Chapter 7
The weeks and the months were flying by for Rachel. Before she new it, she was studying for exams.
But something was going to happen that Rachel did not expect.
"Rachel….excuse me….please move….thank you… RACHEL" said Hermione running down the corridor which was full of staring people.
"What…what's the matter" asked Rachel.
"You will never ever believe what I have to tell you" said Hermione
"While I was looking to see if I got all my homework right on that charms spell, I over heard Professor McGonagall saying that the Sorcerers Stone is not safe anymore."
"Oh my gosh… this is what Harry was talking about, he thinks its Snape whose after something, but until now we didn't know what that something was, Hermione you're a genius" said Rachel.
"How did you find out that it was a stone, and what is it" asked Rachel.
"Well I checked out this wonderful book from the library for a bit of fun reading, and I remember Harry said that he overheard Snape telling Professor Quirrell that he wasn't surprised that he didn't get the stone yet.
So I finally looked up on the book and found the Sorcerers Stone made by Mr. Nicolas Flamel" said Hermione.
"I can't believe this, Harry and Ron are going to flip" said Rachel.
"Yeah, I know, I think they are in the common room studying, lets go and tell them" said Hermione with a big excited smile on her face.
So Hermione and Rachel made their way down the corridors and up the stairs, and finally came through the portrait hole and saw Harry and Ron on a couple of the big squishy arm chairs studying for their exams.
"You guys will never guess what Hermione found out about Snape and what he wants" said Rachel.
Hermione told them everything she new and finally stopped talking to start breathing normal.
"Wow I don't think I would have ever found that out, we have to talk to Hagrid about this" said Harry.
"Well why don't we go now, its still light out" said Ron.
"Oh can me and Hermione come to" asked Rachel with a longing expression on her face.
"Yeah, I'm sure Hagrid won't mind a few extra people" said Harry.
They all got up and when out the portrait hole and down a few stairs. They were in a middle of one staircase when all of the sudden it moved.
"Oh know, what's happening" yelled Rachel. "The staircases change remember" yelled back Ron.
"This isn't good, we have to do something" said Harry.
The staircase stopped and they were in front of a single door.
"I think we should go through the door" said Ron. "Yeah, come on everybody" said Harry. They made there way into the room, and it was pitch black inside, until a fire sprang to life.
"That doesn't even look good, I mean how many rooms do you know of, that has fire springing up from nowhere" said Rachel.
"She's right we should get out of here" said Harry.
"Be quiet" said Hermione in a terrified voice "I hear Filch, he's coming up the hallway" "Go" yelled Ron.
They all started running through the dark corridor which started to light up as they ran to the next door.
Of course the door was locked, but with a simple spell that Hermione preformed they were inside in no time.
They all went quiet to listen to Filch who went in, shuffled around and walk back out. "That was close" said Ron.
"It's ok Rachel you don't have to be afraid, he's gone" said Harry.
"Please tell me that I'm seeing things said Rachel pointing to something on the opposite side of the room.
They all looked around and at that point the three headed dog woke up and started to realize there were intruders.
At the same time the two boys and two girls started screaming, and one by one with Rachel in the lead they ran out of the room, and shut the door just in time.
They didn't stop running till they got in the Gryffindor common room. Out of breath they all collapsed unto a chair, and were all thinking the same thing.
Until finally Ron voiced out their thoughts, "What are they doing, they must be nuts to keep a thing like that locked up in a castle!"
"Well it's obviously guarding something, didn't anybody see the trap door under its feet." "It could be guarding the stone, but all I know is that I never want to see that thing again" said Rachel.
They were all shocked at what Rachel just said, it was so easy and yet they never thought about it.
"We have to talk to Hagrid, I'm sure he knows tons of stuff about three headed dogs" said Harry with a grin.
"Well, we have lots of work to do tomorrow, so if you two don't mind I'm going to bed before either of you think up another brainless plan to get us killed or worse kicked out" said Hermione with a bossy tone.
As Hermione was walking up the stairs Rachel said "Yeah, I think I'm going to go to bed, a lot of things happened today and I need some time to think over it."
Rachel smiled, said goodnight, and started for the stairs. As she lay in bed, she thought about what other adventures would happen in the next few weeks.
