Taking On The Magical World 44 Chapter 43: Didn't Even Star

"Okay listen up here, we cannot hit both the library and Filch's office at the same time, it would draw to much heat to us and drastically increasing the chance of us being caught," I say to twins who are craning their necks to listen in on what I have to say. Of the three of us, I have always been the one to think of things strategically and make sure that our plans work out smoothly. But they, on the other hand, have always been the wicked touch.

"You know, if we take Filch out of the picture we could do as we please since not a single soul would be awake that late," Fred says with an evil smile on his face.

George also wickedly smiles, nods his head along to what his twin just said and then adds, "That right there is a brilliant idea twin, it could really work, and you know from what I heard his magic is abysmal."

No, you lunatics he has no magic, he is a flipping squib, but there is no way I am going to tell them that at all because that sort of information would seriously embolden them.

"Listen up here, sneaking around at night and attacking a staff member are two seriously different things. The first one, n.o.body would care because which student here did not wander around past curfew time doing G.o.ds knows what, but the other one, ohohoho, that would bring us ruin and destruction, all the Professors and maybe even Dumbledore, himself, would come out and get in on the hunt of catching the person who dared attacked a school staff member and with the spells at their disposal and our abysmal defenses, we would be caught in a matter of minutes and there would not be a slit slap on the wrist but at best, immediate expulsion or at worst we could be sent to Azkaban."

As I kindly point out each and everything that would happen once they decide to go through with their so-called 'brilliant idea' the twins become paler and paler as they hear things go wrong at every turn and once I mention that Professor Dumbledore would join in on the hunt to capture them their eyes go wide-eyed as if it would pop out. After I conclude speaking about their awaited fates, they were shivering all over.

After a long while, Fred speaks up, "So you are in implying that we should break into either one of the locations tomorrow or sometime in the next few days and for the other one we should sneak in some other time in the future?"

I nod my head and answer back, "yeah that sound about right." They look at each other and nod their heads to each other, from my best guess, in agreement.

George looked at me and asked, "So which location should we break into first?"

"The library is well guarded, and all the Professors know that some kid would want to get their greedy hands on some very powerful and useful spells," I look at them in a knowing smile and they just roll their eyes at me. "I wouldn't be surprised if I saw Filch prowling around near the library, so our best bet is to find our way to Filch's office and break in, n.o.body would expect that especially Filch because who would, they would all think, want to break into a glorified janitor's office."

Fred awkwardly scratches his red hair, "So Caelum, do you know where Filch's office is?"

I pause for a moment and nearly hurl out a sling of profound curses at these two knuckleheads, but I hear somebody speak up, "If you want to find Filch's office it is located at Room 234-00 which is connected to the Entrance Hall, that is on the Ground Floor of Hogwarts Castle."

I was so alarmed that my soul nearly took flight from my body, I turned to where the voice came from and saw that it was Charlie Weasley looking at the three of us with a smile on his freckled face.

It would seem like we were so engrossed in our conversation that we did not even notice Charlie had sneaked up on to us, you would have thought that a big stocky man (he is an adult by wizard law) like Charlie would have made a bunch of noise when he crept up to us, but he did not even make a sound. No wonder he made a good Dragonologist, it takes a lot of skills to tame and study a dragon, they are widely regarded as the most terrifying, yet awe-inspiring magical creature and it takes skill, not a lumbering oaf.

"Oh, Charlie what brings you here," asked George nervously. "I thought you were busy doing some work-study experience just like all the other 7th year students."

"I am done with winter work-study, all that is left is to see the Antipodean Opaleye this summer in Australian."

I know the games is up, he must have heard a lot of what we said so there is no use of skirting around the main issue, "So how much did he hear of what we were talking about, Charlie?"

The twins' eyes widen, and they nearly jump up from their chair trying to cover my mouth, I would think but they hold themselves back since they realized there is no point, so you might as well face it head-on now.

Charlie drops his wide smile, "I came around the part where you were lecturing these two about what could happen if you were to attack a staff member of Hogwarts."

I sigh, I had hoped but it seems like our plan has been found out, I wait and continue to listen to what Charlie has to say.

"You know Caelum had saved you guys from a lot of trouble, even though 'he who must not be named' has been gone for quite a while now but.....