Chapter 11 - I Need To Have a Serious Talk With My Family About The School

Immediately after tossing himself into imminent danger, Louis promptly landed into the pit of doom. Seeming as if it became possessed, the plant-like vines sprang to life and started wrapping itself around the boy. " This is seemingly boring, the vines are to slow at their job and they act starved. Not that I'm complaining though, makes my job easier. " Taking out his wand he casts a spell and falls through the now ' passed ' out plants. ' They'll come back to life again later, it is protecting something for a reason, and killing it will make the life of the thieves easier if I do kill it. " He states to himself as he dusts of the dirt from his jeans and hoodie when he landed on the ground, and walked off.

Continuing his walk in the tunnel like path, Louis is met with a wooden door at the end of the tunnel. Shrugging his shoulders in acceptance, he places his hand on the handle and opens the door walking in. Flying winged keys are what his met with the moment he closed the door upon entering the door. " Oh how fun this is going to be. " Louis says with a glint in his eyes noticing the locked door and keys connected together. Four minuets later, Louis landed on the ground once he grabbed the odd key out and flew to it on the broom lying round. " That was slightly easy, though I doubt they let anything be so easy in this school. " Louis states the facts to himself as he opens the door and releases the key back.

" Your kidding me right? " Louis asks no one in particular as he stares at the giant pieces of chess sprawled out over the room. " Let me guess, defeat the other side and I pass on to the next test? " He asks one of the chess pieces that nod it's head back to him seemingly saying yes. ' Cool ' climbing upon the knight piece and taking his place on the board, the chess pieces spring to life and begin to move. Once his turn arrives, only two words leaves his mouth as he smirks, " Easy, Explodo " with a wave of his wand, the other side explodes and turns into chunks of stone, signifying the boys victory.

Satisfied with his work, he hops off the knight piece and bade ' goodbye ' to the chess pieces with a bow and heads to the door at the other side of the room. ' I should probably repair the exploded chess pieces in case. ' Turning around and giving his wand another wave he casts, " Reparo " all the destroyed pieces seemed to move back in time and returned back to pristine condition. Happy with his work, he heads back off to the door.

Opening the door, Louis is met with burning heat from bright orange flames and a table in the middle of the burning room, where small bottles and a piece of paper placed atop of it. " I'll sweat myself dry before I can run a l.a.p in this godforsaken room! " Louis frustratedly says while waving his arms in the air in anger. Arriving at the table, he picks up the note and reads the words written on it.

Placing the note back down, Louis could only smirk at how simple it was. " Fine, since you want me to walk through flames... I'll do just that. " Grinning maliciously, he strides through the flames once casting a fire protection spell on himself. ' These tests are just annoying and ridiculous in all honesty. Seriously, what idiot thinks that placing a series of potentially killable tests, is a good idea? These teachers have lost their minds. ' With those thoughts in mind, Louis made sure to make a mental note to tell his parents his concerns for the school staff.

Appearing at the other side of the flame, Louis comes out glistening slightly due to the heat emitted coming from the flames. " The school board and I are going to need a serious talk about their priorities or I'm going to change it myself one way or another. " Slightly annoyed and sticky, Louis stalks into a.vast empty room-fires emitting from the walls, heat near the point of unbearable all of which surrounds a single mirror at the centre of the b.a.r.e like room.

" Interesting.....plain and boring room with its wall covered in flames, mirror in the centre that has carvings on the frame, I wonder what this could mean. Puh-lease this is as sad as it can get at this point. " Rolling his eyes and strolling towards the mirror, already figuring out what to do next.

Coming to a stop in front of the mirror, Louis further inspects the inscriptions on the frame, ' Letters Huh, though they do spell words backwards? Weirdos, ' he rolls his eyes once more, " Mirror...of....erised? Ah, wait no, d.e.s.i.r.ed obvious yet sad hints the professor gives. " ' Might as well give it a.shot ' and proceeds to stare into the mirror, curious for what it holds.

No later did his figure in the mirror begin to move by itself, " Cool yet creepy " placing it's hand into the pocket of his hoodie and taking out a stone the size of a pebble. Seeming confused, Louis does the same action as what his reflection did, amus.e.m.e.nt passes by his face once he finds the same pebble in his hoodie as the one in the mirror. " Fascinating, the spell seems complicated but is easy to execute when the right combination is used, I must try this back at home. " meanwhile, a sneeze came from Dumbledore while he was feeding his phoenix.

Upon closer inspection, the stone seemed....useless. Other than the fact it had crimson like colour close to blood, nothing seemed to change or happen once Louis obtained it. " So let me get this straight, " he states to himself, " I had to go through all that annoying ' tests' " he quoted with his fingers with the stone in hand, " for this red rock? " stupefied by his discovery, staring with all his might on the stone, as if the answers would just pop up out of nowhere.

After what seemed like a long time, he heaved a sigh and gave up. ' Guess it's time to head back, ' and apparated back to the boys dorms, not before fetching bandit and bidding a peaceful night to his new friend, the three headed hound.

As sunlight spilled into over the horizon, Richard opens his eyes to a brand new day stretching out the drowsiness. After some time of getting his gears running, he looks around for Louis, knowing that his cousin went out during the night for some investigation and was curious on how it went. ' Louie? You back yet? ' He asks out telepathically, ' Suitcase ' was all he got in reply.

" A healing elixir I came up with, with the help of the stone. The thing in itself is useless but gave me the idea on what to place in the elixir itself. Oh, it's for this Griffin Gideon brought back, injured from his flight here. " Accepting his answer he heads towards Louis, " Need any help? "

" Yes please, could you help me fetch the little guy here, his in the Griffin area golden yellow in colour with streaks of black in the feathers. His not hard to miss. Thanks. " Louis says as he once again gets absorbed into his work, leaving Richard to himself.

Returning back to Louis' workspace with the injured young Griffin in hand, Richard calls out to Louis confused as to where he was. " Eureka! " A sudden exclamation spooks the boy and the Griffin as they look to where the source of the voice came from. In the corner where the cauldron lay, Louis tired and a tad messy, holds up a vial of liquid with a look of excitement on his face. " Louis? " Richard asks a wee bit scared of his cousin, who in turn wh.i.p.s his to face the two with sparkles in his eyes.

" I've figured it out! Here! Try this, all kinds of injury or illness in the body is repelled instantly with no after effects to! " He states hurriedly as he practically runs towards them, vial in hand. The young Griffin, though hesitant still takes the liquid in one gulp. Immediately after swallowing the substance, a soft glow radiates from the Griffin itself while the obvious leg injury heals at the blink of the eye.

Richard, shocked with what is happening before his very eyes only managed to say three words from his mouth, " Are you serious? " was all he said as he witnesses the previously injured Griffin fly in the air, happy to be back to its healthy state.

" By the way Richie, " Louis speaks to his cousin gaining his attention, " We need to have a little talk about the mental state of our professors and the headmaster, basically the whole staff in general. " He states in a matter of fact way where which Richard can only nod his head in response, " You might want to tell Ann about your little adventure though. "