AUTHORS NOTE: Hello my little minions. This is the fourth chappie! YAY! This chapter was not originally in my plans, but someone made a great suggestion about it! So, this is for you Catie! Have fun everyone! Love ya all!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything Harry Potter related. Except the plot. J.K. Rowling owns the characters. Maybe I should steal them... or claim she stole the idea from me... hmmmm. No, I could never do that to such a great author. lol I was only joking by the way. DON'T TAKE ME SERIOUSLY! lol!
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"Well, since we're all on speaking terms agian," Began Ginny. It was the day before the wedding and she, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were sitting in the living room relaxing after a hard day. Ron was still wincing whenever someone spoke, having been around Fluer everytime she had been screaming (which was quite alot today). He found that anything above a wisper made his ears ring. They were sensative now. "Will you guys please tell me about the last horcrux? Nobody ever told me what happened!"
Harry looked at Ron and Hermione and then at Ginny. "Well, I'll let Ron decide. He is your brother."
"Me? Ask Hermione. She's the smart one. She should know who to tell or not." Ron looked at his new girlfriend. "Go on Hermione. Should we tell her or not?"
"I think it should be Harry's decision. After all, this is HIS thing. We're just back up helpers." Hermione said. She did not like being put on the spot like that. Especially over something that was not her right to decide.
"Well, if your not going to tell me, I'll just go see if mum needs any help." Ginny said. She got up to leave and was stopped. Harry grabbed her arm and pulled her back down on the couch.
"Ok, I'll tell you what happened. With Ron and Hermione's help of course." Harry said.
Ginny quickly settled herself on the couch. Then, she re-settled herself after Harry put his arm around her. She found it more comfortable to be in his arms. She laid her head on his shoulder.
"Well, where to begin?" Harry asked. He looked at Ginny and kissed her forehead. "Where to begin?" He asked agian.
"Start with how we found out about it." Hermione said. She too settled in almost like she was a little girl getting ready for story time. Ron copied Harry and put his arm around her.
"Hmmm oh yes. How we found out." Harry said. He smirked at Ginny as she pulled her legs up onto the couch.
"Well, miss-know-it-all here had been reading. Remember that day we went out and didn't come back for about three days?" Harry watched as Ginny nodded. "Well, we went to the old house of this woman Voldimort had killed." "Oh stop it Ron!" Hermione said. "Anyway, she had had the Hufflepuff cup and the Slitherin locket. He had killed her to get to those two things. We went there in search of anything that might have been a clue. She was looking through one of the ladies books while me and Ron looked at everything else. Her house had never been gone through. Nobody claimed her things and people have been to scared to go in there. Everything was left the same. We were looking through everything.
Me and Ron had just gone into another room when we heard Hermione scream. We came running back in and saw her standing by the book shelf with a book in her hand. She looked up at us. Her other hand was covering her mouth. "I've found one." She said. Me and Ron just stood there looking at her."
"I thought she had gone mental!" Ron added.
"You always think i've gone mental." Hermione said.
"Anyway," Harry said loudly. "Well, she explianed to us the book she had found. It was Voldimort's diary." He felt Ginny shudder.
"Not that thing agian!" She said.
"No not that thing agian. It wasn't Tom Riddle's. It was Voldimort's. After he had changed his name. It must've dropped out of his pocket the day he had killed this woman. He naver came back for it. In the dairy, he stated, 'I have found some useful artifacts that I can use on my quest. I have also found places to hide them. Well, I have found one. It shall be taken to the place where I grew up. The only other place besides Hogwarts.' Well, I knew exactly where that was. The orphanage. So we went there. And we went to his old room. It took a little while because the door had been inchanted. When we finally got in we searched everything, except the wardrobe he had. That was the last place we even bothered to look. And sitting on the top shelf was the Hufflepuff cup. I took it down and it started to glow."
"Really brightly too. Hurt me eyes." Ron said.
"Shut up Ronald! I want to hear it too!" Hermione said.
"But, you were there! Why would you want to hear it if you saw everything first hand?" Ron asked. He was bewildered.
"Because Ronald. It's different then hearing it. I swear-"
"I swear if you two don't shut up and let ME hear the story I will hex you both!" Ginny interrupted. Ron and Hermione stared at her but didn't say a word. "As you were saying Harry."
"As I was saying, It started to glow. And then everything went dark. The whole room, the cup, everything. And the ground started to shake. A crack appeared in the floor and before I knew what was happening, we all feel through the hole. The place we landed in was like a big cave. Almost like the one where me and Dumbldore were in. Except this one had no water. And then I realized the cup was gone. It was on the other side of the room, standing straight up and smoking. Ron thought it was on fire. He walked across the room and bent down to the cup. Me and Hermione followed him. When we got there, three figures came out of the cup. When we could get a clear look at them we saw they were us. There were now two Rons, two Hermiones, and two of me. They came after us and we had to fight them. The only problem was that we didn't know which was which. I kinda disarmed Ron cause I didn't know which one was him and which was the clone. Then Hermione conjured ribbons, bright yellow ones, and told us to put them on our wrists so we'd know which ones were which."
It took us a while to fight these things and when Ron finally defeated the clone Ron, with Hermione's help telling him a good spell to use, we went back to the cup. A kind of black mist was now coming out of it. And then the mist turned into a snake. A snake of mist. It came at us and nothing Hermione tried would get it to go away. So Ron just ran right through it."
"He ran through it? Just like that? And didn't die?" Ginny asked.
"Yep. And after he did, it disappeared. It was the easiest thing he could've done! But it worked. So then Hermione did some weird spell she must've picked up from McGonagall. And this purple X rose up from it and she said we did it. We got rid of it. I didn't think it would be so easy. Then, of course we had the problem of getting back into the room from where we came. We went back to where the crack in the floor was and just looked up like we were stupid and waiting for rain to fall in our mouths. And the ground started to shake agian. All the shaking was upsetting my stomach now. It was annoying." Ginny giggled. Her head was now resting on harry's knees, facing up at him while he stroked her hair. She was laying across the couch. "And the floor rose up and we were back in the room. The cup was sitting in front of me and the ground was back to normal. So we took the cup and left. Grimmald place was the closest so we spent the night there and then we came back here. And that is the whole story about the horcrux." Harry finished.
Ginny just stared at him. Her mouth was open a little. Hermione and Ron were asleep on the other couch.
"Wow. That wasn't what I expected but, to be put in that kind of a position is awful." She said.
"Yea well. I can't help it. Being the boy who lived and the chosen one I guess I get the pretty crummy positions." Harry said with a smile. "Now come on, lets go to bed."
"Aw Harry, do we have to wake those two? They look so sweet." Ginny asked. She smiled as she sat up.
"No, we can leave those two alone. But, lets go up to bed." Harry said as he yawned.
"If they can sleep down here, why can't we?" Ginny asked. She looked at Harry.
"There arn't enough couches for us both to sleep down here." Harry knew what Ginny ment but, he was trying to play dumb.
"Harry! We can share a couch. Like them." The two looked at Hermione and Ron. They were curled up together. Hermione had her head on Ron's chest and he had one arm around her and the other intwined in her hair.
"Ok." Harry said.
He grinned at Ginny and layed down on the couch. Ginny layed half on him, half next to him and he wrapped his arms around her. She placed her head on his chest and sighed as she heard his heart beating. It didn't take long until both of them were asleep.