Chapter 2

Dragon Delights

In a different compartment James was sitting with his friends. After making sure no one else could hear him, James said,

"Okay, I'll show it to you, but swear you won't tell anyone about it."

"Course we won't, you know that." Said Alexander Prince, a handsome boy with floppy blond hair nearly covering his eyes and a relaxed grin.

James gave him a serious look.

"Fine, I swear." Said Alex loosely.

"I swear." Said the other boy, who was very tall and very skinny and had short, brown hair. His name was Blue Finch.

James pulled a crumpled sweet wrapper out of his pocket, Alex screwed up his nose,

"I don't get it." He stated.

"Wait!" Demanded James.

He turned it so that it's inside was pointed out. The inside of the wrapper had weird shapes and letters on it.

"Is it a code?" Asked Blue raising his eyebrows.

"Yep." Said James, smoothing it out with his fingers.

"What does it mean?" Asked Alex earnestly.

"Let me tell you the whole story! You'll never believe it!"

Blue and Alex nodded.

"During the summer holidays my Dad was given some old clothes from a house that was searched. The owner of the house was sentenced to life in Azkaban prison nearly seventy years ago! He's still alive, though he must be ancient!

"Anyway, his house was never properly searched till now. So my Dad brought a big pile of old coats and jumpers home. He was searching through all the pockets and he asked me to help.

"But all there were in the pockets were handkerchiefs and sweet wrappers. I was really bored and I was about to leave when I spotted this sweet wrapper and I saw the code. I wanted to find out what it meant so I took the wrapper and decided I should ask Uncle George."

George owned several large joke shops in wizarding towns all over Britain. He had a superior knowledge of sweets of all kinds, to anyone else James had ever met.

"So what did he say when you asked him?" Inquired Alex.

"He told me that nearly a hundred years ago, a man called Fervens Dulcis started a sweet company that made chocolate dragon eggs. The company was called Dragon Delights and it became really popular and it grew to become one of the greatest sweet companies in history!"

"What happened to it?" asked Alex wondering at the disappearance of such a popular sweet company.

"I'll get to that in a minute." James hushed. "Fervens Dulcis made this code and put little notes and activities on the inside of the sweet wrappers. In every medium and large dragon egg he hid a code-cracker. These were pieces of card with the alphabet on them and the code letters underneath.

"The company didn't shut down till around thirty years ago but when my Uncle George was really young it was still around. When he talked about it he got all dreamy and happy just thinking about it!

"Anyway, Fervens Dulcis was incredible at inventing charms. He said Fervens Dulcis put an enchantment on the chocolate so that it was always warm but didn't melt and another so that it never went out of date.

"He did this treasure hunt to promote the Dragon Eggs one year, everyone wanted to find what he had hidden. There were rumors of giant, chocolate eggs that were so delicious that no one had ever tasted anything so good.

"The clues were written on the inside of wrappers. He hid them so well that within the first year only two of them were found but many people never gave up hope because they would last forever without going off. George always wanted to find one but the rest of them have never been found.

"So then I asked George if he still had a code-cracker and he said he did but he didn't know where it was. But just a week ago he found it in a box of all his old toys. He said I could have it to check what was on the wrapper I had found as long as I didn't lose it, there are very few of them still around."

"And what does it mean?" Asked Alex excitedly.

James pulled a small, rectangular piece of cardboard out of his pocket and laid it beside the sweet wrapper. Then he pulled a piece of crumpled paper out of his pocket also and laid it beside the others.

Blue and Alex stared at them their eyes nearly popping out of their heads. The cardboard was the code-cracker and the paper was the un-coded message, it said,

"It is hidden at Hogwarts, the first clue is at the twelve."

"Does it mean the treasure that was never found? Do you think we could find it?" Asked Alex, his excitement mounting.

"Definitely!" Replied James.

"What if someone else has already found it?" Asked Blue.

"Yeah… But who could have found it, the guy in Azkaban is the only person who might have."

"But that mightn't have been his coat that you found this in, it was just in his house."

James thought about this, "I guess your right - but it was probably his. Anyway if anyone had already un-coded this they wouldn't have just left it in their pocket. It's worth a try."

"What do you think we'll find? A giant chocolate egg? What do you think it will taste like? The Greatest Sweet Company in History's hidden treasure!' Ranted Alex oblivious to the other two boys.

"The code on the wrapper is hand-written," Puzzled Blue, "Why do you think it's hand-written?"

"I think that's because this is one of the clues to the hidden treasure. I doubt it was hand-written on all the wrappers." Said James confidently.

"Yes that must be right but -" Frowned Blue, "that might have given it away."

"When do we start searching?" Interrupted Alex.

"When we find out where to look." Laughed James.

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