Conall Wolf

33) Shrieking Shack

Conall spent most of the days of the holiday with Katsumi. He was done with the learning of the task, and all his school work was done. Katsumi was in a bad period right now, and he had to be there for him. Conall was any moment possible together with Katsumi, and sometimes they even sneaked in a room and had a sleepover with the two of them. Katsumi wanted to avoid Nina just for a few days, to get everything straight. Conall once tried to talk with Nina, but she didn't want to listen and that conversation ended soon enough.

It was the last day of the holiday and Conall had a day planned with his friends. They were planning on discovering the Shrieking Shack together. Conall asked if Katsumi wanted to go with him, but Katsumi didn't want to steal him even more from his friends, and he would just make some homework or something.

Conall walks towards the Whomping Willow, the place they would meet. Conall could see he was the last one because everyone was already waiting. Conall hurries a bit because he feels ashamed of getting there so late.

"Hey, I am here." Conall says.

"Ahh, there is our lost friend." Thierry says jokily.

"ha ha. I am finally hanging around with anyone else then you guys, and I am immediately lost" Conall says with a smile.

"It is only love man, I am glad you found your one, you deserve it." Thierry says, and he ruffles through Conall his hair. Conall immediately fixes it back and he tries to take him back, but Thierry is already a head of him so he can't get him.

"Guys! Come one, don't be so childish." Roselyn says while laughing.

"Alright mamma Roselyn." Thierry and Conall say in choir. They are all starting to laugh, and then they are walking towards the Whomping Willow. Conall takes his wand and fixes that the tree freezes, and then they are all going into the tunnel.

"This is sick!" Thierry already says, with only seeing tunnel. The twin is laughing at his comment.

"You should wait until we arrive at the Shrieking Shack. It is absolutely amazing." Faolán says. Conall leads them the way to the tunnel. Now he has his wand to light the way, but he wished he didn't have him. The tunnel is pretty disgusting, and everywhere are laying weird things that he can't place. You can see that this tunnel isn't used for a long time.

They finally arrive at the end of the tunnel, and Conall peeks through the trapdoor. He keeps checking to make sure that no one is sneaky in this house, roaming around. When he sees no one, and he can't hear anything either he opens the trapdoor completely and he climbs out. He helps the others to get through the trapdoor and when everyone is standing in the house he closes the trapdoor again.

"Wooow... This place is amazing." Thierry says impressed.

"I know right." Conall says and he still holds his wand with the light in front of him. Because of the closed windows it is still pretty dark here, so he could use every extra light.

"And you guys can just hang here whenever you want. That is awesome!" Thierry says.

"Well... only during transformation actually... I don't think that professor Murray would appreciate it so much that we are here right now." Faolán says, but you can hear that he doesn't really care and he walks further.

They walk into the living room, at least it looks like it. Conall walks towards the couch with a sheet over it. With one movement he removes it. Dust is filling the air and Conall coughs when the dust flutters down. He sees a disgusting purple couch, which is ripped apart. Conall thinks that all the sheets weren't there when Remus Lupin transformed here, because it was definitely a werewolf that ripped this couch apart.

"Tergeo." Conall says and the dust gets away. Some other things get a bit more cleaned as well and he looks pretty happy to it.

"Guys, come here!" Conall yells to others. In a few minutes everyone gathered in the room.

"What's up?" Faolán asks.

"Shouldn't we just try and clean this room, only this room? Get rid of the sheets, get rid of the dust, maybe get some lights working. Then it feels a bit nicer when we change here, than it is not so stiff and abandoned." Conall suggests.

"That is actually a good thing. It is not that we will break things, because we are still in our own minds." Faolán says.

"It sounds perfect!" Thierry says. And that is how they started to clean the living room. They got rid of all the sheets and they fold it down neatly, laying it somewhere in the corner. Conall does the Tergeo charm again, and all the dust is away. This is way better to work with, because all the dust caused a lot of coughing. Roselyn does a few spells on the broken furniture, and it does seem more like a living room where someone can actually live in. After a couple of hours they look satisfied at the cleaned room.

"This place is actually so beautiful." Conall says while he wonderes through the room. There is a big fireplace which hasn't been lit in a long time.

"Incendio" He says and the fireplace gets on. He stares into the flames for a long time and then he feels a hand on his shoulder.

"Come, lets discover the rest. We can't hang around all the time in one room. We cleaned this room which is perfect for our transformations, but there is so much more in this house." Faolán says. Conall turns around and he looks at Faolán.

"You are right." Conall says and he stands up, together they are walking towards the other rooms. They are looking at the kitchen but mostly to the rooms that are upstairs. This house has three floors and more rooms than Conall could ever dream of. The rooms are big and for some reason there are a lot. He imagined it without all the dust and with new furniture. This could actually be a good house to live in, so why did no one ever buy it to renovate?

"Guys! I found something!" Thierry screams for a floor above Conall. Conall gets curious so he immediately walks upstairs to find Thierry sitting on the floor, holding some old parchments in his hand.

"What is it Thierry?" Conall asks.

"Look, it is a letter from a long time ago, probably the first owners of this house." Thierry says and he gives the letter to Conall when he finished it first himself.

Conall reads the letter through and he gets a smile on his face. It was a family that lived here, with two small children. He likes the idea that there actually lived people in here, because it is hard to believe that it is even possible for people to live in this house. When he finishes reading he sees that it was written in 1947.

"What is it?" Faolán asks, who just entered. Conall gives him the letter and he keep thinking. This is written right after the second world war and he remembers that Grindelwald is just defeated by Dumbledore. He wonders if that had a big impact on the social life right here.

"This is insane, where did you find this?" Faolán says, while he gives the letter to Roselyn.

"I was just checking in some drawers, and these letters were laying in it. There are so many, this is just a small part." Thierry says, while he holds some others in his hand. Conall keeps looking amazed at the letters. He can't quite catch the feeling that these letters say so much about the previous owners.

"Should we take all of this? Trying to find as much information as possible?" Conall asks curious.

"Isn't that a bit weird tho? Snuffling through other their stuff." Thierry says with a bit hesitation.

"Well, they are dead aren't they? And maybe we can find family that is still alive!" Faolán says excited.

"It can't bother if we take it right? It is not that we are committing a crime, and these people are already dead." Conall says.

"Alright, then lets take it back to the castle. I think it is time to head back, maybe we can come back a different day to discover some more areas. We have been here to long." Thierry says while he takes the letters and puts them in his bag.