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Theres no time to explain - but if you care about Hogwarts, if you want to see Voldemort finished, youve got to tell me anything you know about the diadem. She remained quite still, floating in midair, staring down at him, and a sense of hopelessness engulfed Harry. Of course, if she had known anything, she would have told Flitwick or Dumbledore, who had surely asked her the same question. He had shaken his head and made to turn away when she spoke in a low voice. I stole the diadem from my mother. You - you did what. I stole the diadem, repeated Helena Ravenclaw in a whisper. I sought to make myself cleverer, more important than my mother. I ran away with it. He did not know how he had managed to gain her confidence, and did not ask; he simply listened, hard, as she went on: My mother, they say, never admitted that the diadem was gone, but pretended that she had it still. She concealed her loss, my dreadful betrayal, even from the other founders of Hogwarts. Then my mother fell ill - fatally ill. In spite of my perfidy, she was desperate to see me one more time. She sent a man who had long loved me, though I spurned his advances, to find me. She knew that he would not rest until he had done so. Harry waited. She drew a deep breath and threw back her head. He tracked me to the forest where I was hiding. When I refused to return with him, he became violent. The Baron was always a hot-tempered man. Furious at my refusal, jealous of my freedom, he stabbed me. The Baron. You mean -. The Bloody Baron, yes, said the Gray Lady, and she lifted aside the cloak she wore to reveal a single dark wound in her white chest. When he saw what he had done, he was overcome with remorse. He took the weapon that had claimed my life, and used it to kill himself. All these centuries later, he wears his chains as an act of penitence. as he should, she added bitterly. And. and the diadem. It remained where I had hidden it when I heard the Baron blundering through the forest toward me. Concealed inside a hollow tree. A hollow tree. repeated Harry. What tree. Where was this. A forest in Albania. A lonely place I thought was far beyond my mothers reach. Albania, repeated Harry. Sense was emerging miraculously from confusion, and now he understood why she was telling him what she had denied Dumbledore and Flitwick. Youve already told someone this story, havent you. Another student. She closed her eyes and nodded. I had. no idea. He was. flattering. He seemed to. to understand. to sympathize. Yes, Harry thought, Tom Riddle would certainly have understood Helena Ravenclaws desire to possess fabulous objects to which she had little right. Well, you werent the first person Riddle wormed things out of, Harry muttered. He could be charming when he wanted. So Voldemort had managed to wheedle the location of the lost diadem out of the Gray Lady. He had traveled to that far-flung forest and retrieved the diadem from its hiding place, perhaps as soon as he left Hogwarts, before he even started work at Borgin and Burkes. And wouldnt those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when, so much later, Voldemort had needed a place to lie low, undisturbed, for ten long years. But the diadem, once it became his precious Horcrux, had not been left in that lowly tree. No, the diadem had been returned secretly to its true home, and Voldemort must have put it there - - the night he asked for a job. said Harry, finishing his thought. I beg your pardon. He hid the diadem in the castle, the night he asked Dumbledore to let him teach. said Harry. Saying it out loud enabled him to make sense of it all. He mustve hidden the diadem on his way up to, or down from, Dumbledores office. But it was still worth trying to get the job - then he mightve got the chance to nick Gryffindors sword as well - thank you, thanks. Harry left her floating there, looking utterly bewildered. As he rounded the corner back into the entrance hall, he checked his watch. It was five minutes until midnight, and though he now knew what the last Horcrux was, he was no closer to discovering where it was. Generations of students had failed to find the diadem; that suggested that it was not in Ravenclaw Tower - but if not there, where. What hiding place had Tom Riddle discovered inside Hogwarts Castle, that he believed would remain secret forever. Lost in desperate speculation, Harry turned a corner, but he apex meaning root taken only a few steps down the new corridor when the window to his left broke open with a deafening, shattering crash. As he leapt aside, a gigantic body flew in through the window and hit the opposite wall. Something large and furry detached itself, whimpering, from the new arrival and flung itself at Harry. Hagrid. Harry bellowed, fighting off Fang the boarhounds attentions as the enormous bearded figure clambered to his feet. What the -. Harry, yer here. Yer here. Hagrid stooped down, bestowed upon Harry a cursory and rib-cracking hug, then ran back to the shattered window. Good boy, Grawpy. he bellowed through the hole in the window. Ill see yer in a moment, theres a good lad. Beyond Hagrid, out in the dark night, Harry saw bursts of light in the distance and heard a weird, keening scream. He looked down at his watch: It was midnight. The battle had begun. Blimey, Harry, panted Hagrid, this is it, eh. Time ter fight. Hagrid, where have you come from. Heard You-Know-Who from up in our cave, said Hagrid grimly. Voice carried, didn it. Yeh got till midnight ter gimme Potter. Knew yeh mus be here, knew what mus be happenin. Get down, Fang. So we come ter join in, me an Grawpy an Fang. Smashed our way through the boundary by the forest, Grawpy was carryin us, Fang an me. Told him ter let me down at the castle, so he shoved me through the window, bless him. Not exacly what I meant, bu - wheres Ron an Hermione. That, said Harry, is a really good question. Come on. They hurried together along the corridor, Fang lolloping beside them. Harry could hear movement through the corridors all around: running footsteps, shouts; through the windows, he could see more flashes of light in the dark grounds. Wherere we goin. puffed Hagrid, pounding along at Harrys heels, making the floorboards quake. I dunno exactly, said Harry, making another random turn, but Ron and Hermione must be around here somewhere. The first casualties of the battle were already strewn across the passage ahead: The two stone gargoyles that usually guarded the entrance to the staffroom had been smashed apart by a jinx Counter strike download for free had sailed through another broken window. Their remains stirred feebly on the floor, and as Harry leapt over one of their disembodied heads, it moaned faintly, Oh, dont mind me. Ill just lie here and crumble. Its ugly stone face made Harry think suddenly of the marble bust of Rowena Ravenclaw at Xenophiliuss house, wearing that mad headdress - and then of the statue in Ravenclaw Tower, with the stone diadem upon her white curls. And as he reached the end of the passage, the memory of a third stone effigy came back to him: that of an ugly old warlock, onto whose head Harry himself had placed a wig and a battered old tiara. The shock shot rust game lore base Harry with the heat of firewhisky, and he nearly stumbled. He knew, at last, where the Horcrux sat waiting for him. Tom Riddle, who confided in no one and operated alone, might have been arrogant enough to assume that he, and only he, had penetrated the deepest mysteries of Hogwarts Castle. Of course, Dumbledore and Flitwick, those model pupils, had never set foot in that particular place, but he, Harry, had strayed off the beaten track in his time at school - here at last was a secret he and Voldemort knew, that Dumbledore had never discovered - He was roused by Professor Sprout, who was thundering past followed by Neville and half a dozen others, all of them wearing earmuffs and carrying what appeared to be large potted plants. Mandrakes. Neville bellowed at Harry over his shoulder as he ran. Going to lob them over the walls - they wont like this. Harry knew now where to go: He sped off, with Hagrid and Fang galloping behind him. They passed portrait after portrait, and the painted figures raced alongside them, wizards and witches in ruffs and breeches, in armor and cloaks, cramming themselves into each others canvases, screaming news from other parts of the castle. As they reached the end of this corridor, the whole castle shook, and Harry knew, as a gigantic vase blew off its plinth with explosive force, that it was in the grip of enchantments more sinister than those of the teachers and the Order. Its all righ, Fang - its all righ. yelled Hagrid, but the great boarhound had taken flight as slivers of china flew like shrapnel through the air, link Hagrid pounded off after the terrified dog, leaving Harry alone. He forged on through the trembling passages, his wand at the ready, and for the length of one corridor the little painted knight, Sir Cadogan, rushed from painting to painting beside him, clanking along in his armor, screaming encouragement, his fat little pony cantering behind him. Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off. 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And it never occurred to any of you to keep a few Slytherins hostage. There are kids of Death Eaters youve see more sent to safety. Wouldnt it have been a bit smarter to keep em here. It wouldnt stop Voldemort, said Harry, and your brother would never have done it. Aberforth grunted and tore away in the opposite direction. Your brother would never have done it. Well, it was the truth, Harry thought as he ran on again; Dumbledore, who had defended Snape for so long, would never have held students ransom. And then he skidded around a final corner and with a yell of mingled relief and fury he saw them: Ron and Hermione, both with their arms full of large, curved, dirty yellow objects, Ron with a broomstick under his arm. Where the hell have you been. Harry shouted. Chamber of Secrets, said Ron. Chamber - what. said Harry, coming to an unsteady halt before them. It was Ron, all Rons idea. said Hermione breathlessly. Wasnt it absolutely brilliant. 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And then you can come back in. he shouted after her as she ran up the steps after Tonks. Youve got to come back in. Hang on a moment.
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