Hollywood Zenith

"The unbreakable vow. You're sure that's what Snape said?" Ron asked with a serious tone. Harry had heard Snape explicitly mention it while protecting Drako.

" Positive. Why?" Harry asked.

" It's just you can't break an unbreakable vow." Ron added.

" I worked that much out for myself, funny enough." Harry said sarcastically.

" You don't understand."

" So what happens to you? What happens if you break an unbreakable vow?"

" You die." Ron stated ominously.

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" So Voldemort has chosen Drako Malfoy for a mission." Remus asked. Harry, Arthur, Ron's father and Nymphadora were sitting together while others were celebrating in another room. They were discussing what each had uncovered about the Voldemort's plan.

" I know it sounds bad." Harry stated.

" Has it occurred to you, Harry, that Snape was simply pretending to offer Drako help, so he could find out what he was after?" Remus made a fair point.

" That's not what it sounded like." Harry did listen to Severus and DraKo's conversation in person. He could tell how serious Severus was about assisting Drako with his plan.

" Perhaps Harry's right, Remus. I mean to make an unbreakable vow..."Nymphadora added.

" It comes down to whether or not you trust Dumbledore's judgement." Remus was adamant.

" Dumbledore trusts Snape, therefore I do." He had full trust in Dumbledore.

" Dumbledore can make mistakes, he said so himself." Harry tried to reason with him but Remus snapped back with," You're blinded by hatred! "

" I'm not."

" Yes you are." he calmed down before continuing.

" People are disappearing, Harry, daily. We can only place our trust in a handful of people. If we start fighting amongst ourselves we are doomed."

" He is right. They shouldn't fight among themselves." Darren commented. He liked Harry as a character but felt he was coming off too strong without any proper proof.

" What should he do then? It's not like he is fighting- I am sorry." Kate who was going to agree to him suddenly stop speaking. It was because he attacked Malfoy fatally almost killing him if not for the appearance of Snape.

The scene went on and they finally decided it was time for Harry to let go of the Half-blood prince's book whose identity was still unknown to the viewers. Harry went with Ginny inside the Room of Requirement where Harry found the similar looking cabinet that he saw Drako play with in earlier scene.

" All right, close your eyes. That way, you can't be tempted." Ginny said to him as he looked at her smiling sweetly at him.

" Close your eyes." He did as she asked.

After hiding the book, she came closer as the camera zoomed in on their faces and they had their first kiss.

" Aww, that's so cute!" Kate blurted out. Everyone heard it and started laughing inside the theater. She sat back down with an embarrassed face looking at Samuel who too was giving her knowing smile.

" What?"

" I thought you will be more jealous about it?" He shrugged.

" Why? Are you two dating in real life?"

" No, no, no. We have a strictly professional relationship."

" There is no chance of me getting jealous then."

" I guess so." He was trying to tease her but she replied seriously like it didn't even faze her seeing him kiss on screen.

She grabbed his hand and said," It's not like I don't care what you do, it's because I don't want to be someone that control your every action. I am way past that age where I would get mad knowing that you were only acting."

" I agree. You are quite old for that."

" Hey!"

" I am just joking! You are beautiful!"

" Why does I feel like you are only saying that to make me feel better? do you really think I am that old?"

" Silly girl, I never cared about your age to begin with. It was my bad making such a crude joke." She brightened up listening to his sincere words and laid her head on his shoulder. After wrapping her arms around him, they started focusing on the movie once again.

Getting Horace's tear, Harry went to Dumbledore to report about his finding. They both started watching his memory together where Tom Riddle could be seen staying behind with Horace after the party.

" I was in the library the other night." Tom paused.

" In the restricted section. And, I read something rather odd about a bit of rare magic." Tom paused again fully expecting Horace to yell at him for breaking the rules but he stayed silent listening to what he was trying to ask him.

" It's called, as I understand it,...a horcrux."

" I beg your pardon?" Horace asked in dismay.

" Horcrux. I came across the term while reading. And I didn't fully understand it." Tom asked again.

" I'm not sure what you're reading, Tom, but this is very dark stuff, very dark indeed." Instead of berating him Horace was patient because he was one of his best students. A little bit of curiosity didn't hurt anyone, that was his assumption about Tom.

" Which is...why I came to you." Tom said with straight-faced without even blinking. After initially saying the name and Horace not lashing out, he was confident that his teacher wouldn't disappoint him.

" A horcrux is an object in which a person has concealed a part of their soul." As expected, Horace began blurting out the details.

" But I don't understand how that works, Sir."

" One splits one's soul and hides part of it in an object. By doing so you are protected should you

be attacked and your body destroyed."

" Protected?"

" The part of your soul which is hidden lives on."

" In other words, you cannot die." Tom came to the realization, he thought for a second before saying," And how does one split his soul, Sir?"

" I think you already know the answer to that, Tom."

" Murder."

" Yes. Killing rips the soul apart, it is a violation against nature."

" Can you only split the soul once? For instance, isn't seven..."

" Seven? Merlin's beard, Tom, isn't it bad enough to consider killing one person?" Horace couldn't believe what he was hearing.

" To rip the soul into seven pieces... This is all hypothetical, isn't it, Tom? All academic?" Horace couldn't hide the fear in his heart which was why he asked to confirm again.

" Of course, Sir."

The memory ended, Harry and Dumbledore were baffled but the audience were pretty shocked to finally get the answer how the Dark Lord keeps coming back. This time, no one said anything because they didn't want to miss the details.

Even Kate who was usually chatty was glued to the screen while refilling her mouth with endless popcorns.

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" Good evening, Drako. What brings you here on this fine spring evening?" Dumbledore asked discovering Drako sneaking up on him.

" Who else is here?" Drako asked. Harry was hiding beneath them waiting for him chance to strike if Drako tried to do anything suspicious. Despite Dumbledore asking him not to intervene no matter what, Harry couldn't just sit by see him get hurt.

" I heard you talking." Drako asked again but after looking around, he couldn't see anyone else on the podium. It was quite high in the sky so there was not much places someone could hide here.

" I often talk aloud to myself. I find it extraordinarily useful." Albus replied.

" Have you always been to yourself, Drako? Drako, you are no assassin."

Drako lifted up his wand pointing it toward his headmaster.

" How do you know what I am?" He said making a difficult face.

" I've done things that would shock you."

" Oh, like cursing Katie Bell and hoping that they'd then return to bear a cursed necklace to me?"

" Like replacing a bottle of mead with one laced with poison?" Albus listed everything Drako was upto like he had been aware since the beginning.

" Forgive me, Drako. I cannot help feeling these actions are so weak that your heart can't really have been in." He said seeing his face turn ugly.

" He cursed me. I was chosen." Drako yelled out.

" I shall make it easy for you." Albus tried to take out his wand that's when Drako twirled his want to spell," Expelliarmus."

" Very good, very good." Despite getting disarmed, Albus commended his student but suddenly he felt few people in the vicinity.

" You're not alone."

" There are others."

" How?"

" The vanishing cabinet in the room of requirement. I've been mending it."

" And I guess it has a sister. Which one?"

" Borgin and Burke's. They form a passage."

" Ingenious." Albus was genuinely shocked this time because he didn't see this coming.

" Drako, years ago, I knew a boy who made all the wrong choices. Please let me help you." Albus tried to reason with him but he started crying.

" I don't want your help. Don't you understand? I have to do this. I have to kill you...or he's going to kill me." It took a lot for Drako to spell out his intention in front of man that he was sent to kill.

Well. Look what we have here. Well done, Drako." Suddenly Bellatrix came to join in on the fun.

" Good evening, Bellatrix."

" I think introductions are in order, don't you?"

" I'd love to, Albus. But I'm afraid we're on a bit of a tight schedule."

"Do it!"

" He doesn't have the stomach. Just like his father." She began berating him.

" Let me finish him in my own way."

Meanwhile Harry was about to intervene from below when he sensed someone coming inside his little hideout. It was Snape who asked him to keep quiet and let him handle it. He went passed harry and met up with Drako and Bellatrix who kept keeping Albus in check.

" Severus."

" Please." It felt like Albus was asking him to do it. Until now the crowd who didn't read the books were sure that the day would be saved. No matter what Snape did up until now, he wasn't going to kill the headmaster right? Wrong! They were shocked as soon as he said the familiar phrase.

" Avada kedavra." The scene transitioned to a cool shot of the old man falling down, one could visibility see the life disappearing from his eyes as he fell.

" SNAPE!" Harry began chasing Severus.

" He trusted you!"

" Go on!" Snape asked others to give him some time to deal with Harry.

" Incarcerus!"

" FIGHT BACK!"

" YOU COWARD, FIGHT BACK!" Harry began barraging every spell he learned toward Snape and his group. Just when the death eater thought about retaliating against Harry's provocations, Snape stopped them.

" NO!"

" He belongs to the Dark Lord."

" SECTUM SEMPRA!" Harry did one last spell before Snape disarmed him. He casually walked up to him and dropped another bombshell, "You dare use my own spells against me, Potter?"

" Yes, I'm the Half Blood Prince."