Albus Severus Potter (Harry Potter fanfiction)

Chapter 12: Telling the kids

Chapter 12

"I grew up with my aunt and uncle and their son. You can not say that they treated me particularly well, but they didn't let me starve either. But I didn't have it good. I knew nothing about my parents, my aunt and uncle had told me that my parents died in a car accident ... "

"Just as you have told us," I interrupt him rudely.

"Yeah, yeah, but it was the simplest explanation, at the time, anyway," dad says. "But right now it feels as if the truth had been the simplest explanation. But anyway, when I was eleven years old I got my first letter from Hogwarts, just like all the other witches and wizards, but I did not read mine because my aunt and uncle took from me. Eventually it went to such a low that my uncle moved us to some hovel because he tried to escape from the wizards. But Hagrid found us and he broke down the door, one thing led to another and I knew I was a wizard and how and why my parents died. I came to Hogwarts and met Ron, or Ron and I actually met on the train, Hermione, too, although you can not say we were friends instantly, or yeahhh, me and Ron were, but we thought that Hermione was more of a smarty-pants, but then at Halloween we rescued we her from a troll, after we accidentally locked her in the girls' bathroom with it of course and after that we became friends with her ​​too. "

"Uh ... why did you lock in mom with a troll?" Hugo asks. 

"It wasn't on purpose, we saw the troll going into the bathroom and we didn't know she was in there, but then we heard her scream, and then we realized what we had done," Uncle Ron says in his defense for locking his wife into a bathroom with a troll. 

"But in anyway, it started to happen a lot of things afterwards." 

"What?" 

"During that time, or not at that time, the past were everyone was afraid and feared the most in almost evil and powerful wizard." 

"What was his name?" James asks.

"Voldemort", I reply before dad can. 

Dad looks at me and sighs. 

"Yeah," he says. "Voldemort, but nobody called him by his name, they called him ..." 

"The-one-who-shall-not-be-named or you-know-who," I interrupt. 

Dad nods. 

"Most people still do not like it when you say Voldemort, the Weasley family were just a few of those, but then they also started saying the name, even though it took a few years, I always said the name, and people tried to get me not too, but Professor Dumbledore told me that I should call him by name," he says. "During our first year at the school, it was about the Philosopher's stone, something that Voldemort wanted, you know, the night he killed my parents he wanted to kill me too, but he couldn't, that's why I have this scar on my forehead, but then he disappeared and everyone thought he was dead - but he was not. He lived in a body, in one of the teachers at Hogwarts, but the philosopher's stone could get him his body back, but I, Ron and Hermione went on a haunt after The Philosopher's Stone ". 

"And we followed him down to the philosopher's stone, but we wanted to be first to get to the stone, but the thing was that we did not know as much as we did after, anyways, we arrived late, but Harry got the stone and was close to get killed but Dumbledore arrived in time to stop it and Voldemort could not come back", aunt Hermione says. 

"During the second year, he tried again," dad says. "But this time in a completely different way, he had put a spell on a diary, and he could bewitch people through it, unfortunately, the one who got the diary at the time, was Ginny." 

Dad pause and looks at mom. Guilt covers all of mom's face and she takes dad's hand. What could she have done?

"She trusted him and he tricked her, and finally he was able to get her to do things that he wanted, but she did not know it was Voldemort, his name was not Voldemort from the beginning, when he went to Hogwarts, he was known as Tom Riddle, but anyhow there was a chamber of Secrets, and it remains today, as it contained a live basilisk - a giant snake that kills you if you look it in the eyes, now contains the skeleton of a basilisk. During the year a number of students was petrified and then a student was brought down to the chamber and they were about to close the school. Ginny was the one who was brought down, so Ron and I found the chamber and went down to rescue her. Hermione could not help us any more because she was one of those who had been petrified, but she had helped us to know what was in the chamber and it helped a lot, but anyway we found the chamber and we were able to find a way down, but was I had to go on by myself because of certain things that happened in the chamber, I found Ginny, but I even Voldemort, Ginny was unconscious and was about to die while Voldemort was about to become alive again, but I killed the basilisk and spiked the diary with a tooth and Voldemort disappeared again and Ginny woke up. "