The Girl who Vanished

Chapter 34

Goblin Mine

After stopping by the Room of Requirement to make sure she has plenty of useful plants and potions, Lara Floo's to a small village close to the mine then flies the rest of the way on her broom. Deciding that she wants to avoid alerting the goblins inside the mine she disillusions and sneaks past the goblin patrols and the troll guarding the entrance. No sign of Lodgok. He must be inside already.

"I hope Lodgok is okay." Elizabeth worries.

Once inside the mine Lara was amazed by how massive it was, passageways and rail car tracks ran all over the place, overhead pulleys and buckets transport raw ore and other materials across the mine, steam boilers and doors kept intruders out or at least slowed them down. She petrifies one goblin before disarming another and hurls its axe back at him. She transfigures the two into crates so as to not raise suspicion before climbing on to one of the rail carts.

"Smart." The aurors praise, smart idea to hide the bodies in plain sight.

"Yeah, until someone notices those two are missing!" Moody counters.

Lara: "Just like Gringotts, but I'm in the driver's seat this time."

As she raced along the tracks she was surprised she was able to hear the goblins talking as she passed, it was almost like she had hypersensitive hearing.

Goblin Loyalist: "Something seems wrong."

How deep will this take me, I wonder?

Goblin Loyalist: "Ranrok's going to be pleased with our progress."

Goblin Loyalist: "Who was on that cart?"

"You saw nothing, your eyes must be playing tricks on you." Elizabeth jokes while slowly waving her hand like she saw that bearded old man do in that one Muggle movie.

The cart comes to a stop and she continues on foot. She clears out another goblins patrol, tossing two of them over the railing to their death. She starts one boiler but soon discovers the way forward required two boilers and searches for the other one. Following the pipes she sees that she'll need to take the lift down but she can hear the sounds of goblins as well as a troll beneath her. There's no way for me to get down there unnoticed. The goblins will be suspicious if they see the lift come down with no one on it and even if I did make it down without being noticed they would surely notice the boiler suddenly start up. Hmm, perhaps it's time to see if all those weeks I spent researching spell crafting paid off.

"She created her own spell!?!"

"Harry, I love your sister" Hermione fan-girls, Harry rolls his eyes but smiles.

Everyone leans forward in anticipation, some munching their popcorn faster.

Turning invisible she rides the lift down, when it stops she quickly hides behind some nearby crates.  As expected, the goblins noticed the empty lift and a few went over to investigate.  Okay here goes, hopefully this works. She closes her eyes and focuses her magic, she feels a surge of ancient magic form inside of her. Taking a deep breath she casts.

Lara: "Centurious!" She shouts.

Two large puddles of ancient magic appear on the floor. Nothing happens.

Malfoy(Sr and Jr) and several Slytherins laugh.

"Your sister is quite the master spell crafter Scar head!" Draco sarcastically teases, his mother sighs in disappointment.