Harry Potter: Love's Second Chance

"What should we do about Ginny?" Hermione asked Harry. It was Tuesday evening and she had looked up the potions and what they did.

Harry closed his eyes as he thought of the youngest Weasley. "Does she really think she can get away with using a love potion again this year? I mean after the last time..."

"It's Ginny," Hermione replied in answer. "She has a singular focus and that focus happens to be you."

"I know," Harry muttered. "Can she have any of them done by Friday?"

"No, they all take over a week and that's if she can find the ingredients already prepared."

"Then let's concentrate on the Ministry until then," Harry declared. "One issue at a time. Dobby and Winky can keep watching out for her. We'll want to know where she's brewing them."

"Thinking of doing something?"

"Maybe we can have someone catch her or at least find the potions brewing before they are finished."

"If she is caught, she could face criminal charges," Hermione said. "I don't care so much about her, but it'd look bad on Mr. Weasley and he got a promotion this summer last time."

"We have to do something," Harry replied. "We can't just wait for her to hex or poison you."

"I know, but let's wait until the summer and deal with her away from school."

Harry sighed. "We'll discuss it again next week."

Hermione nodded and both of them turned back to the star charts they were studying. At least this time the Astronomy practicals shouldn't be interrupted. They studied in silence for several minutes before Harry's thoughts turned to the battle that was coming up and Voldemort in general.

"Have any thoughts about the Horcruxes," He asked his wife.

Hermione put down her quill and she looked up. "Not really," She admitted. "The diadem is easy enough, though not sure how to find it for Dumbledore if he tells us about them," She said. "I wonder why Riddle hid it amongst all of that garbage and not somewhere like the Cham..." Hermione stopped as an idea came to her. "Let's get the Diadem and put it in the Chamber," She said. "Then if and when Dumbledore tells us about them, we can suggest we search the Chamber and it can be found easily by him."

"Does that really gain us anything?" Harry asked.

"Don't you see? If we were to stumble across the Horcrux in that huge room filled with junk a couple of days after him telling us about them, it could seem very suspicious," Hermione explained. "But for it to be in the Chamber of Secrets...in fact the Chamber is exactly where I'd expect the Horcrux to be if I was Dumbledore, why hasn't he gone to look?"

"Maybe he did," Harry suggested. "I mean you and Ron got in."

"But only because Ron was able to mimic you," Hermione said.

Harry remembered that night. The search for the diadem and then Hermione and Ron showing up with the fangs. He remembered Hermione saying what Ron did and then it struck him. "No," Harry said. "That's wrong."

"What is?" Hermione asked.

"I didn't think of it then, but when Ron tried to show me what he had done, I only heard him making a horrible hissing sound."

"So? That's what it sounds like."

"Don't you see? I should have heard him speak Parseltongue," Harry explained. "I should have heard him say open. I've never been able to tell when something is speaking Parseltongue since I hear the words."

Hermione was also remembering that night. The smug look of triumph on Ron's face when he finally had done something equal to Harry. "You're right," she finally said. "What does that mean?"

"I think it means Dumbledore has already returned to the Chamber," Harry replied.

"But he couldn't..."

"Once he knew exactly where it was, he could easily have removed that whole sink." Harry explained. "And for some reason only his logic would ever understand, he probably tried to hide he'd ever been there. When he replaced the sink, he probably had to make it open to any hissing type of sound since he can't speak Parseltongue. Same thing with the Chamber itself, he could have easily removed the locking mechanism or blasted through the rock itself," Harry shrugged as he thought about the Headmaster. "As fixated as Dumbledore has been on Tom Riddle, could you imagine him not going into the Chamber? Especially once I laid a horcrux down in front of him? I mean he tracked down and took memories from house elves looking for clues."

"Very true," Hermione agreed. She smiled at her husband. "You should have seen the smug look on Ron's face when he made it open. He'd thought he had done something spectacular."

"He still had that look when you two showed up," Harry replied trying not to remember the two of them kissing.

Hermione knew what Harry was thinking of. "Like I said, it was a pretty horrible kiss. Nothing like the kisses you and I share," she then proceeded to remind him how well their kisses worked.

"So back to the Horcruxes, I do like the idea of maybe putting the horcruxes in places easier to find," Harry said after a few minutes of enjoying Hermione's lips. "We can't go near the ring. I don't think we are strong enough to get around the protections on it."

"I agree," Hermione concurred. "Hopefully Dumbledore has told us about the Horcruxes and we can help him, otherwise I'm not sure what we can do. We should try to think of a plan if he doesn't."

"Bellatrix's vault?" Harry asked. "Any ideas?"

"Go to the goblins?" Hermione suggested. "Maybe offer the Sword of Gryffindor to them?"

"That might work," Harry said. "We need some more guidance before doing that. Maybe we can ask Bill in a manner not to raise suspicion."

"Maybe Bill can do it for us?" Hermione suggested. "Maybe we can let him on the secret."

Harry stopped and considered a few moments. "Maybe, but I'm not ready to go there yet. I'd prefer to wait until the summer and talk to him."

They named the horcruxes again, ring, cup, diadem, Nagini, locket and Harry.

"I wonder if we can get to Nagini earlier this time?" Hermione asked.

"Do you know where Voldemort is right now?"

"Malfoy Manor?" Hermione suggested.

"Maybe. I wished there was a way..." Harry started before his eyes went wide. "There is and I think I know what we can do."

"What?"

"Dobby," Harry said. "On Thursday a lot of the Death Eaters and Voldemort himself will be at the Ministry," He explained. "We can see if Dobby will pop over there and see if there is any evidence of Voldemort."

"But Harry..." Hermione exclaimed with a shocked look on her face. "The last time Dobby went there..."

"I know Hermione, but I think this is important," Harry explained. "But it will be his choice."

"It doesn't matter Harry. Dobby will do it just because you think it's important whether he wants to or not. Winky stayed awake for days trying to fix a mistake she only thought she had made."

Harry sighed. "I know, but I'm also thinking about Wormtail. If we knew he was there we might be able to do something about Sirius in case Fudge doesn't agree to help."

"Let's think about that some more," Hermione said and again they lapsed into silence. Each of them started thinking of the small grave near Shell Cottage. From the death of Dobby the deaths of so many of their other friends came to mind. "Not this time. This time Malfoy and Bellatrix will die Thursday. Bellatrix will die..." She mentally repeated. "Harry... it's going to change. We have to figure something out."

"What?" Harry asked confused.

"Bellatrix's vault. Hopefully she's going to die in two days. When she does, what will happen to her vault?"

Harry thought about the question before answering. "Sirius' gold was put in my vault," He said. "So it seems whoever inherits her vault will have the cup moved to their vault."

"So who would inherit from her if her husband and his brother die at the same time?"

"Narcissa and Andromeda are her sisters," Harry offered.

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