Bab 9: Chapter 9: Interrogation
Interrogation
"Tonks, you took a year off our lives, come on and sit down with us, we'll eat our pizza in here." It was time, he had given Bellatrix academic knowledge of pizza, but now it was time for her to try the real thing.
Bellatrix liked pizza. Tonks watched the pair and then smiled, "Perhaps I should have gotten more...she can pack it away Harry!"
Harry ate his slice slowly. Harry had lied when he said that everyone liked pizza, he didn't. However looking at the way Bellatrix was savoring it, he knew that she loved it. This was possibly the strangest dinner he'd ever had, and he'd been to a death-day party. He was technically sitting beside one of the most notorious murderers in the wizarding world. But, there was something about her. He believed her when she'd told him about her childhood. Bellatrix for her part was too busy eating to really take too much notice to Tonk's watching her. The food was good, that plus being trapped in a prison, meant that he hadn't had a good meal in a long time.
Finally though, the pizza was finished. Harry had called for Kreacher to dispose of the boxes and to his surprise, the Elf had done as he wished without too much complaint. Tonks looked to Harry and then back to Bellatrix, "So, what do you do for a living? I'm an Auror..." She said by way of bringing her into the conversation.
"I am a freelance curse-breaker. I didn't like the idea of working for a bigger firm like Gringotts, too many rules...instead I work for myself, set my own hours. I stay busy enough when Harry is busy with his own projects." Bellatrix's answer seemed acceptable, or at least Tonks didn't seem too interested in pursuing it at the moment.
Instead, she had a different question, quite a few of them in fact. Most were the same questions asked by the Weasley's and Hermione. Tonks didn't want either of them to know that she was here essentially to spy on them. She did notice that Harry and 'Josephine' seemed comfortable enough together. It didn't seem like they had been together for the few months that she had claimed though. Bellatrix had explained it as they had met at the beginning of the school year, corresponded during the term, and had only officially met and started living together that very day.
"It was lucky that Harry let me in this morning, otherwise I'd be homeless while my flat is being cleaned. I came over here in tears, and of course Harry let me cry and then told me to pick a bedroom." Bellatrix knew Harry Potter's infamous need to 'save' people. That would make that particular lie easier to swallow. Again, Tonks seemed to accept it and then changed the subject.
Time passed swiftly and Tonks had to leave, saying her goodbyes, she used the floo to get back to her own flat. Bellatrix and Harry were alone now. She looked at him, she dropped the glamour.
"So, pizza is a thing, a very delicious thing. I think we should have it at least once a week until you have to go back to Hogwarts.." Her voice was casual, but he detected a faint eagerness.
"That reminds me Bellatrix, what are you going to do when I'm at school?"
She smiled "Simple, I'm going to take some of my inheritance and have Gringotts purchase a cottage in Hogsmeade. I know that you have to have Sirius's map by now, you can find a way to sneak out and see me. Until we can find a more permanent solution touching you each day keeps me from going too crazy." Bellatrix continued to explain her plan. Josephine would 'rent' the cottage so that she and Harry could be close to each other, they wanted to see how their relationship would develop after all. They could see each other openly on Hogsmeade weekends and in secret when he came to see her, or she came to see him.
Harry listened, Bellatrix was extremely smart it seemed. He had only known her as a madwoman before, but freed from that she had a mind that could possibly rival Hermiones. Bellatrix stifled a yawn and looked to him. "I'm willing to try sleeping apart if you wish it, the public reading of the will is coming up in a few days, once they find out you are a Lord of two houses, your friends will like me being near you even less."
They agreed to try sleeping in separate rooms. They took the master and mistress suites. They were separate but connected by a doorway. Harry went to his room and lay on the bed. On the other side of the connecting doorway, he heard muffled music. Bellatrix, he noted, was determined to listen to every album in that collection. Maybe for Christmas I can find her some more.. He let that thought take him to sleep.
Jasmine...The scent pulled Harry from his sleep, he looked and saw Bellatrix laying more or less atop him, her arms around his waist. She was murmuring in her sleep, "Sirius...Sirius I didn't mean it...James.." Her eyes snapped open and she looked straight at Harry, "James...I didn't mean to leave you..." She kissed Harry before falling back down, snoring lightly.
I'm going to find a way to kill spirits, I'm going to kill my dad, I'm going to kill Sirius, I know they're up their laughing at me right now...
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