"Lady Hogwarts… this is prof. Snape, he teaches Potions." Dumbledore introduced Snape.
The force on Snape's body vanished.
"Is that so?" The voice became gentler, "Be a bit wise and inform me first before you bring someone else here, will you? If it weren't for my merciful nature I would have killed him on spot." Snape shuddered when he heard this.
"What brings you to me this time around? You do know that I don't like to be disturbed for silly things."
Snape got up but didn't dare to speak a single word, he didn't want to feel the pressure again.
"Of course I know, if it wasn't an urgent business I wouldn't have come here." Dumbledore spoke politely.
"Get on with it then, tell me" The voice was impatient.
"One of the student has cast a ritual curse on Gryffindor house, and its reaching its peak. I think that the ritual was performed in the castle somewhere." Dumbledore said.
"A Ritual curse…" The voice got agitated, "My master hated ritual magic a lot, and the people involved in ritual magic are the worst sort of people. Hogwarts is getting sullied. No student of Hogwarts should be using Ritual magic. You are even more irresponsible than Dippet. He let a Dark lord grow up in Hogwarts and now you are letting a student learn ritual magic. How deep Hogwarts has fallen. Let me see…" One line of rune in the walls started shining in a different color. The white shine became light blue.
The whole Hogwarts castle was being searched.
Dumbledore and Snape were just looking at the crystal ball and the blue runes shine. After a minute the runes stopped shining.
"I see a student in the Room of Requirement and he shouldn't be there. The room of requirement isn't supposed to show itself when the students want to do evil. He may have that then." The voice said.
"That?" Dumbledore asked.
"The Access Stone… the room of requirement was not made for the students. It was supposed to be a secret place which provided everything when my master needed them. The Room of requirement was never a single room but it was a various room serving different purpose. My master had made the 'Access Stones' for his four apprentices which gave them entry in some of the rooms whenever they wanted."
Dumbledore and Snape were hearing this for the first time.
"If there was such an item, we should have known about it. If we had known about it then we surely would have secured all the stones and kept them safe." Snape spoke.
"The stones were destroyed after the death of the four apprentice. They shouldn't exist now. But I am sure that an access stone was used, otherwise I would have known who is using the room of requirement. The access stone makes it so that I can't influence that room nor know anything of it. I lose the control over the room accessed through the stone. I can't help you much but what I can do is make sure that when the person inside exits he will exit from a point which I dictate. But it still can be entered from anywhere. I am not even sure that the person who is in the room is the person who used ritual magic. The real culprit may even be outside the room with the stone with him. And if he notices any changes he might become vigilant."
Dumbledore nodded, "I am happy to get any kind of help from you."
"Dumbledore, confiscate and destroy it if you could." The voice requested.
"That is for sure." Dumbledore replied.
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"Cedric look…" Liam proceeded to show Cedric the book.
"Body possession Ritual, it requires an object to link the person being possessed. While the possessor must lay on the ritual circle while possessing." Cedric Exclaimed. He remembered that a Ravenclaw student went missing a day ago.
"I saw Michael wearing a black bracelet today. Today was the first time I saw it as well. I am pretty sure that the bracelet is the link object. We need to break it. And I heard that a Ravenclaw student went missing since yesterday. I think we have found our culprit." Cedric had a very satisfied smile.
The door was forced opened. Opening with a huge force and loud noise.
"What are you doing here? Mr. Diggory." Snape was angry.
He saw his room in a mess, there were many books which were scattered on the ground, and also saw Liam and Cedric reading the Book on Ritual Magic.
"That book isn't something which you should read." He quickly snatched the book.
"Professor…. I think we have found the culprit." Liam and Cedric said in unison.
They spent the next few minutes explaining to Snape what they have found.
Snape sighed, "Prof. Flitwick did say that a student had gone missing. Only he knows who that student is. Your friend has been possessed, and the bracelet is the link."
'Dumbledore had already sent someone to keep a look at the place which Lady Hogwarts has told us. If what these kids think is true then we would have found our culprit.'
"Follow me to Prof. Flitwick's office.
...
[Flitwick's office]
The room had many small furniture fit for a goblin size. Flitwick was sitting next to his table humming folding his clothes.
The door knocked.
"Who is here? At such a time." He kept the clothes on his bed and went to open the door.
"Oh! Prof. Snape, what brings you here?"
"Prof. Flitwick, We need to talk."
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