Chapter 24
Playing With Magic Is Always Fun
Tonight is the night, the night we change the history of Hogwarts, and the potions, and the transfiguration, and Lockhart's oh-so grand works. Tonight, Fred, George, and I will change all the words at Hogwarts to hieroglphics. All I have to do is get through my last class, History of Magic.
Todays class, like all the ones the before, looked to be no different, so I tuned out. I must have had too much sugar this morning in my tea because the dream that I had was strange.
I was in a room. All alone. The room was made of slimy, green streaked concreite blocks. By my foot size, the room was a six foot by six foot cell of misery. A heavy, oak door stood along one wall. It's anchient metal lock, while rusty, was still stong, strong enough that I could not get through the locked door. A small, newly installed flap on the bottom of the door, was pushed open, allowing a plate of what looked to greyish mush to enter the room with me.
The only other interesting point in this room of doom was the window on the opposite wall from the door. All I could make out from the window, I had to stand on tip toes to even see out of it, was a very high cliff and a sky full of stark grey, black clouds that hung in the sky like death. Everyone in awhile, thunder would boom like my heart, and lightning would flash across the murderous sky.
A very loud crack from outside, heralded the ominous openeing of the door to the cell. I quickly turned around to face the door. The flash of red from a wand and a familer pain met me when I looked to the door.
I jerked myself awake at that. Wow, I am never going to drink tea with five spoonfulls of sugar again, I don't care how much better it tastes, it is not worth the day dreams my mind pops up with.
It was a good thing I woke up at that moment though, Hermione just did the un-thinkable. She raised her hand in Mr Binns complete lecture, do-not-ask-questions class. The entire class was shocked, if Mr Binns had been alive, he might have had a heart attack, as it was he looked like someone had beat him over the head with a bludger, he even had the memory loss to go with it.
"Miss--er--?"
"Granger, sir, I was wondering if you could tell us about the Chamber of Secrets," Hermione asked the still shocky professor.
By this time the rest of the napping, daydreaming class had perked up to listen about the infamous Chamber. Binns started going on about being a history professor, but Hermione refuted that, saying that all legends deal with facts, even on the weakest level.
I didn't think the professor would even buy that argument, if the attention of the whole class wasn't on him at that moment. Seeing as he never had the attention of the entire class after the first five minutes of the first class of the first years, he decided to tell us about the Chamber.
He started off telling us of the four founders, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin, came together as friends to build a castle of magic to teach the young magic users in the area. Each wanted to accept users of magic after their own hearts, which is why we have the four houses. And for a time, there was peace.
But, like all happy stories, this one had to crumble as well. Salazar thought that not all magic users should be allowed in to the school, only those of the purest blood and ideals should be allowed to attend. Salazar and Godric, once best of friends, fought over the issue for a while. One day, Salazar had it, he left the school.
Professor Binns then had to reiterate, that 'history' told us that was what happened between the school founders. The Chamber of Secrets, in his stern, ghostly tone, was myth and legend, but because he still had the interest of the class he continued.
According to the legend, Salazar created the Chamber of Secret and placed within the room a monster. This monster was to wait for the heir of Slytherin, the only one who could get in, to release it so that it could perge the school of those who were unworthy to attend the school.
At this point, Professor Binns looked a bit peeved, something about haveing the attention of the entire class for a myth, but not for his normal lesson. I had not idea I could pick up thoughts from ghosts, that bit of news was a little scary. He went on to reiterate that the legend is only that, a legend, not real.
Hermione then asked if the legend said what the monster was. That upset the poor, logical, all-about-facts professor. He went on to explain that the monster was something only Slytheirn's heir could command. When another student pointed out that only the heir of Slytherin could find the room, after the man...ghost...said that the room didn't exist, the poor man was overwelmed with questions and theories as to why the room had not been found. He finally cracked, told the students that the conversation was over and started his lesson once again, promply losing all the interest of the class. The only reason I keept paying attention was to keep me from going back into my sugar induced dreams.
Soon I was running through the halls to the special room, my own Chamber of Secrets. That may have been in bad taste, but George, Fred, and I already had our secret room where we came up and casted our most wonderful pranks.
I really, really should learn to watch where I am going.
"Well, we meet again Adonia. You always seem to be running into me, are you planning on making me fall for you that way?" asked Draco in his oh-so cocky tones.
"Sorry about that Draco, one day I promise that I will learn to watch where I am going. And if I ever do manage to knock you over, it will be in the most literal sense possible, I'm sure." We shared a quick laugh over that. If I ever did try to get Draco, not that I would, I've seen inside his mind, I would be able to do so. He is under orders to get close to me, or at least he was. "How was your summer Draco? Do anything fun?"
"Just the normal parties and such, I believe that you and your parents were invited to some of them. Only the best of the blood was invited. Your family as you pointed out is of the old families."
"Oh, we were out of the country this summer. My family and I usually spend the summers away. Maybe next summer if we get the invataiton before we leave we can plan to attend one of your parties."
"I will make sure to write my mother and inform her of the time period in which to send all your invitations. By the way, where were you off to in such a hurry?"
There was a breif flash of me cackling in a dark room with a shadow monster from his mind. I think he was thinking about the Chamber of Secrets, I guess anyone in a hurry is going to be suspect of being the heir of Slytherin.
"No where, I just like to run I guess," I gave him my best happy-go-lucky smile, "I will see you later Draco."
"Allright Adonia, goodbye."
I waved back at him as I took off at a much slower jog towards the room. I took a couple of turns to make sure no one was following me first, before I headed to the tapestry of a very large, angry black dragon fighting with a very small, white unicorn.
Pushing aside the wonderfully woven tapestry, I said the password (password, who else would think that would be the password to the room) to open the door hiding behind it.
Walking in I noticed that the twins had already beaten me to the room.
"Hey Kitty Cat, come on. We need to put the spell you made up with these two that we found together to get the desired outcome."
"I'm comming Fred. All right, what we need to do..." We started tinkering in the different ways to combine the three spells for our prank. After an hour, I had it.
"Guys, if we use the 3 way tie method, then say the spells in the combo, it should work on every book in the castle, not just the ones we have here."
"Adonia, what 3 way tie method?" Thank goodness George has stopped using the nickname.
"You know the one, it was used a lot back in the olden days, Flitwick mentioned it once."
"Kitty Cat, we have no idea what you are talking about. You should know we don't pay attention in class. would you care to explain the 3 way tie method now?"
"I should have remembered that. Ok! The 3 way tie method, you have to have the name of the object, substance of the object, and the form of the object."
George interupted me before I could finish my oh so wonderful explanation, "What you are talking about, it is usually a person and very specific. It won't work for this."
I glared at the guy, not meanly, but it was still a glare, "If you would have let me finish, I will explain how we can use the method here." Both guys waved me on now, listening. "Ok, usually it is specific, but like any method, it can be changed to suit the purpose of the user. Here the name of the object will be book, a general name, instead of each book in the school's individual name. The form, we just need a book, since that is what we are going to cast the spell on. The substance, once again going general, we need a bit of a Hogwarts book. That way we limit the spell to the books in Hogwarts and not worldwide."
The twins looked at each other, then grinned at me. They now got why it would work, so we quickly got to work. Thankfully I had a library book in my bag, we could cast the spell on the book as it was all three a book we could name a book, a book that looked like a book, and a Hogwarts book.
I placed the book on the table, then the three of us gathered around the book and cast the three spells onto the book using hte 3 way tie method to spread it to the rest of the books in the scool.
When we were finished we looked into the book on the table, all the words were now various pictures, so the spell worked on this book. Fred ran over to his own bag of books, gleefully laughing when all the words in those books were pictures as well.
Then he stopped "Um, Kitty Cat...when does this spell go away, I forgot to put a time limit in to my spell." I looked at George and it seemed that he forgot too, if the look of shock was anything to go on.
"It is good for you two that I remembered. The spell will end in 24 hours, so at around," I looked at my cheap, plastic Mickey Mouse watch, "11 pm, the words will come back, that is if the professors can't figure out what we did to the books and undo it."
We left the room then to make our way up to the common room, we were a litlle after curfew, so we had to be quick and quite.
I can't wait to see everyone's face tomorrow when they go to open their books to keep studying. Hermione might have a stroke, good thing we finished the spell when we did, any earlier, someone would have noticed tonight. I made my way to my bed, I had to shove Shadow off my pillow, he like to sleep there, then went to sleep.
Elsewhere
Dumbledore sat at his desk reading a book on legends, he had been sitting there for a while now, when all the words on the page suddenly changed into hieroglphics before his eyes.
He cast a signature reveiling spell upon the book, this spell is quite usefull as it will tell the user who cast the spell. When he got the signature of the caster or casters in this case, the man could not help but laugh.
Adonia Zeak, with the Weasley twins, what a combination. Dumbledore put his book down, and made his way to his own bed. He, like the three pranksters, could not wait to see the faces of his fellow professors in the morning.
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~~Folfette Dreamwalker