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The Locket

"Have you seen Hermione?" asked Harry. "Yeah. She's at the library. She's been spending an awful lot of time in the library this few days. Wonder what she's up to," answered Ron, with a worried look on his face. "Doesn't she always spends her time in the library. It's nothing new to me." Though Harry said this, he knew that something was amiss. Hermione had been no where near them for most of the time. Ron was obviously worried from the look on his face, but Harry knew better than to worry for Hermione. She knows how to take care of herself and it should be her worrying about us instead.

It was already approaching Christmas and Harry felt that he was wasting time at Hogwarts. He was doing nothing to defeat Voldermort. Maybe he did find out about the prophecy but Harry had no idea how that was going to help him. But defeating Lord Voldermort is the most pressing matter now. What matters is Harry finds the 4 hocruxes left. Only then can Voldermort be destroyed. Just when it seemed that all hopes were lost, a glimmer of hope came in the shape of Hermione Granger.

"Harry, I think I know who R.A.B is. I've done all sorts of research and I'm pretty sure it is," said Hermione, with a look on her face that almost looked like she thinks she had just saved the world. Harry just kept quiet, waiting for Hermione to move on. "Did you ever find out what is Sirius Black middle name?" asked Hermione. "No, I don't think so," replied Harry, who just realized that he never really bothered to find out his godfather's middle name. Hermione continues with her findings. "I looked up in the library and found out that Sirius middle name is Amiceville. Which probably goes for Sirius's brother too, Regulus. So R.A.B stands for Regulus Amiceville Black. And the note inside the locket, it was obviously from a death eater's point of view because it wrote there Dark Lord. Only a death eater refer to Lord Voldermort as the dark lord. And Regulus Black is a death eater. Sirius once told us, remember?" Harry kept a calm face though his heart was beating faster everytime Hermione revealed her findings. "So you're saying that Regulus Black is the one who stole the locket?" asked Harry. "Yes. It all made sense doesn't it?" said Hermione eagerly, probably waiting for Harry to congratulate her on her findings. "But then again, how could Regulus had known about the horcrux?" asked Harry. "Sirius once said that Regulus was killed because he had failed a mission Voldermort sent him to do. I'd actually took the liberty to ask him what the mission was. Voldermort actually told him to bring him the locket from the cave, openly telling him that it was a hocrux. Obviously, Voldermort thought Regulus was just an idiot and would never know what a hocrux is. Of course, Regulus doesn't. Curiosity gets the better of him though. He went to do a lot of research and found out the meaning of a hocrux. He suddenly had sort of a change. He decided that he wasn't going to be a Voldermort supporter anymore. And my guess is that since he defected from Voldermort's side, he probably wanted to do his part in his downfall, thus, destroying the hocrux," said Hermione, who was breathless by the time she finished her findings. "So you are telling me that the locket has been destroyed?" asked Harry. "I don't think so. Sirius told me that Regulus came back to Grimmauld place, which is your house now, shortly before he was killed. Sirius noticed him sneaking something inside the house. As you know, your house was full of trophy collections. Sirius said his family was fond of trophy. And my guess is that Regulus had came back to put the locket inside his house. He would then report to Voldermort, telling him that he failed to retrieve the locket. Voldermort would of course kill him instantly." Harry obviously still doesn't get it, but his mind was paying more attention to the fact that Regulus had turned against Voldermort, which was probably the only part of Hermione's findings that he understood. "Why did Regulus changed side then?" asked Harry. Hermione took a deep breath, "Sirius had been trying to convinced Regulus to change side ever since he became a death eater. And Regulus was finally convinced when a death eater killed his friend. So when Regulus came back home one last time before he dies, he told Sirius that he had turn over and also about the locket but Regulus never really managed to explain to Sirius what a hocrux is. Sirius probably kept the locket in a safe place as Regulus had asked him to. Of course Sirius had no idea the locket belonged to Slytherin and had a part of Voldermort in it. If he had known he would probably destroyed it."

At last, Harry was convinced. It all made sense. "But then, why didn't you tell me this last year?" asked Harry. "I had to confirm my findings first because Sirius didn't really told me the story to the exact point. He said that the locket was a Lofux or something like that. And I didn't know what R.A.B stands for." "So are you suggesting we go up to Grimmauld Place now?" Harry asked, still putting Hermione's findings together inside his head. "No. There's no way we could get there. Especially not here. Not at Hogwarts. We could ask Kreacher to go to your house and bring it here. He's your house-elf. He has to listen to your orders." Harry grinned slightly and said, "I never thought you would one day be asking me to mistreat my house-elf." "I wasn't asking you to mistreat him. You make sure you ask him nicely."