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Post by Nessa Erugenel on May 19, 2006 20:54:21 GMT -5
You climb the stairs that were hidden by a small door next to the entrance to the Astronomy tower. Round and round you go, passing doors. Finally, you see a picture Circe, with a large ornate frame. Touching the ball of fire in her hand, it changes into a handle. You pull on it and enter the Forgotten Room.
The Forgotten Room: Here is the room which has been forgotten by time. Enter at your own risk, and know that by doing so, you place your destiny in the hands of the creators. Signed, Godric Gryffindor Helga Hufflepuff Rowena Ravenclaw Salazar Slytherin
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Post by Nessa Erugenel on May 28, 2006 20:25:16 GMT -5
'Interesting...' Nessa thought. She had never seen this room before. Hence it's name she supposed. Carefuly she walked in minding her step as she entered. There was no one inside except for maybe a couple of mice, and a lot of dust. She took her wand out of her robe and lit it up so she could see better. There was a chandeleir, and it was not too high up, so using her wand again she lit the candles. It was very old fashion she realized. But beautiful none the less, even with the cobwebs hanging about.
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Post by Mininirime on May 29, 2006 7:30:51 GMT -5
Telery was carefully wrapped in het invisibility cloak. As always when she entered the forgotten room to practice, she found it hard to take it of, something always felt wrong about this place. How long have I been here? 10, 15 minutes maybe? she thought, and then she got the scare of her life...! Someone entered and she couldn't see who, her back was towards the door. Good thing I'm still wearing the bloody cloak. However, she realised that it wouldn't take long before she was noticed she was standing in the middle of the room, he or she was bound to walk into her within a few seconds. the best defense is a strong offence, Telery thought, here goes nothing. She turned and lowered her hood, whille speaking the words she had been dreading to hear for weeks, every time she was in this room:
"What are you doing here?"
She looked straight into the eyes of Nessa, a Gryffindor.
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Post by Nessa Erugenel on May 29, 2006 19:31:44 GMT -5
"And I thought this room was abandoned!" Nessa gasped holding a hand over her heart. Telery stared at her waiting for a reply to her question, but she didn't know how to answer. She didn't even know how she found this room.
"What am I doing here?" She repeated thinking it over. "Um... well. I don't know, I just kind of found it... what are you doing here?" She asked now curious why Telery was using an invisibility cloak in a forgotten room.
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Post by Mininirime on May 30, 2006 8:17:42 GMT -5
"I...uh..I was just taking a walk, you know, enjoying the silence in the castle at night."
Telery mentally kicked herself. That even sounded lame to me. This was stressing her out so much, she couldn't even tell a decent lie anymore, something that she never had problems with That she had to be discovered now, now that she had come so far. She took of the cloak completely, uncovering the rest of her body, she wasn't wearing the schoolrobes but a black outfit, fitting rather tight and necklace with a rather remarkable diamond in it. She put down the bag she was holding under the cloak. Nessa could hear the thud of a heavy book and the soft tinkling of glass against glass.
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Post by Nessa Erugenel on May 30, 2006 23:48:47 GMT -5
Nessa stared down at the invisibility cloak obviously hearing the sounds coming from under it. "Really?" She asked. Telery could tell her lie, like she knew, was not convincing enough for her. "Ok..." Nessa circled around and looked around the room feeling Telery's eyes on her. Then with one swift spin her feet never leaving their position on the ground she raised her brow at her. "How many times have you been here?" She wasn't being nosy Telery could tell, but she was curious.
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Post by Mininirime on May 31, 2006 8:19:20 GMT -5
"I haven't realy been keeping count." But that was not true, ever since she found the room last year and explored its possibilities she had been here once a week. The summer holiday had seemed terribly long, those stupid restrictions that were put on you outside Hogwarts, had stopped her from continueing her work. "Maybe 20, or 25 five times, last year as well. Its a great place if you can't use anyone disturbing you, you know." Telery was surprised by her honesty. But she knew Nessa, she could be trusted not to go blab it out everywhere, like most others would when they would find a room like this, with a student in it. Maybe I can trust her enough to actually tell her. She hadn't told anybody, not even her best friend Elin.
"You know, this room isn't as forgotten as the sign on the door would make you think. I know Dumbledore knows exactly where it is, he comes here sometimes, hence the invisibility cloak."[/i] Telery smiled, trying to change the subject away from what she was doing here, she wasn't sure enough yet anout Nessa's discretion.
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Post by Nessa Erugenel on Jun 1, 2006 19:22:03 GMT -5
Nessa smiled. "Really?" She asked. Telery nodded her head and Nessa let out a soft chuckle. "That is smart..." She let her eyes wonder again for a moment but could not help her glance at the invisibility cloak holding some items Telery wasn't mentioning. "So, since you have been here so many times, what keeps you coming back?" She asked.
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Post by Mininirime on Jun 6, 2006 8:56:22 GMT -5
"Ow, me...I've just been trying something, something rather dangerous to do unguided, " Telery had decided she had had enough of all the secrecy, besides she was so close, and Nessa wasn't half bad, not bad at all, she would probably keep her mouth shut. "And illegal."
She uncovered her bag and Nessa saw a cauldron, several pictures of big black panthers and a huge old book, titled: The Ancient Art of Transfiguration: Animagus Demystified.
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Post by Nessa Erugenel on Jun 7, 2006 18:10:25 GMT -5
Nessa’s face suddenly turned into a beam of rays. Her smile was so wide Telery thought it might make her face stick the way it was.
“You’re going to try Transfiguration?” She whispered letting her fingers graze over the book as if it were glass.
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Post by Mininirime on Jun 8, 2006 6:27:33 GMT -5
"That was the plan," Seeing Nessa excitement she started to smile as well, she had told the right person, "I've been looking through several books in the library, and this one tells a lot but still not what we really need: the exact way to do it, because I don't want to change in to a frog or something for the rest of my life. This book mentioned every drawback of being an animagus, all the records of what people have become, what can go wrong during the change, but no spell, or potion whatever."
Her face darkened a little, she had found books about the history of animagi, records of who had been what, and other useful stuff, but not the way to achieve her goal. "I do know which book we need. The only problem is that it's in the forbidden section of the library and I can't get it, since that hag caught me there last year she's been watching me like a hawk, I hoped that she might have forgotten about me during the holidays, but I was wrong."
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Post by Nessa Erugenel on Jun 8, 2006 16:56:31 GMT -5
“Really?” Telery nodded and Nessa smiled. “My great aunt twice removed is a good friend with the librarian.” She thought out loud. “I go there often, she has made it a habit not to expect me, though I have used such a thing to my advantage once or twice.” She said with a slight shrug. “Have any idea where in the forbidden section it is? I have never been good with memorizing ways to find a book. I see what I like and I pick it up.”
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Post by Mininirime on Jun 9, 2006 10:35:17 GMT -5
"Hmmm, this is convenient." Telery smiled, "its completely at the back, on the top shelf. It's not particularly thick, an inch or so, so it's easy the cover up, or to hide under your robes. Its bound in black leather, and the title is inscribed with dark red letters. By the looks of it it was even more ancient than this one." She pointed at the thick book on the floor. "It's just called Animagi, so that's not so hard to remember.[/i]
Telery looked at Nessa with a strange light in her eyes. "Do you think you can get it out of the library? She won't let you take it without a note, so you'd have to sneak it out." She was getting really excited, if Nessa could get the book, it would only be a matter of time before she would succeed in becoming an animagus.
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Post by Nessa Erugenel on Jun 9, 2006 14:24:24 GMT -5
Nessa thought for a moment. Then nodded her head in response.
“I might think about doing it at night… yes, it would be much easier.” She smiled at Telery and nodded her head. “Yes, I can get it… I’ll just have to be careful with Filch and his cat sneaking around.”
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Post by Mininirime on Jun 14, 2006 5:38:14 GMT -5
Telery's face opened up in a bright smile. "We could use the invisibility cloak, and I could stand guard." Her forehead wrinkled in thought, as she remembered something her mother had said the first time she went to Hogwarts, about her metamoprhmagic. And don't ever let me find out that you use your metamorph ability to break the school rules. Those rules are there for your protection. She had never thought about those words or her ability again, and she had hardly ever used it, and then only to amuse other students. She didn't need to change in someone else to break the rules, she could break them as herself with all the ease in the world.. But now... why hadn't she thought about that before.
"If you go into the library, and take the invisibility cloak, I'll stay near the door, as madam Pince, and if Filch comes by, I'll just act like her, and tell him that it was me in the library, I'll make up a nice lie."
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