Madonna loopily dozed out of her bed, with her head flooding with confusion and doubts. For her today, was one of the mostconsequentialdays of her life; it might be the best or even the worst depending upon how much loyalty and trust existed between Madonna and her friends.
Madonna abruptly got out of her dorm after dressing up, she didn't address Sophia today, nor did she accompany her to her classes. After attending her charms class, she quickly went to the Artifact room, it was the only place where Madonna trusted that she could brew 'The draught of the living dead' without anyone noticing her, as rarely any students or teachers visited here. Madonna quickly arranged the ingredients and started brewing the moderately difficult potion. She recalled how Tom had helped her to brew the potion efficiently, but today she would be using it against him and his loyal friends.
Back from the potions classroom, Tom came out with a somewhat sluggish and serious look on his face. His alluring icy cold fingers continuously turned the pages of the book, trying to recover every inch of information it can retrieve in order to disclose anything about that letter 'R'. He rushed to the seventh floor, to his favoured place, The Hall Of Hexes,where no one would find out what he is doing. Keeping aside all the information he has retrieved till now, hequickly turned his mind to divulge the person 'R'.
After a few minutes of continuously searching for information from the books, he got exasperated and incanted the charm'home num Lexios'on the piece of paper. The paper suddenly got illuminated in white flames and in the flames, a bit hazy but a recognizable picture of a man's face appeared~
The man was dressed in complete black, he slowly went inside a cauldron, where his followers addressed him, they too where dressed in a similar fashion. After a few conversations with them he went to the woods. Riddle recognized that the wizard actually entered the dark forest. He caught a swift glance of a Unicorn passing by. The wizard swiftly cast,'Incarcerous' which tightlybound the pitiful Unicorn in thin ropes tearing apart it's skin and flesh in the process. The wizard took out a silver dagger and devoured its horn, letting blood to ooze out of its forehead, then collected a few drops of it. After he had finished with the unicorn he left it to die or for some other animals to ravage the poor creature.
Suddenly the flame flickered and all of it disappeared at once. Riddle knew that he had found out the location of the wizard, he also knew how dangerous and cruel he was. But the only way of not returning to the stupid muggle orphanage was to either confront him or to give him what he wants. And for that, he would have to first meet the dark wizard.
Riddle still had to find out which girl did the wizard want from Hogwarts in order to negotiate with him. If he had to sacrifice the life of a girl in order to not to return to the muggle world, where he was always hated and disrespected, he would do it with any doubts or confusion. He ordered his followers to bring him information about all the female students of Hogwarts. He knew he had no time to delay.
Madonna entered a few minutes later into his room. Riddle became a bit annoyed by her sudden presence. Before he could order her to leave the room, Madonna pleaded.
"Riddle I am sorry, but I really need your help. I wanted to tell you that Mr Nott had, at last, regained some of his memories, he remembered the place where he had met the wizard and what the wizard had told to him."
Riddle seemed like he didn't give any heed to whatever she said. Madonna stated again "Please, Riddle I really need your help.."
Riddle shook his head "I really don't care about it, I have already found out the location of the wizard".
Madonna became startled, " So are you planning to confront him alone?"
"Only time will tell " Riddle exclaimed
"Do you need any help?" Madonna asked him
Tom mocked her, "I don't want to have any unnecessary troubles by taking unworthy people with me."
"If you please, but tell me if you know that the wizard is having any connections with any of us here or not?" Madonna tried to engage Tom in a conversation.
Back in the Slytherin common room, Sophia met with Abraxas and his friend Avery. She did exactly what Madonna had planned with her on the previous night. She gently greeted them and said to them pleadingly "Abraxas I am sorry for last day's behaviour. I have accepted your apology and maybe we can forget our hatred toward each other. I do have a little present for both of you." Sophia offered both of them cupcakes. The two boys vehemently accepted the cupcakes, but after sometime, they just felt tremendously loopy and passed out on the couch of common room.
Madonna noticed Henry outside the Hall of Hexes. She gestured Henry to cast the stunning spell on Riddle when she fully indulges him into her conversation. After a few more minutes of Madonna distracting Riddle through her conversations, Henry finally got a chance to curse 'stupefy' onhim. Suddenly Riddle's body suddenly froze completely and he fell over Madonna. Madonna nearly tossed over the floor with him, but somehow regained her balance and asked Henry for assistance. Both of them took Riddle on the backside of the room. Although Riddle was still out of his senses, his mind was under the control of Madonna and Henry.
Henry was still afraid of all this. In spite of Henry's unspoken pleas, Madonna cast the 'Fidelius Charm' on him. Suddenly she could feel that a part of her soul was getting connected to Riddle's soul. She started to see everything clearly through his mind. As if a part of Madonna got connected to Riddle. In spite of all the broad complex memories of Riddle's mind Madonna finally entered to the part of his memory she wanted to see ~
Riddle, Abraxas, Avery and a few of his followers were sitting inside the common the room.
Riddle suddenly banged a pen on the table."I need to figure out the girl the dark wizard wanted, and I bet Phillips is having some connections with it. She knows some information that Theodore Nott had given to her, but she would never disclose it to anyone. We need to find out whatever he said to her by any means."
"But Riddle why don't you simply cast Imperius on her?" Avery exclaimed.
"I could have done it much before, but she is having some resistance against my curses. I don't know what kind of resistance she can put against some of the most powerful curses, but she's not at all a person to be underestimated. Besides Professor Dumbledore is keeping an eye on me. He has found out that I am the one who has stolen the books from the restricted section, and that I am practising dark arts inside Hogwarts, although he's not quite sure of it. And with Dumbledore always watching me I can never cast an unforgivable spell on someone."
"But I am sure about her friend Myrtle'', Riddle paused, "she obviously knows something about it. See if you both can find some information from her friend."
Riddle got up from his chair. He left the common room followed by all of his friends.
Madonna suddenly lost her connection with Riddle's mind. She became extremelydisconsolatebecause all her worries about Riddle were true, she realized that Riddle had castedImperius on her when she saw him at the library. And Riddle had actually taken the books from the restricted section and tried to frame on her. Madonna quickly cast Oblivious on him, before seating him on his chair near the books he was investigating inside the Hall of Hexes. Henry then casted the counter spell on him.
Madonna and Henry quickly came out of the room before Riddle could come back to his senses. She took Henry along with her and went immediately in search of Professor Dumbledore. After entering inside Professor Dumbledor's chamber, Madonna narrated everything to Professor. Both Dumbledore and Henry became shocked as well as extremely disappointed on hearing this. But little did they know that Riddle had some other plans left for them.
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