Mapping trolls.

The next two days Konrad and Hermione spend repairing the vanishing cabinet. With the help of the time turners, the cabinet became fully functional on Thursday evening. The duo informed Luna who jumped into the cabinet on her side without a jot of worry. Soon the doors opened and a blond streak jumped onto the two, embracing them in an embrace shrieking with glee.

"KONRAD! HERMIONE!" Shouted Luna while hugging them happily.

""LUNA!"" They replied together hugging her even harder.

It didn't took long after their greetings seasoned with hugs and kisses, for the trio to sit together talking about everything they could possibly imagine, not caring that they could talk to each other before using the mirrors. Luna seemed like she wanted to make up the almost five days of missed kisses, with both of them. She didn't forget kissing with Hermione on the train station and wasn't against the idea. Konrad watched them kiss each other and tried to fight a loosing battle telling himself that they are only eleven! 'But damn its still HOT!...NO! Don't think about it don't think....'

Sadly they only had an hour before the curfew, so they had to cut their first meting at ROR short. Luna came back home through the Cabinet between here and the Lab and then the cabinet between The Lab and her room, while Konrad and Hermione came back to their Dorms as well and after an additional snuggling on the loveseat they went to sleep.

In his dorm Konrad later met Cristal with a parchment In her teeth. He praised and patted the victorious snake and cast a few spells on the parchment before finally going to sleep.

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While Konrad and Hermione worked on the cabinet, a small, black, yet at the moment invisible snake slithered through the air following two identical redheads. Her Daddy gave her a special mission, to follow them and find out where they kept a special map. Daddy said that it belonged to grandpa and he wanted to get it back, because it could be very useful for them and dangerous to their secrets if it stayed where it was. So Cristal, the small snake followed them and watched what they were doing the entire day.

She saw them putting something in the cauldron of some "snakey" student that caused the potion inside to start floating up into the air. Later they made some kind of colorful paint that they poured onto the flor in the corridor. Cristal later watched from beside them as they observed the ugly mop guy trying to wipe the paint and instead spreading it all over the floor. Cristal spotted them checking some parchment while they waited for the mop guy Filch to arrive. 'It must be the map that daddy wanted!' Cristal thought.

After few other similar pranks they finally came back to the common room when Cristal progressed with the plan she thought about. She waited until the other people went to sleep and started. The map was there in their robes she just needs to get it, but... which boy is which? The two of them were still awake so she would have to do something about it. Cristal thought long about how to identify them until finally "shrugged" and used a stunner that Daddy taught her to silently incapacitate them both. She would just check them both. When she stunned one, the other was instantly alerted that something was wrong but Cristal was fast and a second later both of them lied in their dorm "sleeping". She then slithered into their robes and moved around looking for the parchment, finally finding it inside the sleeve of the second boy. She grabbed it in her teeth and quickly flew away down to her Daddy's room with a victorious hiss. Daddy praised and patted her and did some spells to remove tracking spells from the map before pocketing it and going to sleep grinning widely.

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Konrad didn't become a member of the quidditch team. The reason was because of no Malfoy's involvement and Konrad saving Neville from the fall letting the lesson continue normally. That's why the trio was now sitting inside the room of requirements reading books while the quidditch team was having the first practice of the year on the stadium doing leaps and rounds training their new seeker "mr Noname".

Konrad wasn't especially moved by it. He liked flying, but he had enough work with his magic projects to waste his time on quidditch practice. Man, the trio was already going 30/24 using the two time turners that moved them max three hours back with a one day cool down! He wasn't going to waste any more energy than necessary with such a schedule.

Using the Marauder's Map and Cristal's espionage abilities, allowed the trio to avoid any responsibility, because no one could catch them, so the trio span many hours together in the ROR. When Konrad and Hermione were out, they would be joined by Neville, with whom they would study and overall enjoy their free time. Neville became much more confident with himself in the month spend in similar fashion, which was amplified after Konrad helped him buy a new wand at Ollivander's. The old man cried again when his saw Phoebe's Wand and quickly helped the the two not even caring what were they doing here in the middle of the school year.

Soon came Halloween and the troll incident. Hermione was sitting on Konrad's side, so there was no worry about her being in danger but seems like fate wanted to have its victim because the Map showed a lone dot with a name Hannah Abbot in the toilet where the troll was to strike in cannon. When Quirrellmort did his fainting thing, Konrad knew that he had to do something.

"Guys! Hannah Abbot is alone in the toilet we need to save her!" Konrad said.

"What! But..alright lead the way!" Hermione replied.

"H-Hey I'll go with you! I won't let anything happen to Hannah!" Neville said a little scarred yet mostly worried for the girl he liked.

They run in the direction of the toilet when they stopped realizing that someone run in the same direction right beside them.

"Where are you going?" Asked Padma Patil, suspicion and worry clear on her face.

Konrad took it as his moment bluff.

"We heard about Hannah being alone in the toilet so we wanted to bring her back safely." Konrad said.

"That's what I was doing! Please help me, we need to find her! It's all my fault! I told her that she's dumb, and she took it to herself to much! I would never forgive myself if something happened to her!" Said Padma pleadingly.

"Aren't you two from different houses?" Asked Hermione.

"It doesn't matter now! We need to bring her to safety!" Shouted Neville, showing a lot of hidden courage, shocking Padma and making Konrad grin.

"Alright let's go everyone!" Konrad said.

The four students soon arrived in the toilet where Padma found crying Hanna, she started apologizing but she got interrupted by the entrance of a mountain troll.

The kids dispersed to the sides shrieking when the troll hit the ground with his club right where a second before the two girls were hugging each other. Konrad was about to blast the troll into oblivion when an idea struck him.

"Neville, Leviosa on the club! Quick!" He said to the boi beside him.

Neville showed a true Gryffindor courage when in the face of mortal danger he acted quickly and firmly. "Wingardium Leviosa!" The club levitated out of the trolls grasp and then fell on trolls head with an audible crack. Not even sending a second glance at the lying troll, Neville run to the terrified girls, asking if they were alright. What happened next was the two girls hugging the air out of him. Konrad grinned. 'Mission accomplished.'

While the two girls and Neville thanked him for the rescue, Konrad and Hermione were narrating the entire event to a terrified Minerva McGonagall, telling her only the true since it was actually a pretty good reason to go here in the first place. In the end each of them got twenty points for their respective house with Konrad, Hermione and Neville for Gryffindor and Ms Padma for her own, that is Ravenclaw.

After this day the two girls joined them in the study and they all quickly became close friends. Konrad could see how the two girls looked at Neville so he had to hint them that they can share him and they would need to push him to anything since his so shy.

Like this another two months passed, and Christmas arrived. Konrad didn't forget to send presents to all his friends and family, and was very glad with the bunch of presents he got in return, not forgetting the invisibility cloak. He could now become truly invisible after he removes the mountain of tracking charms on the cloak which were obviously Dumbledore's.

The trios projects moved to a very nice level. Even though the trio spend most of the time reading the books in the library, they didn't forget their projects. While Luna worked on creating a rune that could shield electronic devices, Hermione looked fo a way to crack the system of creating rituals and the reason why some shapes had to be arranged in certain ways and if she could substitute some parts with Luna's Runes. On the other hand Konrad was swimming deeper into the research on alchemy and the way how the Philosopher's Stone was created. Konrad had to admit one thing though. The guy who made it was a freaking genius! It contained so much power that amplified not only alchemy but stabilized energy around it and gave off an aura of power. Konrad also didn't know how actually the stone worked so he tried to figure it out, so he could proceed with the other projects revolting around the stone.

Overall it was a productive few months.