"No, absolutely not," Sirius stated firmly, crossing his arms.
"Well it's not up for discussion," Severus responded.
"Then why would you bring it up?" Sirius asked, his temper rising.
"I was informing you out of courtesy, I wasn't asking your permission."
"Well you should have asked my permission, and the answer is no," Sirius responded, ripping down a prophet article that was stuck on the wall in anger.
"I've already asked Potter, I didn't give him any details, just that The Order needed some of the fangs, and he's agreed when I return to Hogwarts tomorrow-"
"Tomorrow? Absolutely not!"
"He has a point," Remus interrupted where he sat cross legged on the floor going through items he had recovered under Regulus's bed.
"Ha! See I'm the boys Godfather, you need my permission."
"Like you ever got permission from your parents to go gallivanting around the castle at night disguised as a dog," Severus retorted.
"That's not the point, the point is Harry is a child, you can't risk his life sending him into the Chamber of Secrets."
"You were doing a lot of riskier things when you were Harry's age," Remus cut in.
"Normally I would agree with you that Potter is a child- but he wouldn't be risking his life-the basilisk is dead," Severus responded.
"Severus has a point," Remus added, not looking up from the parchment he was reading.
"Whose side are you even on?" Sirius asked, whipping around to shoot Remus a dirty look.
Remus sighed, he placed the parchment gently onto the pile of papers he had accumulated, and looked up at the two men.
"I am on Ginny's side, I have always been on her side. And Sirius you're being unreasonable - yes Severus should have discussed sending Harry into the Chamber of Secrets to collect some basilisk fangs to destroy our horcrux's. But he already approached Harry, and he said yes. He's old enough to make his own choices, I highly doubt he'll go alone, I'm sure Miss Granger will accompany him, so you have nothing to worry about. Besides if Severus were to tell him no, Harry would do it anyways."-
Severus and Sirius exchanged looks, having to constantly be put in their place by Remus was enough to silence both of them.
"So you get these basilisk fangs, and we do what stab the cup and the locket with them?" Remus asked.
"That was the plan, the venom from the fangs seemed to work for Potter with The Dark Lord's diary," Severus nodded.
"Can't you just buy some?" Sirius asked.
"You can't just go out and buy it, even if we could find some, all together we wouldn't be able to afford it." Remus dismissed.
"How do you know the fangs will even work if the beast has been dead all this time?" Sirius asked.
"The Basilisk's venom won't die with it, it's quite fascinating really the venom-"
"If there isn't a test after this, I'll skip the lecture and take your word on it Mooney," Sirius cut him off groaning.
Remus looked disappointed, but didn't continue with whatever fascinating facts he had on the Basilisk.
"We destroy them together," Sirius said, his voice firm.
Neither of the men disagreed, it was almost automatic now that after every Order meeting the three of them would come up to Regulus's room, as if they had decided subconsciously that this was their new headquarters. When Severus was away Sirius and Remus would spend hours going through every scrap in Regulus's room hoping to find some clue as to where Ginny was and what horcrux's remained. The three of them were tied together now, the last of Ginny's Hogwarts friends united to fill in the pieces that was her tangled story.
"Do you think he'll notice when they get destroyed?" Remus voiced.
"I would doubt it, he's done unspeakable things, I doubt there's any humanity left in him," Severus answered.
Remus and Sirius contemplated this, between the three of them their limited knowledge of Horcrux's came from Alastor and what Severus had found in the restricted section of the library at Hogwarts. Even then you were able to find very little on what a witch or wizard would feel after a horcrux was destroyed, and no one had ever created as many as Voldemort had.
"A cup, a locket, a ring, a diary, a mysterious sword," Sirius mumbled..
"Where did this come from?" Remus asked excitement in his voice.
"What?" Severus asked, getting closer.
Remus beamed, holding what looked like an faded article from the prophet in his hand.
"I ripped it off the wall earlier," Sirius asked, curiously.
"It's about Hepzibah Smith, how she was murdered by her house elf-" Remus said, unable to hold his excitement back as he hopped to his feet and waved the scrap in the air wildly.
"And what? You think Kreacher is getting some ideas?" Sirius asked sarcastically.
"No, Hepzibah Smith was a decedent of Helga Hufflepuff, when she died everything was left to her last remaining relative, but they were missing a cup- Helga Hufflepuff's cup," Remus grinned looking back and forth between Sirius and Severus.
"Helga Hufflepuff's cup?" Severus asked, confused.
"The badger, I cannot believe we were so daft to not realize this earlier!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Exactly!" Remus added.
"Sirius where exactly was this article?" Severus asked, looking around the room.
"Over here," He responded, the three men rushed across the room where Sirius had been standing earlier and frantically searched the walls.
"Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's cup, so what we look for something for Ravenclaw and Gryffindor? The ring?" Sirius asked.
"The only thing I know they have for Gryffindor is his sword, it's on display in Dumbledore's office," Severus added.
"Well that could by the mystery sword Narcissa said was left with Dumbledore," Remus replied thoughtfully.
"Great, another thing Dumbledore lied about," Sirius responded bitterly.
"I don't think so, Potter used the sword to destroy the snake. If the sword itself had been a horcrux then the venom would have destroyed it," Severus voiced.
"Maybe, it would depend how Harry killed the snake- we need to know the specifics.' Remus spoke.
"Either way, Dumbledore said he assumed there was 4, the ring, the diary, and two more-" Sirius began.
"Two more that were lost- that Ginevra hid." Serverus finished.
"The cup and the sword," Sirius added.
"But the sword isn't missing, the sword is in Dumbledore's office," Severus reminded him.
"But his diary had nothing to do with the founders, and so what the ring was Ravenclaws? There has to be something we're missing," Remus sighed.
"Or maybe we're overthinking it entirely, maybe these items having nothing in common, maybe they were picked randomly," Severus added.
"If someone is going to rip their soul into pieces I doubt that they would pick objects at random," Remus said thoughtfully, running his hand over the stubble that had started to grow in.
"There has to be something in this room we're missing," Sirius stated exasperated.
The three men stood there in silence, the victory over having found the article pointing them towards the cup was now gone, when they realize it only opened the door to more questions. Why did Dumbledore lie about the sword? Who else remained that Ginny would have entrusted items with? And the question that had passed through all of their minds, that none of them had voiced. Why didn't Ginny trust them with one?