I Know Your Secret

The Ultimate Secret of Headmasters Past

Hope looked over the new entrance to the heads office half-amused as she didn't like having to destroy pieces of history but it had been that stubborn they were left with little choice and this was the most efficient as rewriting the wards was too much and very few people had that kind of talent.

They ended up having to tear apart many wards and old enchantments to get in too. They had employed Bill Weasley and his team of ward crackers from Gringotts to get the job done without causing any unnecessary damage.

Bill had been only too happy to have the extra work while in the country, and the fact it was messing with Dumbledore added some icing to the job. Dumbledore had been pestering his mother and father ever since they decided to side with Hope. He was still annoyed that his brother Percy was a ministry stooge, and that Ronald was a Dumbledore worshipping puppet.

Hope and her body guarding girls entered the door and luckily a friend of Bill's managed to get the moving stairs working again, so they stepped on them, and they started ascending them to the top as walking too much could be a drag where they stepped off at another wooden door, entering without knocking.

The office was different. It was plain so far with a large oak desk and empty chair in front of it with many screaming and abusive paintings on the side wall cussing at Hope and her guards. Then there was a huge library of books and trinkets lining the walls; a giant telescope, and a phoenix on a golden perch.

"Oh, Fawkes is still here!" Hope commented in surprise. "You really plan on staying don't you?" she asked as she slumped down into the comfortable office chair at the desk where several monitors set on with Windows systems for her to use, in lock mode.

The phoenix gave her a note of agreement. "Well, whatever," she said, shrugging, "but betray me and the school to Dumbledore bird an I'll have to test out how immortal you really are!" she threatened, smirking while the bird seemed to gulp and her bodyguards took stations at the door to her new office since McGonagall was happy staying where she was, and Hope wanted to have all of the stuff Dumbledore left behind checked out as well as search for the 'mythical' Hogwarts Vault that was said to be in the headmasters office somewhere.

"This is a travesty!" one of the previous head teachers paintings said loudly while he glared at Hope, "a pathetic little girl using the headmaster's office as her own personal study!"

"Dumbledore will be back!" another agreed wholeheartedly.

"I'm sorry did you say something?" she asked, looking up at the men while rolling her eyes while they were outraged as she was amused with them and wished she got to piss off the real deal years ago.

However, they looked around when Luna Lovegood and Hermione Granger came around a corner from where the large telescope was on the tiered balcony that ran around the upper floor. Why an idiot who had no imagination would look to the stars was beyond them.

"Hope!" Hermione called down with a grin. "We've finally found the headmaster's vault!" she said in glee while the previous heads looked on in terror.

"You cannot open it!" one of them roared in panic.

"Nonsense...!" Luna disagreed. "It's actually quite poor magic... so Kairi, can we open it?" she asked, causing Hope to grimace as she still didn't have a clue how Luna found out her first name as she had been using her second name as it sounded more, normal, and hopeful, and glared at Ginny while she blushed as it was likely her doing. But then Luna was a reporter, and a good one, having a father who was a somewhat reporter helped her out as she had some experience in the art of being a snoop.

Hope shrugged with a cool sigh as they ignored the paintings cries as she climbed the stairs up to join her friends. "Hang on, Luna, weren't you with Ginny plotting something with Daphne and Susan?"