THE UNTOLD TALE | Chapter XV
Draco Malfoy
Summary: brought back to Hogwarts, Sunrise must face the truth about her past while trying to find out the real reason they’re back.
They went to their dorms to try to sleep. Not a single one of them was successful. The next morning, five days away from the ball, they found themselves circling the Cup.
“So... What we think about it?” asked Ron.
“I don’t we think alike” said Hermione.
“I think this is useless” said Sunrise.
“I don’t know... I mean, that was the final place we’ve been too” said Martha
“Yes, but how could anyone know how many turns you’d take and where we’d go?” asked Draco.
“Well, if the person have had traveled back in time and seen it, they could” said Lorena.
“But we didn’t have that in mind back them, so they wouldn’t see it” added Sunrise.
“I know, but there must be a way” said Martha.
As they were trying to guess if that was important or not on their way to the Requirement Room, they heard a very loud noise coming from the inside of it. They all froze up.
“Should we go inside?” asked Martha.
Nobody answered. They all had their wands in hand and Harry leaded them in. The door easily opened and they crossed it, finding an empty room full of duplicates of the Horcruxes. There were even mannequins in the shape of Harry and Naguini.
“That’s... disturbing” said Raul.
Disturbing was a euphemism to what they witnessed. Why would someone try to replicate the Horcruxes if they wouldn’t have the same value? That was odd to say the least. They entered the room walking among it, not a single word coming out of their mouths. Sunrise took a peek on Draco’s look to see if the boy showed any familiarity with the content of the room but he seemed as surprised as everyone else. Once they reached the center of it, the only empty space, they relaxed a little bit.
“Do you know anything about this?” Sunrise asked Malfoy.
“No... I swear” he answered confused by the room.
“If I found out you’re lying to me AGAIN I will end you. Do you understand?” she asked as a teacher giving instructions to a kid.
He nodded. Every cell in the room was busy trying to make connection between the forest encounter, the gifts and that room. It seemed, after all, that the Cup was what they needed to rescue. But what for? Was someone trying to redo the Horcluxes? The fear filled the room.
“Do you think somebody is trying to redo the Horcruxes?” Ron externalized everyone’s thoughts.
“Who would do that?” asked Martha.
“I don’t think so” said Sunrise analyzing it one of the Horcruxes.
“Are you serious?” asked Ron.
“Yes. Those weren’t made by the same person. Somebody was trying to find the actual Horcruxes” she answered.
They noticed for the first time that they weren’t the same but different colors or materials applied to them.
“But why?” asked Ron.
“I guess for the same reason we are?” she answered in doubt.
“We are?” he asked back.
“I don’t know if we are looking for Horcruxes but I think we were looking for the Cup even though we didn’t know” she answered.
The information settled for a while.
“So... why were we looking for this particular Horcrux?” asked Harry.
“I think we should revisit our little gifts” answered Sunrise.
“Okay, what haven’t we explored?” asked Martha.
“The boot” whispered Malfoy.
“No. That’s too dangerous” said Hermione.
“And when did we do something safe?” asked Harry.
“Fine. Do you have the boot with you, Sunny?” asked her.
The girl nodded and took the boot out of her bag.
“Shall we?” said the girl.
