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"Headmaster, thank god I caught you in time! I've been trying to contact you for an hour now!" Hestia Jones sighed as she saw that the headmaster was in his office. "I have something very urgent to tell you, sir! He's trying to take over the world!"

"Oh, dear Hestia, we already knew that," the headmaster, who had regained his balance with the power of lemon drops and was feeling a bit more like human and lest like a rabbit that had escaped a predator barely with his tail intact. "Do come through, my dear girl. Let's have a tea and discuss this…"

"No, I don't mean you know who, I mean the one, you summoned him yesterday!" the woman said, almost stumbling as she came though the fireplace. "I saw them, sir, in the Gutted Unicorn! They drank like sieves, but that's beside the point! I heard them talking, headmaster, it was horrible. He is really trying to take over the world, sir, you got to believe me!"

"Dear girl, I'm sure he is just having a bad day," the headmaster said a bit uneasily at the memory of the healer. But surely it was just one time thing; after all, he was a healer. There wasn't a wizard more rooted in light than a healer. And every one had bad days after all; it wasn't fair to judge him by what he was like on one separate day. "People get temperamental when they are tired, and I am sure that being around with people exactly like him isn't doing him any favours give it a day, and I'm sure he'll calm down."

"No, sir I don't think he will! You didn't hear him! The horrors he spoke of - headmaster, I can barely think of it," the woman shuddered at the memory. "He is evil, truly evil. I doubt anyone outside You-Know-Who's ranks has ever witnessed that level of evil."

"Now, now, my dear lady, I'm sure you are over reacting," the headmaster said, calming down himself now that he had a good explanation for the healer's drastic behaviour. "I'm sure it was just a temper tantrum, nothing more."

"I really don't think so, sir. The things he said, sir, I don't think they were just spoken out anger, they were evil, calculated plans," she assured, near tears now. "Headmaster, we must do something about it, soon, before it's too late."

"My dear, do calm down, I'm sure it's not so bad…"

"Yes, sir, yes it is!" the woman almost shrieked in despair. "The shoulder devil is trying to take over the world!"

Summoned, Chapter 3