Liam took the note and started reading it.
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I am not me.
Someone has taken over my body.
Find the link.
Destroy it.
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"Michael was acting very strange since morning, he sat in a corner and watched us practice in the morning. And later disappeared. I found him in the stadium and asked him to help me note the team's formation. Without a word he just said 'Okay' and took the notebook from me. I thought that he was just a bit depressed and didn't want to talk."
"I also thought that he was awfully quite today, for some reason. He only talked when Harry fell down and asked us to go see what had happened."
Liam and Cedric noted every bit of irregularity they saw today from Michael.
"Michael is not Michael…."
"But what link does he want us to destroy." Liam wondered.
"Maybe it has some kind of a Dark magic which requires a medium to keep working and the only way to break that magic is to break the link of that spell?? To the person." Cedric explained, "I am not sure about this but it may be something like that."
Liam seemed lost in thought, he was started looking for something.
'The book which Prof. Snape found the information about the Ritual magic… where did he keep it."
[Way's to Identify Ritual Magic]
He found the book in Snape's bookshelf.
"Found it…"
"Found what…??" Cedric asked.
"The book which has answers to our questions." Liam said with a serious face, "Prof. Snape found that the magic which was used to curse me was not conventional dark magic but rather it was a very old and apparently a banned magic called as 'Ritual Magic'."
"It's the first time I am hearing about this." Cedric exclaimed.
"Sure you wouldn't have heard of it, even I heard about it today."
Liam started to quickly going through the book but he wore the glasses he was wearing before.
"These are a special type of glasses, which makes it seem like the time is moving slowly. It increases reading speed and concentration. A useful magical item. I also want a pair of these. I don't think professor Snape would mind me using his stuff." He laughed, but he knew for sure that Snape was going to lecture him.
Liam started reading through the book in a very fast pace, he usually takes his time when reading a book but this time he is looking for something particular, which is 'Body possession Ritual'
"Found it… Cedric look."
…
Dumbledore walked towards his book shelf and pulled a certain book and chanted a long mantra.
Snape wasn't sure where Dumbledore wanted to take him. He just waited and let Dumbledore do what he was doing.
After few minutes he stopped his chanting.
The huge shelf seeped inside the walls revealing a secret staircase. Which went down.
Snape got closer to the staircase to look where it went but he couldn't see anything but darkness.
"Follow me…" Dumbledore commanded. They both took out their wands and used the light spell to better their vision in the dark.
"I didn't know such a place even existed. How many more secrets does this castle holds." Snape exclaimed.
He was looking at the walls in the stair case which had strange symbols on them, each and every symbol was incomprehensible to him. The more symbols he saw the more his head hurt.
The stairs were circular and went inside the ground from the Headmaster's tower to somewhere underground.
"Dumbledore, what is this place?" he couldn't keep his patience and asked.
"This is the one and only way to the core of the castle, and only the headmasters of Hogwarts have the knowledge of this. I still remember the day Professor Dippet brought me here. I was very astonished to see her for the first time." Dumbledore said remembering the past.
"Her..?"
"Lady Hogwarts, The living embodiment of the castle."
Snape didn't say a thing after hearing this statement from Dumbledore.
"Hogwarts itself is a very big magical item. And to maintain and manage all the magical things in Hogwarts. The First owner of the castle first made a core in a magical conjunction. Which could provide the necessary magical energy for all the magical items to function. It was after making the core that the castle was built."
Snape couldn't even imagine what kind of magical powers would it take to build something like the Hogwarts castle.
"The First owner of the castle then disappeared, leaving it to the Slytherin family. I think you know what happened next."
Soon they reached the end of the long staircase.
"We have arrived."
There was a very old door, Dumbledore opened the door using his wand as a key.
Just as the door opened, Snape saw the big bright room. Its walls all covered with strange symbols and designs. Emitting a bright white light, in the middle of the room was a big crystal ball which was shining like the sun. Each and every second which Snape looked at the crystal ball he felt his whole body filled with energy.
He entered the room, the first step he took he felt his body getting heavier, he continued and took his next step.
The force on his body increased hundred fold and he fell on the ground.
"Dumbledore… you brought someone else here…." A loud voice fell in the room, which seemed to be very angry.
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