44 Chp 44: A journey starts with a single step

"Morag".

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"Hey are you okay" asked Adam worriedly seeing a look of anguish cross Morag's smiling face.

Wiping her eye with her sleeve after moment she turned forcing a smile back onto her face.

"Y-es I'm fine".

"Really"?

"Really" replied Morag forcefully.

"Mmmmm, well what do you think this mirror is then".

"Did you see anything in it?" questioned Morag, who swept behind the mirror checking to see that the rest of the room was empty".

"Just myself".

"Nothing else".

"No".

'...'

"Maybe it's broken for me, but that doesn't explain why the staff bothered to put it behind so much security ... even if it wasn't the most effective eh", answered Adam.

"I don't know, I could see it being dangerous".

"... Not a mirror you want to keep in your dressing room then".

"No definitely not" giggled Morag letting a small smile crack the corners of her lips.

"But if it was that dangerous why didn't they just send it off to Gringotts or seal it in a solid wall or just destroy it ... no there's more to this" said Adam coming so close to the face of the mirror that his breath clouded it's surface.

'Show me your secrets, thin-gg'.

...

"Keep your secrets then ... well we better get going if we sit here any longer we'll just end up vain and vanity is pleasure and we don't that we don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention" said Adam thoughtfully.

Morag looked at Adam confused but nodded along pretending she understood.

'The wall looks suspicious' said Calcifer popping into his head.

'What wall?' asked Adam looking around confused.

'The two gargoyles on the wall with the empty space between them'.

'Eh'.

'Your actually blind, left ... a bit more there yes'.

Adam wondered over to a bare section of the wall sticking out his hand to touch the wall only for it to pass through.

"Morag over here someone was obviously too lazy to come the whole way each time" said Adam waving her over before stepping through the wall" waving her over.

"How did you spot this".

"Skill".

'twat'.

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A few weeks later ...

"Aaaaarrrggghh where's the stone!" screamed a turbaned figure hurling bombardas across the room in rage.

"I'm sorry master, someone must have got to it first".

"Find them, go" spat the back of Quirrels head coldly.

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A few weeks earlier...

"Why do I have two Isha's tears" said Adam finding a second one in his pockets after checking them to allow the house elves to clean his clothes for the coming week.

'What the ... I thought they were rare, now they're just doubling on their own' exclaimed Calcifer confused as all hell.

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The school had ended without much fanfare and Adam laughed as he waved goodbye to Morag walking away with a stern woman disappearing into the steam engines smoke filling the platform on platform 9 and 3/4.

Adam waited, five minutes on a bench, then ten, then twenty then the last of the wizards disappeared leaving Adam alone at the platform giving him plenty of time to examine the arse end of the worm creature that connected the wizarding platform to the rest of the station.

'Emperors tarnation that's weird' he thought shaking his head as he hugged his eyes away from their morbid fascination.

Pop

"Eeeeyy Adam, how's it going bud".

'Fuck' thought Adam jumping in his skin as Sirius popped into existence right behind him.

"Your late" said Adam irritated, standing up as he wiped the cold sweat of his brow.

"Hey I might be a little late ... but where's the I've missed you Sirius, how was your year Sirius ... your poor dear old godfather".

Calcifer popped the lid of Adam's trunk open, breathing a small puff of fire onto Sirius's coat.

"Ahhhh fire..." squealed Sirius frantically patting the charring ends of his cloak down, "Not cool Calcifer".

A muffled hurumph sounded from the box.

"Sorry for the late welcome eh Adam" followed up Sirius pensively.

Adam stood up tiredly grabbing his trunk to drag from one end, "It's chill, I'm wrecked the way down felt especially long".

"That's what's friends are for".

"I have friends ... let's just go" said Adam, sighing tiredly, extending his arm.

POP

'Uuuurrrggghhh'.