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Year: 0 Day: 2 Part: 2
"Veronique, you remember this book?" Severus asks, gently.
"I do. It is the Livre Galen, yes? We used it to find the Yule presents that Gavin Douglas stole."
"So you remember its uses as well?" I cut in.
"Yes," she answers. "With the right incantation, you can locate missing items and see their surroundings; pinpointing exactly where they are. It's quite useful, actually."
Daphne, or should I say Kalea, gets straight to the point. "How will that help us?" she curses angrily. "I doubt anyone will have any noteworthy or traceable items on them."
"Princess Veronique, you've missed a crucial point." Now addressing Kalea, Severus responds, "The Livre Galen can track people as well, so long as they do not have protective spells that work directly against it, or its sibling books. In our case, we have one of the only ones in its collection that can also track whether or not a person is up with the gods, still on this planet, or in the Underworld."
Frowning, Kalea asks, "Severus, in case you haven't noticed, our old identities are dead, so where would we be found? Here, in Miala's case, Palatium Vitrum, or with the gods?"
"Well Kalea, there are two separate incantations that work for the 'dead'. You can either find the location of their dead bodies, or find out where their souls/identities went in the afterlife, so to speak. In your cases, however, you are not the people you were at the time of your deaths, as you and all others with magic who were killed were brought back from the dead. When the binding spell is cast, you become whoever the gods wish you to be named, and you gain a new purpose in life, so you can no longer be tracked as your old selves, but must be tracked by your new identity. Therefore, your old selves would be found in heaven and either Palatiums Vitrum or Crystalla, and your new selves could be found here if we did not have magic that wards against these books."
"So our friends could have already been bound?" I question. "Because if they were, then how on earth would we find them?"
"No," Severus tells us. "Only Albus Dumbledore and I were allowed by the gods to bind, and as far as I know, Albus is dead." A niggling thought wormed its way into Severus' head, but he waved it away hastily. Hm, he thought second guessing himself. Perhaps it would do no harm to check.
"Who do we want to find first?" asks Veronique.
"Harry and Ron," I blurt. "I need to know if my friends survive or were reincarnated."
"Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom," adds Veronique.
Kalea stays quiet for a moment then whispers, "Pansy Parkinson and Theodore Nott."
"We will start from there, then," Severus murmurs.
"Wait!" Kalea interjects. "We need someone else to train us, Severus. Not that you're not good, but you always had help when you taught at Regium."
"Then I suppose I shall find Professor McGonagall."
Severus turns to the Livre Galen and with his wand, he shouts, "McGonagall inveniet!" A hologram of McGonagall in chains and a dirty robe glows from out of the book. Next to her stands a boy who appears to be our age with curly brown hair.
"Theo!" Kalea squeals. Her face turns fearful. "Severus, they're in Crabbe Domum! The Crabbes support the Proditor!"
"Calm down Kalea," Severus orders. "The Crabbes are brainless idiots; the most they can do is chain their prisoners up as they are too imbecilic to know how to torture. And," he continues, "Crabbe Domum is in Ustrina, on the other side of the part that was ruled by the Prewetts. Ustrina is only two kingdoms away, so we won't have much Apparating to do."
"Um, Severus," I say slowly, "How are we going to break them out?"
Severus sighs. "I had forgotten," he admits, "that you three hadn't finished your training at Regium. "I suppose I will have to train you so you can actually utilize the new powers instilled in you by the gods."
Veronique quickly casts the spell for her friends and Pansy Parkinson. "Luna Lovegood invenient! Neville Longbottom invenient! Pansy Parkinson invenient!" Images of Luna, Neville, and Pansy pop up so all of us can see them. Luna sits in a dungeon with Nymphadora Tonks, a Regium alumni, talking about who knows what. In the center of the dungeon walls lies the Goyle family crest next to the Trica symbol. Neville Longbottom stands alone in a castle holding cell until a guard comes in and gives him a magic brochure. "The boss is generous," he says. "You have three years exactly to decide". It reads, "Join the Proditor army or Die Escaping". Neville grimaces then begins pacing back and forth. Finally, my gaze turns to Pansy Parkinson, who is sitting with her back turned to a redheaded girl; Ginny Weasley. A single glass window allows the girls to stare at the only other view in the room, the ocean.
Veronique immediately sneers, "We need to get Pansy out of there, out of Gibbon Domum. She's stuck with Ginny Weasley."
"Do not fear, Veronique," Severus soothes. "We will retrieve all of them. First, we will rescue Theodore and Professor McGonagall from Crabbe Domum in Ustrina, then we will rescue Pansy and that Ginny girl from Gibbon Domum in Aecor, which isn't that far, then Neville who I believe is in Crouch Domum in Campe, then Luna and Nymphadora from Goyle Domum; they should be fine for now. Remember though, princesses, the virtue called patience. It will take a lot of time to train you so this could take several years. We should start as soon as possible."
Before we leave, I pull out my wand and point to the Livre Galen. "Ronald Weasley invenient! Harry Potter invenient!" The holograms show up, bringing back the boys' locations. Ron lies unbreathing on the ground in his bedroom, and Harry, well Harry is walking into a castle. Not just any castle though, cause that would be too easy, but no, he is walking, bound, into Castrum Proditor, in other words, the headquarters of the Proditor.
"Miala," Severus whispers. "I'm afraid there is no way to save your friends."
"Then I suggest we start training. I vow to the gods that the name Miala Gareth will be feared by all the land, even the Proditor. I will avenge the deaths of my friends and parents, even if I die trying."
A/N. What's up guys, it's Faith here! Hope you liked this chapter, because there'll be more chapters to come! :)
