[HP] The magic thieves #27 (Patreon)

Chapter #27: The first test.

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“No Harry, where are you going?” Asked Hermione desperately.

They were in the room of requirement, the now squib Malfoy was staring at them with an amused expression.

“I’m going to kill her!” Harry said as he grabbed his invisibility cloak and his spare wand.

“No Harry…They'll know you're the one who did it!” Hermione put herself in front of him to stop him from doing something crazy.

“Hermione…I can’t let her get away with this!” Harry took the back of her hand to caress it and she flinched a little.

There was something written with her own blood “I must respect those who are better than me.” It could be read.

It’s been a week since the events of the first day of classes and today they had their first defense against the dark arts class after the first one was canceled a week ago.

Hermione never gets in trouble and she doesn’t try to antagonize the teachers in the way her boyfriend usually does but in this case, she couldn’t stand there and do nothing when the most important thing in her life aside from her parents and Harry was being threatened and that was her education.

Just as Hermione thought it would be, Umbridge's class was completely rubbish, the class was nothing but theoretical but it was too fantastical even for the standards of this world, “Dark magic is a state of mind.” “Just believe in yourself and no curse will kill you.” “Don’t be mean and you won’t get attacked.” Those were some of the statements in the book Umbridge recommended for the class.

So, of course, she was going to object to what they were seeing in class which was a terrible idea because a bigoted like Umbridge was delighted that a muggle-born dared to criticize her class and soon, Hermione got herself some detention with the toad-faced witch.

The worst thing is that when she tried to appeal to Professor McGonagall about the unfairness of the detention as it was assigned only because she was concerned about her education, the only thing McGonagall told her was to take accountability for her actions and get used to it and that even though she was deputy headmistress, there was nothing she could do against a ministry employee.

To say that Hermione was disappointed would be the understatement of the century, however, she accepted her former favorite teacher’s words and did her detention where she had to write lines but with a twist as she had to use a blood quill that surely was painful when instead of writing the words on the paper, the thing wrote them on the back of her hand and that’s how they ended up in this situation.

“Hermione…We can’t let her do this to you, we need to do something,” Harry said with an angry tone.

“I know I know love but…Like I’ve said before, there’s nothing we can do against her, or at least not right now, after last week’s events, everyone is wary and the teachers are watching all students closer, I'm sure some of them think a student used some kind of dark magic to turn Parkinson into a squib,” Hermione said to him in a serious tone.

“I knew it…It’s just a matter of time before they start searching for me,” Malfoy said on the other side of the room.

“Shut up Malfoy…Oh right, it’s kind of strange how no one has noticed your disappearance, not even your parents, maybe they didn’t care about you at all,” Harry mocked him.

“They care, Potter, that’s something you wouldn’t know if it hit you in the face as your disgusting parents are dead!” He said angrily and to say that Harry was furious would be a very simplistic conclusion.

Soon, he raised his wand and Hermione tried to stop him but this time he didn’t listen.

“Imperio!” Harry said angrily with his spare wand and then, he threw his phoenix wand to Malfoy. “Well, if you’re so brave with your words let’s see if you're still brave enough to use your magic…Use the levitation charm,” Harry ordered him.

Soon Malfoy did as he was told due to the imperius curse, however, nothing happened, Harry told him to do it countless times and after trying too many times and realizing nothing was happening, Harry couldn't help but smirk.

“It seems like his magic hasn’t come back,” Harry said with a calm expression.

Hermione sighed before Harry petrified Malfoy.

“We seriously need to know what the researchers at St. Mungo’s have found out about Parkinson, I’m glad the news of her magic loss became more important than the fact that you were attacked,” Hermione sighed and he nodded.

“Shall we do a heist in St. Mungo’s now?” He asked playfully and she caressed her chin as she thought deeply about his proposal.

“Maybe, but right now I think we should focus on this,” Hermione said as she took a notebook.

“So, this is what we’re going to use?” Asked Harry with a surprised expression.

“Yes, I think a notebook in which you can write someone’s name and turn them into squibs is not a bad idea, I just wish we didn’t have energy limitations,” Hermione sighed.

“Energy limitations?” Asked Harry with a confused tone.

“Yeah, there’s a reason why the goblet of fire can’t only choose a few people aside from the fact that it goes with the theme of the tri-wizard tournament and that’s because it needs lots of energy to function, I asked Dumbledore during the summer about it and he told me that the three headmasters had to provide lots of magic for it to function until the selection day,” Hermione said before sighing.

“And in this case, the notebook is going to leech magic from you, right?” Asked Harry with a concerned expression.

“Yes but only when we use it, as you know, magical artifacts are like mobile spells but their energy use is very inefficient that’s why most people use spells instead of magical artifacts, and that’s why it’s important we test this code as a magical artifact first so then we turn it into a spell,” Hermione’s words convinced Harry.

Soon, they prepared everything, they asked the room to arrange itself to be perfect for a ritual, and then, they started to write things on the floor with their blood, there were three circles with runes written around and inside.

Hermione was standing in the first circle, Harry in the second and as if it were the top of a triangle, the notebook was on the last circle, also, on the first page of the notebook there was written a code, they call it the squib code.

“Okay now it’s the chanting part with our wands,” Hermione said before grabbing Harry’s hand.

“Vvita, mors, magica,” they said with a pleading tone, and soon, their bodies started to glow and the ritual circles did the same thing.

They kept doing the same thing and then, it happened, the notebook started to glow and the pages moved violently until it finally fell, both Harry and Hermione were completely tired but this wasn’t over yet.

“W-what do we do now Mione?” Asked Harry with a weak tone as he reached for the notebook.

“I think we should test it to see if it worked,” Hermione said with a serious tone.

Harry remained in silence for a few moments but then, he smiled and looked at his watch, then he started to write a name and the current hour with a minute ahead of difference.

“Tom Marvolo Riddle?” Asked Hermione incredulously before she shook her head and smiled. “Harry I don’t think that—” she was about to say but her smile faded the moment Harry fell on the floor and started to whimper in pain.

Hermione quickly reached out to help him but her eyes widened as she saw something that reminded him of what happened when they killed Nagini, a black mist was coming out of Harry’s forehead.