A few days after all this ruckus, peace returned to Hogwarts and Magical Britain. Many pureblood families lost their wealth and influence in wizarding world in just few days. This is because they're targetted by the victims, heads of many associations, and also the ministry.
Worse, their businesses got decimated and went bankrupt in just few days because of the ban from these international associations. Lucius Malfoy barely escaped with his reasons but he also lost quite a bit of fortune on this incident. He personally slapped Draco when he visited Hogwarts.
But he also took advantage of the chaos to benefit himself. His suggestion to change Draco's school is rejected by Narcissa after their crimes are exposed and now sending Draco to another country will know endanger him. Lucius also thought it made sense. He can't lose his only heir to something like that. and he also took advantage of this situation, bribed few people and got a small piece from these two houses, although he acquired this small part, it can't even offset the losses he suffered now. Draco is also quite scared now. He will lock his magiphone in a vault every night that can only be opened by him.
But Draco's troublemaking habit didn't vanish even in the slightest, he will pick on Harry and Ron along with some muggleborns. Damian is constantly searching for the room of requirement all this time. His efforts aren't reduced even in the slightest. Moreover, he became even more acctive in searching for this room of requirement. He searched many rooms, passages, statues, suspicious looking trophies and even decorations around Hogwarts but failed to find room of requirement. he found some hidden rooms and mechanisms though.
He is getting more and more frustrated as time passes. Moreover his actions caused many slytherins to drop out of Hogwarts previously. Evelyn became somewhat wary of him, especially since the contract is finished after he drove out the two factions out of Hogwarts completely. Rosier's faction knew he did it, but they never revealed it fearing his retalliation.
In their eyes, Damian's danger level is raised by two tiers now climbing to the highest level. Evelyn herself is very scared rk take action, because she knew, she only has one shot to take action and if she fails, people like Damian will not give her another chance to act, they will decisively strike with a plan that can collapse an empire.
Afterall, Damian already showed how terrifying his plan of action can be. Many families with centuries old foundation and connections are forced to leave their own land, suffered sever losses and even got implicated with crimes. Now, there is not a single person who is willing to trust them in Britain or some neighbouring magical communities.
Moreover, Evelyn didn't see any need to take action. Damian isn't an enemy, at most he can be classified as a small threat, because he isn't interested in gaining anything that Evelyn plans to gain. To him, these businesses and connections are merely tools to get his vengeance and a headache to deal with.
As long as she can give him some benefits, he will leave them all alone. Since that day, no one in Rosier faction dared to mess with Damian. Evelyn though is quite satisfied with the result of this deal, she not only eliminated two major factions, many pureblood families hut also expanded Rosier faction, power, influence and wealth to few times than it is in the past.
She recruited almost everyone that is left with soul contracts and offered benefits to assimilate them into the Rosier family power. The plan that should have taken another 3 years for her, is now completed and even the results exceeded her initial calculations. Moreover, her grandmother Vinda Rosier is very happy to hear about this result. Now in the Rosier faction, Damian gained many names. Some call him the Kingmaker, some called him the Ghost of Vengeance, some called him Faction Sweeper.
As for Damian, he is currently with Hermione in the library, reading book after book. His target naturally the room of requirement. He is been searching for information about it in many Hogwarts texts, yet h couldn't find anything about it. Damian slumped in his seat looking very dejected.
Hermione asked with a curious look," why do you seem to have lost your soul? Is there something wrong? Anything that's been troubling you? ", Damain said," yeah, I'm searching for a particular hidden room in Hogwarts. But I can't find it. It goes by the name : Room of Requirement. Do you know anything about it? ".
Hermione looked up for a few moments with her hand on her chin. Then she said with a bright look," I think I read something about it. The room of requirement, I remember now. It's mentioned in the book about Rowena's life story ", Hermione stood up and left, a few moments later she brought back a big book.
It's very big that Hermione herself can't hold it properly. Damian helped her and brought the book to the table.
Odesseys of the Greatest Witches and Wizards in history.
She opened Rowena's life story and searched for a while before showing him," here, the room of requirement is a magical room made and enchanted by Rowena herself. It's not only a magical room, it's an inheritance left to future generations by Rowena Ravenclaw. The room of requirement modifies itself based on the desires of the user. It's rumoured to have rooms for almost every purpose from academic ones to even having fun ".
Hermione then read," to find the room of requirement, one needs to make Hogwarts recognise the desire in their heart. Rowena left a riddle for us to discover the room of requirement and how to access it :
find the runner who never arrives,
hunted by those who will never learn.
Climb until numbers lose meaning at seven.
Then turn away.
Only the one who abandons certainty,
who repeats the same mistake three times,
will be noticed by what refuses to be seen ".
Hermione flipped the page," that's all ", Damian frowned. He traced the riddle and copied it. He repeated it, split it into parts, read the sentences againamd again. But he only solved one like of the riddle.
Climb until the number loses meaning at seven. That means either a room or corridor with number 7 or it should 7th floor. He will need to find this runner who never arrived and hunted by those who will never learn. Repeats the mistake three times, that means he needs to announce what room he wish to use in room of requirement three times.
Now only the exact location is left to identify. Damain will definitely find this room. Damian is happy and excited, his search is narrowed down to only few things now. Damian looked at Hermione and said," Granger, you're bloody brilliant. The smartest one I have ever seen. Thank you ", he hugged in happiness before leaving with a laugh, he was very happy that his search is going to complete, he is very frustrated already at not finding room of requirement. Hermione froze in her place at what happened. Her face turned bright red, she buried her face in a book. Fortunately their table is a bit far away and no one seems what happened.