It screamed, as usual. Hermione ignored that, and Ron and Harry stepped up to her shoulders and stood staring down at it. It was the latest one to be destroyed, after Hermione had walked Bellatrix’s corpse into the bank to retrieve it. Hermione had taken care of the diadem in their first year back in time, she’d destroyed the diary the day Lucius Malfoy had given it to Ginny, Ron had destroyed the locket the first day they’d gained access to Grimmauld Place, and they’d gone after the ring together last summer and cursed it so sharply with Fiendfyre that they’d nearly burned Little Hangleton to the ground.