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Chapter 35: I Know What You Did

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Chapter 35: I know What You Did

I was released from the conniving clutches of Madame Pomfrey on the second of February.

After I was released we bought Hamish, Tom and Kevin into the common room to tell each other exactly what went down that night. To my astonishment our predicament with discovered identities did not scare the others in the slightest. They were more worried about what we were going to do next now that we couldn’t travel as inconspicuously.

I didn’t tell Kevin, Tom and Hamish everything. I had told my friends in private the whole story before the group meeting. As much as I loved those lads, I was still wary about just giving away information. For example they still didn’t know everything about the Varias inheritance. That was something I was fiercely protective of; some of the more intricate details escaped my friends too. I don’t know what had me puffing up my collar and looking at everything suspiciously, maybe it was just a touch of paranoia over a looming day.

I was turning 18 on the 22nd of February.

Never mind that 18 was the age in my family when things seemed to go wrong; Mum met dad when she was 18 and they ran off together and survived on dad’s meagre allowance from his parents for his work on the farm. Alexandru had a major accident with a dragon when he was 18 which left him close to death. And my Grandma and Grandpa left the tribe when my grandma was 18 and pregnant; most of their magic leaving them and rendering my infant mother a squib.

So to say I was being a bit wary was a slight understatement.

But anyway, I suppose you want to know what ‘The Adam’s family’ and ‘the Avengers’ found that day in Knockturn don’t you?

Our anonymous source had been correct. ‘The Adam’s Family’ were able to follow Bagman from one end of the alley to a shady looking establishment at the other, which was a freaky looking pub. They’d found it difficult to blend in, but thanks to Ivy’s quick thinking, a few choice spells enabled them to. She made Colin and Kevin look like slaves; made them look dirty and transfigured their clothing into ratty rags and put magical chains around their necks.

They’d been able to listen in and caught wisps of conversation between Bagman and his mysterious companion. The intelligence ring was still operating, with those under suspicion from the first war slowly worming their way back into key positions. Apparently the two men were organising something; a major public disturbance of some kind that would shift the Minister’s attention away from them and onto a new target.

This wasn’t very comforting, especially with the discoveries that ‘The Avengers’ made at ‘The Spiny Serpent’.

Thanks to Alice’s ingenuity, they’d been able to get in, though I’d wager not by the way most customers did. But get in they did. They’d been able to get around the store unseen, the store keeper out the back doing something or another which resulted in large bangs every now and then.

The store contained items illegal for trading in the Wizarding world like dragon eggs, human servants and so forth. They’d found the human servants locked in a cage like dogs bellow a notch in the floor boards. If a ministry agent could get in there they’d have a field day and an Auror would probably faint with glee. Alice accidently fell over on their hurry to escape and broke her arm; the shop keeper finally figured out there was someone in the store and came out to see whom it was.

They’d been all horrified to hear what had happened in Borgin and Burkes, but it didn’t matter technically because it had been a failed mission; I couldn’t prove anything that happened in that store. It was my word against his; me who had used a dodgy potion to conceal my identity and had technically stolen an item from the store. Never mind that I was retrieving it, the Ministry wouldn’t care if it came to light. I hadn’t technically found anything wrong with the store either.