Chapter 74 – Wards and Suspicion! Part-1

    {Slytherin Common room, Hogwarts}

    {7th Sep 1991}

    {3rd Person POV}

    Rigel sat comfortably in one of the sofa chairs, he held the potions book in his hands even though his attention was focused on everyone around him. Before going back yesterday Narcissa had confirmed that the diary should be with someone from Slytherin.

    ''I haven''t sensed anything abnormal about anyone till now... at least anything related to mana. I should focus on their behaviors a lot more and see if anyone shows any sign of deteriorating mental health.'' Rigel thought. His current plan relied too much on luck and was thus unreliable.

    Would he be able to catalog the physical signs shown by 40+ Slytherin students? He wasn''t sure. Aside from that he was also focusing on a more concrete plan. Daphne was sitting beside him, working on her potions homework.

    Speaking of the first potions class, while Snape had taunted and tried to humiliate Harry a lot harsher than canon, he had ignored Rigel''s presence. Maybe it was to maintain his biased personality or he had realized that his father wasn''t Sirius Black.

    "Hey Daphne, can you help me out with something?" Rigel asked he made sure to keep his voice low. Fo?llo?w new stories at novelhall.com

    Dahpone gave him a curious look, the way he deliberately kept his voice down caused her to scoot closer, "What?"

    "I don''t know much about magic so I have a question. Do you know any way I can apply some trigger wards to my door, in case someone opens it without my permission?" Rigel asked.

    Her attempts to search through the Hogwarts Library for a cure were fruitless and slowly she realized that the Black Family and their accursed library might be the only answer to her quest.

    ''Why did he have to think with his dick,'' Daphne thought frustrated but since there was still some time before the Core Expansion Ritual on Halloween, she still had some time...

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    Rigel walked through the hallways and quickly arrived at the second-floor girls'' lavatory, he found a lack of paintings in the area quite relieving... And from the gloomy atmosphere, he could tell that not many people walked through these halls. A couple of magical signatures were working on maintaining the area as the house elves went about their duties though Rigel could sense their magical signature disappear as he got closer to them.

    House elves were peculiar creatures, they liked to work and didn''t like being seen, at least the Hogwarts ones. He had noticed this phenomena happening a lot in the past week so it didn''t stick out in his mind. As he arrived at the girl''s toilet he peered through the open door. His senses immediately found the abnormality in the room.

    The entrance to the chamber of secrets was practically glowing as he stared at the mirror and sink in the middle of the room. The wards that surround the sink had a different, more menacing glow as they only protected the entrance. Given that Dumbledore had failed to go through the entrance, he was going to bet that he wouldn''t be able to force through those wards either.

    ''Thankfully I don''t need to, and since Slytherin was adamant about hiding his secret hideout it gives me enough leeway to work through with my plan...'' Rigel thought as he grinned, his eyes traced the aged stone walls as the ''glowing'' runes revealed a crack in the otherwise flawless integration of wards.

    A splash alerted him that he wasn''t alone and as he turned around to come face to face with a rather infamous ghost, he couldn''t help but wonder how he was going to persuade her to be on his side.

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    AN - Some knowledge about wards and a meeting with a ghost!

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