C53
A/N: The Ark 1 will be the slowest ark. After that story progression will increase greatly. I appreciate that so many of you hung out for this long. A few more chapters and we will reach 60 chapters and start with Ark 2! Don't forget to give your powerstones to speed up the release. Support me on p@treon.
Bonus Chapters!
200 power stones for an extra chapter. This can be availed at the end of this week! Don't forget to vote and support me on p@treon.com/BrownAmerican
Patrons get access up to 25+ chapters ahead of webnovel
You can create characters if you are my patron.
Just put up a pdf version of the entire ark 1 in my p@treon so that it will be easier to read. It will be made public in 2 weeks.
You can also support whatever amount however small it may be on
https://ko-fi.com/brownamerican
Currently in Chapter 78 in p@treon
__________
Beauxbaton's Infirmary | 5th October 1987 | 10 AM
A lot of the students in the infirmary were there due to a minor case of vomiting. The vomiting had stopped in an hour, and the medi-witch only had to deal with one case - Madame Abadie. However, she was perplexed by the case in front of her.
Madame Abadie had purple skin and was farting air that was poisonous and made those that breathed it nauseous. Other than that, there was also the fact that she couldn't move properly. Madame Abadie had to be carried to the infirmary.
The medi-witch tried every method she knew to dispel the unknown curse that Madame Abadie was affected with, but she was unsuccessful. Trying to dispel a curse without knowing which curse it was was very difficult, as the power that went into the spell couldn't be approximated. She couldn't experiment as that might backfire and harm the professor. So she put Madame Abadie in an isolated section of the infirmary so that her farts would not affect anyone. However, that meant that all that air would stay in the one room, and so Madame Abadie was vomiting while in the room.
___
Every student of the class was in a single line, standing in front of their headmistress. Madame Maxime was towering above the 10-year-olds, frightening them.
"As you all know, Madame Abadie was in an... unfortunate accident. However, the academy believes that the incident might not be an 'accident' and that a student intentionally caused Madame Abadie to be inflicted with her current... illness. We wish to overturn every stone as this is the first time such a disgraceful thing has happened in the entire history of the academy. We would first like to ask all of you if you have noticed anything suspicious. If any of you have any valuable information, please come to my office, and I will listen to you. If the culprit wants to admit his mistake, once again, you can come to my office."
After saying this, she waited for someone to come forward. After seeing no one moving, she left the room. After she left, the entire room burst into a discussion. Charlus' friends were all very excited.
"Whoever did this is a genius. Thank god!"
"Yeah! We don't have her classes for another week!"
Charlus chuckled nervously at their comments. He simply went on with the flow and started praising the culprit along with everyone.
____
Madame Maxime's Office | 5th October 1987 | 11 AM
Madame Maxime was holding the black cube that was stuck to the door handle. It was the same cube that shot the liquid that put Madame Abadie in the infirmary. She was observing the cube, which was quite crude. It was definitely not a product in a joke shop - it was too complicated for that. But it wasn't a weapon either. It was a handcrafted prank product, which surprised Madame Maxime. She was thinking about who the perpetrator was when her thoughts were distracted by a knock.
"May I come in Madame Maxime?"
"Yes. Who is it?"
"Patrick ma'am. Patrick Holmes. I am a 3rd Year."
"Please, have a seat, Mr Holmes. Do you need anything?"
"No ma'am. I came because you asked if we found something suspicious. Well, my roommate - Charlus Potter- was out of the room early in the morning. He came into the sometime around 5, 5:30. I thought it was odd. I hope you find that helpful Headmistress."
"Yes, Mr Holmes. I will ask into it. It would be very kind of you if you could fetch Mr Potter. Thank you for your time, Mr Holmes."
After talking to Madame Maxime, Patrick left the room and went back to the dorms to find Charlus. He had a huge grin plastered onto his face.
____
"You called Madame Maxime?"
Charlus entered the office. He was very nervous and afraid that Madame Maxime might know it was him who pranked Madame Abadie.
"Yes, Mr Potter. Have a seat."
After Charlus sat down, Madame Maxime continued speaking.
"It has come to my attention that you were responsible for the... harm of Madame Abadie."
"Harm? Is Madame Abadie alright Headmistress?"
Charlus tried to showcase his 'concern' towards Madame Abadie to make the headmistress doubt herself."
"Oh, no. However, she will lose a tremendous amount of her time. She will have to stay in the infirmary for an unknown amount of time till the curse fades away."
"So Madame Abadie is okay?"
"Mr Potter. You are diverting from the topic. Why did you feel the need to do that to Madame Abadie?"
"I didn't do it Madame Maxime! I don't know who told you this, but he was lying. I didn't do it."
Charlus started panicking, and Madame Maxime caught onto it.
"We have clear evidence that it was you, Mr Potter. If you still do not want to admit that you harmed Madame Abadie, you can go through the evidence yourself."
"It wasn't harming!" Charlus blurted out." Alright, I did it. But it's a prank, not me harming someone. I didn't cause any physical harm, and I made people laugh - it's a prank."
"Well, as you are in your 3rd year, your parents or guardians will be called to be part of the disciplinary action. You will receive one night of detention with Professor Papillon. I will call your guardian immediately. You will also confess your actions in front of your whole class and ask for their forgiveness for taking so much of their time along with their classes."