Shattered Trust

"Lily, the Longbottoms were attacked shortly after you and while they are alive, they are in no condition to look after children" Dumbledore lied like his life depended on it, even though that part was true "Augusta Longbottom was already dealing with Neville on her own and I couldn't add to her burden, Remus was a werewolf and couldn't be given custody of a child. McGonagall and Flitwick already have responsibilities to many children.

Andromeda Tonks was grieving from the death of her husband whilst dealing with her own daughter, she was in no condition to care for two children" Dumbledore couldn't reveal he planned to have Harry die, especially now.

"Wait! What?!" James interrupted "What happened to the Longbottoms?! What happened to Ted?!"

'Shortly, after Voldemort went missing some death eaters went looking for them" Harry began explaining "they figured that the Longbottoms knew where Voldemort had gone, they tortured them with the torture curse until their minds snapped. Their basically living as vegetables at this point, as for Mr Tonks, he died in a death eater attack the day before but was only discovered about three days after." It was around that point that Harry looked around and noticed that the Longbottoms weren't in this room like last time, he wondered where they had gone.

"Oh merlin" James said in disbelief

"Okay, fine but what about Sirius?" Lily asked, saddened by the news but she wasn't about to forget her son's suffering

"He was in Azkaban" Harry said

"What?!"

"I was in Azkaban" Sirius confirmed "until quite recently"

"Why were you in Azkaban?!"

"He was framed for betraying you and killing thirteen muggles by Peter" Harry explained "and was sent to Azkaban"

"Yeah, I only got out recently, thanks to Harry" Sirius replied

"Harry got you out?" Lily asked in an amazed voice

"Yeah" Sirius nodded "he was the one who caught Pettigrew, apparently the traitor had been hiding as a rat all these years. I wanted to kill him but Harry insisted we show him to the public, he took me and Peter to the great hall of the school after he called some aurors there and then he showed Peter off to the whole world"

"it was nothing, just another day for a genius in a world of idiots" Harry shrugged even though there was a proud smile on his face "by the way Dumbledore, want to tell everyone how you did nothing to get Sirius a trial even though you jumped to help Professor Snape?"

"Snape?!" James exclaimed "We may have gotten over our problems but you helped Snape and not Sirius?!"

"I couldn't figure it out either, I mean on one hand you got the ex-death eater who wants forgiveness and on the other hand you have the order member and one of the best aurors the ministry had." Harry replied

"We're getting off topic" Dumbledore said

"Yes we are" Lily agreed "what were you thinking when you put Harry with my sister?!"

"Lily, it was the best place for him and…" Dumbledore was cut off by a large slap across his face, Dumbledore actually felt a bit of blood in his mouth. Lily had surprising strength for a woman who had just been in a coma for the last twelve years.

"How dare you?!" Lily shouted in his face "How dare you even think that?! Even say that?! Especially after hearing what he said!"

"Clearly you are emotional" Dumbledore said sadly, as if Lily should be disappointed with herself "when you calm down then perhaps we can talk some more, good day to you" Dumbledore turned and left the room.

"Harry, please tell me none of that stuff actually happened" James said with a hint of pleading in his voice

"I'd have to lie to say that" Harry replied

"Do…do you still live with my si…Petunia?" Lilly asked slowly

"She's dead, so is Uncle Vernon and Dudley" Harry responded

"How did they die?" James asked

"Car crash" Harry replied emotionlessly

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