Missing Professor.

Waking up next to the Giant Cerberus, Loki was shocked for a second but he quickly remembered his last encounter with it and relaxed playfully.

'Ha! Who would've thought there was such a cute puppy at Hogwarts.'

'Who takes care of him? Professor McGonagall? No, I doubt she would like a dog after all isn't her spirit messenger a cat?'

'It probably is Professor Dumbledore's job which he has passed onto another teacher once again out of irresponsibility.'

'Well, I can at least get him some tasty tasty food.'

With a resolve to get his new pet food, Loki moved to the Great Hall.

"Found the thief yet?" Dominic asked sitting beside Loki.

"No, not yet, but I did make a new friend."

"Oh? Who is it?"

"A three-headed dog!" Loki said excitedly with stars in his eyes.

"A Cerberus? Did you go to the forbidden corridor?" Dominic asked with a sly smile.

"Yep! And that dog! He's so cute! How could anyone leave him alone there!? Poor guy must be bored out of his mind."

"Haha~ yeah, 'cute', not exactly the words I would use to describe him but sure." Dominic nodded.

"Do you know how I can get one as a pet?"

"No. A Cerbereus is a XXXXX class animal. And is very dangerous, the only reason why one is stationed at Hogwarts is because it is protecting something."

"What is it protecting?" Loki asked with interest.

"Dunno." Dominic casually shut down Loki's question.

"I promise I won't tell anyone! Not like I have anyone to tell about it in the first place."

"No, seriously, Headmaster Dumbledore didn't inform us. He just left it at the fact that something was being protected at Hogwarts."

"Huh…I see."

"Good luck with your last detention of the week Loki." And with those parting words, Dominic left to go to the Slytherin dormitories.

Sneaking some food away on a plate, Loki went first to the Third-floor's forbidden corridor and served some food to the giant pup, giving him plenty of meat and water to drink so that it wouldn't feel starved.

Loki then played with the three heads, who all had different personalities once he got to know them better, for a while so that it wouldn't feel lonely and ran around the room playing catch with the giant dog.

"Alright cutey! I'm going now, I will be back tomorrow."

*Whine* *Whine* *Whine*

"Aww…I know! I know it's boring but I promise I will be back tomorrow! I've got detention to attend! And aren't you the best boy!!! Won't you wait for me?"

*WUFF* *WUFF* *WUFF*

Leaving the corridor with a happy sigh Loki walked through the corridors, returning the Hogwarts Plates to the house elves and then turning to go towards the dungeons.

*Knock* *Knock*

Loki knocked on Snape's office but seeing there was no response he grew a little impatient.

'What's keeping you, professor?'

*Knock* *Knock*

"Professor if you don't respond, I'll force my way in!" Loki warned.

But when there was no response for another few minutes, he pulled out his wand.

"Alohomora." Loki chanted, causing the lock to *click* open and allow Loki access to Snape's office.

Entering Snape's office, Loki felt a little unnerved because it was a little cold today, it felt as if something was watching him and his moves.

"Professor Snape? Are you there? I let myself in." Loki softly shouted, his voice echoing in the empty classroom.

'He's not here?'

'Huh…now that I'm in here, I might as well complete my task. There's very little left to sort after all.'

Opening the cupboard where Snape's ingredients were arranged neatly, Loki took stock of whatever was remaining until a thought struck him.

'What are the ingredients for the Sequence 8 Midnight Poet Potion here?'

'Are they available in Snape's storage?'

'Then I should learn about it first so I can plan a heist from Snape's storage. It'll help me digest my potion and make the Midnight Poet potion. Two birds with one stone.'

Loki quickly left the office and walked to the closest washroom to enter a cubicle to perform the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth Ritual and slip above the grey fog where the Darkness Pathway Blasphemy card was stored.

Loki quickly picked up the blasphemy card and poured in a little bit of spirituality to turn it into a book, flipping the pages he landed at the Sequence 8: Midnight Poet potion.

The image was of a woman holding a pen and a book seemingly writing something under the starry night as a soft ethereal glow shimmered in her words that turned musical and lulled passerbys who happened to hear her writings.

Looking underneath the picture, Loki saw the ingredients for making the Midnight Poet Potion.

The two main ingredients of the potion were,

'A drop of blood of a Diricrawl.' And '100 drops of Lethe River Water, while the auxiliary ingredients were the same as the list from before.'

'So I only need to find two ingredients?'

'I doubt Snape has the blood of a Diricrawl or even if he has it, it isn't stored in the area where I've been sorting and storing ingredients.'

'So I'll need to get it from somewhere else.'

'But I'm sure I've seen a flask full of Lethe River Water in the collection before. And I just need a hundred drops of it.'

Exiting from above the Grey fog with but a thought, Loki walked out of the washroom cubicle and washed his hands.

Walking out of the washroom though, caused him to bump into two people who pushed him back into the washroom.

"Fred? George?" Loki said as he recognised them.

"Oh? It seems we meet again Loki, how do you do?" Fred asked.

"I'm fine, but why are you running like someone's on your tail to murder you?"

"Something like that." George said.

"Oh? Did you two prank Professor Snape?" Loki asked with a half-knowing look.

"Oh Gred, it seems that we've been found out."

"Yes, it does Forge."

"Why did you prank him?" Loki asked connecting the dots and understanding why Snape wasn't in his office when Loki had left.

"He was being a git in the potion's class."

"Someone had to put him in his place so that he'd stop doing it."

"I understand." Loki nodded since Snape in his class spent half the time either annoying Harry or praising Malfoy to death.