Chapter fourteen

Harry and Mad-eye got out of the castle without anyone knowing. They went to the sports store first and bought twenty paint ball guns, they also got all the information that went with it. After they left there they headed to military bases, using their invisibility cloaks they were able to find the file room that held the information on Kevlar. They found some of the vests, so they grabbed those as well. They did take one muggle gun and some ammunition, only to test the vests. Once they put everything in Mad-eye's room they headed to the second floor girls bathroom.

'There has to be another way, Salazar wouldn't slid down a pipe, and they didn't have plumbing back then. Plus think of Voldemort, he would see that as beneath him.'

'You're right, there has to be stairs or another way, maybe from outside the castle. We can look around in the chamber, see if we can find something.'

Harry nodded then hissed, "open" Harry waited until the pipes were revealed, "stairs" he grinned as stairs appeared at the side, 'I figured I would try.'

'Sometimes the simplest way is the best way, but since you and Voldemort are the only parselmouth's alive no one could even open this. Let's go.'

Harry and Mad-eye kept casting cleaning spells as they made their long way down into the chamber of secrets. They got to the door, Harry spoke parselmouth again, the large door opened.

'Damn Potter, you were twelve when you faced that thing.'

'Yeah, I was too focused back then but seeing it now, I should have died.'

'You have luck on your side Potter, I also believe your mother did more than just stop you dying that night. From what I've heard you've had too many lucky escapes.'

'I've thought the same thing, well, let's get the teeth.'

'Why don't you look around, maybe you might find another entrance which could help evacuate the younger students?'

Harry nodded, he began to walk slowly around the walls, inspecting every part to see if there was some clue to another way in and out. He was mainly looking for a serpent but he knew that it could be anything. Only a parselmouth can open the chamber so once down here Salazar Slytherin would not need to speak snake language.

"Harry, I sense something from where the big snake lived."

Harry knew Lightning was a magical snake, hopefully it meant she could tell there was something there. Harry levitated himself up to the mouth of Salazar Slytherin's statue, he had the mouth open then stepped inside.

'Lumos,' his wand lit up a huge tunnel that branched off, but Harry saw it instantly, a door at the end but it was round. He made his way towards it then just turned the handle, it didn't open so he figured snake language was needed, "open" the door slid into the wall.

'Oh blimey,' Harry stared around at the room he had stepped into. It was like a living room come library and there were scrolls, heaps of scrolls. He hurried over to the first lot, 'It's written in parsletongue, I didn't know it was a language,' Harry began to read, he knew he could spend too much time in here but he could return. He didn't want to take the chance of removing the scrolls as they might be too delicate. He also didn't want anyone to use some of these spells, they would be considered dark, not all of them but most.

Harry began on the third scroll when he spotted a small picture in the top right hand corner. Harry looked closer to realise it was a picture of the dark mark. He felt his pulse pick up, he knew this was something important, he just wasn't sure what. He sat on the sofa and carefully unrolled the scroll.

It was around an hour later that Moody finished removing the fangs from the basilisk along with the venom in the sacks. He had to remove the venom from the teeth and make sure none touched him as the poisonous venom dripped into vials. He also decided to take some of the blood, have it tested to see if it could be of any use.

'Hey Potter, we need to get back upstairs.'

Harry put the scrolls back, closed the door then levitated himself down out of the mouth.

'I found Slytherin's lair, it has scrolls, all written in parsletongue. The couple I looked at would be dangerous if anyone got hold of them, really dark spells.'

'We may come back one day, for now only you can get in here. Do you think Voldemort found it?'

'It doesn't look like it, there was nothing modern, it was all really old, there wasn't even a book, and everything was covered in dusts and webs.'

'Then hopefully he didn't.'

Harry followed Moody up the stairs, he wasn't going to tell the ex-auror what he did find, only Sirius would know because Sirius would never tell as it would put Harry in Azkaban. But he wasn't going to let this chance pass, it would mean all the death eaters would be taken care of in one go.

Harry waited until everyone was asleep before using his cloak and map, he made his way down to Sirius's room. He knew the password so he let himself in. It was dark so he knew Sirius was asleep but this was too important to wait.

'Sirius, Sirius,' Harry shook his godfather's shoulder.

'Harry, what is it?'

'I found something, but it means we will win with no loss of life on our side. There's two things but I wanted to mention this first. You can't tell anyone though Sirius, it would have me given the kiss or thrown through the veil.'

Sirius sat up, 'Tell me.'

'While we were in the chamber, Moody asked me to see if there was another way out, there wasn't. But I found Salazar Slytherin's room, full of scrolls. Most were dark magic, Moody agrees that no one should see them. I found something though, it's to do with the dark mark.'

'Keep going.'

'I found the spell he used to mark them but there is something else, it's all written in parsletongue and there is a way I can use it to connect with every dark mark. I'm not sure it would stop Voldemort but it would kill every death eater, anyone with the mark.'

'That's hundreds of people, some are students.'

'I know, but if they keep going then they will keep killing. Every day there are reports of deaths. If they get caught and locked up then Voldemort might just break them out again. Okay, I'm not sure about killing anyone, but it might be needed, so we keep that as a backup. There is more though, there was another spell that could stop the death eaters without killing them but I know most would prefer death.'

'Okay, I would rather you didn't kill so tell me.'

'It will drain their magical core until it was completely gone, leaving them like muggles or squibs.'

'Fuck, so you can take their magic?'

'Yes, Salazar thought it up so he could use it against muggleborns.'

'What happens to the magic?'

'It just disappears, it's not like a soul where you can see that when it leaves someone. When the dementors began to suck out your soul I saw it, but the magical core isn't like that.'

'I would rather you do that than kill them.'

'I just wanted to tell you about both, I wasn't keen on the idea of taking one life let alone hundreds. But I found out that to be marked you have to do it willingly, which means you want to kill and to get the mark you have to kill an innocent.'

'Okay, this stuff sounds like Voldemort now Slytherin.'

'That's where he got the idea, I didn't tell Moody but the scrolls had been moved even if it was a long time ago. Lightning said she could taste two distinct cores, one was almost gone the other still strong.'

'Nothing is written about Slytherin using a mark of some kind, then again there isn't much around from their time, so much was lost. I think we should remove those scrolls and hide them somewhere away from Hogwarts.'

'Wouldn't they be safer here, I'm the only one that can open it, apart from Voldemort.'

'True, but you told me Fawkes came to you down there, right?'

'Right, he pecked out the snake's eyes then brought me the sword.'

'That means Fawkes could take Dumbledore down there. Do you realise what he would do if he got hold of those.'

'Either destroy them or put them under enchantments where anyone could view them just not touch them. Still, they are written in parsletongue, no one could understand them.'

'Think of this, you, your sitting there reading them or even staring at them, then someone sees your memory, someone like Voldemort. Think of this as well, what if he decides to keep his line going. He might not believe in love Harry but he might want to have a son who would help him conquer, if he had a child they would be a parslemouth.'

'Okay, then we need to get them to Black manor, but we need somewhere that no one can get to, it will also need some strong wards.'

'We can do that, and Black manor have cellars, a dungeon, plenty of other rooms that we could put under the fidelius charm.'

'You can charm one room?'

'Yes, you can even charm a secret.'

'Then we'll go down in a few days, Moody and I are going to post the notices for the defence classes. Once we get who wants to take them then I have to work on who I will take and who goes to Moody.'

'You plan to take the twins aren't you?'

'Yes, they already told me they want to learn from me.'

'It could cause problems for the Weasley's. Ron is angry with the situation because Ginny is hurt. He may write to his parent's about this.'

'Then let him, it's up to the twins, they are adults so they can make their own decisions.'

'True, I just figured I would warn you, now you best get some sleep, it's late.'

'I just had to tell you when I knew we wouldn't be interrupted,' Harry hugged his godfather then put his cloak over himself then hurried back to Gryffindor tower. But he felt better now he knew he wouldn't be killing anyone, just removing the death eater's magic. Harry knew he could live with that. He wasn't sure he could live with deliberately taking a life, he would if he had no choice, during the fighting, but just doing it without giving them a chance was not something he wanted to do. He would still make plans with Moody, the x-auror could not get suspicious or he just might tell the old man what Harry was planning.