November 1994
Unknown Location
When Harry reappeared next, he was standing in a dark and deserted place. in front of him, at some distance away, Barty Crouch in the appearance of Alastor Moody was standing looking in a certain direction.
It was the village of Little Hangleton. Harry felt an eerie and dark vibe coming from the village. In the past few days, Harry had meticulously planned a method to get his hands on the horcrux which had been hidden by Bellatrix.
Using his mind arts, he had subjugated Barty Crouch and planted some ideas in his mind. These were thoughts Barty Crouch was going to reveal to Voldemort and Harry's plan would take off.
Barty looked around himself to conform that no was following him. He could not see Harry as Harry was hidden under his invisibility cloak. Harry also had casted a few notice me not and silencing spells to make his camouflage perfect.
Barty's appearance in another few moments changed and he returned to his original appearance. With this he started to walk in particular direction and Harry followed behind him.
While Harry followed behind Barty, his minds wandered around thoughts about Sirius. Sirius's reaction and his advocacy for Dumbledore had came as a shock to Harry. Sirius was the person whom Harry had felt that would support him unconditionally.
But in the past few days realisation had struck him. He realised that in reality, he hardly knew Sirius. He had not known the man for more than say half an hour.
Whatever expectations he had build from Sirius were merely his thought. His inner desire to have a person whom he could call family. Whom he can believe that would support him unconditionally.
Sirius's tragic and the few moments of familial love had made Harry fall in this illusion. Well, he should have measured Remus Lupin and Sirius Black on the same scale. To say they were his father's best friends, something more than real brothers.
But Lupin had never bothered to look for Harry in 14 years of his life. And Harry did not buy the logic of Lupin being a werewolf. How could have he decided, what would be Harry's reaction?
And now that he had accepted the werewolf, why he did not still come looking for him when Harry's name came out of the Goblet?
Harry realised that he should have used the same scale to measure Sirius. He should have had no such higher expectations.
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Harry was pulled away from his thoughts when Barty Crouch reached near a small house. The front gate was marked with a plate of 'RIDDLE HOUSE'.
Barty took a deep breath and stepped inside the boundary of the house. Harry, now at a close distance to Barty, followed the suit and he also stepped inside. Harry felt the wards, strong wards, brushing past him but thanks to his cloak they were unable to detect him.
Harry followed Barty and they both reached in the main hall of the house.
In the main hall, a large chair was placed in the centre. The entire hall was empty. Surrounding the chair, around dozens of death eaters were kneeling in front of the disgusting child like figure on the chair. A large scale was slithering wrapped around the chair.
Harry felt an instinctive disgust for the child like Voldemort and if not for the horcrux and his other plans, Harry would have killed the monster then and there.
Barty hurried on his legs and kneeled down while Harry arrived and stood in the corner of the hall.
"My Lord," said Barty in a trembling voice.
"Barty," hissed Voldemort; his voice cold. "You were not supposed to come here. You will put the whole plan at risk."
Barty trembled in fear, "I apologize, my lord."
"But I have some important news which must have been delivered to you. Otherwise, I would have dared not to disobey your orders."
"Important news you say," said Voldemort. "Speak."
Barty took a deep breath to calm his raging nerves, "My Lord, it is about Harry Potter."
"What about him?" Hissed Voldemort in hatred for the name uttered.
"My lord, he… Harry Potter is searching for something," said Barty. "He is scourging the entirety of Hogwarts."
"What?" Asked Voldemort.
"That… I don't know, My Lord," said Barty. His entire body was trembling for the fear of punishment for his ignorance.
He continued before any one of Voldemort's torturous spell could hit his body, "But I have a hint."
"What hint?" Snapped Voldemort in impatience.
Barty turned his head and looked at a certain blonde haired man. Lucius Malfoy.
"Whatever Harry is searching for is related to Malfoy," said Barty. "I don't know the details but he is looking for something that resembles Malfoy's diary and is very important."
Lucius kneeling at some distance away from Barty felt his soul leaving his body. He did not know what was so important in the diary but the moment he had informed the dark lord that diary was now with Dumbledore or in Hogwarts, the dark lord had snapped in anger. Lucius could not help but remember the hours of torture the dark lord had put him through for his mistake of losing the diary. And now the story of the diary coming back, he again felt his back drenched in cold sweat.
The eyes on hideous face of Voldemort bulged in shock. If Harry was searching for things resembling Lucius' diary, then his secret of horcrux was out in open.
Anger took over him and his wand left a spell and struck Lucius who screamed in pain. Spell after spell left his wand and Lucius was tortured again for few minutes. At the end of the torture session, Lucius lay sprawled on the ground.
Every other death eater was trembling in fear.
Voldemort was in anger. He was almost sure that Harry would never be able to find where the horcruxes were hidden. Of all the horcruxes, only 2 were such that which he given others for safe keeping. And one of them was already lost.
He now personally needed to make sure that the other horcrux was safely guarded.
"Call Bellatrix," he roared in anger. "I want to see her now."
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