What If
The Marauders were always exploring the Hogwarts castle, weren't they? Finding new rooms and secret passages.
What if once they stumbled upon the Room of Requirements? They found out how it worked and soon they started using it for different purposes.
What if once they had to hide something? Say something to be used for a prank. Something they wanted no one to find. But would want themselves to come get it later.
Remus would naturally suggest about the Room of Requirements. They would come to the room and find all the things students had hidden in centuries.
What if after placing their own object, the boys would decide to explore.
What if they explored and explored and James found a box containing a Tiara.
Quite jokingly, what if he took the Tiara out, wore it and called his friends.
What if Remus would recognize it as Ravenclaw's lost diadem and mention it. While Sirius would be having an odd feeling. What if Sirius would recognize it as a dark object? Living in the Grimmauld Place where there were loads of dark artifacts, he would just know and what if his friends believed him that he was serious for once.
And what if they decided to take it to Dumbledore. What if after research, he would realize what it is and a bit extra persuasion, Slughorn would reveal that there are seven of the Horcruxes.
What if Dumbledore and the Marauders would start the quest to destroy Horcruxes long before Harry's Prophecy?
What if all of it ended long before Harry…
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