Chapter Two
They checked the map, and all the teachers were in their rooms, except for Filch who was doing his routine check around the top floor by the astronomy tower. Mrs. Norris was in the library. It was just past midnight.
They snuck out of the portrait and down the revolving stairs with no problem- other then the odd complaint from the pictures on the walls. It was easy enough getting to the dungeons unnoticed, especially all under the invisibility cloak.
Ron took his position at the end of the hallway, with the map. Ginny waited next to a tapestry, across from the entrance. Harry went in, under the protection of the cloak. A few minutes after Harry entered the common room, Professor Snapes dot began to stir.
"Ginny!" Ron whispered across the hall. "Snape's dot is moving, do you think he knows?"
"Perhaps there's some sort of spell on the common room to detect intruders."
"Probably, but he's not going down the hallway by me, he's going a different route, he's walking towards the hall next to us."
"Do you think Harry has had enough time to search?" Ginny asks.
"I don't know, but we should go, I have a bad feeling about this, and I don't think it's from the spider climbing on the wall in front from me."
Ginny said the password, which opened the portal to the common room and threw in the dung bomb. Harry must have got the point when he came running out.
"Is he coming?!" he gasped, slightly out of breathe.
"We don't know. Right now he's practically standing in the same spot as Ginny only in the hallway next to us." Ron replied, "Bloody hell! His dot is moving threw the wall. If my calculations are right, he's going to come out from behind… the tapestry!"
"There must be a secret passage, RUN!"
But right when they started running, a hex flew out and hit Ginny in the knees. She felt her legs give out and fell on the cold cement, which was now pressing against her cheek. During the panic of the situation, the boys didn't even realise she wasn't following behind. As she was lying there helpless, she could only imagine the trouble she was going to be in. Not only way was this the head of Slytherin, but it was also the scariest teacher in the school.