Chapter 33

Horcrux Hunting

"I want to be the one to kill a Dark Lord though!" Gabrielle pouted when she heard Luna's plan.

Currently Luna and Daphne were enlisting help from their friend in order to do what they needed.

"Sorry, you can't it has to be Harry," Luna answered.

"How come he gets to have all the fun?" Gabrielle argued.

"You get to help destroy pieces of his soul at least," Luna reminded her.

Daphne couldn't resist quipping, "hey at least you'll get a piece of him. He'll be all 'you want a piece of me' and you'll be like sure do."

Both Gabrielle and Luna gave her weirded out looks.

"Okay, that's taking things a bit far even for me," Gabrielle admitted.

"Yeah, that's too insane," Luna agreed.

"Well if you think so Luna..." Daphne replied back.

"Anyway, I'm still wondering what I'm actually going to get to do," Gabrielle pointed out.

Daphne rolled her eyes and said, "you really shouldn't be complaining Gabby. This I would hardly classify as fun in any way, shape, or form."

"You obviously haven't met me," Gabrielle pointed out with a sly smile, "I love danger, risks, and adventure. Defeating Voldemort? I don't know how we're going to do it, but it's totally irresistible to me."

"In that case, we should put Harry inside of a dragon's den, and he'd be irresistible to you then," Daphne commented.

"Harry is already irresistible to Gabby," Luna claimed, "she's going to end up with him by the end of the day.

The way Luna said it, so confidently the way a normal person might predict the sun going down or for Luna, her predicting she was going to do something ridiculous or crazy later, caused Gabrielle to back up a step.

"I will not!" She insisted angrily.

"Will too!" Luna singsonged with her reply.

"I don't want to be in a harem," Gabrielle stated, "I thought I made that perfectly clear and you already agreed not to interfere."

"I don't need to interfere," Luna answered coyly, "you're already in love with him but won't admit it. You'll do it all on your own."

"What have I done or how have I acted for you to think that?" Gabrielle inquired.

Luna merely shrugged and in Luna awesomeness fashion replied, "I'm Luna. I know everything...besides of course when they will finally start making dessert for breakfast, how to make robes optional in the school, and-"

"There's a lot of things you don't know," Gabrielle interrupted her.

"Well she does apparently know how to defeat the worst dark lord ever, that counts for something," Daphne reminded her.

"It's not going to happen," Gabrielle argued one last time, sticking her tongue out at Luna.

Luna however was undeterred as she turned towards Daphne and said, "now would be a good time to make a bet on it. We can use the money to get ice cream after we help Harry kill Moldymort."

Daphne rolled her eyes again and said, "I'm getting cookies and cream then."

TOOMANYTOOMANY

Harry was once again awoken in the middle of the night to find a girl on top of him. By now he was getting so used to this behavior he hardly batted an eye. Instead, he just grinned and tried to find out who it was.

Based on the fact that they weren't particularly heavy and the position they had taken in cuddling with him, he could have narrowed it down somewhat, but it was her rather pleasant smell of candy that gave it away.

"Hello Luna," He greeted her warmly but quietly so as not to wake any of his roommates...again. Lavender had ended up waking all of them up a few nights ago and while there was plenty of teasing that came his way and a bit of grumbling about having been woken up, none of them of course tattled on them. Still he'd rather his roommates not becoming too familiar with such behavior.

"Hello Harry," Luna replied as she lent down to kiss him, "do you want to come with me?"

He feigned tiredness as he let out a yawn and said, "I don't know about that Luna, I'm really tired right now. Maybe we should just get back to bed."

Luna giggled and said, "no time for sleeping Harry. We're going on an adventure."

"An adventure huh?" He asked, "is that what you want to call it? Well its certainly an adventure with you I suppose."

With a girl as crazy and up for anything as Luna, literally everything was an adventure. He swore he could never get tired of her.

"Yeah, I know, but this is going to be a real adventure," She informed him, "we'll battle dragons, goblins, zombies, giant snakes-"

"You wouldn't happen to still be talking about me would you?" He asked, taking special note of her comment about giant snakes. Oh, he wasn't absolutely huge or anything down there, but respectable enough.

She giggled again and asked, "is your snake hungry for me Harry?"

"I'm pretty sure I'm always hungry for you Luna," He admitted honestly.

"I know," She answered, "that's because I'm your sexy beast. I guess our adventure can wait a bit if your snake is too hungry. We'll just have to feed him then."

With that, she got underneath the covers with him and it wasn't until then that he realized she wasn't wearing...well anything. With him currently clad only in a pair of boxer shorts and no shirt, her breasts currently pressing into his stomach.

"Not that I mind but are you naked Luna?" He asked her.

Laughing yet again she pointed out, "I do sleep in the nude Harry."

"You do realize if you are going to be naked, there is no way I can sleep," Harry answered.

"Are you even going to want to sleep when you can feel my boobies instead?" Luna coyly asked.

He smiled and said, "I think that's one of the best ideas you've ever had and you've had a lot of them."

Having now handled Padma's, Hermione's, and Lavender's breasts, touching a girl's tits was no longer new to him, but it was still amazing to feel Luna's breasts for the first time.

They actually felt slightly bigger than Padma's and Hermione's, but slightly smaller than Lavender's, but they were all Luna's, perfectly smooth and firm and beautiful.

"My boobies like that a lot," Luna claimed happily, "do you like my boobies?"

"That's a stupid question," He answered, "I love your boobs, tits, breasts, yabbos, babysuckers, melons, jugs, hooters, Sarah and Jessica, and any other name you want to give them."

"I knew you would," She replied with a contented sigh.

With that, she brought her lips to his as they started making out. Well he thought if any of his roommates were to wake up, they would get quite the show.

One hand still fondling a breast, the other hand drifted down to cup her naked bum, eliciting a gasp from Luna. Oh Merlin, this girl was incredible he thought. Nice tits, nice bum, so adorably cute, and...he wondered idly if she was crazy in the bedroom so to speak.

In response, she grasped his erect cock through his boxer shorts.

"He's happy I'm here," She claimed happily.

He would have been perfectly content to remain in such a position for probably forever, but then Luna unexpectedly said regretfully, "we have to go now."

"Go?" He asked, "as far as I'm concerned we just started."

Luna sighed and said regretfully, "I want to Harry, but the whole reason I did this is because we have to go on a dangerous adventure and there is a chance I might not make it."

He was tempted to laugh in case it was merely a joke, but honestly he had never heard Luna sound more serious.

Suddenly Luna spoke again, only this time it was in a voice that was lower and more reserved than Luna's was.

"Death shall claim the fragments of souls,

But with it comes a price.

The Plan shall be known to the One

And the One shall know love

Beware the cheesemaker

That actually sounded like...like a prophecy. He was about to ask her what on earth she was talking about but then she seemed to shake herself and then say as if she hadn't said anything just before, "well let's go."

At that, she got out of his bed and then reached for and put her clothes back on while he did the same, wondering just what this was all about.

He became even more curious when they met up just outside the Room of Requirement with Daphne and Gabrielle. The fact that Daphne was wearing a tomb raider outfit did not escape his attention. She wore very short and tight booty shorts as well as an equally tight blue shirt, all of which showcasing her amazing assets.

"I like the outfit," He told Daphne with an appreciative look.

She grinned and said, "I do pull it off rather nicely don't I? Only problem is the shorts are just a bit too tight. I ended up borrowing them from Pansy."

"You mean Pansy actually had those shorts and she never wore them for me?" Harry pouted as he eyed Daphne's smooth, perfect legs.

Fortunately Daphne told him, "I think I can convince her to wear them. Assuming of course I don't accidentally rip them myself."

Gabrielle however seemed already eager to begin whatever they were supposed to be doing as she then asked Luna, "What took you so long?"

He shared a guilty look with Luna, causing Daphne to laugh.

"I knew I should have gone with you to go get him," Daphne claimed, sounding disappointed.

"Then you would have been there all night and we would never have gotten to go," Gabrielle pointed out.

Daphne grinned and agreed, "probably true."

"Well at least tell me you let him know where we're going and what we're doing?" Gabrielle asked.

Again, Luna gave her a guilty look, only this time he had no idea what for.

Gabrielle sighed and said, "all right, I'm just going to come out with it. We're going to go destroy pieces of Voldemort's soul so he can finally be killed by you. You know, your average in the middle of the night surprise date."

"It'll be fun," Luna added.

He gave her an incredulous look as it seemed too random to be real and too specific at the same time to be a lie.

"I think that sums it up," Daphne agreed, "well let's go before these shorts rip."

"They'll rip eventually, but nobody will mind," Luna supplied for her.

"Would anyone care to really explain what is going on?" Harry asked exasperatedly.

All 3 girls seemed to have compassion on him and Gabrielle suggested to Luna and Daphne, "why don't you two go get the first one inside the Room and I'll explain things to him?"

Both Luna and Daphne nodded as they headed inside the Room.

Gabrielle then took the time to briefly explain over the next several minutes, but frankly it only caused him to have more questions.

"So let me get this straight," He tried to sum what she had told him up, "Luna is a psychic and used her psychic powers to figure out that Voldemort apparently has these things called horcruxes which are basically pieces of his soul he has kept in various objects in order to prevent him from dying?"

"Yeah, that pretty much covers it, glad you were listening," She answered approvingly, "you're a good listener Harry."

"Well that is one of my many good qualities," He quipped, even while trying to make sense of things.

Harry rubbed his forehead, trying to make sense of it all. If he had known something this crazy, crazy even by Luna standards was going to happen, he would have just stayed in bed. In fact, he'd rather that Luna not have even shown up in the middle of the night at all totally naked...

Yeah, that part he wasn't at all upset about, he realized. No way could he ever be upset about that.

So Luna was a psychic. Well he supposed she had been telling him that since the beginning. However the fact that she was, or at least that Daphne and Gabrielle believed she was, was rather enlightening. It certainly explained a lot even if it had already been staring him in the face. It was however the Voldemort thing that actually concerned him more. That sounded rather insane to have a bunch of teenagers go and try and destroy evil pieces of Voldemort's soul.

"So what do you think of all this?" He decided to ask her.

Gabrielle seemed surprised by his question but then admitted, "frankly ever since becoming Luna's friend, there has been a lot of crazy and difficult things to deal with that comes with it. Is it worth it? Absolutely. The thing is with every good thing I think there has to be some challenges mixed in with it, that it will never be easy. I wanted a good friend so badly and so did she and we just connected. It's also that same understanding of the value of friendship that has allowed me to put up with her own efforts to make even more friends. I love Luna, I really do, and she's a special girl."

"I would definitely agree with that," He answered.

"That being said, I can also understand why she loves you so much. You're kind, and funny, and witty, yet strong and courageous and loving, and handsome, and-"

"Keep talking like that about me and you would think you were the one who loved me," He interrupted.

It was meant as a joke, but she seemed to take it very seriously, her eyes hardening as she mulled that over for a long moment before saying barely in a whisper, "I do love you."

It sounded like she was saying that more to herself than him, but then she repeated it, this time looking directly into his eyes as she admitted, "I do love you."

With that, she leaned forward and kissed him, a passionate, long and deep kiss that left him surprised by such a reaction, but still wanting more.

However she then broke apart from him to admit, "I suppose the heart does know what it wants and a veela knows that better than anyone. I've been trying to deny it because I didn't want to share you, but honestly...I'm not the only one who needs you. We all need you."

She stood there, appearing like she was waiting for him to say something but he was forced to admit, "I'm not really sure what to say. I mean you're a great girl and if you're saying you'd like to be my girlfriend, I'd be happy to accept."

Gabrielle smiled real wide and in that moment, he caught his breath as she appeared like an angel. Despite it being somewhat dark, the space around them lit only by torches, she let off her own soft glow, her beautiful blonde hair framing her gorgeous face which was also lit up by her perfect smile.

"We'll just have to work the details out later," She suggested as she then leaned in and kissed him again.

This one was for a good deal longer, and by the time they finally broke apart, Daphne and Luna were standing there watching.

"YES!" Luna cheered happily.

Gabrielle smiled back and asked, "is this the part where you say I told you so?"

"I'd never do that to you Gabby, my bust friend," Luna claimed, a few tears escaping her cheeks as the two girls shared a hug, "I love you."

"I love you too Luna," Gabrielle replied, "I'm glad we'll both be sister wives."

He'd been about to ask about that apparent slip of the tongue, but then Daphne came in and kissed him before guiding his hand to her left breast.

"What do you know? You've got a busty friend too Harry," Daphne joked.

Daphne's breasts were indeed larger than any girl's he had ever felt before and more than big enough for his hands to enjoy.

"Oh boobs," He stated.

She laughed and said, "yep, boobs. My boobs."

At that moment he was then interrupted by Luna.

"Do you like my new crown Harry?" Luna asked as she held up a stunning diadem, complete with brilliantly sparkling jewels.

That got him back to the task at hand as he asked with concern, "so inside there is...a piece of Voldemort's soul?"

It seemed difficult to believe.

"Not anymore," Luna claimed, "not with the soul extractor!"

She then held up in her other hand what appeared to be a small handheld Muggle vacuum cleaner.

"It's my GhostDuster!" Luna proclaimed proudly.

He couldn't resist smiling a bit and said, "nice."

"I just suck out the piece of soul with this," Luna demonstrated as she pointed at a button, "and voila, no more piece of soul."

"What if you accidentally suck out someone else's soul?" He asked.

"It only works on bad souls," She claimed, "watch me try to suck out yours for instance."

Before he could react, she pressed the button and pointed the nozzle right at his head.

There was a loud sucking sound and it felt like something was getting ripped from him, but then...immediately afterwards he suddenly felt...lighter somehow...like a great weight had been lifted off him.

Luna seemed to be staring at him for a long moment after she had turned her device off, but then she smiled, looking very pleased about something.

"You're okay Harry!" She said as she threw her arms around him for a hug.

"Yeah, I'm fine," He told her, wondering what the big deal was.

"You will be now," Luna told him, "nobody besides me will ever have to know. It's better that way."

"Know that Harry is still a virgin?" Daphne joked.

"Hey!" He complained, "I'm getting naked girls into my bed and I just felt up your boobs. I'd hardly say I'm not getting any action."

"So how do I go about getting a piece of this action?" Gabrielle inquired.

"We can celebrate later Gabby," Luna suggested.

"So what do we do with the diadem now?" Daphne asked, bringing them all back to the task at hand.

"I'll wear it," Gabrielle offered.

"You're not going around wearing something that used to house a piece of Voldemort's soul," Harry insisted.

"Why not?" Gabrielle asked.

"Since I won't kiss you any more if you do," He argued.

Gabrielle pouted and said, "apparently having a boyfriend now has a few drawbacks."

"That really is rather gross even if it does look pretty," Daphne came to his defense.

Finally, the beautiful young veela girl sighed and said, "all right, we'll just have to donate it to a museum or something. Some Rowena Ravenclaw dummy is going to end up looking really good."

"Don't worry, you'll get your own really beautiful diadem from Harry someday," Luna claimed.

With that now settled, he followed the girls outside of the castle to where the next piece of soul apparently was.

As he did so, he took the opportunity to comment to Luna, "that soul extractor thing was really clever. It must have taken a lot of work to figure out."

She just shrugged and said, "nothing to it, all I needed was a vacuum and some basilisk venom to line the inside with and then put a few spells on it."

He nodded and then asked, "so about these horcrux things? How many are there?"

Luna then thought about it and then said, "the ring I gave an anonymous tip to Dumbledore to go find and destroy it himself, but I also warned him not to touch it."

"Why would that be a concern?" He asked.

"Don't ask it gives me goosies," Luna announced with a shudder, "then the diadem we just took care of, the locket I had Sirius send to me without him realizing what it was-"

"How does Sirius play into all this?" He inquired.

"Not at all," Luna admitted, "so that leaves us with just the cup and snake and then Voldemort himself, but we can't get to him yet. He would only escape. We'll have to wait until the Third Task."

"You seem to have this all planned out," Harry observed, growing more and more impressed, "so are you really psychic?"

"Of course Harry, haven't I told you all along?" She reminded him.

He had to admit she did as he replied, "I suppose you did, I just never really thought much of it."

"It was all part of the plan you not finding out," Luna admitted.

"What plan?" He asked.

She just smiled and said, "you'll know when the time is right."

With that, she started skipping ahead of them out of the castle. Once outside having encountered no one along the way, they finally stopped at the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

It occurred to him then that they had no known method of transportation yet.

"How are we going to get to...wherever we're going?" He asked Luna.

"Fly of course," Luna answered as if it was obvious, "we'll just have Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang take us."

"Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang?" He asked. Sounded like an awfully weird name.

"Chitty!" Luna called loudly.

For a moment he was a bit confused and then...VROOM! To his surprise, the Weasley's old flying Ford Anglia drove up right in front of them. The last time he had seen it was clear back in 2nd year, when it had helped save him and Ron from a swarm of Acromantulas. Back then it had been pretty damaged, both from it crashing into the Whomping Willow and it romping around wild through the forest. Now however it appeared to have been repaired almost good as new, although it was now a hot pink color with flames going down the sides.

"You fix cars too?" He asked Luna, now rather impressed, "what can't you do?"

Luna smiled but admitted, "actually I only befriended and domesticated it again. Gabrielle is the car fixer-upper."

Gabby smiled and said, "you may find I'm just as full of surprises as Luna."

He couldn't resist quipping, "oh, and when might I find out these surprises from you?"

She only smiled even wider as she claimed coyly, "stick around for the ride and you might find out."

"Ooh, I like the sound of that," Harry answered.

Still...as he looked over the hot pink car...he privately hoped he could avoid Gabrielle finding out about Sirius' old motorbike that Hagrid now had in order to avoid it receiving similar fate and have it end up hot pink. That would just be a crime.

With that and with a bit of trepidation, he got inside the passenger side of the front with Daphne choosing to be the one to drive.

"How come you get to be the one to drive?" Gabrielle pouted.

"Since you're too short to reach the pedals," Daphne countered.

Gabby frowned and said, "not cool Daphne, not cool."

"It's true," Daphne argued back, "however maybe I could get a stick and-"

"Or maybe I could turn you into a squirrel so you'd be too short to reach them as well," Gabrielle suggested, gripping her wand as if more than happy to do so."

With that, Daphne then admitted, "actually I have a confession to make anyway. I don't really know how to drive this thing."

Having grown up in the Muggle world, he'd watched either his Aunt or Uncle drive loads of times, and even watched the Weasleys drive this particular car and so gave her suggestions on what to do.

Finally, she got it started, with him now having even greater cause to be concerned about this whole trip if he wasn't concerned enough already. He was now flying in a flying car named Chitty driven by Daphne the never having driven before witch, off to destroy piece's of Voldemort's soul. Simple enough right?

Still, Daphne took off into the air, allowing herself to get used to it a bit before activating the Invisibility booster so they wouldn't be seen. They could still see themselves of course, but it was a good deal more hazy.

One of the Hogwarts ghosts had nothing on them.

Luna directed her where to go, seeming to have an innate sense of it. Still their first stop consisted of dropping down inside of a clearing inside of a wooded area and Luna and Gabrielle running around trying to catch this rat they had found.

Once they had however, a moment later and then they just released it.

Figuring that Luna at least seemed to know what she was doing with Daphne and Gabrielle very trusting of her, they got back inside the car.

They next headed to...of all places...Diagon Alley. It looked at first like they were headed to the bank, but instead Luna headed to the side building where the Goblin theater performed.

"We're going to see a play?" He asked in confusion, "at 2:00 in the morning?"

"Of course," Luna answered, "that's what makes this a date, silly."

"Also," Gabby explained, "goblins don't care what time it is, they work and live mostly down in the mines where it is just as light or dark no matter what time it is."

He supposed she had a point.

With that, Luna approached the front goblin clerk CaptainHook, who he had met with Dumbledore awhile back with Susan and Pansy before saying, "I do believe I bought up every single ticket for this particular showing of The Hobbit: A Goblin's Tale for a private viewing?"

"Name?" CaptainHook asked.

"Mrs. Potter," Luna told him.

CaptainHook looked down at what he had on a slip of paper before grinning widely and said, "very well, right this way, Mrs. Potter and her guests."

They headed inside the theater with him asking Luna, "Mrs. Potter?"

She only giggled at that.

As they went to go sit down, he was not too keen on sitting through this entire show. A moment later however and a terribly apologetic CaptainHook came back in and said, "I'm terribly sorry, but unfortunately due to an unforeseen food poisoning incident, many of our actors are now ill. It looks like we're going to have to cancel."

"Thank goodness," He couldn't resist saying.

"Oh!" Gabrielle complained, "I was really looking forward to watching it! It sounded really good!"

"We knew we wouldn't get a chance to watch it, it's why we chose this particular one," Daphne reminded her.

"On behalf of the Goblin Theatre Company and Gringotts, we would like to issue an apology," CaptainHook informed them, "and refund all of your money."

"I want a theater prop instead," Luna suggested, "I want a gold cup like in the dragon scene."

CaptainHook seemed to mull this over, before saying, "I'll see what I can do."

He left, but then returned a few minutes later, a gold cup in hand.

"Here you go Mrs. Potter," He told her.

Luna took it and immediately stuffed it into her bookbag she had brought with her, thanked CaptainHook, and left.

"What are we going to do with a theater prop?" Harry asked.

"It isn't just a theater prop," Luna explained, "it's a horcrux."

His eyes widened as he asked, "just how would it have ended up in the play and then just be given to us?"

Gabrielle seemed eager to explain starting out with, "they apparently didn't have enough gold objects to do the part in the play with Smaug the Dragon lying on top of a massive pile of gold and then roasting all of the Hobbits."

He didn't think he'd heard of that last part happening, but let her continue, "so they had to get a bit creative and 'borrow' some of the gold from some of the people's vaults. Luna then ensured that one of the vaults they borrowed gold objects from was Bellatrix Lestrange's vault including the horcrux. When we then showed up for that particular showing, knowing that the show was going to be canceled due to some of the actors getting food poisoning, we knew that we could then take advantage of the opportunity and ask for a theater prop instead of having our money refunded. The fact that there was in fact only one gold cup being used as a prop, that being the horcrux, ensured that we ended up getting it."

"It sounds complicated," Harry observed.

"All of Luna's plans are complicated, you have no idea," Daphne replied as she shook her head.

"Apparently I'm finding out a lot of things tonight," He answered as he glanced over at Luna.

Once they got back to the car, Luna extracted the soul piece from the cup and then tossed the cup in the trunk.

"So what now?" He asked.

"Now?" Luna responded, "now we wait until the opportune moment to end this whole thing. It may take a little while though so stick around for the ride."

"Oh, I'm not going anywhere," He told her, pulling her in for a hug, causing Luna to smile and sigh.