It's okay, Draco

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"W-where did you find that?" (y/n) asked to Harry. Harry explained that he almost died when he tried to take the sword from the iced lake until Ron came back and pulled him out.

"Where's the locket?"

Harry smiled and pulled out the broken locket from his pocket, shaking from the coldness. (y/n) squealed and immediately hugged Harry from excitement. Harry stiffened and so are the others.

(y/n) realized the tension building up, so she broke the hug and apologized. Hermione and Ron kept looking at each other, wishing they could do the same to each other but they were both hesitant.

***

"We should go to Hogwarts!" Hermione suddenly yelled when she stopped eating her snack.

"What?! Are you crazy? There's dozen of death eaters there that wants our heads!" Harry exclaimed.

"Come on, we're out of leads and Hogwarts seemed like the only logical lead to find another horcruxe. It's where Tom schooled before right?"

All three of them stayed silent, thinking of another less dangerous lead. Nevertheless, that's the only lead they could think of.

"Okay, if we were to go to Hogwarts, how do we get there?" (y/n) suddenly asked Hermione.

"Okay, here's the plan, first we apparate to Hogsmeade, then we go to a secret entrance at Honeydukes. To get there we'll need to disguise as a student using polyjuice potion. But I can tell you it's not easy"

They nodded in response, slightly agreeing that it was a good idea.

***

Harry and the others packed their stuffs; polyjuice potions, the sword and their wands. They could only brew two potions since they didn't have many ingredients.

Just before they apparate, Harry tangled his fingers with (y/n)'s fingers together and looked at her in the eyes. She wanted to ask him what's wrong, but his eyes was somehow sad. They all knew that this was a suicide mission. But they all have to suck it up anyways whether they wanted it or not.

"Ready?" Hermione asked all of them, ignoring the scene that was in front of her. The tension wasn't awkward, it was just miserable. All this time, they were trying to survive and live. But now, they decided to just get to a dangerous place.

They could get caught... Or possibly die in the process.

(y/n) nodded slowly, followed by Harry and Ron. (y/n) tried to let go of Harry's hand, but he gripped it tighter as if this was going to be the last time of them together.

'This is not necessary, right? I mean, I can apparate by myself. ' (y/n) thought.

(y/n) decided the shrugged it off and apparated with Harry, along with Hermione and Ron.

***

Just after they apparated to the area, alarms were set off and high pitch screeched loudly. They all immediately went to an alley after seeing two guy's shadow coming towards. Just as the shadows getting closer,

"Quick, in here!" a man whispered to them through a door that was in the shadows. They didn't have time to hesitate so they went in,

"Hey!," the death eater called out to the old man, "did you set off the alarm?!"

"I'm sorry, I let my cat ran off inside"

The death eater snarled and warned the old man, "Don't break the curfew again, old man"

He nodded and slowly went inside and close the door after the death eaters walked far away. He frowned his eyebrows and glared at Harry, (y/n), Hermione and Ron.