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Or I should say almost entirely my fault - I will not be so arrogant as to claim responsibility for the whole. Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger. Nevertheless, you should see more have believed for an instant that there was any necessity for you to go to the Department of Mysteries tonight. If I had been open with you, Harry, as I should have been, you would have known a long time ago that Voldemort might try and lure you to the Department of Mysteries, and you would never have been tricked into going there tonight. And Sirius would not have had to come after you. That blame lies with me, and with me alone. Harry was still standing with his hand on the doorknob but he was unaware of it. He was gazing at Dumbledore, hardly breathing, listening yet barely understanding what he was hearing. Please sit down, said Dumbledore. It was not an order, it was a request. Harry hesitated, then walked slowly across the room now littered with silver cogs and fragments of wood and took the seat facing Dumbledores desk. Am I to understand, said Phineas Nigellus slowly from Harrys left, that my great-great-grandson - the last of the Blacks - is dead. Yes, Phineas, said Dumbledore. I dont believe it, said Phineas brusquely. Harry turned his head in time to see Phineas marching out of his portrait and knew that he had gone to visit his other painting in Grimmauld Place. He would walk, perhaps, from portrait to portrait, calling for Sirius through the house. Harry, I owe you an explanation, said Dumbledore. An explanation of an old mans mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. and I seem to have forgotten lately. The sun was rising properly now. There was a rim of dazzling orange visible over the mountains and the sky above it was colorless and bright. The light fell upon Dumbledore, upon the silver of his eyebrows and beard, upon the lines gouged deeply into his face. I guessed, fifteen years ago, said Dumbledore, when I saw the scar upon your forehead, what it might mean. I guessed that it might be the sign of a connection forged between you and Voldemort. Youve told me this before, Professor, said Harry bluntly. He did not care about being rude. He did not care about anything very much anymore. Yes, said Dumbledore apologetically. Yes, but you see - it is necessary to start with article source scar. For it became apparent, shortly after you rejoined the Baldurs gate 3 dribbles body parts worksheet world, that I was correct, and that your scar was giving you warnings when Voldemort was close to you, or else feeling powerful emotion. I know, said Harry wearily. And this ability of yours - to detect Voldemorts presence, even when he is disguised, and to know what he is feeling when his emotions are roused - has become more and more pronounced since Voldemort returned to his own body and his full powers. Harry did not bother to nod. He knew all of this already. More recently, said Dumbledore, I became concerned that Voldemort might realize that this connection between you exists. Sure enough, there came a time when you entered so far into his mind and thoughts that he sensed your presence. I am speaking, of course, of the night when you witnessed the attack on Mr. Weasley. Yeah, Snape told me, Harry muttered. Professor Snape, Harry, Dumbledore corrected him quietly. But did you not wonder why it was not I who explained this to you. Why I did not teach you Occlumency. Why I had not so much as looked at you for months. Harry looked up. He could see now that Dumbledore looked sad and tired. Yeah, Harry mumbled. Yeah, I wondered. You see, continued Dumbledore heavily, I believed it could not be long before Voldemort attempted to force his way into your mind, to manipulate and misdirect your thoughts, and I was not eager to give him more incentives to do so. I was sure that if he realized that our relationship was - or had ever been - closer than that of headmaster and pupil, he would seize his chance to use you as a means to spy on me. I feared the uses to which he would put you, the possibility that he might try and possess you. Harry, I believe I was right to think that Voldemort would have made use of you in such a way. On those rare occasions when we had close contact, I thought I saw a shadow of him stir behind your eyes. I was trying, in distancing myself from you, to protect you. An old mans mistake. Harry remembered the feeling that a dormant snake had risen in him, ready to strike, on those occasions when he and Dumbledore made eye contact. Voldemorts aim in possessing you, as he demonstrated tonight, would not have been my destruction. It would have been yours. He hoped, when he possessed you briefly a short while ago, that I would sacrifice you in the hope of killing him. He sighed deeply. Harry was letting the words wash over him. He would have been so interested to know all this a few months ago, and now it was meaningless compared to the gaping chasm inside him that was the loss of Sirius, none of it mattered. Sirius told me that you felt Voldemort awake inside you the very night that you had the vision of Arthur Weasleys attack. I knew at once that my worst fears were correct: Voldemort from that point Baldurs gate 3 dribbles body parts worksheet realized he could use you. In an attempt to arm you against Voldemorts assaults on your mind, I arranged Occlumency lessons with Professor Baldurs gate 3 dribbles body parts worksheet. He paused. Harry watched the sunlight, which was sliding slowly across the polished surface of Dumbledores desk, illuminate a silver ink pot and a handsome scarlet quill. Harry could tell that the portraits all around them were awake and listening raptly to Dumbledores explanation. He could hear the occasional rustle of robes, the slight clearing of a throat. Phineas Nigellus had still not returned. Professor Snape discovered, Dumbledore resumed, that you had been dreaming about the door to the Department of Mysteries for months. Voldemort, of course, had been obsessed with the possibility of hearing the prophecy ever since he regained his body, and as he dwelled on the door, so did you, though you did not know what it meant. And then you saw Rookwood, who worked in the Department of Mysteries before his arrest, telling Voldemort what we had known all along - that the prophecies held in the Ministry of Magic are heavily protected. Only the people to whom they refer can lift them from the shelves without suffering this web page. In this case, either Voldemort himself would have to enter the Ministry of Magic and risk revealing himself at last - or else you would have to take it for him. It became a matter of even greater urgency that you should master Occlumency. But I didnt, muttered Harry. He said it aloud to try and ease the dead weight of guilt inside him; a confession must surely relieve some check this out the terrible pressure squeezing his heart. I didnt practice, I didnt bother, I couldve stopped myself having those dreams, Hermione kept telling me to do it, if I had hed never have been able to show me where to go, and - Sirius wouldnt - Sirius wouldnt - Something was erupting inside Harrys head: a need to justify himself, to explain - I tried to check hed really taken Sirius, I went to Umbridges office, I spoke to Kreacher in the fire, and he said Sirius wasnt there, he said hed gone. Kreacher lied, said Dumbledore calmly. You are not his master, he could lie to you without even needing to punish himself. Kreacher intended you to go to the Ministry of Magic. He - he sent me on purpose. Oh yes. Kreacher, I am afraid, has been serving more than one master for months. How. said Harry blankly. He hasnt been out of Grimmauld Place for years. Kreacher seized his opportunity shortly before Christmas, said Dumbledore, when Sirius, apparently, shouted at him to get out. He took Sirius at his word and interpreted this as an order to leave the house. He went to the only Black family member for whom he had any respect left. Blacks cousin Narcissa, sister of Bellatrix and wife of Lucius Malfoy. How do you know all this. Harry said. His heart was beating very fast. He felt sick. He remembered worrying about Kreachers odd absence over Christmas, remembered him turning up again in the attic. Kreacher told me last night, said Dumbledore. You see, when you gave Professor Snape that cryptic warning, he realized that you had had a vision of Sirius trapped in the bowels of the Department of Mysteries. He, like you, attempted to contact Sirius at once. I should explain that members of the Order of the Phoenix have more reliable methods of communicating than the fire in Dolores Umbridges office. Professor Snape found that Sirius was alive and safe in Grimmauld Place. When, however, you did not return from your trip into the forest with Dolores Umbridge, Professor Snape grew worried that you still believed Sirius to be a captive of Lord Voldemorts. He alerted certain Order members at once. Dumbledore heaved a great sigh and then said, Alastor Moody, Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and Remus Lupin were at headquarters when he made contact. All agreed to go to your aid at once. Professor Snape requested that Sirius remain behind, as he needed somebody to remain at headquarters to tell me what had happened, for I was due there at any moment. In the meantime he, Professor Snape, intended to search the forest for you. But Sirius did not wish to remain behind while the others went to search for you. He delegated to Kreacher the task of telling me what had happened. And so it was that when I arrived in Grimmauld Place shortly after they had all left for the Ministry, it was the elf who told me - laughing fit to burst - where Sirius had gone. He was laughing. said Harry in a hollow voice. Oh yes, said Dumbledore. You see, Kreacher was not able to betray us totally. He is not Secret-Keeper for the Order, he could not give the Malfoys our whereabouts or tell them any of the Orders confidential plans that he had been forbidden to reveal. He was bound by the enchantments of his kind, which is to say that he could not disobey a direct order from his master, Sirius. But he gave Baldurs gate 3 dribbles body parts worksheet information of the sort that is very valuable to Voldemort, yet must have seemed much too trivial for Sirius to think of banning him from repeating it. Like what. said Harry. Like the fact that the person Sirius cared most about in the world was you, said Dumbledore quietly. Like the fact that you were coming to regard Sirius as a mixture of father and brother. Voldemort knew already, of course, that Sirius was in the Order, that you knew where he was - but Kreachers information made him realize that the one person whom you would go to any lengths to rescue was Sirius Black. Harrys lips were cold and numb. So. when I asked Kreacher if Sirius was there last night. The Malfoys - undoubtedly on Voldemorts instructions - had told him he must find a way of keeping Sirius out of the way once you had seen the vision of Sirius being tortured. Then, if you decided to check whether Sirius was at home or not, Kreacher would be able to pretend he was not. Kreacher injured Buckbeak the hippogriff yesterday, and at the moment when you made your appearance in the fire, Sirius was upstairs trying to tend to him. There seemed to be very little air in Harrys lungs, his breathing was quick and shallow. And Kreacher told you all this. and laughed. he croaked. He did not wish to tell me, said Dumbledore. But I am a sufficiently accomplished Legilimens myself to know when I am being lied to and I - persuaded him - to tell me the full story, before I left for the Department of Mysteries. And, whispered Harry, his hands curled in cold fists on his knees, and Hermione kept telling us to be nice to him - She was quite right, Harry, said Dumbledore. I warned Article source when we adopted twelve Grimmauld Place as our headquarters that Kreacher must be treated with kindness and respect. I also told him that Kreacher could be dangerous to us. I do not think that Sirius took me very seriously, or that he ever saw Kreacher as a being with feelings as acute as a humans - Dont you blame - dont you - talk - about Sirius like - Harrys breath was constricted, he could not get the words out properly. But the rage that had subsided so briefly had flared in him again; he would not let Dumbledore criticize Sirius. Kreachers a lying - foul - he deserved - Kreacher is what he has been made by wizards, Harry, said Dumbledore. Yes, he is to be pitied. His existence has been learn more here miserable as your friend Dobbys. He was forced to do Siriuss bidding, because Sirius was the last of the family to which he was enslaved, but he felt no true loyalty to him. And whatever Kreachers faults, it must be admitted that Sirius did nothing to make Kreachers lot easier - DONT TALK ABOUT SIRIUS LIKE THAT. Harry yelled. He was on his feet again, furious, ready to fly at Dumbledore, who had plainly not just click for source Sirius at all, how brave he was, how much he had suffered. What about Snape. Harry spat. Youre not talking about him, are you. When I told him Voldemort had Sirius he just sneered at me as usual - Harry, you know that Professor Snape had no choice but to pretend not to take you seriously in front of Dolores Umbridge, said Dumbledore steadily, but as I have explained, he informed link Order as soon as possible about what you had said. It was he who deduced where you had gone when you did not return from the forest. It was he too who gave Professor Umbridge fake Veritaserum when she was attempting to force you to tell of Siriuss whereabouts. Harry disregarded this; he felt a savage pleasure in blaming Snape, it seemed to be easing his own sense of dreadful guilt, and he wanted to hear Dumbledore agree with him. Snape - Snape g-goaded Sirius about staying in the house - he made out Sirius was a coward - Sirius was much too old and clever to have allowed such feeble taunts to hurt him, said Dumbledore. Snape stopped giving me Occlumency lessons. Harry click. He threw me out of his office.
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