Dumbledore and Snape looked serious. Dumbledore immediately sent a patronus to the order. As for ministry he knows Cornelius Fudge, that man will definitely think it's conspiracy more than a alert. Snape immediately grabbed Henry and asked," how did you know these things?".
Henry replied," after Ginny is taken over by the diary, and based on Harry's words I deduced it's more than a memory in the diary and when reading about history I accidentally come across herpo the foul and his history about horcruxes in library. So I assumed a possibility between the two. Then I started investigating everything. To make Horcrux you need to kill someone and split your soul. And when the first time the basilisk is released a girl died. You can understand everything from there ".
Snape slumped in the chair and asked," so we're raising as a sacrifice. A pig for slaughter. Isn't that right headmaster? We'll kill him with our own hands when he lose control or when the dark lord tried to control him or after defeating the dark lord ", Dumbledore shook his head and said," it's only the worst one Severus . We'll not consider this until it's absolutely necessary. There is a way now. As long as more and more of his soul get's destroyed he will grow weaker and weaker. We'll strike at his most vulnerable time ".
Dumbledore looked at Snape and said," as for Harry, I'll definitely find something to help him ", Henry asked," as long as we know how the wizards at that destroyed those horcruxes we can make something from it that can separate the soul fragment from Harry. For now let's focus on other horcruxes. Basilisk venom, Griffyndoor sword are effective against it. Griffyndoor sword gained that ability after it absorbed the basilisk venom. How did you destroy that Horcrux professor ".
Dumbledore said," fiendfire. Fiendfire can burn the Horcrux too ", Henry said to Snape," the carcus of basilisk is still in the chamber. Since Fawkes knows the way you can go and grab the fangs of basilisk headmaster. But leave few as a backup. We don't know what will happen next. Professor Snape and me will search for ways to strip the soul fragment from Harry in meantime and we'll search for the places where those horcruxes are hidden ".
Henry frowned and asked," if you're the dark lord and you have the most important things of your life where will you hide them ", Snape looked at him and asked," say it quickly Henry don't make riddles like your stupid ravenclaw door ".
Henry huffed in annoyance and said," the dairy is with Lucius Malfoy before he slipped it into Ginny's couldron according to Harry. Since he gave one of them to his most trusted ally then he may give it to another one of his most trusted allies too. Places with least possibility of our suspicion, maybe even in Hogwarts. He maybe hiding one in gringotts or a place where he set traps like the ring. Any clues we can find ".
Dumbledore said," his most trusted subordinates are the Lestranges mainly he trusts Bellatrix more than Rodolfus. The black family except Sirius are all his fanatics too like her. Avery, carrow, yaxley, sewley, nott, crabbe, goyle. We have many options ".
The room fell into silence and after a few minutes Henry asked," who is the most fanatical followers among them. Someone voldemort think that will never betray him even in death ", Snape turned to him and said," Bellatrix Lestrange and the black family. Bellatrix is obsessed with the dark lord. So he may entrust her with one ".
Henry asked," Bellatrix and the Black family. Since Sirius Black is with us, he can search the black properties and vaults using the house and lives if remained any. If there are many house elves it'll be even more easy theg can't refuse the master's orders. Tell him to ask if any black family member his something or revealed any secret. Bellatrix Lestrange, her husband and she are locked in azkaban. Likewise we need uo search their properties covertly. We also need to search Hogwarts for one. Any ideas ".
Dumbledore thought and said," room of requirement ", Henry looked at Dumbledore," professor Snape, let's go and search the room of requirement then ", Snape looked at him and said," are you sure there will be one?".
Henry asked," if you have a better idea for that we can go and search things around ", Snape sighed and followed Snape. Henry walked back and forth and asked for a room to hide things. As soon as the door opened they saw massive pile of things.
Snape tried summoning it but failed. Henry said," let's dig up things then ", they started searching everything and after an hour of searching Henry found the box with the diadem. It has a bewitching spell on it. He carefully opened the box and show the diadem to Snape," we found out first Horcrux ".
After finding it, Snape and Henry returned to the headmaster's office. Dumbledore looked at the crown with a solemn gaze. He conjured a fiendfire and started using it to burn the diadem. A scream appeared and a black fog is burned by the fiendfire while Henry said," three down now ".