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Chapter 17 - Chapter 4: Everything Will be Explained

It had been almost an hour since Harry and Morgan returned to the Dursley's house. Merlin remained at the bank to make preparations for Harry's training with Ragnok. Morgan had told Harry all about his innate abilities and mentioned that Merlin, Ragnok, her, and a couple others would help teach him everything they could to prepare him for his future duties as Crown Prince.

Since arriving home, Harry noticed none of the Dursley's would look him in the eye and all, even Dudley, seemed remorseful about something. When they sat down for lunch, Petunia invited Harry and Morgan to eat with them, a first for Harry. Morgan graciously accepted their offer and the five began to eat, not really talking about anything of significance. Finally, at the end of the meal, Morgan stood and asked those seated, "Could we all retire to your living room. There are some things that need to be explained to Harry and others that need to be explained to you."

With a nod, the group congregated to the living room. Vernon taking his favorite chair, Petunia and Dudley taking the couch, Harry and Morgan sitting at the second, smaller couch.

"Excellent. Now first order of business, I think the Dursley's now realize that they were charmed to act the way they've been acting. What they don't know is how long it has been going on. They assume it was since you arrive, but Lemon-drop has actually been planning this since before your birth, Petunia." Morgan's statement shocked everyone, especially Petunia.

"Dumbledore does not know it yet, but his actions against the Ancient and Noble House of Potter will have greater repercussions than he could have ever imagined. His crimes against the Noble House of Evans will also hurt him in the hopefully near future."

Again, Petunia and Vernon were surprised. 'Ancient? Noble? Potter? All three of those words in one sentence! Never would they have guessed the Potter's were nobility. Petunia was even more surprised about Evans being a Noble family and said as such.

"Yes. The Evans family was a Wizarding family and has been for the last 16 generations. Your parents Petunia had their magic bound as infants by Dumbledore as the first stage against the Potters. He has been planning these attacks for almost one hundred years."

Petunia shocked asked, "Does that mean I could have been a witch and gone to Hogwarts with Lily? Dumbledore said I was a muggle."

Morgan scowled as she replied, "The meddling old fool wanted dissent in the Evans family, so he let Lily keep her magic and bound yours. When you wrote that letter to him asking to go to Hogwarts, his response was coated in a potion that compelled you to hate Lily for her magical abilities. Every summer Lily came home, you noticed your hate for magic would increase, didn't you?" Without waiting for a response, Morgan continued, "All of Lily's magical items had charms placed on them the night before she left that were targeted to you, making you hate magic and Lily more and more each summer. And you Vernon. You had never heard of magic till you met Lily and James, so how could you come to hate it so much? Dumbledore. He charmed various items in the Evans and Dursley households that were targeted to Petunia and you to hate and fear magic. By the time the two of you were married, you both hated magic with a passion and hated everything that had anything to do with magic, especially the Potters and Lily."

Morgan's revelations left everyone shocked at the lengths Albus was willing to go to make the Dursley's hated magic and the Potters, but Morgan was not finished.

"And what about Harry. He is dropped off on your doorstep in the middle of the night in a basket and blanket in the beginnings of winter. Even if you had naturally hated the Potters without aid of magic, never would an aunt and uncle scorn a fifteen-month-old infant and abuse him just because he was different. At least I hope not. The letter that was left by Lemon-drop had compulsions on it to mistreat and starve Harry in the worst possible of ways. They even encouraged little Dudley to pitch and hurt Harry. This has carried over to Dudley bullying other children at school. He is luckily young enough to change his attitude now."

Both Dursley parents were startled to hear their perfect little boy was a bully. It would take time, but by the time Dudley was six, he was a much sweeter boy who didn't bully anyone. Even his friends like Piers would end up changing for the better. True, their gang remained, but they used their size and abilities to protect the younger, weaker children from other bullies, much to their parents' pride. They would definitely protect Harry and made sure no one ever bothered him again.

Morgan noticed that the Dursley's were shocked about all the revelations and said they could take a little break if needed. The Dursley's happily took that chance to think about what had been revealed already. Morgan turned to Harry and made a little motion with her head for him to follow her. Waling into the kitchen, he asked her what she wanted.

"Harry," she began. "There are some things I didn't mention earlier than I plan to teach you. These skills should help you at school and later in life. I will help you work on your studying skills from a young age. This will help at school and will be helped by your speed-reading ability. Hopefully, we can have that mastered before Christmas. I'm also going to start teaching you Latin now. This will help with your spell work and runes. Next summer, we start French and Spanish. Both languages are pretty important and since you will have to work with France and Spain diplomatically in the future, it will be good to know their culture and languages. From there, you can choose in the future what I teach, but I recommend languages like German, Italian, Chinese and or Japanese, Russian, among others to help with working on your hyperlangual abilities. Another thing we will work on will be how to use the more cunning side of your brain. This will help you when working against Dumbledore without him knowing about it and will help in any other activities that would be less than Gryffindor in nature. Everyone always says how Lily was a Gryffindor, which is true. What no one remembers was that the Evans family was in Slytherin and had been, with one other exception, since they first entered the magical world all those centuries ago. The ability to be cunning runs in your family, thanks to me of course," she said with a superior smirk on her face. Harry just nodded like he did for every other suggestion Morgan had made that day. He was still shocked about how far Dumbledore had gone to attack his family.

Petunia stuck her head in the room to say the family was ready to continue, so Morgan and Harry joined them in the living room again. Once everyone was situated, Morgan continued her tale.

"What you all must understand, is Dumbledore is not everything that he seems. He says he is one hundred thirty seven years old, but that is not true. His name isn't even Albus Dumbledore. His birth name was Alec Worthsire. He was born the year 987 to a poor family in Germany. He was approached on his eleventh birthday by one Salazar Slytherin to learn magic at a newly opened up Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His father, a muggle was against the idea and said he would be disowned if he left. Always the avid learned and already a rebel against his parents, Dumbledore left his home in the middle of the night and moved to Scotland where he started his first year at Hogwarts that September. He would return home seven years later and murder his parents in their home along with his younger brother and sister. None of them were magical and by that time he hated anything muggle, but I digress.

He was sorted into Slytherin House before the sorting hat could even touch his head. From what I've heard, this startled young Helena and Rowena, but Salazar and Godric paid no attention to this fact, which would later come back to haunt them. He was an excellent student; top of his class and it only took him two or three times before he managed to get any spell or charm correct. By the age of twelve, he could master any spell or charm after one try. Never had the founders met anyone with his skill, except Merlin and myself of course, granted we were the ones who taught the four of them everything they knew at that time. By the age of fifteen, young Alec was untouchable. Even the founders had trouble dueling him and had to use all the skill they had to beat him.

Now, I'm going to warn you that this next bit may sound bad at first, but you will see that its nothing to be worried about. Alec began creating what he called Horcruxes. In theory, they are soul anchors that bind one to this plane of existence. Someone with a horcrux would be unable to die if they are not destroyed first. To create one you would have to kill someone else and then perform a ritual. You need an item to hold the soul outside of your body as well. Voldemort is said to have made at least 5, but more likely 7 including himself. Dumbledore actually believes that you, Harry are the seventh horcrux, but that is impossible for two reasons."

Upon hearing this, Harry had a scared look on his face. Petunia even fainted. Morgan realized what had happened immediately and woke up Petunia.

"I'd say lets take a break, but there is a light at the end of tunnel as they say and I don't want you all to worry without need."

Harry and the Dursley's nodded. None of them sure they could have talked at that moment even they had too.

"Good," continued Morgan. "As I was saying, that is impossible for two reasons. Reason one, a living person cannot be a horcrux. The two souls would fight too much and only one would survive. The second and more important reason: horcruxes are all duds for lack of better word. They don't exist and cannot exist. The splitting of one's soul would kill a person no matter how strong they are. Interfering with your soul is a one-way ticket to the underworld no second chances. That being said, you do not have to worry about them and you are not one. On the other hand, if the person who makes Horcruxes dies, then the soul containers will all be destroyed and a shade like presence of the person who made the horcrux will appear. This is not really their soul. Its more of a memory of them that anything."

Morgan paused again to let them all digest this new piece of information.

"Do you all need another break or are you good?"

They all said that they were fine, so she continued. "Anyways, Lemon-Drop tried to invent the idea of the Horcrux, but unknown to him, it didn't work. He thinks they work just fine as does Voldemort and I'm not about to tell them otherwise. Let them think they are all high and mighty and then when the time comes, knock them off their high horse and be done with them. Luckily though, you will only have to worry about Lemon-Drop. I have it on good authority that some connection between you and Voldy killed him when you had that blast of energy a few days ago. Voldy Moldy is no more," she said with a smile.

At this point, Vernon decided to interrupt. "If Merlin and you are so powerful, why don't you just kill them yourself and be done with it? I know you say one of the nutters is dead, but what about that Dumbly one!"

"Excellent question. My answer, Merlin and I are not truly alive in the same sense as Harry or yourself. Though we have physical manifestations, we have been dead for almost nine hundred years. A lady never tells her age, but Merlin was 735 years old when he died. That was 907 years ago. I died 903 years ago. We can interact physically with anyone else, but our magic is quite limited in this form. We will be able to teach Harry and any of those he deems worthy, but that will be it. In fact, once Lemon-Drop is dead and since the Voldy problem fixed, Merlin and I will go back to the greater beyond, as he likes to call it.

I'd tell you of everything he has done over the years, but in the end it's really not that important. What is important to note how he became the 'Leader of the Light' as he is now called. It was actually he who killed the four founders. Slytherin being the last of the four, confronted Lemon-Drop in the middle of a town square telling all of his evil deeds. Lemon-Drop denied it and then killed Slytherin saying it was he who killed the other three founders for disagreeing with his ideals. Lemon-Drop had enough strength to obliviate the whole village and planted the image that Slytherin was the evil one and that he, Albus Dumbledore as he started to call himself was the instrument of the light to stop the darkness and to fight all evil. Later, right before World War II started, Lemon-Drop met a man named Grindelwald. They became good friends since they agreed that they should be able to rule over the muggles. Lemon-Drop, using his Slytherin cunning made another identity for himself: Adolf Hitler. Using special long-term charms he changed his appearance, after killing the real Hitler, and then took over the Nazi party of Germany. Together, the two men almost took over all of Europe, but they got cocky and attacked Russia, which as you know slowly lead to the end of the war. Seeing that they were losing, Lemon-Drop dropped his Hitler persona and confounded a guard to say that Hitler committed suicide. Then as Dumbledore, he killed his old ally and friend. He was proclaimed a hero for his actions, none the wiser that he had been their number one enemy only weeks before."

Vernon interrupted at this point, "You mean to tell me that this guy who used magic on us actually also caused and lead the Holocaust as well?" he stuttered completely in shock.

"Yes. He did that and many more things as well," answered Morgan. "If there is to be peace in Great Britain, muggle and magical, Dumbledore must be stopped!"

All heads were nodding at this statement, but Harry seemed almost confused about something. When he noticed Morgan staring at him as if encouraging him to talk, he asked a burning question that had been bothering him since earlier that day at the bank.

"What about my titles and stuff? What will that mean for me and Britain and my relatives?"

Since all of the Dursley's looked confused, Morgan explained to them about Harry's heritage. To say they were shocked that Harry was Royalty is an understatement. Morgan seeing this called for another break, especially since the elder Dursley's were not responded to anything she said. It was if she broke them, which made her laugh internally.

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