"Sixth floor, Classroom 21?"
Holding the parchment Professor McGonagall had sent him, Albert wandered along the sixth-floor corridors, searching for Classroom 21, where the Transfiguration Club met.
By now, he had practically walked through every corridor on the sixth floor of Hogwarts Castle, yet he still had not found Classroom 21.
No, rather, there was no Classroom 21 at all. Albert had even asked the portraits on the sixth floor, but none of them had heard of such a classroom.
Had he been pranked?
Obviously, that was unlikely.
After all, Professor McGonagall would not do something so pointless. That left only one possibility: the final line on the parchment—remember Gamp's Basic Laws of Transfiguration.
Classroom 21 was hidden somewhere on the sixth floor, and remembering Gamp's Basic Laws of Transfiguration was the key to finding its entrance.
But Albert had made a full circuit and still had not found any painting, stone statue, or tapestry related to Gamp's Basic Laws of Transfiguration.
If he had to force a connection, it would be the portrait in front of him.
Wizards could not conjure delicious food out of thin air... yet the wizard in the painting had done exactly that...
Albert moved the portrait aside, but there was still no Secret Passage behind it.
Now, all he could do was wait—for Professor McGonagall to send someone to bring him inside, or... give up on joining the Transfiguration Club. He thought the former was more likely.
"You must be the new member Professor McGonagall mentioned?" A red-haired girl approached him a few minutes later, looking him up and down before saying exactly what he had expected. "Professor McGonagall thought you might get lost, so she asked me to come get you!"
"I couldn't find Classroom 21, nor did I see anything related to