HP X LOTM : Please Call Me Mr. Error.

Harry walked stiffly while looking at the dark and dingy house. He was a little scared while a part of him was excited, yet he kept himself calm as he broke through the wall of spirituality to step inside.

Moments after he entered, Daphne and Ethan entered the house as Harry did. Both were on alert, ready to act at any moment.

The trio of people had expected there to be some response in the form of retaliation from the artefact they were fighting against but there wasn't even a peep of acknowledgement.

The atmosphere was eerie and the air felt stale.

Harry gripped his wand tight as he walked over the driveway, moving towards the door. Daphne primed her wand too but Ethan pulled out the gun and held it down sights.

They made practically no sound as they crossed the driveway, opting not to speak to each other as they stopped beside the door.

Harry looked at Daphne and she nodded. So Harry tapped his wand on the lock and whispered the spell, "Alohomora."

There was a soft *click* followed by even deeper silence as the door swung open with its natural tension since there was no longer a lock holding it in place.

Harry pushed the door further and with his wand pointed ahead, he stepped into the corridor. The hallway they were in was rather dark and none of them could see very clearly but they didn't light their wands.

They walked the corridor's length with light steps keeping their eyes trained for any sudden movements.

They reached the end of the corridor and gathered together to step out into the living room at once.

In the blink of an eye, Harry and Daphne stepped out of the corner with their wands pointing in opposite directions. Ethan stepped up behind them and pointed the gun directly at the centre of the room.

But what they saw inside the room was a little shocking.

The old woman that Loki had sketched was on the floor, her head separated from her body with her own hands.

The trio became tense as they stood their place to clear out the room of any dangers around them before Ethan holstered the weapon and walked into the room because they couldn't see the coin box anywhere in sight.

Daphne and Harry stayed back as Harry asked a question, "Should I go call Loki and Hermione?"

Ethan knelt closer to the old woman and looked at her body but unfortunately for him, as soon as he was close enough to be grabbed the old lady's head split open in a shriek.

*RRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

Luckily for Ethan however, Daphne used her ability to manipulate luck to direct the calamity of the screech towards herself.

Simultaneously she pointed her wand at the corpse's head and shouted, "Silencio!"

In an instant the lady's head had its mouth sealed shut.

Ethan used this time to step back and pull out his gun along with his wand. He lit his wand with the Lumos charm to make a ball of light that detached from his wand and floated to the ceiling, spraying light all around the room giving them much more to work with than moonlight.

The room was filled with shadows from the variety of things inside the area, a few long lamps, curtains, wooden tables and chairs, all things one would find inside a simple house in this area.

The long lines of darkness swayed as the light bobbed into its position before Ethan's eyes narrowed sharply-

With a sharp *SWISH* a series of knives dislodged from the cutlery rack as they flew at a blazing speed towards Ethan. But before those knives could reach him, a translucent shield appeared around him to shield him with but a flick of his wand, holding them in place.

Daphne kept her wand pointed at the old woman's head while Harry used the light Ethan had created to search for the evil coin box.

Seeing Daphne struggling to keep the old woman's mouth shut Harry resorted to barbaric tactics instead. He closed his eyes and after a moment opened them. A sudden halo of crimson light began to spread outwards from Harry.

Everything in the room was drowned in this light, including Ethan's Lumos charm.

And within a few seconds, they found their target.

The fallen body of the old woman stood up and rushed to a corner of the room, avoiding coming in touch with the halo of twilight light that had erupted from Harry.

Its hands reached out for an old box that had been hiding under it as it rushed away. Racing against the expanding halo of light Harry had created as the body dived to shield the box away from itself.

Ethan waited for no man or even the right time.

As soon as he spotted the coin box, his gun was already trained on it as he pulled the trigger creating a loud *BANG*.

Along with the *bang* every non-living thing in the room suddenly woke up as if it were alive. They piled up on the old woman, with simple cushions in the beginning to the entire sofa by the end.

The bullet penetrated through the couch, and through several layers before it became lost in the pile. No one could see if the coin box was 'dead' or if the bullet had missed its mark.

Everyone took a breath of silence while holding their positions. They remained worried if the coin box was truly gone or if it was preparing another trap.

*BBBAAAAAAANNNNNNGGGGGGGG*

A resounding sound echoed in the house as all the non-living items that had gathered around the box exploded outwards.

Harry used an armour made of silver light to protect himself and Daphne.

Daphne amplified her good luck while standing behind Harry.

Ethan ducked under a different table that was still on the ground while summoning the Gate of the Underworld in front of himself.

Ethan was somehow fully protected, but Harry and Daphne were thrown off their feet head-first into the thick wall supporting the weight of the roof when a couch flew into them.

Daphne fought hard to keep herself conscious because she felt Harry's head kick the breath out of her lungs as he was pushed backwards into her sternum while the wall behind her pinched her muscles.

Everyone felt their ears ring like a bell as the loud explosion caught them off guard. But they slowly recovered as the explosion died down.

Ethan was the first one to open his eyes and look for the coin box. He half expected it to use the explosion just now to escape but when he laid his eyes on Daphne and Harry he froze.

Daphne looked at Harry in front of her and froze as well.

Meanwhile, the two Harry's looked at each other and froze.

The Harrys looked identical in every way.

They had the same clothes. The same light armour, the same scratches and bruises, the same glasses and the same messy hair.

Everything about them was identical.

" " He's the fake!!!! " " The two Harrys shouted simultaneously while pointing at each other in the exact same way.

Ethan pulled up his gun on one of them, while Daphne pulled up her wand on the other.

Daphne was the first to ask a question, "Which professor did we meet before leaving the castle?"

" " Professor McGonagall. " " Both answered simultaneously, causing them to look at each other before they shouted once again, " " You can't believe him! I'm the real one!! " "

Daphne's eyes narrowed as she saw this. Even Ethan hadn't thought that the situation would devolve to something like this.

Daphne licked her lips as she thought of a solution to this situation, however, no one noticed the headless body that was crawling using the debris in the room as a cover to get behind Daphne.

No one except-

"Look out!!!!"

*BANG*

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