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Chapter 14 I Know What It Is
At last we found out
The final link
It's now time of war
Finally, I think
But we'll together
I'll leave you never
I feel so good when I'm close to you
So warm in your embrace
And as long as you are with me
There's nothing I can't face
"Harry"
"Hmm?" mumbled Harry from under the sheets.
"Get up!"
"Oh Dray. Lemme sweep some mowe"
"Stop talking in your sleep and get up, Harry, it's already 9 and -"
"Ok, gimme five minutes"
"Fine, I'm in the living room"
As soon as Draco got to the living room, he was attacked by questions from Harry's friends(and now his own too, at least one of them)
"Where is he?" Ron's impatience now was getting better of him.
"He's still sleeping, says he'll be there in five minutes"
"Malfoy if this is some plan of yours then-"
"Ron! Stop it. If Harry's sleeping Draco can't help it."
"Thanks Mione but if you wish, you may go see him."
"Yeah that's exactly what I'm going to do now tha-"
"Ronald Weasley! Don't dare to move a step. I - we trust Draco and it's rude to go like that into someone's bedroom"
"Mione! This is Harry! We are his best mates and there's nothing wrong with giving our friend a pleasant surprise" Ron said crossly.
"Ron! It's different now! It could be more of a shock for him now." Hermione flushed badly as sahe explaimed. Draco understood what she was hinting at and himself blushed slightly.
"Uhmm..there's nothing like that. You guys can go if you wish, you know"
"Some guests there Dray?" said Harry sleepily, stepping into the living room, rubbing his eyes.
"Harry!"
"Mate! Wassup?"
The two hugged Harry as he tried to register it all in his still asleep mind. It was after a moment that he realised that his best friends were there to meet him.
"Hey, Ron, Mione, how've you guys been?"
"Just great Harry. I'm so glad you're ok!"
"Why? What could happen to me?"
"Oh, nothing Harry. Ron just means that we're happy to see you after so long, you know with the war and all," Hermione said quickly giving Ron a harsh you-better-stop-this-now look.
The three chatted while Draco made tea.
"Harry, remember Draco had said you'll both be coming to the Burrow for Christmas?"
"Yeah Mione bu-"
"Yes, I did say so and as you must know, a Malfoy never goes back on his promise. So, we will be coming. In fact I think we'll be there tomorrow itself. After all its just four days to Christmas now," interrupted Draco, looking strictly at Harry, who wasn't too keen about the idea.
"That's great but now let's get to the topic"
"Yeah, we came here to tell you that we think we know what it is Harry"
"What is what exactly?"
"The horcrux Harry! We think it's a diadem that belonged to Rowena Ravenclaw. It's the only known heirloom of the Ravenclaw family"
"But Mione, we've been looking in so many books and so has Severus. Where did you get a book none of us found?"
"Well actually the idea's kinda muggle. It's called internet"
"Yu found this on the net - you mean the muggle internet with websites and everything?"
"Ya Harry. Actually, I was too tired of reading all these books (shocked stares) and I was thinking how easy it was back home when I could google anything and get information. So I took Ron to a muggle cyber cafe. And we searched out family heirlooms and geneologies. This is what we found." She pulled out a printed paper from her pocket and handed it to Harry. It said that the family tree was unavailable since the family was a bit secretive but they did have information about a diadem belonging to the family, which was once kept in a museum in London but was stolen. Harry looked at the photograph included. The diadem was incribed with white diamonds all over except for in the front where blue ones were set to form an eagle.
"This seems plausible but how do you think it got to a museum?"
"Wait a second guys. What is an - an internet and uh - gogle and museum and all that?" Draco asked, looking lost. Ron, to whom Hermione had explained everything, smirked.
"Oh Draco! You're such a pure blood!"
"What do you mean? It's better than being a complete muggle" Draco said crossly, raising his chin haughtily.
"Yeah, yeah"
"Don't yeah me Harry, you know what, even Mione knows than you inspite of being a mud- muggleborn"
"You guys stop it. Thanks Draco. I appreciate that you got rid of that word. Now as for internet, that's difficult to explain, but you can say it's a vast library of information for muggles, I won't go into details for now please, websites are used to organize this data, you can compare them to different books in a library. Google is one such website used to search through this information. And finally, a musrum is where old artefacts and things of historical importance are stored."
"Wow! That's a lot to grasp. But sounds interesting, you're both gonna teach me more about this internet thing after the
war"
"Ah, a Malfoy turning to muggle inventions! This should be in the Daily Prophet tomorrow!"
"Ron! We'll do that Dray. But as for now, how did it end up in a museum in the first place?"
"Don't know Harry, maybe it was stolen by some muggle or something. Let's not think of that but concentrate on how to find it."
"Just give me that picture again." Harry handed the picture to his boyfriend who observed it carefully before putting it away. "I think I know where it is. No I'm sure I know. It's at Hogwarts."
"What?"
"Ya. It's in the Room of Requirement, in the one where hidden things are kept. I saw it when I was repairing the cupboard to - uh- bring them to Hogwarts."
"Now I remember too, it was there when I went to take back my - I mean Severus' potions book"
"Harry, mate, a little more time and I wouldn't recognise you!"
"What do you mean Ron?"
"I mean it's just been a few months and Malfoy's become Dray and Snape's Severus. What next man? Bella for Lestrange and Tom for You-know-who?"
"Ronald. Stop it now. Harry, don't mind him, it's just that Ginny's finally returning for Christmas with Bill and Fleur and Wilhelm's coming too"
"Oh it's fine"
"So what about the diadem?"
"Well, first option is to tell Sev to get it, and he can destroy it in the Room itself"
"Dangerous, if he comes to know of this Severus might get in trouble"
"Fine, then the next is Ron gets it after Christmas break or the last is we all go to Hogwarts, fight a war and end it all"
"I don't think I'm too keen on the war, Mione"
"But Harry, we have to fight it one day, then why delay it?"
"Ok then, but let's have it after Christmas?"
"Of course, how about we join the Ron and Gin to Hogwarts?"
"You mean on the train?"
"Ya, nice idea. How else could we get inside the school?"
"Actually, there is a way. I forgot to tell you guys but we have a passage to Hogshead from the Room of Requirement. We needed to hide Neville there and so we needed food too and when we asked for it, we got this passage. The owner's really supporting so there won't be a problem"
"But Hogsmeade is also difficult. There would be death eaters all over. I still am with Hermione's plan of going on the train. We have your cloak too!"
"See Draco and I are the brains of the group and since we both agree on this plan, it's done now"
The other two reluctantly nodded in agreement.
"Fine then, we'll be off for no . See you tomorrow"
"Bye guys"
With that Hermione and Ron flooed back, leaving behind a not-very-happy Harry with Draco.
"Dray, I wanted to spend this Christmas with you"
"And I'm going to be with you at the Burrow, love"
"No, what I mean is just two of us"
"We'll have lots of Christmases for that, but for this one, I want you to be with all the people you love."
"You promise it'll be just us together for all the other Christmases to come?"
"For each and everyone, until you get tired of me!"
"That is not happening, so you better be ready to spend all of them with me"
Draco answered him with a soft kiss. I promise Harry, we'll be together forever.
A/N: Wow! Another chapter complete! But don't get used to the daily updates coz now i'm going to be busy with my exams..but i'll ensure that i update whenever possible. But the real problem is I'm having sort of a confusion. So i'm going to put this for vote : who proposes who? Draco to Harry or Harry to Draco? I'll check in after two or three days so please let me know your choice by then so that i can write the next chapter. Now you know what's gonna happen at the christmas party..a propsal! Sweet no? And i think i'll also reveal dear Severus' dirty little secret! (ok, not really dirty, but it sounds nice) Till then goodbye, au revoir, hasta pronto