Year Three at Hogwarts
(---)
Chapter 20: Trust or Not to Trust?
The seekers stared at the goblet, admiring its mystifying feeling and even the beauty of the golden goblet that it was in. Orichai seemed to understand and didn't say anything to draw their attention for a while before he cleared his throat.
"I'm sorry to draw you away from the Great Power but I can't help noticing that all of you seem injured."
"What gave it away," Tyler mumbled to Jacke, which almost made him burst out laughing.
Reggie gave them a pointed glare and spoke as politely as he could to Orichai. "Yes, we are still feeling those attacks from your brethren that we had to encounter. All of us are hurting."
"Well, for being such good boys."
He stopped talking and just brought out his wings. They started to have a glow to them and then a shower of sparks flowed from them right onto the Seekers. It felt warm and relaxing like taking a warm bath after a hard day. Reggie suddenly felt the tightness in his arm slip away and when he waved it, he didn't feel the pain that he got from the fight with Shimroe or feel the aftershocks of his bond in Brad's fight. Brad had a tingle throughout his ribs and was surprised to feel that they didn't hurt anymore from his trial with Rams. Jacke didn't have sore spots anymore and felt nothing that even suggested that he took a beating from Yalcone. The pressure on Tyler's throat and back were disappearing from the zombie and those bashing attacks that he took in the maze.
"You healed us?" Reggie said looking at Orichai like he was a strange thing, which he still sort of was.
"You just found that out," Tyler said smirking and causing Reggie to roll his eyes and suck his teeth.
"I believed that you earned it for going through all that," Orichai said cutting in. "You exceeded even my expectations. To believe that young children such as yourselves could get by all the tests and battles we have here."
"To be honest, we barely did," Brad said putting his hands inside his pockets. "Your brethren did a pretty big number on us through those trials."
"Regardless, you still passed them and at your current age. It's refreshing to see wizards especially the children of the old ways again."
"What are you talking about?" Reggie asked.
"Oh never mind that. You came for this goblet right. You have earned the right to take it children."
"Could you please stop calling us that, we have a name for all of us you know," Tyler said annoyed that he kept saying children to refer to all four of them.
"Well, what do wish for me to call all of you Mr. Slytherin?"
"We're the Seekers and you should do well to remember it," he said with nods of pride coming from his three friends.
"Seekers then, anyway, let me tell you a bit about this potion that you may not have discovered. As you can see, the potion flows in this sacred goblet that creates a drop of the potion every five years. As you probably know Mr. Slytherin, your ancestor along with the other founders of Hogwarts used this potion to shape the land outside and create their castle and grounds. They only used about a vile full of the potion to create it."
"A vile??!!" Reggie said astonished. "Such a big place like Hogwarts and it's grounds created and shaped with just a vile of this potion?" The others were finding it hard to make a sound even though their mouths were wide opened from shock.
"Yes, this power is strong. Didn't you notice some of the spectacular and powerful rooms in this temple? Each of us guardians used about one or two drops of the potion to create the rooms that we held the test in; as for I, I had to use three to create my maze."
He kept talking without giving them time to react to that amazing knowledge. "The founders heard of this and saw just how strong that this potion was. They decided to take a small amount of the potion to use in building their school since I told them it's potential power. They had made a building plan and had ideas for the surrounding grounds and I told them the amount they would need based on the plans they showed me. Anyway, you could take as much as you want, the whole goblet in fact if you desire."
"So what do you think?" Brad asked lowly to his friends.
"Yeah, I mean, we don't even have a plan on what exactly we're putting into our own place, so I think that maybe we should take a little now since we don't know how much we'll use." Reggie said trying his best for his friends to understand this logic.
"Your have a good point Reggie," Tyler said stroking his chin and making Reggie nod in satisfaction. "We don't what we're putting into this and we don't know how much we'll need so we better take the whole goblet."
"What? That's not what I really had in mind?" Reggie said a little shocked at Tyler's suggestion.
"Any one else object?" Tyler said turning from Jacke to Brad. They both looked at each other considering which one might be the better idea and then they shook no. "That settles it, we get the goblet."
"Fine, I guess you do have a point in taking the whole thing," Reggie said sounding defeated but it was clear he was saying it dramatically for laughs.
The seekers surrounded the pedestal with the goblet and they each went and touched it. Just in touching the goblet, they could feel a strong feeling coming from the potion. Tyler went and lifted the goblet and was surprised at how light it seemed since the goblet looked heavy from the gold.
Orichai spoke again. "Seekers, let me assist you in going back to the outside world." He held up his hands and the room reacted. It appeared that the walls and floors of the room were starting to melt and swirl. It looked like the room had liquefied around them and then all of a sudden, everything became solid again. The Seekers suddenly found themselves in the room where they had first entered the temple. They looked behind them and saw the portal entrance that they used to enter from the forest.
However, while this was happening, Tyler felt like he was spacing out and found himself in front of a beautiful woman that seemed to be glowing. Her blond hair moving behind her as if being carried by the wind even though there was no breeze that he could feel.
"Tyler Slytherin I presume?" it asked.
"Yeah…that's me. Are you…the spirit of the earth?"
"Yes, like your companions, I have chosen to let you have your powers unshackled as well."
"But why?"
"You've proven your worth with your skill when you maintained in keeping your lightning orb in place even though you were distracted and were in battle. Then using it after such a long time after releasing it, in the battle you were with the zombie creature. For this, I have seen that you are worthy."
Then Tyler's consciousness returned to the temple where he saw that they were in the room that they started in.
"Thank you Orichai," Jacke said appreciating the fact that they didn't have to walk all the way back to the entrance.
"I believe that you would best be off now," Orichai said waving a hand toward the exit. "Please, return if you desire it, I would enjoy seeing you all again one day if I could. Also, one last warning, use that potion with care, it is very powerful as I just told you of what it has accomplished."
The four of them experienced the feeling of walking through the water like portal and found themselves back at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Clouds had darkened the sky and a few flurries were falling. Jacke was the last to step out and when he did, the chalice diagram that they tapped to open it stopped glowing. Jacke put his hand back through and saw that the portal was closed since it didn't disappear.
As they walked across the grounds, they made sure to keep Tyler behind them so they could block off the potion's view from anyone that happened to walk by. Reggie let out a yawn and asked what time was it. Brad checked his watch and said that it was almost 6 o'clock meaning that they were in the temple for almost 8 hours.
"So Tyler, where are we going to keep that," Jacke said pointing to the goblet in Tyler's hands.
"I think that maybe putting it in the Chamber would be the best thing to do now."
"Good, that way we're sure no one would accidentally find it or steal it," Brad said tirelessly as he stared at the potion.
The four of them made it to the second floor bathroom running only into one or two students. Tyler pressed close to hide the potion under his combat robes while his friends positioned to hide the sight of Tyler's hands succeeding in eluding them. Thankfully, the ghost of Moaning Myrtle wasn't in the bathroom and Tyler opened the chamber and set the rope without incident. Brad then broke off a piece of one of the wooden stalls and transfigured it to be a cover for the goblet so none of the potion would spill when they went down.
"Guys listen," Tyler said as they were walking toward the snake door entrance. "I saw the spirit of the earth before we left the temple."
"You did? That's great!" Jacke said as low as he could without classifying it as shouting.
"I can't believe it. You saw her huh? Wasn't she…just wonderful," Reggie said grinning in spite of himself.
"You git," Brad said elbowing him and grinning. "Guess that means we all got our elemental powers unshackled. Now you guys can create real wind, fire and lightning like I can create real water instead of just a magical force that looks like it."
"They can be real handy. We have quite a collection among us huh mates," Reggie said. He brought a good point. Having fire, wind, water and lightning powers, the four of them could do some big things with those among with their other talents.
Tyler placed the potion in the room beyond the secret storeroom inside the chamber, on the middle stand where they found the map to the potion in the lit up room. He caught sight of the items in the other two pedestals in there but just shrugged and made mental notes to check them another time because he was too excited and busy with the potion.
(---)
"Alright, now that we've put the potion away, let's get back to the ones you told the truth to," Tyler said before taking another bite of mash potatoes.
They were in the Great Hall, eating their dinner, after they came out of the chamber. They were on the far off side of the single long table so they wouldn't be overheard.
"Okay," Brad said letting out a deep breath for the impending threat of a row with his friend. "I told Hawkster everything about the potion and later told him about us being elementals but I didn't tell him about how we found the map so he doesn't know about you being a parselmouth."
Reggie spoke next. "I told my friend Laura," he stopped to point her out and noticed that she was looking in their direction. "everything."
"Okay, when everybody comes back from the holidays, I want to see both Hawkster and Laura together to see if I can trust them myself or not. Can you two do that?"
"Trust or not to Trust? That is the question." Brad said earning a laugh from them.
"But still," Tyler said after he stopped. "Can you tell them that?"
Reggie and Brad nodded their heads and all four of them resumed the task of finishing what they thought was their well-earned dinner.
After dinner, Jacke pulled Tyler aside into an empty corridor by a statue of Barnabas the Barmy.
"Tyler, listen, don't get mad at me but…I want to tell my friends Jennifer and Max everything."
"What?" he said dropping his face into a stupor. He thought that the ones Reggie and Brad told were heart stopping enough.
"Look, after Reggie and Brad confessed about it, it got me thinking about my friends. Reggie…Brad…they both told their own friends and they seemed to think that it was right and was a good relief to get the secret off their shoulders. I…got jealous of them."
"Jacke, you know that I don't even like that Reggie and Brad went and told their friends and now you ask me if you could tell yours?" he said making Jacke look and admire his shoelaces. "Okay," he said after a while of letting Jacke fascinate his shoes.
"Yeah, I…what?"
"Tell your two friends." Tyler said with a straight face.
"But, you just said…"
"Yeah but you asked me if it was okay, Reggie and Brad didn't. And…I'm with you on the whole jealous thing too. The thing that really got me was that Reggie and Brad had enough faith to trust their friends with their secrets and I didn't have that for mine."
"So, I could really tell them? You're okay with it?"
"Yeah, but you'll have to bring them along with Hawkster Jones and Laura Collins. I want to check to see if I could trust them, okay?"
"Sure, I think they would be okay with that. They're out home for the holiday and I'll tell them when they come back. What about you?"
"Me?"
"Yeah, you said that you were jealous just like me. Are you going to tell your slytherin friends?"
"…Yeah, I am but not all of them."
"Which ones?"
"I think I'll only keep it with Regulus, Matt, Sam and Morgan."
"What about your other friend, Severus Snape?"
"There's a private thing between us so I don't think I can tell him because of it."
With that, Tyler went down towards the dungeons, for his common room. Jacke headed over to the portrait of the Fat Lady and after saying the password (Woodcracker Stack) entered the Gryffindor common room and headed for the 3rd year boys dormitory.
(---)
"Reginald Falkner, do you realize how many times you could've died!" Reggie's friend Laura yelled at him before giving him a good slap on the face.
She and Reggie were in the Ravenclaw common room after dinner and Reggie just told her the whole story in great long detail.
"Relax woman, please. I'm right here, okay and alive. Orichai healed us so no harm done."
"No harm done?! I think you're hanging around those risky friends of yours too much for your own good because you can't see that you were so close to dieing today. You promised you would be careful."
"And we were. Believe me, I was the most careful out of the four of us. I was the one who made sure they were careful too but we couldn't not get hurt with trials like those."
"Well, didn't you think to just walk away and try again when you brainless dogs were better."
"We came close when we considered that but didn't want to waste everything after we did get that far. Come on Laura, it's done already, we have the potion now so there's no use yelling about it."
"I'll yell WHENEVER I want, thank you!!!" Laura screamed with angry eyes at Reggie that made him shiver and flinch within. She breathed a little hard until she eased up and spoke softly again. "But I am glad that you are okay."
"I didn't think you cared that much," Reggie said smirking and raising his eyebrows in the way that he found attracted girls to him like bees to honey.
"You overestimate yourself," Laura said shaking her head. "I'm immune to your gorgeous antics," she said mockingly.
"Oh, you think I'm gorgeous?"
"Keep wishing," she said smacking the back of his head.
"Oh, Laura," he said now sounding a little serious. "Remember when I told you about the Truth telling Trial? Well, Tyler wants to see you after everyone comes back three days to see if he thinks that he can trust you with his secret."
"What? Why when everyone comes back. If he wants to see if he could trust me then why not now?"
"Brad told his friend Hawkster Jones and he's left for the holidays so he wants to wait for him to come back so he could see if he could trust you together."
"Oh…well okay. I would probably do the same thing in his place. He's not going to hex me or anything right?"
Reggie let out a laugh at that. "No, you don't have to worry about that. I would worry about me because if he finds that he can't trust you then he'll deal it with me and not you."
(---)
The days came and went and soon Hogwarts had students coming back through it's doors from their holiday at home. Tyler had told them to bring all of their friends to the site where their secret cave had been at 6 o'clock.
Brad pulled Hawkster aside when Hawkster arrived back in the Hufflepuff common room and spotted Brad.
"Hawk, listen…I need for you to come with me at 6 o'clock to see my friends."
"Why, what's wrong?"
"No nothings wrong. It's just that they want to see if they can trust you with what I've told you. You see, I told them over the holiday that you know about the potion and our powers and they want to see if you can be trusted."
"Whoa, isn't that a little too far. I mean, sure I can see why they would worry. You chums are all elementals and I don't think that can spread around and make you very popular in the school can it. Not to mention the whole super potion, by the way, did you guys get it?"
"Yeah and also…there's more." Brad pulled him out of the common room and headed for an empty boys bathroom to tell Hawkster everything. He explained about the Seekers being animagi, he explained about Tyler being a parselmouth and about his connection to both Salazar Slytherin and Lord Voldemort and needless to say, Hawkster was speechless. "I know it's a lot to take in but I think that I can trust you with this. Tyler trusted that the three of us with his secret and I don't want to let him down by giving it up to someone whose going to blab it off. Hawkster, please, don't make have failed in him trusting me with his secret."
Hawkster looked from Brad to his shoelaces and he seemed to be thinking very hard on this. "You went through this whole time knowing about a parselmouth all this time especially with You-Know-Who around and his cousin at that. I still can't believe that he's been around the school all this time and none of us even had a clue. Brad…you told me that your friends and especially Solemn or Slytherin, were your best friends. You said that they were great and I believed you and you know what…I still do," he said smiling after he finished.
"You mean you'll…after what you just said,"
"Yeah, I'll go with you and show your mate Slytherin that he could trust me and I'll admit it, I want to go see if I could trust him."
Brad laughed. "Trust me, you'll trust him and he'll definitely trust you."
"Wait, Brad, can I ask one favor?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"Can you show me how you look as a badger?" he said looking very eager. Brad always liked his desire to always enjoy himself and have fun.
"Sure, why not." Brad said right before the spot where the thirteen-year-old hufflepuff was just replaced by a finely coated black badger.
"Wicked, you look just like our house emblem," Hawkster said looking from Brad to the badge on his robes.
(---)
"Are you serious Jacke?" Jennifer said with wide eyes.
Jacke was sitting on his bed in the 3rd year boys dormitory and had brought Max and Jennifer with him and put a silence charm on the door. Jacke just finished telling them everything from when the Seekers became elementals to what happened earlier in the week.
"You're making all this up. There's no way that you could be an animagus or an elemental of fire. You expect us to believe that. On top of that, you expect us to really believe that Solemn is You Know Who's cousin?" Max said like he found this to have been nothing more but creative storytelling.
"Look, I know that this seems hard to believe but if you guys need proof then I'll show you some." Jacke got up and went for a light up lamp. He narrowed his eyes in slight concentration and it lit up with a small flame. Max and Jennifer stared at it waved their hands to see if it was a real fire and were surprised when they felt it was hot. Jacke was secretly amazed since the flame he conjured happened to be the first bit of fire he conjured and was real fire. "I can do more than that." He raised the flame out of the candle and got it to make designs and spread it out and then made it disappear.
"You're…you're serious. It's all true. You're not joking at all are you?" Max said staring at the spot in the air where the fire disappeared.
"No. Look, I'm sorry. I know this must be hard for you to listen too. You probably think that the other Gryffindors were right in thinking that we were oddballs and that Tyler did possess us or something. I just wanted you guys to know about this because you're my friends and I didn't think I would be a good friend if I didn't trust you enough to tell you.
That's all I have to say so you two can go ahead and say what you want now."
"Jacke," Jennifer said about two seconds after he finished. "If you think for a solid second that I'm going to tattle to a teacher after all this time then I swear that you're as dumb as you look," she said with an almost angry face but that's not what made Jacke speechless.
"What do you mean as dumb as I look?" he said in a challenging way.
"Jenny means that you're not a right sight to look at and think you're brilliant from your face," Max said chuckling at the look on Jacke's face.
"Wait," Jacke said forgetting to retort. "You guys are okay with all this?"
"Jacke, I'm not okay with it but you can trust me to keep it a secret. I've always felt that there was something like this between the four of you. You were always talking in low whispers and seemed to be hiding something and now I know what," Jennifer said looking boldly into Jacke's eyes.
"Jenny…you hate for this don't you?" That obviously wasn't a smart assumption because barely a second after he said that Jennifer slapped the back of his head.
"Jacke, of course I don't hate you. I can't believe you just said that to me. Do you really think that low of me that I'll hate you after I've gotten to know you this long? So you could control fire, you just said that you've been able to do that since first year so obviously, it didn't change the type of person you are so I no."
"Sorry." Jacke couldn't say anything more after that because Jennifer was hugging him. He felt himself go red and he saw that Max was looking away but had a grin on his face. He was so glad that Max didn't see that Jacke had a foolish grin on his face. After she let him go, he turned to Max quickly. Partly because he didn't want Jennifer to see that he blushed and partly to have Max's opinion. "What about you Max?"
"Well, I'm not going to say that I don't think that Solemn or Slytherin shouldn't be watched. He always did seem a little dodgy and now I see why. But…"he said raising his hand. "He is your friend and if he's okay in your book after all this time then I won't tell anyone."
"That's good. Especially since he wants to see the both of you in about two hours."
"What?"
"Why?"
"Well, I told him that I wanted to tell you guys the truth and he said that I could do that only if I agreed that I bring you to meet him so he could tell if he could trust you with his secret."
"Sounds like a set up," Max said narrowing his eyes.
"Honestly Max, can you blame him for this? You know what he is and if he doesn't see if he could trust you then he'll be afraid for himself and for his parents and grandparents. Tyler was an absolute wreck when he accidentally showed us that he could speak parseltongue. He wants to see that you won't go tattling to a teacher or Dumbledore and put his family in danger."
"Whoa, I didn't think about that. He must be really scared that we're the kind of people that'll do that to him and his family. I feel very bad for him," Jennifer said looking like she was on the verge of tears.
"Jenny…no…look, Tyler is just a little worried, okay. His father had to watch when his grandpa made the mistake of revealing himself and got himself captured right in front of him as a kid. His dad always told him to be careful so he won't make the same mistake and Tyler just wants to be. Brad thinks it's because he doesn't want his dad to go through all that again."
"Wow, now I'm starting to feel guilty for thinking he was trying to set us up. Merlin, am I a git." Max said taking a very popular trend in admiring his shoelaces.
"Jenny, Max, just come with me in two hours to meet him. Once he sees that you two can keep his secret then he'll be okay."
Jacke then took the time to calm them down by showing them so more fire tricks, showing off his lion form which he let Max and Jennifer pet and rub him after they got over the shock of seeing a lion, and went into detail about the adventure for the Potion of Fecundity in which they were a good audience in gasping and cheering at the right spots.
(---)
Tyler was in the rock valley with his godfather, Chaos, Regulus, Matt, Morgan, Sam and Lutz, waiting for the others.
'Merlin, I'm glad that's over," Tyler said thinking about what had happened when he told his friends. He thought back on what happened moments ago…
His friends took the news better than he ever expected. He had started by pulling them close to a deserted corner of the common room where called Chaos over to them in parseltongue before he started his story. They didn't dare doubt that he wasn't joking after he proved he was a parselmouth. He told them from revealing his full name to what happened during the holidays. Unfortunately, Lutz Napier happened to have come across their conversation and heard enough. When they caught him, Sam brought him over to them and told them that Lutz could be trusted. Lutz swore he wouldn't tell anyone and after Tyler and Chaos checked him, they decided that he could be trusted. After all, Lutz wasn't really a friend but he told Tyler that he owed him for talking to him and cheering him up when he had that crisis about his brother during Christmas.
Each of them had different reactions for when he was finished. Matt was outraged that Tyler would tell them but wouldn't tell him even though Tyler explained that they found out by accident. Morgan just stayed silent and was staring at Tyler expressionless. Sam and Lutz kept whispering sounds of wonder and amazement. Regulus had his hand on Tyler's left shoulder in a way that a big brother would do for consoling. Tyler's godfather collected them from the common room so it wouldn't look too suspicious that they all were being led off into the grounds together since it would look like they were all having a detention instead.
Now, here they were waiting. Tyler didn't say that Jacke, Reggie and Brad were bringing company and thought that they wouldn't come if they knew that more Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were going to be with them. As one, Jacke's party, Reggie and his friend Laura, and Brad and Hawkster Jones were all seen coming toward them.
"What are they doing here?" Matt said to Tyler.
"Silence Mr. Carroway," Professor Squall said without moving. Matt backed up a bit and stayed quiet.
When they made it, Max started. "Why are you all here?" he said looking toward the slytherins.
"Try to guess," Sam said glaring at Max and moving toward him.
"Sod off Baddock," Hawkster shouted gritting his teeth going over to him.
"I don't need your help Jones," Max said turning to Hawkster.
"You need all the help you can get Longhorn!" Sam shouted. M
Max almost jumped at Sam if Lutz hadn't pulled Sam out of the way by his arm.
"Enough," Tyler shouted. Professor Squall helped with Leg Locker Curse to prevent the three of them from coming to blows. "We're not here to fight okay!" The three of them backed away from each other after Squall released them and Tyler continued. "Look…all of you are here so that you all can know who exactly knows about the four of us," he said pointed over to Jacke, Reggie and Brad. "and especially me. Now, that you all know who exactly knows my secret, I think it would be easier to keep it that, a secret. I'm not asking for all of us to be matey about this. I'm just asking to keep it among yourselves and maybe at least being civil to one another wouldn't hurt."
"Civil?" Matt said glaring over in Jacke's direction.
"You have something you want to say to me then say it," Jacke said making a glow of fire visible in his hand that made everyone but his Gryffindor friends shocked. Even though they were all told about their abilities, it was different to actually see it.
"Jacke, stop that right now." Tyler said glaring at him and shaking his head. "Get rid of that fire," he said in an almost ordering way.
"No Tyler, if your friend wants to say something to me then he should say it."
"Jacke, please." Jennifer said grabbing his shoulder to encourage him to stop.
"Mr. Walker, that's about enough." Professor Squall said in a deadly tone that made Jacke's insides freeze up and he quickly put out his fire. "However, you do bring a valid point in Mr. Carroway. If you do want to speak then speak."
"Okay, you want us to be civil with each other in public?" He said turning down his glare to look at Tyler.
"Yes, but I don't mean to be all shaking hands and that kind of thing. I mean that you don't pick fights and at least talk normally to one another or avoid each other if that's too hard, that's it. You know, like a treaty."
"You've got to be…" before he could finish, Morgan came and slapped the back of his head hard.
"What, that's too hard to do for Tyler, is it?" She had a glare on that would've made anyone go on their knees and beg for mercy. She also had her wand drawn in her hand but she didn't raise it.
Matt was petrified. "No, no, I…okay, I'll, I'll do it."
"Good," Regulus said speaking for the first time. "Morgan, you could put that away now." Morgan pocketed her wand and stood beside Tyler. Regulus then started to speak in a tone to everyone. "Look, we all are in the same boat. We know about the Seekers here and about what they've been doing. If any of us try to spite against Tyler, Jacke, Reggie or Brad, then we'll be hurting them all. We are all good friends with at least one of these guys, personally, I like all four of ya. We may not like it but we all in this together now."
"Thanks Regulus," Reggie said. Regulus nodded to him and Reggie spoke again. "Now, we brought all of you here so that Tyler can see if he can trust you all. Laura, Hawkster, Max, Jennifer, Regulus, Matt, Morgan, Sam, Lutz" he said looking at each other in turn. He felt calling all of them by their first names would help. "Do you swear to keep his secret? Remember, if you tell then not only are you putting his life in danger but his whole family's too."
Tyler looked into each of them as they said yes and could find nothing that suggested them lying. Chaos was right by his feet and he hissed that he couldn't feel anything deceitful from them. Chaos had told him that he was starting to feel his way around humans and could read their feelings which explained how Chaos always seemed to know when Tyler was troubled even though he said he was fine at times. Tyler did see that Jones, Longhorn and Sam were more interested in glaring at each other than looking at Tyler but Tyler believed they would be trustworthy. Collins gave him a handshake and said that his secret wasn't any of her business to spread around. Morgan was smiling at him as she said that he could trust her and he didn't have any doubt for a second. Matt gave him a "you can count on me" look. Lutz gave him an approving nod, which Tyler returned. Regulus didn't have any expression on his face but he had a look in his eyes that showed care. Jennifer Gardner gave him a look of worry and pity that made Tyler taken back. 'I wonder what's her story?' he briefly wondered.
Jacke, Reggie and Brad were silent through all this. They knew how important this was and could hold out on talking with Tyler later. After they talked more with their own house friends of course.
"Thanks," Tyler said to them. "If any of you want to talk to me in private then just tell me. I know it must not be comfortable knowing what you know about me so let it out with me if you want anytime. That's all I have left to say."
"Okay," Professor Squall said clapping his hands for attention. "I think that's enough for one day. I believe you should return to your common rooms now. You all have classes tomorrow and homework to do last minute." He said earning smiles and mild giggles all around. "Off you all go."
They all scattered apart but Professor Squall stayed back with Tyler. "You okay?"
Tyler knew he wasn't talking about himself personally but his feelings on this. "A little scared but a little happy too."
"Happy?" Squall said surprised.
"Yeah, at least, I won't have to hide myself from anyone but my fellow seekers and family anymore. But, I can tell this is going to take time to work also."
Then Tyler and his godfather made their way to the castle and Squall offered Tyler a cup of tea in his office.
(---)
End of Chapter 20Dark672: Thank you, I hope you like this one.
Tigercub15: I'm glad you loved the zombie. It just came to me like a bang. My brother gave me the idea when he started acting like one.
Nightlit: I hope this is enlightening for you. I was excited when you said you would have chapter 20 up but so far nothing, what's wrong?
Ginny1232008: Here's your update.
Author Notes:
Well, Tyler's secret just spilled further. Let's hope that these 9 new people in their knowledge circle are dependable. Don't worry, in time, these nine will become very important so this is the first step in something greater. You always have to start somewhere and it always starts with trust. I'll have the Seekers start their plans for the Potion of Fecundity, a quidditch match and who knows what else next chapter.
On another note, I found photos, official photos of scenes from the upcoming movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. There was a photo of Rita Skeeter talking with Harry, quill in hand, and others like Harry and Hermione sneaking off and Harry and Ron in their dress robes getting ready for the Yule ball. You could see them on the Digicasey website . It's a sight for all artwork and photos for everything in the Harry Potter world. Go to Colin's Photo Gallery and look into the Goblet of Fire photo gallery and see First official photos and you'll see them there. Just hit worldwideweb dotand then digicasey and then dot com. I tried to write the address plainly but the Document Manager won't let it come on.
Please give me reviews.
High Serpent King.