"Hello fire", came Draco's reply in her diary under her message to him.
"How are you?" Hermione asked him, worried about him as he was housing the only person if Voldemort could be called one in his home.
"How am I? How am I…? For fuck sake Hermione are you fucking kidding me? I was so tense and worried about you and you have the audacity to ask how are you? Are you okay? Where the hell are you? "
"Noooo… don't tell me I can't know, if he looks in my head, no just tell me you are safe, that's all I need to know"
"Yes dragon I am Okay," Hermione wrote in the most placating manner. There was mirth in her eyes with adoration for the wizard she was having a conversation with.
"Okay… You are okay…that's good. Are you sure, you didn't answer me ?"
"Yes, Dragon I am safe and even healthy I'd say"
"School has already begun. I was so relieved when I didn't see you on the platform. But when the blasted ministry released the Muggle-born Registration Commission, I was so worried."
"Dragon it's not so easy to catch me, you know that right. Relax and take a deep breath; okay…?"
"Yeah "
"Everything is fine, even Harry and Ron are doing well."
"Ugh… I would have been content without knowing the last information"
"I have to ask something of you if it's not a bother," Hermione wrote the last line hesitantly. She knew that Draco would never say no, no matter the cost he has to pay. As she was wondering in her mind. Draco's reply has appeared in her diary.
"Granger you can never bother me, by the way, Theo says hi."
Seeing that both her Slytherin friends are together, Hermione felt a sudden warmth in her heart with a sense of loss.
But then also with a cheerful smile on her face, she wrote "Hi Theo"
"Draco, I wanted to know if the Dark Lord has given Bellatrix some kind of object to keep in her safe. Could you find where it is kept?"
"Gee… Fire thanks for giving my life such high regards, I feel so cherished you give my health so much consideration."
"Thanks, Draco, I know I ask a lot of you." Hermione knew by being condescending he was trying to turn this morbid conversation into something light.
"You're worth it, just promise me when all of this is over you will take me to this cinema and try to appease my sweet tooth. Okay"
"I promise, I will you silly dragon "
With a smile, Hermione closed her diary and put it back inside the depths of her beaded bag.
During the duration between the time Hermione wrote to Draco and his reply to her, Hermione learnt more and more about Regulus.
From Kreacher, she learnt that he was a chubby baby. While master Sirius was a rascal always destroying things of Grimmauld place, Regulus was always polite and respectful towards him and apologized for his brother's every wrongdoing.
She got to know from the journals that when Sirius was about to leave for Hogwarts for his 1st year. Walburga told him that no matter the house he was sorted into she'll always love her sons, but soon after within two days, there was a sudden change in both of his parents. They started saying that being pureblood is an honor and being a Slytherin pureblood is the greatest of the honors' one can ever achieve. He had doubts about his Uncle Cygnus and Aunt Druella. They were the ones who had their hand behind the sudden change. Sirius one with self-doubts and high morels didn't acknowledged the change. After the day of his sorting, when he got that red howler from their mother, he started distancing himself from the legacy that is house Black.
When Regulus's time came to go to Hogwarts the dynamics of No 12 Grimmauld Place had totally changed. Where once the house was filled with loud rumbustious laughter. Now one could only listen the screeching of the lady of the house.
Hermione felt heartbroken with each revelation she discovered.
How Regulus got scared and when the hat offered him a choice between his brother and family, Regulus had chosen his family.
How his one decision had created a wedge between both the brothers. How Sirius had never even tried to connect with him during his whole Hogwarts life.
Regulus was a son who gave everything to his family, to keep them together and safe. And somehow Hermione felt a connection to him. She had erased the memories of her parents and lost everything for her family's safety during the war.
Hermione felt a unique kinship towards the lonely Black.
Within the next few days Draco had contacted Hermione through their usual method, he informed her how the dark load had bestowed two valuable objects to both his father and aunt on the same day.
He never said from where he got such information but he assured her that the source was trustworthy.
He informed her that his father had hidden the object bestowed to him at Malfoy Manor but his aunt had decided to put her greatest honor at Gringotts under the highest security affordable to wizarding kin through money.
Hermione knew what had happened to the diary given to Lucius, but now she was 100% sure that one of the Horcruxes is hidden under the depths of Gringotts, now she needed a plan.
Before few hours
"Listen to me…"
"Fucking ferret—"
"Hermione…Ron…"
"No"
"Yes"
"NOOO"
"Goblins…trick…"
"Bill said … Impossible "
"BUT—"
Kreacher watched as three stupid humans were sitting at the table and fighting and not coming to any solutions and Kreacher knew he would have to iron his ears after what he is going to do but seeing his mistress running her hands in her hair at every 10 seconds and looking at the other 2 occupants of the table as if she would murder them before that Dark Lord ever got a chance had made him do what he did.
"STOP" he shouted.
Stunned by the loud eruption of the old elf, the three humans stopped their unnecessary chaos.
"Miss, master and red-face red-head needs to stop at once. You three are present at the home of the most ancient and noble house of Black and you three will behave like such. And true to his word Kreacher had cleaned Grimmauld Place and it now was a place the two orphans could call their home.
Out of respect for both Kreacher and the place they now called home, the group started their discussion civilly.
At the end they came to decision that Hermione will study all there is to study about Gringotts.
Ron and Harry will plan every detail, Ron had the knowledge due to Bills job at Gringotts and Harry through his would help him communicate with Bill when he required.
Present time
Hermione was sitting on the loveseat in the library, where she discovered how the blacks had the auto topsy over the Lestrange through marriage. The head of the house can rummage through the contents of their vaults as his heart desires.
"Kreacher" Hermione asked softly to air.
The elf appeared with a gust of air.
With a bow, he asked, "What can Kreacher do for his mistress."
"Kreacher could you please help sort out the Black family affairs and how the current family head could go to Lestrange vault."
Upon hearing this Kreacher's back stiffened and he knew that if he told Hermione that she was the head of the house. It would be a disaster and betrayal towards his master.
As the loyal elf and the only acknowledged elf by the last Lord Black, Kreacher can go to any of the vaults under the Black family.
As if hearing this had given Hermione new hope. "Could you really."
"What does mistress need from the Lestrange vault"
"I am not sure, but it would have a similar type of magical signature as the locket did"
Realizing what Kreacher had to find, he started to shiver internally.
He could never tell anyone how he had felt when the locket was in the Grimmauld place. How the death of his mistress had occurred due to that foul magic. Those days were days that the elf never wanted to live again. He never wanted to be images as them ever again. When that gruesome magic left the walls of the house, Kreacher felt free, he realized how he had betrayed the noble house, his young master by betraying master Sirius.
Kreacher never wanted to do that, but the presence of that magic and the command given by one who wields similar magic. He couldn't fight it. And even felt glee at such preposterous command.
But now when he looked at Hermione, he felt calm and relieved inside. He feels closer to master Regulus. He knows that as Hermione is his mistress he can never do any wrong.
So feeling as brave as his mistress, Kreacher bows to Hermione and with a click of his fingers he left the library.
All characters are created and belong to the amazing J. K. Rowling. Hey guys this is my 1st time writing fan fiction. Please do let me know of any mistakes and grammatical errors, please do bare with my writing.
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