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48: Regulus Black - Runaways Part Two

Warning! This is part two of two so it'll only really make sense if you read part one. Also there's mentions of self-harm.

House: Ravenclaw

 It had been fifteen years since Regulus and I ran away, and during that time a lot had happened, including the fall of Voldemort. We still decided it was better to stay anywhere but Britain, as the Death Eaters were fiercely loyal and despite him being gone, were still afraid of Voldemort. Only Regulus and I knew that Voldemort wasn't truly gone, as we were carrying a part of his soul with us.

Despite being in possession of the evil artefact for almost fifteen years we still hadn't figured out how to destroy it. We hadn't even managed to open it despite many attempts. Regulus resorted to trying to use the killing curse on it, but as it was an inanimate object it didn't work. We figured the only way it would work is if we could open it, his soul likely being embedded inside. Together we came to the conclusion that, as the locket belonged to Salazar Slytherin and Voldemort, the chances were that only parslemouths were able to open it.

For a while we decided to cast the object aside, to focus on us and simply surviving however when we heard that Voldemort had tried to use Flamel's philosophers stone to re-incarnate himself, we knew we needed to destroy it as soon as we could. I held the object in my hand, staring at is as I sat at our desk in our small house.

Reg had gone out to the store for food leaving me alone with it, holding the evil object. Once again I fruitlessly tried opening the locket, knowing it wouldn't work and that we'd have to know parsletongue. That was when it hit me, and I immediately ran to find my old copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

I flicked through until I reached the Basilisk section, my eyes widening when I saw that it had the most poisonous fangs out of any magical creature known to wizardkind. I grabbed Hogwarts: A History and began to flick through until I reached a section on Salazar Slytherin, and the rumours of the Chamber of Secrets. Trapped within it was meant to be a beast so deadly that only the true heir of Slytherin could control in other words only a parslemouth could control. "It's a basilisk! It has to be a basilisk, that has to be the answer!"I exclaimed to myself.

Just then the front door opened and in walked Reg carrying a couple of brown paper bags. "Hey, care to lend a hand?"

"Reg I've cracked it!" I said excitedly, taking ahold of a bag and putting it on the kitchen counter.

"What?"

"I know how to destroy it!" I said excitedly and his eyes widened. "At least I think I do... it all fits, here," I handed him Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. "A basilisk's venom can kill anything!"

"So can the killing curse but that didn't work," Reg said sceptically but I rolled my eyes.

"Their fangs can also penetrate anything, so if it could penetrate the locket the venom could kill the horcrux!" I said happily.

"Even if this theory is plausible, how the hell do you expect to find and control a basilisk? They're illegal to breed and impossible to control, it's not as if a pet store would be selling them," he said sarcastically.

"I think there might be one at Hogwarts," I said simply and he froze on the spot.

"Come again?"

"Look at this," I handed him Hogwarts: A History. "Bagshot talks of the Chamber of Secrets being Slytherin's creation, and it containing a 'horror' so foul that only he and his true heir can control it. Only parslemouths can control basilisks, and I think this so-called 'horror' is a basilisk. There's a basilisk at Hogwarts Reg, I'm sure of it," I said and he sighed.