Disclaimer: None of the characters you will see in this story belong to me. They belong to JKR. Wow I am getting tired of saying that.

Chapter 5: Grimmauld Place

After a few minutes Number Twelve Grimmauld Place materialized in front of them. They walked up the creaky steps to the old house that looked completely abandoned to muggles. They had to help Mrs. Weasley in, for she was losing energy more and more by the second. They entered the door Harry's eyes falling immediately on Madame Maxime, Slughorn, Professor Trelawney, Cornelius Fudge, Bill, Charlie, and Scrimgeour. There were others at the table but from the angle at which he was viewing the table it was hard to tell who they were. They all turned around when they heard the kitchen door slam shut.

"Help us, Professor McGonagall" Ginny pleaded. "Mums hurt"

"Hagrid we need to get Mrs. Weasley to St. Mungos. She was attacked by Narcissa," Harry began his eyes moving across the table to see who else was there. His eyes fell on Moody and Tonks who both looked horror struck from what they were hearing. His eyes fell on someone he new couldn't be there. Not after what had happened last year at Hogwarts, but it was, his eyes fell on Severus Snape.

"Snape! What are you doing here?!" Harry yelled. "How dare you show your face here after what you did? You killed Dumbledore!" Harry continued lunging toward Snape wand drawn. I am going to kill for what you did! You mark my words!"

"Now Harry," Lupin said rising and walking over to Harry trying his best to console him. "Please don't jump to conclusion until you have heard the whole story"

"I don't need to here to hear the whole story! I was there under the invisibility cloak! I saw the whole thing!" Harry yelled, now losing all control over his anger.

"Please Harry." Lupin pleaded. "Let us just get Mrs. Weasley taken care of and we explain everything that's going on."

"Fine, but this better be good." He said glaring at Snape.

"Oh I really do hope I get the approval of the heroic Harry Potter" Snape hissed.

"Stuff it, Snape!" Harry retaliated.

"Harry." McGonagall said warningly. "Hagrid lets see if we can't get a car for Mrs. Weasley to take her to St. Mungos."

"Yes Professor McGonagall." Hagrid replied.

"You don't have to keep calling me Professor, Hagrid, were not at Hogwarts anymore."

"Yes ma'am"

"You don't have to call me ma'am either. It makes me feel old"

"uuhhh yes ma'am…I mean… yes Minevra."

"That's better Hagrid"

"Come on Mrs. Weasley. You kids ought ter come to I guess. You need to be with yer mother right now."

Harry watched as Hagrid carried Mrs. Weasley out of the house, quickly followed by the rest of the Weasley children, including Bill and Charlie who had just risen from the table. Harry sat himself down next to Lupin and waited for his explanation.

"Well let's have it." Harry ordered.

"I don't have to tell you anything, you good for nothing prat who thinks he's better than everyone else because he lived." Snape hissed. The anger in Harry's eyes growing by the second.

"Severus you will explain to this boy what happened or you may excuse yourself from this table." McGonagall snapped.

"Fine, but let's make one thing perfectly clear. I don't give a rat's ass what you think about me or anything else for that matter. So I will give my explanation and you will say nothing when I am finished. Now… where should I begin," he continued. "Back when the dark lord was strong the first time I began working as a spy for the Order and I gave Dumbledore quite a bit of information that would have eventually led to the dark lord's down fall, had you not gone strutting your stuff that is. So naturally, when it was revealed that the dark lord had risen again, Dumbledore asked me to do the very same thing. I returned to the dark lord, got myself back in with the followers and began receiving new information. This proved to very difficult seeing that I had not done anything to prove my loyalty to the dark lord while he was supposedly dead."

"Did you and Dumbledore know he would rise again?" Harry interrupted.

"Do not interrupt me Potter! AND DO NOT SAY THE DARK LORD'S NAME!" Snape screamed. "You may remember young Draco Malfoy. I suspected that he was in with the dark lord for quite some time, for his father would have expected nothing less. Alas, I was proven to be right when Narcissa came to me with a favor. Draco had been assigned to find away for the death eaters to get into Hogwarts and Draco was to kill Dumbledore. Narcissa forced me to make and unbreakable vow to her that if Draco could not carry through that I would complete his task for him. Naturally agreed, for I knew that Dumbledore would not want me to blow my cover. When I returned to Hogwarts I told Dumbledore everything that happened. He said when the time came I would simply have to kill him,"

"That's codswallop and you know it!" Harry screamed.

"As much as I would love to agree with you Harry," Lupin began. "Unfortunately I believe Severus is telling us the truth. In order to truly pay respect to Dumbledore's memory we must trust his instincts and, for some reason that Severus has yet to tell us, Dumbledore trusted him."

Harry stared at Lupin shocked at the words that were coming out of his mouth. He thought Lupin of all people would see it his way. He hated Snape as much as Harry had, but it seemed that Lupin was reluctant to trust him.

"Fine. Have you found anything else about the Horcruxes?" Harry asked.

"The what?" McGonagall asked a sudden worry crossing over her face.

"The Horcruxes. Please tell me Dumbledore told you."

"I'm afraid not Harry."

"I can't believe this. So we are no closer in catching Voldemort than were a month ago?! I can't believe he didn't tell you."

"There is a lot of information that Dumbledore did not tell us Harry, but we have someone currently working on his portrait. Hopefully we will be able to speak to him soon. Now if you would care to explain." McGonagall finished.

Well Dumbledore and I figured out last year that Voldemort made several Horcruxes. Our prediction is that there are seven…." Harry went on to tell them all about the lessons with Slughorn and all the theories that they came up with on what the Horcruxes might be. The theory that they thought he had gotten an item from each of the founders. He explained all about Nagini, the locket that they had tried to get last year, and the Hufflepuff cup. He told them all about the diary and the ring, the only two that are known to be destroyed. When he finished everyone just looked at him awestruck.

"Why didn't you tell us Slughorn?" McGonagall demanded.

"He gave that memory to me last year. Dumbledore and I put it into his pensieve, so naturally he doesn't remember." Harry answered for him.

"Well I suppose we have our work cut out for us then." McGonagall said trying to maintain composure.

"I would say we do Minevra," replied a tall man with long snowy white hair, who had just materialized in front of them.

A/N: Cliffhanger! As you can tell I love cliffhanger chapters. So you will see a lot of those. Chew on that on for a while.