Harry told the others in their common room that night about the meeting with Aberforth. The evening had gone anything but easily. Ministry officials had shown up at four in the afternoon and the disruption they caused moving stuff up and down the stairways were causing some of the kids to be late for class.
Finally at dinnertime McGonagall let the students know that the third floor was off limits except for professors, Student Professors and prefects who were helping the ministry officials get set up.
Harry told the others what he and Aberforth had discussed and also brought out the papers Aberforth had given him. "Bloody Hell!" Ron exclaimed highly upset.
"Ron watch your language" Hermoine said absently and then got up suddenly and came back with a large thick book. "I wonder if we can get a clue from this"
"What is it anyways?" Ron asked
"Its called 'The Dark Days of Grindelwald' its an autobiography" Hermoine said absently.
"You scare me Hermoine. When and where did you get a book like that?" Draco asked.
"It was left to me by Dumbledore" Hermoine said and added "Shush"
"So now we have to find a Horicrux again?" Neville asked. "With V-Voldemort we knew most of what we were looking for or at least Harry and Snape did but we don't know anything really about Grindelwald."
"Well we do know a few things," Luna said. "We know he was destroyed by Dumbledore or at least reduced to a shade much like Voldemort was"
"That helps" Ron said.
"Well Ron I don't see you making any great leaps" Neville said angrily.
"Sorry Luna, Neville" Ron said honestly.
"That's ok Ron but you're not seeing the same thing I am" Luna said. "You see Grindelwald wasn't only more powerful than Voldemort he was smarter as well I believe. Now seeing as he was smarter he would have hidden the other piece of his soul in something that people would want to keep untouched or hide it where it would never be found. Now it's true to a certain extent that Voldemort placed most of his Horicrux in artifacts of the founders but we in the magical community view our antiques differently. If they are cursed or used in such a way we have no qualms about destroying them."
"Ok but where does that leave us?" Ron asked and Neville looked as lost as Ron.
"Well if you really wanted to hide it you could bury it with the body of the victim." Draco suggested.
"Draco you're much smarter than you give yourself credit" Luna said earning her a glare from Draco which she ignored completely " That would be a double bonus because you could enchant that body as an Infieri and it would immediately try to kill anyone who touched it."
"Or you could kill someone notoriously famous where his grave would be watched for all time. So that trying to retrieve the artifact in question would be next to impossible even for a wizard" Draco said. "After all Grindelwald was in league with a Muggle leader from Germany during the muggle war in the early forties."
"Adolf Hitler" Hermoine said absently without looking up from the book.
"Hermoine what exactly are you looking for?" Ron asked exasperated.
"Well it's a common enough knowledge in the wizarding world that when Hitler was first found he appeared to have been killed by the killing curse and then shot to cover it up." She said still not looking up. "Someone tried to make it look like suicide."
"So you think it was Grindelwald?" Harry asked.
"Yes and I believe that the Horicrux that was made then and left with Hitler to be buried." Hermoine said.
