Hogwarts: I Obtained the Paternal System, Part 688

Harry looked at Dumbledore.

"Are you angry... angry that I came too late, or angry that I sealed off that Veil?

"I already tore down that wall. I was only worried that you might fall in. Darren..."

Dumbledore tried to say something, but Harry suddenly flew into a rage.

"You don't understand anything! You don't know anything!"

He suddenly grabbed a silver ornament from Dumbledore's desk and smashed it against the wall.

Startling all the portraits.

"Harry, calm down. Perhaps I have to tell you, Darren..."

"You don't need to tell me about his death. I don't need to know any of that. Since you never cared about him, then never care about him again!"

Dumbledore frowned at Harry. Then, he suddenly seemed to understand.

He wanted to explain something, but then he stopped. He did not explain. Instead, he sat down and said,

"Harry, we should talk."

Harry picked up another piece of silverware and smashed it onto the floor.

"No!"

He turned around and tried to open the Headmaster's door. But it was firmly shut, utterly unmoving.

"Let me out!"

Dumbledore said nothing.

Harry strode up to him and roared, "Let me out! I don't want to say another word to you!"

"I need to talk to you. If you refuse, then the door will stay closed!"

Dumbledore said stubbornly.

But Harry could not laugh. In fact,

guilt and pain were tormenting him.

"I have to admit, Harry, that I was the cause of all this.

"I have to reflect on this. I should have talked to you from the beginning, and then we would have known that Voldemort had been trying to lure you to the Department of Mysteries all along."

Harry turned back to look at him. Dumbledore gestured for him to sit down. Harry did