A Not-So-Muggle Life

Horcruxes

"Okay. So, all we have right now is that he made six horcruxes, two of them are destroyed, third is Slytherins locket, which is in possession of RAB, fourth is Hufflepuffs cup whose location we don't know, fifth is Nagini who would be with Voldemort, sixth is an unknown object of Raveclaw or Gryffindor. We know we can destroy them with basilisk venom and fiendfyre. We have five basilisk fangs, one for each of us. Anybody got any ideas?"

"You can ask your teachers who RAB is. They would have a better idea than us. You don't have to tell them why exactly we need to know, just that it's important." Edward said.

Hermione nodded. "I'll do that."

"We should ask Raveclaws about their founder's objects. We are Gryffindors and we already know there are only sorting hat and the sword, which are obviously clean." Ron offered.

"I'll ask Luna." Harry said.

"The diary was with Malfoy. May be V.. Voldemort gave the cup to another one of his loyal death eaters." Hermione tentatively put forward.

"Snape." Harry growled.

"No." I cut him off. "Snape was a spy. He'd never risk a horcrux with him, with his uncertain loyalties."

"He was obviously on Voldemort's side." Harry stated.

"I'm not so sure about that." I murmured, low enough so they couldn't hear. Apparently, Edward did as he looked at me curiously. I shook my head.

After they were gone I explained to him, "Grandad said 'please'. He would never say that to someone get his life spared. He was most likely asking Snape to kill him."

"Why?" Edward asked, surprised.

"I don't know. He always has a reason though. And he trusted Snape." I shrugged. "You were thinking about something when we were discussing horcruxes. Care to share?"

He hesitated. "I don't obviously don't know about the magic involves, but all of Voldemort's horcruxes are part of the same soul, aren't they? If we acquire one couldn't we use it to track the others?"

I stared at him, speechless for a second. That was brilliant. "Edward, you are a genius." I said with glee. Already working on the arithmetic calculations for it mentally. If only we find a horcrux.

Turns out we found two. Harry had remembers seeing a tiara in the room of hidden things which looked quite a bit like the model of Raveclaw's diadem in the Raveclaw common room. Meanwhile Hermione and Ron asked Professor McGonagall about RAB, who she identified as Regulus Arcturus Black, Sirius' little brother who was apparently a death eater. Following this revelation, they went to Grimmauld Place where Hermione had remembered seeing a locker while cleaning, and got the Horcrux.

By the time, they came back with them, I had competed the spell and cast it on the objects and a map of Britain. There was a spot at Hogwarts' location, one at Gringotts and another at Wilshire. Assuming the Hogwarts dot indicated locket and diadem, Wilshire dot indicated Voldemort and Nagini at Malfoy Manor, then the cup was at Gringotts. The question was how to steal it from the most secure building in Britain.

"Its impossible. They track magical signature. No magical person can get in undetected, even with your cloak Harry." Hermione insisted. "And there's no way a muggle would be able to bypass further defences."

"What about vampires?" Edward questioned.

"Vampires don't exist anymore. They were hunted down by wizards in late 18th century." Hermione answered.

"Of course." Edward pretended to agree. "It's a hypothetical question."

"Well, I suppose they could do it. And Gringotts was remodeled in late 19th century, they don't have vampire defences anymore."

Edward glanced at me meaningfully.

"We should go to dinner. We'll talk about it tomorrow." I ended the discussion.

"Alice could do it." Edward said, once we were alone.

"I can't ask her to do it for me. It's too risky." I retorted.

"It's not for her. She can see if anything is supposed to go wrong. Besides she knew we were going her help, she told me tell you she doesn't doing it for you, before we left."

"What if she is identified?"

"She won't. You perform the spell again, with the map of Gringotts. I'll get her."

12 hours later, Alice handed me the Hufflepuff's cup, wearing slightly singed clothes, telling me that this was most fun she'd had in decades.

Ron, Harry and Hermione accepted my explanation of family magics, for the sudden appearance of the third horcrux. Since already destroyed the diary, Ron, Hermione and I were armed with basilisk fangs to destroy the horcruxes, which emitted out green smoke and black icher when stabbed.

Suddenly, Harry collapsed to the ground, clutching his scar. "He felt it." he breathed out. "Voldemort. He's coming here."

Aware of the castle full of children, we rushed towards McGonagall's office.

"Professor McGonagall." Hermione shouted, as we saw her walking down the corridor.

"Ms Granger.... and friends." she said, glancing at us. "Why are all of you running in the corridors?"

"Voldemort is coming here. You need to evacuate the students. We don't have much time."

McGonagall, aware of Harry's scar dreams, went pale at that, then created several cat patronus and sent them with the message of 'Evacuate Hogwarts. We are going to be under attack.'