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Summary- Harry and Ron never met Hermione, who is two years younger than them (Neville is the third member of the trio lol). Harry and Ron are the two best Aurors that Britain has and are desperately trying to find a way to defeat and kill Lord Voldemort. They find a scroll that speaks about a way to kill the strong force of evil who would be a descendent from the Great Slytherin himself. This leads them on an adventure, which takes them all around the world; they are forced to team up with old enemies and new friends.

Chapter one

"Harry?" Ron said with an exasperated sigh as he stared at the large mountain of books, scrolls and quills on the desk that hid his partner from view, or at least he thought it did.  The desk like the rest of the room was completely covered in piles and stacks and mountains of books, thick leather volumes in so many different languages, scrolls of a similar nature and scrolls written by there own hands as well.

"Yeah Ron" replied the 28 year old Harry Potter, head peeking out from behind the pile opposite to the one that Ron though concealed his best friend from view.

"I've been thinking Harry"

"While that can't be good," replied Harry returning to his position behind the stack

"Very funny Harry"

"I try"

"Yeah to hard" Ron replied, "anyway maybe we're going about this the wrong way"

"What do you mean?" said Harry, his interest now caught as he rolled out on his chair around the stack to be in plain sight of Ron, who was leaning back in his chair, running both of his hands through his ginger hair.

"Well we've been trying to find a way to improve the killing curse of coming up with a new one right"

"Duh Ron we all know that, we've only been doing that for what 8 months now, ever since we lost McClinock"

"Yeah I know," said Ron thinking back to when they had lost their third partner. They had come up to a large group of Death Eaters who included Lucius Malfoy, Cho Chang, Crabbe and Goyle. There had been more than that and they were so overwhelmed that they had to fall back, one of the death eaters let go an Avada Kedavra, which unfortunately connected with McClinock. "But really Harry" Ron continued, "Maybe instead of trying to find another killing curse or improving the one we already have, maybe we need to be looking for a different way to kill him, an unorthodox way, something we haven't tried before"

"I don't know…"

"Come one Harry it worth a try, we've been here for so long, we've read through each of these books at least twice and so far nothing"

"Yeah ok, what's your idea?"

"Great, I was thinking we know that You-Know-Who is Slytherin's Heir, so maybe there's something in the old scrolls at Hogwarts. Dumbledore has always been saying that the library at Hogwarts was free for us to use whenever we needed it. Besides I think it would be good for us to get out of here for a while, and it will give us a chance to see Neville again".

"Yeah I agree and the scrolls may prove useful, we have to talk to Dumbledore before we head over there first and then we have to let Jay know where we're going".

"That's okay Harry everything is already set" said Ron casually

"What! Ron was you planning this?"

"Me planning? But of course"

"And you knew that I'd agree with you on this?"

"Of course Harry" said Ron grinning, "how can you argue with MY logic?" For that comment, all he got was his cloak flying half way across the room at him. It startled him so much that he caused his leaning chair to jerk and topple over

"Hey Harry!" he exclaimed hearing Harry's howling laughter coming from the other side of the room.

So…so Ron…when…when are we …we leaving for Hog….Hogwarts?" asked Harry struggling to catch his breath.

"Tomorrow morning, we'll meet at the Three Broomstick, floo there at 9," said Ron rising from the floor. "So I'm gonna go home and spend some time with Lav, that reminds me I need to get her some flowers, got into a huge row last night don't ask, and you can go home to Sirius" said Ron snickering.

"Ha ha very funny Ron and not gonna ask about the fight" said Harry swinging his cloak up and around his shoulders and fastening it at the neck. "Hey Ron how long are we gonna be gone for?"

"No clue" said Ron rising from the floor and fastening his own cloak around his shoulders, "for a while I guess so pack enough"

"Right ok I'll talk to you later Ron"

"Yeah see ya mate", with that the two left the office heading separate directions, Ron to go to the street where there was a flower shop just around the street. Harry had often wondered if it was put there for the sheer convince of all the Aurors, like Ron who continually were fighting with their spouses over hours, and that the job was to dangerous.  Harry, on the other hand headed towards the floo places. True he lived with Sirius; they had an apartment in muggle London, actually, it was more like a condo because of size. Harry liked living with his godfather now that Sirius had been cleared, they still didn't know who had sent Peter to the Harry's office in a smaller metal box with tiny air holes in it. Not five minutes after he had got it did Remus show up with Snuffles at his feet.

~*~*~Flashback~*~*~

Harry and Ron stood over the metal crate trying to decide whether they should open it or not, they had already called Amos Diggory, the new minister of magic ever since Fudge had been discovered as working with Voldemort. Just then, Remus came barging in with Snuffles right at his heels.

"Oh good we're not to late" said Remus under his breath, something no one but Harry heard, he was just about to question Remus on what was going on but the Amos came in.

"Ok Harry I got your message what's going on?"

"Well sir we're not sure the note on this box  just said to open in the presence of the Minister of Magic, its already been scanned for curses and nothing has shown up".

"Well then Harry open it"

"Yes sir" said Harry, "Alohomora" lid gave a soft pop and flipped open, inside was a grey rat with a paw missing, he would have jumped out if it were not for Ron who snatched him up before he could get away.

"Scabbers" said Ron at the same time that Remus said "Wormtail".

"Hold him Ron" Remus pointing his wand at Peter and in a flash of blue and white light the rat was no longer there and instead, there was a thin man with only one hand.

~*~*~End Flashback~*~*~

They used a truth potion on Peter and after 3 weeks of an investigation Sirius was publicly cleared of all charges and allowed to come back into the wizarding community. Once he was free, he moved in with Harry and the two had been like that for the past 3 years, with Sirius bringing home so many different women, until he met Joanna Fraser. That was a year ago, Harry was sure that Sirius and Joanna would get married one day.

Harry emerged from the fireplace stumbling into the living room; normally he had no problem with flooing but today for some reason he just kept falling over. He suspected it was because he was tired, which he was, him and Ron had been researching for so long and with Voldemort's powers rising they had been redoubling their efforts in order to find a way to kill the bastard once and for all. Maybe Ron was right maybe what they needed was some new ideas. Harry made his way to the bathroom where he planned to have a shower before packing.

~*~*~Later that evening~*~*~

Harry stood in the kitchen making dinner, one thing he was thankful to the Dursely's for was that because of them he had become rather good and cooking. The stir-fry was looking pretty good where he heard a thump coming from the living room, he was fairly certain it was Sirius.

"Really Sirius, you're so graceful" came a female voice, clearly suppressing the laughter that was beginning to rise as Harry entered the room.

"Well really Jo when you push me out of the fire place how did you think I was going to land?" Sirius trying desperately to look like he was annoyed or angered by his fiancées antics, his eyes however betrayed them as well as the curl that was beginning to form at the edges of his mouth.

"Well you two seem in a very cheerful mood" said Harry leaning against the doorframe, arms crossed at his chest.

"Of course I am Harry," said Sirius rising from the floor, "what guy wouldn't be when the woman he loves agreed to marry him?"

"What" said Harry his jaw dropping "Congratulations, you never told me that you were planning to propose", Harry moved and embraced Joanna giving her a peck on the cheek, he moved too shake Sirius's hand, instead pulling him too into a massive hug.

"Well of course I never told anyone, I mean what if she said no," said Sirius

"Oh come on as if I would have said no"

"Well you never know, Jo"

"Oh how poetic" she replied at his smirk from his last comment

"Yeah well I would have made something bigger than just a chicken stir fry," said Harry moving back to the kitchen "you staying Jo?"

"Harry's cooking! Of course I'm staying, Harry my dear boy you really have to teach your godfather here how to cook"

"I tried he nearly burnt the house down" Harry served out three plates of the stir-fry while Sirius got out the wine and three wine glasses.

The chatter at the table consisted mainly of wedding talk until the beginning of dessert; Harry rose to get some of the teacakes that Sirius and he had hidden in one of the cabinets.

"So Harry how's work?" Sirius questioned

"Not bad, more researching, tomorrow Ron and I are heading to Hogwarts to use their library, try a different angle, so it looks like you'll have the house all to yourselves for your romantic adventures" said Harry smirking.

"Well umm Harry that's very interesting…Now what's this angle?" asked Sirius giving a very quick flash smile to Joanna.

"Well" started Harry ignoring his godfather grinning like a little boy at Christmas, "Ron was thinking, and brought up an idea that since we knew that Voldemort is Slytherin's heir, that there might be something at Hogwarts that could help us figure out a different way in killing him. Maybe we need something different instead of a killing curse or an improved version of the killing curse we have now."

"Wow looks like Ron really took time to think about that" said Joanna

"Yeah, are you sure that's the real Ron?" questioned Sirius

"Yes it's the real Ron," said Harry throwing the wrapper of the teacake at his godfather.

"Ok, ok so umm Harry," said Sirius

"Yeah"

"When exactly are you leaving?"  He questioned causing Joanna to fall into hysterics, "come on Jo you were thinking the same thing" he growled.

"Tomorrow morning I'm meeting Ron at the three Broomsticks at 9" he replied trying his very best to look annoyed, "but don't worry I still have the silencing spell up from the weekend, so you two can do whatever the hell you want", Harry looked over at the other two who would both suddenly fascinated with their teacake wrappers.  "Anyway I think I'll head to bed early tonight, got some reading to do anyway" said Harry as he rose and headed towards his bedroom.

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Harry sat in a booth at the Three Broomstick, it was 9:15, Ron was suppose to be here already. Harry wasn't worried, Ron had never been known for being on time. He saw the possibility of three different reasons why Ron wasn't here, A. He slept in along with Lavender, B. He and Lavender got into another huge fight and he's unconscious somewhere or trying to make up with her before he leaves or finally C. He Lavender mad up last night and at 5 to 9 he was just about to leave but then he and Lavender got into a huge snogging fest and lost track of time. He was betting on the third possibility.

He looked over at the fire place, the flames had turned green which meant that someone was coming, sure enough out of the fire step Ron looking rather askew with his red hair sticking up everywhere as if it where Harry's unruly hair.

"God man sorry about being so late it's just…see what happened was..." Ron started

"What happened was you were about to leave and your oh so beautiful wife came in to kiss you goodbye and you started a snogging fest which caused you to lose track of time ergo, the lateness?" Harry said

"Uh yeah how…"

"How'd I know, well aside from your hair sticking up all over the place and your crooked robes, you have a little bit of red lipstick on your lips, cheek and a huge glob right there on your neck" said Harry smirking as he rose. "Besides I know you far too well".

 The Harry rose and the two men left the bar and headed outside. It was a very pleasant fall morning, it was into the second week of September and that meant that the school semester had started up. The weather was very nice and so both Harry and Ron had worn their lighter robes over top of normal muggle clothes as normal. Neither of them were very fond of the fact that wizard were expected to wear robes, so when they went out normally they just wore normal muggle clothes but in Hogsmead and at Hogwarts it was kind of an unwritten rule that they had to wear robes. Plain black, really the only colour either wore unless it was a formal occasion.

They slowly made their way to the carriages that would take them up to the castle. They walked in a comfortable silence, they were best friends after all and they never found the need to speak when neither had anything to say. They got into the carriage and it started up towards the castle.

"So Ron what's the plan for today? Go straight to the library and start researching or something else?"

"Well we have to go see Professor Dumbledore first, and then I was thinking that we could visit Hagrid or Neville, we haven't seen either of them in a while"

"Sounds good" the rest of the journey, the two discussed little things and Harry informed Ron of Sirius and Joanna's engagement, to this piece of news Ron replied, "I knew it, I knew he would ask her, that's smashing".  

They entered the castle to find nothing has changed and to Harry it still smelled like home. The only home that he had ever known. They made their way through the halls and managed to get up the stairs before anything changed, (much to Ron's delight). They came to stand at the gargoyle hiding the entrance to the headmaster's office.

"Umm Ron, do you know the password"

"Yeah Dumbledore gave it to me last night when I told him we were coming for sure, CRISPY CRUNCH" at that the gargoyle sprang forwards and the stairs behind began to move upward as Harry and Ron stepped onto it. They continued up until they came to the wooden door that belonged to their old friend. The opened it and the first thing that caught Harry's eye was not the old, but still strong man sitting at the desk, eyes sparkling behind half moon spectacles. No, the first thing that caught his eye was the beautiful bird sitting on the perch, another old friend of his, Fawkes.

"Hello Fawkes" said Harry as he passed the bird on his way over to Dumbledore's desk. "Hello Professor" he said he took a seat next to Ron who nodded his own hello.

"Hello Harry, Ronald its good to see the two of you again" he said his eyes sparkling brightly, "Ronald tells me that you hope to find a way to destroy Voldemort and were looking for information into how to do it" Dumbledore said. At the mention of HIS name Ron clearly flinched, he still could not be comfortable hearing that name spoken by anyone, Harry or Dumbledore. "Would you mind entertaining an old man by telling me what you are looking for, I must say Ronald here has me very intrigued".

Half an hour later, the pair exited the headmaster's office, along with Dobby, who was very please, to say the least about seeing "master Harry Potter" again. Dobby lead them to their room, which was found to be in the staff quarters. It was a large room, two beds, a sitting area and two desks along with several bookshelves. After settling in the two wandered down to the grounds where they headed over to Hagrid's hut. As they approached they could hear Fang barking in from inside. They knocked on the door to Hagrid's hut which opened.

"Harry, Ron," he exclaimed gathering to two into a large bear hug. "Come in come in its great to see ya; would yeh like a cup'o tea?"

"Sure Hagrid" Ron replied taking a seat next to Fang.

"So what brings the two of yeh to Hogwarts?" Hagrid asked as he set about making the tea."

"We're here to do some research, we're trying to find away and we" a small cough from Ron got him to change what he was saying, "ok Ron thought that since Voldemort" Ron and Hagrid both shuddered, but Harry ignored it and continued. "Well he thought since he is Slytherins heir that maybe there was something in the scrolls here that might say something about how to defeat him."

"Well it's certainly a good ider as far I can see, I hope yeh get somethin' good out o' all this research, its bout time someone put an end to you-know-who's terror."

"Yeah hopefully it will work" said Ron slipping the Rock Cake Hagrid had given him into his pocket. They continued to talk for quite sometime, laugh together asking about what had been happening around Hogwarts, Hagrid told them about three students in Gryffindor, and red head, one with black hair and one with brown hair that was causing as many problems as Harry, Ron and Neville had. Except for the fact that the one with the brown hair was a girl and the other two were guys it was like having the three of them back as students.  He laugh when Harry told him about Sirius finally getting ready to marry. Before long time had gone by and Harry and Ron left to head toward the Green houses where Hagrid had told them that Neville was just about done with a group of second years.

As they approached the green houses, a group of student passed them and as they entered, they saw Neville standing speaking with one of his students.

"Now Roger, if I catch you fling potting soil at the girls again it will be more than just a detention have I made myself clear?"

"Yes Professor Longbottom"

"Good now I'll see you tonight right after dinner here."

"Yes Professor Longbottom"

"Alright now go to lunch"

"Yes Professor Longbottom: the boy said fleeing the room and fast as he could. Ron and Harry both began clapping.

"Very nice Professor Longbottom, you're quiet the natural at dishing out detentions" said Ron laughing, Harry just nodded, concentrating on not laugh so hard he couldn't even say anything.

"Well it must come from watching you get too many to count in the years that we were here, Ron, Harry," he said as he moved over and embraced the two men individually giving each of them a slap on the back.  "Albus said that you were coming, though he never said why, its great to see you two. Mind if I ask why you're here?"

"Well basically we're hear to see if we can find something that could help us defeat Voldemort" said Ron as the group headed towards the Great Hall.

"So you'll be spending most of your time in the library, Ron library now there's something I never thought I'd hear particularly willingly." He said smirking, just the there was a large growl heard from Ron's stomach. "But how about some lunch first?"

"Sounds great," said Ron. And the three friends headed toward the great hall laughing.

~Wow there we go the first chapter done J I gotta say I am really excited about this fic and I hope that you all like it. Got it while watching tomb raider. Please read and review it please the more I get the faster I'll update so please please review it good or bad at least I'll know people are reading it. And any suggestions you want to make feel free to make them J thanks

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