After the Golden Basilisk disappeared, the deity disguised as Neville disappeared too.
From beginning to end, Harry and the others never learned which deity that actually was.
Judging by the deity's words, however, it seemed to have noticed Harry because he carried a deity's attention and aura. After discovering that Harry seemed somewhat different from what it had expected, it left.
Harry also had a vague feeling that its words meant that its interest in Ron seemed to have something to do with him as well.
But Harry held back from saying that. Otherwise, he felt he would sound a little too full of himself.
Shaking his head, he put all those jumbled thoughts aside and turned his attention to the Horcrux on the floor.
Although he did not know why Voldemort had used a pendant bearing the Lestrange family crest as a Horcrux, which did not quite fit his usual habits, Harry had seen more than one Horcrux and identified the one before him at first glance.
Ginny had been a weakling when she first encountered a Horcrux and had not come into contact with one since. Even so, the fluctuations of evil magical power coming from it still felt familiar to her.
She vaguely felt that they bore some resemblance to what she had felt when she first met Tom Riddle.
Hermione and Ron had seen Horcruxes, but they were not as sensitive as Harry, nor had they been in such close contact with one as Ginny. So the feeling was not as obvious to them.
"Harry, what do we do with this thing? Destroy it outright?" Ron asked, looking at the pendant on the floor.
"Hmm... I think we should take it back to Dumbledore," Hermione said after a moment's thought. "Perhaps he might have some other