Harry Potter the Power Unknown By Priya Ashok

Chapter 21

Harry, Snape, Sirius and Nicholas apparated into Potter castle and they stopped the moment they entered and cleansed the entire Black magic residue from sliding through the wards. After they had removed the entire residue they danced their way inside to find Perenelle, Remus, Neville and Augusta Longbottom sitting in the drawing room quietly talking among them.

They looked up as the four of them came, shouting with glee and Neville and Augusta smiled while Perenelle and Remus laughed.

"What are you shouting about with such glee? Am I to assume your little expedition went off well?" she asked smiling as Nicholas came to her and dragged her up and started dancing with her. After five minutes where all of them danced and danced, Nicholas led them all to the library and then told them what had happened.

All of them opened the booty and Augusta and Perenelle started categorizing all the books that Snape, Sirius and Nicholas had sweepingly packed into huge conjured cartons. They piled the books into Black, Dark, and Light, and research, ancient and unknown category. There were hundreds of books and that task would take them sometime.

Snape, Sirius, Remus and Nicholas helped by an awed Neville whose eyes were still shining with happiness at seeing his mother sane, were sifting through the diaries and trying to put together all that they knew with what they would find in the diaries. They would view the memories later.

Harry started sifting through the diaries randomly, before he turned to Neville, "Hey, how is Mrs. Longbottom? Is she sleeping now?" Neville nodded, grinning at Harry. "Yes, Harry she stayed awake for a little while and slipped off to sleep. It is Dad who is yet to get up."

Harry nodded his head and went through the diaries, not noticing the sudden tenseness in Snape, Sirius and Remus when Harry had asked Neville about Alice. They relaxed once Harry looked normal and went about his task of looking through the diaries.

It had been pure luck that Molly had cast the location charm and the tracer and it was also luck that Alice woke up and spoke to Harry who in turn spoke to Bill through the parchment and then finding the castle and then plundering it, all tied up nicely. They had Albus where they wanted him and all of them knew they had defeated the evil wizard that Albus was.

Harry at that time remembered the small package that said 'Potters'. He was about to remove it from his pocket when McGonagall's message came to Nicholas and at the same time Harry parchment had Bill's message.

"Now that we know where Albus's hideout is I will go there and find out how they are reacting. Who knows we may get a clue about their next plans or if they have some more stuff stashed away somewhere. Meanwhile Harry and Perenelle, I want you and the others to go through these diaries and try and find out about his horcrux status." Seeing them nod their heads, Nicholas just vanished on the spot to slide along to the Glen where he arrived after the others and found them checking the wards.

He cleansed him self and waited for Albus to make the discovery of the open cupboard. He was not disappointed in his reactions. He followed them all around till Albus reached Hogwarts and went to sleep. Nicholas did not waste a moment. He apparated to Potter castle and went through intense cleansing that he was unable to do after he slided out of the Glen.

He ran inside to find the others still pouring through the diaries. He clapped his hands and asked for attention. "Come on, all of you, we have a lot work to do now. Harry you write Bill and ask him to stun the rat and place a sleeping spell on Arthur so that he will not wake till tomorrow morning and ask Molly to be ready with the kids for a meeting. Nell, you call the death eaters and the Order members and ask them to come over to the cottage. Fawkes will take care of Albus and inform us if any thing is untoward. Come on let us get going."