The Potter Twins

Chapter 5: Back to Hogwarts

If getting into Gringotts was hard, getting out was impossible. On our way in we hit the Thief's Downfall which washed away the enchantment we had been using to hide ourselves. Once at Bellatrix's vault, we came across a dragon. Griphook, who was leading us through the vaults but only because we promised he could have the sword, picked up noise makers and handed one to Ron. "Its been training to associate pain with noise." He said and wiggled the noise maker. The Dragon back away from us terrified and let us pass. 

"That's barbaric!" Hermione said, but still followed us into the vault. Her vault was full of gold and trinkets. "How do we know which one it is?" We stood there in silence and I could hear voices, whispers coming from the small, gold, trophy like cup on the wall. 

"There. That's it." I stepped farther into the vault to retrieve the Horcrux when I accidentally hit on the many, many, many trinkets and it started to multiply. In doing that, everything the multiplied hit someone or someone touched a different object it started to multiply. "The Geminio curse, no body move." Once everyone stopped moving the objects stopped multiplying. "Hermione hand me the sword." She passed it to Draco who passed it to me to use it to take the cup off the wall and I did a blast of very forcefully air pushed us and all the stuff out of the vault.

Griphook picked up the cup. "Give me the sword, girl." He wasn't going to give me the cup until he had the sword. I tossed it in his direction and he threw the cup to Hermione, then he took the noise makers and got himself past the dragon as the Gringotts security came after us. 

We took cover behind some stone pillars as they tried to arrest us. "What do we do?" Ron asked.

I looked at Hermione. "I've got an idea, but its mad." 

"I don't care, just get us out!"  He said and Hermione blew the landing. I took a running start and jump onto the dragons back, they others followed. "You were right, this is mad!"

Hermione freed the dragon from the chain and shot him on the back to get him to fly. Poor thing had been tied up so long, it had forgotten how to use it wings so it climbed out of the underground vaults and shattered the glass ceiling of the bank. Once outside, it flew. 

"Well, its about time dragons shattered their glass ceiling." Ron joked as we flew from Diagon Alley and into the middle of nowhere.

We all laughed and when we came across water, dropped. Once we all hit the water, Harry and I shared a vision from Voldemort. It was quick and in flashes but we got the message. Ravenclaw. Something belonging to Ravenclaw was the next Horcrux. 

"We have to go to Hogwarts. One of the Horcruxes is hidden in their." Voldemort's been weakened, we could all feel it. But it just meant he was more on edge, more lethal, and more in a hurry to end this.

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We apparaited to Hogsmead, thinking it would be safe and we just use one of the secret passageways from the Marauder's map, but as soon as we landed a siren went off and Snatchers came out of the woodwork. We hid behind tables and the Snatchers ran right passed us and down the street. We ran down an alley and hit a dead end. 

A man opened a door. "Potter, in here." He said to Harry and we stepped in the door.

"He looks just like...." Ron whispered.

Hermione finished his sentence. "Dumbledore, I know." Harry pulled out the mirror shad, Sirius had given him and was staring into it. Hermione stepped over to a wall and saw a mirror with a missing shard. 

"Harry, I can see you in this." Draco said, staring into a broke mirror.

"What do you think you are doing, appariting here like that?" The man asked us. 

Harry turned away from the mirror. "Who gave that you?"

"Mundugus Fletcher."

"Dung had no right giving that to you, it belonged...." Harry started to yell at the man.

He cut him off. "Sirius, I know. Albus told me, he told me you'd likely be 'hacked off' if you even knew I had it. But ask youself, Mr. Potter, where would you be if i didn't?"

"You're Aberforth, Dumbledore's brother?" I asked and the man nodded.

Harry was past politeness and introductions. "Can you help us get in the castle? Dumbledore gave us a job to do."

Aderforth nodded. "Nice job, is it? Easy?" 

"We're hunting Horcruxes."

The man scoffed. "That's not a job my brother's given you, its a death wish. My advice, go home and live a little longer." 

Harry lost it. "Dumbledore trusted us to see this through!"

"What makes you think you can trust him?! In all the time you knew him, did mention my name, did he mention hers?" He said and pointed to a painting of a young girl over his fireplace. "Why should he keep secrets? You tell me."

"I trusted him." 

Aberforth looked at Harry and shook his head then looked at the painting. "You know what to do." The girl nodded and walked down the path in her painting. 

"That's your sister, Ariana. She died very young, didn't she?" Aberforth nodded slowly to me and left us. "Dumbledore and Aberforth became her guardians after their dad killed three muggle boys who picked on her and she killed their mother with a tantrum. A curse meant for Dumbledore hit her, she died at 14." Everyone just looked at me. 

Draco noticed the painting moving. "She's coming back, who's that with her?" Then the painting opened like a door and a brown head pointed out.

"Neville!" He jumped down and hugged me. 

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As we walked through the tunnel Neville filled us on what's been going on at Hogwarts. Surprisingly enough, he was the first one to not question Draco's presence. 

"Carrows?" Draco asked him after Neville explained the bruises. "They did that to you?"

"Brother and sister, in charge of discipline." Neville told us. "Today, our Dark Arts lesson had us using the Cruciatus Curse on first years, I refused." We came up to the a painting back and Neville pushed it open. "Listen up, you lot! I got a surprise for you!"

Seamus called out. "Not more of Aberforth's cooking, I hope." Neville aside and everyone started to cheer for us. We climbed down a ladder and everyone came over to hug us. We told them about what we were looking, Luna spoke up and told us the story of Rowena Ravenclaw's lost diadem. When door to the Room of Requirement opened and Ginny ran over to us. 

"Harry."

"Hi there." 

Ron scoffed. "Six months she hasn't seen me and it like a Frankie First Year. I'm only her brother." 

I shushed him. "What is it, Ginny?" 

She looked over it me. "Snape knows you were spotted in Hogsmead." 

I looked at Harry. "Let's have a bit of fun, shall we?"