❝Jinxed by a Crazy Love ❞ || HP

Chapter 57: The Ravenclaw's Diadem

'You sure, Y/n/n?', Dora asked, holding little Teddy in her arms. 'About the message...'

'Ten thousand percent... Rigel and Ginny won't be kidding and joking around', Y/n shrugged as she wore a coat over her dress and then took her wand. 'By the way, Don't worry guys! I'll try to stay alive', she gave an artificial chuckle.

'Okay Y/n... so, you know to apparate?', Ophelia raised an eyebrow.

'Of course, I do!', said Y/n. 'I was born and brought up in the wizarding world... my... parents, taught me', she said as tears streamed down her eyes, she wiped them hastily. 'T-that's nothing... So, I'll go?'

They exchanged glances with each other. Mrs. Weasley pulled her into a tight hug. 'Be safe, dear'

'I will be', she said. 'And so will the others'

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'Neville — what the — how — ?', Harry said uncertainly looking at Neville who came from the mantelpiece.

 'I knew you'd come! Kept telling Seamus it was a matter of time!', he said enthusiastically. 

'Neville, what's happened to you?', said Hermione, examining the dark circles and puffed eyes, and several scratches on his face and hands. 

'What? This?',  Neville shook his head. 'This is nothing. Seamus is worse. You'll see. Shall we get going then? Oh,' he turned to Aberforth, 'Ab, there might be a couple more people on the way'
'Couple more?', repeated Aberforth ominously. 'What d'you mean, Longbottom, there's a curfew--'

'Don't worry, that's why they'll be apparating directly into the bar', he said. 'Just send them down the passage when they get here, will you? Thanks a lot'

Neville held out his hand to Hermione and helped her to climb up onto the mantelpiece and into the tunnel. Ron followed, then Neville. Harry turned to Aberforth. 'I don't know how to thank you. You've saved our lives twice.'

'Look after 'em, then', said Aberforth gruffly. 'I might not be able to save 'em a third time'

From his pocket he pulled a golden coin, and Harry recognized it as one of the fake Galleons that Dumbledore's Army had used to send one another messages.

'These have been great', said Neville, beaming at Hermione. 'The Carrows never rumbled how we were communicating, it drove them mad. We used to sneak out at night and put graffiti on the walls: Dumbledore's Army, Still Recruiting, stuff like that. Snape hated it'
'You used to?', said Harry, who had noticed the past tense. 

'Well, it got more difficult as time went on', said Neville. 'We lost Luna at Christmas, and Ginny is the head-girl, and the three of us were sort of the leaders. The Carrows seemed to know I was behind a lot of it, so they started coming down on me hard, and then Michael Corner went and got caught releasing a first-year they'd chained up, and they tortured him pretty badly... Now I suppose  they went for Gran' 

'They What?', the trio said simultaneously.

Neville explained the whole thing of how the Death Eaters think. Harry's stomach churned at the thought of them looking for Y/n.

'But', said Ron, looking thoroughly confused, 'aren't — aren't we heading straight back into Hogwarts?'

'Of course', said Neville. 'You'll see. We're here'

They turned a corner and there ahead of them was the end of the passage. Another short flight of steps led to a door just like the one hidden behind Ariana's portrait. Neville pushed it open and climbed through.

'Look who it is! Didn't I tell you?', Neville called as Harry emerged into the room beyond the passage.

There were several screams and yells. 'IT'S HARRY' 'It's Potter, it's POTTER!' 'Ron!' 'Hermione!

As far as Harry saw, There were Rigel and Ginny, and more than twenty other kids, who looked like they had won the Quidditch finals.

'Rigel, Ginny!', he beamed at them.

'Okay, okay, calm down!', Neville called, and as the crowd backed away. He took a look at the whole room, where there were multicolored hammocks and other hangings which resembled Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw... but the Slytherin's were absent.

'Where are we?'

'Room of Requirement, of course!', said Neville. 'Surpassed itself, hasn't it? The Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived'

'And the Carrows can't get in?', asked Harry, looking around for the door.

'No', said Seamus Finnigan, whom he never recognized until he had spoken.

'HARRY!', Y/n's voice yelled and hugged him from behind. 

'Tell me this isn't one of my dreams', he looked at Ron, who smirked at him. 

'Look for yourself', he shrugged. 

When he turned, Y/n was standing right behind him. He couldn't believe his own eyes, because he had so many delulu's for the past month, and Y/n had been haunting his thoughts and heart. She looked a little more grown than he had seen her at the Shell Cottage. The crystal hear he had given her perfectly at her neck.

'Not a dream?', he asked her with an expressionless face, trying to hide his emotions and tears.

'Definitely not', Y/n shook her head and threw herself back into his arms, that he almost stumbled and fell on the floor. He raised his neck and kissed her on the lips, as passionately as he could, as memorable as he could ever make it. 'Do you know how much I missed you?', she said breaking their kiss. 

'Not as much as I did', Harry blushed and smirked. 'Now, if you would please... get up from me, I've got a world to save'

Y/n pouted trying to hide how heated and how red her cheeks were, she got up from her very own Harry, and took a look at  the really silent room. 

'Uh, why's everyone so silent?', she asked the D.A who was in the room, dumbfounded. 

'We didn't want to disturb you two having a moment', Rigel said. 'You know, after a really long time...'

'Thanks', Harry and Y/n said simultaneously.

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'There's something we need to find', Harry said. 'Something — something that'll help us overthrow You-Know-Who. It's here at Hogwarts, but we don't know where. It might have belonged to Ravenclaw. Has anyone heard of an object like that? Has anyone ever come across something with her eagle on it, for instance?', He looked hopefully toward the little group of Ravenclaws, Padma, Micheal, Terry, Luna and to Y/n's disgust Cho.

'Well, there's her lost diadem. I told you about it, remember, Harry? The lost diadem of Ravenclaw? Daddy's trying to duplicate it."
'Yeah, but the lost diadem', Micheal rolled his eyes. 'It's lost, Luna. That's sort of the point.'
'When was it lost?', asked Harry.

'Centuries ago, they say', said Cho, and Y/n eye twitched in annoyance. 'Professor Flitwick says the diadem vanished with Ravenclaw herself. People have looked, but', she appealed to her fellow Ravenclaws, 'Nobody's ever found a trace of it, have they?'

They all shook their heads.
'Sorry, but what is a diadem?', asked Ron out of the blue.
'It's a kind of crown', said Terry Boot. 'Ravenclaw's was supposed to have magical properties, enhance the wisdom of the wearer'
'Yes, Daddy's Wrackspurt siphons--'
But Harry cut across Luna. 'Does anyone know what it looks like?', there was perfect silence.

Until Cho Chang spoke. 'If you'd like to see what the diadem's supposed to look like, I could take you up to our common room and show you, Harry? Ravenclaw's wearing it in her statue'

His scar ached and he touched it. 'He's on the move', he said quietly to Ron and Hermione, ignoring the presence of Y/n who stood to the left of him. 'Listen, I know it's not much of a lead, but I'm going to go and look at this statue, at least find out what the diadem looks like. Wait for me here and keep, you know — the other one — safe'
Cho had got to her feet. 'I'll go with you'

 'No, Luna will take Harry, won't you, Luna?', Y/n retorted rather harshly looking at Cho. Harry mentally facepalmed.
'Oooh, yes, I'd like to', said Luna happily, and Cho sat down again, looking disappointed.

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