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Chapter #33: Locked on you.

“Dad, do you know how the items look? I mean, the items technically are not so special, but most of them belonged to important people,” Harry wondered with a serious expression.

Their meeting with Sirius still kept going, they were discussing logistics, but the thing here is that they needed to have a serious discussion about the items. It seems like there’s a diary, a locket, a tiara, a cup, the ring is gone, and the snake that’s always with him, and according to the map notes, it said that Tom Riddle was the seventh horcrux himself.

“Well, we could get some books, you see, it seems like that guy was obsessed with Hogwarts founders, in fact, I was told that as soon as he took over the country, he tried to get the sword of Gryffindor, but he failed, no one has seen that sword in centuries,” Explained James with a serious tone.

“Which means?” Sirius didn’t know where this was going.

“Slytherin had a locket and a ring, and according to Dumbledore, Tom Riddle was the last descendant of Salazar Slytherin,” Harry explained, and James nodded. “Helga Hufflepuff had a famous cup, there’s the legend of the famous Ravenclaw diadem, and the diary belonged to Tom Riddle himself, that's what it says in the map,” Harry explained, and they nodded.

“Can I see the map?” Asked Sirius as there was something that was bothering him.

He looked at the words written, and he couldn’t help but feel a sense of familiarity, the guy who wrote this knew about Bellatrix's vault, and the diary hidden in Malfoy manor, he knew about the Gaunt shack, and most of all, written down with very small letters, it was signed as “R.A.B.”

“No…There’s no way…This…” Sirius said as he collapsed on the floor.

Both James and Harry looked at him with concerned expressions, Sirius usually likes to prank them, but he was sounding too serious right now.

“Kreacher!” He called, and soon an old elf appeared.

“Disgusting master calls Kreacher…” The old elf said bitterly, but Sirius didn’t pay attention to his rant.

“Kreacher, do you recognize this map?” Asked the curly-haired wizard.

Kreacher’s eyes widened, and he ran as fast as he could to grab the map.

“Insolence…Blasphemy, why do bad master and disgusting friends have master Regulus’ map?! He had it hidden in his secret manor!” The old elf was sounding threatening right now.

But the bond he had with Sirius prevented him from harming him or the people he cared for, so, instead, he felt a jolt of electricity that made him retract.

“So it was Regulus the one who searched for the items...R.A.B...Regulus Arcturus Black!” Sirius said with his eyes wide open.

Even James gasped, he was well aware of the troublesome relationship between Sirius and his younger brother, to hear that the brother he despised was actually working against Voldemort was something shocking, even Harry couldn’t believe it.

“Of course he did…Master only followed him because it was his duty as head of the Black family, his parents, they made him join that organization, and at first, he felt at home, but then he felt remorse, and after the dark lord almost killed Kreacher, master Regulus decided to destroy him, it took him years to collect information about the location of the items, in case he died before destroying them, he gave Kreacher a mission, to destroy a locket but Kreacher has failed master!” Kreacher said with a sad tone.

The wizards looked at each other, Harry whispered something to Sirius about treating Kreacher a bit better so they could get the locket.

“Uh…Kreacher…We want to help you destroy the item, if you give it to us, I’m sure we can destroy it,” Sirius said as calmly as possible.

It felt like biting a ghost pepper to be nice to Kreacher, it was painful, but necessary.

“I have an idea to destroy it, Kreacher, it needs either basilisk venom, as it can kill anything, fiendfyre, or the killing curse works too, but those options aren't very reliable,” Sirius explained.

“There’s basilisk venom in the secret chests of master’s parents if master orders Kreacher, I can open them and bring the venom,” Kreacher's words surprised them.

“Bring it to us alongside the locket, Kreacher,” Sirius said with a calm tone.

Soon, the elf popped out, after a few minutes, he came back with the things Sirius asked him to bring, the heir of the Black family grabbed the vial of basilisk venom carefully. Sirius suddenly took the secret dagger he always carried on his ankle.

“This…This is a goblin dagger, and with one drop of venom…” Sirius said as he carefully opened the vial and let a drop of the substance fall on the blade. “It gets fused with it,” he added as the dagger started to light up until it was back to normal. “Now we need to be careful with this, just touching the blade would kill us…Get the locket ready, Kreacher,” Sirius ordered the elf.

For the first time in his life, the creature happily obeyed Sirius, the curly-haired wizard looked at his best friend and son, and then he decided to just stab the thing, but surprisingly, nothing happened.

“Well, look at this, stubborn but not for so long, don't even think you’re going to beat me, I never give up!” Sirius spat angrily.

Soon, he started to stab the thing as if his life depended on it, and nothing happened for some time, but then, a screech was heard, turns out that if you eventually stab something, you’re going to eventually break it, coming out of the locket, there was some kind of black mist.

The screech was so strong that it even managed to destroy the silencing charm, causing everyone to join them in the room out of concern, no matter if Harry and the rest ordered them not to be here, and soon, everyone stared at the black mist that had the face of Voldemort.

The thing was looking at them with hate, but it didn’t last for too long, then, as fast as the mist appeared, the thing was gone, Harry, James, Sirius, and Kreacher fell on their knees.

“Fuck…That was…” Sirius said.

“Yeah…” James barely said anything due to his heavy breathing.

“Intense…To say the least,” Harry added, and they agreed.

Meanwhile, Kreacher was celebrating as if he had experienced the most amazing thing in his life.

“Master Regulus…It’s done, the task you gave me has been fulfilled,” Kreacher said happily.

“What happened?” Lily asked, concerned.

“We’ve just destroyed one of the items, mother…That’s what happened,” Harry said with a genuine, happy expression.

Everyone stared at them as if they had grown another head, hearing those words was such a shocking thing, still, Harry didn’t have too much time to celebrate as his girlfriend held him in her arms before passionately kissing him.

“Now here comes the difficult part…How can we get the rest of the items?” Asked James with a concerned tone.

“I think we could manage to destroy two more with the help of my contact, but the one at Hogwarts is going to be difficult, first, we need to know how the items look,” Harry told them. “Hermione, what do you know about Ravenclaw’s diadem and Helga Hufflepuff's cup?” Asked Harry with a curious tone.

Hermione and Lily just rolled their eyes.

“Don’t tell me…Hogwarts History, right?” Asked Harry with an amused tone.

“Obviously, pictures depicting the founders with their iconic items aren't uncommon in that book, in fact, here in this ancient Potter manor, there’s a first print copy…” Hermione explained, and to say they were happy would be an understatement.

It was just one step at the time, but their objective was getting closer and closer, now, they needed to be careful and not make the dark lord realize what they were doing.

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