Dean threw a ball at the wall and caught it. Colin was messing around with the pictures Dennis had taken. Katie was flipping through a teen fashion magazine. And Lee was reading a comic.

I walk into the room with a briefcase transfigured to look like a folder. My steps were sure and even as I walked into the room.

I had slowly been commandeering the room since the beginning of term. With the use of the Marauders' Map, the Room of Requirements, and smart spell casting, I was slowly building a network of interconnected rooms across the entire castle. Already three locations had been linked together to work as gambling dens and I had others in the works to be storefronts and bars.

The two eagles and four badgers arrived together.

The door locked shut behind them.

"Good evening everyone."