章 12: Sirius Black Part 1
The Delecour family was sitting around the table for dinner, celebrating what time they could together since Fleur was going to school soon at Beauxbatons for her second year. It was both a happy and sad time since Fleur was about to leave her own mark in the world, but they wouldn't get to be together as a family as much until next summer. They went through this once last year too, but still, it was hard,especially for Gabrielle.
As they were just trying to enjoy these precious moments together, a brilliantly bright light appeared above the table. Mr Delacour readied his wand, but soon saw a beautiful golden Pheonix.
The bird chirped musically a bit, then spoke using telepathy "Letters for Fleur Delacour and Gabrielle Delacour." as those words were heard in all of their minds in a gentle, soothing voice, the beautiful bird dropped the letter in front of both their recipiants then the bird vanished again as it had appeared, in a flash of light.
The Delacour parents were stunned, wondering who sent letters to their daughters in such a flashy way.
Gabrielle opened her letter first and her eyes grew large when she saw who it was from. "Sis, it's from Draco, the boy from the paper." she shyly tried to prevent her sister of parents from seeing what she had.
Fleur hastily opened her letter as well and started reading it out loud "Hello Fleur. Even though I didn't do it for glory and did not ask it to be made publid, it has come to my attention that my actions aspired some people to call themselves my fans. While I can't take time to write to all of them, I decided to write to a couple of them, and you and your sister were the ones I selected. I wish to express my gratitude for your kind thoughts, and I wish you will as you return to Beauxbatons this year. Signed, Draco Malfoy."
Even as she read it, Fleur was flabbergasted "How did he kow?"
"What an interesting boy" Mrs Delacour chuckled while the blushing Gabrielle put her letter away.
'Seriously, how did he know?' Fleur mentally asked herself, while simultaniously excited.
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Gabrielle Delacour - SOULMATE
Astoria Greengrass - SOULMATE
Holly Potter - Love (53%)
Hermione Granger - Love (1%)
Ginny Weasley - Close 92%)
Daphne Greengrass - Close (91%)
Luna Lovegood - Close (86%)
Fleur Delacour - Close (59%)
Susan Bones - Friend (73%)
Hannah Abbot: - Friend (71%)
Parvati Patil - Friend (23%)
Cho Chang - Neutral
Padma Patil - Neutral
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After Olympia's return, he gave her some treats and had her return to tattoo form and watched a rapidfire series of system notifications that culminated in what he'd just seen.
There was still a lot of time left before he ever got to meet Gabrielle, but she now measured as a soulmate with his system, though the older and more rational Fleur only measured as close. He still had to work to get them both into the harem when they met and they were older, but at least he'd done all that he could for now
He decided to only write the Delacour sisters because he'd have the shortest amount of time to win them over if he waited around until only fourth year. The others he thought he could let happen naturally.
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The next morning, Draco headed over to Holly's place, then when she was ready, he accompanied her to Number 12 Grimauld Place.
Draco had the key and unlocked it to let them both inside "Kreacher" he called out to the house elf and looked around.
"What do you want with that useless fellow" Sirius asked as he entered the room.
"I was going to ask him to announce our arrival to you" Draco answered with Holly partially concealed behind him "I have been managing the Black Families assets while you were indisposed"
"That's a nice way of putting it" Sirius answered "I don't get why you helped me, though."
"Holly, don't be so shy." he glanced back and grabbed Holly's hand and pulled her from behind him to his side before facing Sirius "There were multible reasons to help you. It was the right thing to do, for one, also that rat Peter was living under the same roof as my friend Ginny Weasly, hiding in plain sight. And also it was in Holly's best interest."
"My god, you look just like your mother." Sirius realized "But you have James's eyes."
Somehow, Draco knew that Sirius would say something like that and it made him smile.
"Um...hello." Holly said nervously "I'm glad that your name was cleared, Mr. Black."
"Please, call me Sirius" Sirius suggested to her "I was worried about you too. I was afraid that they might send you to live with that nasty aunt and uncle of yours."
"That's exactly what they did, in fact. I found out about her location though, and rescued her." Draco told Sirius "Since she is your goddaughter, I was able to set her up in one of the Black families unoccupied shops in Diagon Alley, and I gave her an allowance every month out of the money to survive. I assumed that was something you would have agreed too, if you were able too, since you were not able to do it yourself. I did not want to approach Dumbledore about getting the key to the Potter's vault as well, afraid she'd be sent back to the Dursley's"
"Draco has helped me a lot, more then I can ever repay." Holly told Sirius.
"And I told you, I don't want you to worry about that. I didn't do it for you to owe me anything. That was the whole reason I hid your prescence from my parents, because they totally would have expected something in return." Draco insisted.
The last bit surprised Sirius alone. He'd taken the initiative to help Holly, hid it from his parents, and he'd not asking for anything in return?
"Just continue being part of my circle of friends, Holly, That is the only thing I'll ask for." Draco insisted plainly, and Holly nodded back to him.
"Interesting kid" Sirius commented, thinking he seemed very different from his parents.
Draco nodded "By the way, did you know that your brother died in the process of betraying Voldemort? Or that Kreacher knows what happened, but your brother told him not to talk. To take 'it' and destroy 'it', isn't that right, Kreacher?"
"How does Master Draco know this thing?" Kreacher was unusually somber.
"I know you were unable to fulfill Regulas's last order. You just didn't know the right way to do it" Draco retrieved a bottle from his pocket "In here is basilisk venom. Nasty stuff. A single drop will destroy that, and allow you to complete Regulas's last order."
Kreacher broke down in tears and knelt before Draco "Please Master Draco., let me have it, Kreacher must obey Master Regulas' wish."
"Only use a single drop from a safe distance. I am making a weapon and need the rest of the bottle to use on it. Be careful, and once it is done, bring the locket and the bottle back to me." Draco ordered Kreacher and passed him the bottle, and the little house elf took off.
"I think you have some explaining to do." Sirius was wondering how he knew so much "What item does Kreacher want to destroy?"
"One of Voldemorts Horcruxes." Draco told Sirius "Basically, Regulas and Kreacher went to steal the Horcrux. A trap was triggered, Regulas could not apperate out. He ordered Kreacher to flee with the Horcrux and destroy it, since Voldemort overlooked a House Elves method of teleportation, in the hopes that when Voldemort truely met death, he would be mortal. Unfortunately, Kreacher had nothing which was capable of destroying Hurcruxes. The only two known methods are basilisk venom and fiendfire."
Sirius had a solemn expression on his face.
"Before you get misplaced anger at Kreacher, remember that there was no way he could have saved your brother and he was given a direct order by your brother, and he tried his absolute best to follow it. you saw how emotional and passionate he was when he found out there was a way to obey your brothers last order." Draco insisted.
There was a wailing sound from upstairs.
Draco grabbed Holly's hand to comfort her "It's fine, Holly. that was just the sound of the Horcrux dying."
"I'll ask again, how do you know so much?" Sirius asked Draco again.
"If I tell you, you tell no one, not even Dumbledore. It stays between the three of us here." Draco insisted.
Sirius nodded.
Draco knew this question would come up. He knew he could not tell the truth, but he had a solution. He held out his hand and called out his soul-bound grimoire "This is a grimoire, but not a typical one. With it I can sometimes witness the past or the future. I saw how Regulus died in that inferi-infested cave after stealing the locket that was Voldemort's Horcrux, Similarly, I saw that Peter Petigrew was secret keeper for the Potters and what happened between you and him. This is also why I told Holly you were innocent and waited for the right opportunity to bust Peter, who I'd learned was really the rat I knew as Scabbers. If I messed it up I feared Peter would sense a threat and go into hiding, so deep that even I'd never find him."
Sirius looked at the grimoire, intrigued.
"When Kreacher took away the locket that was a Horcrux, your brother left behind his own locket, with a message inside it...A message which read as: 'To the Dark Lord. I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match you will be mortal once more. R.A.B." Draco quoted the message exactly thanks to memorizing the books.
"You even know the message my brother left?" Sirius asked.
"Past and future, remember?" Draco made his grimoire disppear "If I hadn't found this grimoire or if I'd taken no actions to change fate, then Dumbledore would eventually start hunting Horcruxes, Dumbledore would have recovered the locket your brother left and revealed the truth, but he would have died soon after." Draco told Sirius "The weapon I am making is specifically to destroy Horcruxes, hence the need for Basilisk venom in it's forging."
"Master Draco." Kreacher said as he was returning with the bottle and necklace.
Draco knelt and received the bottle and the Necklace from Kreacher "Thank you, Kreacher." the bottle was not really Basilisk venom, but it was an even greater secret tht he wanted to keep for now, so he used that as an excuse, of course. Rather, it was Olympia's tears which had the power to erase all curses. A horcrux was a type of curse magic, so as expected, the tears destroyed the Horcrux, but was not as destructive as basilisk venon normally would be on the Horcruxes container, so the necklace was completely in tact, and it's original magic now untainted.
Draco put the bottle and the locket into his inventory.
"How many Horcruxes are there?" Sirius asked.
"Five more." Draco told Sirius "Just like Salazar Slytherin's pendant, there is a relic from Helga Hufflepuff, a cup, and one from Rowena Ravenclaw, her diadem. Also a Diary and a ring, and I know where they all are."
"I count four." Sirius pointed out, but was internally horrified by the prospect of having 6 of them
"The last Horcrux is in Holly herself. Voldemort accidentally made her into a Horcrux when he tried to kill her and his killing curse rebounded and hit himself. I already have the ability to destroy that Horcrux safely, but it's not something I want to do before we get to Hogwarts."
Holly was stunned "I'm a...horcrux?"
"Specifically, your scar is the Horcrux. So we need to teach you occlumency as soon as possible. I passed you those books for that reason" Draco told Holly "The same method that cured Astoria's bloodline curse will free you from that Horcrux and destroy it. I can even free you of it whenever you want, though it'll increase the difficulty of dealing with Voldemort if he does appear in the future if we don't wait until we get to Hogwarts. I'll let you choose when it is purged from you, though."
"Before I decide, tell me why you want to wait until we get to Hogwarts?" Holly suggested.
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Splendora_Gaming Cliffhanger! lol, but considering how long this chapter got I decided to split it in two, so next chapter Tuesday. In honor of reaching 100k views last week I decided to do one more wek with three uploads instead of two, mostly because I have the chapers ready, though I will likelt revert to the two uploads put week (Wednesday/Saturday) schedule after this week because after the power company worked on my lines two days in a row amdd I did not have electicity, I have not been able to work during the past tw days and have to seriously turn up the pace, hopefully without diminishing the quality.
I hope everyone enjoys it and I'll keep doing my best.
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