He had lied to Harry, and thankfully Harry wasn't looking for lies in his words when they spoke, his mum had said a lot worse than what he told him. She accused him of being the Heir of Slytherin and that he was going to start killing Muggleborns. Said it was all his fault, that if he wasn't a Slytherin then maybe he wouldn't be so dark. The words cut him like knives and now the letter was filled with water. Tears that still ran down his cheeks like a river.