Harry was very tempted to repeat the Headmaster's words back to him from three years previous. "Not today, not now, but someday you'll know," But he realized that Dumbledore needed to know, needed to understand how things were. "How do I give a memory sir?" Harry asked finally. "It would be a lot easier to show you."
Dumbledore scooped up his memory of the prophecy from the Pensieve and instructed Harry on releasing the memory. Shortly the silvery stuff was in the basin. Dumbledore looked at Harry questioningly.
"Please do," Harry said.
It was several minutes before Dumbledore returned from the memory. His eyes were wet with unshed tears. When we had taken his seat he looked around the office before turning back to Harry. "I'm not sure what emotions to express. Your parents were people I called my friends and to see them brought both joy and sadness."
Harry nodded.
"James, Lily? What?" Sirius asked with a confused look on his face.
"Remus, Sirius, Mr. Delacour maybe you might want to take a look as well," Harry said.
When they returned from the memory, Remus and Alain had deep reflective faces while Sirius was smiling.
"You would have at least thought James would have mentioned my incredible escape from Azkaban," He said to Remus.
"Why would he have been watching over a mangy mutt?" Remus asked returning the grin.
"We can discuss James and Lily another time," Dumbledore interjected. "But let's finish this up," He turned to Harry. "I guess I should apologize to you Harry. I admit that I thought you had to die to get rid of the Horcrux that was in you."
"Albus, speaking of zat, do you know how 'Arry lived zis time?" Alain Delacour asked.
"I have my suspicions yes," Dumbledore replied. He looked at the young messy haired young man in front of him. "Voldemort made a horrible mistake last night I think. You see in his cruelty and his desire to remove an obstacle that prevented him from killing Harry, he actually allowed Harry to live again."
"What mistake did he make sir?" Harry asked.
"What did he take from you?"
"Ze blood?" Alain asked. "Ow did zat 'elp?"
"When he had his new body created with Harry's blood, the blood still has Lily's protection in it," Albus explained. "I suspect that linked Voldemort to Harry in a different way. So when Harry should have died, the blood in Riddle's very veins prevented it. Those in the graveyard saw how much pain he seemed to be in when the killing curse hit Harry. Now having seen what Harry witnessed, it seems that the curse did kill the part of Voldemort's soul that was attached to him."
"So Voldemort killed 'is own 'orcrux?" Fleur asked.
Dumbledore gave a small smile. "He did exactly that."
"So what now?" Harry asked. "What do I do? How...how do I kill Voldemort?"
"I do not know," Dumbledore replied with a sigh. "But until we find and destroy all of his horcruxes he can't really be killed."
"Ow many 'orcruxes do you think 'e has Albus?" Alain asked.
"Miss Granger was on the right track I think," The Headmaster replied. "I truly believe he would have tried for an arithmantic significant number to part his soul presuming it would have made him that much stronger. The main ones are of course three, seven and thirteen."
"So he might have only made two?" Hermione asked.
Dumbledore sighed again. "I don't think so. Harry, when Fleur killed Nagini last night, did the noise that came from it sound familiar?"
Harry looked questioningly at the Headmaster before thinking back to the graveyard. He had been exhausted and hadn't paid that much attention but now as he thought back he did realize the sound had been very familiar. "It...it sounded like the diary sir; when I destroyed it."
"I thought it might," Dumbledore said.
"What does zat mean?" Mr. Delacour asked. "What was zat scream?"
"It was the death of another Horcrux," Dumbledore explained. "Which means we can probably rule three out. Riddle was sixteen when he made his first one, the diary that Harry destroyed. When I interviewed Peter Pettigrew myself after Madam Bones finished with him, he admitted that Riddle used the death of Bertha Jorkins last year to perform some kind of spell on Nagini. That would have been him turning the snake into a Horcrux. I can't imagine Riddle going fifty years without making another one."
"So how many? And do we know what they might be or where they are?" Remus asked.
"I don't know how many, but with what we just saw, I might have a way to find out," Dumbledore said. "Again I will compliment Miss Granger on another clever insight."
Hermione blushed at the compliment but unsure of what she had offered.
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