3. horcrux

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Fifth Year,Hogwarts


Regulus loved reading.

He would often go to the school library whenever he was free,would just sit there and read.

This was just one of those times.

Regulus was in the library,alone.Just as he liked it.

He finished his History Of Magic essay and decided to put his school stuff aside and find a nice book to read as they were finished with classes for the day.Except for Barty,he was probably still in Arithmancy.

Regulus sat there trying to decide which aisle to look through,he quite liked reading about the dark arts or just books from the restricted section in general but care of magical creatures was another option as he loved magical creatures and was top in their year.But the first option was rather tempting if he was being honest.

Well,how did he get into the restricted section you ask? That was pretty easy to be honest.It only took a few awkward questions about why he needed it,to which Regulus told him it was for research on a History Of Magic essay,and pats on the back from a tipsy Professor Slughorn after one of those Slug Club gatherings and he got a permission note without anything other than that.

Regulus walked towards the restricted section but stopped when Madam Pince stopped him and asked for a permission note signed by a teacher so he showed the one signed by Slughorn,and got a somewhat irritated look from her and then went inside.

He looked through books but most of them looked outright boring.

Though when he was about to leave and find something related to care of magical creatures (his favorite subject in school also) he saw something familiar.

Secrets Of The Darkest Arts  

He could vaguely remember him seeing this title somewhere but...where?

Then it hit him- he had found this book in his mother's library almost 2 years ago and..there was something odd about this weird word 'Horcrux' but his stupid brother came in -and scared the shit out of him as he thought it was his mother- just when he was going to read about it.

Regulus quickly got hold of the book and look around to see if anyone was there but no one was,obviously,not everyone can get a permission slip signed by a teacher for the restricted section.

Then he walked towards this one table in the corner because he knew no one sits there,and sat there.

He looked through the book's contents and surely there it was-

Horcrux     _____     294

As he flipped through the pages there were all of these odd curses he's never heard of before but didn't bother to read about them because there was just something about this one word in particular that he just wanted to know what it meant.

He reached the page he was looking for and started reading:

                                               

                                                 -     Horcrux    -                                                 
                    
A Horcrux is an object in which one can hide a fragment of his or her soul in order to achieve immortality.Horcruxes could only be created after committing murder, the supreme act of evil.

Creating a Horcrux which itself means committing murder will split the wizard's or witch's
 soul into separate parts.

A Horcrux can be anything.A object.A person.A animal.Anything.

Though,a Horcrux is supposed to be
made out of something that is extremely meaningful to you,which could simply be anything.

Ways a Horcrux could be destroyed:

- Basilisk venom is one of the few substances strong enough to destroy a Horcrux.

- Fiendfyre
can destroy a Horcrux.

- Avada Kedavra
,the killing curse,can destroy a Horcrux.
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Just as Regulus finished reading the last few lines he closed the book with a quiet tud.

How could someone commit murder to just make a Horcrux? Who would would do something like that? To achieve immortality? It just felt so incredibly twisted and evil..why would someone even think of doing that? This made him wonder if someone actually made a Horcrux,ever.Maybe some kind of dark wizard back a few hundred years ago? He would never know.

As thoughts flooded his mind he started to feel weird and sick and just not well at all,so he just went back to the restricted section,shoved the book back where he found it and left the library not wanting to stick around any longer.


A/N:

hey all,this one is kinda like a oneshot but i just wanted to write like how he found out about Horcruxes as he couldn't in the previous chapter sooo yeah here ya go! 

it was short ik,really sorry :/

but yeah hope you liked it

good day xx

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