"Mister Flamel." I begin.
The old man opposite of me smiles. "Ah, Professor Mortifer. A pleasure."
"Same." I reply. "I see the years have been kind to you. Heck, your several times my age, but you wear it a lot better than I do!"
I'm so glad nobody's read Skulduggery Pleasant but me, it means I can steal jokes without being called out for it.
Snape rolled his eyes, and Nicholas decided to ignore my terrible humour.
"So, how important is this meeting?" I ask.
"Extremely." Nicholas replied. "I have recently contacted Dumbledore about hiding something within the castle-"
"Philosophers Stone?" I asked.
Nicholas looked at me. "...Yes. How did you know?"
"Magic." I replied.
Nicholas sighed. "Ah, I was afraid of that." He said. "But anyway, we need to know you can be trusted to protect it."
"So, you tell me something that I might not have known about before?" I asked. "That seems rather..."
"This is plan B." Nicholas replies. "My wife tried to apply as the DADA teacher, but you refused her position."
I blinked. "Wait, so that Perenelle Lamalf..."
"Literally just the last name backwards." Nicholas nodded.
"I thought it wouldn't work." Snape noted. "I appear to have overestimated your intelligence."
"I'll take that as a complement." I reply. "Somehow."
Snape goes back to ignoring me, and I turn back to Nicholas Flamel.
"So, Nick?" I ask. "How do you plan to test my loyalty?"
He opens his mouth, but before he could reply, a House Elf appears.
"Sir!" It called. "Mrs Weasley is here! And she isn't happy!"
"Considering her husband's breakdown, I'm not surprised..."
But the House Elf wasn't done. "That's not all, sir!" It called. "Mr Weasley leapt from a cliff to stay away from his wife, and now he's lost in the Forbidden Forest!"
I sighed. "Well, I suppose I should send Hagrid to find him." I moan. "Or perhaps let him become a forest person. That works too."
Suddenly, I felt a chill. "Actually, scratch that, I don't want Mrs Weasley to kill me, go find her husband."
The House Elf nodded, and disappeared.
"So, gentlemen..." I continue. "Where were we?"
"We were going to the Mirror of Erised." Snape noted.
"Nah." I reply. "House Elf! Bring me the mirror!"
I snap my fingers, and the mirror appears.
"...Also, from now on, only let Nicholas Flamel or Dumbeldore order you to do anything with the mirror!"
Nicholas let's out a sigh of relief, and Snape looks at me, as I look at the mirror.
"...Seriously?" He asks me. "That's what you want to do with the Stone? Eat it?"
"Don't bother." Said a female voice from behind me. "It tastes like
trash."
We turn around, just in time to see Augusta Longbottom walk in, holding half of the Philosipher's Stone.
...Were those teeth marks on it?
"Unique, but trash." She continues, before throwing the rest of the stone into her mouth.
There is a pause.
"You ate the Philosopher's Stone." I said.
"Yeah." Miss Longbottom continued. "The mirror stopped me for a second, but it was powerless before a nagging grandmother."
Nicholas Flamel looked at Augusta, then at me. "I'm leaving." He declared. "Anyone seen my wife?"
"She and the Tonks girl were scheming something about Lockhart and the new job." Augusta replied. "Maybe they want his autograph? Those knives would look good with his signature, I admit..."
With that, Flamel left, and left me and Snape alone with Augusta.
"Every man for themselves!" I screamed, turning to run. Suddenly, Augusta's hand was on my throat, pulling me back.
"Snape!" I cry. "Help!"
The potion master drank some tea, and looked over at Augusta. "The vaults that require his presence to open are on the fifth floor, just past the weeping painting. I would like to note that, while he needs to be conscious for them to be open, he doesn't have to be conscious until he's there."
That was the last thing I remembered before being knocked unconscious.
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Timeskip! Everything that happens in this vote will happen between now and the first day at Hogwarts, to keep me getting bogged down in the day to day of things. As a result, some character rolls are for characters outside of Hogwarts. Harry Potter is now possible to roll, for example, if you roll the number that previously got you Voldemort.