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lilly_luna · 01-02-2009, 04:31 AM

Chapter twenty-seven

Harry and Willow arrived back at the empty hogshead. She went to the window and looked up at the castle.
“I remember that night well Harry, I can still see the dark mark hovering over the turrets and the fear it spread”
Harry looked at the back of her head not knowing what to say. She turned and sat down; he sat down opposite looking at his hands as she spoke again.
“Was he scared?”
“No, he seemed almost- well almost ready for it”
“As well as my great uncle he was my favourite relative and mentor, he spoke of you often as he would if you were his son”
“He never mentioned you or a brother or any family at all”
“He never did to anyone; it was mainly to protect those he loved getting hurt. By never showing any particular interest in anyone person outside of the school he stopped us from becoming targets”
“How could anyone live like that, in secret?”
“For the sake of others, you may love and want to protect people but there is a price to pay when you get on the wrong side of someone and they go after them instead of you”
“Voldemort going after Ginny you mean”
She nodded “And yes I know you’ve heard it all before, and yes you’ll do anything to protect her but you can’t be there all the time”
He nodded before looking up, “How long have you known about the Horcruxes?”
“What are you talking about?”
“How long have you known?”Harry repeated, knowing he was right.
“Since he destroyed the ring, I asked him about his hand”
“Do you know where the cup is?”
“Dumbledore thought of many places but the only one he was convinced of was Godric’s Hollow”
“I’ve been, it was a decoy”
“How do you know, did it melt?”
“Yes”
“Only a Horcrux would melt if it was pierced with the sword or Basilisk’s venom”
“The diary didn’t and the rings stone split in to”
“But the locket did I bet and so did the cup, there metal”
“So it’s not a decoy”
“Apparently, I might have to check it out”
“I’ll get it when we get back to the castle, what other places did he think of?”
“A Gringotts vault and of course always Hogwarts, but he thought he would have found it if it was there”
“Not if he didn’t know what it was or where he would have hidden it” he got up and put his cloak on and drew his wand. Stepping out into the morning air a breeze rustling through the trees, they walked up to the castle in silence and Harry looked around and then too his watch it was six.

The professor followed him to the Gryffindor common room. She sat on the couch when he went up to grab his bag. Harry opened the door quietly to see Dean and Seamus awake and talking while Neville lay fast asleep.
“Where you been?”Asked Dean crossing his arms and staring,
“Non of your business” he replied, “I thought you might have figured out by now that my personal life has nothing to do with you or anyone else” He opened his trunk and pulled out a rucksack containing the sword, cup, locket, snitch and deluminator as well as the Weasley products.
“Well wherever you’re going I hope it’s dangerous”
“It always is and yet I always come back” he grinned and closed the door as he left.

He handed her the cup and she examined it, “Yep destroyed, do you have any what or where the others might be”
“I had the same ideas as Dumbledore, only if it’s in a vault who’s would he use, it’s not likely in his name he refuses Tom Riddle so it would be the death eater he trusts the most”
“Severus Snape” She looked at him spitting venom as she spoke his name.
“Before we go after it we need a plan and I have to see Ginny”
“Of course, but it might be a few days before we do or go any where”
Harry nodded, “The sooner the better” He got up putting the things away and zipping up his bag and she spoke,
“The snake will be the hardest, he keeps it with him all the time, but there is still the question of the sixth and seventh“
“Nagini will be the last; I want to watch him die”
*****
There pace quickened as they reached the heads dorm, the professor smiled, “I suspect she’s waiting very nervously for you, I’ll see the headmistress and sort out everything. Just be careful Harry, and I will see you for lessons this afternoon, im sure McGonagall will want to continue as normal”
He nodded and knocked as the professor walked away.
“Who is it?” Said Hermione’s voice, from the other side of the portrait,
“Harry”
“How do I know its you?” she replied,
“Ask me a question only I would know the answer to” The voice changed to Ginny’s,
“What colour was my bra in the room of requirement?”
“The first time or the second?” he began to laugh again hearing Ron yelling out he didn’t want to know that sort of information about her.
“Second” she replied stifling her giggling,
“Blue” he smiled as the door opened and she threw herself on him,
“Where did you go?” Said Hermione, as Harry walked in still holding Ginny and carrying her inside.
“Prison” He sat down on the couch, Ginny on his lap holding on to him tightly. He stroked her head, his fingers in her hair and kissed her forehead affectionately.
“He’s gone, and it looks like there’s no one else coming for him or you for awhile” she nodded her head resting on his chest her ear listening to his heartbeat.
“What the place like?” asked Ron sitting next to Hermione on the couch opposite them,
“Big, full of Aurors and Professor Jacobs works for them”
“She does?”
“Yep and she was Dumbledore’s apprentice and knows all about the Horcruxes”
“That’s a lot of information in one sentence, explain” Replied Ron his face confused, Hermione replied for Harry instead. “Professor Jacob’s is related to Dumbledore just like Harry thought and was his helper who he told about the Horcruxes just like Harry, but she also works for the ministry as an Auror”
“Right” Ron smiled slightly looking not so confused anymore and now just stared at his best friend and his sister enveloped in his arms.
“Do you know what the other Horcruxes are?”Asked Hermione,
“It turns out the cup I found was the real thing, so now where after something of Ravenclaw’s and Gryffindor’s and then Nagini”
“Do you know where?” said Ginny not moving from being curled up on his lap.
“Gringotts and here” he replied,
“Then we need to get started looking”, she sat up, “do you think he would have hidden it in the chamber?”
“I think I might have to go and see”
“I’m going” she looked at him staring into his eyes.
“So are we” said Hermione and Ron together.
“Then we go down tonight” finished Harry looking at the three of them nervously.

chaostori1985 · 01-02-2009, 07:05 AM

Great post! I'm very happy that Professor Jacobs is helping them now. I hope that Ginny is ok when they go back down into the chamber. I guess she would want to go down there as some type of closure or something. Please post more soon!!!!

~Tori

obsessedwithrupert · 01-02-2009, 05:11 PM

AWWW! The bra thing was a bit weird but whatever floats your boat I guess. Post more soon! xx

Little Trooper · 01-02-2009, 09:58 PM

Love it. love the bra part made me laugh so hard. Harry's such a charmer.

lilly_luna · 01-03-2009, 07:40 AM

Lol the bra thing had two different reactions - i thought it was funny, anyway's another post in the next few days as usual - thanks for continuing to read, i've been writing like a mad person again trying to balance both fics and writing a novel aswell as looking for work and the whole of christmas and new years lol x

xLillyx

lilly_luna · 01-04-2009, 03:12 AM

Chapter twenty- eight

The lessons went on as usual that Monday morning and afternoon. They had a free lesson last lesson that afternoon and Harry was waiting patiently for Ginny outside her Charms class. She came out with Luna who had spent the day with her never leaving her side on Harry’s orders.
“Hello Mr overprotective” she smiled, Luna laughed,
“Hello Miss hunted by dark wizards” He smiled back, “And hello Luna”
“Hi Harry, well my jobs done” she grinned, “I’ll see you all at dinner”
“Yep, thanks Luna” Said Harry; she strolled off into the crowds, hair flowing behind her and radish earrings bobbing up and down.

He took Ginny’s hand, “this is all to keep you safe, and if means I have to follow you everywhere but the toilet, im going to”
“You know my mother said you would never have time to meet me after classes”
“I can make time for you”
“Your so sweet” she kissed his cheek “Come on we have to sort out for tonight” she led him off in the direction of the heads dorm and said the password stepping inside. Hermione was sitting on the couch quill in hand, and Ron came down the stairs holding a book and looking surprisingly serious.

“Harry, Ginny” said Hermione looking up, “Been looking up some things for you, sit down”
They sat, “What is it Hermione?”
“Artefacts belonging to head of house at Hogwarts” replied Ron,
“Like?” said Ginny,
“Well there are the sword, cup, locket, and now the plate that goes with the cup, bracelet with the locket shield with the sword” Said Hermione, flicking through some pages and finding a picture,
“And what about Ravenclaw” said Harry, after looking at the image,
“There’s nothing, it’s strange really but the only information about Rowena Ravenclaw was that she had a daughter who was murdered”
“Maybe Luna can tell us more” said Ginny, “She knows all sorts of weird stuff, and maybe some of the myths she’s picked up are true”
“Like lost things that belonged to Ravenclaw?” said Hermione, “is that her sort of weird?”Asked Ron, “I mean, nargles and the quibbler are hardly normal but this is different”
Ginny laughed, “She does know other stuff, and she’s like her dad, collects the odd bit here and there”
“Well asking her is worth a try” said Harry standing up “Where’s there common room?”
“Come on lets go, I’ll take you” Said Ginny getting up as well.

The two of them walked to the tower and knocked and a sixth year prefect answered,
“Yes?” she looked at them both, recognising them immediately.
“Hi erm could you get Luna Lovegood for us, we have to speak to her”
“Oh, ok, just wait here”
Luna came out grinning “Hello you two, you’ve never visited me in my common room before this is a surprise”
“Well we wanted to ask you what you knew about Ravenclaw house”
“Quite a lot really, lets go in there” she pointed to an empty classroom along the corridor.
They sat on desks listening to her,
“You see Helena wanted to get back at her mother for not letting her do what she wanted. She ran off to some far land and took the diadem with her”
“Right and what exactly is a Diadem” said Harry, who had listened and still didn’t know,
“A tiara, like a crown” Luna gestured to her head,
“Right, and does anyone no where she went?”
“Well you could always ask her, but she hasn’t told anyone recently she wouldn’t even tell me”
“She’s a ghost, here in the castle?” Harry stood up,
“The grey lady of Ravenclaw house, didn’t you know?” she seemed slightly dazed,
“No Luna, we didn’t” grinned Ginny standing up, “Can you take us to her?”
“Of course follow me”

They headed up to a small corridor on a higher floor, “She usually hangs around here…look there she is” they watched as the tall ghostly figure of the grey lady floated down the corridor and towards them.
“Excuse me” said Ginny, the ghost stopped suddenly,
“Red haired daughter, friend of the curious one and mate of the chosen one”
“I am as a matter of fact” Ginny, smiled nervously, and Harry spoke up,
“We were wondering if you would help us, your wisdom would be greatly appreciated”
“My wisdom s nothing to that of my mother” The grey lady replied looking down on them,
“I told you she was a bit odd” Luna, whispered as the ghost hovered in front of them, Ginny and Harry looked at each other suppressing laughter that Luna could call anyone else odd.
“We would like to know the circumstances in which you died” said Harry turning back to Helena,
“And why does my untimely demise fascinate you three so”
“You are the only link to your mother, a founder of Hogwarts and with secrets to wisdom we can only dream of” Said Ginny, smiling and considering her wording as she spoke.
“She was a brilliant mind, only I was too foolish to appreciate it, my heart ran before my head and murder was the price I paid”
“Who killed you?”Asked Harry rather bluntly, but she replied without noticing his tone.
“He roams these halls in chains, the mark of his imprisonment in death for the life he took”
“The Bloody Baron” Ginny said as She nodded “Why did he kill you?”
“Affairs of the heart, cause conflict with the mind”
“He wanted the diadem and killed you, but he was so sorry for what he did he killed himself” Luna said sitting cross legged on the floor staring up. Harry and Ginny looked down at her before turning back to the ghost, “Where did you hide the diadem when you stole it?”
“Why am I to tell you, you who would use its wisdom for no better reason then I”
“We need it not for ourselves but for whole wizarding kind” Harry looked at her pleading, as Ginny sat down beside Luna.
“I was in Albania when I hid it in a hollow tree”
“You told a boy this before haven’t you?” she looked away and nodded, “You told Tom Riddle, he found it and brought it here but where?” Harry joined Luna and Ginny on the floor his head in his hands deep in thought. The grey lady turned to walk away when Ginny spoke, “Thank you” she nodded before gliding through a nearby wall and disappearing out of sight.
“Thank you …that was the last thing I said before we went to the room of requirement, that’s were he’s hidden it and I’ve helped him”
“How have you?” Asked Ginny standing up and holding out her hand pulling Luna from her sitting place,
“I know where it is and what it looks like; I found it last year, only I didn’t know what it was until now”
“You’ve handled the lost Diadem of Ravenclaw!” Luna looked thrilled and amazed, a bright light dancing in her eyes.
“It’s lost; it has been for hundreds of years how are you sure now?”Ginny put out her hand and he took it standing up,
“I just know, and now we’re going to destroy it”
“Destroy it!” Luna’s face changed “How could you destroy something so priceless, so amazing”
“It contains a piece of Voldemort’s soul, there’s nothing else we can do, it’s that or he’s remains alive for ever”
“Oh ok, but we can put it in a museum when you’ve killed the soul”
“Whatever you want to do with it, just wait till Voldemort’s dead or he might figure out what were doing” He started to walk pulling Ginny along with him, she was still holding his hand but stood still on the spot. He turned when she didn’t move.
“Ginny, what’s wrong?”
“I don’t know, it just seems to easy to simple”
“It is, he didn’t consider that any one else knew about the room of requirement, he would have thought it perfectly safe to hide it there. He has a thing about knowing stuff others don’t it makes him feel superior”
“You know him too well, it’s odd”
He let go of her hand and stood staring at her, Luna looked in between them and they didn’t notice her leaving.
“I have to know how he thinks, he’s in my head, it’s not like I can avoid him”
“I know it’s just…”
“He’s pure evil and I know how he thinks only to stop him”
“But what about you, he knows about you as well, you said yourself you feel like him in his body what if he’s you in yours”
“He can’t, he can only get in my mind, my body contains something he never considered when he tried to kill me”
“Love, yes I know”
“So why start to question everything now?”
“Don’t act like that with me Harry; I’m just considering everything that’s going on”
“I want to get this done, when it’s all over and everything is how it should be then I can think about it”
“Just think now, like you should have done before you killed Bellatrix!”
He turned away as she put a hand to her mouth in shock, “Im sorry” she spoke quietly, afraid of what might happen. Tears started to fall as he walked away she couldn’t move and just stared after him.

*****

He walked away the Horcruxes pushed to the back of his mind and her words filling up his head. She hadn’t forgotten what he had done just as he hadn’t, It was there haunting him her body at the bottom of the wall the dead eyes staring back. He felt nothing but remorse as he walked around the corridors before bumping into Professor Jacobs.
“Harry?” He looked up, “What’s wrong?”
“Ginny”
“What’s happened?”
“She said something” he shook his head, “It doesn’t matter, I know where a Horcrux is and it’s not in Gringotts”
“Its not?” she stared,
“Its here, the room of requirement and it’s the diadem of Ravenclaw”
“Which part of the room and what’s a diadem?”
“The place filled with hidden objects and a diadem is a tiara thing”
“Where’s the sword?”
“In the heads dorm, with Hermione and Ron”
“Then let’s go and get it and we’ll need them to help find the Horcrux in the room”
He nodded and followed after her until they reached a corridor he recognised, “This way” he lifted up a tapestry, and they came out on the corridor of the heads dorm, “How did you know?”
“I know the Weasley twins” he smiled slightly before knocking on the door.
“Hermione, Ron?” There was no reply, until they heard giggling whispers and then hurried talking. Harry turned to the professor her face hiding a small smile as Ron shouted through the door.
“Who is it?”
“Harry”
“Oh… hold on” There was a hurried reply, he sounded flustered
“Ron…”
“Yes?”
“Make sure you have clothes on before you let me and the professor in”
“Crud”

Little Trooper · 01-04-2009, 06:14 AM

Love it. Love the end part so funny. What is going to happen with harry and ginny now. Oh hope she didn't ruin anything. Can't wait for more.

obsessedwithrupert · 01-04-2009, 06:14 PM

What did Ginny say that for, silly girl! The end was funny but I'm jelous

post more soon! xxx

lilly_luna · 01-06-2009, 07:49 AM

Chapter twenty-nine

Ron’s ears were scarlet as he opened the door, unable to look at Harry. Hermione was sitting on the couch and grimaced as they walked in while doing up her top button.

“Where’s Ginny?” Asked Ron and looked behind them expecting to see her.
“I don’t know…we erm… im going to find her, professor could you tell them what I told you?”
“Of course” she sat down as Harry left rubbing his forehead and closing the door behind him.
“What was that about?” Ron looked at Hermione and then to the professor,
“I think they had an argument of some sort, he bumped into me in the corridors after it and told me what they had found out about where the Horcrux is”
“Where is it?”
“The room of requirement, it’s a tiara from what I’ve been told”
*****
Ginny sat on her bed, thinking over and over. How could she have been so cruel?
She could see the look on his face as the colour drained away and the brightness in his eyes disappeared.

Harry walked to the Gryffindor common room, said the password and stepped inside looking round for her. He didn’t see her anywhere and assumed she must be in her room; he spotted Abi and walked over.
“Hi Abi, could you do a favour for me?”
“Depends what it is” she grinned,
“Could you see if Ginny’s in her dorm room, I can’t, you know the slide thing”
“Sure, back in a sec” She walked quickly up the stairs and knocked.

Ginny looked up at the sound of knocking, “Yes”
The door opened, “Good you are here; Harry’s downstairs waiting for you”
“He is?”
“Yep, come on he looks just as miserable as you do without him”
She got up and followed her down the stairs. He was staring at his feet as the people in the common room milled around him. He sighed and then heard footsteps looking up to see her. Her eyes were red, her face pale and her lip quivering on the verge of more tears when she looked back at him.
“Let’s talk” he said as he sat on a couch in the common room while everyone left for dinner.
She sat opposite him, her eyes never leaving his.
“Im sorry Harry, I don’t know why I said that”
“It’s ok, you were right” he put in head in his hands and sighed. “I have to consider things carefully; it’s just sometimes I don’t have a chance to”
“Like with Bellatrix” she replied, and he nodded, before sitting up again. He patted the space next to him on the couch, gesturing for her to sit next to him. She did and he wrapped his arms around her his chin resting on the top of her head.
“Sometimes it’s easier to ignore things then to deal with them, I’ve been avoiding what I did and the punishment I deserve”
“You’ve suffered more in seventeen years then most people have in a lifetime, you’ve been punished enough and I don’t think anyone minds that Bellatrix is dead especially Neville”
“But I’ve killed someone”
“She got what was coming to her, if it wasn’t you it would have been someone else. I should never have said what I did I was angry but it’s not an excuse”
“It’s fine Gin, really”
She began to cry, her tears wetting his shirt as he held her.
“I know something that will make you feel better”
“Like what?” he distinguished from her sobs,
“I think I interrupted Ron and Hermione having a secret couch snogging session”
“You can’t be serious!” she wiped her eyes and looked up at him as he nodded, “Did you call him a hypocrite?” she grinned slightly, a sparkle returning to her eyes.
“Not yet, thought you might like to” he smiled
“Thankyou Harry”
“Come on lets go and see them, I left them with Professor Jacobs, looking awkward”

*****
They sat on the couch, Ron staring at them as Harry spoke.
“I think the diadem is in the room of requirement, in the same place as my potions book”
“Why is your potions book in there?” asked the professor looking between the four students,
“I had some problems with it last year, there were some notes in it and spells, one of which I stupidly used and got it to trouble I hid the book to make sure no one else could get there hands on it”
“And why do you think it’s in there?” asked Hermione, Ron remained silent
“I’ve seen it; I used it to mark the place where I hid my book without knowing what it was”
“So how do you know it’s the right one, how do you know he knew about the room and hid it in there?”
“Because I know Voldemort, I know how he thinks and that he would have placed it in the room thinking no one else knew about it. I am arrogant, proud like he is sometimes” He looked at Ginny, “And we both make stupid mistakes, but unlike him I want to put things right and I can use my knowledge of him to our advantage”
“You’re certain that this is the lost Diadem of Ravenclaw you’re looking for and that the tiara you found is it” The professor spoke looking at him directly,
“Yes” he replied
“When did he have the opportunity to hide it?”
“When he came here years and years ago asking for a job, Dumbledore turned him down and he hid the diadem after going to Albania to get it”
Ron looked to the professor and then to Hermione who was taking in every word and thinking it over. Silence passed over them just as Ginny stood up and grabbed Harry’s hand pulling him up as well
“Then let’s go and get it”
He picked up his bag from the floor and put in on his back still holding Ginny’s hand. The professor and Hermione stood up next and Ron last.

They made there way to the room just as people began to return from dinner. Harry walked past the wall three times when the door appeared and they stepped inside wands drawn. He moved forward quickly, his eyes darting around searching for the bust the crown perched lopsidedly on its head.

They walked behind him there eyes looking for what he had described until Ginny spotted movement. She stopped dead and placed her hand on Harry’s shoulder,
“What is it?”
“I think there’s someone else in here” she whispered, he turned to face her, his eyes moving to the place she gestured with her head. Ron, Hermione and the professor stood still and moved as if to spread out and look for the diadem. Harry looked something moved slightly and he raised his wand higher.
“I think we should just keep going, the sooner we find it the sooner we can get out” Hermione said walking closer,
“Who ever it is, what ever it is could be after the same as us, we need to stop it” Said Harry, moving slightly too where the movement came. Ron held his wand up and walked with him, they moved boxes and piles of items to see nothing except a single footprint. The person had stepped in something red and left its mark on the ground.
“Ron?”
“Yes”
“I think its blood” Said Harry staring at the print,
“I was hoping you wouldn’t say that”

chaostori1985 · 01-06-2009, 02:45 PM

Absolutely great post! I'm glad they finally figured out about the diadem. I loved the ending. It was great. Please post more soon!!

Ok, you added another post and I didn't realize it. I really like the second post too. Who's in the room with them? And is that really blood that they found? PAMS!!!!

~Tori

obsessedwithrupert · 01-06-2009, 06:33 PM

Im glad they made up, you had me scared for a minute. Phew! Post more soon xxx

CruppieMom89 · 01-06-2009, 09:17 PM

oo! this is really good! I can't wait to read more!

Little Trooper · 01-07-2009, 02:52 AM

great post. loved it can/t wait for more

lilly_luna · 01-07-2009, 05:45 AM

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Absolutely great post! I'm glad they finally figured out about the diadem. I loved the ending. It was great. Please post more soon!!

Ok, you added another post and I didn't realize it. I really like the second post too. Who's in the room with them? And is that really blood that they found? PAMS!!!!

~Tori

The next post will answer u questions Tori lol x

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oo! this is really good! I can't wait to read more!

Welcome to my fic Dances with potter, glad ur enjoyin it x

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Im glad they made up, you had me scared for a minute. Phew! Post more soon xxx

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great post. loved it can/t wait for more

More soon Little Trooper & ObsessedwithRupert x

xLillyx

onar · 01-07-2009, 01:04 PM

HEY!I'm a new reader! I really really love your fic! HARRY&GINNY 4ever!

3uzz3ee · 01-07-2009, 10:11 PM

WHAT!?!?!?! BLOOD!!

You are evil my friend..... You can't leave us hanging like that!
I want, no NEED, to know why theres a bloody footprint! And whats up with Ron? Is he just slow is there something wrong??

PAMS!

Love you!

Abi... xox

lilly_luna · 01-08-2009, 10:18 AM

Chapter thirty

Ron and Harry began to move boxes around and lifted up a pile of what seemed like rags to discover a body, a puddle of blood forming a halo around its head.

“Bloody hell” Said Ron stepping back quickly, Harry kept his wand out, knelt down and moved his fingers to the cloaked person’s neck to see if there was a pulse. There was.
“Ron, he’s alive”
Ron stood staring, “He is?”
“Yes and who ever did this is still in here”
“What is it?”Asked the Professor walking over,
“Crabbe, if im not mistaken which means Goyle can’t be far away”
“Who are these people, he’s only a boy” she gestured to the body as Harry conjured a stretcher and removed his wand from his robes.
“Pals of Draco Malfoy’s from school” he yanked up Crabbe’s left sleeve, “And death eaters as well”
He levitated the stretcher to the girls still standing wands drawn in the middle of the pathway.

“We found an old friend” Said Ron,
“Crabbe” said Harry as they looked at the stretcher,
“We should take him to the hospital wing” Continued Hermione,
“And what about Goyle?” finished Ginny, “He can’t be far away, they always were together”
“I think Goyle did this” Harry spoke as footsteps approached,

“Ah the famous Harry Potter and his little army” the boy held his wand up pointing at him,
“And the body guard of a Malfoy though I can’t quite remember his name” Harry pointed his own wand at him as Hermione took control of the floating stretcher in a matter of seconds.
“Well the whole world will know me when I bring my master Harry Potter”
“That’s not going to happen”
“Will just see won’t we” he pulled something from his robes, glinting in the faint candle light.
“The Diadem” He whispered to himself before speaking out loud, “What’s that? You plan to duel me with a crown”
“Not just a crown, you know full well what this means to the Dark Lord or you wouldn’t be in here going after it”
“Who say’s I didn’t just follow you in?”
“I’ve been sitting here with that dunce to protect this while Draco went after the girl; it seems he failed though, since the hot little redhead’s standing next to you”
“He’s far away just like you will be when I get that diadem”
“You won’t get it, not if you want her to live” His wand moved from Harry to Ginny her wand pointing at Goyle as well as Ron’s and the Professor’s. Harry stepped forward and closer to her.
“Or how about her, she can’t fight back she’s got Crabbe” his wand moved to Hermione.
Ron and moved forward instinctively his and Harry’s wand still focused on there target.
“Are you going let you best friend die down here?” Harry spoke staring at him,
“He’s not dead already? Hmm I thought smashing his head in would do the trick but unfortunately not”
“You’ve obviously had enough of living in Draco’s shadow, but why hurt Crabbe?”
“I was always intelligent, I just had to suppress it for Malfoy he couldn’t cope if anyone was smarter then him and I’d rather not be on his fathers bad side, but Crabbe, honestly he’s a waste of space and was just getting in the way and not really up to his duties, I’ve been carrying him for years”
Hermione took a step back the stretcher moving with her, while Harry kept him talking,
“So you’re the real brains behind everything?”
“I am, just like everyone knows your mud blood’s behind yours”
Ron’s arms twitched as if stopping him self from cursing Goyle, Harry stepped forward again.
“Tell me Goyle, do you know why you’re protecting this tiara?”
“It must be for a good reason or the Dark Lord would not have sent us to it”
“So your sure it’s not just to get you out of the way while they have there grown up death eater meetings”
“Im of age just as you are, I wouldn’t be missed out of a meeting”
“How are you sure?” Harry stepped closer again,
“Take one more step and your girlfriend’s dead”
“You won’t kill her, you know just as well as I do that the Voldemort wants her alive as bait or even as a bargaining chip”

Hermione had now stepped back into darkness the professor moving with her as they reached the door.
“Where have they gone?” Said Goyle, he had been so focused on Harry he hadn’t noticed the absence of Hermione and the professor.
“Where have who gone?” Asked Harry smiling slightly,
“That woman and Granger, they where there and now there not”
A door opened and closed in the distance, Harry, Ron and Ginny grinned, and Ron spoke,
“You mean the Auror, and my girlfriend they’ve taken Crabbe somewhere haven’t they Harry”
“Oh yeh, I forgot that part of the plan, I’m surprised distracting this highly intelligent person actually worked”
“DON’T MOCK ME!” shouted Goyle his wand quivering in his hand as it pointed at Ginny,
“Do you think you could distract him so I can go to, I mean my arms getting tired holding my wand up” Smiled Ginny, and Harry glanced at her quickly still grinning,
“Sorry honey, I’ll see what I can do for you”
Goyle looked between them before focusing his wand back at Harry and speaking,
“Can we get back to something else, I’m getting bored and I’d like a duel with wands rather then a battle of wits”
“So you would give up your life for an antique only to try and stop me from having it” Said Harry, his wand moved higher and his arm moved to be more comfortable.
“You will not get out of here alive”
“That’s funny; I was going to say the same to you” Harry wand expelled a jet of blue light as Goyle’s let out green. Harry dived out of the way as the light struck the floor where he had stood and the his own blue bolt hit Goyle in the stomach, throwing him back into a pile of books.
Ron grabbed Ginny pulling her behind piles of old newspapers, as Harry stood up and Goyle got up standing his wand drawn and holding his stomach.

“So, ready for more?”He spoke, walking forward quickly,
“Are you going to actually duel or just use the killing curse?” Said Harry, “Cause that would be a mistake since your master wants’ me alive”
“I think I could change it up a little”
“A little, did you ever learn how to duel I’m mean you don’t seem to have the capacity to comprehend such things by your first attack”
“I know how to duel” he bowed as Harry did the same, and then raised his wand sending a red bolt. Harry used his reflexes to step aside as it exploded a pile of papers and he send a red light back hitting Goyle in the chest this time and he looked blankly his eyes open as he fell to the floor.
“You really need to practice” Harry said walking over and grabbing Goyle’s wand as it lay next to him. Ron got up and walked over, “Is he…?”
“No” Harry replied,
“He’s stunned” Said Ginny, poking his back with her foot,
Harry nodded “Let’s take him to the hospital wing, I bet McGonagall’s waiting, oh and I forgot” he pulled out the sword from his bag and handed it to Ginny, placing the diadem on the floor in front of her.
“You can do the honours”
She moved to stab it but he stopped her, “Wait an minute” he pointed his wand “Gemino” he picked up the copy, she stabbed the original diadem, and it let out a hiss before she pulled the sword out, the melted metal cracked and the diadem split into two pieces on the floor. Harry reached down and put them in his bag,
“Only two more left”
“Lets go, I don’t want to be in here any longer then we have to” Said Ron levitating an unconscious, tied up, Goyle in front of him and walking to the door.

*****

The four of them and professor McGonagall were seated in the hospital wing, the two prisoners lying in beds opposite, both still unconscious. “They were here with Draco” Harry began.
“Why were they in this what do you call it?”
“Room of Requirement, it was where Voldemort had hidden something, we went and got it but they were protecting it”
“What is it?”
“The lost diadem of Ravenclaw” Said Hermione, Harry looked at her in surprise she had told, Hermione looked back indignantly before continuing to talk, “Voldemort is using it in the same way as the diary in the chamber of secrets”
“He’s not anymore” said Harry, pulling it out of the bag and handing it to Hermione, “I had an idea but it involves sending them back or at least sending Goyle back”
“Are you talking about modifying his memory, so they don’t know we were after the diadem and putting the copy in the room?” Said Ginny as her brain registered what he was going to do.
“Exactly, it will give us time to then figure out what the next one is”
“Will this work? I mean non of us can cast a spell that strong to block out Voldemort” said Ginny looking to Ron, Hermione and McGonagall
“I can” Harry smiled,
“Are you sure, other wise this would be a waste of time” said Ron, staring at him, Harry’s face became serious, “Yes” he took out the fake Horcrux and handed it to Ron, “There not taking it with them, just making sure it was there and then going, we need to put Goyle back and put Crabbe in prison not making it public. Goyle would still think he had killed Crabbe, but wouldn’t know we we’re in the room with him”
“It seems very risky, Harry” Said Hermione,
“It will work” He replied sternly, "I can do it"
*****
Harry put on his invisibility cloak and placed his wand at Goyle’s temple; “Obliviate” Goyle’s eyes opened blankly and he got up from his chair and stared around the room. He must have dozed off he thought and walked to the corner, seeing Crabbe’s body where he had left it and the diadem still on the bust of a funny looking witch. Harry followed him as he sat down again and looked at his watch,
“Damn it, where is Draco”
It was a Monday night and Draco should have got the girl and been back here by now. He looked around the room surveying it from his chair and sighed, picking at Crabbe’s dried blood on his hands. He waited ten minutes before standing up wand drawn and leaving the room Harry stopped and knelt down next to Crabbe, “Ron, you can get up when he’s gone” he whispered and Ron nodded slightly.

Goyle hid behind a suit of armour as a teacher walked past and then continued on his way, he made it unseen to the fourth floor corridor before stopping at a portrait of a young man walking back and forth across the picture. The man stopped and looked at Goyle before nodding his head and the portrait swung open. Goyle stepped inside and Harry tried to fight the urge to follow him before giving in and walking down a large staircase behind him. He had let curiosity get the better of him without knowing what lay ahead.

onar · 01-08-2009, 12:52 PM

YAY! I'm the first who read the new post! Well, you know what they say the curiosity killed the cat! I really hope though Harry won't get hurt. Post more soon...!

CruppieMom89 · 01-08-2009, 03:57 PM

yay! That was really good. Who thought the Goyle actually had some brains. Although, he obviously doesn't have much lol.

Post more soon! I know we're getting clsoe to the end! I can feel it! lol

XOXO Cadence

obsessedwithrupert · 01-08-2009, 08:57 PM

Great post, love it! Post more soon! xx

3uzz3ee · 01-08-2009, 10:37 PM

I never thought that Goyle would turn on Crabbe...

Ah well... Great post...

PAMS

Abi... xox

chaostori1985 · 01-09-2009, 07:30 AM

Great post!! What's down the stair case? Please post soon!!!

~Tori

lilly_luna · 01-09-2009, 11:54 AM

Theres a while till the end yet... there will be more soon, maybe not for a week - i have a busy one ahead - thanks for your replies and being such fantastic readers, i apreciate all six of you lol. More soon as always, and thanks for reading.
xLillyx

Little Trooper · 01-10-2009, 02:21 AM

Great post. can't wait for more. I agree curiosity killed the cat. And Harry becareful.

lilly_luna · 01-11-2009, 09:08 AM

Chapter thirty- one

“I think he’s followed Goyle” Said a breathless Ron, his features returning from the body of Crabbe he had been in the last hour due to a polyjuice potion.
“Why didn’t you go after him?”Asked Ginny,
“I don’t know where they went, he’s invisible and Goyle thinks I was dead as Crabbe”
“Ok, ok… I have his map!” Ginny grabbed it from her pocket said the words and scoured the parchment for him.
“There, hold on now he’s disappeared, he’s walked through a wall” Hermione glanced at where she pointed, “There’s a secret passageway that only death eaters know about, we have to tell McGonagall”

*****
Harry stopped as Goyle did after following him down a stair case and large tunnel for fifteen minutes. Harry looked up at the ceiling as Goyle did, there was a red x marking on it and Goyle raised his wand and apparated before Harry could do anything. The tunnel had ended, they were outside Hogwarts grounds and that’s why they could get in and out with out being noticed.

He walked back and stepped out to see Ginny, Hermione, and Ron with Professor McGonagall walking towards him; he moved fast and stood in front of them pulling of his cloak “The picture recognises them we have to walk past and pretend we don’t know” he whispered. They followed him down the corridor and to a classroom.

“They use a tunnel to get outside the school grounds and apparated on a spot marked out for them, he thinks he fell asleep and Crabbe’s dead still but the Diadem is still there”
“It worked then” Smiled Ginny,
“It worked” he breathed a sigh of relief,
“What do we do now?”Said Ron,
“We wait” Replied Harry looking deep into Ginny’s eyes.
“Wait, wait for what Mr Potter?”
“For Voldemort to make his next move” He replied not looking away from Ginny as she stared back. She wanted to say something, but the words wouldn’t come out.
“I don’t think we’ll have to worry for a while” He replied for her, taking her hand.

*****
Soon the Christmas holiday’s were upon them and they where making preparations to go to the burrow.
“Im so glad to be going home, you are coming with us aren’t you? I mean Mum hasn’t said your not”
Harry looked up from the parchment “I don’t know, maybe you should ask her?”He finished the final sentence of his Potions essay.
“I assumed you would be, she hasn’t said you not invited”
“I might go to Grimmald place then, no point spending it here”
“You’re not spending Christmas alone, if they won’t have you at the burrow, I’ll come with you”
“Let’s send an owl before we make plans, and I won’t be alone, I’ll have Kreacher” he grinned,
“Pass me some parchment then, my spare’s in my trunk” She plucked the quill out of his hand and dipped it into the ink bottle, “Right, Dear mum, is Harry allowed to spend the Christmas holiday’s I’d thought I’d better check before we just brought him back with us, Ginny. Ok?”
“Ok, I’ll go and get Hedwig she should be back from hunting by now” he walked up the stairs and opened the door. Hedwig hooted, and ruffled her feathers, “Come on girl, I’ve got a job for you”

“You speak to her the same as you do to Ginny” said a voice from the corner, his eyes staring directly at him from the book in his lap.
“Bugger off Dean, I thought you’d have gotten over yourself by now” he stroked Hedwig’s head before holding out his arm for her. He felt the talons grip and he made his way to the door, he walked down the stairs and put the bird on the table as Ginny attached the letter.
“Dean’s started up again” he said carrying Hedwig to the window, Ginny beside him as he let her go and watched her fly away.
“He is. Why can’t he just stop being a pain?”
“He still wants you”
“Well he can’t have me, I’m yours” she grinned “Entirely yours” she moved forward placing her arms round his neck, “Trust me I know how lucky I am” he smiled and pressed his lips to hers, his arms round her waist as they kissed. He pulled her close to his side, his arm around her as they stood looking out into the night from the open window.

A day later they sat in the great hall, eating there breakfast and listening to the very public break up of Dean and his Hufflepuff girlfriend in the corridor.

“TORI, COME ON”
“NO DEAN, YOU’RE OBSESSED WITH HER, IM NOT COMPETING ANYMORE!”
“PLEASE”
“NO, LEAVE ME ALONE”
“IM NOT OBSESSED, SHE’S WITH POTTER I’M WITH YOU”

Harry and Ginny looked at each other and then back to there breakfast, as every students eyes looked to them and then pretended they weren’t listening either.

“IM NOT WITH YOU ANYMORE, COME AND SEE ME WHEN YOU’RE OVER HER”
“I AM OVER HER”
“NO YOUR NOT, ALL YOU TALK ABOUT IS THEM, THEM SLEEPING TOGETHER, THEM BEATING YOU AT QUIDITCH AND I’M FED UP”

Professor Jacobs got up and went out into the hallway. “That’s enough you two; I suggest you do this somewhere else where the whole school can’t hear you”
“I’D RATHER THEY DID, THEN THEY’D KNOW HOW CRAZY HE IS ABOUT GINNY WEASLEY AND NOT HIS OWN GIRLFRIEND” there was the sound of footsteps walking away and a last shout of “Tori” before the professor entered, Dean behind her. His head was down his arms crossed as he walked to the Gryffindor table the whole room staring apart from Harry and Ginny whose gazes were at there plates. Dean grabbed a glass of pumpkin juice drank it quickly and got up making his way to them down the table.
“Potter can I talk to you” He asked, his eyes moved from him to Ginny
“I don’t think that’s, going to happen Dean” Said Harry in reply, noticing where his gaze lay.
“Tell me you not with him for the recognition” He spoke quietly his eyes still on her,
“Im not Dean, get it through you thick skull, I don’t want you”
“I won’t believe it”
“Well you better had” She stood up and grabbed Harry’s hand, he got up and they made there way out Dean following behind, the whole of the great hall watching them.
Ron made to get up when Hermione stopped him; “We need to let them sort it out, if you get involved it will make it worse” He sat down again reluctantly, poking at his porridge with his spoon.

They made there way to the corridor outside the Gryffindor common room when Dean snapped sending a bolt of red at Harry’s turned back. Harry sensed it again, he wasn’t conscious of pulling his wand out and deflecting the attack on the floor until he stood wand held at Dean infuriated, his hand holding still and strongly, his eyes staring angrily.

“What is it you do not get Dean? Is your brain so small your unable to understand something so simple as duelling rules or when a girl says no?” his voice was calm, his manner intimidating as Dean stood wand drawn shaking in his midst.
“Then duel me for her” his voice was trembling slightly, his stance weakened as Harry walked forward letting go of Ginny’s hand.
“You can’t be serious, me duel you, and you somehow think you have a chance” he stopped about a two metres away, his wand raised to Dean’s chest “What makes you think I would risk my relationship with Ginny for you?”
“Don’t be scared I’ll beat you Potter”
“Im thinking more along the lines of not seeing Ginny as something we can win, she’s made her choice move on”
“NO” he replied shooting a blue light from his wand, it met in mid air a red jet of light from Harry’s wand that pushed both the blue one and itself upon Dean, causing him to fly back down the corridor and land crumpled on the floor.
Dean got up slowly and walked forward his wand raised again. “Im not going to give up”
“Don’t be so stupid Dean” Said Ginny walking forward “I want Harry, I’m with Harry, I love Harry”
“Love” Dean scoffed, “You’ve been with him and you call it love”
“SHUT YOUR MOUTH” Ginny shouted. She drew her own wand and pointed it a Dean. Harry didn’t move. He was now so angry it held him on the spot but he felt oddly calm as well but he thought it was probably since Voldemort hadn’t or wouldn’t do anything this time around.
“How can you say you love him? You’ve known him how long and he only just noticed you even existed last year, he doesn’t love you, not like I do”
“Don’t say another word, Dean Thomas or I’ll curse you so much you’ll never be able to reproduce” said Harry calmly, his hand never faltered as he lowered his wand from Dean’s chest to pointing in between the top of his thighs, Harry’s eyes still focused on Dean’s face as it became pale.

Harry was acting so placidly it was unsettling Dean and he shifted his weight on the spot uncomfortably his eyes on Ginny. “Ginny please, come and talk to me”
“Not a chance in hell” she replied icily, her wand not moving, “You think you can talk like that, and expect me to agree to your terms, I don’t think so”
“Just give me chance” he was pleading now,
“You don’t deserve one” She replied her wand shaking in her hand,
“Please”
“Begging isn’t going to change my mind, nothing will” she lowered her wand placing it in her pocket and she grasped Harry’s hand. She felt relief wash over her as he squeezed it gently the warmth spreading through her fingertips and lowered his wand in his other hand.
“Im sorry Dean” Harry started, “Im sorry it took me so long to figure out how much I loved her, and that you had to get hurt. I hoped you felt you could move on, and it seemed like you had. Gin broke up with you before she knew she still liked me, we can’t help the way we feel about each other no matter what you do”
Dean’s wand faltered slightly mid air and then his arm fell to his side and his head bowed in submission. He turned and walked away silently, Ginny wrapped her arms around Harry’s middle and he held her close kissing the top of her head.
“Well that’s over now” He said quietly. He felt so cold suddenly, and she held on tighter, as if to spread her own warmth. “I just want to know how you stayed so calm” She replied.
“I have an idea why” he replied “Possibly something to do with Lord Voldemort”
“How do you mean?” she looked up his voice didn’t sound right, he had called him Lord. She let out a gasp, “Your eyes…” she tried to back away but he held on tightly his cold hands almost burning her wrists, a cruel laughter echoing from his throat, “You think I would give you up so easily little girl” She couldn’t help but stare as the crimson slits of Lord Voldemort looked back, “No” was the only noise she could make the only clear word that could escape her lips, “No” she shouted as her voice became louder, but he still held on and with a wave of Harry’s wand she became silent and collapsed on the floor.

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