The next day they were outside with the locket.
"You first." Hermione said to Harry.
"Incendio!" he said.
But it didn't work.
"Incendio." Hermione tried.
That didn't work ether.
"Expulso!" Tracey said.
Still didn't work.
"Diffindo!" Harry said.
Then they looked at each other and nodded.
"Reducto!" Harry and Tracey said together.
They sighed so Harry went and put it on his neck.
"What are you doing?" Hermione asked.
"We have to keep it safe." he said.
"Isn't it strange mate. Dumbledore tells you to do something but doesn't tell you how." Ron said.
Then Harry just looked at him.
A few hours later Harry was outside on watch and picked up the locket.
While he looked at it he heard something familiar from fifth year.
'You know the spell Harry.'
Then his scar burst into pain and he locked the connection as tightly as he could.
He could still hear it in him.
"Tell me, Gregorovitch."
"He stole it from me."
"Who was it? The thief?"
"The boy. It was he who took it. I never saw it again I swear on my life."
"I believe you. Avada Kedavra!"
Then he stopped hearing things.
"I thought it stopped." Hermione said.
"You know he can only hear it. Not see it." Tracey said.
"Voldemort found Gregorovitch." he said.
"This Wand Maker?" Tracey said confused.
"He wants something that Gregorovitch used to have. I don't know what. But he wants it desperately. As if his life depended on it."
Then the radio said something and he was about to go shut it off.
"Don't, it's his comfort zone." Hermione said.
"It sets my teeth on edge, What's he expecting to hear? Good news?" he asked.
"One can only hope not to hear bad news." she said.
"How long before he can travel?" he asked.
"I'm doing everything I can." she said.
"You are not doing enough!" he said.
"Take it off!" she said.
"She said, Take it off, now!" Tracey said.
So he took it off and handed it to Tracey.
"Better?" Hermione asked.
"Right." he said.
"We will take in turns, okay?" Tracey said handing it to Hermione.
Later that night while Hermione was on night shift and reading her book. Then she heard something and looked up.
She saw people walking by.
When they were gone Harry and Tracey walked up to her.
"Snatchers." Hermione said.
"We know. He had some with the last war. We were five when it ended. Our parents were homeschooling us at the time for safety." Tracey said.
"Good to know that your enchantments work." Harry said.
"He could smell it, my perfume." she said.
They started to talk about what to do now.
"I told you two, Ron isn't strong enough for apperating." Hermione said while they started walking.
"Well then, we'll go on foot and then go back to Grimauld Place when he's healed." Tracey said.
Ron stepped outside a bit and listened.
"And next time Hermione, don't use perfume." Harry said.
Tracey started laughing a little.
While they started moving Ron would get angry and see Hermione with Harry and Tracey.
While they were on a hill Hermione handed Harry a water bottle.
"Thank you."
He took a few sips and handed it to Tracey.
"Thanks." she said.
As they walked around Ron would listen to the radio and slowly get healed.
One day while they were in the woods Ron was sitting next to Hermione while Harry was next to Tracey.
"They don't know what they're doing do they?" Ron said.
"None of us do." Hermione said.
Later that night Hermione was cutting Harry's hair, Ron was fully healed and Tracey was on her sift.
"Oh my god." Hermione said.
Then stopped and stood up.
"What?" Harry asked.
"I'll tell you in a minute, call Tracey." she said.
So it's easier for her to hear he used their connection.
'Trace, come here.' he said.
'What is it?' she asked.
'Hermione thought of something.' he said.
So she stood up and went inside.
"What?" she asked.
"The sword of Gryffindor, it's goblin made." she said.
"OK?" Tracey said.
"We're looking for a way to destroy Horcruxes right? Harry destroyed one second year, Tom Riddle's diary."
"With a basilisk fang. If you have one of them in that bag of yours I already know Trace doesn't."
Tracey started laughing hard.
"Maybe we should have! That would make it a lot easier!" she said.
"Focus you two!" Hermione said.
"Sorry, continue." Harry said.
"Thank you. As I was saying, don't you two see? In The Chamber of Secrets Harry stabbed the Basilisk with the sword of Gryffindor Its blade is impregnated with basilisk venom."
"It only takes in that which makes it stronger!" Tracey said.
"Exactly, which is why,"
"It can destroy Horcruxes." Harry said.
"That's why Dumbledore left it to you in his will." Hermione said.
"You're brilliant, Hermione. Truly." Harry said.
"Actually, I just highly logical thinking, which allows to me see past and irrelevant details ... and perceived cleary which others overlook." she said.
"Yeah, there is only one problem. Someone stole the sword." Tracey said.
Then some of the light was gone and they looked at Ron.
"Yeah, I'm still here. But you three carry on. Don't let me follow the fun." Ron said.
Then Harry sat on the other side of the bench.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Wrong? Nothing's wrong. At least for you three." he said.
"Well if you have something you want us to hear spit it out." Tracey said.
"Alright I'll spit it out. Now that we're going to have to find another damn thing."
"I thought you knew what you signed up for?" Harry said.
"Yeah, I thought I did to."
"Well then we're sorry but we don't know what you think is wrong." Tracey said.
"I only thought that you would have told us something that would help. I thought Dumbledore told you two something!"
"We told you what Dumbledore told us! And Incase you haven't noticed we have found a horcrux already." Harry said.
"Yeah but we've only found one of the other five horcruxs we need to find." he said.
Hermione looked at Ron and thought of something.
"Ron, please take off the horcrux, you wouldn't be saying anything if you took it off." she said trying to get it off.
Ron moved her over.
"You know why I listen to the radio so much? I listen to out to hope I haven't lost Ginny, Fred, or George or mum."
"You don't think we know how it feels?!" Harry yelled.
"NO YOU DON'T know how it feels! All your family's alive! You have your family!" Ron yelled.
"We do know what it's like! We almost lost our parents when we were five during the first war! The only family we have are our parents, Uncle Moony and uncle Padfoot! Our aunt, uncle and cousin hate magic so obviously they're not part of the family! Uncle Wormy turned his back on us, our grandparents are gone to, both mum and dad's parents! Unlike your family we only have seven biological family members and two unbiological members!" Tracey yelled back.
"If you can't take it leave!" Harry yelled.
Then Ron took the locket off and looked at Hermione.
"And you two? You coming or staying?"
Tracey stood next to Harry.
"I'm staying." she said seriously.
Hermione looked back and forth. "I, I'm with Ron."
All three of them were shocked. Then Harry and Tracey stared at each other for a second.
'We have each other. We can do it if neither of them knows where we are.' Harry sent her.
'Yeah, we can do it.' Tracey sent back.
"Fine, go run away with Ron." Harry said.
"You're going to regret this, we can tell." Tracey said.
Then Ron and Hermione left the room and apparated somewhere.
"Alright, we'll stay here for the night and then think of somewhere else to go. Sound good?" Harry said.
"Sounds good. Do you think he might have something at Godrics Hollow?" Tracey asked.
"Maybe, I'll write it down. Thank Merlin we can use magic outside school and have our apparation license." he said.
"Ron doesn't have his does he?" she asked.
"No, only me, you and Hermione do. I'll take the shift while you take the locket. Sound good?"
She nodded and put it on her neck while Harry went outside.
"I have an idea of where one might be." Harry said.
"Where?" Tracey asked.
"Hogwarts. He considered Hogwarts his home. He lived in an orphanage remember? A muggle Orphanage to."
"He did didn't he? I'll write it down." she said.
"Alright."
Then a letter appeared out of nowhere. A letter in form of an owl.
It fell on Harry's hand.
They looked at each other.
"That's mum. Everyone knows she's good at Charms." Tracey said smiling.
So he opened the letter and read it out loud.
Dear Lightning, Chess King, Bookworm and V-Girl,
The letter we gave you are only opened by your team. To everyone else it's invisible like the map. That was your father's idea, and for once a good one.
They started laughing for a few minutes then he continued.
It will only open for you four and us. We all came up with names for us to use. The names are,
Lee Jordan- River
Fred- Rodent
George- Red Head
Kingsley- Royal
Lilly- Charmed
James- pointer
Sirius- fur ball
Remus- Romulus
Harry- Lightening
Tracey- V-girl
Hermione- Bookworm
Ron- Chess King
That way no one knows what it is to be safe. Keep writing to us and be careful. Get back where you were soon to. You know we have a secret keeper and who it is.
Charmed
They looked at each other and laughed even harder.
"Pointer?" Harry said.
"Fur Ball?" Tracey said.
"Charmed?" they said together.
They looked around and Harry used the silence charm even though they're hiding.
"I hope no one finds out. I mean, everyone knows mum is great at Charms." he said.
"And dad and Uncle Padfoot are registered now. They got each other registered after the first war." she said.
"Uncle Wormy didn't because he was put in Azkaban. But I'm pretty sure dad, uncle Moony and uncle Padfoot told them that they were all animagi."
"Probably. Alright, let's write back to them."
Harry nodded and undid the silence charm. Then they headed back inside and started writing.
Dear Charmed, Pointer, Fur Ball and Romulus,
We're in hiding right now. While we were looking around we were under Polyjuice potion and started to transform back into our true self. We were in the ministry and grabbed by Yaxley on our way there so Bookworm took us somewhere else. We've been looking for something else and planned on going back home tomorrow. But Chess King, me and lightning got into a fight and he and Bookworm left us. So we're on our own. We're still going to go back tomorrow. We're going to call Fur Ball's elf and have him bring us back. One thing we heard was that we have a taboo for you-know-who. So say that, he-who-must-not-be-named or Tom. We tried that and it worked so me and V-Girl say Tom. Hopefully Chess King and Bookworm will be back soon. We're going to have the elf bring us back so that we don't have to worry about being caught. Me and Bookworm worked on undetectable charms and put our things in our bags. I have mine and Lightning's things and Bookworm has her's and Chess King's stuff with her. I've been using legilimancy on people we see just standing there to try and find something that will help and it has helped us a little. I feel guilty about doing it but whatever it takes I'll do it. We'll let you know when we get back home. Be careful and we'll do the best we can.
Lightning and V-Girl
They looked at the letter and nodded.
"Alright, that sounds good." Tracey said.
So they tried to form something to send the others.
"Hopefully this will work. We've been getting pretty good at Charms anyway." Tracey said.
"Thanks to mum." Harry said.
"We need to find a way to get the sword. But how?" Tracey said.
"We'll think of something." he said.
Then Harry went on his shift and Tracey went to bed.