The 5th chapter. Ah, it's rather longer than the last 4. Brilliant. Must have gotten excited. Graditude towards the like three reviewers. Once again i dont care if you dislike it, but if you do enjoy please review.

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Hostage:

Stuffing the pendant into his pocket, Harry and Ron flew downstairs through the dark sitting room. Snape was still stunned and bound to his armchair.

"That means someone else is here with us." Ron whispered franticly.

"Hurry we can't let them get away." Harry said.

They sprinted into the kitchen and down the stone staircase to the basement. As soon as they reached the bottom, the lights went out. Darkness pressed against their eyes. Ron staggered blindly into Harry and they crashed onto the hard stone floor

Harry heard a soft cackling coming from the corner. He felt around for Ron hoping he was still able to fight, but as he had fallen, he smashed his head against a wooden chair. However Harry figured he would be fine. He made an attempt to stand up, but he cracked his head against an old coffee table. Eyes watering Harry began to speak, "Who's there? Let Hermione and Ginny go or I'll jinx you!"

"Very brave of you Potty." The man drawled. " I didn't think you would even dare to curse me when you can't see. You could hit one of your friends."

Hermione or Ginny gave a small whimper as the man addressed them. Then one of the girls started to fight against their captor. Harry suspected it to be Ginny since she was the braver of the two.

"Hello Draco." Harry replied coolly. "I suspect you're holding your infamous Hand of Glory. That's how you knew who it was."

"Oh, very smart Scar Head, but unfortunately not smart enough to save Mudblood and Weasel here." Malfoy laughed harshly.

"So, tell me Draco." Harry spat. "What exactly are you doing here? I saw that you left our dear hooked nose professor upstairs tied to the chair. Why didn't you free him?"

"Ah, wonderful question Potter." Draco said with a note of amusement. "You see, this was all part of my brilliant setup. It was I who sent you the tip off of Snape's hideout. I figured you would set out immediately since you were so desperate for revenge. I had planned on stunning all of you while you were tying Snape up, but Snape's story of your father distracted me. In fact, I found it rather entertaining."

"Well at least my father wasn't chucked into Azkaban by a 15 year old!" Harry smirked.

"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" Malfoy roared.

Harry's arms and legs snapped together. He fought with all his might against the Body Bind, but gained nothing by it. He was stuck.

"Never talk about my father that way Potter. It will only cause you more harm."

Harry grunted grudgingly. He wanted to keep Malfoy talking. They needed more time. Harry suspected he had placed the girls under a body bind also for the scuffling sounds suddenly stopped.

"Now let me continue telling you of my amazing plan. You see, when you four started towards the kitchen, I hid inside the broom cupboard that you had hidden in earlier. I heard Granger rambling on about Veritaserum and going to look for it. So after you two went upstairs, I snuck down to the basement behind our girls here. Granger gave me away by screaming. She was always annoying. I stunned them and took them as hostages. Now here we are, all of you at my mercy. Just think how delighted the Dark Lord shall be once I tell him I can give him Potter and his posse. I'm hoping he'll torture Granger first. I'm rather looking forward to it-"

"EXPELLIARMUS!" Malfoy was blasted off his feet by Ron's curse. It seems all the talk of Hermione brought him around. He jumped up and hurried over to Malfoy. "I think he hit his head on the wall. There's a bloody huge lump on his skull. Serves him right."

Ron crouched down next to Harry and sighed.

"I can't remember the countercurse."

Harry stared horrified at Ron. What now? Ron won't be able to remember it anytime soon. They would be stuck here until help came. "We should contact the order." He thought. "But how do I tell Ron this?"

"I have an idea!" He said quickly. Then he began to feel his way towards the stairs. "Ouch! What the hell was that? What idiot keeps a stack of newspapers in their basement?" Finally he reached the stairs and scampered up to the kitchen.

The three frozen hostages lay wondering what Ron was up to. After a few minutes they heard a shrill scream. Then silence once again. Harry was worried. What if Ron had been hurt? Were the Death Eaters here?

Then they heard Ron thunder down the stairs carrying a candle. He had a wide grin on his face. "I got it." There was a flash of red light and Harry could move once more.

"What did you do?" Harry said looking puzzled.

"Oh I set Snape on fire."

"WHAT!"

"Yeah Snape wouldn't tell me the countercurse, so I set his robe ablaze."

"You're a genius Ron."

"Really? I want you to remember that the next time I do something stupid."

"Ok I will."

Ron moved over to Hermione and Ginny to unfreeze them. In a flash everyone was on their feet and ready to continue their battle.

"What do we do now?' Ginny asked.

"Lets go back and interrogate Snape." Ron said promptly.

"But we didn't find any Veritaserum." Hermione groaned.

"I think Ron can figure out how to make Snape talk." Harry said grinning at Ron.

"Oh Harry, tell them what we found." Ron said remembering the pendant.

"Oh yeah!" The sudden arrival of Malfoy had driven the Horcrux out of his mind. "Under Snape's bed we found the old case, which Ron was reluctant to touch, but I touched it anyway. Inside was this pendant. Here look at it." He handed it over to the girls to study. "Anyway, on the back there is this raven and underneath it is Loberus Ravenclaw. I figured it is one of Rowena's old possessions."

"Harry!" Hermione gasped. "You're right! Loberus Ravenclaw was Rowena Ravenclaw's grandfather! He said that this pendant held all the knowledge he knew because he had been wearing it during all his magical teaching. After he died, Rowena inherited his pendant. She also wore it during her teachings. It is said to have amazing powers."

"I thought so." Harry replied sounding pleased with himself. "I bet this is one of the Horcruxes. Dumbledore said Voldermort would have used one of Ravenclaw or Griffindor's possessions as one of his Horcruxes."

"This is great!" Ginny exclaimed handing the pendant back to Harry. "We came here to kill Snape and got a Horcrux out of it. Brilliant!"

"Ok, let's finish up here. Then we can go home and destroy it." Harry decided.