Harry Potter and the Secrecy Within
Chapter 5: Butterbeers With McGonagol?
Harry and Professor McGonagol arrived in Hogsmeade shortly after their departure from Hogwarts.
"Well," Harry started, "Where are we off to?"
"The Three Broomsticks," McGonagol replied dryly.
Harry tried a more subtle approach, "I'm sorry." He said meekly.
McGonagol glared at Harry over her spectacles. "Sorry.........sorry, Mr. Potter? Thats all you have to say?" She turned the opposite direction of the Three Broomsticks and walked down the street. Harry ran to catch up with her.
"Where are we going?" Harry asked with alarmed interest.
"Just go along with me, we're being followed." Minerva stated flatly under her breath.
They briskly turned a corner and Minerva snatched Harrys hand and disapparated to a small flat on the out-skirts of Diagon Alley. McGonagol pulled Harry out of the flat and into a deserted hallway. She ran at full speed with Harry half-running and being half-pulled. McGonagol stopped inside a building Harry had always been fasinated with. On the front of the building were inscribed in the stone archway, "Enter Stranger but take Heed, Of What Awaits the Sins of Greed, For Those Who Take But Do Not Earn, Must Pay Dearly in Their Turn. So if You Seek Beneath Our Floors, A Treasur That Was Never Yours, Thief You Have Been Warned Beware Of Finding More Than Treasure There."
"Why are we in Gringotts?" Harry asked out of breath.
McGonagol did not answer. She simply walked up to one of the many front desk and produced a key card. The goblin only nodded and did not speak a word. He got out from his desk and motioned for Minerva and Harry to follow him. They walked the entire first floor to a security check point when Minerva slid her card under a magically enhanced key reader. The huge gate that towered before them glowed a magnificent green. The color of the gate was exactly the color of Harrys' eyes. The goblin walked ahead of them directly into the gate and disappeared. Minerva and Harry followed closely behind and the gate turned yellow behind them, then an deep crimson and finally turned back into the towering magically enhanced steel gate they had seen moents before.
"Here," The goblin bellowed, "You will find many rooms similar to Hogwarts' room of requirement, but these rooms have so many charms and hexes placed upon them only a fool would try to enter on without a key card and the required service of a Gringotts employed goblin."
"Which room is ours?" Minerva asked in a high-pitched nervous voice.
"Look above the doorway and you will see names. Actually the only thing you will be able to make out on any door except for yours in gobblish."
"Gobblish?" Minerva repeated.
"Yes, the language of the goblins. Well I must be off to get back to my desk, when you are finished do the same thing as you did at the gate as you did when coming in, except the colors will go in a backwards sequence."
And with that the goblins snapped two of its long fingernails together and disappeared.
"Well we had better start looking for our door." McGonagol stated as if it were the most complex thing ever to have been thought up in the entire world.
Harry wanted to smack her and say something like "Duh what else would we do?" but he didn't. Instead he simply started walking down the long corridor.
"This is rediculous," Harry finally said after 20 minutes of searching. He pulled out his wand and said "letras expectras mortimus." Far down the hallway a door lit up in an illuminating orange that blinded the hallways unsuspecting travelers, which were few.
"What did you just do Mr. Potter?" McGonagol hissed at Harry.
"Found our door, it's the orange one." Harry said like a little smart ass.
"Really, Mr. Potter I mearly assumed you blew something up down there. Anyways lets go." Minerva spewed at Harry.
As soon as th door close behind Minerva and Harry they looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"That was great Harry." McGonagol said to Harry.
"Thanks I wasn't sure of what was happening but when you blew up about the door I knew we were being monitored. I was already aware that we were being followed but I didn't realize you wanted them to think we were actually going to discuss private matters."
"Now I know that we will be followed out of here also so I want one of us levitating the other out so it looks like we came to have a little dueling practice outside of Hogwarts."
"But how will they know we were "dueling"?" Harry asked blatently.
"I cast a spell to rearrange some of the letters on the door. It now reads "Dueling practice being held do not enter under any circumstance without the proper charms cast upon yourself. In this case a good charm to cast before entering would be Protego."
"You did all that within the seconds of walking through the doorway?" Harry aked in disbelief.
"Yes Mr. Potter, now tell me all of what you know about Dumbledores illness.
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