In the shadow of Hermione Granger.

The master of Wisdom

Monday November 11th

Astra returns after a while, I open the note from Hermione: "Hope et goes well on your journey, I think it worked or else use the spell aparecium, it will reveal the invisible ink. I open the page and it's still blank, so I take out my wand, point it at the page and says clearly: "Aparecium" and the invisible ink becomes visible, I read it aloud for Ginny: "Congratulations, you've come this far, now its time to find the master of wisdom. Do the secret knock on the crystal and you will be lead to him"

Ginny turns to me, looking confused and says: "The secret knock, what is that?"

"Maybe it's the same that Melas did at the door, but I can't quite remember it."

Ginny: "Was it four knocks, three knocks and then two knocks?"

"No because the first and last was the same, and the middle was two."

Ginny: "Was it four, two four?"

"No, I don't think so."

We stand for a little trying to figure it out and then.. I've been squatting down to think, and I jump up, goes to the magenta crystal and knock. First three times, then twice, and then three times again. A tiny door appears at the bottom of the crystal, Ginny comes behind me and points her wand at the tiny door and says: "Engorgio" and the door grows bigger. Just big enough for us to go in with no trouble. We follow a small path with tiny magenta crystals sticking out every here and there. After a while a great hall appears in front of us, we enter and see a huge throne in the middle of the great hall, then we hear a loud voice saying: "Now you've entered my cave, solved my puzzles and remembered the secret knock, you are worthy to have the pages, I just have one question, why do you need them?"

A man with a long white beard, a long magenta gown and a wizards hat stands up from the throne and come near us, he looks huge at first, even bigger than Hagrid, but when he comes closer he's shorter than both Ginny and I. We stand in shock for a minute processing how tiny he is, but then he clears his throt and says: "Answer my question or no pages for you" and then he repeats the question slowly: "Why... do... you... need... the... pages?"

He looks at us, like he's reading our minds, and I say: "We need them to fix my dreams."

The master of wisdom starts laughing: "Ha-ha, dreams can't be fixed, you can only learn what they are trying to tell me"

"So you are saying that I just have to live with waking up drenched in sweat from a dream, just to find out that the stab I got in the dream, was actually real"

I almost yell the last bit because the master of wisdom is really annoying me. He looks shocked at first, but then he says: "That's powerful magic, that should not be happening on its own, someone has cursed you, maybe the person who stabbed you"

I look at Ginny and then says: "No, she's my best friend, she would never stab me, it has to be someone disguised as her, please help me"

I beg for he'll help us, I can't live like this, knowing someone has cursed me, and then giving the blame to Ginny and Hermione, the ones I trust the most. The master of wisdom says: "Are you sure?" I nod and he continues: "Well, then you need these pages, they will guide you throughout the rest of the journey, and I hope you find the person who cursed you, they should get the punishment they deserve"

Ginny who have been standing in the background the whole time, goes up to the master of wisdom and says firmly: "I will help her with that, and whoever did this, will pay, even if I need to do it myself" She goes back to me and puts her arms around me" The master of wisdom nods and says: "I guess this is the best friend?"

I smile: "Yeah it is"
The master of wisdom: "You are lucky to have her"

"I am"

Ginny: "And I'm lucky to have you"

The master of wisdom: "Now now, here are the pages, use them wisely."

"We will"
He hands over the pages and we go back to the entry, back through the tunnels and the cave, outside the cave we stop and look up at the sky, the most beautiful starry sky above us. I smile as I turn to Ginny and hug her, I whisper in to her ear: "Thank you" she tightens the hug and kisses me on the cheek, I feel the blush rushing to my cheeks. We let go of the hug and head back to the school in silence, I think to myself: "I love that side of her, she really defended me, I am so lucky to have her, I have no idea what to do without her"

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