HP X LOTM : Please Call Me Mr. Error.

Loki was having a slightly hard time trying to pinpoint exactly what had gone wrong in all of this and who exactly was responsible for using his likeness in such a way.

'And what's with this message in the first place?'

'Mr. Error's blessed hopes to remind the directors that one cannot guide fate as they see fit without facing its wrath.'

'Does it mean to say that the people behind the scenes controlling all this will have a bad time?'

'Is he talking about 'Adam' and Minister Fudge?'

Loki's frown only deepened as he thought further about the note.

Eventually, everyone was asked to leave when Laura realised that Loki didn't have much else to tell her about all this.

Having returned to his room at Hogwarts, Loki immediately went to the Sefirah Castle and pulled out his trusty ring to perform a dream divination.

"The person who sent the letter along with the monkey to the Ministry of Magic."

Loki repeated the statement seven times and fell asleep using cogitation, his eyes rolled to the back of his head as he relaxed into his chair, calmness taking over his thoughts as his vision shifted.

It didn't take long.

As Loki's view stabilised he saw a rich sturdy desk behind which Cornelius Fudge sat, his fingers drumming along the edge of the table as he read through what appeared to be boorish documents regarding a recent audit report on the ministry.

Loki paid rapt attention to everything in the room.

He absorbed every detail but failed to notice anything similar to the chimp toy that he had seen earlier.

'....they entered the office and placed the toy and left?' Loki frowned, finding it a little unrealistic.

But Loki's question was answered soon.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Loki saw Fudge's table glowing.

A golden halo separated from the glowing table that Fudge was absolutely bewildered by as he quickly rushed away and stretched his hands against it to attack at any given moment.

The table's glow slowly dimmed, leaving only the golden halo hovering a few centimetres off the table as it started to converge in on itself.

As the halo converged, it grew brighter, becoming more and more white as the light failed to hold onto any particular colour.

And within a few seconds, the light was bright enough to hurt Loki's eyes but he kept squinting to keep his eyes on the action, afraid to miss out on figuring out who was actually doing all this.

But much to his disappointment, once the light, which had started to dim again after hitting its peak, vanished, no one else was to be found.

A small area around the table had been cleared, and in its centre sat a toy chimp, holding cymbals, pressed between which was a single letter.

The vision shattered at that point and Loki found himself back in the Sefirah Castle.

Loki frowned as he opened his eyes, not very happy with the result of the divination but he maintained his cool nonetheless.

'With all that light, was it someone of the Sun pathway?'

'....I didn't feel any purification effects from the light though…'

'Maybe because it was a divination?'

Loki frowned, the divination had fallen short and he didn't have any other leads to pursue, so he tried doing something else, looking at it all from a different angle.

'Let's see…'

'So someone managed to slip an item in the Minister's office.'

'The item wasn't anything special, being a simple toy with a letter attached to it.'

'Symbolically the toy could be used to describe the Minister as a chimp clapping his hands to play a tune whenever he is wound.'

'But that doesn't give me any more clue other than the fact that whoever it was likely doesn't like the Minister very much.'

'...let's look at this from the perspective of Beyonder abilities.'

'Which pathway would be capable of doing such a task.'

'....the Fool pathway, the Door pathway and the Error pathway come to mind since each of them have the ability to teleport things around.'

'....but since no one really knows about them, that leaves the traditional pathways…?'

'No. Wait a second. The person who dropped the letter clearly knows about the existence of the Error pathway.'

'So someone from the Tarot Club?'

'Sirius, Snape and Fleur don't seem capable of doing something like this.'

'Dominic is too much of a straight arrow.'

'Hermione is incapable of doing such a thing, for now.'

'So Mr. Devil?'

'....he doesn't have the ability to do such a thing…'

'And it would be in his best interest to remain hidden, and not expose himself so that you-know-who can resurrect properly.'

'So who is it?'

'Did some other Death Eater do this on you-know-who's orders?'

'Maybe Mr. Devil talked about Mr. Error to you-know-who and he laid out this incident for some reason?'

'I did tell him about Loki being Herpo's Horcrux…'

'....but it seems like a stretch…why antagonise a True God when you want to advance to an Angle soon?'

Loki's thoughts paused at that point.

He couldn't make heads or tails regarding the situation.

Each new line of thought eventually ran into a dead end either because the person he was thinking about was too weak to do so, or because it was in their best interests to stay out of the limelight for now.

Eventually, Loki's gaze paused on the Disk of Wishes, and then at the Time Turner.

'What if it really is my blessed?'

'Just from the future or the past?'

'What if it is just me?'

'….'

The revelation hit him like a truck.

It fractured his logical thought process and caused him to switch to try and grasp at straws to rationalise his reasoning.

'Perhaps the Disk of Wishes worked, but instead of teleporting me back in time it brought someone from the past into the future?'

'....no that doesn't make very much sense…my wording was clear, it shouldn't have been misinterpreted in such a manner.'

'Or could it? Since I tricked everyone else while fulfilling their wishes to power up the Disk of Wishes, it tricked me?'

Loki maintained a prominent frown.

He realised he was back at a wall that he could not look beyond.

As such Loki sought the help of divination.

Holding the topaz pendulum freely from his wrist, Loki asked a simple question.

"The person who orchestrated and performed this incident is a blessed of Mr. Error."

Loki repeated the statement seven times and kept his eyes closed in anticipation.

Even without opening his eyes, Loki could feel the pendulum had started to spin around on its own.

The result, whatever it was going to be, was conclusive.

Loki took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes.

His gaze settled first on his hand, then on his fingers and finally on the chain of the pendulum they held before they zoomed out and took the entire scene in all at once.

"Clockwise.", Loki whispered, his hand going cold as he realised that something very funky was going on.

'Is it someone like the founders?'

'Someone I raised in the past, someone that was sleeping just like 'Them' but was awoken recently because of someone's actions?'

Loki didn't have conclusive evidence, and as such he performed another dream divination.

"Who is the blessed that caused this incident regarding sending a toy chimp to the Minster of Magic's office."

Loki repeated the statement seven times and used cogitation to fall asleep.

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