OMG! It's been so long since I last updated. Ok, well not really. Like 10 days almost but it seems like it's been weeks for me. Weird... Homecoming is this week! But i'm not going to it. I do not like highschool so far but i'm hoping it gets better. Anyway, here's chapter 9! I hope you like lotsies! Read and review please!

Special thanks to Shannonn14 and leialover1, thanks so much for the reviews guys!

Disclaimer: Yea ya know what, my brain belongs to JKR as well so anything in it belongs to her anyway.

For all the little people I trampled over in my path to greatness.

Trip to my Nightmares

Harry walked into the library of Grammauld place. Hermione was seated at a rather large table reading a book. Ron was writing down everything Hermione said. Occasionally, Ron would misunderstand her or she'd say to much and she'd get adgitated and rip the parchment from his hands to fix it. Then, Ron would get mad at her tone of vice and Harry would have to fix them.

"How's everything going?" Harry asked. Hermione looked at him flustered. Ron was scowling as he wrote, ignoring Harry's question. "That bad eh?"

"Better then yesturday!" Hermione snapped.

"Enough to look for a horcrux?" Harry asked hopfully. Hemione snapped her head back at Harry and glarred.

"Not even close!" Ron fummed. Hermione nodded "Ron's right. I'll need at least 3 more days to get everything together. I am still learning healing spells also, in case someone gets hurt. And Ronald," She put alot of emphisis on his name, "clearly doesn't know how to take very good notes." Ron snorted and opened his mouth to retort but one look from Harry and he snapped his mouth shut. He bowed his head, grumbling slightly, and began to scribble down notes again.

"We really need to get out there and try to find these things! Voldermort's ("Knock it off Ron!") not going to stop and wait for us to catch up! We have to destroy them and soon!"

"Harry! We don't even know for sure where they are! We only have a hunch. You knew we were going to have to take some time. And besides-" A rush of wings came shooting through the open window behind Ron, cutting Hermione speechless. Ron scrambled to grab his blown papers as they fell to the ground.

"Fawkes?" Harry asked bewildered. The bird swooped down and landed on the floor. "What are you doing here?" In response, the brilliantly colored bird dropped a roll of parchment from his beak at Harry's feet. "What's this?" He picked it up and began reading it. Ron and Hermione exchanged looks before they scrambled up to read over Harry's shoulder.

"R.A.B? Isn't he dead?" Ron asked. Harry shrugged as Hermione ripped the parchment from his hands and began to read everything.

"Oh My God!" She shrieked. She lunged for her desk excitedly and started flipping through books and papers and jotting things down.

"One day we will get used to that." Ron smiled.

"Oh do shut up Ronald!" Hermione said sarcastically. "This R.A.B person is brilliant. They fit all the notes I needed onto one role while it took us nearly nine! I've solved the puzzle too. Not to mention the locket's gone. I know where the next one is too now and it's something of Ravenclaw's. I'm positive."

Ron gave a whoop and ran to hug her. In his excitment he also kissed her. Harry's jaw dropped to the floor. Hermione looked taken aback. Ron himself seemed shocked at his actions. "I knew you'd figure it all out somehow." He said quietly. A long silence followed.

"Er," Harry cleared his throat. "Are you, uh, are you going to tell us what it means or not?"

"I think we should really go there before I say anything really. We could leave now if you want Harry." Hermione said. She was staring intently at ron, who had crossed the room to striaghten his notes, trying to figure out if that meant anything and what had gotten into him.

"NOW? AS IN RIGHT NOW? FINALLY! Whoever this R.A.B. person is, they're brilliant!" Harry grinned.

The trio packed a few things into 3 small bags and met back in the library. Hermione grabbed each of the boys' hands and gave them each a sqeeze. "Ready? Ok, Harry appariate us to the Riddle houseYou've seen it in the pensieve before." She said. And without even thinking about it, Harry closed his eyes and was taken on by the rush of uncomfortable sqeezing all over his body. The trio dissappeared with a pop.

Three figures appeared out of nowhere in a fine mist. They were standing in front of a gate leading to the Riddle mansion. Next to them was a small house.

"Gaunt." Harry wispered.

"What?" Ron asked.

"The house of Gaunt. Tom's mother's house." Harry never took his eyes off the house. Hermione listened while stairing at the house also. She glanced at the mansion. Quickly, she pulled out the letter from R.A.B. and read it over twice. "Ahha!" She took off in the direction of the smaller house.

"One would've thought you'd've (A/N: not a word i know, but i'm known to make up my own words...) out grown this 'lets not tell when we've figured something out' thing a long time ago!" Ron shouted after her. He gave a furious look to Harry and ran after Hermione. Harry had no choice but to follow.

"What are you doing Hermione?" Harry panted. He had to run to catch up with her and Ron. He only had once they had stopped outside the front door of the house of Gaunt.

"R.A.B. left us a puzzle to solve. The next horcrux resides not in a Riddle, meaning the Riddle mansion, but in a much smaller peice, this... house of Gaunt did you call it? Tom's mother's house. And Ravenclaw will help us, meaning it's the something of Ravenclaws." Hermione said it as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "It's simple really."

Ron and Harry exchanged looks. "Simple? You call that simple? You're bloody mad!"

"Mad? Obviously if I ever fell for as dense a guy as you I am!" Hermione thrust open the door and marched inside. Harry followed with a very confused Ron who was mouthing what hermione had said.

The 3 friends searched the house over, (with a slight pause when Hermione stummbled apon across the dead body Harry labled as Morfin (A/N: If you don't know who Morfin is, i'm not going to tell you. READ THE 6th BOOK!) but did not find anything. Finally, Ron decided he would do something stupid, like cheak the fireplace. It turns that wasn't such a stupid idea at all.

"Hey guys," He called into the other room. "Come and look at this." Harry and Hermione immidiatly came to look at Ron had found. They all agreed it was out of place.

"How in the world would Tom have been able to come across Ravenclaw's wand? If i'm not mistaken, ("And you rarely are." Ron said.) they snap a wizard's wand when they die." Hermione said.

"Maybe not this long ago they didn't. It's possible the wand went missing and Voldemort happened to find it." Harry said.

"Whatever. This isn't important. What's important is to destroy the dumb thing so we can go get some food! I'm starving!"

"Is food all you ever think about Ronald!" Hermione said impaciently.

"No, he thinks about you too." Harry grinned. He clearly noticed Hermione and Ron turn a very brilliant shade of red.

"A-anyway, let's get down to destroying this thing shall we?"

With one sweep of his own wand over Ravenclaw's the 3 teenagers were instantly transported to a very dark felid. Facing them, were their worst nightmares.

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