"Are you guys ready to go to Godric's Hollow?" Harry asked both Ron and Hermione.
"Yeah, as soon as I tell me mum, Harry, she'll want to know where I am. She will have the biggest fit when I tell her where I am going," Ron said, "I might as well get it over with now."
"I am Harry. We should write a letter to Hagrid, and let him know where we are going to be all afternoon, just in case anything does happen," Hermione said.
Ron went to tell his mom where he was going, and you could hear a screaming voice, "Why are you going there? What does this have anything to do with you?" Mrs. Weasley then started to cry uncontrollably. Harry and Hermione had written a letter really fast and tied it to Hedwig's leg. "Now I will be gone for a while Hedwig. When you deliver this letter, stay with Hagrid tonight, he will keep you fed now and then fly back to the Weasley's tomorrow. When you get to the Weasley's, I won't be there. I will be back shortly after you arrive though," Harry said.
"Let's go to Godric's Hollow and then my old house, maybe I'll be able to find some remains of my parents there if the death eaters haven't destroyed everything," Harry said.
They all held hands since only Harry knew where they were going. He suddenly apparated with them, and landed in a tree one street over from his old house. Hermione got stuck between two branches and dropped her wand. Ron had got caught on a barb-wired fence and couldn't get untangled from the sweater he was wearing. So Harry had to jump down and help the both of them out of their predicaments.
"Accio Hermione's wand," Harry yelled. He then threw Hermione her wand back and she used the vanishing charm to get herself out of the tree.
"Evanesco," she said as she pointed at the tree. The tree all of the sudden vanished out of thin air and she fell to her knees and then stood up again, "That's more like it."
"Diffindo," Harry yelled along with Hermione, as they pointed their wands on both sides of Ron at the barbed wire holding him tightly. The barbed wire all of the sudden snapped into three pieces and Ron got up and untangled his self from the smaller piece.
"Thanks," Ron said.
"No problem," Hermione said back to him.
"Well we are not far by the looks of it, We are so close, I can feel us getting closer to it," Harry said while looking around.
"Look Harry, is that it?" Ron said as he pointed to a two-story house that had a condemnation sign across the front yard. The house also had a huge hole in the side of the house where Voldemort must have blown out of the side so he could get easy access to James and Lily Potter. He then wanted to kill Harry but they wouldn't let him so he killed them both.
Harry walked up to the front door of his old home and pushed the door to open it, but it wouldn't budge, it had been locked.
"Alohomora," Harry said, as the door clicked and then unlocked by it's self. Harry quickly walked in and shut the door behind them, "Colloportus."
Harry magically sealed the door shut just in case they were being followed.
"I'm a little scared to go searching through my house. I don't know what I'll find here," Harry said as he stood in his old living room.
The living room was easily the most decorated room in the house although it had been ransacked when Voldemort came to kill his parents. There on the wall right newt to the front door, was a scroll that had been written in his father's handwriting. It read: (Only the Potters may enter. Only those that the Potters welcome may enter. Others who try to enter without the Potters consent will not succeed.) There were two fireplaces, one on each side, one was probably for floo powder travel and the other was probably kept lit continuously for warmth. There were four bedrooms. One was the master bedroom for James and Lily Potter. Another was Harry's old room. The last two were guest bedrooms for when Moony, Padfoot, and Wormtail came to visit James and Lily Potter. Harry decided to look through his old room first. He figured that he would need to save the best (his parent's bedroom) for last.
"I'm going to go look through my old room now. If you guy's want, make yourselves at home. There might be some wood on the side of the house if you want to make a fire," Harry said as slow as he could.
"Do you want us to look around with you? Or do you want us to be with you for emotional support?" Hermione said with the most awkward look or concern she had ever worn on her face.
"Sure, whatever you guys want to do is fine with me. Just be careful, this place is condemned you know," Harry replied.
Harry walked into the hallway and pressed on the door a bit and it didn't budge. So he decided to shake the handle a little bit and it popped right open. Harry saw at first, his baby crib with all of his little toys that dangle from the ceiling. He walked up and touched as if his parents would have done when they were looking at him from the side of the crib. He then walked over to his dresser and decided to rummage through his old clothes. He ended up finding a few pairs of socks, a few button-up pajamas, and a few pairs of booties made just for him, they had little golden snitch emblems sewed into them. Harry decided to look in the closet. He looked down on the bottom and there were all his little baby toys. He then glanced up at the top shelf and noticed a bag of precious items his mom must have stuffed up there to keep them from getting damaged. The bag contained a letter from Sirius, which had been unopened. It also contained a huge potion vile full of some weird potion. Harry decided to take it and read the letter later and then give the potion vile to Professor Slughorn to see what it was. Harry also noticed a crease in the wall where the wallpaper had been removed once before and then redone by someone else. Harry looked in the opening and there was nothing there. Harry had finished looking at his old room. He walked out into the hallway and told Ron and Hermione what he had found in his room.
"I found a few things. I found a note from Sirius, A vile of some kind of potion, and a hidden compartment of my closet. Now I'm gonna search through my mom and dad's room," Harry said excitedly.
"That is wonderful Harry. Do you mind if I take a look in your old room?" Hermione asked him.
"No, not at all, go right ahead," Harry said.
"I'm going to go take a look at that hole in the wall for you. Maybe I'll find something else in there that you overlooked," Hermione said to Harry as she turned to Ron, "Ron come with me and help me look in Harry's room."
"Ok thanks," Harry said with a smile on his face.
Harry walked to another door thinking it led to his parent's bedroom, but instead it ended up being a wardrobe with some of his father's cloaks and robes. There were also some of his mother's jackets in there stuffed in the back. But Harry decided to continue on through the house and find his parent's room. He walked into a hallway and opened another door. It was amazing. It was much larger than the house itself, wonderful things magic can do! There was one huge bed made fit for 10 people and then there were many things for detecting dark magic all scattered throughout the room. Harry decided to take a few of the cooler ones. After pocketing his dark magic detectors, Harry decided to look under the bed before looking in the closets.
Harry bent down to his knees and then peeked below the bed and noticed 3 broomsticks and 2 empty luggage bags. But he also spotted a notebook that had a few spells that James had used before that he had created, ones harry had never heard of. There were also a few spells and enchantments in the back that James had written down. James did have a fondness for exploration towards new spells. That is why he was so good at Defense Against The Dark Arts and Charms. Harry decided to go into the closet now. He walked into the closet and found a hanger for James's invisibility cloak. Then he looked to the top shelf and noticed an odd shaped box. Harry pulled the box down from the closet and opened it. It contained a golden snitch, the same one James used to release and then catch it again, and then let it go again, and then when he was done enhancing his skills, he would put it up for later. Harry stuffed this snitch into his pocket and decided to keep it for safekeeping. After all, this was one of his father's most prized possessions while he was at Hogwarts. Harry decided to leave his parent's room and go tell Hermione what all he found. Harry walked back to his old room to find Hermione sitting on his old bed with a wide smile on her face. She was holding some kind of cup that had an HH incrusted into the side.
"Hermione! Is that what I think it is?" Harry asked.
"She grinned as she said, "Yes, Harry, it is the teacup from Helga Hufflepuff. Your father must have found it and kept it for keepsake, not knowing it was part of Voldemort. Or when Voldemort killed your parents, he needed a hiding place for this Horcruxe and decided to hide it here, in the room he was supposed to kill you in, in the house that he knew would be condemned later. You would be insane to go looking in a condemned house right? Just incase it fell down on you while you were inside," Hermione said in awe, "But that only applies to muggles, since wizards can put a charm on it to keep it from falling down on them."
"Great. We have 3 Horcruxes, and I believe a fourth one is in 12 Grimmauld Place. Remember the heavy gold locket we found while cleaning out the drawers of 12 Grimmauld Place for Mrs. Weasley, before my underage wizard magic trial for using that Patronus Charm on those dementors that attacked Dudley and I on Privet Drive? I think that is one of them," Harry stated happily as he gave Hermione this deep and long gratifying hug, "The locket had two S's incrusted into the side of it. They probably were an abbreviation for Salazar Slytherin."
"Well then what are we waiting for Harry? Let's go find it!" Ron said loudly.
