Horcrux & Halloween

{A/N: Sorry for the late chapters but like I told you all before, my exams just finished.

I hope you all like the chapter.

Thanks to Lin321 and LDestroyer18 for their constant support.}

~Hogwarts, Empty Classroom: Two Days Before Halloween, Late Night~

Three vampires are currently sitting on the desk while discussing the possible ways to turn the Basilisk into a vampire, as Ash has decided to make it her Beast Vassal but they haven't been able to find a better way to turn it into a vampire also Aruhik has resolved himself to bite it if they didn't discover a better solution before leaving the world.

Why are they sitting in an empty classroom instead of their usual place, the old hidden library? Because they have invited a guest, who should be arriving soon. After a few minutes, they sensed another presence walking towards this room, soon a first-year Gryffindor entered the room and asked.

"What happened Aruhik, you called me this late at night, also to take care that nobody followed me?" Hearing this Aruhik showed a silencing sign to Harry and spoke.

"Wait, let these two girls check if somebody is eavesdropping on us, after all, they have much better sensation ability than me." After a few seconds, both girls indicated that there is no hidden person or active tracing magic nearby, so Aruhik spoke.

"Well, it's safe to talk but I am somewhat surprised that you managed to get here alone." Due to the early meeting with the three vampires and Glaives, Harry isn't a naive boy who doesn't understand someone's thoughts or hidden meaning, so upon hearing Aruhik's statement Harry understood what he is talking about.

"I and Hermine tried to stop him from spreading rumors but he just didn't listen to us, as for now, I said that I am going to sneak into Library so he lost his interest." Aruhik once again confirmed that Harry really didn't have any hand in rumors as the Occlumency of magicians isn't effective against them, generally, the target doesn't even notice that their mind has been invaded.

"Okay, let us not discuss this now after all we already had our revenge."

A few days ago rumor spread in students that Sia and Ash are accepted in the Quidditch team because they bribed them by donating better brooms, though other Slytherins don't care about the rumors in other houses, Aruhik doesn't like the fact that somebody is bad-mouthing Sia and Ash, no matter those rumors are true or not. So Aruhik along with two girls began searching for the origin of rumors, who was Ron, Harry's friend.

On the day they found about this fact, Ron had to leave from dinner naked because all his clothes were getting attracted by the dining table, so to get back to dormitory he had to leave all his clothes including socks, and when he touched clothes of other students nearby, most of them were those who were listening to his stories about evil deeds of Lestrange families and its comparison with the three vampires, those clothes also got attracted to the table. Afraid that they will also face similar consequences, other students especially girls moved away from him, Professors and some students along with his brothers and Harry tried to dispel the charm used on him but nothing worked and he became a nude test subject for Professors to test their spell so he had to run naked from the hall.

And to make the matter worse for him, other students, especially Slytherin stayed there to watch the whole show and only three Professors didn't try to help him, Professor Quirrell, who actually ran out the hall, most likely afraid that his turban might also get attracted, Professor Dumbledore, who left the hall even before dinner finished and Professor Snape, who was trying really hard to stop himself from smiling but three vampires weren't the only ones who noticed it.

As for other students who were speaking about those rumors, whenever someone mentioned those rumors, the knight armors that are nearest to those students would start confessing their love to them and promised to keep their lovers safe inside the armors even if they become bones, for as long as Hogwarts castle stand, also after the confession they were forced to wear those armors and stand at the original position of those armors for next one hour. This really scared many students because teachers were once again useless.

The ones blamed for this were Slytherins as they were the only ones who didn't get confessed by armors but soon some seniors found the trigger for confession of armors so the final blame narrowed down to the Lestrange siblings, the actual culprits, and ironically none of the Professors believed that three first years can execute such a complex spell that even they can't remove.

Ignoring other things, the fear of armors indeed stopped all the rumors but due to this Professor Quirrell began suspecting Slytherins for all his pranks as both were executed in a similar manner that is the strong protection that made all of his methods ineffective. Before coming to Hogwarts three vampires had decided that they won't try too hard for hiding themselves but if possible they won't actively show their capabilities to other people.

So it won't really matter even if they got exposed but it becomes really annoying if somebody tries to keep an eye on your every action, therefore, they decided to remove all reachable Horcrux of Voldemort from this world, which are Harry Potter, Professor Quirrell, and Nagini, though the last one was created much later in original works, the Voldemort's hideout has been found twice by Glaives during these years but he left the place even before the three vampires reached there, so who knows he might have created the last one early, and if it has been really created then that should be the last one due to number seven but Glaives would still have to work hard for the coming years to confirm that those are indeed the only Horcruxes.

"Let us sit first as it will take some time.....then moving on to the main subject, I think you should have already obtained your compensation for use of your name without a legal authorization?" Hearing this Harry released a tired sigh and replied.

"Yeah, I indeed got it, but because of you I didn't get to sleep properly for more than one week and even had a nightmare of me attending Hogwarts as a girl as some of the books' fans attacked Hogwarts turned me into a girl." To this Aruhik replied while making a confused face.

"Oh, I thought that you will easily guess that idea about making the public was a joke as I definitely won't do something like this to my friend and...since you had a nightmare...that means you actually read the book....."

Watching his expression, Aruhik is pretty sure that Harry wants to punch him in the face and Harry would have indeed done it, if not for knowing the fact that he is absolutely no match for Aruhik also even if Aruhik didn't fight back, the two girls beside will show him hell for the next few months as he is absolutely sure that the ones responsible for Professors Quirrells present condition are these three, even Draco agreed to it. Harry once saw Professor Quirrell tapping the ground at classroom entrance, most likely checking for the traps, Harry doesn't know what he found but finally, he decided to jump over it and fell into a hole filled with dirty blue liquid, he can't even imagine what Professor Quirrell has experienced to behave like this but just the thought of experiencing similar thing is horrifying.

"There is no way a threat to the assassination of my social life can be taken a joke." But Ash spoke as if she has been just enlightened.

"You indeed read the book as you didn't deny Master's claim. Well, no offense, but I didn't expect that the famous Harry Potter will have a secret wish of turning into a girl. By the way, who is the reason for this, Draco or Ron, we can help you with contacting their parents in both cases, or is it your personal wish?" Hearing Ash's question Harry was on the border of losing it so Aruhik changed the subject by asking in a serious voice.

"So did you find the person who has been keeping eye on your accounts?" Though slightly surprised by this question, Harry spoke his own suspicion because three of them have told him that they know the identity but he will have to find it himself then they will clear his doubts, due to which he has been working hard during these weeks to confirm his suspicion so he can get his answers from them.

"It is Professor Dumbledore, my guardian on the magical side, right?" Aruhik affirmed his suspicion and told him to ask his doubts.

"Yes, it is him, then as promised ask your doubts, though I can guess what will be your first question." Harry nodded and asked the expected question.

"Why do this? If I have not met you three then this would have only achieved to give me a horrible childhood without magic and most probably not even being able to attend Hogwarts." Hearing this Aruhik released a sigh and spoke.

"You still do not understand the whole picture, let us first discuss the attending Hogwarts, do you know how many Letters of Acceptance we received? Fourteen, among them eleven were wizarding schools recognized by the International Confederation of Wizards and three from schools that are nationally recognized and they were giving us extra benefits for joining them. Even if you ignore our case for time being due to our identity as the second richest in the magical society and richest in the muggle society of the whole world, then take Draco as an example, he got six Acceptance Letters, then why the savior of Britain, one of top five richest person in Great Britain only got one Acceptance Letter, whether you knew magic or not, you would have been brought to Hogwarts." This data was completely new for Harry but he soon understood the reason.

"Why?....Because.....it is easier to observe me?"

"What do you think? I don't find any other reason for you not even getting one other letter. Now let us discuss your abusive childhood, it may be a bit awkward to answer but I hope you reply truthfully to my next three questions, okay?"

"If you need to rank the closest person to you then please tell me the first few." Hearing this a strange expression appeared on Harry's face but after a pause of a few seconds, he still answered.

"....You then Asheal, Sitasia after this are teachers you called to teach me magic but I don't know the identity of anyone among them.....after this..." Getting the required answer Aruhik interrupted him and asked the next one.

"This much is enough, now tell me the place, where you would like to spend your most time, by the most time I mean living at that place." For this one, Harry replied instantly.

"The manor in Denmark where I practiced spell along with teachers and you three."

"Final one, if someday I hurt you due to some reason, will you forgive me?"

"Obviously, I will." Hearing his instant reply Aruhik spoke.

"Next what I am going to say is something you will definitely not like but don't interrupt me in between, listen completely then ask, alright?"

"....Okay." After getting Harry's affirmation Aruhik spoke.

"You might not know but facts show that an abused child gets really attached to the first group of people who helped that child and the first place where he can live without being abused, same also applies for the second and third but not as much as first. Now consider Dumbledore's point of view as he doesn't know that we have been meeting, instead of me, Sia, Ash, and those teachers it will be Professor Dumbledore, Hagrid, other Professors, and Gryffindor students, in place of Denmark's manor it will be Hogwarts and you will easily forgive him if he hurt you during some of his plans. There is one more important factor, in this case, you would have been abused for eleven years so your feeling would have been much higher. So now you understand that you will come to Hogwarts in any case, I think now you can also guess the origin of magicians keeping track of you near your home due to which we didn't allow you to leave your house for more than a few hours." After a few minutes when he processed all the information he asked his first question again but this time completely understanding his present situation and some anger present in his voice.

"Why does he care so much about me that he almost manipulated my whole childhood, likes, dislikes or I should say my whole life and most likely also the future? Does he not know that the one who killed Voldemort isn't me, it is due to the spell my mother executed with her sacrifice." Harry has already learned some events about that day from Aruhik which included his mother's protection but Aruhik needed to make him understand one more truth.

"There is still something you don't know, Voldemort isn't dead." Hearing this Harry was so shocked that he stood up from his chair while raising his voice.

"WHAT!?...How..." Interrupting him Aruhik spoke.

"You will understand it soon but for now lower your voice, we are having a secret meeting here" Ash has already set up the barriers just after Harry entered the classroom, but hearing this Harry indeed calmed down. They didn't tell him about barrier since it will somewhat help in keeping him under control and stop him from reacting too much from some sensitive information.

Watching that Harry has sat back and calmed down Aruhik continued.

"Now that you understand your situation, I can finally answer the question you asked after entering this room. There are two reasons for it."

"First, there is a high chance that you will become very strong in future so he is.....a better way put it is, cautious and probably also somewhat afraid that you will go into a dark path because of all the trauma you have experienced also if you are introduced a way to take revenge quite early in your life, it is possible to happen." After Aruhik stopped Harry asked some expected doubts.

"He is the strongest white wizard, isn't he? Does he really need to care for me, a kid?" Watching Harry miss a piece of important information in the Aruhik's statement Sia spoke because from the connected thoughts she understood that Aruhik expected him to be intelligent enough to pick up this information also another reason is that this conversation is very boring and lengthy for her as that weakling only good at hiding while calling himself Dark Lord, the strongest wizard.

"Idiot, you missed something again, how does he know that you will become strong, or do you really expect yourself to become strong because I don't think you can ever defeat any one of us, even in your dreams." Harry was somewhat surprised but soon spoke with a sigh.

"You never hold back...so...um...how is he certain?"

Harry has already got used to Sitasia's way of speaking to others as he had seen that initially even Asheal was treated the same way. Curiously he even asked the reason for her attitude because even to those teachers, though she doesn't disrespect them, after observing her interactions with them for a long time he understood that she considers those teachers at a lower position than her also by that time she began treating Asheal in a much better way but his and those teachers' position never improved. Her reply was 'Because all of you are weak but Ash became stronger also she is our family', from this he understood that to gain her respect he has to defeat or at least properly fight against her, so a duel occurred between them but as expected he failed miserably because he lost consciousness in less than five seconds after the start of the duel.

To stop the conversation from going into another direction Aruhik spoke.

"Before you were born, a prophecy was made that

'The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies...',

both you and Neville fit these criteria but finally, the one marked by him was you as he failed while attacking you and you got a scar on your head. As it said you will have the power to vanquish the Dark Lord and I think it is obvious that for someone destined to stand before him must have great strength." After Harry digested it Aruhik continued.

"As for why Dumbledore has used somewhat extreme measures, for this, you should recall his history that has been taught to you by those teachers. You should remember that last two Dark Lords, Gellert Grindelwald, and Voldemort, rose in power under his watch and he wasn't able to stop them, whether it is due to wrong decisions or personal reasons, so he doesn't want another Dark Lord to rise in front of him. Okay, stop, you might have some questions but first let me tell you the second reason." As Harry wanted to ask something Aruhik stopped him and continued to speak the second reason for Dumbledore's cautiousness.

"So for the Second Reason, you should remember what a Horcrux is?" Harry answered.

"Yes, those teachers taught me that it is a way to gain immortality by splitting the soul, which is done by committing murder, and storing it in an object." The three vampires have also researched about the splitting of the soul by murder because if it is true then their souls would have already broken into 999 pieces in not more than 1000, as they have killed quite a lot of terrorist and dark wizards during these years but thankfully splitting does not occur due to something as simple as murder, many more factors and procedures are required for it to happen which is why it is called cruel magic as those procedures are quite gruesome, not just because of a murder.

Aruhik affirmed Harry as he doesn't need to know the whole procedure.

"Yes, you are right but do you know how does a killing curse work?" For this, as expected by Aruhik, Harry denied it so he gave the explanation.

"...No..."

"Okay then let me tell you, actually all three unforgivable curses are soul magic, a branch from which most black magic originates from, also it is to such an extent that even doing research on the soul is forbidden and killing curse works by breaking the connection between the soul and body of the victim but generally, a soul can't survive without a body, either they become a ghost or accept death. As for why I am telling you this information because you need to know what happened on the night of your parents' death. You should already know that Voldemort used a killing curse on you and it got deflected back to him because of your mother's protection but you don't know the fact that he had already created Horcrux by that point of time so he didn't die but a part of his soul got stripped from his body and attached itself to the nearest object, that is you, Harry.....I think you can already relate that by becoming a container of Voldemort's soul you have become a living Horcrux for him." After a few minutes, Harry spoke in a somewhat despaired voice.

"I.....I am the original reason.....for him being able to live this long so....." Before Harry can give any heroic or in three vampires' words stupid suggestion, Aruhik interrupted him.

"Stop, before giving any heroic suggestion you should first completely understand what I just told you, as you once again missed a piece of important information, didn't I already say that Voldemort has created Horcrux even before he attacked you. His fated enemy becoming a Horcrux was a mistake that even he doesn't know about it, as for why I am sure that even he doesn't know about it? I will tell you about it tomorrow, currently, our focus is a different matter, okay?"

".....Yeah." Even though it horrified Harry that Voldemort has more than one Horcrux, he still affirmed so Aruhik continued.

"After getting all this information you should have already understood why Dumbledore paid extra attention to you and even tried to manipulate your life. Now comes the question, what he did is good or bad?

Honestly, it is for you to decide as for first you are still a Horcrux, it is very difficult to destroy the soul inside you but not impossible.

Second, no matter how you feel about this fact but you have been given relatively high freedom because he could have directly brainwashed you to fight against black wizards or just a tool who only knows how to fight, don't think it is impossible as even muggles can do it let alone magicians, but what he has done can just be considered as minor manipulation.

The third is related to your godfather but I can only say that you have to wait for some time to get more information about it but from my point of view, it absolutely can't be considered as a simple manipulation.

For the last factor, it is that you are still alive, why didn't Dumbledore directly kill you as even though it is harsh, you are indeed a living Horcrux and Dumbledore surely know about it as I have confirmed this fact by my means and it indeed difficult and somewhat dangerous to break a Prophecy but not impossible."

Before Harry can say anything Aruhik stopped him and spoke.

"Think about this in your free time, I called you today for two reasons first is to tell you about the prophecy and reason for Dumbledore monitoring you. Second is to remove Voldemorts soul from inside you." Harry finally got to hear something that made him happy so asked in an excited voice.

"You can do it?" Aruhik assured him by saying.

"As I said, it is difficult but not impossible, all preparation has been completed, you just have to go at the location to execute the spell and you will be normal again but you need to know one thing that it is almost sure that you will lose your ability as a parseltongue and also your scar will slowly heal." For Harry, none of this matters as according to him losing his ability as a magician is much better than becoming the reason for the immortality of his parents' murderer, let alone these two things won't even directly affect him so he requested Aruhik.

"Please remove this soul from inside me, as long as I get to continue my current life, I am willing to pay any price for it." Watching Harry's expression that made him look like he is going to face a life and death battle, a smile appeared on Aruhik and Ash's face while Sia didn't really care about this so Aruhik tried to cheer him up.

"Come on, don't look like you are going to die out there, at the worst, you will have to endure some pain as it has been inside you for around ten years but that is the most you will experience."

*****

~Denmark's Manor~

After Harry calmed down, three vampires Warped to Denmark's Manor while Harry was helped by Aruhik to reach here, and currently, Harry is standing at the center of a magic circle. The whole process includes three steps, first: severing the connection between the soul and its original container, second: transferring the soul from its old vessel to the new one and third: storing or imprisoning the extracted soul in the new container.

Generally, the first part is most difficult as there is a high chance that the original container might get destroyed during this process but this is the easiest part for them as mana can easily break those magical connections without doing any great damage to the vessel.

In the second part, they have to use a rather complicated spell to extract soul out of the old vessel, because it is difficult to maintain such a complex spell for an extended time they created a magic circle for it but to run it they have to use magical energy from the environment, as mana will destroy the fragile magic circle so during first step they have to be careful because their accidental leakage of mana might destroy the second step as they need to take precautions that soul doesn't escape after being extracted out of Harry's body.

They won't be executing the third step completely as their final objective is to destroy the soul so they don't need to store it in another container.

Aruhik will take care of severing the connections between Harry and Voldemort's soul, Ash will run the magic circle to extract the soul from inside him and stop the soul from escaping because she has best mana control among the three, while Sia will take care of destroying it as among the two attributes they possess dark element isn't exactly useful in doing head-on damage and they don't know any offensive spell corresponding to the dark attribute while on the other hand lightning can be considered as an almost pure offensive element.

After completing all the preparations four of them took their places and after all three steps have been explained to Harry, Aruhik cautioned him.

"Harry, during the first step you might experience pain and there is a chance that Voldemorts soul might try to affect your emotions to stop this process as he will know for sure that the soul will be destroyed so run your Occlumency at your maximum and do not move too much as it will be better if I sever connections in a particular order." Harry also knows that he has to give his all as just the thought of containing the soul of his parents' murderer inside his body makes him feel sick.

"I will do my best."

Getting Harry's reply and Aruhik traced his index finger over the scar and injected mana threads into it to not interfere with the working of the magic circle, soon he found magical energy following a specific path to complete a spell that binds the Voldemort's soul with Harry. After finding the spell connecting them, the mind of three vampires began working together to understand it and find the best way to break the spell so Harry doesn't have to bear with any backlash that might occur due to the breakage of the spell.

After confirming the steps, Aruhik began breaking magical energy paths making the spell, one by one, though he can't sense the soul, due to the magic circle Ash sensed all its movements so Aruhik understood that it will soon try to affect Harry but he will have to deal it by himself because if Aruhik got distracted and left even a small amount of free mana inside, then the magical pathways in Harry's body will be completely destroyed as the body of magicians in this world is too weak to be able to contain free mana inside them even if it is a small amount.

In less than a minute Harry's forehead was covered in sweat but didn't move even a little bit, so Aruhik understood that he must be experiencing pain for him react this way but thankfully his Occlumency shield hasn't been breached so he can stay still.

In the next couple of minutes, Aruhik completely severed the connection between them without creating any backlash on Harry and at the same moment, Ash began operating the magic circle to safely extract the soul out of him also prevent it from escaping. At the same time, Aruhik began removing his mana from inside of Harry while taking care to not interfere with the operation of the magic circle.

I less than a quarter of minute the second step was complete and Aruhik also extracted his mana safely from inside of Harry, so Aruhik dragged him out of the magic circle as the next step is the destruction of the soul but they can sense a soul only if it is inside the magic circle so only one to be removed from there was Harry as Sia's lightning might hurt him, also as a preventive measure they have already created a barrier around them to prevent the soul from escaping but it will be a hassle to find the soul again inside the barrier if it escaped so they don't want to let soul leave the magic circle.

Within moments Sia's right hand was covered with lightning and she pointed her index finger at the location of the soul that she got from Ash, who is using the magic circle to sense it. For the next few seconds, that location was covered with dense purple-black lightning while Aruhik has already created a smaller barrier around the magic circle to prevent the soul from escaping as he knew that Sia's lightning will break the spell of the magic circle.

Once lightning stopped, Ash once again activated the sensing part of the magic circle and confirmed that there is no soul left inside the Aruhik's barrier. Then Aruhik turned to Harry and spoke while giving him an already prepared potion to restore his energy and remove the tiredness.

"Drink this, it will restore your strength and, how do you feel currently? According to me, you will need around one week to completely recover, I will also give for you a set of potion for the next week which will promote your recovery speed and it will make sure that you don't face any permanent aftereffects from this, which actually shouldn't be there even without the potion." After drinking the potion, Harry thanked him and replied after some thinking.

"Thanks and..... I feel very tired but on concentrating I feel some fluid is moving in my blood and I can somewhat control it." This somewhat surprised Aruhik, he already has a guess but to confirm it he decided to do a test.

"Oh! I think we should do a test to confirm my suspicion." Harry also asserted to this as he doesn't want another strange thing inside his body.

"Sure."

Getting his affirmation Aruhik channeled a very small amount of mana and the empty potion bottle in Harry's hand began floating in front of him then Aruhik asked him.

"Try to believe that you can observe the surrounding without using your eyes and next focus your mind to feel this bottle, then tell me what did you find." Soon after Harry closed his Aruhik felt a very, very weak force trying to move his mana and his instincts told him that it is coming from Harry but his mana isn't tamed like magical energy which can be easily manipulated so he had to block Harry's senses otherwise Harry might directly faint due to directly contacting wild nature of mana which can be devastating for young magicians in this world. After getting his senses blocked Harry opened his eyes and spoke.

"I was able to feel some liquid much denser than what I felt inside me is flowing in a strange path around the bottle but when I tried to move it, all my feelings became blank." Just from the senses, Aruhik confirmed his suspicion and Harry's experience was what he expected so he also informed Harry.

"It is an ability to sense magical energy in the surrounding also it is a very rare inborn ability that occurs only in magicians related to ancient pureblood families and almost all great magicians in history have this talent because learning or researching anything related to magic becomes much easier using this ability. I think you had this ability since your birth but due to becoming a Horcrux it got suppressed." Harry was surprised that he has such a rare ability which can be considered as cheating similar to his friends' connected thoughts, but this time he didn't miss an important detail so he asked.

"Does that mean none of the muggle-borns can have this ability?" Aruhik somewhat understood what Harry is thinking but he needs to make Harry understand this fact so he won't go on telling everyone about this ability and what he observed by it.

"Yes, it is an inborn ability and none of the muggle-borns had ever been able to possess it. Do you really think that idea pureblood superiority is only because magicians hate muggles for burning and killing their kind during the middle ages? It is a fact that pureblood magicians are inborn superior to muggle-borns in their magical capabilities, just take yourself as an example, you have more than thrice the amount of magical energy that a muggle-born like Miss Granger possess and if you consider that it due to your early practice then consider Ron, you can't deny this fact that compared to Miss Granger he is an idiot in magical studies but even he has a little less than one and a half times the amount of magical energy in his body than her. There are also other benefits such as easy manipulation of magical energy and some other similar things. As for why I am telling you this? Because soon you will find these facts by yourself due to your magic sensing but you can't spread these facts to the public, many adults know about it but think if students in the school know about it then it is like telling them that one group of students just can't exceed another group no matter how hard they try, which might prove to be disastrous for magical society."

After a few seconds, Harry replied in a somewhat depressed voice.

"Even though I don't want to belive it, I know you won't do a joke on something like this, so I promise that I won't tell anyone about it whether it is a pureblood or muggle-born." Hearing this Aruhik told him the last thing for today's events.

"Oh yes, Draco already knows about this fact so you don't need to hide it from him also you should already know it but still don't tell anyone about today's events."

"Obviously I know that."

After this, all four of them warped back to Hogwarts, and Harry returned to his room to get some rest as three vampires told that they will be meeting again tomorrow night, while three vampires also returned to their room but they spent next couple of hours in nightly activities refining their blood so they slept quite late and tired, due to which they arrived late in class for the twelfth-time in two months even though the class was Herbology in the afternoon, and even kind Professor Sprout deducted nine points from Slytherin but by the end of class they earned extra eleven points.

*****

~Hogwarts, Empty Classroom: The Night Before Halloween, Late Night~

"Who is the one more person joining us?"

"You should have already guessed it also he should be arriving soon." Three vampires and Harry are sitting in the same classroom waiting for the fifth person to arrive so unable to bear his curiosity Harry asked but didn't get an exact answer though he is almost sure that it should be their cousin.

After a few minutes, Draco entered the classroom but as he was about to greet his cousins he noted that Harry is also present so stopped and gave a questioning look to Aruhik, understanding his meaning Aruhik spoke.

"Come in Draco, today's topic is related to Harry so it should be better if he is also present here."

After hearing Aruhik, Draco greeted them and took a seat, while Ash covered the classroom with a barrier which the other two weren't even able to notice and Aruhik started the conversation.

"I want to inform both of you about the abnormality we found in Professor Quirrell." Hearing this both were quite surprised but Draco reflexively spoke.

"Isn't he abnormal because of your pranks? I mean some have observed that after every few steps he stops and tap the ground in front of him then again takes a few steps also he repeats this process wherever he goes except for the hall." In place of Aruhik, Ash explained with a smile.

"Nobody likes to eat in a dirty place so obviously we won't destroy that place and you should be grateful to us because due to our reason you didn't have to attend any of his classes, or do you really want to learn from him?... Okay, Master will arrange a private class for you tomorrow, Professor Quirrell will be moved to tears that he can finally teach a Slytherin first-year student." Hearing Ash's suggestion Draco really panicked because he knows that his cousins might really do it and he will have to accompany Professor Quirrell for more than a couple of hours, not in his office but one of the holes made to accommodate or more specifically imprison two people for a few hours.

"No, wait, don't do something like this, I am really grateful for not attending his classes, it is to the extent that I almost worship all of you." Hearing Asheal affirms that they were behind the pranks Harry can't bear speak.

"You could have also helped the other two houses, I can also be considered as.....a close friend of Draco." Harry was almost about to speak about his relationship with the three vampires but changed his statement upon realizing it and he can indeed be considered as a good friend of Draco. Hearing this, Aruhik asked in confusion.

"But I should have already canceled five of your classes." Understanding Aruhik's meaning, Harry explained how the classes went.

"Even the three remaining classes were more horrible than History of Magic, first is the terrible smell and because of you three it was even more horrible in the last two classes, second is his fake stuttering, even though everybody knows about it but he still maintains the act for an unknown reason and the last reason if I managed to understand through his stuttering then also all the information he gives in class is even below the basic level that everyone can learn in less than a week." Aruhik decided that they should enter the main subject so he spoke.

"Don't worry, if my suspicion is correct, which absolutely is, then tomorrow will be his last day in the school." Observing that both of them are paying attention to his words, Aruhik continued.

"Draco, if you remember then I should have told you before that each person or even magical creatures have a unique magical energy signature and even in cases like identical twins they have a different magical signature, it will be same only if they are the same person, also I think that Harry should already know this fact."

Draco affirmed it but also asked his own doubt.

"Yeah, I remember it but how does Harry know about it and you also know that he understands this fact?" Aruhik answered.

"You might not know but Harry has the ability of magical sensing." Draco was quite surprised by this fact but since the topic was discussed, Harry asked his own doubt.

"I already observed that everyone has a different magical signature but I can't sense anything from three of you like you don't even exist there." Aruhik cleared Harry's doubt and also brought the conversation back to the main topic.

"Because all three of us have sensing ability but ours is far superior to you so we can completely block your senses. Ok, back to the main subject, I made you remember this information because Professor Quirrell's body contains two magical signatures and one of them is parasitic on the other also it is to such an extent that I have confirmed even his body is decaying because that parasite consumes his vitality at an incredible rate, this also explains the reason for him using garlic, it is to cover the decaying smell on his body. And do you know what is the most interesting part? The parasitic magical signature is the same as the one present in Harry's scar."

This was a great surprise for both of them but Harry instantly thought that Aruhik was going tell him the reason for him being sure that Voldemort doesn't know the fact of him becoming a Horcrux. if Professor Quirrell is possessed by Voldemort then it indeed explains because the way Professor acts around him isn't like he is even aware of this fact. While Harry was thinking about all this, Draco spoke.

"If that is the Dark Lord....then...I will inform Dad about, he can bring Auror now, we don't have to wait till tomorrow." Draco's method was somewhat feasible but Aruhik's next line stopped him.

"Draco, you are not seeing the whole picture here, Voldemort is present here in school so do you think that the strongest white wizard, Albus Dumbledore won't notice it? And you also know that Uncle told us, at the moment he is in cooperative relation with Dumbledore, but bringing Aurors here will foil our Principal's plan which requires keeping Voldemort in the school." Harry's dislike for Dumbledore increased even further because he is even endangering all students in the school just for his personal reasons but he still asked for the next step to be taken.

"So even other Professors are out of question?..." But he was interrupted by Draco.

"You said that he has some plan, knowing all of you, I think you all telling us all this only because you have already figured it out, as for Dark Lord's presence here, you must have recognized it in the first class, that's why he had face so many pranks." Aruhik also affirmed it because he knows that Draco knows him enough to understand that Draco will be called to join them only if they have completed most of the preparations.

"Indeed, most of what you said is true, as for Dumbledore's plan do you know what is supposed to be stored in the third-floor corridor." Instead of Draco, somewhat shocked Harry answered it.

"You also know about Sorcerer's Stone?" The vampires didn't know that Harry already knew about Sorcerer's Stone so Aruhik asked.

"We have our own ways knowing it which you can't use, so how did you come to know about it."

"From Hagrid." Aruhik had some suspicion about what exactly happened but Draco asked before him.

"Shouldn't it be a secret, why is he telling it to the students?"

"He didn't exactly tell me, one day while returning from dinner along with Hermione and Ron, we got lost and reached the third-floor corridor, to hide from Filch we entered one of the rooms and a three-headed dog was guarding a trap door present there. Later while discussing this with Hagrid, his tongue slipped and I concluded that it must be guarding Sorcerer's Stone so I decided to keep it a secret and asked both of them to do the same, but three of you already know about it." After Harry finished, Aruhik spoke to make him note the strange part of this adventure.

"But don't you find it strange that you reached a heavily guarded and restricted area so easily, also there is another fact that you don't know, there is no Sorcerer's Stone inside it, not even a fake one. So we can safely assume that it is just a trap set up to catch the thief, you should already know by now who is the thief because Sorcerer's Stone can be used to create Elixir of Life which grants false immortality and for the current Voldemort it is really useful." From this Harry understood Dumbledore's plan so he asked to confirm it.

"So Dumbledore's plan should be to make me confront Voldemort, that's why he guided me to third-floor next step should be to let me know about Sorcerer's stones use and present condition of Voldemort." Hearing it, Aruhik affirmed to his guess.

"According to me, this is indeed the most probable plan." Confirming that two of them have understood the situation Aruhik continued to tell them about his own plan to capture Professor Quirrell.

"Now listen to my plan, since tomorrow is Halloween, everybody will be gathered together so according to me Quirrell will try to create a distraction to slip out of there and get the Sorcerer's Stone, so we have to expose him in front of other people as for how we will do it...."

After this five of them discussed the finer details of the plan but both Draco and Harry didn't notice that the ones doing the work in public will be two of them, mainly Harry.

*****

The next day three vampires completely missed the History of Magic's class and it created a rare event of Professor Binns deducting points from one of the houses because Dimpy got stupefied by Sia when she tried to wake them up in the morning, while Aruhik and Ash were feeling too lazy to do interfere with it, so they slept for the whole class but somehow they managed to reach Flight class on time and the poor house-elf got a release from the charm.

But at least for Harry, the start of the day was quite good as he received a Nimbus 2000 from Professor McGonagall. There was another person who was quite happy because today Quirrell fell into the hole only once which just a low-level hole filled with stink pallets.

*****

~Hogwarts, Great Hall: Halloween, Dinner time~

Three vampires are enjoying the different flavored ice-creams while Harry and Draco are constantly at the edge, they even keeping their hands near the wand, like a monster will enter the hall and start attacking everybody, but they can't do anything about it as the three vampires said that they can't predict what method of disturbance will be used by Quirrell to distract others and two of them had to agree that it is indeed near impossible to guess it.

Another thing different from the original time is that Hemione is also present in the hall instead of the toilet also she is currently discussing charms with Harry but he is quite distracted so he can only reply three out of five times, such as he just nodded his head when she asked the name and usage of a spell continuously for three times before smacking his head.

Around 10 minutes after the start of the feast, Quirrell came sprinting into the hall, his turban askew and terror on his face. Everyone stared while Draco and Harry took their wands in the hands but still hiding it in their sleeves, as Quirrell reached Professor Dumbledore's chair, he slumped against the table, and while gasping he spoke in a somewhat loud voice.

"Troll....in the dungeons.....thought you ought to know...." He then fell on the floor while fainting.

Most of the students were in a panicked state but it took several purple firecrackers exploding from the end of Professor Dumbledore's wand to bring silence and he ordered in a loud voice.

"Prefects, lead your Houses back to the dormitories, immediately!"

Soon all Professors moved out of the hall, more than half of the students have already left the hall but Draco, Harry, and the three vampires stayed behind because Quirrell was still pretending to be unconscious, Aruhik noted that Hermione has also stayed behind, most likely due to Harry's strange behavior.