Remus, have you got your computer turned on? Minerva confided something to me- I hope you don't mind, but it seemed worth asking about. She said you wished to explore the chambers of the late Professor Quirrel. I have no doubt that you would have a scholarly interest in their contents, and of course our usual concerns about security do not apply to
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You see, I'd... Well, I'd happened upon something that I thought might have shed some light on some of Voldemort's actions while Quirrel was his host, and I'd exhausted the less invasive avenues of research open to me.
So I asked Minerva to let me examine his rooms. More importantly, his secret chamber. And she did, but the contents had been disturbed. No, rifled. Things had been removed. Minerva says the room sealed itself upon Quirrel's death, and so he must not have noticed the loss before then.
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He did make a Horcrux, I'm quite certain of it. His grossly altered appearance first caused me to suspect. But the Horcrux was destroyed, long ago, by Harry.
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I know that Tom Riddle travelled to Russia, and I know he came across the writings of a Russian wizard who knew how they were made, and how to destroy them -- that journal, or rather part of it, was hidden in something that Quirrel had given to Madam Pince. Further evidence of his squirreling things away against discovery, I suppose.
But that Peter had been involved... well. I had really rather not go digging up Peter Pettigrew's ghost, but I would really, really like to find some way to reassure myself about all this horcrux business.
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I have always believed that Voldemort's own stopped with the diary, and, during the War, nothing happened to make me abandon that view. But it is certainly worth looking into.
What was Pettigrew's part in this? Do you suppose that Voldemort sent him to retrieve this information from Quirrel's quarters? If so, did he ever receive it, I wonder?
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But now, having watched Peter rip in half the only text which I have ever seen to directly address the subject of horcruxes, and walk out with those pages...I can't say I believe wholly that there wasn't more at work than just bone of the father, blood of the enemy and hand of the loyal servant.
If I could only find those pages, I feel sure I'd at least have some place to start looking. Which is ironic, since I've no idea where to start looking for those pages. You know he used to hide things all over the school, back when we were students, Sir? Notes and candies and stashes of Zonko's stuff all over the place. The rest of us never knew where he kept getting the stuff.
And now I've no idea where to begin.
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I suggest we assume, as a provisional premise, that all useful hiding places in Gryffindor Tower would have been discovered by James and Sirius--or, if not by them, by their heirs, to wit: Fred and George Weasley. Further, that anything by way of a guide to the very Darkest Arts, if discovered by one of them, would have sooner or later found its way into either my hands, yours, or Harry's (a less certain assumption), then perhaps we can rule that out.
What other parts of the Castle Peter was known to frequent--well, you or Sirius would know better than I.
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And in his rat form he held a certain proclivity for the Dungeons as well. Let's see... oh, also the kitchens. And the Forbidden Forest. Oh, and the gargoyles on the East facing roof of the Great Hall -- I think it was him that discovered they could talk. So that's any number of places up there as well.
I'm tired just imagining searching them all.
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The Dungeons would have been my first guess, but for the fact that, at the time in question, they were supervised by Severus, and I rather think that Peter would have thought twice about frequenting them. It's not as though Severus actually encourages rats in the Dungeons; he's not as fond of them as I am.
The Elves, likewise, frown upon rats in the kitchens, for obvious reasons.
I would like to consult with the mice. None of them are old enough to remember Peter, of course, but they may lead me to something nonetheless. I'll get back to you.
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I'll let you know what, if anything, she has to tell me. Once I locate her, that is. Assuming she survived.
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