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Chapter 13: Lucky

"Harry you're a bloody genius." Ron said clapping Harry on the back as he joined him at the Gryffindor table for breakfast.

It had been full week since Ron had been discharged from Madam Pompfry's care and in that time he'd managed to forgive his best friend for his horrible timing. Hermione on the other hand still flushed when Ron was around which only made him tease her more. "What am I a genius for this time?" he asked not looking up from his copy of The Daily Prophet that he'd been half-heartedly reading.

"The Room of Requirement," Ron said then lowered his voice as not to be over heard, "Took Lav there to celebrate surviving my brush with death."

"Yeah?" Harry asked looking up.

"Yeah…that room is amazing. I'm surprised that The Founders didn't think that it might be used for this particular purpose. Well anyway, we went inside and it was outfitted like something you'd see in a palace. You know the curtains hung all over the place, a giant bed with millions of pillows, roses and candles." Ron said the whole while stuffing his face more and more with toast and scrambled eggs to the point where he almost started to choke before swallowing the food down.

"So I take it as things….went well?" Harry asked.

"They did." Ron said then grinned wider. "Very well….maybe you should take Hermione up there. You're less likely to be disturbed there than in the common room. Of course you'd have to fight for occupancy. When we were heading up Malfoy was leaving it."

Harry looked up forgetting all about the Prophet he'd been reading, "Malfoy was in the Room of Requirement?" he asked.

"Yeah." Ron shrugged and shoveled another fork full of eggs into his mouth.

"And you're just now mentioning it?" Harry asked slightly annoyed.

"I didn't think it was all that important." Ron said defensively.

"I have been trying to figure out where he's been disappearing off the map to for ages." He took his glasses off and squeezed the bridge of his nose.

"Right," Ron said giving him a weird look.

"Are you alright Harry?" Hermione walked up and set down beside of them she still refused to look Ron in the eyes.

"Fine," Harry said. "Ron figured out why Malfoy keeps disappearing off of the map."

"Oh?" Hermione asked pouring herself a glass of pumpkin juice.

"He's using The Room of Requirement." Harry said watching her.

"That makes sense. The room can't be plotted it's the reason why it was the perfect place for the D.A. meetings." Hermione said. "I wonder what he's using it for."

Ron shrugged, "He's a weird bloke."

"That can wait, we need to get that memory from Slughorn. Then we'll deal with Malfoy." Hermione said.

"I take it as the library was a bust." Harry said sliding his hand into hers under the table.

Hermione nodded, "I've exhausted all of the books in the library. I started with the books that it would be practical for the information to be in. Let me tell you there are some very revolting images and things in them." She shuddered, "When I couldn't find anything in there I browsed everything else. The only information in that library about Horcruxes is that it's a magic so dark that they refused to mention it."

"That doesn't make sense Riddle said in the tampered memory that he found the information in the library." Harry said.

"Maybe Slughorn after realizing his mistake removed the books to cover his tracks." Ron said.

"Maybe," Harry said.

"Well we have potions today maybe you'll get lucky." Ron said.

Harry grinned slowly. "Maybe I will get lucky."

Hermione's eyes locked with Harry's, "The potion." They said together.

Hermione and Ron went up the Gryffindor Tower with Harry. "While I'm talking to Slughorn I want both of you to keep an eye on the 7th floor corridor and on Malfoy." He said giving them the map and his Invisibility Cloak.

"I thought Dumbledore told you to keep it with you at all times." Hermione said folding it over her arm.

Harry pulled the small bottle containing the Felix Felicis. "I don't think I'll need it." He said before drinking half of it and tucking it back into the socks in his trunk.

"Feeling okay mate?" Ron asked when Harry stood up.

"Great." Harry said before grabbing Hermione and kissing her hard.

Hermione laughed and pulled back, "You have a job to do."

"Right," Harry said. "I'm going to Hagrid's."

"You're supposed to find Slughorn." Hermione reminded him.

"I know but I have a really good feeling….about Hagrid's." He said.

Hermione started to argue but Ron stopped her. "Just let him go with it."

"I'll be back soon." Harry assured her before slapping her on the ass and walking out.

Hermione gasped and turned red again. "Harry!"