Clearing of toxic friendship's
Harry awoke earlier then most, the years of abuse that had only recently been curbed still affects him dearly including the unusual waking time he was trained to have to survive. Harry slowly got up to get ready for what was sure to be a very headache inducing day, as he lifted the curtains back he looked to the window which was still pouring moonlight in. sometime before six then.
After Harry was dressed and ready he walked down to the common room and sat down in one of the more comfy chairs by the fireplace, he took out his wand and casted a tempus charm, 5:56 great in four minutes students will be allowed to walk the halls. He opened one of the Black journals, something he only did if he knew he was not going to get caught with it due to the fact the black line is supposedly died out due to the two brothers faking there deaths and all three sisters marrying into different families. But he would not have to hide them anymore becuse Regulus was confirmed alve and well. This specific journal was intresting as it was written by Hydrus Black-Rosier who was apparently the most powerful sorceress of her age, the journal goes from her early teens to her death which was written in by her husband, Aster Rosier.
As he read he felt an itching in the back of his mind to put the book back and look through his satchel, after not being able to focus for far to long he gave into the feeling and put it back, as he looked through the saw a note that had definently not been there before he left, well that's strange. The note read:
Harry if you got my note that means the glamour has wore off, i was unable to tell you during your stay with us at the ancestral home but upon you breaking the horcrux you will be able to stop pretending to be weasley and granger's friend it will be time, unfortunately your relationship with Draco will have to wait until later to be revealed. bye Harry sincerely, R.A.B.
Harry knows that it was Regulus who wrote the note because R.A.B. is Regulus's signature. Well Harry should probably go look in the room of requirment for the diadem after that he will have to go down to the chamber for a basillisk fang so he can destroy said diadem. Harry looked out the window and the sunrise had already began meaning it was allowed to leave the common room and enter the vast hallways of Hogwarts castle.
Harry put his book back into his satchel which had an extenstion charm due to the fact Harry liked to carry around a bunch of books at once so he had options. He left the common room and walked to the seventh floor corridor as that is where Regulus told him the room of requirment was. He stopped at the designated wall and started pacing and thinking Show me Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem. Three paces later the wall created a door, Harry walked through said door.
He walked into a small room with a door on the other side and a tiny trunk in the middle with the initials T.M. RIDDLE printed across the front in fancy gold letters. The walls of the room were so uninviting Harry was starting to get flashbacks to his childhood, they were like castles stone walls but also made it look as if you might freeze if you were in this room, the actual tempature of the room wasn't doing much to disprove that theory either.
Harry cast a quick charm to make sure there were no curses on the trunk, there was and Harry removed it. After that he opened the trunk and in it laid Rowena Ravenclaw's lost diadem along with a letter, Harry pocketed the diadem and went to open the letter but something stopped him, not a curse just his body would not let him, weird. Harry pocketed the letter deciding he would read it later anyway. Harry wanted to go through the other door but Reg had told him not to do anything griffyndor on the mission and Harry had already broken that rule once so it's best not to do it again. Harry left the room and immediatly realised that he was super angry which was not normal, Harry deducted that it had to be the horcrux making him feel this way so he put it in his satched instead and all the anger vanished.
Harry casted a tempus charm 6:25 okay that does not leave him with enough time to go down to the chamber so he will just have to do it some other time. He made his way back to the griffyndor common room arriving at 6:32 and going back to where he was originally by the fireplace. He put up a charm to make the letter look like it was just a regular letter that remus wrote Harry to check in after sirius's 'death.' But Harry could see through the charm to the actual letter which still felt weirdly appaling in his hands. He recoiled slightly as he broke the wax seal, the letter, it seemed was not a letter at all, but a ripped out page of a journal, the page read:
1981 November 1st
I made the gravest mistake of my life by visiting the potter's yesterday night, i believe i accidently made the potter boy one of my horcruxes and he is now by definition completely immortal even if the horcrux were to be broken or removed he will always be immortal. i am very weak and the only thing keeping me alive is my horcruxes though the one i was originally living off of seems to be broken. I am hoping that years from now one of my loyal death eater's kin will find this letter along with one of my remaining horcruxes and decide to alert the rest of my followers of my still existence and to the fact there is a ritual that could bring me back. if that is you who has found this letter the rite is inclosed in the envolope. If you are not a follower of mine and you hide this from who it's targets, you may see the day of my ressurection on your tombstone.
Written by Lord Voldemort.
Harry froze after reading the letter, he had known Voldemort was back again, but the fact Voldemort still had the capability to fully think on his own for 13 years before his ressurection means there is no telling just how bad his plans are. Not only that but Harry was a horcrux?! Harry was immortal?! Harry hurredly used incendio on the fire and levitated it into the already burning flames, Harry stays looking in the burning flames trying to make some semblance of sense from all he knows. As for the letter all it really did was confirm Harry's original suspisions and tell him about the fact he was a horcrux and immortal but now with it all confirmed nothing really made sense to Harry.
He looked at the facts, Voldemort is back, Voldemort is living in Malfoy Manor, Voldemort has a plan, most other people don't know Voldemort's even back, Harry is a horcrux, Harry is immortal, Voldemort made 7 horcruxes not 6 like Harry had thought. Harry's life is so ridiculous, and apparently his life will never end.
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Harry slumped into his seat at griffyndor table in between the dynamic fucking duo, he was not puting up with their shit today, Harry started piling food onto his plate just wanting to get today over already. Minerva came around handing out the griffyndor schedules for the coming year, which is made worse by the fact that it is O.W.L. year and the teachers will be piling on a bunch of homework this year.
Harry put up his pureblood mask like Regulus had taught him, though you could hardly call it a 'pureblood mask' seeing as Harry is a Half-blood, and he pretended like it was a completely normal day. He looked up to the staff table to see what Regulus was doing, Regulus is engaging in a conversation with Snape about presumably, potions but Harry wouldn't know because he's to far away to listen in.
Weasley and Granger seem to be engaging in a conversation about how stupid divination is and it looks like Granger is trying to convince Weasley to drop it for Ancient Runes, Weasley looks like he would rather gargle dirty nails repeatedly then take Ancient Runes but Granger keeps talking for some unknowable reason. Perhaps Granger is allergic to reading the room or peoples emotions in general, Harry thinks she should learn how to read people because she acts obnoxious as all hell and then gets mad when people don't like her, Harry keeps these thoughts to himself.
Minerva finally gets to Harry and hands him his schedule and gives him a warm smile, Minerva could always tell when he was on edge even with his mask up, he thinks shes trying to cheer him up, he thinks its a losing battle, he keeps this thought to himself and smiles back.
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Harry is pacing at the entrance of the room of requirment, he's waiting for Draco so they can do something super illegal together, well theres technically no law against sneaking into the chamber of secrets but Harry could find quite a few guesses to why its not exactly encouraged behaviour. Eventually though he can hear footsteps approaching and throws on his invisibility cloak incase it is not who he thinks it will be, it is not who Harry thinks it is. It is Dumbledore walking around in fuschia dress robes heading straight for the room of requirment entrance, but the room does not permit his attempt at entry. Dumbledore is absoluetely fuming "THIS IS MY SCHOOL WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED ENTRY IN EVERY ROOM?!" Dumbledore screeches and Harry thinks he can hear footsteps starting rght before Dumbledore started screaming but he can no longer hear them.
Once dumbledore has stalked off Harry takes off the invisibilty cloak and sits down on a window seat near the room's entrance. Harry levels his breathing, he had come very close to having a panick attack seeing Dumbledore like that had brought up some not so good memories. Memories from the vault, that's where all the super traumatising stuff Harry has gone through goes so he doesent have to deal with it.
Oh! Was the first thing Harry thought upon waking up, the second being 'Where the bloody fuck am i?!' And then Harry recognised the window seat he was currently lying in "decided to take a little nap while waiting for me Harry?" came Draco's exhasperated tone "no no i- of course not!" Harry says "I I-" "fainted, so i saw" Draco finishes for him. "You- you saw? How- I thought-" and then Harry remembers the footsteps he had heard earlier. "You fainted shortly after Dumbledore's little outburst, which was only fifteen minutes ago so you werent asleep for very long." Draco says
"Also, since we were already on a bit of a tight schedule, I went down and got the basillisk fang for you since it was already dead your parseltounge wasnt necsessary." Draco says, "If you so will, I need that diadem to destroy it." Harry reaches into his satchel and removes the blue shiny diadem, Draco grabs a basillisk fang and stabs the diadem, black fog comes out and screams for a little bit. "I'll hold onto the basillisk fangs. you're in griffyndor, so me having it would be less suspicous." Draco says pocketing the fangs and broken diadem.
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Harry walks down to breakfast with Neville, who happened to wake up earlier than usual and was able to join Harry on his walk to the great hall for the first meal of the day. "Draco destroyed the diadem so thats no longer a problem, also now we have basillisk fangs." Harry tells Neville in french as they sit down at griffyndor table. They start to talk about herbology after the depressing talk of Voldemort and Horcruxes.
Weasley and Granger eventually walk in and try to sit next to Harry but "No." Came Harry's cold toned refusal. "Excuse me?" Granger asks, she sounds offended. "No, i'm not your friend and i'm tired of pretending to be." Harry sounds devoid of emotion, but he infact, is positively gleeful.
Weasley and Granger didn't speak to him for the rest of the day, Harry is extrenuously glad.