“Alohomora.”
As one of Adair's favorite spells, ’the thief’s friend’ never grew old. The lock popped open with a slight click, and he turned the brass doorknob, pushing the door to the potions basement open with a slight creak from the hinges. He briefly wondered why they bothered to lock rooms if they taught the students a spell to unlock locks, but he dismissed the thought as he cast a gaze over the dim, stone walls and the stacks and drawers of ingredients that lay before him.
Ah, the potions room. How familiar it was, and he had it all to himself. No annoying first years snooping around.
Carefully closing the door behind him, he walked across the room to the right supply cabinets and rummaged through them. The room was dark (as usual for the dungeons), but a quick Lumos did the trick to light things up. He pocketed a few sprigs of lavender and picked up some jars of flobborworm mucus, clinking the glass to a light tune before he heard a noise behind him and froze.
"Who's there?" He called out after a few seconds.
As one of Adair's favorite spells, ’the thief’s friend’ never grew old. The lock popped open with a slight click, and he turned the brass doorknob, pushing the door to the potions basement open with a slight creak from the hinges. He briefly wondered why they bothered to lock rooms if they taught the students a spell to unlock locks, but he dismissed the thought as he cast a gaze over the dim, stone walls and the stacks and drawers of ingredients that lay before him.
Ah, the potions room. How familiar it was, and he had it all to himself. No annoying first years snooping around.
Carefully closing the door behind him, he walked across the room to the right supply cabinets and rummaged through them. The room was dark (as usual for the dungeons), but a quick Lumos did the trick to light things up. He pocketed a few sprigs of lavender and picked up some jars of flobborworm mucus, clinking the glass to a light tune before he heard a noise behind him and froze.
"Who's there?" He called out after a few seconds.