Authors Note: I'm fully aware of the grammatical errors. Sorry x
Chapter 14
"Kreacher…What do You know about his?" Harry asked pulling the faux locket from his pocket. Kreacher stepped back from it, hissing.
"It is the most evil of things. Master Regulus told Kreacher to destroy it before he went" Kreacher explained
"Did you destroy it?" Ron urged
"How dare the blood traitor talk to Kreacher" the elf muttered hatefully. This earned a snigger from the Slytherins, Hermione shot Draco a glare.
"And allowing a mudblood in the house. Mistress Black would hang herself if she knew this" Kreacher said.
"Oi Kreacher! ack it in" Draco hissed
"Master Malfoy, it's a pleasure." Kreacher bowed. Hermione suddenly remembrance that Sirius and and Draco were second cousins.
"Kreacher, as your master I demand that you treat all ten of us as your masters" Harry insisted. Hermione frowned. This was not a part of her S.P.E.W. but she supposed The threat of Voldemort was more significant at the moment.
"Kreacher could not destroy it" Kreacher said. He Hung his head.
"Where is it?" Harry asked
"He came in the night, he stole things. The locket was one of those things?" Kreacher said.
"Who stole it?" George insisted
"The traitor…Fletcher, Mundungus Fletcher" Kreacher hissed.
"Go and get him" Harry said. Kreacher hissed and disappeared.
"He was always a chirpy elf" Draco said
"When they arrive, we can't let Dung see the Slytherins….and probably best if the twins Ginny and Neville aren't here either" Harry said. They all nodded in understanding.
"Where do they go then? Because if Dung comes through the Wards he'll know that their in the house" Ron asked
"It's a ten minute walk to Diagon Alley. How about you go and get some supplies, ingredients for potions. Healing and polyjuice ones. Some parchment would be good too…see what books they have on horcruxes" Hermione suggested. They agreed.
"Wait!" Hermione stopped them before they left. She ran upstairs, when she returned she handed them all some wigs. After careful application they looked completely different and set off. Hermione handed them some galleons.
Not a minute later there was a loud crack and Mundungus appeared in the centre of the floor being restrained by two elves.
"Potter? Thank Merlin! Get this ruddy elf off of me!" He yelled.
Harry pulled out his "wand" (Dung didn't have to know that it was a fake)
Dung froze.
"You were here. You stole things" Ron said bringing out his own wand, Hermione followed suit
"Only a few things" Dung insisted
"What about this locket?" Ron asked snatching it up off the table.
"Yeah…Yeah that was one" Dung said. Shocked
"Who did you sell it too?" Hermione asked
"I dunno. Some posh ministry woman" Dung said
"What did she look like?" Ron asked
"About yay tall, yay fat and had a sickly sweet laugh. Pink so much pink!" Dung said
"Umbridge" Harry, Ron and Hermione said in unison
"Yeah that the one. She's in charge of the muggleborn association registration or some crap like that" Dung said.
"Thanks Dung" Harry said. "Kreacher" he called Kreacher and Dobby appeared in a flash.
"Please return Dung to where you found him, but modify his memory so he doesn't remember any of this please" Harry asked
"Yes master" Kreacher said.
"Dobby helped too" Dobby yelled proudly
"Well done Dobby" Hermione complimented. Dobby smiled and with a crack the two elves and Dung disappeared.
"How do we break into the ministry?" Harry asked
-Meanwhile-
"Hermione gave me the map….right then the third left to the leaky cauldron" Draco said
"Right…Lead on" Theo insisted. They walked into the leaky Cauldron, it was deserted. Not even a bartender.
"Guess I'm not getting a butter beer then" George joked. They went to the back and arrived in Diagon Alley. The p
lace was deserted. The few shops that did remain were boarded up, leaving very thin slips of light inside. The streets were eerie and deserted, deciding to stay together, they entered the potion ingredients shop. After collecting a large stash of ingredients, essentially cleaning out the store, they slipped into a nearby bookstore. As Death eaters had taken over a to large proportion of the wizarding world, the bookstore was full of dark magic books. Grabbing whatever they decided they needed they paid. Visited a few more shops then went back to number 12.
Once inside they were immediately met with the other three.
"Here's the ingredients" Blaise said, thrusting the ingredients at Hermione.
"How bad is it?" Ron asked
"Fucking awful. The place is practically abandoned" Fred said.
"What books did you get?" Hermione asked
"A few on dark spells, one luck catch on the traceable spells and a potions recipe book. There was little choice" Ginny said pulling out the books.
"Um…guys did any of you pick up any other books?" Ginny asked
"No…why?" Draco asked pulling off his wig. The rest following suit
"Who got this children's book?" Ginny asked Harry took it off her, whispering something in parseltongue but it didn't respond. He opened it and found a small bookmark.
"Who wants to bet that this is the work of the same person that sent us the Prophet?" Neville asked
"Harry…How did you kill the diary?" Fred asked out of the blue
"Um…I stabbed it with a Basilisk Fang why?" Harry said
"And you killed the basilisk with the sword of Gryffindor right" he asked
"Yeah"
"The sword is goblin made…it only takes in what makes it stronger" Theo joined in
"So…The sword of Gryffindor will destroy horcruxes?" George asked
"Possibly…actually…yes I bet it would" Hermione said
"Well where do you suggest that we find it?" Blaise asked
"I've only ever been able to bring it out of the sorting hat" Harry said, still staring intently at the book.
"But the sorting hat is still at Hogwarts" Theo said.
"Guys…What's the significance of the Deathly Hallows?" Harry asked
"One of the stories in those books, the Peveral brothers, they all met death. Harry read the story" Blaise said
"It's all a myth anyway…why is it significant?" Neville asked Harry had read the story
"We have the cloak" Ron said
"What?" Theo asked
"Well…Harry does" he replied. Harry ran to his trunk and pulled out his cloak, passing it to Draco's outstretched hand,
"I've never seen one like this. Father has some but they never last long…always need repairing. This one looks in perfect condition" he said
"So the cloak, the wand and the stone…" George asked
"What does the Elder wand look like?" Fred asked.
"No one knows" Hermione asked after a full minute of silence.
"Who has it?" Theo asked
"No one knows" Ginny said
Again. Silence overtook the room.
"What do we do now?" Ron asked
Silence.
"We break into the ministry and find the locket" Harry said.