Shake it, Bake it, Brew it

Dark Professor

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Once the door shut leaving the patients alone, Frank and Alice focused their eyes right on Dumbledore's bed ...

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Cache frowned as he saw several gloomy students in the hallways, "This isn't right." He said, hating that so many kids were hurt and scared because of these recent happenings.

"Poor babies." Trocar whimpered heartbrokenly from under his cloak as they quickly made their way to the headmistress' s office.

The consistent gloom extended all the way from the dungeons, where Cache and Trocar flooed into via Severus fireplace, to the children sitting on the stairs outside the Headmistress's office waiting to ask for case details. Lyra and Libra decide to stay on the stairs with the kids to try and get their minds off what was going on as the Trocar and Cache went towards the statue hiding the headmistress's office. They knew they were expected so Cache said the password to make the statue move. It also seemed wise to keep the vampire from lingering too long in one place for too long to avoid being discovered before an explanation was given.

It was not what this school was meant to be. Hogwarts was supposed to be safe for everyone. The students should never be afraid, but here they were. Everyone was questioning their safety in the supposedly safest place in the magical realm. It was a line of gossip already extending far beyond the school too. The appearance of Arthur Weasley was proof of that ...

Trocar didn't feel like being spotted by anyone before seeing Minerva so he used his speed to hide before he was seen, "Hello, Mr. Weasley, is something wrong?" Cache asked as he saw Arthur step out of the floo right after they stepped into Minerva's office to wait for her to come back.

Arthur smiled, "Hello, Cache. I ... I need to know where Ron is ... have you seen him?" He asked trying to be polite, but he was definitely in a rush.

Cache frowned, "I saw the Bloody Baron as we went passed the Great Hall so he must be there getting ready for breakfast."

"Thank you ... do you think he has Scabbers with him?" Arthur asked.

"Ron normally feeds Scabbers in his pocket while at the table so probably." Cache said curious as to why Arthur wanted to know.

Arthur looked relieved, "If you don't mind would you please inform the headmistress that I'll be borrowing Ron for an hour. There's been a family ... dilemma."

"I understand... would you like me to get Ginny, Fred, George and Percy?" Cache asked.

"No." Arthur exclaimed a little too quickly and immediately backpedaled, "This particular family dilemma is something that will greatly affect Ron being he's close with his mother. I want to explain it to him first." Arthur explained hoping it'd be enough to explain the decision to include only one child in the 'family dilemma'. After all, he couldn't very well say that this was a ministry related operation to arrest a Death Eater that has been hiding around the students of Hogwarts for years ...

"Ok, just tell me how I can help if you need it." Cache frowned as he watched the wizard smile gratefully and quickly leave. "That seemed odd."

Trocar reappeared frowning in thought, "It was, but there's probably a good reason. What does Mr. Weasley do for a living? ... and what's a Scabbers?" He asked recognizing the names Harry told him about and effectively figuring out who the wizard was without much difficulty.

Cache pondered a moment, "Scabbers is Ron's rat. You know, the one Lyra and Libra always growled at ...." He said wonderin why his kneazles only reacted negatively to Scabbers. They never threatened any other pet or familiar, but there was something about that rat. "If I remember correctly he worked in the ministry ... oh, this could be related to everything going on there."