Chapter VIII {Secrets Unveiled}

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"Vanessa!" i hear Hermione saying as she shakes me awake

"whaaa?" i mumble

"we can't find Harry" she says urgently

and i was up.

i shot up from the bed i was sleeping on and began walking around the old house with them.

"you go check upstairs, me and Ron will stay down here and look." Hermione told me

i nodded and began climbing the stairs at a fast pace

after checking every single room and every single inch of it i finally came upon a room with 'Sirius' sketched into the door. there, Harry sat on the bed, parchment in hand.

"Ron! Hermione! i found him!" i yell making Harry jump

"good! tell him from me he's a git!" Ron yells back

"Harry, you can't just disappear. we thought-" Hermione begins but stops when Harry hands me the piece of parchment he had in his hands

"its from your mum. to Sirius. Bathilda Bagshot?" i ask

"yeah. they knew her. she wrote A History of Magic, you know." Harry says

"did she know?" Hermione asked with irony

"I'm thinking maybe we should go talk to her. she still lives in Godric's Hallow. I'm thinking maybe she could help us." Harry says hopefully

i sit down next to Harry "Harry. i can imagine why you'd want to go there, but...i don't think Bathilda Bagshot is going to know where Voldemort hid his Horcruxes." i say

Harry starts to respond, frowning. Hermione reaches out and touches his face lightly

"hey! i think you guys better come down here!" Ron yells from the first floor


we all peer out a curtain from the first floor. in the courtyard outside, two dark figures stand near a tree. another sits on a bench.

"the two clinging to the tree are Death Eaters for sure. dunno 'bout the bloke on the bench." Ron drops the curtain "can't see us, of course. but we'll have to be careful coming and going. c'mon. there's something else you need to see."


we trail behind Ron to a narrow doorway. affixed to the outside is a small sign, hand lettered in spidery crawl:

do not enter without the Express Permission of Regulus Arcturus Black

"Regulus Arcturus Black?" Hermione asks

suddenly she gasps.

i run my hands over the carving "R.A.B" i whisper


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