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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_draco]

Yeah. The option Neville thought up was much better, big-picture wise.

That brings us back to the question of how one gets that kind of certainty.

When I killed Teddy, I knew I was going to succeed. Because I had nothing left to lose, and if I was going to die he was going to go first. But that kind of certainty only comes out of circumstance - it's not like I prepared and practised for it.

[alt_harry]

Right.

If I had nothing to lose, I'd try to kill Voldemort. Because there'd be a chance it would work. Not a large one, but a chance.

But I'm sitting here writing in my diary because I know I'd probably fail, and they'd kill me, or they'd take me apart to find out who I'd conspired with. I have things to lose.

[alt_harry]

I would die to kill him.

I would die horribly. If that would help.

But I don't want to die for nothing.

[alt_draco]

Yeah, I mean, I thought Hermione was dead, and that everyone knew I was a traitor. So why not take down Teddy on my way out?

But I don't think we can wait for those moments of desperation to come around again. We have to be willing to lose the things we'd lose, and I don't know if any of us are there yet, and I don't know how we get there.

[alt_harry]

You're right. We can't.

I don't think Mrs Longbottom likes taking risks. Though last week she talked about the Big Plan for next September.

[alt_draco]

I mean, I'm a Slytherin, I still had me to lose, and I wasn't even thinking about that. Pretty impressive, really.

September seems really, really far away. Especially when you think about what's happened in just the last month or two. Or just the last couple of weeks. Days.

We're bleeding out.

[alt_harry]

I am really tired of losing friends.

Including my friends on the other side. Like Raz.

[alt_draco]

You and me both, mate.