>>42894456
>Study [subject]
DADA

>>42894456
>>Study [specific spell, or information]
Healing spells

have you seen the other harry potter quest going on?

>>42894456
>Study [subject]
DADA

We need to make sure that we're not knocked out next time.

>>42894529
No I haven't actually, when does it run? Links?

>>42894553
I see it every now and again but it seems very popular.

I fart.

>>42894553
@JVApiseQuest

You take some time to study DADA, and over the next week make some headway. Still you're a bit distracted.

When the other students return from Christmas holiday, it gives you a much needed reprieve from your own thoughts.

However, it seems that everything isn't perfect, Jenny is acting strange. A month passes and you try to broach the subject with her a few times, finally she calls you away from breakfast one morning.

“Shane, I'm not so sure about this Department of Mysteries thing.”

>Why? You'll be fine, you'll be with the order.
>I know what you mean
>Other

>>42894740
>Why? You'll be fine, you'll be with the order.

>>42894740
>>Other
"Whats up is something wrong?" be a good friend and let her tell why she thinks its a bad idea, like what we should have done with lom.

>>42894740
>>42894782
this
plus
>I know what you mean

“What's wrong?”

She wrings her hands and keeps looking back and forth between you and the ground. “Shane, remember when I wouldn't tell you what Byrne wanted to know?”

“Yeah.”

“Well I'm going to tell you now, but you can never tell him, not until I'm ready.”

>I wont tell
>I can't make that promise, Byrne might find a way to get it from me.
>Other

>>42894887
>>I wont tell, willingly at least. I wouldn't put it past someone to use a truth telling charm on me.

>>42894887
>>Other
"Tell me only what you think is relevent, I don't know how long I can last if Byrne tries to get it out of me and I can't betray you if I don't know everything, but I will stand by your side when you need me."

Something like this.

>>42894887
>I wont tell

Not willingly. If Byrne forces it from me you'll be the first to know and it won't come out for anything less than torture.

>>42894887
>I can't make that promise, Byrne might find a way to get it from me.
"I mean, there's magic for going through minds, right?"

“I won't tell on purpose, but you know better than me how easy it is for a wizard to get information they want.”

“Byrne doesn't seem like the type, not on you at least. I can trust you as far that you wont tell him that'll have to do.” She takes a deep breath. “Remember when you saved me?”

“Yeah.”

“There was a mummy blocking the path and you had to answer a question right?”

“It was an inferius, but yeah.”

“No Shane, it was a mummy, an oracular mummy. It wasn't just riddling people, it had a prophecy. One is Life and One is Death, One is Right, One is Left. One is War and One is Peace, One is Victory the Other Defeat. This One is First, the Other Last, One is Seen, But Both are Black.”

>Silence
>”What does it mean?”
>Other

>>42895035
>>Other
"so you and your family are going to be the main focus of the prophecy....What do you need me to do." time to be a good friend and back her up.

>>42895035
>>42895073
This

>>42895073

Seconding

>>42895035
>>Other
"so you and your family are going to be the main focus of the prophecy....What do you need me to do." time to be a good friend and back her up.

“So your family is in the middle of all of this... what do you need me to do?”

“Just, I don't know. I need help Shane. I can't do this alone. Shane, I'm the last Black, my mom can't have kids anymore, and I'm the only Black left and I'm a girl, it has to be me. And it has the cabal scared to death for some reason. It scares me.”

“Why are you worried about the Department of Mysteries then?”

“It's just going to be more prophecies. Just another reason for people to hate me.”

>Hug
>You're going to be fine, we don't even know that there are more.
>Other

>>42895342
>>Hug
don't say anything, just a make sure she feels safe.

>>42895342
>Other

You won't be alone. The whole world could stand against you but you'll still have me by your side. -Insert hug here-

>>42895389
>>42895342
this.

>>42895342
>Other
Put a hand on her shoulder.
"I'll stick with you, Jenny."

>>42895342
>Hug

“Jenny, you're not alone, I'll always stand with you.” You pull her into a hug.

For a moment she hugs you back, then pushes you away.

“Alright mister feelings. That's enough of that for today.” She laughs, back to her old self, but you can tell that you really have helped. “Hey.”

“Yeah?”

“Come with me to the Department of Mysteries?”

“Of course.”
The next four months pass quickly as you prepare for your break in. You take all the time out you can to learn what you can that will help.

>Study [subject]
>Study [specific spell, or information]

>>42895681
>>Study [specific spell, or information]
healing spells.

>>42895681
>>Study [specific spell, or information]

Healing and Medical

>>42895681
>Study [specific spell, or information]
Healing

You focus your studies on healing, and manage to get a lot done. You now know Episkey, Anapeno, Clotus, and Cloacio, allowing you to heal minor wounds, clear clogged airways, clot blood, and purge weak poisons respectively.

The day arrives.

Byrne meets you at night in the great hall, after everyone is asleep.

You follow him to the edge of the grounds and apparate away. You end up in London, and are taken to a phone-booth. The phone-booth turns out to be an elevator which draws you down under the streets of the city to a massive and well appointed entrance hall.

Nods are exchanged between Byrne and a night watchman as you pass to some elevators at the far end of the hall. They again take you down, this time for longer, so long that you feel like you must be entering hell.

The doors open on a room of black granite, and a few doors made of jet.

A man is waiting.

Byrne gives him a signal and he turns toward the door.

A bright flash of light and the sound of thousands of tons of steel grinding against the worlds largest chalkboard fills the room. It goes on and on for minutes, until finally the door collapses.

Byrne and the man dash through. No explanation needed, now you're on a timer.

Through the halls, up and down, and through doors that somehow lead at right angles to themselves, you finally arrive in the place.

More coming

An impossibly large room, you can see neither the ceiling nor any other wall than the one you just entered by.

Racks fill the room. Wire racks made of brass or maybe gold. And filling these racks are millions, no, millions of millions of smoky glowing orbs of all different sizes. The look like an endless sea of ghosts floating in the empty blackness of the room.

The man starts leading the group through the stacks. Slowly now, like he is more afraid of becoming lost here than anywhere in the labyrinth of horrors you just passed through.

After minutes you see a label at the top of one of the stacks; 'B'. After only a few more rows the man stops. Indicating the row. You start marching down the rows, now just you and Jenny alone.

Finally Jenny stops.

“Here.” She says.

“How can you tell?”

“I can hear it, like in my head, whispering.” And listening, you can hear it too, a dull thrum of far away voice that isn't actually there.

She reaches up and grabs an orb from the shelf and it begins to chant;

Four colored kings astray in a grey land,
The black knows nothing but loyalty
The red knows nothing but betrayal
The white is searching for knowledge he will never find.
The crystal knows all.
Four fierce queens lost within themselves,
The black is haunted by time
The red is haunted by her heart
The white is haunted by what she has become.
The crystal haunts herself.
When the kings all know
And when the queens find absolution
Only one pair shall remain.

With a determined face, Jenny sets the orb back on the shelf.

“Let's go.”

You trace your way back to Byrne.

“Well?” He asks, speaking for the first time since you entered the ministry. “What did it say?”

>”None of your business”
>Be vague
>Other

>>42896242
>>”None of your business”

>>42896242
>>Be vague
but semi helpful, don't want to burn bridges just yet.

>>42896242
>Be vague

Well it certainly mentioned the word black.

>>42896242
>Be vague
4 kings and queens, the kings seek to know and queens seek absolution, when absolution is attained and the king find what they seek only one pair will remain.

“There's more sides to this than you thought. It's not just you versus them.”

“Us versus them.” Byrne tries to correct you.

You say nothing.

“I won't pry, but I hope you've learned something important from this. Now we need to leave.”

Your nameless guide leads you back out of the room, and back through the labyrinth to the elevator.

You all ascend the elevator together, and step out into the lobby.

And as it happens into the waiting clutches of about 15 aurors.

“Now gentlemen I'm sure I can clear this all up if you'll just let me speak to your supervisor.” Byrne starts.

One of the aurors fires a spell over his head.

“Or not.” Byrne says. “On your knees children I believe we are under arrest.”

End of Part 8
Just realized I forgot the thread title, fuck.

>>42896525
well shit hit the fan.

did jenny appreciate the support?

Thanks for reading everybody.

Once again @Tiddlybum_HE tracks threads as they start. Feel free to follow me there.

Would also love to hear your guesses on who the kings and queens are.

>>42896561
Immensely.

>>42896575
did we do better than with Lom?

>>42896584
Much better, Jenny wasn't pushed as far yet, but you did make much better choices as far as appealing to what makes her comfortable.

>>42896624
Good. So how badly are we going to get tortured?

>>42896624
loosing Lom is going to haunt us for the rest of the quest you know that right.

Also how pissed is the ministry that we managed to get in there.

>>42896666
I fully intend for it to haunt you. When I run tabletop I like to give players chances, but when you mess up, it should hurt. Just my philosophy.

Why is it questfags always cry "just filter it" but every other thread forget to put quest in the title?

>>42896699
well it will provide a good lesson in not fucking up. Good run.