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Chapter twenty-eight: The Chamber is Smelly

As Barry, Don and Andy landed on the earth at the bottom of the earth there was a soft crunching sound.

"Uh oh...What was that?" Andy asked rubbing her sore ass.

"Lumos!" Barry muttered, waving his wand around examing the ground. When the light lit the ground Andy lept up,

"Oh, that's nasty!"

The ground was thickly layered in bones of rats and what looked like thick snake skin.

"Now, I really understand why this place is called the Chamber is called the 'Chamber of Smells'. It really smells like shit in here!" Don said holding his nose.

"Now remember-" Barry stopped as the whole chamber they were in lit up, Don and Barry instinctively shut their eyes, preparing themselves for the snake.

"Found the light switch!" Andy said excitedly, "Holy shit..." she said surveying the room. Barry and Don's snapped open, stone snakes weaved around the room on the walls and ceiling. Thousands of dead roosters were ruthfully killed and hung on the snake heads, each rooster in a different stage of decaying. More recent rooster murders were obvious as they were covered in feathers.

"Bloody hell..." Don whispered.

"Shit, of course. The heir had to kill every rooster that was close enough for the basilisk to hear it crow..." Barry said kicking a rat skeleton, "Two guesses what it enjoys to eat."

Andy crinkled her nose and looked up at the hole which they had jumped from,

"Is it just me, but do we always seem to jump down holes into dangerous places?" she said.

Before either of the boys could answer there came a shrill scream, as a body fell from the top of the hole.
"Who the fuck..."

Ooff-crunch. Gilderoy Knockharp landed with a loud crunchy thump, if that was possible...For a few moments he just lay in a lump.

"Maybe he's dead!" Don suggested hopefully, poking him with a rat rib bone.

"Ow! What are you doing you inbicile!" Knockharp yelled as he rose to his feet.

"What did it look like, Professor?"

Knockharp grunted and looked around,

"So, you found the Lost Chamber? I'm very proud of you."

"Uhh...It's not very lost now is it?" Andy said prodding a nearby rooster carcus.

"No, your right...Just think how pleased everyone will be when I lead them here. Infact it'd make them take back everything they've said about me. Wish they'd never doubted me...Of course there is very few of those people," Knockharp flashed them a grin, that looked threatening in the dim light.

"What do you mean when you lead them here!" Barry asked.

"Well...I may as well tell you since you're not going to remember later anyway-"

"What's that supposed to mean!" Andy demanded.

Knockharp winked,

"You'll find out soon enough! Now children, You probably always wondered how I, Gilderoy Kon Knockharp, did so well in the magical community. Well you see I can't do many spells except I must say that I do a Memory-clearing spell very well. Infact I'd call it an art. I-"

"Are you saying..." Barry said slowly, "You never did do all that stuff you said did, did you? You just found people who really did amazing things, then wiped their memory and said you did it!"

Knockharp burst onto an applause,

"Well done Barry!"

"And then your going to-" Barry began to finish, when Andy's eye grew round, she threw herself at Knockharp.

"Andy!"

Andy had Knockharp pinned to the ground and was punching him, while she screamed at him,

"You...Are...Scum...Professor!"

"Andy, calm down!" Don tried to pull her off, with Knockharp's wand in his mouth, "He's unarmed, he can't harm us, just get off him!"

Eventually, with the combined effort of Barry and Don, they managed to get Andy off Knockharp. Knockharp slowly rose to his feet with a swollen lip, black eye and a few scratches. His face broke into a painful, yet satisfied smile,

"Of course," he whispered, "Rose."

"Huh?" Barry looked from the furious Andy to the bloodied up Knockharp, "Is there something we're missing?"

"Miss Rose's father was the man who did the actual voyaging with vampires..." Knockharp said laughing slightly, "Must have thought your father had gone over the edge, Amber? Claiming he had been in close contact with vampires, while he was in St Mangos with memory problems? Yes, that dumb father of yours was a strong man and slowly was beating my spell. Well was until I went there and visited him..."

Barry and Don stood there in shock, both of them didn't think they should stop Andy, now that they knew the truth.

"I suppose you heard about my visit? The doctors thought it would do your father some good to meet the man who really voyaged with vampires. It was so unfortunate it made him worse..."

"Obliviate!" Andy roared, wand raised and pointing at Knockharp. As the spell hit him, his face turned from smug to shocked, he fell to the ground.

"Is he dead now!" Don asked even more hopefully than before.