Death Eaters Daughter Part Two

Two Hundred Seventy Two

Harry turned from feeling defensive to gearing up on his attack
I sat awkwardly at the table watching my best friends about to fight
"What have you and Hermione been doing?"

Ron scoffed
"Researching"

"Researching?" Harry chuckled "what have you come up with?"

"We told the order everything we found out I don't need to repeat it here"

Hermione looked guilty
Ron looked guilty
Harry looked guilty
"Are you three telling me none of you actually did anything productive the last five years?" I asked now feeling agitated
The room was filling me with bitterness, I forgot how awful it felt to be surrounded by that feeling

"Well what've you been doing?" Harry snapped at me

"Setting fire to snatchers, want me to go collect the papers on my success?" I crossed my arms around my chest

"Cora worked hard these last few years" Hermione said "I read and saved each paper that talked about it"

"So Harry" Ron said bringing attention back to him "whys it taken you five years?"

"Tell honestly" I added "it does nothing to hide the truth" I looked at Ron and Hermione too "that means you two as well"

"We did research" Hermione said "Well I did" she added when I raised my eyebrows at her

"What did you do Ron?"

"So what if we took time to be with each other? The world is ending as we know it. We are a happily married couple and wanted to spend time doing what we wanted first"

"Harry your turn" I said

"We did the same thing. After a year of heavy horcrux searching Ginny convinced me to give in for a little...we traveled" he said

I scoffed

"Cora your turn" Harry said trying to catch me off guard

"I told you I was blowing up camps. Want to go ask Charlie? We worked for the last five years. I didn't have a romantic partner to go on a five year excursion with. It was just the two of us and our dragons"

"You're telling me you didn't take any time off?" Ron said

"I didn't take any time off. The only time I wasn't focused on my mission was when I was captured at the Malfoy manor"

Hermione looked down the entire time, the boys might not but she felt guilt for how they spent their time

"Maybe if you weren't chasing after a death eater you could have been" Ron said

Hermione smacked him over the head
"Ronald"

"No it's fine" I said locking eyes with him, then Harry who I knew was thinking the same thing "I'm in love with the enemy. Fault me for it but at least I spent the last fucking half decade working for a cause to end this hell we are in" I pushed my chair back and left the table with my half eaten breakfast remaining behind

I stormed up the stairs and passed Sirius' room
I went further than I had traveled while living here, up to the last room on the third floor
I looked at the room curiously
"Regulus Arcturus Black...Sirius' brother"
Something about his name sounded familiar
I touched the name and closed my eyes, trying to focus on what my mind remembered about his name

Sirius' brother
He became a dark wizard when Voldemort was first in rein
Kreacher loved him
Regulus
R
A
B
"RAB...the locket" I said loudly "Harry!!" I yelled

I heard the three of them race to where I was frantically calling his name
"What?!" He said out of breath

"The locket...the one you and Dumbledore found the initials inside were RAB right?!"

"Yeah...Regulus Black" he said processing the information "how did we not think of this earlier"

"You were too busy snogging someone that's why" I said annoyed still

"Kreacher" Harry said out loud

A pop of Apparation happened beside us, Kreacher the house elf was bowing deeply to me and then to Harry
"Mr.Potter, Miss.Lupin" he glared at Hermione and Ron "how can Kreacher assist you?"

"Did Regulus have a locket similar to this one" Harry pulled the false one out of his pocket and showed Kreacher

"You've had that in your pocket?" Ron asked

"I had it in my bag originally but moved it this morning. I was looking for clues again"

"Master Regulus did indeed" Kreacher said nodding his head

"Do you know what happened to it?" Hermione asked gently

He glared at her and didn't answer
"Kreacher please" I said

"Mistress would be so disappointed to see a creature like yourself in the will of her house" he said shaking his elf head "Master Regulus' locket was here...years ago it was lost"

"Someone broke into the house and stole shit" Harry said to us

"Why didn't you say anything before?"

"I didn't think anything of value was taken. At first I was angry but I got over it" he said

Harry was really starting to piss me off but I let it go for now

"Mundungus Fletcher stole it" Kreacher said "Kreacher watched him enter the house of Black and steal"

"Kreacher...bring him to us" Harry said shaking his fist
Apparently he wasn't over it like he claimed

"Wait" I said before the elf could apparate
He stared at me as I grabbed the false locket from Harry and presented it to him
"This is for you, please it was your former masters and it belongs to you. I know of the story of how Regulus passed, you showed true loyalty to him"

I couldn't read emotions of creatures, but if I could I know I would have felt immense gratitude from him
He clutched the locket and snapped his fingers

"Well I guess we wait now" Harry said trailing back down the stairs

"I suppose we do" Hermione said following him

"Gives us enough time to get reacquainted with each other" I said smirking "no more awkwardness. No more lies. We tell each other everything no matter how difficult. Harry that means all your visions"

Harry flipped me off but I knew he was smiling