you're my chosen one ║ harry potter x reader

𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 5࿐⋆home is where the heart is⋆

"Rigel found it?" asked Y/N, unable to imagine her cousin, who had never known the meaning of emotions, going back for something so sentimental.

"You judge your cousin too harshly, Y/N," said Dumbledore. "Do keep in mind that sometimes people change for the better. Everyone deserves a second chance."

Y/N nodded absent-mindedly, she closed the locket and gave it a squeeze.

"Now, I am sure you two have a lot of questions," said Dumbledore. "I owe you both a great amount of explanation."

"Professor, when I had that dream," started Harry. "I tried to check he'd really taken Sirius and Bekah, I went to Umbridge's office, I spoke to Kreacher in the fire and he said Sirius and Bekah weren't there, he said they'd gone! What was that about?"

"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 sent us on purpose?"

"Oh yes. Kreacher, I am afraid, has been serving more than one master for months."

"How?" said Y/N blankly. "He hasn't 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 he could reach. . . Black's cousin Narcissa, sister of Bellatrix and Celestia, and wife of Lucius Malfoy-"

"How do you know all this?" Harry said.

"Kreacher told me last night," said Dumbledore. "You see, when you gave Professor Snape that cryptic warning, he realised that you had had a vision of Sirius and Rebekah trapped in the bowels of the Department of Mysteries. He, like you, attempted to contact Sirius and Rebekah at once. I should explain that members of the Order of the Phoenix have more reliable methods of communicating than the fire in Dolores Umbridge's office. Professor Snape found that Sirius and Rebekah were 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 and Rebekah to be a captives of Lord Voldemort's. He alerted certain Order members at once."

Dumbledore heaved a great sigh and continued, "Alastor Moody, Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Rebekah Lupin, 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 two. 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 Order's 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 Narcissa 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."