During Harry Potter's fifth year, Umbridge formed an Inquisitorial Squad whose members could deduct points at will. Since the squad was mainly made up of Slytherins, Gryffindors were targeted even more than before.
One day, the Weasley twins finally snapped and shoved Montague, the Slytherin captain, headfirst into a Vanishing Cabinet. Montague was trapped inside for some time before finally deciding to Apparate out. Instead, he got stuck in a U-bend toilet pipe. If Draco had not found him, his life would likely have been in danger.
While trapped, Montague could sometimes hear sounds from the school and sometimes sounds from Borgin and Burkes. Yet no matter how he shouted inside, no one could hear him.
Phoebe had once been trapped inside a portrait. Others could still hear her, but she could not hear anyone else or see anything at all. After escaping, her personality changed drastically, and she no longer stayed "in sync" with Joy in everything.
Georgiana placed a map of Paris on the table. The current location of the French Ministry of Magic was not yet an old, quiet residential district. Before the Palace of Versailles was built, this had been a famous Paris market. Because Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was nearby, it had once been the richest abbey during the Merovingian dynasty and also the burial ground of the Merovingian Royal House.
In the sixth century, it had stood on barren land. Even now, much of the area was covered in forest, and after the French Revolution, it had been abandoned. The royal tombs inside had probably suffered the same destruction as Saint-Denis.
In the Burgundy Tower where Georgiana had once lived, she discovered a strange altar, and something bizarre happened that very day. Charlie Matt was not Pepin's only son; he also had an elder son,