Drop in the Ocean

The three sixth years went up the Owlery. Celeni was starting to have paranoid thoughts about her owl and Ethan, what if they’re gone now. What if Ethan died? It was all her fault.

As they ascended, Celeni’s heart became more appeased when she saw that Obi was gleefully hopping for perch to perch and it seemed that it was about to descend to the tower to greet her. And she did. She landed on Celeni’s shoulder.

“Hey you little thing.” Celeni said patting Obi’s beak.

“Do it now Cel…” Joyce whispered

“Alright.” Celeni said an incantation and golden sparks got out of her wand. However, at the same time, in the other side of the room, a low voice yelled “Accio Obi!” The owl motionlessly got to the other side of the room, struggling to get out of the magical grip.

“Oh NO!”

At the same time, Celeni’s transfiguration spell hit Oliver instead and he turned into a jewelry box.

In the mere moment that Joyce picked her beaux, now the box, a man appeared dragging a sack obviously containing a human being, with him.

“You!” Celeni exclaimed, still armed with her wand she yelled, “Expelliarmus!”

Joyce placed the jewelry box in her book bag and grabbed Malfoy’s wand. “Okay Malfoy, game over. We’re armed and your not. You have Obi. HAND THE SACK.”

Malfoy had no choice. He handed over the sack, Celeni and Joyce both pointing their wands at him.

As he did, they grabbed the sack, Celeni opened it with Ethan in a terrible figure. She let him lie in a cleared space in the Owlery and cast an enchantment that placed him into a more revived figure. But he would be needing to get to the Hospital Wing ASAP.

Well, the girls lied and after seeing Ethan alive, Joyce and Celeni cast a stunning spell on Malfoy. “Stupefy!” Then Joyce conjured invisible ropes and tied Malfoy like what Oliver did to Crabbe and Goyle. Joyce, who had been foreseeing an event like this kept a bottle of Veritaserum in her bag. She placed two drops on Malfoy’s lips and started to unstun him and asked him questions. He remained immobile.

“Why… are you trying to regain Obi?” Joyce asked.

“Well, that Owl has been under my possession for 5 years. I made the Owl-Seeing potion strong enough to sustain a year, so that I would be aware of the happenings in Hogwarts. I asked my wife to sell it to a student from Hogwarts because my son doesn’t want to use a sissy owl when he has his eagle owl. And it worked! I saw all the events. The Chamber of Secrets was opened, just like I planned.”

“So you were the one behind all these attacks and the opening of the Chamber of Secrets! How did you do it? Are you the Heir of Slytherin”

“Tom Riddle’s Red Diary. It’s with one of the Weasley’s… But I’m not the Heir of Slytherin.”

“Oh no… Celeni, I think we better go. We must warn everyone about this!” Joyce said.

“Hold on. What do we do with Malfoy?”

“Just leave him there.”

“But he’ll revive.”

“We need to get Ethan to the Hospital Wing immediately and since we still don’t know how to do counter-Transfigurations, we need to ask Professor McGonagall to do so or else Oliver would be a jewelry box forever!”

Then Professor McGonagall’s voice magically amplified in the room. She announced that the end of the term is cancelled and everyone is to be sent home. Is this the end of Hogwarts?

They rushed towards the halls, crowded with students, panicking to get everything ready before they’re the next one to be petrified. They didn’t notice that they were carrying Ethan in an invisible stretcher and they went to the Hospital Wing. Madame Pomfrey was just taking care of Professor Flitwick.

“What happened to him now? Don’t tell me he’s petrified.” Madame Pomfrey said with dismay.

“He’s pretty much OK, but he got caught on the stampede of students.” Celeni hastily explained.

“All this Heir of Slytherin thing. Now they’re sending the students back to their homes. Very well, leave him here. I’ll heal him.”

“Thank you Madame Pomfrey. We gotta run now.” Joyce said and they both took off.

Eventually, they got into the Transfiguration classroom, where Professor McGonagall was clearing up the materials.

“Professor!”

“What is it Miss Cadogan?”

“Well, we were practicing our transfiguration on an owl, and unfortunately the owl flew and it hit Oliver Wood instead! Now he’s really a WOOD. He’s a jewelry box.” Joyce explained.

“Oh my. Hand me the box right away. And go now, this will take some time and I want you girls packing.” Professor McGonagall said.

On their long way through the crowded corridors, finding an en route to their tower they ended up in the wrong staircase. They saw Lockhart, furious. It seems like he was doing a Memory Charm on Harry Potter and his friends. Unfortunately, the spell hit them instead. They became totally unconscious about the events that just happened. They looked at each other and totally forgot what they were supposed to do.

“Hey Joyce. What are we doing here?” Celeni asked.

“I have no idea.” Joyce remarked.