"Here we are." Said Wally as the elevator stopped. Harriett expected another door behind the elevator this time. She was surprised when they saw the wall. When the elevator doors opened, again with the "Ding!" it revealed nothing but the same gray stonewalls going down the whole tunnel. Wally pulled a rag-like thing out of the envelope. "This is a gar." He said, showing Harriett the rag. He, then, started to rub the gar against the wall. Wherever he wiped, a part of a door appeared. It was like he was cleaning away the wall, revealing a hidden door behind it. When the whole door was visible, six keyholes were shown. Five were in a row, next to each other. The other keyhole was above the five. Wally pulled keys out until the five bottom holes each had a key in them. Wally then seemed to turn the keys in a certain order. First, he turned the second key. Harriett looked up at the door as she heard the noises behind it, indicating that it was unlocking. Next, Wally turned the fifth key. Then, the third. Then, the first key. And last, the fourth key was turned. The door swung open. Everyone gazed inside at a mound with a small package on it. Harold started to walk towards it-
"Wait!" warned Wally. He walked in front of Harold and knocked on the air as if an invisible wall was before him. He knocked twice, lowered his hand a little, and knocked three more times. Suddenly, a door appeared. This door had only two keyholes. Wally pulled a strange key out of the envelope. It had two key prongs instead of one. He stuck the prongs into the two holes and waited. Everyone looked up when they heard a big 'Thud!" behind the door. That seemed to be the sign to take the key out because that's what Wally did. He placed it back into the envelope with everything else as the door opened. Behind the door, was the same thing they had seen before, a mound with a small package on it. Harriett was really curious of what it was and why it was so secret, but decided it could wait. Harold and Harriett looked at Wally. "It's okay now." He said. Harold walked over to the package. He put it in his pocket and walked back. Soon, they were back in the elevator. Harold turned a key in the sixth hole of the first door. This made the door turn back into the same gray stonewalls. Then, Wally pulled the only gold rope pull (the others were red.) and the elevator started to move again. They arrived back at the main room of the bank and said "Good bye." to Wally. They were soon back outside.
"That was weird." Harriett said.
"Yeah, centaurs are kind of mysterious." Harold said, shrugging. Harriett had meant the building and the small package but then thought about what other buildings in the wizarding world might be like and let it go.
"What's the package for, anyway?"
"About that, if anything happens, we never got it."
"What? Why?"
"I got this for business reasons. Dumbledude's orders. People may try to steal it and that's what we're trying to avoid. So, we were never here."
"Okay." Harriett was very curious but decided to just be happy for now.
"Now then, let's go get the rest of your things on you list! Oh, look. There's Hediweg!" They had let Hediweg fly around outside while they were in the bank. Now, she had come flying in and landed on Harriett's shoulder. Harriett petted her chin and let her go back into her cage.
Harold and Harriett spent the rest of the day getting things off the list of stuff she needed for Pigpimples.
"What's next?" Harriett asked, smiling. She had her trunk full of things behind her and Hediweg, who was sleeping in her cage.
"That's everything on the list."
"Sooo... What now?"
"I guess we'll go back and stay the night at the Broken Pot." Harriett gave a sigh of relief. She had had loads of fun but had just stayed up all night running from home and spent the day shopping in Dragon Alley. She couldn't help but be tired.
They went back to the first brick wall that had brought them to Dragon Alley. Harold reenacted his code with his wand. This time though, it seemed that he had done it backwards. Harriett guessed that this was because they were on the opposite side of the wall than before. They went back into the Broken Pot, Harriett still amazed by the moving bricks. Harold waved fare well to Harriett as Joe went to show her to her room for the night.
"Well, here's your room for the night!" Joe said as he open the door to an old room. It had old wood walls, a wood floor, and a small window. It contained an old area rug, a bed (this alone made Harriett happy), a dresser, and a cracked window. Harriett smiled. She loved this room compared to her cold garage at home. "Harold will take you to Hogwarts tomorrow so try and be ready."
"Hogwarts?"
"Yeah. You know, the school?
"You mean Pigpimples?"
"Um, sure." Harriett was realizing what Harold had said earlier. It did feel like he knew something that they didn't. "Good night!" he said, closing the door.
"Good night!" With that, Harriett jumped into the bed and fell straight asleep. She had just had the best day of her life so far, and tomorrow was just going to be better.
"Wake up, sleepy head!" It was the next day and Joe had brought Harriett breakfast. "Time to go to Hogwarts!" Harriett rised from bed and smiled when she saw the tray Joe was holding. On the tray was orange juice, pancakes, bacon, a rubber chicken, and sausage. The Dudleys had always given Harriett unsweetened oatmeal for breakfast. She had occasionally snuck food because she was the one cooking it but got caught a lot.
"You mean Pigpimples." Harriett corrected as she started at a piece of bacon. "And thank you!"
"Your welcome! Hagr- I mean Harold is waiting downstairs for when you're ready."
"Okay." Joe left and Harriett finished her breakfast happily.
