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(BSC 3 C4) C62. The vault of Bellatrix black.
Narcissa was walking onto her driveway. She was a little disoriented of the thinks she had heard about her sister. Most of it had been new to her and it had unnerved her more then she thought it would have. Her little sister Bellatrix black had to marry Harry Potter, sure this was not new to her but the fact that they were in love was. Bellatrix had never ever shown any emotion what so ever.
No that was not true she did until she was placed into the marriage contract with Rodolphus Lestrange. On that day she had lost all the feelings she had and became the hard bitch she was now known for.
It had been only a year ago that she found out that her little sister was placed into another marriage contract and that contract was with none other than Harry Potter, the boy who lived. But whatever you could say it didn't take away the fact that Harry and her sister were in love.
Again like the biggest part of the last few days she thought back to the party at Potter castle. There she had seen Harry dancing with Bella who she had now learned was indeed her little sister. Both of them shined with love, more love, that there had ever been in the total marriage between her and Lucius.
Merlin, what she wouldn't do to get out from under that marriage contract? The only thing she had to do was give birth to a son. She had been lucky and Draco was her first born. It was then that she saw an opportunity to make Draco into a proper lord. One the magical could look up to and love, A Lord worthy of his station and a real asset to the magical world.
Just like every time she thought about it one way Lucius, had to do it another way. Before she had the chance to form Draco into the man she want him to be, Lucius had made a little death eater from him.
As Narcissa walked into the house she saw a picture with a moving Draco on it. A small tear escaped her eye as she looked to it. She was disgusted with her son almost as much as she was loathing her husband. Internally she knew she had to love him but it was just too hard for her to do it in the way he was acting.
No her hope and her world had all crumbled when she had seen Harry Potter in the infirmary. All the things she wanted Draco to be she had seen in Harry. He was the true leader of the magical world. He took care of his people and neglected himself. He stood before them even when he knew that he had no chance in helping them. He was the one who would take the punishment even though he didn't have to.
Draco was the other way. He would whine and whine about the heard he was feeling even if others were worse than he was. Just like her husband he would stand behind someone or push them in front of him to save himself and if there was punishment then he would be the one to give it because he couldn't take it. No Draco was her husband through and through.
As she took a glass of the finest wine she had and wiped away her tears. She knew she had lost her son the day Lucius started to train him to be a death eater and there was nothing she could do about it. Whit the second glass of wine she looked around the room. Her husband was away for a couple of days. He was probably somewhere in the Muggle world where he could molest a Muggle girl, with his sadistic way of hurting them.
Her son Draco was with one of the boys from the other death eaters, probably the son of Grab or Coyle.
With the third class of whine in her hand she went to her own room. The time had come to start planning her way to help Harry but especially her little sister Bella Figg. As she sat at her desk she knew it was time to be a spy for the other side.
*#*
It was early in the morning when Harry woke up by a night bus that landed on his stomach. With a big sigh he looked up and saw two blue eyes staring at him.
"Harry wake up I want to use your wand".
Harry had to blink and look again at those blue eyes.
"Come on Harry I want to use your wand, I know it will make me happy".
Harry shook his head. "Astoria you euhh you want to use my wand".
"Yes Harry I have my exams' today but I cannot get a wand before I'm eleven, so I want to use your wand to practise a bit before we go to the ministry. So by using your wand I know it will bring me luck" Astoria said as she looked at him with puppy dog eyes.
Harry again shook his head and looked at the girl that was lying on top of him. "Astoria do you think I might wake up first".
"No, Harry, there is no time for that, I want to play with your wand so I can have a little more practise".
Harry handed her his wand because he knew that he wouldn't win this battle and was glad that he didn't have a dirty mind. Well he didn't have a dirty mind when it was Astoria. With Daphne and Bella he wasn't so sure, those playing with his wand was another story all together. As Astoria left his room he himself also got out of bed because he knew he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep.
"Morning Harry" Daphne said as he walked into the kitchen. "Sorry that we came so early but Astoria kept telling me that she wanted to play with your wand". Daphne looked at Harry and raised one eyebrow. "Is there something you want to tell me about your wand and my little sister".
Harry became as white as a ghost when he heard her say that. "I.. I.."
Daphne started to laugh. "I.. I know H.. Harry I'm just messing with you".
"Harry gave a relived sigh and said. "Don't worry about it Daphne, I was planning on getting out of bed early because I wanted to go to Gringotts because there is a book that I need to get from in my vault".
Daphne nodded and wanted to ask him what book it was that he needed. She just like Hermione was a bookworm and wanted to read every book she saw and spend her days in the library. But on the other hand she also wanted to be by Harry so it was a lot less the Hermione.
Harry saw the battle she was having inside. So after only a minute he told her to come along so he could tell her about it.
As he took a seat in the love seat Daphne, ran over to him and planted herself next to him. "Look Daphne, my mother used a book to connect me to my grandmother with the help of our blood. The same can be said for Alice Longbottom because she has done the same thing to Neville. Now because my mother has given her life for me the spell was activated".
As Harry glanced over to Daphne he saw her nod and knew she was following him. That book was laying in my nursery but because Albus came looking every six months my mother had it send to Gringotts to our family vault. That is why I have to go to Gringotts. Now that book was called BLOOD OF THE SOUL. It's a book that is full of blood rituals and is seen as black magic. Not dark but black magic it's kind of the good side of Voodoo magic's. My mom told me that almost all the spells had to be done with Blood, but also that a large part could be seen as soul magic. How purer the soul how better the outcome.
Now because Albus came looking for that book every six months my mother made a copy of it that was full of fake spells, only I don't know what that book does".
Daphne stood from her seat and started pacing the floor. Her mother had told her that Harry had been bound to his grandmother. She had also heard how strong that spell had to be to repel the A, K curse. The other thing her mother had told her was that Lily was the smartest witch she had ever known. Hermione was almost as smart but Lily was just a little smarter because she didn't always believed the books she was reading. Something Hermione did.
As she kept on pacing the room she recalls Harry telling her that the soul had to be pure. Because the purer the soul the better the outcome. She looked over at Harry and thought that she knew no one ells that had a soul as pure as Harry. It was now that she remembered the name of the book and became a little pale by the thought of it.
"Harry why don't you go and wake up Bella, it's almost time to go and I want to ask your mother something".
Harry nodded and left the room.
Daphne looked at him as he left and quickly turned around to look at Lilly.
Lily had followed the conversation Daphne and her son had so she knew that something was wrong. "Just say it Daphne I won't bite".
Daphne was a little startled but nodded and opened her mouth. She then closed it to only open it again and to close it again. "Well that book we are going to get". Daphne sighed and looked at the ground. "Well I think Bella and I already used a spell from the copy you had made and now I'm afraid that we might have done something wrong".
Lily smiled a little and said. "Now whatever you did it can't be that bad. There were some good spells in there just to make Albus believe it was a real book, but the fake spell were more of a insult than that they were harmful, so tell me what spell you did and why".
Daphne looked at the ground again and sighed even louder. "Well we kind of tricked Harry in making a blood oath to us. I don't really remember what the spell was but it was something like.
"With our blood we feed you our love.
With our blood we heel you our love.
Let us be one, in love, let us be one in blood".
We had him do it to us and told him it was a kid's game. Now we did that the day before he was beaten up and brought to St Mungo. While he was there and Poppy was doing all she could to save him, we did the same ritual under her nose and kind of sealed the ritual".
Lily just looked on and smiled a little wider. "I knew that you two had found that book. But I was not worried I was actually looking forward to the one who would be prank without you knowing it. Now there were only four real spells in that book and the one you were talking about was one of them.
Now the beauty of that spell was that if Albus would find that book and use that spell. He would bind his life to that of Harry. That spell would prevent him from doing anything that would harm Harry. So because it was you two to do that spell for fun but also when he needed it the most, I can honestly tell you that it had been you two that saved his life that day".
Daphne sighed wit relief and was just about to say something ells when Harry came back into the room. He sat down in the love seat and patted the seat next to him.
Daphne smiled and rushed over to sit next to him.
"Bella is getting dressed so we only have to wait a couple of minutes longer. Now the reason why we have to get that book is because there is a spell in that book that might give Lady Hogwarts a real body. At lease my mother thinks that there was a spell in there that would make an entity into a solid form. She only didn't know what it was we needed for that spell or ritual. So that is why we have to get that book" Harry told Daphne.
Daphne smiled at him and asked if they could go and look at some of the shops while Astoria was doing her exams.
Harry Nodded and Daphne snuggled closer to him. "I hear my grandmother has secretly tutored her at night. I have also heard that she had been here almost every day with mom just to learn all the spells".
Daphne smiled again as she heard Harry calling her mum, mom. It gave her a warm feeling and snuggled even closer to him.
"Well Daphne do you think I can have the other side of him or are you keeping him all to yourself" sounded the voice of Bella from the doorway.
Daphne jumped from her seat and looked shyly at the floor. Bella laugh loudly and walked over to her and pushed her back down. "SIT" she said. She herself sat down on his other side and asked. "Daphne we are going to go to Gringotts do you want to come along.
Daphne Nodded. "Yes Harry, already asked me but I loved to go.
It was almost an hour later that Isabella came to get them and Minerva over to the ministry where Astoria would take her exams.
As Harry, Daphne and Bella left the ministry to go to Diagon alley Astoria went over to the front desk to see where she had to go.
Just before the left Harry bends down and looked Astoria in her eye. "Here, you can take my wand to use for your exams".
"Really" Astoria asked.
Harry Nodded. "Really, I'm not allowed to do magic out of the school and I think you can really do it if you use this one because I told it to help you".
"Now I'm sure I'm going to make it. Thank you Harry" and she hugged him very tightly.
Isabella and Minerva smiled as they saw Harry hugging Astoria back without as much as a flinch.
*#*
It was thirty minutes later that Harry was walking into Gringotts wit Daphne and Bella on his arms. With some polite words to Griphook and to the other Goblins he and the lady's were escorted to his vault.
The ride in the cart was faster than it was the first time and Bella and Harry were screaming with joy. Daphne on the other hand was not as happy as they were. She had her head buried deep into the back of Harry and was holding onto him for dear life. Now if she would only be a little more reckless as Harry and Bella she would have enjoyed it and she would realised just how close she really was to Harry or where her hands were holding him.
The search for the book didn't take long. It was because Harry had asked Snot to bring the little frame so his mother could point them into the right direction. No the weird thing started when Harry and Bella stepped out of the vault.
"Harry, I don't feel so good. It's just like something is pulling at my arm and wants me to go that way" and Bella pointed to a side tunnel at the end of the tunnel.
Harry swallowed hard and couldn't say anything he just nodded and pointed at himself like he was having a lump in his throat. After a couple of seconds he said "Me too, Me too".
Both turned around and looked at Daphne. She just shrugged and said. "Don't look at me I feel fine you were the ones who wanted that kart to go faster and faster".
Bella just shook her head and started to walk down the tunnel. And into the side tunnel she went to the left and wanted to touch the door to the vault that was in that side tunnel.
Griphook was just on time to grab her hand. "I'm sorry miss but you can't do that. If you would have touched that door you would have been sucked in, it would then be three weeks before we could have opened that vault".
Harry didn't understand it at all. "What is the problem Griphook? What could happen if she touched that vault door".
"Well My Lord, If you touch a vault in Gringotts that is not yours you would be sucked in. If that would happen then it would activate a ward that would keep everyone out side of that vault for three weeks".
Harry Nodded. "Okay I understand that but I know that something inside that vault is pulling me and Bella to come inside. I do not know what it is but I would like to know whose Vault that is".
Griphook looked at the ground. As an employ at Gringotts he was not allowed to share that information. But the question came from the Lord of the family.
Daphne saw the struggle that the little Goblin was in and asked. "Griphook, I can see that you want to tell us but that something is keeping you back. What is it that you would normally do if someone asked you such a question".
Griphook smiled a little. "Normally I would go and get the account manager of the vault. But now that it is my head of house who is asking the question I think it would be better for me to get my father" and as fast as his little legs could carry him he took off.
Daphne sat down with her back against the wall and started to wait. Harry and Bella just looked at her strangely. "What. I don't know how long it will take for Griphook to get Bogrod here. So I don't know about you but I'm not going to stand around and do nothing. After those words she took a small book out of her handbag and started to read.
It was fifteen minutes later that Bogrod came around the corner and saw Harry and Bella standing around. They were clearly bored to death and Daphne was the only one who came prepared. "Ah a thru bookworm I see" Bogrod said with a smile.
Daphne didn't take any offense and smiled at him. "Yes, and I know how long it could take if you had to wait so I will always come prepared".
Bogrod smiled back and looked over at Harry, and then he looked at Bella. Then he took a long look at the vault door as if he was expecting something strange to happen. "Bella" he said.
The kids were all looking at the vault and almost jumped a foot in the air when he said Bella.
"Bogrod laughed loudly for a solid minute and again said "Bella, this vault is the vaults from your other half that is in Azkaban. She and only she can open it. Now I know that she is you and you are her, so I think you can open it. The question is however, why is it you want to open this vault".
Bella looked at the vault with a little hesitation. She knew that Bogrod knew that she was Bellatrix Black. She also knew that she could trust him. But Griphook didn't know and it was something that you could see clearly in the eyes that were as big as Kristal balls. The look Bogrod gave him told her it would be okay.
Now the question why she wanted to open the vault was one she could not answer, only that there was something inside the vault that was pulling her and Harry closer. "I can't tell you that Bogrod because I don't know. The only thing I know is that something inside this vault is calling to Harry and me, a little more to me than harry but still". Again she looked at the vault. "I do know that the feeling I have about it is fear and from the looks of it, it effect's Harry more".
Bogrod didn't look up or down at her he just kept his eyes on the door as if he was trying to look inside the vault.
"Bogrod, what is it you are thinking of now" Asked Lily from her little frame.
"Ah Lady Potter, It's good to see you again" Bogrod said as he watch the frame. "It has been so long ago and it's good to see that you are finally reconnected with your son".
Lily smiled back at him and at Harry.
Bogrod turned his attention back to the door. "I be honest with you Lily. I have only ones heard of something calling to someone that wasn't human or animal and if it is what I think it is than we do have a Very big Problem on our hands". "Bella could you open that door for me please".
Bella's eyes became very big. "No way am I going to open that door. If I can't I will be sucked in and you can't get me out".
"That is not completely true. Yes if this is not your vault then you would be sucked in. However I, and only I, can open every vault that there is in this bank, so if you were to be sucked in, then I'm able to get you out. Now the reason why I ask you to do it is that if I would do it there would automatically be a message sent to Bellatrix Black that her vault has been opened".
A somewhat relived Bella walk to the door and laid her hand on the spot that Griphook told her. What followed was a lot of creaking and squeaking before the door opened. Inside the vault there were some stacks of gold, galleons, sickles and a lot of nick necks. To the left there were some old family photo albums.
Harry could not help himself and flipped through some of the albums. Everything was in the albums till the time that she was placed into the marriage contract with Lestrange. From that time on there were no more photos.
Bella walked around the vault and was looking at the stuff that was lying on the shelves on the wall. In the back of the vault and on the top shelve she saw it. Right there in the middle of that shelve stood a cup, it was that cup that was calling to her. With a shaky voice she called the others and with a trembling finger she pointed to the cup.
Griphook looked up just like all the others did only he saw something the others didn't. "That's the cup we Goblins made for Helga Hufflepuff. It's the healing cup of Hogwarts. It is said that the drinker of this cup would stay alive even if he was knocking on deaths door. It would keep him or her alive so he could be healed".
Bella wanted to reach out to grab the cup but when one of her fingers touched it she pulled her hand back as if she was burned.
Harry saw her reaction and immediately rushed to her side. Now it was Harry who wanted to grab it but he also pulled his hand back.
Bogrod was the only one who could pick it up from the shelve, but it was only a couple of seconds later when he dropped it again. So he took a long plier and grabbed it from the floor. With the cup in front of him he brought it to a chess that was standing in the tunnel and then he brought it back to his office.
Back in the office they were all sitting around the cup that had been taken out of the chest and was now standing on Bogrod's desk. Nobody said a word and were only looking at the cup with uncertainty and a little fear.
Something had been done to the cup and no one knew what. Even Lily didn't have an answer. "Bella what did it feel like when you touched it".
Bella kept her eyes on the cup and didn't dare to look somewhere else as she heard Lilly asked her about her feelings. "I.. Don't.. Really.. know." She started. "It's a feeling I know, it's a feeling I can trust. But it's also a feeling I do not want to feel, like it's going to hurt me. It's hot and also very cold".
She became quiet and closed her eyes. "It is like I can hear it calling my soul. Everything in my body wants to listen and do what it is telling it".
As she was talking, Harry slipped his hand into hers. In her other hand she could feel the hand from Daphne doing the same. They gave her support and strength to tell her feelings. It was this feeling that really told her what the cup was telling her. She closed her eyes again and slumped to the ground.
What happened was a mystery to all of them sure she fainted but why. After awhile Bella came around and looked around her to see where she was. "I.. I had a dream or something like that. It was about the cup" it all sounded even strange to herself because she had never seen that cup before. But it was also like it was a memory like she was there.
"Bella take a seat en tell us what you have seen in the dream, I think I know what it was but I have to know it first" Lily said from her frame.
Bella gave a sharp nod and slumped down on a chair. "I do not know if it was the past, the future or just a dream but I was standing in front of that vault, behind me stood Voldemort whit that cup in his hand. He told me he wanted to do something and had me place a Goblin under the Imperius curse. It was because of the Imperius curse we were able to place the cup in my vault.
As I placed the cup in the back he told me I could not tell anyone about that cup. Not even my husband at the time. I was also not allowed to ever touch that cup, when I asked him why he told me".
"Bellatrix my most faithful death eater, this is the cup from Helga Hufflepuff. I have stolen this cup when I was in my first year at Hogwarts. I have placed many curses on this cup just to make sure the right person can touch it. I have done this because this cup is very special to me; let's just say I have put my hard and soul into this cup. Now you my servant has to keep it save. If the time comes and I'm death or murdered than you must do the following. You must take the cup and give it to a boy of twenty years old. When you did that the cup will do the rest, Is that understood".
"What he meant by those words I don't know. I only know that he was treating the cup like it was his most precious possession. He did tell me that this had been number four and that number five was just as presses to him. The only thing left to do was to make number six. I did however see him petting his pet snake in the most disturbing way".
Nobody could make heads or tale from the dream or vision Bella had. Only Lily was walking in and out of her frame.
Harry saw how she was acting and wondered what his mother was thinking. "Mum what".
"Not now Harry, I'm thinking".
Harry was startled and closed his mouth with a snap. He then shook his head and listen closely to what his mother was mumbling.
"Harry, what was the feeling you felt when you took hold of that cup" Lily asked him as she walked back into her little frame.
"I don't know mom. First it was like it was calling to me to come and take it. As I came closer the feeling changed. It was like something dark, a feeling I always felt in my scar, but also when I held that diary".
Again Lily started to walk in and out of her frame. She mumbled on and off but didn't look into the office. She started to mumble again and kept on walking. Suddenly she turned in her frame. "Wait get the book and look at the word Horcrux".
"No Lily, you can't be serious" Bogrod almost shouted.
"I'm not sure Bogrod but everything I hear is pointing into that direction" she said.
"I got it" Bella shouted. "Well there is not much about it in the book but it says here that it is the most evil form on soul magic. It's splitting your soul in to two pieces and placing one piece of it into a container".
Daphne was hanging over her shoulder and Harry was listening intently to every word Bella was saying.
By splitting the soul you can stay alive even if your body is not. Now in order to split your soul you have to kill someone in cold blood. When the soul is split you can place it in an object which will send out a pulse to get someone to take it so it can take over another soul.
As Bella was closing the book she looked over at Harry, as her eyes met Harry's she started to sob.
Lily came closer to the frame and locked her eyes with Harry. Only she couldn't really see because her eyes were filled with painted tears.
Bella just looked at Harry and between her sobs she said. "Harry everything is telling us that you were a Horcrux. You could have been possessed on every second of the day. I do not know how you kept him away but you did. But I also do not know how you were able to get rid of it".
Harry just had his eyes on the ground. He didn't know what to say or what he had to do. He just could not believe that he is, was, or had been a Horcrux and if he was, he could not remember how he got rid of it.
Daphne on the other hand did have an idea when she heard Bella ask the thing about the Horcrux. Daphne had sat down on a chair and had her hands folded on her lap. "I think I know how" was her whisper.
Everyone snapped their heads to Daphne and she gulped. "Well as Bella just read aloud was that a Horcrux was a very dark form of magic. Something that is not told in this book, the text however let you know that there is also another side to the magic" and Daphne took the book from Bella and placed it open on her lap. "Now this book is focusing on the pure side of the blood and soul magic. It is this magic and the soul of Harry that saved him".
Again everyone just watch Daphne.
"I do not know what spell you used misses Potter, but it did not only destroy Voldemort, it gave Harry more power than you think. Well that day Voldermort lost his body and split his soul. Now I do not know what happened that day none of us do but it all came down to that one day in the Infirmary. Bella was stuck in one of her dreams. Harry was lying on the other bed and could not help her. We had just found out that Harry's magic was still bound. Well Bella started to scream and Harry broke through his bindings. It was the first time Harry told Bella that he loved her. That's when it happened Harry's soul was purer then it has ever been. I don't think that the peace of Voldermort could withstand the pureness of his soul and vacated the scar of Harry. I for one know that there is no soul more pure than that of Harry. With everything he has been true he still is this loving person. That could only come from the pureness of his soul; any other would be corrupted and failed".
Everyone nodded and turned their eyes to Harry.
Something that made Harry extremely uneasy.
Daphne laughed a little and went on. "The soul of Voldermort is very dark and rotten to its core. So his Horcruxes are just as dark and rotten. No for a Horcrux to take over another soul, that soul has to be corrupted. It does not have to be a lot just a little bit will do. A soul that is greedy or easy to manipulate, is already enough to be taken over by a Horcrux.
Now an object can only function as a container for the Horcrux. As we have seen with the diary and the cup. Now that Harry could expel the horcrux is all thanks to Bella. It has been the love for her that saved him from the horcrux.
It was that love that Voldemort could not handle. It was a feeling that he does not know or could handle, so it drove him from his body.
Both Lily and Bella looked a little unbelievingly at Daphne. They both knew that Harry felt a great deal for Bella, but could it really be that simple. Was the cure nothing more than the feeling of love, both knew that they could twist it any way they wanted it but it would always come back to the love from Harry.
"But what did take care of the Horcrux in the diary" Bogrod asked.
"That is simple. Harry killed a Basilisk and stabbed the diary with the fang. There is only one thing stronger than the basilisk venom and that is Phoenix tears. That is also how Harry survived the Basilisk bite".
"You were bitten by a Basilisk" Bogrod shouted from his chair.
Daphne nodded and just like the others looked at the cup that was on the desk.
Bogrod told them that he didn't have any Basilisk venom lying around. He did however have some of the best curse breakers who he could have a go at it. It would even be free without any payment.
Harry told him that he could get some more venom when he got back to Hogwarts. But he first had to get permission from Bellatrix to go into her vault and somehow he didn't think that would be a real problem. The meeting in the office only lasted another hour before it was time to go.
The first thing they now had to do was to get their books from Flourish and Blotts for the next year. After that the things they knew they needed like quills and ink. Then they had to go back to the Leakey caldron to meet the others because tonight they were going to get that dinner that David still had to pay for.
A/N: This was it again for this week. See you all in two weeks. Next week we will see Narcissa and Lucius again.
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