Chapter 38: Enchantments.

He took the old book to his table and started speed reading the book, looking for a particular kind of ritual magic.

Liam acted like he was reading the book in his hand but actually he was thinking about the strange behavior he saw.

'The Gryffindor students were acting very strange, the younger students showed a higher level of 'Strangeness' than the senior students. This is definitely a result of some dark magic. Which works very easily on younger wizards. Some kind of a mind control curse, maybe?.'

He noticed Snape was desperately looking for something, finally he saw him taking out an old book.

[Way's to Identify Ritual Magic].

Liam quickly diverted his eyes, not to let Snape catch him looking at him.

'Ritual Magic? ... Did Prof. Snape also noticed the irregularity in the behavior?' He smiled with a bit of relief. 'At least I have people I can rely on. Once I find out the bastard who is targeting me I will not let him go.'

Liam had a very strong resolve.

Snape's concentration on the book had increased, he started reading very carefully, "Found it." he said with a smile.

He looked at the wall clock, "And just in the nick of time." He said softly.

He got up from his table, taking the book in his hand, "Let's go…" he said while looking towards Liam.

…

The Headmaster's office.

A circular table was placed in the middle at which some of the professors were sitting in a semicircular manner. In the middle was a seat reserved for the Headmaster. Dumbledore was walking back and forth, waiting for the remaining professors to arrive.

McGonagall was one of the professors who had arrived early, "Albus… What we happened today was…"

Before she could say anything he stopped her, "Not now Minerva, we should wait for the others to arrive first."

Snape entered through the door behind him was Liam, "Dumbledore…"

"Severus! You are here…" Dumbledore said, he then raised his hand in the direction of a man sitting on the circular table. "This is Mr. Devlin Whitehorn, even though being so busy, he agreed to come to Hogwarts on such a short notice."

The man laughed, "Dumbledore called and I wouldn't come, this can never happen."

'Devlin Whitehorn… I have heard this name. But where?' Liam was wondered.

The man nodded while looking at Snape, he got up from his table to shake hands with Snape, "It's very nice to meet you Prof. Snape." The man glanced towards Liam with very keen eyes as if he was studying him.

He was wearing an old fashioned clothes by his looks he looked like he was 50 years old. His hairs touched his shoulders, mostly black in color but with two lines of grey colored hair. His body was fairly muscular, half of a wrestler, very fit.

He kept looking at Liam's clothes, the button on his shirt, his shoes, a small ring he was wearing as well as his tie.

'I remember, HE IS THE PERSONWHO MADE THE FIRST NIMBUS BROOM!' suddenly Liam's heart started racing, 'He looks very friendly, the last appearance he made was in the launch ceremony of the new model of the Nimbus series, Nimbus 2000. Who would have thought I would get to meet him in person. Cedric would be very jealous.'

"And who might you be young lad." Mr. Whitehorn said while holding his chin looking towards Liam.

"I am Liam Gremory. It's my pleasure meeting you. Sir!" Liam said controlling his excitement.

Whithorn laughed, "Such a calm child. Tell me who enchanted your clothes." He asked with a very stern look.

Liam was shocked to hear this statement, 'No one has been able to figure out that my clothes had been enchanted. Even Dumbledore didn't figure it out, he was able to see through my concealment enchantments as well, worthy of his title.'

"I did them myself." He replied.

Snape, McGonagall and Dumbledore were looking at Liam with a bit of suspicion.

"Mr. Gremory, it seems that you are responsible for enchanting Mr. Potter's broom." McGonagall said with a very serious tone. Her cold and expressionless expressions were very heart breaking for Liam to see. He was one of McGonagall's favorite students.

"You can't just blame Mr. Gremory just because he knows some low level enchantments." Whitehorn looked towards McGonagall.

McGonagall was furious, "Mr. Whitehorn wasn't it you who said that Mr. Gremory's clothes are enchanted, he admitted himself that he enchanted his clothes himself. Even professors weren't able to discern something like that. He was the prime suspect in this incident and it has been found out that he has the ability to be responsible for this incident. No further investigation is required."

"Prof. McGonagall, I swear I am not responsible for anything. And harry is my friend, why would I do something like that to him?" Liam said in a bit loud voice.

Whitehorn smiled, "Mr. Gremory you lucky that I am here, if it would have been someone else you would clearly be named the perpetrator."

McGonagall looked towards Whitehorn weirdly, "What do you mean? Devlin."

"This young lad is very talented in enchantments, but I am sure that he didn't enchant the broom." He walked towards Harry's broom and picked it up, he waved his wand casting an unknown spell which made the enchantments shine and visible to everyone.

"Look at these enchantments, these are very odd enchantments. You may have not understood it. Let me explain, normally we enchant an item directly with a spell by engraving ancient texts, charms or spells on that object. But if you look at these enchantments you can see that these are neither of the enchantments I mentioned."

Whitehorn then waved his wand in the direction of Liam, his clothes started shining. Lines of ancient texts started appearing on his clothes which moved around in circles, "Incredible! Such an elegant and precise use of ancient texts as enchantments, it is the hardest type of enchantment. You are very talented Liam."

"Ughhh hmmm" Dumbledore noticed Whitehorn getting sidetracked.

"Sorry!... So if you looked at the enchantments of the clothes. They are not same at all. Each and every enchanter has a kind of imprint on enchantment, whether he wants to or not it is present on every item that wizard enchants. This is something I discovered recently and have been studying this. The imprints can't be removed, and the only person who is currently able to see those imprints is standing in front of you." HE smiled while boasting.

"The imprints don't match… Mr. Gremory is not the perpetrator. As for the kind of enchantment don on Mr. Potter's Broom…"

"Ritual Magic enchantments…" Snape said.

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