Grindelwald's Burden (Books 1-7)

114. Sectumsempra

It was the next morning and Y/n had returned to the dorms as he sat down on his bed, put his hands on his face and let out a frustrated sigh. 

"Hey, how you feeling?" A voice asked him.

"Awful..." Y/n said looking up to see it was Harry who was awake to ask him. "Madam Pomfrey suggested that I take the day off, but I do not want to sit around thinking about it." 

Harry just nodded understanding this judgment. He was still thinking over what Dumbledore had told them merely hours ago. Y/n was destined to kill his own brother. A brother who had become a Death Eater.

"Would you do me a favour Harry?" Y/n asked him.

"Sure." Harry said.

"Could you please not tell Hermione or Ron about the prophecy Dumbledore told us about last night. I want to do it myself, I...I just need a little time to fully come to terms with it." 

Harry just nodded. "Sure Y/n. If that's what you want."  

Y/n just let out a sigh and ran his hands over his face. "Thank you Harry, I will tell them soon...just...how do you tell your friend and girlfriend you are fated to become a killer?" 

Harry just gave a small shrug. "I don't know Y/n. For me I suppose I've just always known it would come down to me and Voldemort deep down."

"You will not be alone when you face him, everyone will be beside you." Y/n told him.

"And neither will you." Harry said to Y/n.

Both boys just looked at one another, shared a nod and spoke no further on the topic. They woke up Ron and headed down to the common room where Hermione was waiting for them.

"Morning." She said. 

"Morning." Ron yawned. "Breakfast?"

But Hermione had taken a hold of Y/n's cheeks as she pulled him down to look at his face more closely. "You look like you didn't sleep well. Is everything alright?" Hermione asked him worried. 

"I am okay." Y/n said. "We ran into Slughorn on our down to see Hagrid, Harry invited him to join us and Slughorn brought some drinks to comfort Hagrid. In order to butter him up I ended up drinking a bit too much in the hopes of getting the memory out of him and spent the rest of the night sobering up with Madam Pomfrey."

"Wicked." Ron said enviously.

"Honestly..." Hermione shook her head and let go of Y/n's cheeks now. "Did it work at least?"

"Yeah. Thanks to Y/n we got the memory." Harry told them.

"And what was it?" Ron asked.

"We'll talk about it in charms." Harry said as they heard more people starting to come down into the common room.

They were sitting in Charms class now as Harry told Ron and Hermione everything that had happened with Sluhorn's memory. Harry had first cast the Muffliato spell upon those nearest them to stop them being overheard . They were both satisfyingly impressed by the way Y/n and he had wheedled the memory out of Slughorn and positively awed when he told them about Voldemort's Horcruxes and Dumbledore's promise to take Harry along, should he find another one.

"Wow." said Ron, when Harry had finally finished telling them everything regarding Voldemort and the Horcruxes. Ron was waving his wand very vaguely in the direction of the ceiling without paying the slightest bit of attention to what he was doing. "Wow. You're actually going to go with Dumbledore...and try and destroy...wow."