Harry's Future

Chapter 49

Chapter 49

Kreacher opened the door to the manor house at Meadow Crest and quietly bowed Harry in. His master was quiet and evidently very disturbed. Kreacher knew the quiet wouldn't last long as the sound of rapid footsteps echoed down the hallway. As Ginny and Abagail approached at a run, Kreacher silently moved away towards the kitchen to oversee Nibs and finish preparing dinner. 

"Harry, for the love of Merlin. What happened?" Ginny asked as she came to a stop in front of her husband. 

For no real reason Harry assumed that James was taking a nap. He thought that was a shame, he would have really liked to have been able to hold his son right now. He did gather Ginny into this arms and after a moment he reached out to take hold of Abagail who had followed closely along behind. He could feel their grips tighten about him and he drew that feeling of security to himself. He let out a long sigh and eased his hold on them. Ginny looked up at him, seeing the look on his face and more quietly this time asked, 

"What happened, sweetheart?" 

"Suffice to say that what I saw in Mysteries was more than a little disturbing. Let's go into the living room and I'll try to explain it all," he said in a tired voice. 

With an arm around the shoulders of Ginny and Abagail, Harry walked with them to the entrance to the living room. He stopped and called down the hallway. 

"Kreacher?" 

"Yes, Master Harry?" 

"Could you bring some tea in here, please?" 

"Coming right away, Master Harry." 

He moved the little group into the spacious room and they took seats with Harry in the middle. He looked up at the ceiling for a moment but not really seeing anything, then he looked down with a sigh again. 

"As you remember, I went with Charlie and Bill to see if I could help them figure out how to open a door that Charlie had found in a room off of the Brain Room. Remember that one, Ginny?" 

He felt his wife shudder at the remembrance and she said, 

"How could I forget any part of that awful night?" 

Harry nodded then continued. 

"Well, there were a couple of doors along the back wall of the Brain room and one opened to a corridor that led down for a few hundred yards and ended at another room that had a few more doors. Charlie said two were for store rooms but the other they just couldn't get open." 

He was interrupted by the entrance of Nibs with a tray that held a pot of tea, three cups and some biscuits on a plate. He put the tray on a small table near where they were sitting and then bowed his way back out of the room. Harry absently thought he'd have to explain that all that bowing wasn't necessary. Ginny poured for the three of them and then handed Harry his. He took a sip and sighed. 

He then proceeded to tell the rest of the tale. How he thought there was something wrong with the door and looking for and finding the secret passageway, about Bill and Charlie going ahead and then he following. He talked about his struggle with the dragon within when he saw what the secret room contained. 

"It was the most horrendous thing I've ever seen in my life, Gin. It was all I could do to keep from going dragon and tearing the place apart. I guess that's when Abagail felt what was going on," he said, looking down at his ward. 

She looked back at him with a sad smile and took hold of his free hand. Harry gave her hand a squeeze and continued his story. He told them about finally getting the dragon under control and he and Bill following after Charlie and seeing the huge cavern and all the passageways and the chasm and all the rest.