100 Chapter 97: Then, I'll kill you ^ ^
After catching up with the team, I got out after Nyxie and I had donned our stealth package. While wandering here and there, I made my made my way towards the room of requirements with Nyxie on my shoulder.
I wished for the same settings that me and Dora used to use, which had a room with a big library, a dueling area, a dummy target range and the only people allowed to enter are me, Nyxie and her. And two rooms, one for me, and one for her.
Walking in, I took the diary out of my pocket. It had named it —Dora Diary (DD), which can be used to communicate with her.
"Man, diaries are quite popular these days, huh?" I muttered, and Nyxie didn't understand my reference as she tilted her head. She hadn't seen the future after all. This year... is going revolve around Diaries.
Opening the diary, I casually wrote I ❤️ u, before quickly erasing it. Am I the only one who's ever done this kind of thing? Oh man, I have it bad.
Today, I was missing her a lot more than usual. Immediately after our separation, I had gone to France and found my family, there it was all fine since I had just found my missing family, but after coming back here, all the memories we had last year are coming back.
By now, Dora should have gotten the notification of the message. She'll open the diary and find it empty, so I wrote a simple, "Hi."
Her reply was immediately.
"Hi! How r u? Did u reach Hogwarts yet?!"
-Me: Yeah. I'm in the room of requirements right now. It's about 10 p.m. here, our usual hangout time.
Over these two months, I had taught her using short abbreviations of modern texting. So she's started using them like a non these days. It's cute. I prefer writing full sentences myself though.
-Dora: Oh, you won't understand the pain I feel after our separation :'(
'I miss you more. Now more than ever.' I thought inwardly.
-Me: Aww, I miss you a lot too.
-Dora: Oh, you dummy! I was talking about the RoR! ... I really miss it!
-Me: ...
RoR is Room of Requirements.
Ouch. That was painful...and embarrassing. Sigh... I'm glad only two of us can read it...
I'm not much embarrassed from Dora. She's only getting her payback after the relentless roasting she's suffered at my hands for the past year.
People can't stay simple after being in my company for long. And Dora was already quite mischievous.
-Dora: ROTFL. Payback's a btch, baby! U can only blame urself ;-) B-)
I didn't reply.
-Dora: Alr. I'm sry. I'm missed u a lot as well. R u there??
-Me:
I only replied after sometime. Well, if she's teasing me, then two can play the game.
-Me: How would you like it if I missed Fleur more?
(I had told her about my new friend Fleur since a while ago.)
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There was a pause.
Then,
-Dora: Then, I'll kill u ^ ^
"...."
Hey! That's unfair. I didn't t say I'll kill her if she mentioned the RoR again.
-Dora: I've been learning a lot of torture techniques from Moody ^ ^
Oi, Oi! Stop now. Doesn't she know I was joking?
-Dora: Looks like you want to have a taste of some of those techniques : )
Too extreme. I'll not do this again. I've learned a lesson today.
Anyway, I can't understand women. When I had told her about Fleur's circumstances, she was all— "How pitiful," "I want to meet her," and "How similar! we could be sisters." But now even the idea of me missing her seems so unacceptable to her.
(Note to self:- Don't, under any circumstances, even mention Andrea. In any context. Fleur is away, but Andrea is right here.)
So, what now? Does she expect me to apologise? ...Na. I have a better idea. So I wrote this.
-Me: Hey, you want to... torture me? Dora, I-I didn't know you were into that sort of things...
-Dora: What?
-Dora: No! U bstrd! I don't believe you're a twelve y/o! U dirty old pervert! U gutter-minded ****
"...."
Well damn she can curse like a sailor if wants to, I don't know why, but I find even that attractive. But only when if it's not directed at me. Anyway, comparing her to Fleur, who can barely use the French version of 'baka' I can't help but smile. They're similar, yet so different.
Anyway, form our chatting, doesn't it look like we're already couples? There's not much difference left.
Seeing that Dora had completely forgot about my comment about Fleur by now, I patted myself on the back for a nice save. I know her too well, now I just need to...
-Me: BTW, where are you now? How's your training going?
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-Dora: Oh, no you don't! Changing the topic, are we? This won't work on me anymore. I know you too well, Chrissy~
Well, shite.
How far we've come over the year. I used to be able to play her like a fiddle back in those days. But Dora was never stupid. She just lacked experience in social interactions in those days and wasn't too good at communicating, since she was more of a RoR shut-in. She was already a lawyer's daughter and after suffering under me for a year, she can now beat anyone in arguments, sometimes even me. She doesn't get caught in my tricks more than twice.
Whelps, looks like I'll have to up my game from now on.
Anyways, even after saying all that, Dora still decided to let it go and started telling me about her current location and training.
-Dora: "We're in The States now! Moody knows a few senior Aurors as well as a few 'old friends' who are quite high positions in the MACUSA. The speciality of the US magical community is it's Potions and plant and animal magic! It dates way back, since even before the other wizarding communities found America, it already had it's own native magical community. They used to do magic without wands and their Potion making was more sophisticated than even Europe's."
Dora went on and on about the magical community of America and the magics she was learning, and I was also deep in thought. She was currently in New York City, my hometown from the previous life. I haven't looked back on my previous life ever since I came here, since I was worried to miss it even more if were to go there. But... if it's with Dora.
-Me: Hey... take me there sometime.
Dora: ?? Of course I'll take u. Smday, we're going 2 a world tour where I'll take u to all the places I'm visiting!
With that, I was happy. It'll be a nice homecoming if it's with Dora. Just like how Harry visited Gordrik's Hollow with Hermione. The difference would be, he visited after his parents death while I'll be visiting after my own death.
-Dora: BTW, how's Nyxie?
-Me: She's doing great. She mde a lot of frnds 2day after being able to be visible for the 1st time.
-Dora: Has she not given you the surprise yet?
-Me: No? ...Why don't you just tell me?!
-Dora: Then you won't suffer the shock I felt. Anyway, I feel like she doesn't want to show you yet, so I won't tell you.
Both of them just won't tell me. Well, I'll just wait. It's not like I'm losing anything.
Man, I'll have to end it here today.
-Me: Alr. Have it your way. Anyway, I have to go now. TTYL.
-Dora: K, bye! miss you, ummah! ( ˘ ³˘)
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I closed the diary as I sighed.
Dora is lovely, cute, and sweet... but I have promises to keep. And years to go before I sleep, with her.
I had promised to return home as soon as I can to Esmée and mom. So right now, I need to find the vanishing cabinet.
Here's a fact — it's likely NOT in the room of lost things right now.
The vanishing cabinet didn't just happened to be in the room for requirements for Draco to find it. Both the cabinets had a history of their own in the canon. Their first appearance wasn't in the sixth part. It predates back to the current year, 1992.
First was when Harry ended up in Knockturn Alley, Borgin and Burks. When Draco and Lucius Malfoy came to sell some dark artifacts, Harry had hidden himself in a 'large black cabinet' to avoid getting seen, and fortunately, didn't completely close the door of the cabinet that time, keeping it a bit open to spy at the Malfoys. That large cabinet was, of course, the Vanishing Cabinet.
It's unknown what might have happened if he had closed the door the time. But, whatever. Harry didn't end up in the Knockturn Alley in this timeline. And that Vanishing Cabinet is in France now.
Then, the other one, the one I'm looking for, made it's first appearance a few months later when Harry was going to get detention from Filch. Nearly Headless Nick had gotten Peeves to drop something big on the floor right above Filch's office in order to cause a diversion. That 'something big,' was the Vanishing Cabinet.
"Now, I only need to know where Peeves found that thing." I muttered as I walked out of the room of requirements under my stealth package with Nyxie. It's impractical for Peeves to bring that thing from a large distance away. So, it should be nearby the place it was dropped.
The first place I visited was the place right above Filch's office, where that thing was dropped.
"Now, where's Filch's office?... Yeah, the ground floor, right off of the Great Hall."
I went to the general vicinity of the area above his office on the first floor and began looking through each and every room. At first, I was a calm, but as we searched all the classrooms, one bathroom, and one big room with a lot of chairs, my fears were coming true. It would have been quite absurd if the Vanishing Cabinet was just lying around here somewhere. It's hidden somewhere.
But I didn't come unprepared. I still have many ways of finding it. And if nothing works, I'll have to wait two months and the events play out the same as the Canon.
Sigh... that's the worst case scenario. That's the reason why I didn't promise to return on the first day or told them about the Vanishing Cabinet. There were too many variables, first one being that, due to butterfly effect, the Vanishing Cabinet of Borgin and Burks being already sold out. Fortunately, that didn't happen, otherwise I'll have to consider crossing the wards everytime I had to visit home.
Alright, I'll try the next method. "Hey Nyxie can you find you find anything similar to the black cabinet we bought in the store?" I asked Nyxie. Nyxie's senses are very powerful. That's why my senses can be amplified through the bond. She should be able to smell it out if it's in the vicinity.
*Snif* *Snif* Nyxie's cute snout moved around as she sniffed.
"Don't sniff in my direction. I'm not the cabinet." I said exasperatedly. Why is she sniffing me?
"Mew...."
Through our bond I could sense that Nyxie got embarrassed on being found out. After a while, she pointed her small claw in a particular direction.
I followed Nyxie's directions and we arrived at the big room with we'd seen earlier.
"Now... where is the heck did they hide it?" I wondered, looking around the huge room, and Nyxie pointed her claw up.
"Oh..."
It was either on the second floor, which is quite unlikely or...
"Hidden in the ceiling, huh?" It made sense. The most a poltergeist could do was unscrew chandeliers, write rude words on chalkboards, throw water balloons at people, throw walking sticks at people, stuff keyholes with chewing gum and other such acts, things like that. So, it doesn't make sense for Peeves to suddenly have superstrength of super magic and life the whole Vanishing Cabinet before dropping it.
I took out my broom from my pocket and flew to the place where Nyxie was pointing at. As I began leisurely examining the ceiling for where it might be hidden—
"Heehehehehehh...."
I heard a creepy laughter coming form behind.
'Damn. Shit just got real.' I turned around.
"The fuck." I cursed exasperatedly at my own bad luck. Just let me go meet my sister already!
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