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Disclaimer - Sadly I don't Harry or any of his friends or places in the Wizarding World. I don't even own the character Brionna Culver seeing as she's based on one of my best mates! I do however own the plot and any other original characters.

Summary - Follow Harry through his seventh and final year at Hogwarts where he has to deal with girl problems, being a teenager and Voldemort and his Horcruxes. HBP spoilers, prequel to One Night Can Change Everything.

I am so so so so sorry that you all had to wait for this but I had an evil case of writer's block and my nan's getting worse so we think that she is going to go soon and it was my birthday last week so I was really busy seeing family and stuff. And I also gave up my job because things were being stolen out of my bag and they weren't going to do anything about it.

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Chapter 14 - The Search for the Horcruxes

By the end of the Christmas holidays, Harry, Ron and Hermione had decided that they weren't going back to school to finish their last year off.

However they hadn't told Professor McGonagall or Mrs Weasley that they weren't returning.

The day before they were due to return to Hogwarts, Harry, Hermione and Ron were sat in silence on Ron's bedroom floor, looking through reference books for any information about Horcruxes, when suddenly Hermione broke the silence.

"Ron, we have to tell your mum and McGonagall that we're dropping out," she said.

Ron looked up and paled at the thought of telling his mum that he had no plans of finishing his education.

"She'll kill me," Ron replied in a tone of voice that wasn't normal for him, it made him sound remarkably like a little girl.

"What and she won't kill you when you disappear for Merlin knows however many months without telling her," Harry told him as Hermione looked at Ron smugly.

Ron nodded then looked down at the book that was sat in his lap.

Harry and Hermione both stared at Ron while he flicked through the book aimlessly.

Ron seemed to notice that they were looking at him because he stopped turning random pages and said, " what?"

"We're going to tell her now. There's only us, Ginny, Aimee and your mum in the house, it's the best time to tell her," Hermione explained.

Ron sighed then shut the book and got up off the floor.

"Come on then. Might as well get my untimely death over with. I'm sure we'll meet again when you two pop your clogs," he said grimly as he walked out of the door.

Harry and Hermione followed Ron and moments later they were stood outside the closed kitchen door where they could hear Ginny and Mrs Weasley talking.

"Ginny dear, he'll realise in time. You mustn't let yourself be upset with it. Maybe when You-Know-Who is gone he'll come to his senses and realise his feelings for you," they heard Mrs Weasley say to her daughter.

"Yes but mum, I was the one who told him to shove it. He said that he was only thinking about us splitting up. Maybe if I had kept my head then we might still be together."

Everything went silent in the kitchen all of a sudden as though the occupants knew that there were three eavesdroppers stood outside.

Harry, Ron and Hermione then sighed with relief when they heard Aimee talking to Ginny.

"Aunt Ginny, do you love Uncle Harry?"

"Of course I do."

"Will you get married one day?"

"Hopefully."

The three eavesdroppers had decided that they had heard enough so they pushed the door open and walked into the kitchen to the surprise of Mrs Weasley and Ginny.

Once everyone had sat down at the table with cups of tea, which Mrs Weasley had insisted that everyone have, she asked what was wrong with Ron, Harry and Hermione.

"Ron has something he would like to tell you Mrs Weasley," Hermione told her.

"What about your parents Hermione?" Ron demanded as he paled a little more.

"They already know Ronald. I told them when I went back home at the beginning of the summer."

Mrs Weasley was following the discussion as though she was watching a tennis match and decided that she needed to put an end to it.

"Tell me what? What have you got to tell me Ronald?" she demanded.

"Well I'm not going back to school," Ron replied quietly in a hope that she wouldn't have heard him.

But unfortunately Mrs Weasley had heard him.

"You're what!" Mrs Weasley exclaimed loudly.

Ron jumped out of his skin when his mother had shouted in response to his bit of news.

"I'm not going back to school. None of is are, we're going to look for You-Know-Who," Ron said as calmly as he could although you could tell that he was frightened of what Mrs Weasley would say or rather shout next.

Mrs Weasley looked at Ginny and Aimee who were playing on the kitchen and was quite worried that her shouting might scare Aimee.

"Ginny dear, could you take Aimee to your bedroom and continued playing there please? I just need to speak with your brother, Hermione and Harry. You can come back down when we're finished," she told Ginny.

Ginny looked up at her mother and nodded slowly then lead Aimee out of the kitchen and up the stairs.

Mrs Weasley closed the kitchen door behind Ginny and Aimee then turned to look at the three young adults sat at the table.

They were all currently very interested in what was happening inside their cups to notice that she was looking at them until she spoke.

"What is the meaning of this decision?" she asked calmly as she had decided before that it was better to listen to what they had to say before shouting at them all.

Hermione looked up at Mrs Weasley then said, "Harry wants to go look for Voldemort rather than go back to school and Ron and myself won't let him go alone in case something happens to him so we decided that we're not going back to Hogwarts, we're going with Harry instead."

Mrs Weasley had heard enough and decided that now was the time that they needed to have an adult's point of view on the subject.

"OH AND I SUPPOSE THAT YOUR PARENTS ARE OKAY WITH THIS BECAUSE I KNOW I WOULDN'T BE HERMIONE GRANGER!" she shouted at the teenage girl.

"Well, they don't know the entire story. They're Muggles and they don't understand about things that happen in the Wizarding world."

Mrs Weasley pursed her lips at Hermione then looked at her youngest son.

"AND AS FOR YOU RONALD WEASLEY, HOW DARE YOU! WHEN WERE YOU PLANNING ON TELLING ME? OR WERE YOU NOT GOING TO TELL ME AT ALL UNTIL PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL OWLED ME TO SAY THAT YOU HAD GONE MISSING FROM SCHOOL?" she shouted at him.

"I'm sorry mum. I was waiting for the right time to tell you. They made me tell you today."

Mrs Weasley then decided to have a go at Harry.

"HARRY POTTER! WHAT WOULD YOUR PARENTS SAY IF THEY WERE WITH US? THEY WOULD WANT YOU TO CONTINUED YOUR EDUCATION! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF?"

All three of them were suddenly very frightened of Mrs Weasley, you see there was one thing that everyone knew about Mrs Weasley, no matter how nice she was normally when she started to shout she could put the fear of God into you and make you wish that you were dead.

Harry had gotten very angry when Mrs Weasley had involved his parents into the argument and shouted back at her even though he was scared.

"WELL THEY'RE NOT WITH US ARE THEY! THEY'RE DEAD! THEY HAVE BEEN DEAD FOR FIFTEEN YEARS NOW! AND MAYBE THEY WOULD WANT ME TO FINISH MY EDUCATION BUT I'M SURE THAT THEY WOULD ALSO WANT THEIR MURDERER DEAD! SO I'M SORRY BUT I AM GOING AFTER HIM. I CAN'T SIT BACK AND WATCH VOLDEMORT KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE SO I CAN FINISH MY EDUCATION!"

After Harry had said his piece he stormed out of the kitchen leaving a stunned Mrs Weasley, Ron and Hermione behind.

Mrs Weasley looked at the two remaining teens and frowned.

"Well you'll all have to go and tell Professor McGonagall that you're not planning on returning to Hogwarts. But you'll have to tell her today because the train is due to leave tomorrow morning and if you don't arrive on the train with everyone else, then she'll become very worried especially if Harry's not there."

Ron nodded then looked down at the table because he noticed that Mrs Weasley was glaring at him still.

"I think we should go now because then it's out of the way and we can go back to thinking about Voldemort," Hermione stated.

Ron and Mrs Weasley nodded then looked at Hermione.

"No way. I'm not going up there to get Harry," Hermione replied.

"Well someone has to," Ron said.

"I'm not! I haven't finished my drink yet and it'll get cold if I go and get him."

Mrs Weasley knew that Ron and Hermione would eventually argue about the subject so she decided to put an end to it before it had even begun.

"Ronald go upstairs and get Harry before it's too late to go to Hogwarts. Oh and while you're up there check on your sister and Aimee."

Ron sighed and glared at Hermione before getting up, walking out of the kitchen and up the stairs.

On his way upstairs Ron decided that he would go to Ginny's room first then go and talk to Harry because he knew that the latter would take longer to do.

He got to Ginny's door and could hear giggling coming from inside the room.

Ron knocked on the door and the giggling stopped before he heard Ginny shout, "come in!"

Ron pushed the door open and saw what the giggling was about.

Both girls were sat on Ginny's bed and scattered around them were various bits of make up.

"Mum wants to know if you're okay up here and it's safe to go back downstairs now but you had best wash Aimee's face before going down. She's not in a very good mood."

Ginny nodded and finished what she was doing to Aimee's face.

"There all done. We'll go and show Nana in a minute then you'll have to wash your face."

Aimee nodded then looked at Ron.

"Uncle Ron, do I look pretty?" she asked.

Ron nodded quickly then walked out of the room shutting the door behind him.

As he walked up the stairs to Fred and George's old bedroom, Ron pondered over what he was going to say to Harry.

He didn't know what kind of mood Harry would be in and how he was going to react to Mrs Weasley saying that they had to go to Hogwarts that day to tell McGonagall.

Finally he reached the room, took a deep breath and pushed the door open before walking into the room.

Ron saw Harry laid out on his bed staring into space.

"Hey," Ron said softly as he sat down on the spare bed.

Harry turned his head to look at his best friend and looked at him as if to say, "what?"

"Mum says that we should go to Hogwarts now to tell McGonagall. She's very upset about what she said to you and what you said to her."

Harry nodded his head and got up from his bed.

Him and Ron both walked out of the door and down the stairs silently.

Once they reached the kitchen they found Mrs Weasley, Ginny, Aimee, Hermione and Fleur (who had come back from her shopping trip) stood in front of the fireplace.

As Harry and Ron joined the group they heard Fleur chatting to Mrs Weasley.

"I 'ope Aimee didn't 'ear you when you spoke to 'Arry and 'is friends. I don't weesh for 'er to 'ear zat. I don't theenk zat it would be 'elping 'er adjust to 'er new family," Fleur said.

Mrs Weasley shook her head while Ginny said, "no Fleur, when Harry and the others came in saying that they needed to talk to mum I took Aimee upstairs."

Fleur nodded then watched as Harry stepped into the fireplace with some floo powder and yelled, "Headmistress' office, Hogwarts!"

In a flash of green light he disappeared then Ron stepped forward and did the same as Harry before Hermione repeated it.

A few seconds later the trio had met up in the middle of McGonagall's office.

After they had brushed the soot off of themselves Harry, Ron and Hermione turned to face McGonagall's desk.

Professor McGonagall looked at the trio then said, "what brings you three here? You're not expected back until tomorrow."

Both Harry and Ron nudged Hermione in the ribs with their elbows to make her step forward.

"Ouch! Well Professor, we're hear because we've got a lead on the whole Horcrux thing and we've decided that we're going to go and destroy them rather than come back to school," Hermione explained.

McGonagall thought for a few seconds then said, "of course you wouldn't be able to sit your NEWTs this year."

Hermione gasped and looked horrified.

"Yes Miss Granger you wouldn't sit your NEWTs until next year which would mean that you would all graduate with Miss Weasley. I have no problem with you not returning to school as long as you come back to Hogwarts when the war is over. I think that Molly would prefer that as we have Madam Pomfrey here to cure any wounds that you may have."

The trio nodded.

"And you will need to owl the Order once the Horcruxes are destroyed or whenever you need help."

Harry, Ron and Hermione nodded again.

"Very well. You are free to go. I will explain to your classmates why you haven't returned. Oh and good luck."

All three of them flooed back to the Burrow and set to work on finding the Horcruxes whereabouts and finding a way to destroy them.

A few days later Harry, Ron and Hermione were sat in Harry's bedroom at the Burrow reading various spell books trying to look for a spell to destroy Horcruxes.

"It's no good! I can't find anything! This is the first time a book has failed me!" Hermione exclaimed as she slammed the book shut.

Ron looked at her and stifled a laugh because it was quite funny to see her get into a state about not finding a spell that she needed in a book.

Meanwhile Harry was reading a book and had a look of great concentration on his face.

Hermione looked at Harry and obviously wasn't happy that Harry hadn't moved one inch since she had slammed the book shut so she picked up the offending book and threw at the wall.

The bang made Harry jump out of his skin and look at Hermione grumpily.

"Why weren't you listening to me just now," she demanded.

"I was reading. I think I've found something and I wanted to be absolutely sure that it was the right thing," Harry replied.

Hermione's face lit up and she scooted closer to Harry to see what he had discovered.

She took the book from Harry and quietly read the information while Ron and Harry looked at each other and shrugged.

Once she had finished reading Hermione closed the book and looked at Harry and Ron.

"So when we find them, one of us, preferably Harry has to point their wand at it and say 'Eradico Horcrux.' That should destroy it."

Harry and Ron nodded then got to work on finding the Horcruxes.

A few hours later, Hermione had made a list on what the Horcruxes were and where they could possibly be hidden.

"So far we've got the Horcruxes as the locket that RAB had, Hufflepuff's cup, Gryffindor's Sword, Nagini the snake and then finally Voldemort himself. The ring and the diary have already been destroyed. Also we don't know if the locket has been destroyed yet either but if we find that then we won't miss any possibilities. Then for the possible hiding places I have Hogwarts, Godric's Hollow, the Riddle House and the Ministry of Magic. I think we can rule the last one out because Voldemort wouldn't hide a piece of his soul there and besides he would have gotten caught if a Horcrux was there," Hermione explained.

"Well the snake is going to be wherever Voldemort is because it follows him around like a lost sheep," Harry replied.

Hermione nodded her head then said, "maybe he's hiding in the Riddle House because he knows that no Aurors would ever check there. What about the others though."

"Well there's the cup. Where would he hide that?"

"I don't know," Hermione replied.

She sat in thought for a few minutes then smiled.

"I've got it! Godric's Hollow! He would think that no one would ever check there because the whole house is destroyed. What about the other two?"

"Maybe they're both at Hogwarts. We know the sword definitely is and maybe the necklace that Katie had last year was one and apparently that's in Filch's office," Harry said.

During this discussion Ron had stayed quiet choosing to eat Chocolate Frogs instead.

"So where do we look first?" Ron asked with his mouth full of chocolate.

"Godric's Hollow then Hogwarts and then the Riddle House. After that it should all be over but we do have to owl the Order in between Hogwarts and the Riddle House so we're not alone during the battle. Oh and we can't be seen in Hogwarts so we had best ask McGonagall if we can go and look there," Hermione replied while the other two nodded at her.

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