Rose, Ryuu, Scorpius and Gregory were standing in front of wall that years before used to leads to the Room of Requirement.

"What do we know for sure?" asked Ryuu.

"First: The Room shows only when you need it" said Gregory.

"It'll be simple, we need it to show so we don't have to spend more time together" added Scorpius.

Rose rolled her eyes at his comment, "During battle of Hogwards, Crabbe used Fiendfyre".

"So it is probably destroyed"

"I think we should ask for a place to hide something. They were searching for hidden Voldemort's horcrux, when they entered it" Rose summed up.

"Let's try it" Gregory closed his eyes and started repeating in his mind: We need room where we can hide something.

The door started to appear. Gregory put huge smile and cough door-handle, but before he could open the door Ryuu stopped him:

"Wait! Can you hear it?"

"Something is happening inside!" Gregory moved his ear closer.

"It must be fire. The curse is probably still going on!" Rose concluded.

"The room is still existing" Gregory thrilled.

"Don't forget that we can enter it. If we open the door, the fire will burn whole castle" Ryuu killed his happiness.

"That means we have to learn how to stop it. There must be some spell to overwhelm it" Scorpius assumed.

"This means we have a homework. Gosh, I hate homework" Rose wrinkled her nose.

"I see. We don't have better option than searching for information about fire spells and curses, and than using it to stop whatever is going inside" Ryuu said.

"What about comparing what we found tomorrow in The Tree Broomstick after our date?" Gregory said with hope in his voice.

"Well, if we must. It's settled. We will meet tomorrow at 3 and you will join us hour later. Is it okay?"

Scorpius and Rose nodded and Gregory almost jumped with joy: "More than perfect"

"See you, hopefully, not to soon" said Scorpius to Rose and he bowed his head to Ryuu. He wrapped his arm around Gregory's shoulders and dragged him away.

"Jerk" Rose responded. Ryuu painted weak smile, " I told you, he treats you different than others"

"Am I supposed to be happy about it? I would prefer he didn't acknowledge my existence" she noted angrily.

"Still, you are special to him, he has exclusive rights to make you angry. There is no-one better than him at this" Ryuu pointed out.

"I hate you when you are such smart ass" Rose smiled at her friend. They walked down the corridors and headed to their dormitories.


Scorpius looked at Gregory. His usually laid back friend was nervous. "Stop freaking out, be a man. Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. Be water, my friend"

"Scorpius, have you just quoted Bruce Lee?" Gregory stopped walking around with confusion.

"I thought it would be a good idea" Scorpius admitted.

"What would your father said? His only pure-blood son, the only heir of Malfoy's heritage is quoting muggle martial artist"

"I think he somehow managed his feelings about muggles and pure-blood after war. If he had problem with it, I would tell him to become a teapot"

"This is your advice for me, before my date with Japanese beauty?" Gregory asked not quite sure.

"Dude, be yourself. It would be enough. Now, go or you'll be late"

"Right. Keep your fingers crossed for me" and he left his friend.

"I don't think you will need it" Scorpius said to emptiness. He looked again at his notes about fire spells. They would have to practice some of them but he thought that it would be possible to stop fire. When they enter the room they would think about cleaning or recreating things that were left.


Ryuu and Gregory had chosen the table for four since they knew that their friend would came.

"Be teapot" Gregory said to himself.

"Excuse me?" asked surprised Ryuu.

"Oh, nothing, just very good advice" he showed his charming smile. Then they started talking and laughing so hard that they hadn't spotted that the hour passed and Rose and Scorpius haven't showed yet. When they entered pub and saw that Ryuu and Gregory were having such a great time together they chose another table and watched them.

"I've never thought that I would be sitting here with you" Rose proclaimed with sadness.

"Me neither. But they look like they are spending some quality time with each other. I don't feel like disturbing them"

"Me neither" she sighed and shake chill going through her back "We are agreeing over something. Disgusting"

Scorpius showed her his perfected face expression which tells her how he hates her. "Let's stick to business. What did you find out?"

"I think I know how to stop it. The curse was never stopped. So there must be something producing fire"

"Crabbe's wand" Scorpius cut in. Rose was not pleased with him interrupting her, but she continued. "I also think so. We must open the door, find the wand and stop it from producing more flames"

"You make it sound like it is easy. You know that we have to learn how to control this fire. It is not a Wingardium Leviosa"

"Are you afraid?" she raised her eyebrows.

"No, I'm only being realist. We will have to practice it" he responded with annoyance.

"I know. One person will be standing outside and holding fire from exploring into corridor. The rest will go inside. One person will be fighting off the fire and the rest will be searching for wand. When we find it, we will stop the curse and get rid of flames" She explained her idea like it was receipt of muffins.

"But what if someone pass by? It's not everyday picture in Hogwards"

Rose exhaled heavily. "I'm again showing you something I shouldn't" she said and started searching for it in her backpack. "This is called Marauder's Map. Or rather a copy of it. The original one is in the possession of Al. It was created by his grandfather and his friends. This one is for my personal usage"

I pressed her wand at parchment and said: I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

Scorpius looked at her and than at the paper in front of him. It showed a map of Hogwards.

"Are there..."

"It locates people in castle and around it. One person will be holding fire, two will search inside and one will be checking map and eventually preventing him or her from finding out our little secret. Mischief managed" she taped the map and it went blank.

"Can I have..."Scorpius started again.

"NO. This time I'm not doing copy for you. Let's interrupt their date" she said firmly and she headed to table with Ryuu and Gregory.

"How, on Merlin's pants, am I not suppose to hate her" he asked himself and followed her.


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