[ Location: Hogwarts - The Forbidden Forest Edge ][ Date: October 29th, 1993 - Late Night ]
Freezing rain hammered down on the mud.
It was Perfect weather for kidnapping.
I watched my glowing green portal snap shut and another screeching Dementor had just been thrown into my Upside Down dimension.
"That makes twenty," Shikamaru yawned.
He looked miserable leaning against a wet tree. "Are we done? I'm freezing, and I want to go to sleep."
"You can never have too many immortal guard dogs, Shika," I smirked, wiping rain off my jacket. "The Ministry of Magic is officially losing their minds and you know what's hilarious the newspaper thinks a dark wizard is eating the Dementors."
"Well, you are hoarding them in a dead dimension," Shikamaru pointed out. "So they aren't exactly wrong."
"I prefer 'collector'," I corrected. "Hold on. Let's check the group chat. I am in a good mood."
I tapped my temple, opening the Dimensional Chat Group.
I walked right into the middle of a massive argument.
What the... Nobody was talking in riddles today.
They were just flexing their egos and complaining like gamers in a toxic lobby.
Esdeath: I tried to freeze a live volcano today just to see what would happen but it just made a lot of steam and ruined my boots, It was highly disappointing. Does anyone know how to domesticate a fire dragon?
Lloyd Frontera (Admin): Fire dragon?! Capture it! Put it in a furnace! Free heating for the whole city! By the way, I just invented a 'loyalty program' for the local nobles and it's basically a pyramid scheme, and they are literally throwing gold at me!
Ryomen Sukuna: You mortals are pathetic. I am the King of Curses, and I am being forced to watch a sad movie. Kill me now.
Sosuke Aizen: A king brought low by canine cinema, Its tragic
Makima: I bought a new leash today. It's very sturdy and I am looking forward to testing it out.
Lelouch vi Britannia: I am secretly running a massive rebel army, but my biggest problem right now is that the student council lost the receipt for the school festival balloons. If my sister finds out we are over budget, she will be very upset. The stress is unreal.
Wanda Maximoff: I accidentally turned my landlord's toaster into a bouquet of flowers because he yelled at my brother this morning. Do you think he'll notice?
I laughed out loud.
Vivan Frostwell: Glad everyone is busy. I just kidnapped my twentieth soul-sucking ghost today. My basement dimension is basically a haunted house now.
Lloyd Frontera (Admin): GHOSTS?! Wait. Put them in a jar! We can sell them as 'Ultimate Guard Dogs' to paranoid rich people! I'll do the marketing! 70/30 split! (70 for me, obviously).
Vivan Frostwell: I don't sell my pets, Lloyd. Go yell at your rich nobles.
I closed the chat, shaking my head. "Come on, Shika. Let's get back inside before someone notices our beds are empty."
[ Location: Gryffindor Common Room ][ Date: October 30th, 1993 - Saturday Morning ]
It was Hogsmeade weekend and the older students were buzzing with excitement.
Harry looked like someone had kicked his puppy. As he didn't have a signed permission slip, so he was stuck in the castle.
I was sitting in an armchair when Fred and George Weasley dragged Harry into a dark corner.
'The Marauder's Map,' I thought, keeping my eyes on my book but listening closely.
The twins handed Harry a blank piece of old parchment and tapped it with their wands.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," George whispered.
Ink bloomed across the paper and It drew out the entire layout of Hogwarts.
Little black dots moved around, labeled with names.
"Whoa," Harry gasped, his eyes huge. "This shows everyone. Dumbledore. Snape."
"Exactly," Fred grinned proudly. "It tracks everyone. It's the ultimate secret weapon."
I stood up, closed my book, and casually strolled over.
"Cool map," I said, snatching the parchment right out of Fred's hand before he could blink.
"Hey!" George jumped. "Give that back! We aren't supposed to show you!"
"Relax, I'm not a snitch," I said.
My eyes scanned the moving dots.
Down in the Gryffindor dorms, I saw a dot labeled Ronald Weasley and sitting right next to it was a dot labeled Peter Pettigrew.
'Perfect. The rat is still there.'
But then I looked at the entrance hall.
I saw a dot labeled Vivan Frostwell and another labeled Shikamaru Nara.
'That's a massive problem,' my brain calculated instantly. 'If I'm out in the forest kidnapping Dementors at 2 AM, and these idiots look at the map, my cover is blown.'
"Don't rip it, Vivan," Harry said nervously. "It's highly magical."
"I know what it is, Harry," I smirked.
I just pressed my thumb hard against the parchment.
' Target: The ink tracking my name.'
I shoved a tiny, laser-focused blast of magic straight into the paper.
I found the magic tying to me and Shikamaru and ordered the ink to completely ignore us.
Flash.
A faint purple spark popped on the paper.
"What did you just do?!" Fred asked, taking a step back.
"Fixed a bug," I said flatly, handing it back to Harry.
Harry looked down at the map. He scanned the common room.
"Wait," Harry frowned, pointing at the paper. "Where are you? Your dot is gone and shikamaru's dot is gone too!"
Fred grabbed the map, totally baffled.
He shook it. "That's impossible! The map never lies! It tracks everyone!"
"I guess I'm just un-trackable," I winked, stuffing my hands in my pockets. "Have fun sneaking into the village, Harry. Don't get caught."
I walked away, leaving the three of them staring at the paper like their brains had just broken.
[ Location: Third Floor Corridor ][ Time: 11:00 PM ]
Later that night, I was walking back from the kitchens with a plate of stolen roast beef sandwiches.
The corridor was pitch black and dead quiet.
Suddenly, a door opened.
Professor Remus Lupin stepped out of his office and he looked like absolute garbage, his skin was pale, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was sweating through his shirt.
Tomorrow was the full moon.
He saw me and immediately tried to stand up straight, putting on his strict teacher face.
"Vivan," Lupin said, his voice weak and raspy. "You are out of bed very late and the Dementors are roaming the grounds. It isn't safe."
I stopped a few feet away from him and dropped the polite student act instantly.
I stood tall, letting my heavy, crushing aura leak out into the hallway just a little bit.
"I'm perfectly safe, Lupin," I said bluntly, taking a bite of my sandwich. "The Dementors are scared of me."
Lupin narrowed his eyes, clearly unnerved by my attitude. "That is incredibly arrogant, Mr. Frostwell. "
"I'm not ," I replied coldly.
I took a slow step toward him, looking him up and down.
"You look pale, Remus," I said, dropping the 'Professor' title entirely. "Full moon tomorrow, right?"
Lupin froze.
His breath hitched in his throat.
"I... I don't know what you mean," he stammered, backing up against his office door.
"Stop playing dumb," I said, my voice dropping to a dangerous whisper. "I'm not an idiot. You vanish once a month. Snape is brewing you the Wolfsbane potion."
Lupin looked absolutely terrified.
A twelve-year-old boy was casually tearing his deepest, darkest secret apart in a dark hallway.
"What do you want?" Lupin whispered, his hands shaking. "Are you going to tell Dumbledore? Are you going to tell the parents of students?"
"Dumbledore hired you , so he already knows," I smirked. "And I don't care that you're a werewolf, Lupin. because it doesn't bother me. I just want a deal."
"A deal?"
"Drink your potion," I ordered, my eyes flashing a dangerous violet and orange in the dark. "Stay out of the forest at night. Don't ask questions about what I do after curfew, and I won't tell the entire school that their teacher is a monster, so do we have a deal?"
Lupin stared at me, completely speechless.
He was a grown man and a Dark Arts expert but looking at me, he realized he had absolutely zero power here.
"Deal," Lupin swallowed hard.
"Good boy," I said, walking right past him with my plate of sandwiches. "Get some sleep. You look terrible."
I walked away whistling, leaving the werewolf trembling in the dark.
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