Chapter 3

The Break In


The Burrow

Three days had passed since Ron and Hermione had apparated back to the burrow, and neither of them had yet to speak of what happened. On the fourth day at the burrow the two of them were cornered at the dining table during lunch time and to make it worse Bill, Fleur, George, Fred and Charlie Weasley, Remus and Tonks Lupin and lastly Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were all there.

It seemed that someone had let it slip to the others that the two of them had returned from where they had been. As soon as lunch had started all conversations stopped when Remus looked at the two teens wondering where Harry was and them "Where is Harry? Why is he not down for lunch?"

Ron chocked on his food as he clearly not expected that to be the first question to be asked. After receiving several thumping's in the back, which the Weasley twins took great pleasure in doing that.

Smirking evilly at Ron, Gred and Forge looked at each other and they both started teasing Ron with each finishing the others line.


"What seems to have...."

"Got your Knickers in twist..."


"Ronneckins?"

They both finished the last word together. Looking towards Ron they saw his face turn beet red either from embarrassment or anger. Coming to Ron's rescue Hermione diverted all attention from Ron to herself when she spoke, "We actually don't know where he is right now. 'seeing the shocked faces she continued hurriedly' you see we had an argument on the lack of progress in the mission we told him that we needed help in this but his ego wouldn't let him do that. Well it turned in to a big fight then we left."

Remus, who had been drinking a glass of pumpkin juice; spit all the juice that he had in his mouth showering Ron whom had been sitting right across him, Fred and George hi-fived each other and laughed at their brother who was soaking wet.

As Remus who was cleaning the mess he had caused, Mr. Weasley gave his youngest child a sharp look as he questioned him "Am I correct to assume that my son Ron was the cause of this argument?" Ron was surprised and angered at being accused as if he was responsible of the split up he spoke in a loud angry voice as he tried to defend himself "It was not my fault that we argued. We told Harry that we needed help in the stupid mission given by Dumbledore but he kept refusing. What was I to do if we ate mushrooms and dried fish almost everyday I even wish I had rather gone to school than go to the stupid mission with the most wanted man right now in Britain."

Silence filled the room as everybody contemplated what he had just said and just to add salt to the wound, Hermione continued with a smug and a superior look in her face, "And on top of that right before we left, he attacked us, petrified us and obliviated us of all the memories that we had of the mission given by Dumbledore."

The ghostly silence never lasted for long as a high shrill voice shot up "He what? I can't believe that Harry would do such a thing." Rushing towards her son she started fussing over her son "My little baby are you okay? Are you feeling fine? If you need anything just let me know my Ronnie." moving towards Hermione she hugged her and said, "I'm so glad you said that Hermione, I don't think I would have forgiven Harry if he had hurt you two."

Remus looked at the two children that were or rather had been Harry's best friends for the last seven years. He could sense something was off as Harry would never do such a thing unless he was provoked.

Wanting to get to the bottom of this he asked the two children "So I take it the three of you never stayed at ..." looking confused for a minute he looked at Mr. Weasley before he spoke "Arthur do you know where you stayed after Voldermort's resurrection?"

Looking confused at being asked such a question he answered "Of course we stayed at the.... wait a minute! Molly dear, do you remember the name of the place where we stayed." Mr. Weasley asked his wife as he sought help from her.

"Don't be silly dear; you can't be that old to forget the name of Sirius house.... Oh my am so sorry but I don't seem to remember the name of Sirius house. But I do know it is somewhere in London."

Looking grave at Mr. Weasley he asked him "Do you know what this means Arthur?" Seeing his nod he continued "We need to investigate about this, come on Tonks I'll tell you what happened later." as he saw that she was about to protest. As soon as the husband and wife had left the Burrow, the rest of the occupants looked clueless with the exception of Mr and Mrs. Weasley, Bill and Fleur Weasley.

"Dad would you like me to ask at Gringots to see if someone was hired do it?" Bill asked his dad. "Yes that would be good because we all know that for someone to perform such a thing it takes a lot of power. So they must have been two people to do that or they could have hired the goblins help." Mr. Weasley said as he rubbed at his temples tiredly.

"Don't worry both Fleur and I will ask around in Gringots since we both work there." Bill assured his dad as he looked at his wife for reaffirmation. Seeing her husbands look, she looked at Mr. Weasley and said "Bill eez right Mr. Weazley."

"We better get going for work dad, the goblins have become strict on all human workers since the war has started. We shall report what we find there as soon as possible." Bill spoke as he stood up from his chair and gently helped Fleur from her sit.


As soon as they were gone Arthur Weasley turned to Hermione and Ron and asked them in a dead voice "I want both of you to tell me exactly what happened after you left the Burrow during the death eater attack?"


"Well as soon as we left the Burrow we apparated to London where we encountered two death eaters, then we apparated to ….. Sirius House,we received your patronous message there. During one of our missions we accidentally apparated there with a death eater at our tail, we think he saw the house so we apparated away from there and haven't been there since then." A red faced Hermione spoke extemporaneously.

"Well that explains a lot now, I need to get to work as I am already late as it is and you two had better prepare because you are going back to Hogwarts as soon as possible; I am going to let it slip out at the ministry that you are cured from the spattergroit and will be back to school with Hermione." Mr. Weasley said as he stood up from his sit and kissed his wife before apparating away.

As soon as he was one George and Fred both of whom were still there looked at each other before they started teasing the other two Gryffindor's.

"Ooh Ronneckins and his little girlfriend..."

"How does it feel to have a girl stand by your side little ickle Ronneckins?"

"Have you told Hermione that you fancy her?"

"Have you kissed her yet ickle Ronneckins?"

"Can you tell us how it felt to be obliviated by your best friend?"

"How does Harry do it Gred?"

"Well Forge you know Harry he just does it."

While the twins continued to tease Ron and Hermione mercilessly they failed to see their faces turn red , not able to take it any longer Ron bellowed at the twins, "Shut up you two!"

The twins smirked at Ron's anger but before they could tease him again Mrs. Weasley interfered and shooed the twins away. "That's enough you two! Don't you have a shop to look after? As for you Ron dear and Hermione you two had better get ready because in twenty minutes we will be going to Diagon alley to buy your things that you will be needing for your seventh year, its too dangerous to allow you two to go alone."

With that everybody with the exception of Mrs. Weasley left the kitchen.

Grimmauld Place


It had been over four hours since Harry had sent Kreacher to bring the goods he needed. Having the peace and solitude in the Black library, Harry was able to think clearly about the Horcruxes and about his future.

Focusing his attention back to the book that read; Curses, Charms & Spells (By the four founders of Hogwarts). Harry had been surprised to find a book written by the four founders, how it had found its way in the Black's Library and not in Hogwarts flummoxed him. But he couldn't care less since the book seemed to be a lot more useful than other books.

A tap on the window snapped Harry out of his reading, looking up at the nearest window he saw a regal looking eagle perched on the window sill. Slightly cautious he walked towards the window and opened it as soon as he did that the eagle flew and perched itself on the nearest chair.

As Harry looked at it closely he noticed that the eagle had two letters tied to both its legs. Removing the letters from the eagle's legs. He noticed that it had not yet left figuring that whoever sent him the letters must be waiting for his reply. As he opened the first letter he noticed that it had Gringots seal.

Mr. Potter,

It has come to our attention that you are on the run from you-Know-Who and his followers. As it is you must be wondering what our letter must be all about. It seems Albus Dumbledore has left you a couple things here at Gringots together with his letter explaining everything to you in case he died.

Well his instructions were to give you as soon as you reached you reached seventeen years of age. We have tried to contact you several times but it seems your running from the ministry and you-Know-Who's followers made it difficult for us to find you.

Recent activities have led us to be believe that a certain someone has just moved in and added protections to the ancestral house of Black's. We would also like to inform you that you have been left everything that your godfather owned before he died as the rightful heir and since it has been proven because of the command you have over the house elf.

We have kept the Black's and Potter's family ring in this letters envelop, you are to wear them to signify that you are the Head of both Ancient and Noble houses of both the Black's and the Potter's. As the head of the Black house you are have the power to disown certain members that you see are not fit to belong to the Black's and not only that you also have the right to visit the vaults Bellatrix and Narcissa Black since they are the only other two members (if you can count Draco Black Malfoy then that should make them three.) and confiscate whatever you like from their vaults.

With that Mr. Potter I'd also like to tell you that it seems Albus Dumbledore has left all his possessions in his vault, for more on that you will have to read the second letter which has been left to you by Albus Dumbledore. Inside the letter there are things which are shrunken, as soon as you open the letter they will magically expand to their original sizes.

I would also like to request a meeting you Mr. Potter so that I can discuss some important and personal business with you. All you have to do is reply back to us with your suitable date of choosing and send. As soon as we receive your feedback we would send a portkey to you, do not fear the death eaters finding you here.

May your fortunes grow daily,

Ragnok

Head Goblin – British branch Gringots

Reaching for the opened envelop he found two rings; the Potter's and the Black's respectively. The Potter family ring was made of white gold and had a griffin symbol while the Black family ring which was black in color (he had no idea of what it was made of) and it had a grim as its symbol.

Putting both of them on the middle finger he felt a slight tingle and warmth pass through his body. Looking at the rings he had wore he was surprised to see that they had combined to form a silver color with retaining both the griffin and the grim as its symbols.

Looking towards the second later; supposedly left by Dumbledore he decided to read it later as for now he summoned a quill and a piece of parchment and composed a reply to Gringots.
Dinner time was a quiet affair for Harry; he stared deplorably at Dumbledore's letter in front of him. Putting the plates he had used for his dinner on the dish washer, he flicked his wand at it and it started washing itself.

Sitting himself back at an armchair he summoned Dumbledore's letter to him and with a heavy heart he slit the envelop open.

The first thing he noticed was the items that dropped on his laps and quickly expanded to their normal sizes. As soon as he saw it he recognized after being in Dumbledore's office several times and they even used it last year, this was Dumbledore's pensieve. As usual the pensieve always awed him and he couldn't help but run his hands on the carved on the sides of the pensieve.

Setting it down gently he saw three bottles that had milky looking liquids inside. Recognizing them as pensieve memories probably from Dumbledore concerning the Horcruxes, growing excited he inwardly thanked Dumbledore on his thoughtfulness.

As his eyes fell on the last item his eyes started to fill up with tears as he saw that it was a thin long white stick. Running his hand above the wand stick that used to belong to Dumbledore, he could practically feel the power coming from the wand begging him to pick it up.

Not tempted by the wand he ignored it and picked up Dumbledore's letter and read it. Ten minutes later found Harry slumped on the armchair with tears streaming down his face non-stop. Dumbledore's letter played in his head again and again the letter had mentioned all the possibilities of the objects that Voldermort might have used to create a Horcrux and their possible locations.

On top of that the letter had mentioned the possibility of a seventh Horcrux that Voldermort might have accidentally created during the when he had gone to kill him but what troubled Harry was that Dumbledore had stated that he wasn't sure where the Horcrux resided.

But what worried Harry the most was the piece of information that Dumbledore had provided concerning his wand. Apparently it appeared that the name of the wand was known as the Elder wand, Dumbledore had taken it (well more like won it after defeating the wielder of that wand in a duel, it so happened that the wielder was none other than the former Dark Lord, Grindelwald ). From what Dumbledore had written it happened that the wand had two cores instead of one and it could wield a lot of power if the right person had it and he was afraid of the wand falling in the wrong hands.

With a little bit of trepidation Harry reached for the wand using his right hand, as soon as his hand neared the wand he was shocked when he saw the wand jump right into his hand and he felt sudden warmth in his fingers in fact it was much stronger than when he had purchased his Holly wand. Raising the wand above his head, swishing it down through the air and a stream of white and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls.

Standing up from his chair he tested his new wand which proved to be much better than his Holly wand, he noticed that he could easily perform spells with this new wand. Sadness was washed away and replaced with excitement and hankering of testing his new wand.

As he was about to leave the kitchen he heard a pop sound signaling the arrival of Kreacher. His excitation was increased as he recalled the assignment he had given the ancient elf. Busting in to the kitchen he saw Kreacher looking exhausted but pleased at the same. Seeing Harry come in, the rogue elf bowed stiffly and croaked "Master, Kreacher has done what you asked him to do. It was difficult to get some of the things you wanted but Kreacher did as you asked him to do." an evil smirk was all over the elf's wrinkly face.

"Good work Kreacher. Do you think you can tell me what you brought here and what kind of animal is that in that cage?" Harry asked as he saw a small cage that contained a black furry animal that looked like a dog and at the same time as a wolf.

Following his master's gaze, Kreacher puffed his chest as he was praised and he had gained his masters attention unlike the other crazy elf. "That Master is a shadow wolf, a shadow wolf has the ability to go from one place to another using the shadows like we house elf we teleport but the shadow wolf they shadow walk. They also have the ability to share their ability with the person that they bond with."

Seeing Harry's look of amazement and understanding he moved towards another cage. A sudden gasp from Harry brought a smile to his face. "Kreacher is that a....?" Harry asked as his eyes followed Kreacher who was moving towards another cage which contained a white colored bird.

Seeing nothing else Harry turned towards Kreacher, "Did you manage to get the animagus potion and its book on how to become one?" A nod from Kreacher made Harry breath a sigh of relief. With a snap of his fingers, Kreacher made the animagus potion and its book appear in the middle of the kitchen.

With a happy smile on his face Harry dismissed Kreacher by thanking him profusely and telling him that he needed a rest. As soon as Kreacher was gone Harry flicked his new wand at the two cages grabbing the animagus potion and its book with his left hand, he left the kitchen with the two cages floating behind him and made his way up to his bedroom.