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A/N: I've realized in order to make certain ideas work, that OOT has to be sort of AU. Namely Link never went back at the end, if squint a pervious chapters you'll see why I went with this. Also I'm reloading some chapters with some changes to some of the titles.
Chapter 7: Liars and Thieves
Link, Zelda, Harry and the others were seated around a table in the Leaky Cauldron. The barkeep was eying them warily, not wanting to have to fix another table. They had all been thinking quietly about their next move. They were getting nowhere until Zelda asked a question.
"So, are you sure that you don't have any leads towards finding the other Horcruxes?"
Harry shook his head.
"We would have told you." he replied.
Hermione who had still been deep in though stirred at this point.
"Wait" Hermione said "The locket."
"What locket?" asked Zelda.
"Of course" said Ron jokingly smacking his face, "The locket that wasn't actually a Horcrux since someone switched it with the locket that was."
Zelda and Link both looked obviously upset that this information had been kept from them. Ginny also gave Harry a stare that signified that she was not exactly happy to have been kept out of the loop either. Harry sighed and explained.
"One of the Horcuxes still left is a locket from Voldemort's mother's family. I though I'd found it, but it was a fake. Someone named RAB stole the real one. We haven't figured…." Harry suddenly stopped.
"Well I think you just did.," quipped Link.
Everyone looked towards Harry who responded.
"My godfather, Sirius Black, said he had a brother named Regulus. He said his brother joined Voldemort, but got freaked out by what was going on. He apparently was killed trying to defect. He may have stolen the locket."
"Harry, you may be right." Hermione stated. "I sort of remember some kind of locket no one could open from when we cleaned up Sirius' place. I guess we have to go to Grimmauld Place."
"Maybe not." Link realized "Harry this the same godfather whose stuff that Dung guy took?"
Harry's eyes lit up. He ran to Tom to ask were Dung had gone. Tom mentioned that Dung had gone to Gringotts as his tab was for the month was due. Harry suspected that this trip to the bank might have also been to deposit some stolen objects. The group ran to Gringotts as fast as they could.
Mundungus Fletcher was empty out his pockets of his loot while trying to find the key to his vault when out of nowhere he was tackled by the same strangely dressed man who had beat him up earlier. Even the goblin looked worried and went to get help. During the commotion Zelda grabbed the locket. They all got out before anyone realized what had gone on (1). Well running out Zelda slipped the locket to Harry who put it in a bag. None of this went unseen however as a robbed figure watched it all, then vanished.
" We should do some shopping" Ginny suggested.
"This is not the time for that" said Harry "We have to get this to Hogwarts, McGonagall said we can use it as a base of operation well we work. We need to be careful. Plus we got our books yesterday"
"I know." said Ginny, "but these two…"
"Its fine." Zelda said, " We can share books."
"I know!" Ginny was exasperated by this point "but if we don't want them sticking out to much they need robes!"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione look at Ginny then at Link and Zelda. They all went of to find robes for Link and Zelda. (2)
ELSEWERE
Voldemort raged at the news one of his younger Death Eaters had just given him. That Potter may have already found a Horcrux. He had already been upset that another of his servants had failed to get the now vacant post of headmaster. He roared angrily at them both for some time. When Viktor Krum and Dolores Umbridge left Voldemort's chamber's them were sincerely glad they were doing so with all their limbs.
(1): Lets just assume that it was a quiet day and no one other then Harry's group and Dung were at the counter.
(2): I am not writing about clothes shopping. I am skipping past that. I may describe their new outfits, I may not.
