Chapter 17 - Inside the Magical Suitcase (2/2)

As magical creatures are intelligent beings, He tried to talk with it first to see whether it can understand him, ”Hello, I'm Neal Slytherin. I've kinda opened a magical suitcase that someone gave me as a gift and I ended up a hall behind this door. I'm looking for an exit. We don't mean any harm here”.

The bird looked at him once again for a while in silence making Neal nervous. He thought, ”if it decided to attack, then I too won't show any mercy. I will have to fight. The only issue here is that it can fly. It isn't troll that is slow and dumb”.

Then after a long silence, it screeched for a while. As Neal was clueless, he asked Isle to translate it. Isle translated in somewhat frustration and annoyance mixed as the Phoenix species is a natural enemy of it but the enemy is also difficult to beat one. If he brought the flying shoes or a broomstick, then it would be another issue though.

Isle said, ”she says she knows who you are and she's waiting for you for the past 3 years”. Neal asked the bird, ”how do you know me? No, first of all, where am I, anyway and how do I return to Hogwarts?”.

The bird screeched again for a while as it landed before him. Isle translated by her usual hissing with annoyance, ”she says, you are inside the magical suitcase that you opened. There are several habitats connected to the hall by various entrances which home different magical creatures”.

Neal then asked, ”so, how do I get back?”.The bird screeched. Isle replied, ”she says she doesn't know”. Neal then asked, ”do you have a name?” The bird screeched and Isle translated, ”her name is Glenn”.

Neal then put forward his hand tried to stroke its head. Glenn accepted it while putting her head down. As he stroke the head with his hand, he said, ”nice to meet you, Glenn. I'll see you again. First, I need to get back to Hogwarts”.

As he backed off, it gave a cry and flew off in the sky towards one of the rock formations. After it flew away, He opened the door and returned to the hall.

”Say, Isle, did she say that all of the doors lead to different habitats of various magical creatures?” Isle nodded to that. Neal thought for a while and mumbled, ”Is there some kind of a spell needed to return?

Maybe not. If it is so, then he might have sent instructions along with it as getting stuck here is a huge problem for a human”. Then Isle said, ”hiss....hissss”. Neal looked at Isle and the door which was blasted away.

”Yeah, that's right. It might be in that small room”. He walked into that small room and looked over everything again. He turned on the lamp but it was dead. Then as he opened the cupboard, it was pitch dark inside of it with no shelves”.

He stepped inside the cupboard hoping that it's an exit and not a door like the one he opened earlier.

Immediately he felt like he was being apparated to somewhere and then found himself on the bed before the Suitcase again. As he observes the suitcase again, he saw on the left side, a label named Muggle worthy and a switch at the top of the handle, there's a label named auto and a switch with it.

He put the suitcase inside his trunk and slept until the next afternoon in peace. Meanwhile, at one of the hidden rooms inside the castle, Harry is sitting down before the Mirror of Erised seeing his parents.