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A Dog's Purpose Is Strange Magic 2 Chapter 21
Bailey takes back everything she might've ever thought about Valentine's Day being nice. She changes her mind. The holiday is an absolute nightmare. Where last year was relatively quiet and peaceful this time around there is no semblance of that whatsoever.
Bailey couldn't care less what caused the attacks to stop. She's just pleased that at least something has temporarily diverted the student's misguided beliefs about him to something else entirely. Figuratively speaking there's no need to dwell on things this year that have ended badly when they seem to be improving in even the smallest way possible.
Not long after that diary was found the worst possible thing that could've happened next that is equivocal to another attack, which by the way appears to have tapered off for some strange reason, commenced.
Lockhart getting control over Hogwarts for a holiday.
Specifically, Valentine's Day.
Lockhart's idea for a morale booster means taking things completely over the top in a terribly creative way.
Lockhart's plan to salvage the holiday season became apparent when everyone walked in for breakfast on February 14th.
More or less Harry and Bailey were late for the morning meal. Harry had taken part in a late running Quidditch practice thanks to Oliver Wood and had a hard time getting out of bed. Turns out Bailey needed to give him a sharp nip on an exposed foot sticking out at the edge of his bed to get him out of it. Her boy isn't too happy with her because of it, but it worked like a charm.
The image the duo is met with certainly doesn't improve either of their moods or set the bar for how the remainder of the day.
When she woke up this morning Bailey's stomach was starving for bacon.
The walls are literally covered from floor to ceiling with lurid pink flowers and heart shaped confetti is falling gently from the pale blue ceiling. Harry and Bailey go over to the Gryffindor table where Ron is sitting looking sickened and Hermione seems to have been overcome with an endless onset of giggles.
"What's going on," asked Harry, unsure, sitting down and wiping confetti off this bacon.
When she woke up this morning Bailey's stomach was starving for bacon. Now she has completely lost her appetite when normally she'd be attempting to sneakily steal those tasty morsels from his place.
Sharing Bailey's sentiments Ron points to the teachers' head table on the dais far too disgusted to speak a single word.
Lockhart is waving for silence wearing lurid pink robes to match the decorations. The teachers on either side of him are looking stony faced. From where Bailey is sitting, she can see a flicker of a muscle ticking in Professor McGonagall's cheek. Which Bailey has noted only happens when the woman is really pissed off. Snape looks as though someone just fed him a large beaker of Skele-Gro Potion.
Grinning broadly, white teeth gleaming, Lockhart shouted "Happy Valentine's Day! And may I thank the 46 people who have so far sent me cards! Yes, I have taken the liberty of arranging this little surprise for you all and it doesn't end here!"
Lockhart claps his hands and through the doors to the entrance hall march a dozen surly looking dwarfs that clearly want to be anywhere else but here. Understandable given Lockhart has them all wearing golden wings and carrying harps.
If Lockhart wanted to dress Bailey like that then she'd land a sound bite on him and run away too.
Beaming, Lockhart announced "My friendly card-carrying cupids! They will be roving around the school today delivering your valentines! And the fun doesn't stop there! I'm sure my colleagues will want to enter into the spirit of the occasion! Why not ask Professor Snape to show you how to whip up a Love Potion? And while you're at it, Professor Flitwick knows more about Entrancing Enchantments than any wizard I've ever met, the sly old dog!"
Bailey felt like throwing up only there was nothing in her stomach.
Professor Flitwick is beyond embarrassed as her buries his face into his hands, concealing his face, and Snape by all appearances looks like the first person to ask him for a love potion will be force fed poison. Personally, Bailey hopes he slips some into Lockhart's food at some point.
"Please, Hermione, tell me you weren't one of the 46," begged Ron.
Bailey has a strong suspicion Hermione is one of the 46 girls who sent Lockhart valentines.
During Hermione's long confinement in the infirmary, she'd received a get-well card from Professor Lockhart. Ron and Harry hadn't been the only ones disgusted by it especially when they called her out on keeping it underneath her pillow while she slept at night. Bailey would've torn it to shreds except Hermione had the foresight to keep it well out of Bailey's reach. Aware of the red retriever's dislike toward the pathetic individual who calls himself a great wizard.
Hermione's silence combined with suddenly becoming interested in searching her bag for her schedule is answer enough.
All day long the dwarfs kept baring into everyone's classes to deliver valentines.
It's Bailey's strong belief that all in Hogwarts even though these valentine delivering dwarves are even remotely a good idea should get their heads checked.
Each time Bailey sees one she is sorely tempted to chase it off and save the receiver some trouble but restrains her impulse to do so.
Then, finally, Bailey's patience is pushed too far.
Someone has the guts to send one of these monstrosities Harry's way.
Late that same afternoon the Gryffindors are walking upstairs from Charms when one of the dwarfs catches up to them.
"Hey, you! Harry Potter," shouted a particularly grim looking dwarf, elbowing people out of the way in order to reach Harry.
The way Bailey is positioned she's partially concealed by Harry's robes and with the dwarf so focused on her boy it doesn't see her until she decides to pounce, fixing him with a dark glower that promises pain.
The dwarf in question doesn't even get a chance to start relaying the valentine sent to him when Bailey makes her move. Crouched to the floor and wriggling her rear end Bailey launches at the dwarf, teeth bared.
The dwarf shrieks and runs off in the opposite direction as Bailey gives chase to the bothersome pest. Bailey doesn't intend for the dwarf to escape without dishing out some proper punishment. She chases the little creature around the crowded hallway amidst amused laughter, occasionally bumping into numerous people's legs and sending some stuff tumbling from bags.
Harrys included.
Bailey eventually grabs ahold of the angel wings on the dwarf's back, shaking her head this way and that, tearing off one of the wings.
Feeling the slight dislodge of Bailey's grip on it the dwarf makes a run for it, bolting through the sea of legs surrounding them. This time Bailey doesn't bother to give chase. Her message clearly got across to it for it fled from the scene before even saying the first line of the message it was supposed to deliver.
Leaving a pleased Bailey very satisfied with her work.
All around them, students of all years begin to get on the move again now that the main source of their entertainment is gone. Those who had stuff fall from their bags are the slowest as they reclaim their belongings.
Harry isn't fast enough as Percy tries to make the crowd disperse even faster.
During all the commotion the diary had slipped loose and onto the floor.
Malfoy reaches the diary first. Swooping to snatch it up.
"Give that back," said Harry, demanding Riddle's diary be returned to him.
"Wonder what Potter's written in this," leered Malfoy.
A hush fell over the remaining onlookers that have yet to clear out under Percy's supervision.
For some reason, Ginny is staring back and forth from the diary to Harry looking absolutely horrified. Bailey is the only one to notice as the focus of everyone else is trained on the arguing boys.
Sternly intervening, Percy said "Hand it over, Malfoy."
Waving the diary tauntingly at Harry, Malfoy said "When I've had a look."
Bailey runs interference. While she'd prefer Riddle's diary to be as far away as possible from her boy, she'd rather not see either of these two get in trouble for this. Bailey swiftly nabs the diary in her teeth, carrying it delicately over to Harry. Malfoy yelps in surprise but he's unhurt. Bailey's teeth never touched his skin. Harry opens his satchel and Bailey promptly drops the diary back inside.
Percy's had enough and orders the crowd to get a move on.
Malfoy is not about to leave this without having the last word.
As Ginny walks passed him to enter her classroom, furious and spiteful, Malfoy said "I don't think Potter would've liked your valentine much!"
Beyond embarrassed, covering her face, Ginny ran into class.
Ron would've hit Malfoy in the back of the head with a jinx but is prevented from doing so and doesn't spend the whole of Charms belching slugs a second time.
As Bailey sits quietly in Charms her thoughts subconsciously return to Ginny and the expression on her face the moment she spotted Riddle's diary mixed in with Harry's school things.
Why is Ginny so freaked out about that diary just by looking at it?
Authors Note:
For those of you on fanfiction I'm sure you've been facing the many unwanted ads when you're reading a story. Well, yesterday, I finally had enough, and I got an adblocker app. It worked! No more ads on any level! The one I got is Adblock Pro: Safari Ad Blocker. It really works. Just follow the instruction video that it attached to it.
Heads up everyone there's someone on fanfiction you need to seriously watch out for. Early a couple of months ago after I woke up I was checking my email and I saw I had a new guest review on my A Dog's Purpose Is Strange Magic 2 sequel. I took a look at it and got a very big shock. Some random person I've never spoken to before on here or anywhere else in my life was basically threatening me. Intimidating and practically ordering me to write a threatening letter to someone on their behalf, telling to stay off of for life or else they and everyone else close to them would be killed, disgustingly telling them to kill themselves. And at the bottom of the message this crazy person wasn't done. Warning me that if I don't send the letter then they would kill me and for confirmation to email them to make absolutely sure I complied with their demands. Of course I did nothing of the sort. Instead of doing what they wanted I reported them to the website, sent copies of this deplorable guest review message to police officer cousins of mine so they could have it on file, and I went to a nearby police station and reported it.
When I spoke to the police officers and they checked everything on the message they saw, that while the address and names of business were accurate the people and their names were not. They agree it was more than likely a scam because of the email address on the bottom in order to perhaps get access to personal information or potentially hack my computer. Despite that I'm still very happy they took it seriously as I showed and told them everything. All the same I'm still very happy that I brought this to the attention of law enforcement. Even though the entire thing might be fake I'm still very happy to have brought this to the attention of those who can do something about it if it was legit in some way. This may have been a scam, but it's obvious these people are beyond irresponsible if they try to goad people into sending death threats to random strangers just to get access to info.
Be that as it may if this does unfortunately happen to you do not send any messages to the email addresses they put down and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you bring the message to the authorities immediately whether it is legit or not.
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