Draco just nodded blankly, wards were never his thing, though he was doing his best to follow along.
Seeing Draco's blank look, Harry expanded. "Think of it as a tripwire." Draco's face remained blank and Harry sighed to himself and rolled his eyes.. Harry's voice was musing now as he considered the challenge, "The difficult thing is that one ward is designed to send an alert somewhere if the entrance is opened. The second is set to go off if anyone tries to dismantle, bypass or break the first ward. The last ward is set to go off if either of the first two wards are tripped, a kind of area stunning spell. Dumbledore was probably concerned Voldemort would try and get back in the Chamber."
Harry's voice continued thoughtfully, "I'm going to guess Dumbledore tried to seal the Chamber closed and the Chamber's magic wouldn't let him. So he settled for the next best thing. I'm betting these alert wards are tied to something in his office."
"So, we can't get in without Dumbledore knowing it's been opened?" Draco summarized. Harry shook his head slowly, "No, but, as with most wards, they have a flaw. You just have to know how to work around them. I just can't dismantle the wards. I'll even admit that the warding is rather good. However, there's a simple solution… I have to move the wards and tie them into something else." Harry looked around the bathroom for something convenient.
His eyes fell on a small square window high on the wall. It was one among several stained glass windows in the bathroom. Unlikely to be reached by anyone but Hagrid. Harry quickly cast an impenetrable spell on the window so someone wouldn't accidently break it. While Harry didn't know if it opened, he also cast a strong locking spell on it just to be safe.
Draco frowned, "It sounds… too easy. If he was concerned about Voldemort getting back in, I'd think it would be a lot more difficult. And a stunning spell stopping the Dark Lord? I kind of doubt it."
Harry nodded a little bit, "I think it might be more to stop any student, and possibly anyone else the Dark Lord might be with. Dumbledore couldn't do much more given the massive amount of wards overlaying the entrance. So he came up with his best."
Draco scoffed slightly, "It still sounds too easy."
Harry frowned a little bit, "I'm making it sound easier than it is. To move a ward scheme is very delicate work and takes a lot of concentration and skill. Even the slightest slip up can cause the wards to go off… if you're lucky."
Draco frowned, "What happens if you're not lucky?" Harry shrugged, "The entire ward scheme could blow up in your face and destroy part of this bathroom." He restrained a smirk at Draco's pale face suddenly getting paler, but he didn't say anything as he focused on the sink.
Then Harry very carefully, using his wand to direct and his hand to help guide the magic, removed the three wards in unison from the sink. Making sure he didn't activate any of them was a bit more challenging than he'd let on, but nothing he hadn't done before. He moved them across the room and then reattached them to the window he had charmed unbreakable and then locked for good measure.
Draco watched in amazement, mouth open. Harry's eyes didn't glow but they seemed to gleam in the light as he used a combination of wand and hand movements. It almost looked like Harry was conducting a symphony. Draco saw what appeared to be two blue and one red glowing intertwined lines appear to come away from the sink and then move up to a window on the wall. where they seemed to shimmer and then solidify before they disappeared from his sight.
Heedless of Draco's expression, Harry nodded in satisfaction before casting several more diagnostic charms at the sink. Once he was certain there was no other wards or alerts on the sink, he softly hissed "Open."
Draco jerked slightly as heard the parseltongue before he was hit with yet another shock as the sink began to move.
Harry watched in satisfaction as the sinks moved just as they had back on his world. Opening up to a dark hole. Draco couldn't resist moving forward tentatively and peering downward, seeing nothing in the darkness. "We need to jump in a bloody pipe?" He asked as he looked back at Harry in disbelief.
Harry shrugged, "That's how I got down last time."
Draco peered down the hole again, doubt creeping into his voice. "Are you sure it's safe?"
"Mostly." Harry replied dryly.
"Mostleeeeeeeeeeeee?!" The parrotted word had started out questioningly from Draco but then had stretched into a girlish shriek as Harry gave him a firm push into the hole.
Harry listened as Draco finally came to a stop. When he heard a sound of disgust he could tell that Draco had made it to the bottom. His followup declaration of "I hate you Potter." confirmed that Draco was still in one piece.
Harry hesitated, taking a moment to strengthen the repelling ward on the bathroom door. Then, a thought occurred to him. Harry hissed out the word "Stairs" and then "Open Stairs". He looked around, when nothing happened he shrugged his shoulders and then hopped into the hole as well.
When Harry came sliding out of the pipe at the bottom he stumbled as he came to his feet.
Harry had barely steadied himself when he found Draco glaring at him angrily. "Don't ever do that to me again!" Draco snarled, his expensive robes stained and rumpled, and his normally perfectly coiffed hair askew and grimy. Harry just met Draco's eyes. Normally he wouldn't put up with Draco telling him what he could and couldn't do, but his amusement more than made up for it this time, though he didn't show it on his face. "Keep forgetting not to call me 'Potter', and maybe I'll leave you down here."
Draco rolled his eyes, "That time was on purpose. You pushed me down a bloody hole. Though I have to admit, calling you Flamel feels weird."
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