Book of Truth

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Chapter 1: Finding the book

He had placed it there on purpose, knowing she would find it. She would be intrigued by the title, and automatically want to reach for it. It had to be planed to place it at the right time, or Madam Pince would confiscate it, and it would never see the light of day again. Coming up with the idea to create such a book was pure brilliance, but making it took time and energy. He didn't even tell his twin why he was making an addition to the joke shop line. It was titled the SMART LINE, for every smart person out there needed a book like this.

Running over the side-effects again in his head, he made sure that if someone found it other than her nothing would go wrong. As well as, if she touched it for too long, nothing would happen to her. They included boils in the neither regions for any male that touched the book other than him, and pimples on the girls that touched it other than her. These effects were limited to the person buying the item and the one they intended to find/give it too. However, if the person who was receiving it held it for too long, a craving for Chocolate would develop.

It was now or never, he quickly dodged into the row she was about to turn down and removed a book only to place the one in his hands in the now empty slot. Quickly going back the way he came, he barely made it around the corner before she entered the aisle from the other side. He could hear her humming a tune under her breath and thought he caught a whiff of her shampoo. Cucumbers and Melons from what he recalled from those nights of her helping him study. He unconsciously inhaled just thinking about it, and almost missed her stop humming.

Peaking around the corner, he saw her staring at the book in front of her, the one he put there, her hand hovering in mid-air between grabbing it and leaving it. Finally, as if it took a lot of mental consideration, she crossed the distance and grabbed it. 'Hook, line, and sinker,' he thought as she pulled the book from it's perch. He had made sure that when it was designed, the book had a worn brown leather cover with faded gold writing. The writing itself was in old English;

The Book of Truth

By: Verum Fatur

He hoped she wouldn't notice the name reference since it was Truth Speaks in Latin, but he could never be sure with what she was known to notice. Quirking his lip at the thought, he pulled his head back around the corner, walked towards one of the carts where students could placed books they had finished reading, and out the doors towards the common room to meet up with his twin. What he didn't see was her opening the book and finding the inscription inside;

For those who read,

Caution,

you may or may not like what you find at the end!

She closed the book, knowing it was not one of her precious Library tomes, but something she was meant to find. Placing it in her bag, she clasped it shut and made her way out of her usual sanctuary towards the grounds. Crossing the lawn, she followed the path to the lake and sat under a Birch tree. Double checking her schedule to make sure she had no other work to do that day, and that Harry and Ron were at Practice, before she opened the covering again and scanned over the Table of Contents.