A Harry Potter Fanfiction~Falling For The Boy Who Lived.

Chapter Twenty-Six~Returning To 12 Grimmauld Place And Retrieving The Horcrux.

After the madness of travelling to London, getting chased, fighting death eaters in a café, we returned to 12 Grimmauld Place. After Mad-Eye's spell to cause a spirit of Dumbledore to rise scared us, we proceeded to the dining room. I followed Harry upstairs. We looked in Sirius' old room, finding old photos and memories of Sirius, James, Remus and Peter. As I left Harry, I found a door with the name "Regulus Artcus Black", R.A.B. it clicked. "Harry, I've found R.A.B." I shouted. He came out. He raised his eyebrows. "Regulus Artcus Black, Sirius' brother, he was a brief death eater before he chickened out. He had the locket, but the question is, did he destroy it? How do we find out?" He answered. "Kreacher." I said. Harry summoned him downstairs in the kitchen and questioned him. We discovered that Regulus considered abandoning his position as death eater after he found out that Voldemort intended on killing Kreacher whilst he set up security measures for the cave which the horcrux was in. Kreacher helped Regulus replace the horcrux with a fake one after Voldemort tried to kill Kreacher. Regulus drank the potion, tried to drink the water from that lake to quench his thirst before the Inferi dragged him under. Kreacher could not destroy the locket. He told us how Mundungus stole it from the house. Harry ordered Kreacher to find him. We watched him disappear and we awaited his return.

After two days, Kreacher returned with Mundungus and Dobby was with them. Mundungus explained how the locket now belonged to Umbridge, pointing to the picture of her on the front page of the Daily Prophet. We felt a surge of anger. Over the next few days, we came up with a plan to get into the ministry. We apparated near to an entrance to the ministry, waiting for workers to walk by to stun them so we could use polyjuice potion (which Hermione had in her bag) to transform into them, well all except for me, who would be an assistant to Hermione. Hermione transformed into Malfada Hopkirk, Ron transformed into Reginald Cattermole, Harry into Albert Runcorn and I into a young trainee witch and Malfada's cousin who was going to called Larissa Hopkirk. We were disgraced at the changes within the ministry. For example, there was a statue where muggle-borns and muggles were being crushed by pure-blood wizards.  Hermione had to compose herself. We went to the lifts, that's where we were separated. Ron had to sort something out under Yaxley's orders, Harry was forced onto another floor while Hermione and I were taken by Umbridge herself to the courtroom.

Hermione and I were a bag of nerves. We sat in the court nervously. They were interrogating this muggle-born lady, Mary Cattermole (Ron's man's wife). They accused her of stealing the wand. Hermione looked shocked, it was hard to hide it, but Umbridge was too focused to notice. Harry and Ron then walked in and it all kicked off. We duelled with Umbridge, Yaxley and guards, Harry's polyjuice potion has wore off at that point. Harry stunned Umbridge and Hermione grabbed the locket before we ran away from Dementors. We charged through the ministry, we were all back to normal now, and casted spells at guards and snatchers who tried to get us. We got into the fireplace just before they blocked it, but Yaxley hung onto us. Hermione just have fought him off as we arrived at a forest without him. Ron got splinched badly, but dittany cured his wounded arm. We now had the horcrux, we took turns to try to destroy the horcrux by spells, but it was no use.