Harry Potter and the Deathday Curse

Harry Potter and the Deathday Curse

Chapter 22 Badgering

A.N. A and B were the most popular, so, not to disappointed the readers, I'm going to do a mixture of both of them. You'll see what happens!!!!! This chapter is dedicated to Tadariada, who is the best author, and I really recommend her stories to everyone!!!!!!

Malena

Harry, Ron and Hermione had been rooting through the library for days. They weren't having any luck with the searching of the Deathday Book, or even a book about the Deathday Book.

"There has to be something!" Hermione exclaimed for the tenth time. They had been in their for three hours, and they were all acting extremly tired.

"Can't we just give it a rest!" Ron exclaimed angrily, making Madame Pince scowl at him from behind a bookshelf.

"The library hasn't failed us before! And I'm sure it won't this time!" Hermione said, pulling down another book off of the shelf.

"It's failed us before!" Harry exclaimed. "Remember that time in our forth year when we were looking for a way to breathe un-"

"shutupshutupshutup," Hermione started muttering nonstop under her breath.

"C'mon Hermione, let's go to the common room and do something else for a while," Ron moaned. "Or we could go to Hogsmeade. They are leaving in about ten minutes."

"But-"
"Yeah, let's go. Perhaps they have something in the bookstore there that we can get," Harry said, throwing his bag over his shoulder and starting to put books back onto the shelves.

About five minutes later Ron, Harry and Hermione were in the long line of 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th year students, waiting to go to Hogsmeade.

"I hope that they do have something about the Deathday Curse," Hermione whispered to Harry and Ron as the line moved slowly forward.

"Hermione, will you give it a rest with the curse!" Ron said. "I mean, we deserve a break, and going to Hogsmeade should be for pleasure, not for looking up information about the stupid book!"

Hermione frowned at Ron, but didn't reply. They didn't say a word to each other until they had reached Hogsmeade, and Ron asked if they should go to Honeydukes or Zonko's first.

"Why do you need to go to Zonko's?" Hermione said. "I mean, your brothers are some of the biggest joke makers in the world!"

Ron just scowled, and followed Hermione and Harry into Honeydukes.

They all bought a giant bar of fudge before departing from the sweet shop. They went to Zonko's, where they had shipments of Fred and George's jokes already. Harry, Ron and Hermione went to the small pub to get a butterbeer after that. While Hermione and Ron went to save a seat, Harry went to get the drinks. While he was up there, someone threw a ball of paper at him. It hit Harry in the shoulder and he turned around to see who had thrown it. Sitting in the corner was two people, one wearing a dark blue cloak that covered his head, the other had light brown hair and was beckoning Harry toward him. Harry picked up the bottles of Butterbeer and went over to to the table where the two people were sitting.

"Hello Harry," Remus said. "How're you doing?"

"Hi Remus, Hello James, I'm doing fine. How are you?" Harry replied.
"Not good," James replied, sipping on his own butterbeer. "We just came back from where the Death Eaters had attacked. Bodies everywhere, and even worse, they killed one of the best Auror's in Europe. But we don't know why, I mean, why would Voldemort need to kill her. She never was a threat to him, as far as I know, she's never even had to deal with Death Eaters before. And she used to be in the Department of Mysteries, worked mostly with dark spells and trying to find their countercurses, I worked with her for a while when I was trying to figure out Avada Kedavra, but I don't know why…" James trailed off, looking thoughtful for a moment.

"Why don't you, Ron, and Hermione come over here so you can talk to us." Remus said, drawing up three chairs.

"'Kay," Harry said, starting to wave Ron and Hermione over. About a minute or so later, all five of them were crowded around the small table, conversing softly.

"I still don't know why he would kill her. Like I said, she worked mostly in the department of Mysteries. She dealed with Dark Curses and-"

"That's it!" Ron exclaimed. "She worked with Dark Curses. He doesn't want her to figure out a counter curse for the Cruciatus Curse or something."

"That doesn't make any sense," Lupin said. "In fact, Lydia (the dead woman) didn't even attempt at finding a way to block the Cruciatus Curse."

"Wait a minute," Harry said, thinking hard. "She delt with Dark Curses. What is the darkest curse you can think of?"

"Avada Kedavra," James said, glowering.

"Worse than that."

"Er…"

"The Deathday Curse," Harry said. "Voldemort's been trying to find the book with the Deathday Curse in it. That's why he killed Marvin too."

"Marvin's dead?" Remus said sharply. "How? When?"

"Um… I fell asleep in Divination a few days ago, and I dreamed it. Then today he was in the obituaries. They didn't say how he died though."

"I can't believe it," Remus said. "Marvin's dead. Why would Voldemort do that. Marvin was just an innocent old man…"

"According to Voldemort Marvin knew something about the location of the Deathday Book. He'll do anything to get his hands on the book." Harry said.

"Is this why you wanted to learn something about the Deathday Curse?" James asked suspiciously.

"Yes. If we learn as much as we can about the Deathday Curse, then we might be able to do something to prevent You-Know-who from getting his filthy hands on the book," Hermione exclaimed.
"All right, all right," James said. "I'll tell you as much as I know, but I'm warning you, It's not much." James cleared his throat and started to talk.

"As you already know, the Deathday Curse is ancient, it was first cast in 1087. Many Dark Wizards have used it to gain control over part of the wizarding world. Many of those wizards were killed after their pure evil victims came after them on the anniversary of their death. Eventually, the Ministry of Magic got the Deathday Book, and attempted to burn it so the awful spell could no longer be learned. However, the Deathday Book did not burn, it had a strange magic on it, and after many attempts to destroy it, the Ministry gave up and hid the book. The only people who knew where the book is hidden, died long ago, never telling their children or friends where the book was."

"The last person to see the book was a woman named Arlonia Relonian. When she opened the book, she claimed to have seen the pages of the book stained with blood. She said, that before she lost unconciousness, that she saw a weird prophecy in the page of the book. When she awoke, she was miles away, and she didn't remember a thing about the location of the Deathday Book."

Harry, Ron, and Hermione's mouths were hanging open in shock.

"So no one has seen it in ages." Harry said in a hushed whisper. "I wonder where it is."

"It's not your place to go looking for that book," James said sternly. "I don't want you, Ron, or Hermione to put yourselfs in danger because of some stupid book."

"But what if Voldemort finds it?"

"Let the Aurors and Obliviators deal with that." Remus said. "Don't go looking for trouble. We're doing all that we can to make sure that Voldemort stays away from you, the worst thing you can do is to go walking straight into his hands."

"He won't be able to find me! Remember, I had the Fidelus Curse put on me." Harry said. James scowled at Harry, before turning to Remus.

"Remus, we have that meeting with Dumbledore in ten minutes." James said. "We'd better get up to the school."

"James," Harry said. "Could you please keep that we asked you about the Deathday Book a secret. I don't want the teachers to know about any of this, and if you tell Dumbledore then they'll probably get told too."

"All right." James started to stand up.

"And we have a Quidditch match in ten days," Harry said. "Can you make it?"
James got a pained look on his face.

"Sorry Harry, not this time. I'll ask Sirius if he can go for me, but I can't."

"Oh," said Harry, feeling his heart sink. "All right."

"See you Harry."

"Bye James. Goodbye Remus."

Remus patted Harry on the shoulder before departing from the pub.

"It's too bad that you dad can't come to the match, Harry." Hermione said. "I know he would if he could."

"I don't care." Harry lied.

Hermione smiled sadly.

"I know that you and your father haven't known each other for that long. I know that you don't have the best father-son relationship, but I do know that he cares about you." Hermione said. "That last time in Diagon Alley he was worried that you didn't like him at all and he even asked me if you missed him." Hermione smiled. "You do care that he can't come to the match, don't you."

Harry stared at her for a moment. Then he nodded reluctantly.

"Why don't we go to the Shrieking Shack?" Ron said.

A minute or two later they were climbing up to the hill to the shrieking shack. Even though they knew that it was not haunted, and had been used by Remus for a hideout when he transformed, it was still creepy. Even though it was quite warm out, Harry gave a shiver as he looked up at the blank, dark windows.

"I wonder what the prophecy said," Hermione whispered after a moment of silence.

"What?"

"The prophecy in the book. I wonder what it said," Hermione said. "I wonder if the prophecy ever came true."

"I don't know, but I've had enough of the Deathday Curse talk for today. Can't we talk about something more, I dunno… cheerful?" Harry said.

"Have you and Ginny gone on a date lately?" Hermione asked slyly.

"No, not lately. I'm taking her out on the day after the Quidditch match though. We're coming to Hogsmeade and then we're going to go-"

"Shhh!" Ron said suddenly. Harry shut up. Ron was pointing to the other side of the hill where a drawling voice was coming from.

"Yeah, father says that the Dark Lord will be finding that stupid book soon," said the familiar drawling voice of Draco Malfoy.

Crabbe and Goyle laughed stupidly.

"My father says that You-Know-who is almost certain of where the location of the Deathday book is. In a month or so, the Dark Lord might be ruling the world!"

A.N. Once again, please review. In the next chapter there will be Quidditch and perhaps a breakthrough with the Deathday Curse… I hope you liked the chapter!!!!!

Malena