Chapter Twelve
Virginia got up early the next day. Walking inside the castle, she came across the words "Dumbledore's Army, still recruiting" on the wall for the third time. She guessed this must be troublesome for the headmaster. She came to the eighth floor and gave herself another Disillusionment Charm. She seemed to be more careful than before.
She walked three times around the corrider and thought concentratively, " I need a place to hide my things." And luckily the place appeared. Admittedly, this was a large place, with almost everything inside it. This was as though you want to find a gem, but instead a room full of jewelry and it was harder to find a gem inside.
She thought of Ravenclaw's diadem. In the original series that diadem should be here now. She couldn't remember clearly, but she knew she would recognize it if she sees it. That pattern on the diadem was much too unique.
And she saw a cabinet, a rather strange one. That must be the cabinet used by draco Malfoy to transfer Death Eaters to Hogwarts.
She kept walking, looking for the diadem. And then she saw it, high up there. She had to reach it. She took a box and stood on it to take the diadem off. She took something in the vicinity and transfigured it into the same diadem. That wasn't difficult for her at all.
She carefully put the diadem inside her robe and placed the fake one to the original place. She looked at the diadem but suddenly seemed to be back to herself. Why did she do so! That was a Horcrux and she should keep herself well away from that!
She certainly met some sort of devil and was possessed by it just now. According to the originial series the diadem will be destroyed. All Horcruxes, including one inside Harry Potter, were destroyed in the end. If she took away the diadem, oh this was stupid! Lord Voldemort might come back in her own hand! She threw the diadem away forcefully but went to look for it then. And she fell over at the sight of it. She replaced the diadem and went out, giving herself another Neglecting Charm. But she found she had left the Transfiguration Textbook inside and had to go in again to take it. She took her textbook, a bottle of accidentally discovered Felix Felicis, the luck Potion, and a bottle with "LeitungsstarkeGegenmittel" on it. She didn't understand what the last one was, but she took it nevertheless.
Sitting down in the Transfiguration classroom, Virginia thought she should have transfigured the fake diadem back. She shouldn't have left it there. But McGonagall didn't come when the class started. Virginia felt strange, for McGonagall was always a stern and careful woman. She was never ever late for classes, so there must be some reason.
The students began to chat under their breath. She heard two Hufflepuffs saying, "I saw Professor Carrow in the morning….." Another disrupted, "Oh I would never admit that the two evil Carrows are Hogwarts professors. They are ugly Death Eaters!" Then they kept saying in a lower voice and Virginia couldn't hear clearly. In the end, one siad, "Oh alright. I saw her attacking Nevil Longnottom in the corrider just now. Longbottom was hurt severely from head to feet, and McGonagall went to stop her."
"And then?"
"….And then I ran away." Virginia thought Professor McGonagall might not be able to come today.