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[alt_draco]

Well, that was another night wasted on trying to sleep.

Harry, I know how helpless you feel when these things happen - I feel the same way. We all do. Nothing can be done but to move forward, and that means we have to do everything we can to find the rest of the horcruxes. They won't be hidden near the places Voldemort wants to forget. The Riddle House and Wool's Orphanage were more or less wiped off the face of the map, too much of a reminder of his muggle heritage, so Hermione and I have a theory that he might have hidden them in places he associates with his rise to power, and his transformation from Tom Riddle to Voldemort.

So yeah, that definitely includes Buckingham Palace. Are there any other places he's used for rituals, or where he won a particularly hard-fought battle? That's what we need to keep researching.

But even if we find all the horcruxes, I keep coming back to the fact that the one person who poses the biggest threat to our security is Bellatrix. That Neville knew occlumency saved us, but it didn't save him.

Is it mad to consider the possibility of having Hydra assassinate her own mother? She's the only one who could get close enough to do it. Well, and maybe Rachel, but she doesn't even work in Auntie Bella's division.

Even then, it would be incredibly risky. And probably wouldn't work.

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[alt_harry]

I'm trying to think where he might have put them and I keep thinking about where I'd put something like that, if I were him. Because, I wouldn't hide it in some deep cavern guarded by Inferi. I'd put it in a vault at Gringott's. Or ask Bellatrix to keep it for me. Or put it under the cornerstone of a new maternity hospital in London. Or I'd stuff it in a little box and hide it at the bottom of the North Sea.

[alt_draco]

That diary that Hydra wrote in - wasn't it originally given to you by Voldemort? Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll pass you another one.

[alt_harry]

I was such an idiot back then.

Yeah, he gave it to me. I still don't know what he was thinking about that.

I rather doubt he'll give me any more. Even if I ask nicely and say it's what I want for Christmas.

[alt_draco]

Given what happened to Hydra, I think he wanted his younger self to possess you. Or possibly he didn't even know what would happen if someone came into contact with one of his nasty little soul-bits, and wanted to find out.

[alt_harry]

Yeah. But then what? I mean, did he really want another Voldemort running around? Did he think possibly that other version of himself could take care of the boring political stuff he mostly can't be bothered with, and wouldn't start complaining?

[alt_draco]

Another Voldemort running around? I mean, if I didn't think he'd eventually see the doppelganger as competition, I'd say yes, because it allows him to double his power, maybe even extend his life span, too, since that's what he appears to be most obsessed with.

[alt_harry]

Maybe he didn't think through whether he'd end up being his own worst rival.

I mean, he took me, told everyone I was his 'son,' and apparently didn't think through that I might have a mind of my own when I grew up.

[alt_draco]

That's because other people aren't people, to him. They're just objects for him to bend to his own will. And I think he used to be quite good at using charm and persuasion to bend the will of others, but now he can't be bothered with it at all. Or he lost the ability to use charm and other human emotions when he butchered his soul up.

To be entirely honest with you, I don't think he will keep you around if he can't make use of you in a way that serves his own needs.

[alt_harry]

I'm sure you're right. Sooner or later I'll have to go on the run. Or I'll wait a little too long and wind up stuffed and in a case in the Protector's Collection.

I don't quite know what I am to him, but definitely not a person.