Chapter 143: Chapter 143: House Elf!
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"How do you know all this?" Hermione asks, more to herself, which I answer with a meaningful look. She huffs. "Okay, well, then why now?"
"I just realized I was being stupid about it," I say. "I was going to grab it just before we went to meet Sirius and Remus again, but we might as well send it to them as soon as possible so they can kill it with fire."
"They can't destroy it with—" Hermione begins, totally not getting the meme from fifteen years from now.
"I know, Hermione, it's just a saying...you know us Yanks and our bizarre sayings," I say. "I meant fiendfyre."
"But we can't exactly owl it, Will," Harry says uncertainly.
"I dunno," I say with a grin, "I think Hedwig could do it. Kidding, Hermione. Now, if only we knew somebody who can apparate from within Hogwarts, is able to keep hidden, and is intensely loyal to Harry..."
"Dobby!" Harry and Hermione say in unison.
A soft pop echoes through the cavernous room. "You called for Dobby, Harry Potter, sir?" His enormous eyes take in his surroundings. "Harry Potter has found the Come and Go Room," he says excitedly, but then his ears droop.
"There is dangerous things here...Harry Potter and his friends should not be here, sir."
"There is something in this room that is very dangerous, and I was hoping you could take it to Sirius Black and Remus Lupin for me," Harry says, kneeling in front of the tiny creature and placing a hand on his shoulder.
"He will know what to do with it, but you must not touch this object directly, and you must not be seen by anyone except for Sirius or Remus."
"If you do this, Dobby, it could save Harry's life," I add, also kneeling. "Not to mention thousands of other lives."
"But please be careful, Dobby, I don't want you to do anything that might hurt you," Hermione says, joining us on the floor. "We don't want you hurt."
The squeaky House Elf is fully in tears now. "Harry Potter cares about Dobby so much? Harry Potter is a great wizard, and so is his friends. Dobby will take this dangerous thing, and make Harry Potter safe. Nobody will find Dobby, just like when Dobby delivered Harry Potter's not-wizard friend's gifts."
Gee, thanks for the reminder, Dobs.
"Okay," Hermione says, falling into her bossy voice. "The item we're looking for is a stone bust with a diadem – like a tiara or crown. But you mustn't touch the diadem! Wrap it in a blanket or towel and make sure it won't fall out or stick out such that you might accidentally touch it."
"Dobby will find it, Harry Potter's Grangy, Dobby will find it!" With that the excited little Elf sped off into the labyrinth of junk.
"I suppose we should split up and help look," I say. "If I'm not mistaken, the bust is somewhat close to the Vanishing Cabinet, so if we find one, we have a good starting place to search for the other."
"Accio diadem," Harry incants with a quick draw of his wand. Nothing happens.
Hermione clears her throat to enter professor mode again. "Could be an anti-Summoning Charm on the diadem itself, or just one on the Room itself. I don't think it's the latter, though, since we practiced Summoning Charms in here before the First Task."
"Although it's possible it might just be this version of the Room. Another possibility is the fact that you can't Summon anything that's alive, and a Horcrux has at least a piece of a soul in it."
"But Neville Banished Professor Flitwick in class, and that's the countercharm," Harry points out.
"They function differently," Hermione says, waving the point away. "I suppose in that sense they aren't exactly counterspells. Neville Banished Professor Flitwick because his aim was off, but you can't aim wrong with the Summoning Charm."
"Unless you want Dobby to do all the work himself, I suggest we postpone the discussion of the mysteries of magic until later," I say with a smile. Honestly I wouldn't mind having Dobby do all the work, and I almost say so, but...
The sight of Dobby sprinting as he turned the corner of one of the paths cuts off my thought. "Dobby has found it, sir!"
I love you, Dobby.
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Our training in the Room of Requirement picked up, and with the Vanishing Cabinet destroyed and the Horcrux gone, we decided it's okay to let a few more people in. I still don't want Crouch/Moody to find out, though, so we don't go too crazy.
In fact, our first newcomer – much to the annoyance of certain members of the group – is Fleur.
"Um, Harry, aren't we here to help you train?" Neville asks, eyes flickering nervously to the French beauty as his face flushes bright red. "Wouldn't it be bad to train your competition as well?"
"It's not like we'll be fighting each other," Harry says with a shrug. "At least, I hope not. With her here, we can train harder."
"Besides, don't you want to see Fleur play our game?" I say innocently. The smiles that grow on the other girls' faces are not so innocent.
"What game is zis?" Fleur asks, raising an eyebrow at me.
"Why don't you demonstrate, William?" Hermione asks sweetly.
"Oh yes, William, please demonstrate for your guest," Daphne says just as sweetly. Coming from Hermione, that tone of voice is certainly ominous, but from Daphne it's terrifying.
Oh damn. I'm gonna need a Blood Replenisher after this. With an audible gulp, I walk to my doom and turn to face them. Hermione and Daphne are already in position, smiling widely. With some trepidation I look back to the others. "Who else is in the firing squad?"
Luna and Astoria immediately volunteer, and Astoria begs Luna to let her. Tracey pipes up to settle it. "How about both?"
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