Chapter 10:
"Get me that stone." I heard myself saying, all though it didn't at all sound like my voice. "Y-yes m-m-master." I heard Professor Quirell saying. Then I realized I was Professor Quirell who was talking to someone in his turban. Or was I the person in the turban I couldn't tell. Suddenly I woke up drenched in sweat, I tried to remember what I had been dreaming about but I couldn't remember. I decided I didn't care and before I could start thinking about it again I tried to fall back asleep.
When I woke up I was still thinking about what Malfoy had said, and I went down to the common room, since I couldn't sleep. I went down and just stared at the wall for a while. It was almost midnight when I saw Ron and Harry creeping towards the door, I ran and caught up with them. When they noticed me they were about to say something, but suddenly Hermione cleared her throat. I hadn't noticed her the whole time I was sitting there because she was in the shadows but I could see her clearly now when she stood up, I wonder if she saw me sitting there the whole time. "You two should not have dragged her into this. You guys shouldn't even be doing this."
I decided not to even ask what it was. Hermione continued as we walked out the portrait door. "It's against the rules to be out at night, and to be dueling, Malfoy isn't worth it." She said as we kept moving. "Fine. Whatever get in trouble but I'm going back." She turned to go back in but the Fat Lady had left her portrait. "Oh great! What am I going to do now?" She complained. "Shhh!" Ron and Harry both shushed her. I noticed Harry was looking at me so I quickly looked away I wasn't ready to talk to him or anyone yet. "Are you okay?" He whispered. I looked at him, and just nodded. He knew I was lying but dropped it for now at least, because I could tell he would continue this later.
As we continued walking I didn't really know how I felt about Harry going out in the middle of the night breaking a dozen school rules, just to get back at Malfoy for me. It kind of made me feel really good, like somebody actually cared about me. We kept on walking and suddenly we heard something sniffling. "Is it Miss Norris?" Whispered Ron. "No I don't think so... It sounds like a person!" exclaimed Hermione. We walked a little farther and suddenly Neville came into view. "Guys, finally you found me, I got out of the hospital an hour ago but I couldn't remember the password." "The password is 'Pig snout' Neville, but the Fat Lady is gone so that won't help you. Come on we have to get going we don't want to be late." Harry said. We all started walking more quickly towards, our destination? I still didn't even know exactly where we were going. Finally we came to the trophy room and I assumed this was the place. Harry walked into the room, and pulled out his wand. "Looks like Malfoy isn't here yet." Commented Ron. "You think?" Hermione said snidely.
"Shhh. I think I hear somebody." Harry whispered furiously. "C'mon sweet precious, sniff them out, we know they're in here." "It's Filtch! Run!" Harry whispered urgently. We all raced back running wherever we could. We finally came to a stop by the charms corridor, and heard something, oh great, I thought, Peeves. "Oh ickle firsties out and about at night. STUDENTS IN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR! STUDENTS IN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR!" Peeves said all while cackling. "Quickly in this door. Oh no it's locked." Ron said. "Oh move over. 'Alohomora.'" Hermione said. We quickly clambered into the room and pressed our ears against the door. Filtch was finally here with his cat. "Tell me where they went Peeves." Filtch demanded. "I won't say nothing unless you say please." Peeves said happily. "Fine, Please." Filtch said rudely. "NOTHING! HaHa I told you I would tell you nothing." Peeves said while gliding away. "PEEVES!" Filtch shouted angrily, and we heard feet running after him.
"What Neville?" Harry demanded, he turned around and saw something. I turned around too then and saw a massive dog with three heads, and three pairs of madly rolling eyes! "Ahhhh" we all screamed. Then we quickly fumbled for the door, between dying and getting caught I'd much rather choose getting caught. We ran outside and found that luckily the corridor was empty. We all sprinted back to the common room door and everybody shouted at the Fat Lady. "Pig snout! Pig snout!" "Alright alright I'm letting you in." She said looking at us suspiciously. She opened up and we all quickly piled in.
We sat in the common room silently for a while, and it looked as if Neville was never going to be able to speak again. Finally Ron spoke "What are they thinking of keeping that thing there?" "Didn't you use your eyes it was standing on a trap door." Hermione answered. "Well I was a little preoccupied with its three heads in case you didn't happen to notice!" Ron said stinging. "Well that dog is obviously guarding something, but I'm going to bed before you guys come up with some brilliant plan that gets us all killed. Or worse expelled." Hermione said sharply and flounced off to bed. Neville slowly stood up and just walked off to his dormitory. "Well night Arrington, you coming Harry?" Ron yawned. "Yeah I'll be up in a few seconds." Ron headed up getting the hint.
We were both quiet for a minute and Harry asked "You sure your okay?" "I'm fine I'll get over it." I answered. "Hey I'm sure you can live with me if that's what your worried about." He said suddenly. "Well I'm not really worried about that." I said slowly trying to think of an explanation that would make sense to him, without telling him the truth. "Well I mean I am, but I'm just... I'm really upset at my family. I can't believe after 11 years together they actually didn't even want me do up you know what I mean? I didn't even know my real parents were dead, let alone that I had a brother." I was crying by that time. Harry slowly got up crossed the room and hugged me. "I'm sorry about all of this, it's not fair how you didn't know about anything." "Well I'm not really being fair either, you had it pretty rough with the Dursleys. So I guess we both haven't really had it fair. We are one screwed up pair of kids thanks to one mans decision." I said quietly. "Yeah, well you know at least we are going to get to live together, it will liven up my life, and you will have true family." I nodded and hugged him back. "Thanks, Harry." I said wiping my tears. "No problem, have a good night." Harry said. I walked up to the dormitory crawled into bed. I didn't like lying to Harry, although it was more like I just withheld the whole truth of what was wrong. Still I decided that no more tears would be shed over that family, they would just be forgotten.