19 Chap 17

The weeks passed, the routine of Drake in classes was the same, he would score several points in them, except for potions and play with his beasts and talk with the girls. He also sent his owl, Skyfall, with a letter to his uncle Nicolas Flamel. He attached a few ancient runes, which he couldn't understand on it and asked for some advice related to alchemy. He was trying a solution that he could pour into any solid surface and melt them including metals with goblin magic. He was just curious about it but someday if he needed to pass through a metal object who had all kinds of nasty counter charms, curses, hex or jinxes he would use this potion instead of losing time trying to disarm them. He had bought an object that could amplify things to a microscopic level and was used to observe the alteration in different types of metals taking the ideas from the muggle research processes.

Drake could ask about Dumbledore or any teacher about the ancient runes, but that may have won some unwanted attention since he was searching for the cursed vaults. He already had read everything on the book, and he knew that this was a very taboo thing to go ask around the school.

He also discovered the Bill Weasley was the older brother of the twins, he asked them if he could send a word to their brother saying that he wanted to talk with him about curse-breakers. They agreed but asked for more fart potions and a few firecrackers modified by him…a new trend of banished products on Mr Filch list. This firecracker would keep making noises until the magic ran out which would take too long or they would be activated by a chant. Of course, that a wizard with enough magic power could destroy it simply but even so most of the ordinary ones couldn't do it.

He had told the girls everything about it and they decided to join the investigations too. They decided to make reunions every month to discuss what each of them as discovered about it.

Another thing was that Fluffy and Star seemed to be getting along very nice, his uncle Hagrid was happy because he believes that he would have some nice three-headed puppies to take care off. Jade had found a few very rare plants and metals; the latter ones were kept with her.

Z was growing up more and she started all ready to use his ability to warp space perfectly, she could go hundreds of miles in seconds. It was very good for Z and Drake was happy with it but at the same time, he was worried since she could go miles and miles in the free hours. So, he gave her nice five coloured collar with several track enchantments a few localizations magics. The collar had a range of 5000 miles, and he would know if something has happened to Z in that range. He could also access to the collar and see what places Z and visited. He did this with the help of his dad and uncle Flamel.

Drake also wrote every week to Wendy and Alfred and when he didn't they would appear in the room. He still remembers when he forgot to send a letter to them, the next night to house-elves were on his bad waiting for him. They could bypass the special barrier around Hogwarts and turn invisible to the other students.

He also started to have more dreams about the women that explained the fire spells and the transformation into a Dragon, but the dreams were all the same. The dreams were about the point of view of the lady. She stood in the middle of a destroyed city, with spell flying above her head and some of them would hit her "Protego" charm. Drake noticed that she was dressed in all white with a red cross in front of two wands crossed, she was looking at the man all dressed in black accompanied by a horrendous beast.

He talked with his Dad about them and by the description, his dad told him that probably it was from a dark age. Drake asked if he is dad had few books about it but they were very rare never the less Dumbledore would try and find some and give him.

The dreams also started to happen after Dumbledore has told Drake that his family was killed in the middle of a civil war between mages the happened in Portugal. Portugal muggle world at that time was run by a dictatorship which also controlled most pureblood families. In 1974 in happened a revolution in the muggle world, "The crane revolution", where there were no deaths. On the contrary in the mage world, the few families of pure blood and half-blood started a bloody war. According to with the official numbers 95% of the mages in that country perished, including Drake family which was one of the oldest ones. Dumbledore also discovered that his family wasn't from Portugal, originally, they were from another country probably from Europe, which they end up in Portugal. His dad promised that in the summer vacation he would go with Drake there.

Few days before the Halloween everyone was excited about it, although it was raining, Drake and his friends were outside going to Hagrid's hut. They had the afternoon free and were going there to talk about some important issues.

While they were walking on the stone path to Hagrid's hut, Drake was giving tips about how to cast charms to Katie. They were having several evaluations before Halloweens day and Drake seems to know everything so Katie, Cho, and Scarlett started to study with him, and he would explain everything that they would ask him or give some nice books where they could research about certain topics. Scarlett was the exception since she had the knowledge of Dragons but even sometimes, she would ask something to Drake and vice-versa.

"You need to know more about the elements and I'm not talking about fire, water, earth, and air. You need to know the elements of the periodic table. Water is a molecule composed of two hydrogens and one oxygen with different temperatures its changes his form forming the ice or the vapour and when you chant the spell Glacius, if you visualize and understand the form of the water changing from liquid to ice, you may have a "Glacius tria" that can freeze several opponents in a vast area" answered Drake to Katie.

"And you can use this thought in all kind of magic, that's why you should read some muggles books about biology, physics, and chemistry. You will see that would help you a lot" continued Drake.

"Hmm…it seems I have to start doing that" replied Katie, Cho was by their side and was very interested in this knowledge too. Scarlett, on the other hand, was more interested in the spell that Drake used to repel the raining.

Meanwhile, they arrived at Hagrid house, they knocked it and he opened it.

"Hey youn' ones! Are you all doin' good?" asked Hagrid.

"Yeah!" replied everyone.

"Well, I will go now, yer can stay here at will." Said Hagrid while he was leaving with Fang.

"Thanks, Hagrid!

"So, let's get to business then who wants to go first?" asked Drake to them.

"I can go. I went to the school library and didn't found anything and then I went to the forbidden library with the potion you made and find out something. First, it seems that the vaults were considered a legend according to the books, but they don't know when they were built, and the purpose varies. Some say it has treasure others say that the evil wizard from ancient times in sealed. But it seems that most of them are wrong according to what that diaries say the first 4 had only a test and few objects that would lead to another vault. About the number of it I didn't read any" said Cho.

"Well good job it seems that this book and beaker aren't fake, and they have some fundaments, next?" said Drake.

"Well I went to ask around the older students and most of them didn't talk or say they didn't know about unusual events. Well, I discovered from the twins that his brother had few friends, one of them was known as Pipi and I think its Jacob's sibling. I also discovered that the teacher of DADA was Patricia Rakespick and used to be a very well-known cursed breaker for Gringotts bank until last year. I discover that she asked for demission and no one has ever heard about her again" replied Katie

"Nice! With this one, we know for sure that it's not some invented story or something and we can assume that what says in the book is true. And you Scarlett did your mother know something about it?" said Drake.

"Well at first, she didn't want to talk about it but…I manage to make her talk heheheh! It seems the last decade was a very tumultuous one. Although there was peace after Lord Voldemort disappearance but on the contrary in Hogwarts it was on fire."