Black-and-white (Translation)

38. At the Dursleys

Harry found himself in a beautiful meadow. It smelled wonderfully of all sorts of plants, further back he saw a forest and to the right beside him a small brook rippled.
"Beautiful, but where am I?"
he heard it rustling behind him, he turned around, startled, but calmed down immediately. In front of him stood three cats, one red, one black, and the middle-aged boy.
"Hello, my pretty ones, can you tell me where I am here?"
the black kitten took a step towards him.
"This is a dreamscape that you created yourself to receive us."
"I do not understand."
"It's easy. The three of us really wanted to talk to you and to make that happen, you created this place. "
"But why did not you just come to me? I can talk to cats while I'm awake. At least since my conversion. "
"We know that, but unfortunately the case is different here."
"In what way?"
The three looked at him sadly, before this time the red cat answered.
"Because we are dead. Unfortunately, you have not yet seen us because you have only recently awakened, but you will learn that too over time. "
Harry was shocked at first, so the three in front of him were deadThat Nekomata are able to see ghosts (real and not spellbound ones), he knew. Luckily, otherwise he would surely have gotten a fright.
The boy sat down in the grass and began to stroke the boy.
"Why did you want to talk to me? and, if the question is not too personal, how did you die? "
"Just because of our death we wanted to talk to you. In the area around the Privet Drive there has long been known among the cats, that there is a nice old woman who takes care of us. especially those that nobody else wants. I had just had my first baby, just this one, and we wanted to make our way to the woman. But we never arrived. "
since the cat mother obviously was not able to continue, her companion spoke:
"We met two teenagers, obviously they were thugs. A big fat and a little smaller but just as thick. the big one got really excited, so of course we did not understand. We just wanted to sneak past them when they spotted us. they caught us and the smaller one started beating us, while the bigger one just laughed and stood by. Our little one died first, then my companion and finally me. "
Now the female took over again.
"When we were dead, we suddenly knew why man killed us and where we can find help."
Harry had grown paler in the story. It was clear to him that the two teenagers had to be Dudley and one of his friends.
"I'm so sorry, it ..."
The boy nudged him and purred reassuringly.
"You do not have to be sorry, you can not help it."
"Our little girl is right. We know why we were killed and that is solely the fault of the two people. "
"When did you die?"
"Two days ago. It took a while for us to get used to the condition. "
"What? But Severus has prevented by a spell that Duddley can continue to torment animals. "
Again the black answered.
"Unfortunately, he did not think your cousin might incite others to take it over."
Now Harry burst into tears. Why only they had not thought of this possibility? it was obvious that Dudley would look for another way to continue enjoying the suffering of others.
This time, the cat puppy even climbed onto Harry's chest. When she got his attention she said:
"It is not your fault, but you can help us to avenge this man."
Already the boy wanted to ask how he should help them, as he already thought. He had read that Nekomata was capable of hounding down people's ancestors. they did that when a man offended or tortured them. The ancestral spirits haunted humans until he apologized to the cat and favored them with food.
"I did not know that Nekomata are also able to take revenge on other cats."
"Probably because people do not want to believe it."
"But I can not rush my cousin's ancestors, after all, it's partly mine too."
It was the hangover who kept talking.
"We do not want that at all, there is another way to help us, without bringing other dead, who have nothing to do with it."
At first, Harry stared blankly before he remembered what the three of them wanted.
"You want to visit the two as ghosts."
Three nods was the answer.
"Our little girl wants to annoy the friend of your cousin, because it will certainly come faster to insight. And we want to - Dudley you called him - take over. And that until they learn their lesson. "
"And what exactly do I have to do?"
"If you concentrate, you should be able to do it all by yourself."
"How do you know all this?"
"We are cats, we all have the ability to see the dead and that's why we know about your species."
'Great, I see dead people,' thought Harry sarcastically. but he did what the three had wished for. When Harry closed his eyes, he knew almost immediately what he needed to do. He saw Dudley and his friend in their beds and led the three cats on their way to them.
"I wish you much luck."
"Thank you," it came in three voices and the next moment they were gone and Harry alone in the meadow. When he realized that the three could still live, if he had only thought earlier of the ingenuity of his cousin, tears ran down his cheeks again.