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// Chapter 5 - Showing the way to the Shack. 
// Story: Voidic and The Philosopher's Stone. 
// by lightningman 
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After about a month of working, we had finally settled into our new home. I looked at Pinkie.
"Hey. What day is it today?"
"Um..." Pinkie closed her eyes thinking back. "I think it's Sunday. in three days it should be the 31st of July."
"WHAT!" I yelled in panic. If I was correct, then the Dursleys were already riding their car trying to escape us. "Pinkie, you put the finishing touches on this place." I run out the door and yell over my shoulder. "AND NO PINK!" I run to Dumbledore's office and ran through possible passwords.
"LEMON DROP!" the gargoyle let me pass and I ran up the stairs.
"Ahh. Xayvier. To what do I owe the pleasure?"
"I'm going to go check up on Harry. Alright?" Dumbledore pursed his lips.
"I don't think that's a very good idea Xayvier. He has yet to reply to our letters."
"Because the Dursley's are burning them," I say with cold certainty. "I'm going to check on him."
"Fine, But at least take Hagrid with you alright." I glare and sigh.
"Fine, But if he slows me down, I'm leaving him."
"I promise you, he won't slow you down." Dumbledore got up and I and him left for Hagrid's house down in the grounds. Soon enough we got there and Dumbledore knocked on the door. Instantly there was a lot of barking.
"Shat up ye dosy dog." I heard Hagrid say. The door opened and HOLY GOD DAMN HE WAS HUGE! Seriously, the doorway was expanded, and he still had to crouch to get through it. He looked to bee about a whole body's worth of muscle and fat. mostly muscle. He was also about twice the size of Dumbledore who stood a head taller than me.
"Ahr. Perfesser Dumbledore. And who is this kid?" He looked at me.
"Hagrid. This is Voidic. He'll be one of Mr. Potter's classmates. And he wanted to join you in meeting Harry."
"Ay? And you trust him to not freak out over meeding him like you were worried abou' when you dropped him off with those muggles all those years ago?" Hagrid raised an eyebrow. Obviously, he wasn't aware of the telltale signs of someone being older than they actually were when it came to teens and tweens like me.
"No. I trust Voidic here. He'll help ease Harry into our world. Now I wish for you and him to leave now just in case the 
Dursleys have decided they didn't want Harry at our school." Dumbledore's eyes were twinkling as if he knew what was happening. I frown. I mentally decided to convince Harry to try one of those lineage tests and ability tests that I had read about in those fanfictions.
"Well. Alright..." Hagrid nodded. With that. Hagrid got his coat and I swore that I could hear squeaking in one of the pockets. He put it on and we were on our way.
"And Hagrid? I'm allowing you to use a bit of magic on your way to get Harry. But remember. If you use magic around him, Then his Trace will go off and He'll be warned from the Ministry of Magic not to do magic. Alright?"
"Got et. Perfessor." Hagrid called back to him. Hagrid took out a pink umbrella from within his trenchcoat. He summoned up some meat from his house and I realized what he was doing. He was summoning some of the thestrals. 
"Ye ever eard of Thestrals Voidic?" Hagrid asked.
"Yeah. The skeleton horse things that you can only see if you see death?" I ask.
"Xactly. 'lad you're caught up on your COM-C." He smiled underneath his huge beard.
"COM-C?" I don't know how, but I could hear the capitals when Hagrid said that.
"Care of Magical Creatures o' course," Hagrid said.
"Of course." I nod in understanding. Soon Hagrid began smiling and I sighed, knowing I wouldn't be able to see the thestrals.
"So where are the..." I turned to see if he would begin to point at the spot. but I was shocked.
I could see them.
But... That wasn't possible. I've never seen someone die... Or have I? There was a faint tickling at the back of my mind. and it was growing stronger as the thestral grew closer to me. Eventually. I could see a face floating in front of my face. A blank, bloodstained face. With shaggy brown hair and dull gray eyes. I didn't know the man. But I knew somehow that he died in front of me, and I was the cause of it. I shake my head and grit my teeth, forcing it back into my mind to deal with later. Right now was not the time to deal with what I could only assume was Post-Traumatic Stress considering I had forced that memory to be suppressed for who knows how long.
"Never mind," I said as I walked to a thestral. I walked up slowly to it and it began to sniff me. It opened Its eyes owlishly and blinked at me. It then began to nuzzle me.
"Huh. I've never seen one o' them do that before." Hagrid said. "How long have you been able to see them?" He asked.
"I... don't know. I don't remember who died in front of me." I said with a strangely strangled voice that didn't belong anywhere near me. "But that's not for now. Right now, we need to pick up Harry, don't we?" I asked. Trying to evade the subject so that I could talk to Pinkie about it later.
"Um. Right." We both got onto a different thestral and Hagrid whispered in his thestral's ear. AND WE WERE OFF! And I have to say, it was strangely unsettling going into the air with no idea of where the hell you were going. And it was boring as hell. I wanted to fall asleep on my thestral, but I knew if I do that, then there was a possibility that I would fall off and cheagle myself. So we began following searching for Harry for almost a week. Every so often, we would stop and I would buy us some food that I bought with some money that I converted using my wizard money from Gringotts. I used a bit of a exploit in their exchange system to get myself more money than I originally had. If you have any idea about currencies or gold rates, then you should know what I'm talking about. After almost a week, it was the night before July 31st. Hagrid and I landed just outside of a little shack during the storm. I sigh and put my mask on to keep me covered from the wind and rain better. Hagrid thanked the thestrals and they were off. Hagrid walked up to the door. Picked up his massive hand and knocked it against the door. It echoed loudly against the door. There was silence as the whole shack shivered ominously as if it was going to fall down again. Hagrid frowned and knocked again. There was a bit of muttering from inside and a shout from inside.
"Hagrid, move over, let me do this." Hagrid frowned and moved aside slightly as I charged up a windblast. and blasted open the door off it's hinges.