Chapter - 7 : Betrayed

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Harry was reeling. This was... this was...

Fuck.

These people... What were they thinking?

Disbelievingly he eyed the Order members milling around the Great Hall. None of them dared meet his eye. Sure, they looked guilty now, but they'd gone through with their dumb plan anyway.

Like in the Hospital wing, he felt the urge to run, to leave and escape.

He strode towards to door, determined to not be among arseholes.

"Where are you going?" Moody's gruff voice was unmistakable.

Harry didn't bother to stop or turn around. "Somewhere not here."

Before he reached them the great double doors slammed shut, the resulting wind enough to ruffle his hair. His grey hair. Grey because these arseholes decided to go fishing between worlds.

Harry stilled. "Open the door," he said softly, with an undertone of danger.

"We are very sorry for the circumstances that you now find yourself in," Dumbledore said placatingly, "However, you just hinted that you know how to defeat Voldemort. Please, share with us what you can."

Furious, Harry turned on his heel, fists clenched so tight his nails were breaking through the skin of his palms. It took a lot of effort to unclench his jaw. "You kidnapped me, tortured me, disfigured me, knowing I can never go home. I had a life, friends, a-" He choked as he thought of Teddy's happy face. A face he would never see again.

He closed his eyes as a single tear ran down his cheek and angrily shook his head. He didn't want to be sad, to cry, to show weakness. Anger was much better.

Harry clenched his fists tighter and focussed on the pain in his palms.

"You unmitigated arseholes." The quiet growl cut through the tense silence and the pure venom bordering on hatred made most of them flinch back.

Magic was swirling around him, almost begging to be used and part of him was eager to lash out and curse the lot of them. He barely restrained himself with the fact that he didn't even have his own wand, just a cheap replacement. Not to mention the fact that he was outnumbered twenty to one. It wouldn't get him anywhere.

He was furious with all of them, but right now his gaze was homing in on Tonks and Remus. The parents of his godson. He'd spent several days a week with the little tyke and every time he told stories about them. How they were brilliant and loyal and simply good people.

The fact that they participated in this... this farce made him feel sick. Disgusted, he turned away.

A Full Body-Bind hit him in the back the moment he did so and he was helpless when someone took the opportunity to force a Calming Draught down his throat. He could feel the anger and sadness and hurt being forced away to the back of his mind. For a moment it only made him angrier until that too succumbed to the might of magical potioneering.

The Body-Bind was released and he felt empty, cold, emotionless.

"Have a seat, please," Dumbledore requested, voice heavy with sorrow.

There was no benefit to be gained from standing in front of a locked door, relatively unarmed and surrounded by over twenty hostiles wearing faces of people he recognised, so Harry sat.

He pinned the Headmaster to his seat with a cold, emotionless gaze. "What do you want?"

"For you to answer a few questions."

Refusing would get him nowhere. They'd probably pump him full of Veritaserum. After kidnapping and torture, violating privacy didn't really compare.

He gave a single nod. "Anything to get me out of here. But first, where are my things?"

Another wince. "I'm afraid you not only arrived here looking rather worse for wear, you were also naked."

At that Harry fell silent. No wonder Tilly couldn't find anything.

Dumbledore took the opportunity to start his questioning. "What is your name? Your full name?"

A choice then. To link himself to Iris Potter, pawn of the Order, or to lie his arse off and try to remain as anonymous as he could. It wasn't a hard one.

He couldn't choose either of his parents' names. His godfather's was similarly out; he didn't want anyone to link him to his counterpart. Another colour than black was fine, though.

"Harry White. No middle name." A common surname. Not very inventive, but it would have to do.

"Did the Order of the Phoenix exist in your world?" Harry nodded. "Were you a member?"

Harry shook his head. "No."

Dumbledore sighed. From his robes he removed a metal contraption that looked far too delicate to be stored in a pocket and set it on the table in front of him. It resembled an egg on a tripod, made of spidery legs, dipped in silver. The headmaster shot a spell at it and then without warning shot another one at Harry.

Reflexively Harry leaned backwards to evade it, causing Moody to hit him with a Body-Bind again. Dumbledore recast his spell. Unable to move out of the way, this time it hit him centre mass. It was followed by the counter curse to the Body-Bind, returning Harry's control of his limbs.

It felt weird to be cursed and not be angry about it. His brain was fully engaged, however, and tallied another few marks against the Order and Dumbledore in particular.

"You say you weren't part of the Order, but you addressed Molly Weasley by name. Now I ask you again, were you a member of the Order of the Phoenix in your world?"

"No."

Dumbledore watched the shiny metal tripod expectantly and raised a single eyebrow when nothing happened. A lie-detector, then. Interesting.

"How do you know Molly Weasley?"

"Though I was never a member, I did fight side by side with Order members several times." The calm forced upon him by the potion allowed him to speak truth, imply many things and lie out of his arse. Would be great in Slytherin indeed.

"But I'm not a fighter," Molly blurted out.

Harry's cool eyes met hers. "In my world Molly Weasley killed Bellatrix Lestrange."

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