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Chapter 1: The Letter and the First Task
The Great Hall was loud as usual, some morning's students were extremely quiet, but that was generally during their final exams. Hermione and Ginny sat down across from Ron and Harry who were discussing Quidditch, as usual. Hermione grabbed a slice of toast, while Ginny grabbed an apple both girls were facing the Slytherin table much to their disgust. The owl's arrived slightly early this morning and brought Hermione her Daily Prophet. Hermione began to read the newspaper, but before she could get further into it Ginny nudged her and pointed towards an owl flying their way. It was a dark brown with silver highlights; it was far more beautiful than any other owl the two had seen. It landed abruptly in front of Ginny and Hermione, both girls were startled. It dropped a small letter, which read To Ginny Weasley and Hermione Granger, DO NOT OPEN AT TABLE. Hermione snatched the letter, before Harry or Ron noticed and slid it into her book bag. Hermione and Ginny looked at each other before excusing themselves to the common room. Both girls had a free period and neither Harry nor Ron thought anything of it and continued talking about this year's Gryffindor team.
The girls had intended to go to their common room, but the Room of Requirement door had appeared before them. Both girls thought it was safer, rather than having Lavender of Parvati walk in on them reading a letter secretly. The girls entered the Room of Requirement and sat on the fluffy white sofa that lay in the center of the room. "Should I open it" asked Hermione taking the envelope out of her book bag.
"I think I should" said Ginny.
"Ginny, what if it's cursed? Once we open it something terrible happens" said Hermione.
"I think we should" said Ginny. "For all we know it could be from a professor who needs us to do something without anyone else knowing, or wants to meet with us because we did something awful".
Hermione slowly undid the top of the envelope breaking its seal. She took the piece of parchment out of the envelope gingerly, expecting something to happen. "I don't think it's cursed" Hermione said slowly. Hermione unfolded the letter and read it aloud:
Dear She-Weasel/ Mudblood,
Congratulations! You have been chosen for the game. Every year we pick a new person, sometimes two and you have been chosen. By opening this letter you are now magically bound to all the Slytherins. Don't worry two of the unforgivable curses will not be used, the other may be used based on how well you behave. Yes Granger this may affect your academics, but it won't really matter, this is more fun for us than it is you. Worst case scenario you will be forced to do something that drives you insane like so many before. You will receive your first task around 9 tonight.
Draco and the Slytherin's
P.S. No one has ever died, but only four people have made it out in a good condition
"Magically bound, how is this possible" said Hermione pacing across the floor. "I have never read of being magically bound by opening a letter, of course you can be cursed, but not magically bound you have to have a signature from the person".
"We don't know what they will do to us" said Ginny sadly.
"I think we need to do some high depth research" said Hermione.
Both Ginny and Hermione ran to the library. Ginny sat at a table while Hermione was looking through books. Hermione returned with only three books. "I thought you would have more" said Ginny skeptically as if fourteen more were to appear magically.
"No, the librarian won't let me look in the restricted section, so this is it" said Hermione. The girls had finished looking through all three books twice before even thirty minutes had passed. For the rest of the time the girls discussed what they may be forced to do and if there were any possible loop holes. "First period is almost over" said Hermione. "We need to go, let's talk at lunch". The two classes the girls had seemed to take forever. Hermione began searching through her textbooks for loop holes during her class. Ginny however just kept thinking of what Malfoy could possibly know about her. Lunch seemed to take forever to arrive. Snape finally let out his potions class giving them their homework assignment, before he let them leave. Hermione looked up to see Draco, Blaise, and Theo laughing at her. She blushed furiously.
"What the bloody hell was that about?" said Ron clearly concerned.
"Oh, I don't know probably a joke on my impure blood status" lied Hermione, she knew exactly what it was about.
"Oh, alright" said Harry trusting the lie. "Ron and I are going to practice before tryouts".
"You've been named captain, Harry; you are automatically on the team" said Hermione.
"Well I need the practice, I'm not on the team yet" said Ron.
"Ok, just remember Ronald that we have a prefect meeting right before our fourth class. Something about our hallway monitoring and our new schedule, I think" said Hermione, before walking towards the Great Hall.
"It is your lucky day Hermione, we covered magically binding contracts" whispered Ginny sitting next to Hermione at lunch.
"How, you know we can't tell anyone. Surely the Slytherin's would have covered asking for help indirectly to a professor" said Hermione.
"This kid named Collin Creevey asked Moody and he answered" said Ginny. "Moody said that a contract can be forged, but it takes seriously dark magic. He also said that there are no loopholes because contracts are so powerful".
"Great…" said Hermione. "We are doomed. Well I won't see you until dinner and Harry and Ron will be there, so we won't be able to talk about this until we are alone". "I'll see you at dinner" said Hermione getting up from the table and walking to her next class.
At 9 at night both girls sat in the red cushioned chairs alone. Ginny was biting her nails, while Hermione played with her hair. The girls sat up when an owl appeared at the common room window, Ginny quietly opened the window and grabbed the piece of parchment. "Ready for this?" asked Ginny. Hermione merely nodded while Ginny read aloud:
I'm surprised Moody covered curses today with you She-Weasel, but that's ok because he can't mention a lot of stuff to those under seventeen. Tomorrow night at ten you will meet Theodore Nott in the library, Madam Pince will be gone, don't get caught otherwise you instantly lose.
Draco
"Theo's a prefect! How is this possible" said Hermione aghast before coming to her senses, he was a Slytherin.
"I'm not concerned about Theo right now. How does Draco know we covered that subject with Moody? I had Defense against the Dark Arts with Ravenclaw today!" said Ginny defensively.
The girls had nowhere to run and no one to get help from except each other. They were in the hands of Slytherin. They both hoped they'd make it out fine, but this was October and that meant 31 days of surviving Slytherin. Now how were they going to get to the library without being seen….