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บท 21: Chapter 20

"Jonathan, you do realize that we are walking in circles, right?" Granger said with doubt in her voice, not knowing that she should trust Jonathan like her. Even if they were walking in circles.

"Just give it a moment." Jonathan said with a smirk on his face as we continued walking and once more reached that ugly painting of ballet trolls. Except this time, there was a door right next to it.

"Wha… How?" Hermione said with her mouth open with shock.

"Magic." Jonathan answered while wiggling his fingers in a 'spooky' manner.

Then he opened the door and they entered to a room that had many bookshelves around a gym and a pool.

"I welcome you, to the Room of Requirement."

"Wha… but… how?" Granger finally managed to say but Violet had to admit that she was in the same position as her.

"As I said, this is the Room of Requirement. As far as I have been able to understand, it is a magical room that changes itself by responding to the desires of it's inhabitants." Jonathan said with a shrug and before their eyes, the pool disappeared and was replaced with a fireplace, surrounded by many beanbags around it and stools next to them with snacks on it.

"It is rather handy." He said with a smile as he pulled a mug out of nowhere with, from what she could smell, hot chocolate in it.

"Now then, any other questions?"

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"How bad is the situation?" Severus asked to the headmaster as he walked into the old man's office.

"Surprisingly enough, not too bad. While it definitely isn't in a good place, Sirius' mental health is more or less in a miraculous state for someone who spent a decade in Azkaban."

"Guess not even that prison could change Black." Severus said with a snort, completely unbothered by the glare he was getting from the headmaster.

Unlike Dumbledore, he was not exactly very keen on giving out second chances and even among Marauders; Severus had a special place for the hatred he held towards Sirius Black in his heart.

"Severus I know how you feel about him, but can you at least show some amount of sensitivity for a man who spent a decade in prison for a crime he did not commit?"

"Considering that he would have spent a similar amount of time in Azkaban if his so called prank against me had gone a little different or if you had not been there to save his ass, I think I'm good as I am." The potions professor snorted while Dumbledore flinched, the man wasn't lying after all. If it hadn't been for young James arriving at the last moment then that 'prank' would have ended up with a dead student and likely an order of execution for young Lupin while Sirius would have gotten a ticket for Azkaban before he had graduated.

"Will you at least help out with Remus then?" The headmaster decided to change the subject from the very uncomfortable topic for a slightly less uncomfortable topic.

"I might as well. I have a rough idea about Lupin's whereabouts, but the real question is whether he'll come back." Severus said with a raised eyebrow while Dumbledore could only sigh. The man was correct after all. The parting between Remus Lupin and the other members of the Order of Phoenix had not been exactly… a pleasant affair. As a matter of fact Dumbledore had been quite shocked that the shouting match that day hadn't ended up with Remus trying to curse them or someone trying to curse Remus.

Maybe he should have Severus take young mister Richards with him, the boy might pull off another miracle like he did with Sirius and convince Remus to come back with no fuss.

No, that would technically be child labor and the paperwork to deal with that simply wasn't worth it.

"More importantly than the Lupin thing, I guess this means we no longer have to worry about Violet going back to Dursley family home for abusing children. Great idea by the way." Severus said with a roll of eyes and Dumbledore wondered how long it would take before his potions professor would let go and work with him without comments like that.

Considering that the man still had a picture of Marauders strapped to a dartboard in his room that he occasionally sent very nasty curses to, not in the near future.

"Yes. If all goes well then Sirius should get a clear check of health within a month and become able to legally exercise his right as Violet's godfather and get custody of her." The headmaster of Hogwarts said with a smile. Finally, after so long, he felt like he was doing something good.

It was a nice feeling.

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Narcissa Malfoy would like to think herself as a proper pure blood lady who possessed all the things that made them superior, which obviously included a calm head and patience.

But she wasn't really calm at the moment. There were two reasons for that.

First of all, her cousin Sirius turned out to be actually innocent and had just became a free man. Which meant that her plans to make her daughter Libra the next lady Black was more or less thrown into garbage since the idiot had a better claim for the position and would never allow their family to get their hands on it. Still, she might be able to salvage that somehow; she just needed time to think of a proper plan.

The second reason for her not being calm was far less serious but still troubling, a letter from her beloved daughter. Normally this would not distress her, as a matter of fact getting information from her daughter was always welcome; especially since they wouldn't be seeing each other until Christmas.

It wouldn't even have been a problem that her daughter was writing to her about a boy, but a muggleborn boy? Yeah, this was bad.

She still could have just waved it off if it was merely a case of her daughter complaining about the inadequates of such a person but the things that she wrote about, the 'truly superior' and the 'worth of heritage', these were very concerning. Especially since Narcissa knew how to analyze the words of her daughter and could see that this 'Richards's words had shook her worldviews and garnered her interest. All things that she could not let Lucius know.

She loved her husband, he was a great politician and businessman but when it came to their daughter… the man was wrapped around her finger and was reduced to a fool that made Narcissa's own father look like a stern parent, of all the things her daughter could have inherited from her. If he ended up learning about this muggleborn…

No, she could not let him do something stupid right after they had lost their rights to Black fortune that they had been using to keep certain families in line. She would have to deal with this situation without involving Lucius.

It would be great mother daughter bonding anyway.

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บท 22: Chapter 21

"I can't believe this, how come I couldn't find anything like this in the library?!" Hermione asked giddily as she kept reading her book, that had been materialized by the 'Room of Requirement', that gave a detailed explanation about 'Occlumency'. The benefits from merely practicing it seemed just marvelous!

"Oh, that's because they are not from the library." Jonathan said nonchalantly as he took another sip from his cup, looking like he was about to melt on top of the bean bag he was laying on.

"What do you mean?" Violet asked, beating Hermione only by one second, with a tilt of her head as she looked up from her book. A book that Hermione intended to read after she was done with her's.

"I mean what I said. They are not a part of the library, Hogwarts is not supposed to teach students mind arts after all." The sole male among them said with a shrug before going back to his drinking and slouching on the bean bag routine, uncaring of the increasingly worried look Hermione was sending towards his way.

"Should I… should I really be reading this then? You're saying like it's against the rules." Hermione asked with the slightest tremor in her voice at the thought of doing something that might be against the rules.

"I mean, it is forbidden to teach them but it's not actually forbidden to learn them by yourself." Jonathan said with a shrug but to be perfectly honest, Hermione was not sure anymore.

"Why is it forbidden to teach them?" Violet asked with a frown as she put her book down and looked at Jonathan, Hermione looking at the same direction with great force of will instead of lunging at Violet's put down book and satiate her curiosity.

"It's about keeping the control they have over the society steady." Jonathan said with a yawn before blinking at the curious looks Hermione and Violet were giving him that were somewhat mixed with horror as well, waiting for an explanation. So explain he did with a sigh.

"Occlumency is the beginning of the mind arts, which can be rather dangerous, and have several nice boons even in its beginning stages. Improved memory, easier to keep your calm, and several similar things." He took another sip from his drink before continuing.

"In the most simple terms I can use, Occlumency is the magic that interacts with one's own mind. Which brings us to Legilimency, magic that interacts with the minds of others, a branch that requires one to have a proper education in Occlumency. Once more in the most simple way I can use, it allows one to read other people's mind, something government officials wouldn't want in the hands of random people. That's why teaching of Occlumency is restricted." Jonathan stopped speaking for a moment, allowing Violet and Hermione to digest this new knowledge.

"There is also the fact that those with sufficient mastery of Occlumency can also fight against the effects of potions like Veritaserum, the strongest known truth potion."

"You can lie under the effects of a truth potion with Occlumency?" Violet asked with a tilt of her head and a spark in her eyes that made Hermione somewhat uncomfortable.

"No, but it can allow you to fight the compulsion to speak. Meaning you can't lie but you can keep your silence. That's also a reason for this knowledge to be restricted, veritaserum can be used in order to make criminals confess. It wouldn't really work out if they could just stop speaking." 

"You... know a lot about these things." Hermione said slowly, her brain finally sending her some bad news signals with Jonathan speaking about things that could theoretically allow one to escape unpunished from a crime.

"I guess? I just found the book here and then kept reading everything I could about it since it sounded interesting." Jonathan shrugged and Hermione could feel herself relax, that was a motive she could sympathize with. Still...

"How are you so good at classes with all this extra activity?" She mumbled, but apparently not low enough going by Jonathan's chuckles and the small glare Violet was sending her way.

"I once heard a saying about this, 'someone who simply works hard will never be able to match someone who enjoys themselves'. I don't really care about classes, I study because they are super interesting and my effort spent just shows in my results." Jonathan said with a laugh and Hermione could feel her worldview about classes shatter in front of her eyes.

Could it really be that simple? Was Jonathan better than her simply because he saw classes as something interesting and fun unlike Hermione who saw classes as simply classes, a responsibility?

"Also, it's not like I don't have classes that I am somewhat average at. Herbology doesn't really interest me and the history that ghost teaches is just useless compared to more modern history." Jonathan's words roused Hermione from her musings and almost made her jump at the defense of Professor Binns. That was until she thought through a little and realized that she could not really say that Jonathan was wrong.

The goblin rebellions were somewhat interesting, even if the departed professor did not really went into the more social effects or morality of such events, but compared to what she had learned from history books before she learned of her magic and Hogwarts; it was actually boring.

Not that it was really Binns' fault, it was rather hard to make wars against goblin sound interesting when compared to the feats of the Justice Society against the Axis forces. Like Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern and Doctor Fate! Still...

"You shouldn't insult teachers." She could at least defend the professor, even if she didn't defend his classes.

"I can't promise that." Jonathan said with a smile and then got up from his bean bag before Hermione could begin to properly explain him why as students they needed to show a certain amount of respect to their professors.

"Anyway, we gotta leave now. It wouldn't do well if people realized that we are missing." He said as he walked towards the door with Violet right behind him before he stopped and turned to Hermione with a smirk while she was staring longingly at the books she would have to leave behind.

"We might end up in a detention for it." And then she was off of her chair and running towards the door with speeds she never had reached before.

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