This sudden surprise had propelled his progress in analyzing Voldemort forward by a huge leap. If he'd been only fifteen to twenty percent of the way there before today, this dynamic sample had pushed him past sixty percent!
There was no doubt that it had saved Avada a tremendous amount of effort, giving him more time to do other things he wanted.
So, on this lovely Sunday, he decided to temporarily forget Voldemort, forget the Horcruxes, forget the original story, and take a proper break to clear his head—by studying the Vanishing Cabinet.
For the past two weeks, he'd been pushing himself to record Voldemort's mental energy and break through the seal. Now he could finally return to studying Spatial Magic. What better way to change his mood?
And so, Avada finally returned to the Room of Requirement after a long absence. Because of its special status, there was no Anti-Apparition Jinx inside the Room of Requirement, so Apparition could be used freely within it. But that was only within the room—Apparating from the room to somewhere else, or from somewhere else into the room, was impossible.
That only made the Vanishing Cabinet seem all the more valuable.
It was worth mentioning that, to prevent Voldemort from returning to the school and suddenly deciding to revisit his old haunts and check on his Horcrux, Avada had put Ravenclaw's Diadem back where it belonged. He'd also restored all the arrangements he'd made in the Room of Hidden Things to ambush the fake Baker.
After all, in the original story, the Diadem had remained safely in the Room of Hidden Things until Harry and the others were in their seventh year. Presumably nobody had touched it in the meantime, so Avada had no reason to worry about leaving it there.
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