Harry Potter: Love's Second Chance

Ginny Weasley heard a noise as she finally was able to force the door to the steps into the cave opened. It had been stuck for some reason. She looked around but after seeing nothing she continued to her alcove. She examined each cauldron to make sure they were progressing as expected. She smiled as she saw her own reflection in the emerald looking liquid in one of the cauldrons. "Just like my Harry's eyes..." She thought.

"So what are we going to do?" Harry asked quietly as they walked down the corridor from where Winky had taken them. "I know we're safe from those potions but still I don't want to be worried about everything I drink or eat or worse, worry that she might poison you."

"We don't have to worry yet," Hermione replied, "or at all since we're protected from those types of potions. But even then, the last one of those won't be done until the day before we leave," She'd referenced the instructions to where the liquids were currently. "As long as she's working on this plan she's probably not trying anything else."

"What about Dean?" Harry asked. "Do you think she'll go for him again to try to make me jealous?"

"Possibly," Hermione acknowledged as her lip disappeared under her teeth. "How about this," She said finally. "I'll brew up the antidote to the love potion she's creating and we'll slip it to him when we're getting off the train."

"The train," Harry's eyes lit up. "That's it, that's when she's going to try to get to me or us."

"How do you know?" Hermione asked. "She might try the dinner before."

"No, don't you see, she doesn't know I'm going to Grimmauld place yet. She thinks I'm going to be locked up with the Dursleys again," Harry explained. "No contact with the magical world and all that time for any potions she gives me to work."

"And the same thing for me," Hermione agreed. "Should we tell her you're going to Grimmauld? She might not try it then."

"No. Let her keep thinking what she's thinking. Otherwise she might try to change plans before we leave school," Harry said. "This way we'll be where we can have Arthur or Molly find her."

"That's our plan then."

"We can still have some fun though," Harry said. "We just need a little help from Neville and Luna on the train. Let's go find them, have lunch and go on to the Room of Requirements."

An hour later they were in the Room of Requirements. Neville gave a long low whistle as they entered and saw the cathedral like room. Though Harry had shown them the room in the pensieve of when he was stashing the book and the fight with Malfoy and his goons, seeing it in person was still very impressive.

Luna walked over to a pile of junk and pulled out some kind of shell. "You don't think there's anything alive in here do you?" She asked. "I think this is a dark-bellied stinging Larcomb eggshell. I'd hate for one to sneak up on me if it hatched in here," She glanced around to make sure there wasn't one at that moment anywhere around her.

Hermione thought the eggshell looked more like a dragon one but then remembered that Luna had been right about Miranda. She pulled out her wand and pointed it in a direction, "Anemum Revealio" she said. After verifying no animals were in that direction, she did the same thing for the others directions as well. Finally she turned to Luna. "No animals anywhere in here so it should be safe."

"The dark-bellied stinging Larcomb is a very large insect," The blonde witch replied. "It's not an animal."

"Oh," Hermione responded. She actually was tempted to argue that insects were animals but knew the spell she'd used did not detect insects. With insects being so numerous in the world, it would basically make the spell useless if it did. "Well, neither Harry nor I have ever seen one in here and you didn't see any in the memory but we'll just keep an eye out for one just in case," she finally said to Luna.

After verifying the location of the Diadem, the four teenagers started exploring the giant room to see what else might be around. It had been only a few minutes of walking through the rows of junk when a thought came to Harry. "You know, I don't understand something," He said as the four of them stopped. "Voldemort was sure he'd been the only one to discover this room, but look around...how could he think that? I mean some of this stuff has been here for hundreds of years," He picked up an old pewter plate that had been laying on table beside a bowl filled with multicolored gemstones.

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