Ashley and Tom arrived at the family room, simultaneously waving their wands (new wand, in Ashley’s case) to momentarily clear the furniture. Ashley conjured a small piece of chalk and sketched the diagram for the ritual. It wasn’t all that complicated, just a large circle connected to five smaller circles for each Horcrux Tom was meant to absorb. The tedious part was the repetitive sketching of the necessary runes that had to surround each circle. Thankfully, Tom was there to help. He and Ashley finished just as Gryphon turned up. Ashley made sure that Tom and the Horcruxes were in their respective places and then began chanting.