Chapter 10

Gathering Horcruxes & A Date

Voldemort was scared, and he didn't scare easily. When he woke up in incredible pain, he knew in his heart that one of his horcruxes had been found and destroyed. He knew there was only one person alive who could have figured out his secret and that was Dumbledore. The only problem was figuring out which horcrux had been destroyed. When he first came back into both his body and powers, he learned of Lucius's transgression with his diary and punished him severely, even though he didn't know what the diary truly was, it was still a failure on Lucius's part.

After the morning meeting ended, Voldemort instructed his death eaters to go about their business and to only contact him if absolutely necessary. The nearest horcrux location was the sea cave. Upon exiting Malfoy Manor, Voldemort quickly apparated to his destination and walked inside, anxious to make sure this horcrux was safe.

Once he was finished taking down the defensive spells and charms, Voldemort made his way across the lake and to the island in the middle of it. When he was in front of the crystal basin, he flicked his wand and as he did so there was a noise that sounded like a clogged drain had just become unclogged, with it the bright green potion disappeared from the basin, and as it disappeared, a golden locket appeared. When he saw the locket, a small sigh of relief escaped Voldemort's lips as he picked it up. The locket was golden in color attached to a thick gold chain. Embossed on the cover of the locket was an intricate styled S with green emeralds running up the length of the letter. While holding it in his hands, Voldemort could feel the locket pulsating, as if it were alive and technically speaking, it was. Pocketing it into the folds of his robes, Voldemort gave his wand a flick and made a fake, copy of the locket appear which he placed into the basin before making the bright green potion fill back up to the brim.

Upon finishing, Voldemort put back in place the defensive spells and charms, before apparating to his Uncle Morfin Gaunt's house where he had hidden his uncle's ring after making it into a horcrux. Almost at once on his arrival, Voldemort could tell that the ring horcrux was no longer here. Knowing that there was nothing else he could do, he apparated back to Malfoy Manor. Almost immediately upon entering the house, Bellatrix rushed up to him , making her breasts push together, making her cleavage more pronounced.

"Is there anything I can help you with Master?" Bellatrix asked. Her voice low and sultry.

Voldemort fought to resist rolling his eyes at Bellatrix's determination. Instead however, he realized that there was actually something that she could do for him.

"Actually Bellatrix, there is something you can do for me".

Bellatrix grinned and moved onto her knees in front of Voldemort, prepared to start doing her job and pleasuring him. However before she could begin her work, she was pulled up to her feet by her hair. Most women would hate being pulled up by their hair. Bellatrix however loved it and it turned her on even more.

"My cock being serviced is not what I need help with right now Bellatrix".

Bellatrix pouted slightly but regained her composure as she prepared herself to do whatever it was that Voldemort wanted her to do.

"Do you remember that golden cup I gave to you when I first got my body back, and I instructed you to put it in your vault at Gringotts".

"Of course my lord, but what of it?".

"I need it back, and the quicker you get it and return here with it, the quicker I will allow you to pleasure me with your mouth".

Bellatrix's eyes grew slightly darker before she gave a slight bow and told Voldemort that she would make haste. The familiar apparating crack sounded as Bellatrix headed to Gringotts. Now that that was out of the way, Voldemort collapsed into one of the chintz arm-chairs in the living room. Worry and anxiety etched onto his face. Hearing a slight hissing sound, Voldemort looked over and saw that his pet snake and last horcrux Nagini had slithered over and placed her head in his lap.

"Ah Nagini, I'm afraid our secret has been found out and we must act quickly if we are to prevent any more of our horcruxes from being found."

An hour later passed and saw the return of Bellatrix, who was clutching the cup close to her bosom, anxiously wanting to get it back to her master. Upon returning to the manor, Bellatrix walked into the living room and knelt before Voldemort and offered up to him the golden cup. Now to the ordinary death eater and follower of him, this golden cup would appear at face value to be just a regular old cup. However, this cup was actually the cup of Helga Hufflepuff, one of the famed founders of Hogwarts.

"Thank you very much for your assistance Bellatrix."

"May I pleasure you with my mouth now master?"

"I'm not in the mood right now Bellatrix, However perhaps later you may do so".

Bellatrix pouted her disappointment, before standing up and heading up to her room. All that was left to do, was to figure out how to get the one horcrux hidden at Hogwarts. Once he figured that out, Voldemort would be set.

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A month had passed since the beginning of term and Harry was really feeling it. Even though it had only been a month, the teachers at Hogwarts were loading so much homework on the sixth years, that many students had resulting to ordering skiving snack boxes in bulk from Weasley's Wizard's Wheezes in Diagon Alley. However no matter how much homework he got, Harry always made the effort to go to the library with Hermione. Even Neville was making an attempt to do better this year. However the end of the first month back did have it's negative effects as well. A great example of this was that Ron was still on his anti-Daphne binge and that it would only be a matter of time before she betrayed him.

Daphne who had been quiet throughout their stay in the library, paused in her writing of her essay on charms and turned to Harry and asked. "it's the first Hogsmeade visit this weekend, I was thinking about maybe going. Would you like to go together?"

"I think I'd enjoy that Daphne. Do you have any idea of where you'd like to go tomorrow yet or not?"

"I'm thinking the basics, you know Honeydukes, Zonko's, Scrivenshaft's and the Three Broomsticks".

"Okay that sounds good, I'm sure we can plan on what to do first when we get there. About what time do you want to leave?"

"Hmm How about we leave after breakfast?"

"That sounds perfect Daphne."

Neville who was listening in to Harry and Daphne making plans for their visit to Hogsmeade turned to Hermione who, as always, had her nose buried in a book. This time it was her Ancient Runes book as she worked on her translation homework. Neville had always had slight crush on Hermione, but he was to nervous to ever say anything to her.

"So uh Hermione are you um planning on going to Hogsmeade tomorrow?"

"Yeah probably but I might not stay long, Professor Vector gave us a rather long essay and I'd like to get a start on it."

"Oh well um I was wondering if perhaps you'd like to go together? You know with me?"

Hearing this, Hermione looked up at Neville and arched an eyebrow slightly.

With cheeks flushing, Neville went on to explain.

"I mean just as friends, and then we can come back up here to the library and you can work on your arithmancy essay and I can work on my herbology one."

"Hmm alright we can do that I guess."

The weekend came soon enough and upon waking up Harry and Neville got dressed before they headed downstairs together to the common room to meet Hermione. In order to pass the time until Hermione showed up, Harry decided to break the ice with Neville.

"So how long have you liked Hermione Neville?"

Neville's cheeks flushed and for a moment he avoided Harry's eyes.

"It started that night of the Yule ball during the Tri-Wizard tournament in our fourth year. I danced with Ginny most of the time that night. However when Hermione came back from outside, I could tell right away that she and Ron got into a fight about her going with Krum. I simply comforted her and we danced a little bit before the ball ended."

About ten minutes after Neville told Harry that, Hermione arrived and together the three of them headed down to the great hall to meet Daphne for breakfast. Like always, the great hall was filled with chattering students who was looking forward to a trip into Hogsmeade. Feeling eyes on the back of her head, Daphne glanced behind her at the Slytherin table to see Draco Malfoy glaring daggers at her. Shaking her head, Daphne slid into her seat across from Harry at the Gryffindor table. When Daphne first did this, the entire Gryffindor table looked at her like she was nuts. However when she was vouched for by Harry, the rest of the Gryffindor's didn't give her a second glance.

Glancing up from mixing some sugar in with his porridge, Harry saw that Draco was opening up a letter from his parents. Harry watched as Draco read the letter, he got even paler. Folding up the letter, Draco slipped it into his pocket before he stood up from the table and headed out of the hall.

Harry pushed thoughts of whatever Draco was doing out of his mind. He needed to concentrate on making his and Daphne's first date a good one. After everyone was finished with breakfast, Harry, Daphne, Neville, and Hermione headed outside where the carriages were waiting to take them and other students down to the village.

Meanwhile up on the seventh floor, Draco was pacing in front of a bare stretch of wall. On the third pass an intricate wrought iron door appeared. Walking forward, Draco opened the door and walked inside. Inside the room was packed and filled to the brim with everything and anything you could imagine. Old desks, spell books, cupboards, and chairs lined the walls of the large and spacious room.

Biting his bottom lip, Draco headed towards the area where the letter had specified exactly. In the north east corner of the room, Draco found an old desk which had old spell books piled on top of its surface. After removing some of the books, Draco saw a small, yet intricate wooden box. Upon opening the box, Draco saw a silver tiara with an oval cut sapphire set into the middle. Almost instantly, Draco could feel the power of dark magic surrounding the tiara. Closing the lid, Draco picked up the box and pocketed it before leaving. His next destination the owlery to send this box back to his manor.

This was definitely the best visit to Hogsmeade Harry had ever had. Once the carriage had reached the village, He and Daphne bid Neville and Hermione good-bye and that they'd see them at the three broomsticks in a bit. Together hand in hand, they went to Honeydukes first, where the owners had created a new kind of fudge and were giving away samples. The fudge itself was a chocolate peanut butter with bits of pretzels mixed in. After picking out some of their favorite sweets, they left Honeydukes and went to Zonko's. By the time Harry and Daphne left Zonko's, their money bags were lighter and their pockets were bulging with dung bombs, frog spawn, fanged frisbees, and screaming yo-yo's. Once finished at Zonko's, before they headed to the Three Broomsticks to meet up with Neville and Hermione, Daphne wanted to stop at Scrivenshaft's to get some new quills. Finished with their purchases, Harry and Daphne headed to the Three Broomsticks for lunch.

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It didn't take long for Draco's owl to deliver the package to the manor. As soon as the owl had arrived, Narcissa had removed the package and handed it to Bellatrix, who in turn took it to Voldemort who was sitting in front of the fire in the parlor.

"Package for you master, from Draco at Hogwarts".

"Thank you Bellatrix, now leave us".

Bellatrix went to argue but she knew better then to question her master's orders. Once he was alone again, Voldemort opened the box and looked upon his final horcrux. Finally he had all his horcruxes back, minus the ring and diary. Even without those, he was still just as powerful. Now all that was left was to figure out how to put the bits of his soul back into his body.

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"Thanks Harry this day was just perfect, I really enjoyed spending the day with you" Daphne says once they returned to the castle.

"Same here Daphne, it was fun" Harry replied.

Biting her bottom lip, Daphne leaned up and pressed her lips to Harry's. Feeling Daphne's lips brush against his, Harry's back stiffened just slightly, before he slowly returned the kiss. When she felt Harry starting to return the kiss, she reached up wrapping her arms around Harry's neck. Before the kiss could get to heavy, Daphne pulled away and gave Harry a small smile.

"I'll see you tomorrow Harry" Daphne whispered before she headed for the dungeons.

With a goofy grin on his face, Harry headed up the marble staircase towards Gryffindor tower, feeling like already this year was looking up from his previous ones. Even with his upcoming battle with Voldemort looming.

A/N: End of Chapter 10. Please Read and Review!