Bellatrix ran up the steps to the girl's dorms. Searching through her bag, she reached Tom Riddle's diary and pulled it out. Also taking a quill and some ink, she began to write to Tom once again.

'Hello Tom'

And as always, Bellatrix recieved the formal 'Hello Bellatrix' in Tom's neat script. She wasted no time in asking him her questions.

'What is a Horcrux, Tom?'

She didn't get a reply for several seconds.

'Very dark magic, Bellatrix.'

So she had guessed when she couldn't get an answer from Slughorn or find any books on the subject in the library. Just as she was preparing to write another sentence, Tom's neat handwriting appeared once again.

'A Horcrux is a part of a human soul.'

Bellatrix furrowed her brows.

'How?'

'Now is not the time, Bellatrix.'

Just as he said this, the heavy, black door to the dormitories swung open. Bellatrix quickly closed the diary and looked up into the faces of her sisters as they walked slowly closer, arguing amogst themselves.

"You just can't, Cissa!"

"I can do whatever I wan-!"

"No, you c-" Andromeda stopped short when she noticed Bellatrix sitting up in her bed, watching them intently.

"What's this about?" Bellatrix demanded.

"Nothing," They said, rushing to their beds. They both dressed in their night dresses and slipped quietly into bed, leaving Bellatrix sitting there. So, stuffing the diary back into her school bag, Bella changed and settled down in bed, turning off the only lit lamp in the room, and leaving them alone in complete darkness.

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