*James's POV*
We heard the door bell and I hurried off to get it.
It was Regulus. After a quick security question, I let him in and called Moony and Padfoot to join us.
When we were all settled in the sitting room, Dumbledore started the conversation.
"So Pryde, you said there were more Horcruxes. How many exactly?" he asked.
"Five...for now."
Regulus and Sirius let out a low hiss.
"For now? So he made more?"
She nodded. "He wanted to make seven."
"And did he succeed?"
"Yes. But the sixth one was accidental. So he ended up making seven and the eighth soul left in him," she shrugged.
"Eight parts of soul?" Remus gagged.
"Accidental?" Dumbledore asked
She nodded. "But it doesn't matter now. We have five to worry about."
"And you know what and where they are?"
"You know what they are too, sir."
Dumbledore looked at her amused.
She nodded, "Hepzibah Smith."
"Hepzibah Smith?" we all asked confused.
"They are two," Dumbledore said.
"Right. And he got one that belonged to Ravenclaw too. Pity he couldn't get the sword."
"Hey we're here too!" Sirius snarled.
"Shh...calm down dog! I'm talking!" Pryde waved her hand dismissively.
"Hey-"
"Sirius!" we all groaned.
"Fine!" he huffed.
"Alright. Listen. He made five horcruxes.
The first one he made it when he was 15-"
Everyone swore except Dumbledore. He closed his eyes and nodded.
"When he was 15 or 16. His diary. Second, the Gaunt ring. Third, the locket of Salazar Slytherin, fourth, the cup of Helga Hufflepuff, both, he stole from Hepzibah Smith and fifth, the diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw."
"The diadem of Ravenclaw? The lost diadem of Ravenclaw? It was lost! Centuries ago!" Remus pointed out.
"He found it though!" She replied. "He tricked Helena into telling him," she looked at Dumbledore.
"Helena? Helena who?" I asked.
"Helena Ravenclaw! The Grey lady of course!" Lily exclaimed.
"The ghost of the Ravenclaw tower!" Remus, Sirius, Regulus and I finished.
"Smart," Pryde smirked.
"The Gaunt ring? Why the Gaunts?" Regulus raised his eyebrows.
"His mother was a Gaunt. His father was a muggle."
"Excuse me?!"
"Merlin's pants!"
"So that means, he is..."
"A halfblood, yes."
"You're kidding right?" Regulus asked bewildered.
"She's telling the truth," Dumbledore said calmly.
"Has he been telling you that he is a pureblood?" She smirked.
"But what's with the blood purity shit he is pulling?" Sirius snarled.
"His mother fell in love with his father. She used a love potion to get him and they both ran away. After a while, she stopped giving him the love potion, thinking that he would stay with her. But when he got his senses back, he left her and ran away not aware that she was pregnant. She sold her locket for some money. Later she died giving birth to him. He grew up in a muggle orphanage. He grew up thinking that his father was a wizard. But learnt that his mother was a witch and his father was a muggle when he was attending Hogwarts. That's why he hates muggles. That's why he killed his father.
He stole the cup and the locket from Hepzibah and ring from his uncle.
He made the ring into a horcrux when he killed his father, cup when he killed Hepzibah, diadem when he killed an Albanian peasant, locket when he killed a muggle tramp," she said counting on her fingers.
"And the diary? It was the first one wasn't it? Whom did he kill to make it one?" Lily asked.
"A student."
"WHAT?!"
"Yeah, and she is still at Hogwarts, in the abandoned girls' bathroom..." She trailed off.
"Moaning Myrtle?" We all blurted out.
"He killed Myrtle?" I asked confused.
"Remind me this later. I'll tell you how she died. Now let's finish about the horcruxes first. The places where he hid them.
The locket in the cave,
The ring in the Gaunt house,
The diary with Malfoy,
The cup in the Lestrange's vault,
The diadem at Hogwarts."
"Hogwarts?!"
"Remember the night when he came to ask for the post he always wanted, sir?"
Dumbledore nodded.
"It was an act. He came to hide it."
"So it's still at Hogwarts then?"
"Yes, its the safest place and...his home," she smiled. "Tom is always stupid and arrogant. He thought, only he, knew the deepest secrets of the castle. He found a room and hid it there. It's in the seventh floor across the tapestry of Barnabas and—"
"Well, you are wrong now Pryde. There is no room in the seventh floor across the tapestry of Barnabas. We know all the secrets of the castle. All the secret passageways and rooms. There is no such room," Sirius said haughtily.
Pryde scoffed,"You are wrong most of the times, Black. Because, 1. You are a thick head and 2. You don't know all the secrets of the castle."
"Oh yeah! Look who's talking! The person who never even saw the gates of Hogwarts!" Sirius scoffed.
"Yeah, but I still know there is a tapestry of Barnabas in the seventh floor!"
"Yeah but there is no room-"
"Actually there is Padfoot," I interrupted him.
"What?!"
"Remember in our first year? When we were trying to escape from McGonagall, after curfew? Filch was chasing us from the other end—"
"Yeah! But... But...that was a broom closet!" Remus said.
"And it vanished when we came out of it...and we never found it again! " Sirius said wide eyed.
"Well actually I found you snogging a Hufflepuff in that very broom closet in our fifth year," Lily pointed out.
"Oh yeah! I forgot about that," Sirius smirked
"And that's, the Room of requirement! That's where he hid it!" Pryde grinned.
"He hid it in a broom closet?" Remus asked bewildered.
"No," she shook her head and chuckled. "You didn't listen to me clearly. It's the Room of Requirement. The house elves call it Come and Go room. It only appears when you need it and it can be whatever you want it to be. Say you want it to be your bedroom, or your common room or even a bathroom, it will be."
"Wow! How did we miss it?!" I exclaimed.
"Well, that's the only secret we missed!" Sirius smirked.
"Uh-huh!"
"What? There's more?" Remus asked.
She nodded grinning.
"And what's that?"