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Hermione Granger (cerebralwitch) wrote in wished,
@ 2009-12-29 18:06:00

Entry tags:

!1997: 12, !complete, !plot, harry potter, hermione granger, ron weasley

Who: Hermione, Harry, Ron
What: Horcrux discussion, and destruction!
Where: Forest of Dean
When: Today
Rating/Warning: Some Violence, Language, and Danger

She couldn't believe it was that easy. There right in front of her in Dumbledore's notes. The next horcruxes. She knew what they were! Hermione stared at her journal in silent awe for at least five full minutes before she jumped up, tearing through the tent to find Harry.

"Harry!" She called, then pulled open the divider to his bedroom in the tent. "Harry! Get up! I've figured out the next two horcruxes! I know what they are!" Which, of course, didn't help them to destroy this one, but it put them one step further. Two steps, really. Two very large steps closer to what they needed to eventually do, which was destroy all of them. And, if they could talk together about what this might mean if she was right, then maybe Gryffindor's Sword would be the answer to this riddle, too.

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sonofastag
2010-01-01 02:50 am UTC (link)

"We could owl, I guess. Or get someone else to. Ginny. . . " Oh. Bugger. Ginny. Harry suddenly remembered the last time he'd SEEN Ginny, and what he'd said to her when she was snogging Capper. Which still hurt a bit, but at the moment he was more concerned with what an utter and complete git he'd been.

"Bugger," he muttered. He couldn't do anything about it now, though, so he just shook his head. "The Quibbler's been on our side, but it's also been mental. Maybe he just wore the symbol because he thinks if he has it on the aliens can't read his mind. But if it's all we've got to go on, then suppose it can't hurt to ask."

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geroffme
2010-01-01 03:04 am UTC (link)

"Ginny can't leave Hogwarts," Ron said immediately. He'd bridled at his mother's orders to spend the holidays at school, but they were unquestionably sound as far as his sister was concerned. "I know the Lovegoods don't live too far from the Burrow, but I've never seen the house - so they're not exactly in the middle of the village, or anything. I reckon we could find it without running into too many people, anyway. And if he does know something worth knowing ..." I'll give you both five galleons. He shrugged. "Yeah. Couldn't hurt."

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cerebralwitch
2010-01-01 03:07 am UTC (link)

"Ginny needs to stay at Hogwarts," Hermione agreed, and then she thought about owls, but shook her head too. "We can't trust owls. They can be traced too easily, remember what Sirius was afraid of with them? And they can be intercepted. It's best if we go ourselves."

And if it was close to the Burrow, at least they knew they'd have a safer escape if they absolutely had to have one.

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sonofastag
2010-01-01 03:11 am UTC (link)

"I know. I meant have her send an Owl. Everyone knows where she is, so it couldn't be traced back to us, and wouldn't tell anyone else anything they didn't know already," Harry explained with a shrug. He wouldn't put Ginny in danger. That was why he hadn't wanted to date her. . . which might have been wiser than he knew about if she didn't even like blokes.

"All right, then we can go see him tomorrow, and then. . ." Harry shrugged. "If he doesn't know anything, we'll figure it out then?"

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geroffme
2010-01-01 03:21 am UTC (link)

Ron nodded. Harry had a point about the owl, but Hermione was right - they could be intercepted, and he'd rather not have people wondering why Ginny, or anyone connected to the three of them, was asking around about Dark wizards. If it really was a clue to something, it would be nice if they were the only ones who had it. "If he doesn't, we can start trying for somewhere else to look ... but might as well start at the beginning, I guess." He liked the thought of stopping by a friendly house, as well. He knew he was going to be missing his bed very soon.

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cerebralwitch
2010-01-01 03:25 am UTC (link)

"Okay," Hermione said, and that had really been easier than... well, anything she'd tried to get out of either of them for months, really, and she sighed happily - the horcrux was dead! - and picked up her soup agian. "So we should get some sleep tonight. Maybe let you and Ron rest tomorrow, too, and go the day after? Because .... well," She shrugged, looking at Harry. "I don't know about you, but I feel like I haven't slept since the Ministry."

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sonofastag
2010-01-01 03:35 am UTC (link)

"Yeah," Harry agreed. "I think that little nap from nearly dying is as close as I've gotten to sleeping well for a while," he told her with a wry smile.

And Harry could find some reasons to be out of the tent a bit and leave Hermione and Ron time to talk, too.

"We should let the Order know we're safe, too. I haven't even peeked in the journals lately." Harry had found it too frustrating to see things from afar he couldn't do a thing about, with the horcrux hanging over them.

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geroffme
2010-01-01 03:57 am UTC (link)

Ron felt a little surge of guilt as he wondered how long it would take for word that he had run away again to reach his mother's ears. "A day off sounds like a good idea," he said, taking up his bowl. "That might be enough time to think of something to tell them that doesn't send Mum off the deep end. Probably better leave out the bit about running around in the woods messing with swords."

Even if he spent the day lounging around doing nothing but freezing, it felt wonderful to know that weight of guilt would be off his shoulders at last. He was where he belonged again, he was sure of it - and they had made some actual progress, something he'd thought pretty near impossible, not long ago. The last thing he'd expected was to return to see things looking up - but here they were.

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