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Here's Chapter One. Enjoy!

The Truth Lies Beneath

By LadySlythindor

Chapter One:

Lost

The dusty corridor echoed as Hermione Granger's heels rapidly clacked against the stone floor. Her chest rose and fell heavily as she scurried frantically down random passage ways. It was the fifth time she had passed the painting of Friar Lawrence. She groaned. She was completely and utterly lost. Not to mention most defiantly late for her next class
"Where in the bloody flying hell am I," She exclaimed aloud. Her only response was her voice reverberating off the cold, dry stone walls. Groaning with frustration, Hermione slumped to the ground desperately needing to think.
Hermione rubbed her temples, trying to remember exactly how she had come to be in these vacant corridors. She recalled taking the correct stairwell down form Gryffindor tower. Then she stopped to talk to Seamus.

Hermione frowned, "More like 'Get chatted up by Seamus'". He had been doing that a lot lately and though she gave devastatingly painfully obvious hints at being uninterested he didn't quite get it.

Hermione pondered that for a moment before it hit her. She had taken the back stairwell into essentially the 'basement' of Hogwarts. She paled considerably and covered her face with her hands. What had she gotten her self into? "This place was out of bounds to any student that didn't want to die a very painful death!" Hermione mentally quoted, "Shit". Sighing and standing she dusted herself off. She had to find a way out.

Eying her surroundings she noticed she was in a spacious corridor with high arched ceilings of stone (of course). From where she sat there were three hallways she could choose to go down each of them equally foreboding. Mounted on the wall there was a still painting of the Greek good Zeus wielding a threatening lighting bolt in is right hand. Though the painting couldn't move it was giving Hermione a great amount of unease with Zeus's piercing grey eyes glared down at her, as if questioning her audacity at her mere presence. Hermione squirmed under his gaze and silently apologized for her impudence and scurried down the closest hallway.

After running a bit she realized he was running from a painting. Feeling silly she slowed her pace and scowled. "As scary as they may be, there not going to hurt you," She mentally scolded, "but Snape will though. When he finds out you skipped his class to parade around secret passageways within Hogwarts, you're dead." Hermione sighed as she turned down another hallway. This one was particularly dark. Casting a quick 'lumos', she started down the hallway. The passage thinned as she traveled deeper into darkness. Hermione's curiosity kicked into over dive as she increased her pace. Her school bag slapped against her side at every step she took. The temperature seemed to drop and Hermione could see her breath steam up in front of her.

Hermione gasped. There was a light! It was dim probably due to its lengthy proximity from her, but she didn't care. Light meant an exit from this dratted place. The clicking of her heals sped up as she increased her speed. The light brightened as she got closer and closer.
"Almost there!" she thought hopefully. She reached the end of the corridor all she had to do was turn the corner and-

"Oomph!" She hit something tall and hard and she fell on her arse, dropping her wand and hearing it clatter to the ground. She heard a low moan come from around the corner that was separating her from whatever she crashed into on the other side. She grasped her wand tightly and on all fours she crawled over to the corner and peered cautiously around it at the exact same time Draco Malfoy did the same.

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A/N: Bwahahaha cliffy! So what do you think?? Am I alright for a newb or what? Sorry it took me forever to get this up for you all! Hope you enjoyed! Also I'm sorry for all the suspense. I know that'll drive a couple people mad with curiosity but I'll be a speedy updater!

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