Ron and Hermione worriedly “It's okay (First/Name), I forgive you?” Harry said not sure of the right thing to all of say as you continued to cry.

Wow I reread this chapter and cringed! I was all over the place, I was doing time skips unknowingly, and I worded things so badly that I had a hard time reading it! I also added a few more details and more bonding between a few characters so yay!