Crimson Ink

Sam I Am

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Once Peter hid the sword in a bottomless bag and scurried out as a rat the hat's snoring stopped and its eyes opened, "About time someone grabbed that thing. Now hopefully they can find the others before Albus gets anymore foolish ideas."

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Tom sighed as he sat on the couch with a book in his hand that looked strangely older like the rest of him though he knew he was physically much smaller and younger, "This will take some getting used to." He said and was startled by the sudden appearance of Peter who ran into the room. "Peter, what's going on- is that the Gryffindor sword?!" Tom exclaimed as Peter pulled a sword out of a bottomless bag.

"It looks right and better yet it is a horcrux!" Peter grinned

"Are you sure?" Tom asked as he leapt out of his seat and went to look at the sword.

"Yes. I had Severus use his device before I flooed here." Peter said as he set the sword on the table only to quickly pick it up again when he realized Narcissa would not like swords on the furniture.

"Thank Merlin, now we just need to find the others and reveal his crimes before Dumbledore can even consider making more ... how did you find it?" Tom asked curiously hoping for a solid hint as to where the other horcruxes were.

"Yeah funny thing actually ... the sorting hat told Harry where it was." Peter said still a bit surprised at the sudden change of events.

"The sorting hat? ..." Tom frowned and looked like he was mulling something over in his mind. "Dobby!"

The well dressed house elf appeared with a pop, "What can Dobby do for master Tom?"

"Is Lucius still up helping Narcissa with research?" Tom asked.

"Yes." Dobby confirmed.

"That will be all thank you." Tom said and the house elf bowed before vanishing with a pop. "If we play this right maybe ... it could work." Tom mumbled and began walking towards the library.

Peter raised an eyebrow, "Wait, what could work?" Peter blinked as Tom didn't answer and bolted after the wizard with the sword in hand. "What are you thinking- Dear Merlin! What happened here?" Peter yelped in shock as the library doors opened up revealing several towers of books wrapping around the table where Lucius and Narcissa were scouring through the books.

"Hmmmm?" Narcissa hummed before glancing up to see what the fuss was about and blushed. "Oh dear ... Lucius, we made a bit of a mess." She said with a chuckle making the Malfoy look up where he promptly deadpanned at the towers of books surrounding them. They both have a habit of levitating a book off to the side when they finish reading and they got carried away it seems.

"Allow me, beautiful." Peter said as he helped Narcissa over a small tower of books earning a smile from the new head of the Black family as he lifted her with one arm. "Now what is going on here?"

Narcissa smiled, "Lucius and I were looking for any laws that may give Dumbledore any advantage and ... well there was a small issue. As the headmaster he can claim that he's concerned about a student who has a violent guardian and that extends to the relatives of their guardian. He could try to take Harry from me tomorrow." She said knowing that Dumbledore may use Bellatrix's violent history, albeit completely false, against them. It certainly won't help when it's brought up that Bellatrix is not in Azkaban

"Funny he never used that before." Tom drawled a little bitter that there was a way to help kids like himself, Severus and even Lucius, but nothing was done to help them "Lucius, is there a way to help a student into a school like Hogwarts without too many questions?"