Chapter 130 – Bullies (1)
"We are lucky that HE doesn't know about it, huh?" I murmured, sitting on my broom as we headed towards the school the next day.
"I think Dumbledore thinks the same thing." Quincy agreed, thinking out loudly, "But it is also a good thing. Dumbledore clearly wants it; to get it, he needs to deal with HIM first. Which also means there will be a showdown between them, for sure."
"That will be the best moment for us to strike. But for that, we need to get stronger. The problem is that he has decades of experience ahead of us."
"We just need to work together—not like the pair that Grindelwald mentioned, but as a team. The meaning was simple: working together is better than working alone."
She was right, and... we were not really alone. Not after we had written into the notebook and our old schoolmates had replied to us. Of course, we couldn't tell without a shadow of a doubt whether it was legit. Who knows if one of theirs ended up with the Order or with a Death Eater... But I had hope. Maybe they weren't lying. They may have been there, still on our side, or even more so after what happened.
"Will you look for Dimitris?" She asked as we touched down because tonight, we would try to go back and visit the shadow of Grindelwald. We didn't plan to take the cask away yet, but we wanted to investigate the cellar more and look for possible clues that would help us solve the riddle.
"Well, it was he who discovered it... And he is being bullied, so I don't think he would rat us out to anyone."
"..." I knew that look she gave, as she was also picked on in our first year, but she never let it bother her. Luckily, we stemmed it out quickly, and by the end of our third year, we turned it around completely. Dimitiris... I wasn't so sure he had such luck, so helping him wouldn't be too bad of a choice. Just as we said, making friends is always beneficial. "Um, let's go and look for him before class; we still have time!"
"Sure!"