Chapter 121: Easter Holidays (2/2)

”Today after dinner.... Room of Requirement.” Chris whispered, smirking. ”I'll show you three, what I asked from my father as a early birthday present.”

As planned after dinner all four of them sneaked into seventh floor and entered the Room of Requirement. Only then Chris unwrapped the parcel. Ginny, Luna and Colin gasped.

”It's... it's...” Ginny was grinning.

Something fluid and silvery gray went slithering to the floor where it lay in gleaming folds.

”Yep. An invisibility cloak.” Chris smirked.

”But why do you need it Chris?” Luna asked while she examined it. ”We're pretty good at sneaking around without it, aren't we?”

”I know but it's for emergency situations. We can't get caught now, can we?” Chris said casually. ”And now with my reputation, it's important to have something like this with me.”

”Point.” Colin grinned. ”Can I try it on?”

”Sure.”

Colin threw the Cloak around his shoulders, the girls laughed. Colin's head suspended in midair, his body was completely invisible.

”I'm going to scare Dennis to death, like this.” Colin laughed.

One by one they tried on the new invisibility cloak and made plans how were they going to use it.

”I guess only your father knows about the cloak.” Chris said to Ginny as they walked back to Gryffindor tower.

”My dad?” Ginny looked surprised.

”Yeah. Dad wrote in his letter that he took Mr Weasley with him to buy this invisibility cloak, as he wouldn't have understood this things clearly.”

”Do your Dad knows about the rumors.” Colin asked to Chris.

”Hmm. He does.” Chris replied cooly. ”I told him.”

”And?”

”And what? He wrote, he laughed at the thought that I can act evil.” Chris said, rolling her eyes.

Ginny and Colin chuckled.

”My Dad don't trust the articles either. He trusts you.” Ginny said smiling.

The holidays were not exactly relaxing for the third years. They never had so much homework. Liam Smith, Colin's other roommate seemed close to a nervous collapse, and he wasn't the only one.

”I can't do this anymore.” Lauren said, looking frustrated, at the common room one afternoon. ”The exams are ages away and still they gave us so much work.”

But nobody had as much to do as Chris. She took one subject extra than her friends, Ancient Runes and its homework was more than any other subjects. Also Chris and her friends were starting on their new advanced potions and spells. Chris was grateful that there was no Quidditch practice this year, because her entire day was so packed that she didn't have time to sleep properly. Chris thought, 'it would've been cool to have a Time-Turner in this kind of situation'. But then again, she wasn't Hermione so the chances of McGonagall giving her the Time-Turner was zero. Because maybe she was a good student, but her reputation wasn't as good as Hermione.

Anyway, Ginny, Luna and Colin were working hard with Chris everyday. Though, at first, they took the Animagus thing casually, but later they realized how much hard work it actually is. Also Chris warned them repeatedly about the dangers in this process.

”Impatience with the long and complicated process is generally at the root of disasters, which usually take the form of horrible half-human, half-animal mutations. There is no known cure for such mistakes.” Chris read loudly.

But to her great surprise no one gave up, not even Colin, who was mostly struggling with Transfiguration. After that Chris was sure that there going to be another batch of illegal Animagus in Hogwarts.