Recognizing Kin

2:15 PM, in the garden of the Burrow.

Ron suddenly coughed, Draco gasped, Ginny looked perfectly normal, and Neville looked even more stunned.

"I didn't hear wrong, did I?" Ron said.

"Two teachers, and who else can be compared to Dumbledore?" Draco asked.

"Wasn't this a sign all along?"

Harry was already very capable.

Given that it might be some time before the semester ends and we're facing Voldemort, it's perfectly normal for Dumbledore to want to groom Harry.

"You can tell from the fact that Hagrid brought Seeds here yesterday specifically to make us Arborsage." Ginny looked at Harry with a proud expression and affectionate eyes.

"Harry, you seem to have expected this all along?" Neville seemed the slowest to notice, immediately saw the deeper meaning in Harry's expression.

Harry is indeed unbelievable, but not because Dumbledore was his teacher.

Instead, there were actually two teachers.

This is the Sword Mind Clarity; how could magic be anything but inconvenient!

"Take your questions one at a time, okay?" Harry shrugged. "Neville was right about this."

"This has something to do with a letter I wrote this morning." Harry then looked at Ron and Ginny. "It's also why your parents left so suddenly after dinner."

"A letter? To whom? Dumbledore?" Draco asked.

Harry nodded.

He continued, "It's because of a dream."

"So, you've been keeping a dream from us?" Before Ginny could react, Ron inexplicably became angry.

"Another Prophecy?"

Is it related to Voldemort?

"Is he going to be resurrected ahead of schedule?" Ginny's conjecture caused Draco and Neville to exchange glances and become serious.

Draco is because his father was Death Eaters.

Sometimes a traitor is more hateful than an enemy.

Neville, on the other hand, thought of those four people.

At the end of the First Wizarding War, Bellatrix, along with her husband Rodolphus Lestrange, her uncle Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr. Crouch., drove her parents insane in order to find information about Voldemort after Voldemort defeat.

Although his parents have recently returned to normal, the thought of those four people still haunts him—

Draco, who was standing nearby, quickly moved a few steps away from Neville.

Just now, he felt like Neville was a sharp sword, as if he was about to be cleaved in two.

Harry instinctively gripped his wand and turned to look in the direction of the danger—it was Neville.

Harry finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hey! Neville, are you alright?" Harry asked quickly.

"It's nothing." Neville returned to his harmless demeanor.

Then Harry looked at Ginny and explained, "This has nothing to do with Voldemort's resurrection."

I was just dreaming about Voldemort's past memories.

He made Horcrux in a house in Bedfordshire.

The Locket we destroyed earlier.

And there I found traces of a man— Caradoc Dearborn, the first member of the Order of the Phoenix whose body was never found.

I think Mr. Weasley and the others left so suddenly because they must have actually found Mr. Dearborn's body there.

"Are you talking about that Caradoc Dearborn?"

I heard he speaks with Parseltongue.

He even secretly allied himself with Voldemort.

He was then killed in the Wizarding Wars.

To protect Dumbledore's reputation, his killer turned his body to stone and buried it somewhere random.

"Why are you all looking at me? It's my dad's guess." Draco's words unsurprisingly drew angry glares from the others.

"That's outrageous!"

How could a member of the Order of the Phoenix becoming Death Eaters possibly affect Dumbledore's reputation?

"The Peter Pettigrew incident caused such a big stir, dominating the headlines of the Daily Prophet for several days, but it still didn't affect Dumbledore," Ron said.

He stared intently at Draco, as if he wanted to devour him whole.

"Parseltongue? As far as I know, isn't that the mark of Dark Wizard?"

Voldemort is the only Parseltongue in modern times.

Draco, what you're saying is outrageous.

"If Mr. Dearborn were Parseltongue, would he still be able to join the Order of the Phoenix?" Neville agreed with Draco's statement, expressing his skepticism.

Ginny looked at Harry, as she trusted Harry the most.

"Draco's guess is actually quite well-founded."

Unfortunately, the basis was correct, but the result was wrong. Harry looked at Ron. "Mr. Dearborn's name may be unfamiliar to us, but he actually has an extraordinary identity— Dumbledore's student."

This was mentioned by Voldemort. In Voldemort's words, he seemed to be Dumbledore's true student, and it is estimated that he even learned some magic from Dumbledore.

Moreover, his mother had the blood of the House of Gaunt —a descendant of the Slytherin family.

Voldemort seemed to think he was different too.

Finally, they took him to a secluded hut, killed him, and turned Slytherin's Locket into Horcrux.

Draco's father probably doesn't even know.

So it's quite normal for him to make that guess.

Harry then looked at Neville. "As for Parseltongue, it's not actually a sign of a Dark Wizard. House of Gaunt Parseltongue. And so do I."

"How could that be!" Before Neville could even express his surprise, Draco exclaimed, "There has never been a marriage alliance between the Potter family and the Gaunt!"

"Why is it impossible?"

You all grew up in the wizarding world, so you may have heard of the Tale of the Three Brothers.

"Those things inside, the things called Deathly Hallows— " (Ron interjected, "I've seen them in the Quibbler. It says Draco's father had them.")

Although it was later clarified that he only had a counterfeit, judging from Voldemort's attitude...

It's estimated that the Deathly Hallows really existed in history.

"Those are all fake. The Elder Wand is just a powerful wand that has been incorporated into this story," Harry quickly clarified. "I told this story to explain the origins of Potter, Gaunt, and Longbottom."

Neville's eyes widened. "Could it be that my ancestor appeared in this story?"

"Yes," Harry nodded, recounting what Ryan had told him and Hermione, the part of the Tale of the Three Brothers he could reveal, "The three brothers are named Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus."

Antioch Peverell's descendant was Longbottom.

Cadmus Peverell's descendant was Gaunt.

And Potter was a descendant of Ignotus Peverell.

"So it's perfectly normal that I developed Parseltongue," Harry said.

Harry, who had been informed in advance of his marriage to Voldemort, mistakenly believed that Parseltongue was a blood relative.

After learning that he was Voldemort's Horcrux, he never considered the possibility that his Parseltongue originated from a fragment of Voldemort's soul.

"I never imagined we were relatives," Neville exclaimed in surprise.