Harry Potter and the Sixth Horcrux
Spoiler: All of them maybe? Definitely HBP
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Chapter 2: A word on wards.
Two sets of eyes looked up at number four, Privet Drive. The first, who had a tall, slim yet masculine build, pulled out his wand and whispered, "recens incantamentum recludo." Instantly a white thread sprung from his wand; twisted and twirled around eventually forming itself into a replica three-dimensional plan of number 4. When the image was completed, the top left window began to glow, alternating between its original brilliant white to a putrid, sickly green.
"Nice party trick, Severus." Commented the second Death Eater. The voice was feminine but harsh and the words spoken were underlined with intense dislike and deep sarcasm. "I had expected something less… modest than a simple revealing spell. This is lacking the expected flair and finesse that befits the Dark Lord's new favourite. I thought that you of all people would have gotten the fine-art of spell weaving mastered to the highest degree." The plan vanished as Snape directed his attention to his partner.
"Silence, Black! Flair is all well and good for a fancy duel or to give some sort of impression that you know what you are doing, but in a stealth mission, the less obvious you are, the more successful you will be; consequently you will not get yourself caught! Feel free to take much needed notes Ms Azkaban!" The venom in Snape's voice was so thick that Bellatrix fell silent. A few moments past as both Snape and Bellatrix searched for any wards that could potentially get in their way.
"Are you sure this is where he lives, Snape? There are no wards in the area at all." Bellatrix questioned.
"Of course he lives here! His window was the one flashing green on the plan. He has already put a spell on it. We will go through the door." Snape answered. "There are no wards because after I had dispatched Dumbledore, all of the wards that weren't locked to a buildings magical core were robbed of the necessary power. This house won't even have a core, so all the spells Dumbledore created to protect the brat will have died with him."
"But why are there no Ministry wards? And does that mean Hogwarts is now defenceless?" pushed Bellatrix.
"There are no Ministry wards because our spies in the Ministry have taken them down and to answer the second question; Hogwarts has always been defenceless! Even little Draco Malfoy showed us that! But no; Dumbledore did have enough sense to tie the wards into the castle's core and even then Hogwarts was also warded by the founders and even they are still active. You would have to destroy the entire castle for the wards to be effectively 'killed'. Anyway enough with the history lesson, I do not wish to teach anymore insolent brats in my lifetime." With that both witch and wizard approached number four.
Bellatrix stopped suddenly and turned to Snape. "Snape if there are no wards, then what's to stop us apparating in, grabbing Harry and apparating back out?"
"My, my Bella! All this way and only now just think of apparition!" Snape sneered. He spoke the revealing spell again and with his wand and tapped the pulsating green window with his wand. As the white thread re-arranged itself into the inside of Harry's room, Snape started to explain. "Back when I was Hogwarts, I was constantly pushing the boundaries of conventional magic. As such I have invented many spells that I recorded in my potions book. Potter has somehow managed to acquire said book meaning that only I, and now he know of the spells contained inside. Unfortunately for us, there are a few, very nasty, anti-apparition wards that can cause us considerable pain if we are to breach them. If we look to the plan again, Black…" Snape pointed with his wand at the plan of Harry's room. All of the perimeter was pulsating the same white then green pattern that the window had done previously. "…Ahh… Just as I had suspected." Snape continued. "The whole room reeks of new magic. He must have used one of the spells in the book to prevent us from apparating in."
"But we don't know what spells he has put on the room; it could all just be a cleaning charm." Answered Bellatrix.
"True, true, but I know what some of the spells in the book do. I would rather not risk being on the receiving end! We could spend all night using our limited knowledge of Arithmancy to disable these unknown wards. Or… You could just open the door and get this farce over with!" Snape replied tersely.
Bellatrix sighed and pointed her own wand at the door to number four and blasted it off its hinges just as Harry apparated upstairs from the living room with Uncle Vernon's expensive DVD player. He didn't hear the crash of the door as he was in the middle of apparition, but the Dursley's did. All three of them jumped out of their beds, rushed out of their rooms, down their stairs and straight onto their own killing curses.
Harry closed the window again after letting Pig and Hedwig fly the distance to the Burrow – he'd learned it was not a good idea to apparate with both a lot of luggage and animals together. You were asking for far too many problems with that. He sat on his trunk preparing himself to apparate with all his things. He glanced at his watch. It was 4:59am. At 5am Harry's door flew across the room and in burst the two Death Eaters. Both with third degree burns on their hands and both incredibly pissed off as they had both just discovered Harry was not there.
Ok sooo... Shorter than the first chapter because it needed to be really to keep the pace fast. I'll try and keep future chapters longer but I can't promise anything.
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Vivilp182: Cheers. Yeah they did, but there is a gap between Dumbledores death and Harry's birthday that has a relevant backstory that will be explained. Suffice to say I needed Harry going out with Ginny around this time. I will say no more.
On that note though. I do need a beta tester to pick up on things like this so that I can make sure I havn't actually screwed up. Ha ha.