What Your Parents Didn't Tell You
Disclaimer: I own nothing Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling owns it all.
A/N: So after abadoning my account years ago, I'm back! I've been thinking about a story like this for years, but undergrad and grad school have been keeping me away. So, even though I'm still working on grad school, I'll try to write this story out.
The cloaked figure moved silently through the forest, making its way under the star-dotted sky. But this was no time to enjoy the evening; the forest floor was much more interesting at the moment.
The figure tread carefully through the trees, slightly bent over to scan the leaves, roots, and dirt for any sign of the desired object. They could not use Lumos for fear of being seen, and nothing must interrupt this search, absolutely nothing. The boy had to have dropped it somewhere near here; all the history books said that the event occurred near the Acromantulas' nest…
A low rumble of hooves made the person gasp quietly and slide behind a tree. Of course, Centaurs; they had forgotten about the Centaurs. That posed the problem of the beasts having found the precious object years before, putting it in an entirely new hiding place. But then, the person didn't have a problem with killing a few Centaurs to get to it…
Once the herd had passed, the figure hurried forward and knelt amongst the newly pressed hoof-prints, their fingers scrabbling frantically in the forest soil. Perhaps, if they were very lucky, the Centaurs had just kicked up the dirt along with anything that might have been buried. Or, they could have just kicked it underneath some more…
Suddenly, the person stopped moving and took in a breath. Could it be? Or was it just the moonlight? They reached out with a trembling hand and the fingers touched something smooth and hard. It was real! By God, it was real!
Letting out a sigh of exaltation, the figure picked up the object and gazed reverently at their treasure. Finally…after years and years of searching, luck had finally smiled down at them. The individual brought the artifact up to their eyes to study it closely. Yes…there was the triangle, the circle inside it, and the line that bisected them both…
At last, at long last, the Resurrection Stone had been found.
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