Bab 26: Knock out.
Yo!! So I am finally back.
I wanted to start from Sunday but got hung up on some things, but chapters coming in again.
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"So what to do you think?"
"I am not coming with you." Cedric shook his head, "That's way too dangerous."
"Well, your loss." Miles said getting a bit disappointed, "But are you sure that this will work."
"I am not so sure." Cedric said, "Though its only rumors that I've heard but it seems to work for people."
"Well, that confirms my suspicions then." Miles nodded as if contemplating something. "I'll see you later."
Miles left the library in a hurry as he had finally found a way to escape from his room at night. According to the information he got from Cedric, Filch starts his duties after midnight and during it, he usually starts from his office towards the Gryffindor common room, then to Ravenclaw, then to Hufflepuff finally ending on Slytherin from where he heads back to his office to get a bit of nap before he goes on a second-round exactly an hour later.
So to not get caught, he needed to act before 12 or within the time frame from, where he takes a nap. Walking out before 12 would be a bit detrimental as he had seen a couple of sixth-year students walk around studying for their N.E.W.TS so the most plausible way of sneaking out was during the one hour time window he had got or after Filch had gone away from the Gryffindor's common room.
As far as he remembered from what Patricia told him, Filch was a bit of a neat freak so any particular marks on the walls would busy him enough to not look around much so that could be a way for him to distract Filch for awhile as well.
Miles was deciding on what plan to use to get out first since there were a lot of things he had to do. First was to raid Filch's office for some prank items he could steal from him. The second was to officially bribe the school poltergeist Peeves so he wouldn't bother him while going out by exchanging the prank items in return. And finally, he had to wait until Christmas so he could get his hands on the Philosopher's stone before anyone else even tries.
While he was coming up with his plans walking back to the common room, little did he know that someone had been listening to him.
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"Where do you think you're going?" Dean Thomas asked in his ruddy voice looking at Miles who was trying to sneak out of the common room. He had been out in the common room since he couldn't sleep as he had accidentally inhaled a bit of Hodag's horn while messing around in the potion class but he didn't expect to find Miles to sneak out of his room this late at night trying to get out of the common room, "I asked where are you going?"
Miles took a heavy sigh cursing his bad luck, as he let go of the door handle and turned back looking at Dean in annoyance.
"Are you not going to say anything?" Dean asked growling a bit, "I don't know who you think you are but do you think you can get away anything just because you're a bit famous? This time I'll take you back to Professor McGonagall to see what you've to say for yourself now that I've caught you red-"
"Stupefy!" Miles chanted without any warning as Dean got knocked back on the sofa wondering what he should do.
"That was bloody brilliant!"
"It sure was."'
Miles recognized the voice as he saw two redheads coming down from the stairs. Miles pointed his wand at them but both of them raised their hands quickly.
"Don't shoot! We're the same as you!"
"Yes, we are the same as you."
"You're trying to explore the castle in the middle of the night," Miles said raising his eyebrows, "Without letting anyone find out?"
Both the twins looked at one another and back at Miles nodding.
"It sounds weird when you put it like that but yes."
"We're trying to explore the castle in the middle of the night without letting others find out."
"Yes, but we were heading back when he saw the boy but didn't expect you to come out and well shoot him with a spell."
"Quite ruthless of you but we swear not to tell anyone."
"Trust us, we're not Percy."
Miles snorted as he put his wand back down, "Do anyone of you two know an obliviating spell?"
"We don't but is it going to be trouble." The twins came down as they looked at the knocked out Dean Thomas.
"Well, yes if he decides to tell people, which will be quite troublesome." Miles said scratching the back of his head, "Really an annoying fellow, I tell you."
The twins shrugged knowing what Miles was talking about, ever since the first class, the tensions between him and the Gryffindor students were at an all-time high, even the older students didn't really like much of his cocky-attitude making him even more of an annoyance than the two of them. And the boy, in particular, didn't seem to exactly be his fan.
"Maybe you should've just talked before you stunned him," Fred said, "It could've helped."
"I don't trust him." Miles said. He was about to go steal from Filch which was sure to cause some sort of reaction from Filch so he couldn't afford anyone being suspicious of him. Especially the people around him who didn't like him that much.
"You can talk to him when he wakes up as well."
"So what are you thinking of doing?" Fred asked seeing Miles shake his head again.
"I didn't want to use it so early on but I guess I have no choice." Miles sighed going back to his room under the eyes of the twins as he quietly came back with a vial of potion in his hand.
"What's that?"
"A potion," Miles said as he opened the vial and walked over to the fainted dean. Slowly he pours out the entire potion in his mouth, making him swallow it, "That should do it."
"Is that what I think it is, Fred?"
"I think so too."
"It's a Forgetfulness Potion." Miles said putting the empty vial in his pocket, before the twins could carry on with what they had in mind, "Expensive thing I tell you, didn't expect I have to use it."
"Do you have some more?"
"Unluckily I could only bring one." Miles shook his head, "That's why I am a bit disappointed that I have to use it so early especially on this guy."
"That's brilliant."
"It's truly like an adventurer to carry such stuff around." George said, "What else do you have?"
"Not much." Miles said, "I couldn't bring a lot of things in my suitcase as I knew someone would check them and besides my mom wouldn't allow me to carry such stuff around as well. I luckily managed to sneak out one of them but that's all."
Fred and George disappointedly nodded, as Miles looked at the clock.
"Let's head out before someone else comes in." Miles said, "I don't want to waste my time here any further."
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A/N: I just now realized that some of you might not know who Patricia Rakepick is.
She is an extra character you see in the "Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery" a game you can play.
So she is indeed an already existing character in the Harry Potter universe, and I 've just added my character as her adopted son.
If you want to read about her you can from this wiki link below. They also have the picture and everything so you can get a better sense of the character.
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Patricia_Rakepick
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