Passionate Rivals

Chapter 1:

"Shush! Be quiet, filch might catch us then we'd be so dead!"

"Something just touched me!"

"Shut up Harry, don't be stupid"

"It was just Mrs. Norris. Stupid cat. Wait Ron! Someone's coming!"

"RUN!"
"Umm... It's a bit late for that… I solemnly swear that I am up to no good… its no one… unless there's a glitch…"
"Papa-sneer!" said the boys in unison as they reached the Portrait of the Fat Lady.

The two boys ran into the Gryffindor common room and once they were inside, threw off Harry's invisibility cloak and slumped down into the squishy arm chairs by the fire.

"Do you have the test answers?" asked Ron.

"Yea they're in my pocket with my…" Harry reached into his pocket but as he did so, his voice trailed off.

"What? What's wrong? Don't tell me you lost them!" yelled Ron.

"SHIT! I have… it was in my wallet…It must have fallen out when we ran back!" said Harry

"Damn it!" said Ron, "what are we going to do now!"

"We're going to go and find them" said Harry

"NO WAY! You were there just then! We almost got caught, imagine how much trouble we would get into if one of the teachers found out that we'd been sneaking around and stealing test answers!" screamed Ron

"I know but my wallets out there somewhere, with my student card and the test answers! I'm gonna go get it, I'm not asking you to come but I have to get it." Said Harry as he flung his invisibility cloak around himself and walked out of the common room.

Once Harry was out of the common room, he begun retracing his steps slowly, making sure to thoroughly examine the ground in front of him before moving to another spot. After searching for what seemed like forever, Harry finally saw his wallet about 25 metres away from him, he began to rush towards it but just as he was grabbing his wallet, he heard a voice behind him.

"What do you think you're doing exactly, Mr Potter? Sneaking about in the middle of the night? And what's that in your hand? Give it to me, now!" said professor Snape, extending his hand and snatching Harry's wallet off him.

"It's just my wallet, I dropped it earlier and just realised so I came back to get it" said Harry.

Snape opened the wallet and out dropped the test answers onto the floor. Snape bent down to pick them up and once he had resumed a standing position, unfolded the paper and examined it closely.

"Why exactly Mr Potter, do you have the answers for your upcoming potions test!" asked Snape.

Harry stood silently, looking at his feet, tracing a pattern on the wooden floor.

"SPEAK POTTER!" yelled Snape.

"I haven't studied for the test and I don't want to fail so I stole the answers, there happy!" replied Harry.

"Ok potter, for sneaking around during the night I will deduct 50 points but for stealing test answers, you will spend the whole of Friday night, locked in one of the downstairs dungeons, marking exam papers, you will only be let out, once you have correctly marked them all, and if there are any incorrectly marked tests, there will be more punishments. Now get out of my site!"

Harry then turned around and walked back to the Gryffindor common room, cursing himself at his carelessness.