"Right you are Narcissa but while you all prepare lunch I'm going to take Sirius and Harry down the hall to take a look at his scar," Regulus said.
"Regulus if you don't mind I would like to be there as well so I can do a complete medical history scan on Harry to add to our cases against old crooked nose, Pomfrey, and the Dursleys," Andromeda asked him.
"Sure, Andy how about you do the scan and then you can come back out here and get whatever potions Harry will need ready for him," Regulus replied.
"Well let's get all this unpleasant business taken care of so we can get back out here and eat lunch and I can tell my Pup some stories before we start reading again," Sirius said leading Harry through the door labeled bedrooms and down the hall behind it to the bedroom door that was labeled Sirius.
"Alright Harry why don't you lie down on the bed and then I will wave my wand over you and this parchment and quill will make notes about all your past injuries and any other health issues I find," Andromeda told Harry who did as she had asked.
As he was lying there waiting for Andromeda to start the scan he was started to shake with nerves and fear. Sirius seeing that Harry was working himself up to panic went and sat by his side and grabbed his hand. Harry was just calming down when Andromeda turned around from setting up the quill and parchment. She did not say anything just raised her wand and waved it over Harry and as she was doing this the quill started writing. It took only about a minute for Andromeda to finish casting the spells she needed to but it took the quill 10 minutes to finish writing.
"Well Harry it seems like we will be needing to correct some poorly healed injuries and you will need a potion regime to correct your poor nutritional health. Also, when was the last time your eyes were tested because my scan shows that those glasses are not the right prescription?" Andromeda asked Harry after picking up the parchment and reading it.
"Never I only got these because the school nurse in my first year of primary school told Petunia that I need glasses and that I had probably needed them for a while. All Petunia did was grab a pair out of a donations box and told me to make do," Harry answered causing all three adults to puff up in anger.
"Well one of the first things I will need to do is make you a potion to correct your eyesight since it seems your magic is allowing you to see right now which is putting a strain on your magic," Andromeda said once she had calmed down a little bit.
"Andy did your scan tell you anything about his scar?" Regulus asked her as she got ready to head back out to the dining room.
"Yes, it showed that there is a dark residue to it and that no one even attempted to heal it all those years ago," Andromeda told him before leaving the room.
"Well now let's see if we can figure out if we can get rid of the dark residue in your scar," Regulus said turning toward Harry.
"If you can get rid of it will my scar stop hurting when Voldemort's around?" Harry asked.
"When were you around Voldemort besides when you were a baby?" demanded Sirius.
"During my first year at Hogwarts I won't say anymore since that would ruin the book," Harry said cheekily.
"Alright we will wait until we have finished the first book to question you further and to answer your question it should stop hurting," Regulus responded while taking his wand out of his wrist holster. He then cast several spells to determine what kind of dark residue was in Harry's scar. With each result, he paled more and more until he was as white as a sheet. When he finished he holstered his wand and sat down heavily in the only chair in the room.
"So, what did you find out can it be removed?" Sirius asked when it seemed like Regulus wasn't going to say anything.
"I believed it can be removed but I'm going to need to confer with our resident curse breaker," Regulus told him.
"I'll go get Bill for you," Harry volunteered and got up to do just that.
"Was it a horcrux like you feared?" Sirius asked once Harry had left the room to get Bill.
"Yes, but like I said I'm pretty sure it can be removed," Regulus answered just as they heard Harry and Bill coming down the hall.
"So, what did you need me to help with?" Bill asked upon entering the room.
"First let me ask you do you know anything about horcrux from working with the goblins?" Regulus asked causing Bill to pale considerably.
"Yes, we sometimes come across them in the oldest tombs in Egypt. The goblins have long memories and know of an ancient ritual that removes the soul piece from the container as most wizards and witches make them out of priceless artifacts," Bill answered.
"Alight that's good to know next thing we want to ask you is have you ever come across a living one say like an animal or a human?" Sirius asked.
"Some ancient text that we have found say that some of the darker witches and wizards of that time thought putting one in a baby and then raising it to do their bidding would give them the insurance that they needed against someone destroying the horcrux. One text even says a witch did so with her own daughter and that she then used the girl to do her dirty work for her while possessing her through the horcrux. The girl started trying to resist her mother and sadly she was killed by magical backlash," Bill told them.
"What's a horcrux and why do you need to know all this?" Harry asked causing the adults to jump in shock having forgotten that he was there.
"A horcrux is a piece of someone's soul that's been broken off the whole and secreted away into an object that is then usually placed in a heavily warded place to protect it from being destroyed. As, for why we need to know this it's because we suspect that Voldemort made a few," Sirius answered.
"How do you make one and why do people make them?" was Harry's next question.
"To make them you must kill an innocent and as to why people would make them they think it gives them immortal life," Regulus was the one to responded this time.
"Just one more question can a horcrux control someone and then use their life force to bring the person back from the brink of death?" Harry asked.
"Yes, they can but to do so the person it is controlling as to get emotionally close to the horcrux," Bill answered.
"Then I think I already dealt with one of Voldemort's horcruxes last year," Harry said.
"What do you mean Harry?" Sirius asked.
"Last year Ginny was being controlled by a diary which had a sixteen-year-old Voldemort trapped in its pages then toward the end of the year he made her go down to the Chamber of Secrets where he proceeded to take her life force to bring himself back. That's when I learned that he is a half-blood-with his muggle father and witch mother-named Tom Marvolo Riddle," Harry told them.
"Then yes that was a horcrux," Regulus said.
"Now that we have covered my knowledge of horcruxes what did you need me for?" Bill asked getting everyone back on track.
"We believe that there is a horcrux inside Harry's scar and we were wondering if you knew how to safely extract it," Sirius whispered so that Harry couldn't hear what he was asking Bill.
"Well like I said the goblins have an old ritual that can be used to extract horcruxes from their containers," Bill said.
"So, you're saying the safest way to do this is to take him to the goblins when we get done with the books," Regulus said.
"Yes, that would be the safest thing to do," Bill responded.
"Are we done now because I can smell lunch and I'm getting hungry," Harry questioned them.
"Yes, we are done for now let's go eat you little rascal," Sirius chuckled leading the way back out to the dining room.
Once they got to the dining room and had joined everyone else at the table Narcissa and Andromeda served lunch. Fred, George, and Draco wanted to know what was discussed in the other room and why they needed Bill but Percy-who overheard them pestering Harry-put a stop to their asking. Sirius kept his promise to tell Harry some stories of his parents over lunch and for the next hour or so they ate and chatted with the rest of the group. Once everyone was finished eating and had cleaned their dishes they all moved back to the reading room where Tonks immediately picked up the book so she could read her chapter.