The other nodded and after Blaise had showed him the book and what was written on its first page, he turned the page and said, 'Now we are here, I was planning on solving this riddle. Draco said it is written in Latin, and that you would probably be able to translate.'
'Hmm, let me take a look at this.' Blaise said while withdrawing a piece of parchment and a inkless quill from his trunk.
As Malcolm gave him the book he looked at it and began to translate.
'Five floors... no. On the fifth floor
Two statues present.
One of the two leads to the lions den.
The other leads to a hidden entrance.
cast...
Sorry, I don't know these words.'
'Then go on.' Draco said.
Blaise nodded.
'Cast ? incantation Behind the statue is a corridor Go down and look for a dragon statue and speak with it...
Thats all.'
Malcolm inclined his head thoughtfully 'So you don't know the words of the incantation Blaise?'
Blaise shook his head and said 'No, I don't seem to remind these words.'
'Hmm..they might be the spell name or the incantation itself' Draco opted.
'There might be one way to check this out.' Malcolm said while extending his right index finger. And when he bend over to the book he muttered 'What were these words again?'
'mora devexus!'
Nothing happened
Again he tried 'mora devexus.'
Still nothing happened.
'Might be the name of the incantation then.' Blaise concluded. 'isn't it in our charms course book?'
Draco opened his trunk and withdrew the book and after a short look in its registry he said 'nope, It isn't in here, but there is a spell with ends with Mora, perhaps this works too.'
'What kind of spell is it then mate?' Malcolm asked
Draco did a quick turning of pages and then read:
'Alohomora, charm. A regular locked door cannot withstand the simple yet effective Alohomora charm. However doors that are locked using a fair amount of difficult locking charms cannot be opened using it'.
'Hmm,' Blaise said 'nothing about statues, we might perhaps seek the statue out and try casting spells on it.'
'Yes,' said Draco 'but we wouldn't end up at the entrance of the Gryffindor tower, now would we?'
The other boys smirked when Malcolm said 'well we have fifty percent of a chance.' And Blaise added, 'We should perhaps seek this out before curfew. We woudn't get caught especially not after curfew.'
'You're right mate.' the others said. I suggest taking this book and a few charm books with us, in case the Alohamora spell won't work Give them to me and I'll put them in my trunk and shrink it a bit for easy transportation..'
The others nodded, Draco adding 'Yes Lord.'
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It took them a while to end up at the fifth floor of the castle but luckily Salazar's skill aided them in finding their way around. There were not many people around since obvious most of the students were spending their free time in their common room. 'Now we should find a way to cast spells without anyone seeing us. anyone has an idea?'
Draco thought for a while 'We should chose one of the two statues first and go sit on the bench closest by. That way when there is temporarly no one around we would try out spells, plus when we are being watched we can look for the mora devexus charm in our book while acting as if we are doing our homework.'
'Good idea, Draco.' Blaise said, 'now wich should we chose?'
As they walked casually around the floor to examine both of the statues from a closer view
'Lets go for the one of Gregory the Smarmy.' Malcolm said 'This one is more out of sight.'
'Makes sense.' Draco said 'and if there apeares a Gryffindork from behind the statue, we know that it is the other.'
The others nodded and they went for the bench closest to the statue and took a book, and as there was currently none around, they started to throw random spells towards it wandlessly while uttering their incantations as softly as possible.
After Alohamora, Wingardium Leviosa, and lots of other spells didn't work the three dorm mates almost lost hope to reveal the hidden statue.
'Perhaps it is the other statue, we should try the spells on the other too.' Draco said.
Malcolm inclined his head, but Blaise sat there on the bench reading in his charm course book.
'Blaise we go check out the other statue, are you coming along?' Malcolm asked.
'Wait a sec.' Blaise said absent minded. Then he pointed his index finger to the statue and uttered 'Locomotor Statua.' while drawing his finger to the left side.
As a soft pop could be heard the statue smoothly slided to the side.
'Wow Blaise.' Draco said in admiration, but Malcolm ushered them to come over and once they had entered, he pointed his finger to the opening and uttered 'finite' which resulted in the statue to be sliding back in place.
Uttered darkness came over them when the statue fell back into place. 'Blaise, you are a genius.' the heir said towards mentioned dorm mate, and as blaise blushed slightly due to the compliment, he was glad it was to dark for the others to see it. When the boy felt that the blush went from his face he casted a quick lumos and suggested the others to do the same so that it would be easier to find their way around.
As they followed the corridor they finaly reached the dragon statue that was mentioned in the book of Salazar, and as the heir approached it, he began speaking to it...
But obvious nothing happened.
'Try using parseltongue.' Draco opted, and as the heir did so, the statue began talking back.
'a long time I have slumbered, waiting here to be waken up by an heir.' it parseled. 'No of them has yet found me, and as you are the first, you are worth the power that my creator has wanted me to guard. You, and the two friends that are with you, may enter, and with that the statue slided to the side revealing the entrance to a room.'