Persuading Ariana

"Bang!"

Kyle stood outside, watching as the door to Potter's Potions was mercilessly slammed shut.

But it was quickly opened again. Cord threw a large bundle out from inside, then forcefully shut the door once more.

Dumbledore stood outside, watching it all in confusion.

"It's nothing. I just bought a few things," Kyle explained.

He picked up the bundle. Inside were roughly a dozen bottles of different potions. Some had shattered from Cord's rough handling just now, but most were still intact.

Kyle picked those out and put them into his trunk... They were all fairly common types, but he had paid for them himself. He couldn't let them go to waste.

"You suddenly came all this way just to buy potions?" Dumbledore was even more puzzled.

As far as he knew, Cord was no famous potions master. Everything here could be found at any potion shop, and even a fifth-year student with decent Potions grades could brew it themselves.

Did Kyle really need to make a special trip here at a time like this?

"Buying potions wasn't the point. I came for this." Kyle took out the box and showed it to him.

Dumbledore had still been wondering why Kyle had come here, but the moment he saw the old box, he suddenly realized something.

"The Invisibility Cloak?"

"More precisely, the Invisibility Cloak, one of the three Deathly Hallows," Kyle said. "Perhaps only this can give Ariana in this time a sliver of hope."

Dumbledore's body trembled.

That was right. How had he forgotten? He had clearly known all along that the Invisibility Cloak had been passed down through the Potter family for generations. Why had he not thought of it before?

"He just lent it to you like that?" Dumbledore suddenly realized something. "Surely no one understands how