3 And That's How They Knew, That They'd Fu*ked Up

"3rd pearson POV"

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Albus Dumbledore put down a letter he just read and started massaging his sore eyes.

Minerva:"Albus, what's wrong?"

Minerva that was helping albus in his ofice coulden't help but ask. She knew the man long enought to know his reactions, and was able to see that he recieved very, VERY bad news.

Dumbledore moved from his seat at the principal's chair, and walked to a sofa in his office, picking a few bottles of wiskey on the way and gesturing minerva to join him. He then gave Minerva a bottle and took off his glasses.

Dumble:"*sigh* before we begin, I'll need to confiscate your wand, as I do not want to be blasted to pieces. Don't worry, you are still more than welcomed to punch me, as I really deserve it...*sigh*"

Minerva sure did not expect things to start off like that. She sighed, gave Albus her wand, oppened her bottle of wiskey and steeled herself for what she she was about to hear.

Dumble: "It is about young Harry Potter."

Dumbledore gave Minerva a second longer to prepare.

Minerva:"What about the boy? Is he ok?"

Minerva never personaly meet the boy after he was left in front of his relatives' door, however, she had checked on him every now and then over the years. He seemed like a nice kid: Allways helping out in the house and playing with his cousing. Never disobeying what his relatives told him to do.

Dumble:"*sigh* The letter I recieved was from Hagrid. Do you remember what you told me that night when we left Harry on the number 4? That Harry's relatives were the polar oposite of our society? That they were the most muggle muggles you had ever seen? Well, turns out that they do it on purpose. They straight up hate every and anything that is even remotly conected to magic."

Minerva:" Wait. Albus, are trying to tell me that the boy does not know about owr world? That the Dursleys never told him anything!?"

Minerva had fear on her eyes, but Albus' next words made her dring half her bottle in one go.

Dumble:"If only it was just that... I am afraid that that is just the tip of the iceberg, Minerva."

After a few moments of silence, witch Minerva was using to try and somehow brace herself for the rest of the proverbial iceberg, Dumbledore continued.

Dumble:"When the Durslays decided to take Harry in, they, and I quote 'swore that they'd put a stop to that rubbish, swore they'd stamp the weirdness out of him. Wizard folk are just freaks.'end quote."

Minerva:"Obscurial!"

Minerva had tears on her eyes. The obscurial are wizard children that forcefully suppress their magic, usualy due to racism from the families and comunity, and in the process, cause it to become warped and twisted. They are incrediblely rare and there has only been a single case before where the obscurial reached the doble digits in age. It is a magical disease with no cure and that leaves contless corpses behind, as the rampant magic turns the child into a living bomb.

Dumble:"A variant of it aparently, as the simptons Hagrid witnessed wore nothing alike any of the cases found before, even if they wore similar in nature."

Minerva was about to openly cry now, but held back when she heard Albus.

Dumble: "There is more Minerva."

Minerva:"More!?"

Dumble:"Yes. And I am afraid that I saved the worst for last."

Minerva's face was a mask of dread.

Minerva:"What could possibly be worse!?"

Dumble:"Simple. The Dursleys did not stoped there."

Minerva:"What do you mean?"

Dumble:"The Dursleys not only acted against young Harry's magic, but also against the boy himself. From what Hagrid was able to extract from interrogating the Dursleys, the boy lived most of his life locked in a cupboard under the stairs, was fed the bare minimum to survive, sufered from regular beatings, was worked to the bone on the houses chores like a slave, was intentionly kept from making friends, was target of scorn from the entire family...-."

Minerva:"STOP!"

Minerva just coulden't bear to hear anymore of that.

Minerva:"How did we not noticed it sooner!?"

The guilt pressed Minerva to ask. How could she have been so blind? She noticed Harry was slim, but never, even on her wildest dreams, would she have imagined that the boy was beeing starved by his family! She had seen that the boy was obetient, but the idea that it was out of fear would have never crossed her mind!

All that she thought she knew about the boy's life was a lie!

Dumble:" There wore signs everywhere, but I guess that deep down none of us wanted to belive the truth. I myself raised an eyebrow one day when I coulden't find a single picture of Harry across the house, no matter how hard I searshed! And I wrote it off as the boy simply beeing too shy to take pictures."

Minerva:"What have we done Albus?"

Dumbledore just sighed in response.