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"I Cant not believe you got your brother and friends to pull that prank." Dite sighed as she and Regulus walked through the room of Requirement and the many stacks of artifacts that came to have a home here.
"Only way that our disappearance would go unnoticed by our highly unintelligent headmaster." Regulus drawled.
Before the two made their way to where they were currently. They watched as James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter began to silently transfigure food into zoo animals that began to run wild in the great hall. Many students screamed and others laughed causing chaos, or enough that Dite and Regulus could slip out undetected by those around them.
Headmaster Dumbledore wasn't to sure about Regulus Black joining the Order when they approached him about it. Dumbledore brought up that Regulus was from a Dark Family, while Dite brought up that he was to let Sirius Black join who was from the same Dark family. The arguments went back an forth between them. Regulus watched as Dite would bring up many good points and Dumbledore would debunk them.
"Sir, Not all Slytherins are Evil or Dark; Not all Hufflepuffs are Loyal; Not all Ravenclaws are Wise; And Not all Gryffindors are Brave. The sorting hate places us where we are placed when most of us are eleven. Would you say that at age eleven Regulus was evil?" She asked in frustration.
Her argument that she had brought up had caused Dumbledore to shut up. What she said was true, every student that crossed the threshold of Hogwarts was sorted at the age of eleven. Eleven year olds aren't evil, they are innocent and only when they are sorted do they fall into evil, loyal, wise, or brave category. Which is why the rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin is so strong, why the rivalry destroys friendships, breaks the bond between brothers, sisters, cousins, etc. The Professors don't help that either.
"I know, but why did they agree?" She asked cutting through the Boys thoughts.
"Because I'm such a cunning guy." He responded.
"Cunning yes, but I doubt Sirius would have agreed because I would also disappear."
Dite was right, Sirius was protective of her as if she was his little sister, even when it came to her spending time with his own brother. The other where the same too. It was like Lilly, Alice, and Dite where those Marauders little sisters and they would take their revenge on anyone that hurt them, even on those of their own blood.
" I told Sirius I would get him the new side sweep that just came out." He lied.
"He knows he could buy it himself, try again." He heard Dite call out from another area.
"True, but he doesn't have an in with the son of the man that created the new broom."
"Fine don't tell me, but I will find out." Dite spoke.
Regulus knew that the tiny witch would have a fit if she knew that he told the Marauders about their plan to get Dumbledore to let him in the Order. Sirius wasn't to happy that the Headmaster was so against Regulus being in the order because of his house placement. Sure the Black brothers for a few years couldn't care less about what the other was doing. That was until Aphrodite Prewett came to Hogwarts. Once Regulus knew of her original background, he took the memories and locked them in the back of his mind.
"Dite, what are we looking for lov?" He yelled.
"A Brown Box, it's the size of a small cauldron box. It's not going ti be easy to find in here."
"He must have though it would be safe here, no one would suspect that he hid something so dark in the one place that so many passed through the halls."
Knowing that Voldimort had hidden such an artifact in the halls of Hogwarts was discomforting. But knowing that the Ghost of Ravenclaw tower, the Gray lady or as Dite called her Helena, knew that it was hidden here, was even more so. Dite explained that Helena wanted the artifact destroyed and that Tom Riddle had promised that he would, but he deceived her. Regulus was beginning to see that the man who was the Dark Lord deceived many to his side. He even had his crazy cousin Bellatrix at his side and his own mother was on the side of the Dark Lord. Hell his other cousin was to marry a man that was always bolstering how close his family was to the Lord.
"My hypothesis is that when Tom Riddle came to ask about teaching Defense against the Dark arts, he hid it here because Dumbledore would have sensed that he had something dark on him. This was a rushed hiding spot for it."
"If that's true why never have anyone recover it?" Regulus asked.
"Think about it, if he asked a followers child to retrieve it, then someone would know about his greatest secret. With someone knowing then he is venerable, and he does not want others to know." Dite explained.
"But in your past someone finds out don't they?"
"I'm not sure honestly."
"The fates showed you?"
"Yes they have."
"So you know what the others are." Regulus whispered more to himself.
Knowing that the fates knew of the Horcrux's and they passed the information off to a person who had traveled back in time to change everything. He was beginning to believe that the incident that had taken place to send her back was created to do so. If the fates chose her to send back in a moment of need then this was all fated to do so. Then they wanted this to happen. That thought was alittle unnerving to think about that they where all at the whims of the Fates to decide their fate.
"What else have the fates asked you?" He asked.
"They asked a lot of me." She spoke after a few moments.
"Will you tell me one day?" He asked knowing that she wasn't comfortable here.
"I will, but not till he is gone."
"I'll take that." Regulus agreed.
The two of them continued to look for the Horcux in the maze of artifacts. Regulus making comments about some of the decorations from the Christmas parties that Slughorn thrown over the years. Or about some old robes he found in an abandoned wardrobe he opened to look inside of. It seemed like hours till he heard a slight shriek come from where Dite was looking. He ran over to her to see Lyos on the ground growling at a table that she stood infront of.
"I think we have found it." She said slightly excited about finding a dark artifact.
She removed the ropes that laid over the box on the table. It seemed like a normal wood box to Regulus, but the feeling he was getting wasn't normal. He watched as Dite picked the box up and brought it closer to her body. When she opened it, he saw the intercut design of the Diadem. The delicate look of the design of the wings and the large Sapphire that rested as the body of the Raven, with 3 smaller sapphires dangling below the body as the tail. It was hard to believe that it was now a dark artifact.
But the energy coming off the artifact its self was over whelming. The dark thoughts that Regulus had coming across his mind where unsettling as he shook them off trying to focus on something other then the artifact.
"I think these Horcrux's effect those who have a more negative out look or a darker childhood then those who have a normal childhood." Dite spoke as she closed the lid, as she did the darker thoughts Regulus had stopped and he felt his mind clear from being fogged.
"I may have to agree with you there lov. I was having strange thoughts just standing near it, I can't imagine wearing it, what would happen." Regulus agreed as she placed an enchantment over it and placed it in her bag she had with her.
"I think we should take this to Dumbledore to show him you will be helping me with or with out his permission." She laughed at that.
From everything that he had heard from Dite and seen, she doesn't trust the Headmaster as far as she could knock him back with a spell. Checking to make sure that no one was around them, they exited the Room of Requirement. They could tell that it was passed curfew and that they need to be careful to not run into anyone.
Little did Dite know that Regulus asked the Marauders to watch out for them as they finished what they where doing. As they drew closer to the corridor that lead to Dumbledore's office that just a head of them James, Sirius, Remus and Peter where distracting McGonagall. Regulus when they left had placed the notice me not charm on the two if them. So when they came along the corridor that McGonagall and the Marauders where. The say a Stag, a large black Dog standing looking at McGonagall as they heard; "Potter and Black must be behind this too."
The two of them stood still as they waited for McGonagall passed them by, muttering about a stag and a dog roaming the halls. Dite was trying to not laugh at the irony of he comment that James and Sirius where behind it. Because of course they where standing right in front of her if only she knew. When they approached the gargoyle statue, they whispered, 'Cockroach Clusters', and the statue began to move to show the staircase.
Once at the top of the Staircase they knocked on the door and waited a moment till they heard their head Master call to them to enter. This was the moment that starts the end of the war, they could only hope that Dumbledore doesn't do anything to stop it all.
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