Harry finally took his wand out and sighed.
"Well, lets do some hunting." he looked around. "You know I was wondering. Couldn't the Hovering Charm be considered a Dark Art, Hermione?"
"How so?" Hermione asked, frowning. "What is your argument for that?"
"Well, think about it..." Harry stopped, "Maybe I should just show you."
He pointed his wand at a rat then swished and flicked.
"WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!"
The rat flew into the air all the way to the ceiling then Harry let it drop. The rat died on impact.
"See, Hermione?"
A skill has been created.
Debate-1
"Well, I never thought of it like that before." Hermione said nodding to herself doing the same with another rat. "I guess if you could get the spell strong enough and had enough magic you could indeed do that to a human. "
Wingardium Leviosa -1
"This level system is really pissing me off. " Harry sighed, "and why aren't we getting much Exp for killing these things. Observe."
Rat
Level : 1
HP: 20/20
MP: 0/0
"They are level 1 with 20 HP and 0 MP." He informed.
"How do you know that?" Hermione wondered.
They were both casting the spell and it was raining rats.
She suddenly grinned.
"You unlocked Observe."
"Yep." He said, with a shrug. "It's almost to level 4 it takes awhile to level up. I'm spamming the hell out of it."
Hermione giggled.
After 1 hour of boredom fighting rats
You level has increased by 1.
"Alright level 2!" Harry cheered.
You have 5 skill points to spend.
"I got 5 skill points you?"
"Haven't leveled up yet." Hermione said, "Oh, there we go. Yeah me too."
They killed a bunch more rats and spiders but didn't level up again. They gathered the rats and spiders into the inventories and noticed some dropped items.
"So basically what we're looking at his a bunch of rat skin, teeth, claws and even tails." Harry sighed as they wore their Herbology gloves to gather everything. They split it evenly. Then removed their gloves and put them in their inventory. "Okay lets take these 100 to Snape quick." He moved his map in front of him and pushed the locator function.
"Albus Dumbledore."
Dumbledore is currently in the Gryffindor Common Room.
"Good. C'mon, lets drop these and get back."
"It can do that?!" Hermione cried as they ran toward Snape's office. "Are you kidding me? Can the map do that?"
"I don't think so." Harry told her. "I think it's unique to the game."
Quest Complete!
5 Knuts
10 exp
Is what they got when they handed it over to Snape.
"We've gotta go now." Harry said, "Dumbledore is heading this way."
"Oh?" Severus asked, "How do you know that?"
"I checked the map when we left the room. He was coming out of Gryffindor Tower and taking a passage that would more or less lead him straight here." Said Harry thinking quickly. "We've really gotta go."
With that he was running off with Hermione's hand in his.
"We're going the wrong way!" Hermione cried.
"We can't go that way. We have to take the Impossible Passage!" Harry told her.
"The what?" Hermione cried.
Harry lead her to the entrance to the Slytherin Common room and to the left running straight through the wall as Dumbledore entered the dungeons. He pinned her to the wall with his hand over her mouth so she didn't scream. There were spider webs everywhere. Hermione had been set to scream. Both of them were breathing hard. He slowly removed his hand from her mouth after she nodded.
"Scourgify." Hermione hissed, waving her wand over Harry's shoulder.
The passage was rather tight but Harry managed to move to give Hermione space and pull his wand.
"Scourgify."
Scourgify-1
"That's actually accurate." Harry muttered. "Come on, I don't like where this lets out either. Keep casting."
They managed to clean the area around them but Harry took two steps and tripped over something.
"Hermione, my glasses." He cried, "I can't ..."
Hermione got down and lit a Lumos. She quickly returned Harry's glasses to him.
"A book?" she asked as Harry put it in his inventory. "Where does this let out, Harry?"
He smirked at her as he got up. They kept casting the spell until the reached the other side of the passage.
Scourgify- 10
"After all that?" Harry cried, "This game is rigged. "
"We only cleaned what we needed to not the whole passage." Hermione pointed out. "So where are we?"
Harry slid the cloak over them and checked his map.
"It's clear lets go."
"EH!" Hermione cried. "No wonder it's the Impossible Passage! This lets out right next to the Great Hall!"
"Keep it down!" he hissed. "It's impossible because it lets out next to the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room."
Hermione was about to say something but thought better of it as they rushed back to Harry's room.
"You're leg..." she said as she helped him into bed. "It's got to be killing you. I'll go ask Snape for a Pain Reliever..."
" 'Mione...I..." Harry groaned.
"I know I'll tell him." She soothed. "Just rest."
Harry gave her a weak smile and drifted off to sleep.
"Is that Harry Potter?"
"He looks so cute when he's asleep."
He heard his picture being taken.
"Rita Skeeter I really hope you haven't forgotten our deal." He sighed sitting up and rubbing his eyes under his glasses. "If so it would be very bad for you now wouldn't it?"
"I assure you this is merely going into my personal collection." Rita said, beaming at him.
"How is that supposed to make me feel any better?" he wondered. He looked around he was in the Great Hall and it was packed full of Governors, teachers, Ministry workers, the Minister, Order members; it said so over their heads, Death Eaters, Azkaban Death Eaters, Aurors, Dumbledore, the Weasley's and Voldemort oh and some general population. "I would like to die now, please."
"HARRY!" Hermione cried running over. She hit his shoulder. "Don't so that! Come on let me help you. Professor Snape did some scans while you were asleep and it said your leg was broken."
"Yeah, Gryffindor if you don't mind."
She helped him over to the table.
"Now how did you get in this condition, Harry?" Rita wondered. He gave her a dead look. "Oh, come on, I'm sure you would like the world to know."
"Actually I wouldn't." Harry sighed, "I don't want anyone to know. But when I went to sleep I was in my cupboard...I mean room." Hermione could tell that he'd slipped up on purpose. "How did I end up here at Hogwarts?"
Acting-1
"Magic, Mate." Ron yawned from his place at the table. "It brought us all here. Somethin' about some Gamer."
"You should really listen, Ronald. The Gamer is the Ultimate Magical Power!" Hermione lectured. "Harry, how did you get hurt this bad in the few days we've been out of school and have you eaten at all?! It's almost dinner. I'll ask Dobby to make you something light..."
"No..."
"Yes, I know." Hermione sighed, waving her hand dismissively. "No soup. You will have to tell me why you hate it so much. Oh, Hedwig came. She left these books in my care."
"My Healing books." Harry grabbed them. "Thanks, 'Mione."
"Oh, is healing something you're interested in?" Rita purred.
Harry could tell she was frustrated.
"Of course it is. I'm going to learn to heal myself and others." Harry said. "I'm going to study as hard as I can so I can get a job at St. Mungo's and help people. "
Rita was readying her quill.
"If I even see the QQQ I'm going to tell everyone in the world your secret, Rita." Harry said, in a dead and yet very serious tone.
Rita actually pouted like a little baby.
