 Mischievous Niffler
"You're welcome," Kitty replied with a small smile, in answer to Katherine thanking her on being given a free photo album. Of course she would never think to charge her friends over something like this, and whether or not Katherine thought they were friends - Kitty certainly did from this conversation onwards.
What did she think the portal was? Good question. "I've obsessed a lot about what it might be," she admitted. "One of the first things that I thought of was that maybe the charm protecting Hogwarts from Muggles backfired. Remember how we learned from Hogwarts A History that if a Muggle were to approach Hogwarts, all she or he would see would be a giant, crumbling ruin? Well I wondered if the portal was some kind of glitch that made us see Hogwarts how a Muggle would. But that theory went away as soon as the monster started chasing us. Although you could argue that it was just an illusion meant to scare people, none of the teachers acted like it was - and let's not forget that the caretaker has also vanished. So that theory was impossible." It had been a good first guess, she had thought - but in reality there was zero evidence that anything on the other side of the portal was an illusion, it just wasn't true.
"Another theory could be that the portal is a secret compartment of Hogwarts - like the Chamber of Secrets and the Room of Requirement. I don't know what it's purpose would be, though. It could also be an entirely different reality, and the portal is a rift between our worlds. I know it sounds crazy, but with all the magic we already know about, is it impossible?"
Ravenclaws always had to answer a riddle before entering their common room, Kitty liked to think that made her open minded about different ways of thinking and possibilities. Katherine was also a Ravenclaw. "What do you think it might have been?" she asked her curiously. |