The Will of Gil (Harry Potter)

Chapter 90 [R-18]

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Chapter 90- Gems A Plenty! [R-18]

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It had been nearly four months since Justin and Nearly Headless Nick had been Petrified, and almost everybody seemed to think that the attacker, whoever it was, had retired for good. They were right in a manner of speaking since Riddle no longer attacked students but instead controlled them. Some would say that is the better alternative. However, I believe it is much worse. Riddle has been up to something, and no one has caught onto it except me, and if Riddle knew about my interference, he would come for me. He definitely has eyes on me, but thankfully, I have ways around the castle and am always using the invisibility cloak when I go hunting.

At this point of the year Peeves had finally got bored of his "Oh, Potter, you rotter" song. In March, I learned through all of the students excitedly chattering about it that several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in Greenhouse three and that this made Professor Sprout very happy. Confused as to why this was, I questioned the woman, and she told me that it meant they were close to fruition. "The moment they start trying to move into each other's pots, we'll know they're fully mature," she told me. "Then we'll be able to revive those poor people in the hospital wing." I honestly didn't know whether to be glad or not about that because the threat was still at large.

I had been capturing pages every night, but every night, once again, there were multiple people being controlled and used for something. No matter how much I did, nothing seemed to change. I felt like I was that one guy from Greek mythology who keeps pushing a boulder up the mountain, but the mountain never ends. Or is it that he goes back to the beginning when he rests? Either way, I feel like I am making no progress. I mean, Riddle is definitely more powerful than he should have been. And he is currently a magical book. Does that mean he can spawn infinite pages, and I am actually doing no damage except doing some insignificant slowing?

I can't think like that. Even though there doesn't seem to be an actual decrease in activity or in pages, I am sure I am doing something. If anything, I am, at the very least, whittling away at him piece by piece, and at some point, it will become too much for him. I will do too much and impede him from completing whatever his objective is, and at that point, I don't know what else I can do; I will have to wait for him to make a move. I don't like it, but there is nothing I can do. Trust me when I say I have been trying to rectify that, but it just hasn't been panning out.

I still haven't stopped searching for the book since if I get that, then it is the great end clause, and everything stops. It's the shut-off switch, and if I get my hands on it, then everything is over, and I have won. Of course, it isn't that easy, is it? The book must be in a very secure location surrounded by wards or something that is stopping my spell from tracking it down, and the pages come from there. However, even if the book was out, my spell only connects to the closest Horcux with a stable connection. I've been trying to modify it in my free time to connect to the strongest link in the vicinity, which I hope is the book, but it doesn't seem to want to work.