Corpses and Horcruxes

Draco was woken up by Harry bursting into his room yelling at him to get up and something about it being dinner time. He groand and rolled out of his bed and walked over to the dresser and glanced in the mirror. He still looked tired and disheveled from the past few year. His eyes were red and he was paler than usual. He left the room and walked across the hallway to the bathroom and splashed some cool water on his face. He looked in the mirror and guessed that he looked slightly less like a walking corpse and went downstairs.

Dinner was uneventful for the most part, everyone was decent to him except Ron who just ignored him or gave him dirty looks. Harry had told him before dinner that the meeting would be after dinner. He was slightly nevervous about it because it would be just him, Harry, Hermione, and Ron in a room talking about some mission that he still had no idea about what they would be doing. He finished the chicken around the same time as everyone and Harry looked at him and motioned for them to all leave. The four excused themselves and received curious looks from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley but they ignored them and followed Harry to his room.

Harry sat in a chair, Ron sat on the floor, Hermione sat on the bed and Draco realized that there wasn't a place for him. Just like in life, he thought. Harry noticed this a got up and grabbed a chair from some other room nearby. Draco sat down in it and an awkward silence engulfed them.

"So, we all know why we're here. We're here to talk about the mission. I guess we should start by telling Draco about it." Harry looked at each of them and they nodded, Draco was more hesitant than Hermione and Ron. "Okay, well do you know what a Horcrux is Draco?" Draco nodded, his family knew alot about the dark arts, of course he knew. "Okay well Voldemort has seven of them. I destroyed Tom Riddle's diary in our second year which was one, and Dumbledore destroyed a ring which was a Horcrux. A few days ago-" Harry cautiously avoided mentioning that being the night Dumbledore was killed as to avoid making Draco feel even worse, "-Dumbledore and I went to this cave to find a locket that we thought was a Horcrux. He had to drink this potion which made him very weak and I think he saw things, bad things like a memory or something, and there were also Inferi there to protect it as well. The potion and Inferi were a protection for the "Horcrux". We think that all the Horcruxes have similar protections on them to prevent people from getting and destroying them. After we got back from the cave I opened the locket and found this", he pulled out a note and handed it to Draco who read it and looked confused.

"So the locket wasn't a Horcrux?" He asked.

"No, it was a fake. The real one was taken by someone named R.A.B." Hermione answered for Harry. Draco nodded in response. "Do you have any idea who R.A.B is?"

"No, I don't think so. Do you guys know?"

"Obviously not." Ron rolled his eyes in a sarcastic manner and received a warning look from Harry. Draco just ignored it.

"So what are the other seven?"

"We're not entirely sure, but we're skipping out on school this year and going to look for them. We don't think the locket has been destroyed, so we have to look for it and the other four remaining Horcruxes."

"Okay, well when are we leaving?"

"Well I wanted to leave soon, but Ron's brother Bill is getting married to Fleur Delacour near the end of summer and Ron's mum wants us to stay at least until then." Harry paused and another awkward silence came. No one really had anything else to say. "So you're for sure in this?"

"Yes Potter, we've been over this."

"I just have to make sure. It's going to be dangerous and difficult but if we complete this, then I can defeat Voldemort once and for all."

"I'm in this."

"Good. Well we should all get some sleep, it's been a tiring last few days and we need our strength."

Draco was the first out of the room and he said nothing to anyone. He just walked as fast as he could to his room and shut the door. He put on some pajamas and crawled into bed. He was terrified of what was to come on this mission. It sounded easy, but he knew it wouldn't be, especially since they didn't overly trust him, they just had too because Dumbledore wanted him to go on the mission. This made things all the more confusing to Draco. Why would Dumbledore want him of all people to accompany the "golden trio"? Before he could think of any logical reasons, he fell into a deep sleep with the same dream that he never remembered when he woke up, a dream of a bushy haired girl swinging on a swing set while he pushed her.

Draco woke up the next morning feeling a lot better than he had in months. Even though he was at the Weasley house with Potter and his friends, it was a whole lot better than being with the Dark Lord all summer. He went to the bathroom and took a shower for the first time in days. He got dressed and went downstairs and smelled pancakes, eggs, and bacon cooking.

"Draco dear! Would you go into the living room? There's someone here to see you." Mrs. Weasley pointed him to the living room and went back to cooking.

He went into the living room and saw the last people he expected to see sitting in the Weasley's home.

A/N: Cliffhanger, oh fun! I hope you liked it! And also, on FF it doesnt show that I've updated my story on the HP page so I have no idea what's wrong with it. Can anyone tell me? Thanks!

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