The next few weeks were rather boring and all we did was study for our exams. The students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were pretty restless because it was spring, getting close to summer, and all we could do was study for our exams. We hardly ever got to walk around in our street/muggle clothes and we hardly ever got to have fun. The most fun we had was playing Wizard Chess with each other. It was very boring and annoying to listen to Ron and Harry's complaining. The four of us Gryffindor students were currently stepping out of Charms. We had just had our Charms Exam and were very tired. I groaned and then said,

"I am so happy for tomorrow." Harry and Ron looked at me funny.

"Why?" Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Isn't it obvious?" She didn't wait for the boys' replies. "Tomorrow we're taking our Potions Exam, and Alia's favorite subject is Potions. She's really good at it, and has a definite knack." I smiled proudly and Ron and Harry groaned.

"Kill us." I laughed and put my arms around the two boys.

"Hey, I'm not killing anyone, okay? Sheesh, you people make it seem like I've got nothing better to do." They looked at me and then I remembered that this was the conversation I had with Fred and George. "Wait...he-he, wrong people, sorry." They looked at me oddly. "What? It's an inside joke between me and my Boys." The trio blinked and I rolled my eyes. "Fred and George, you knit wits!"

"Ooh..." I sighed and Harry said," Let's go for a walk. Maybe we can get our minds off having a class with Snape tomorrow." I sighed and rolled my eyes. They were always hating Professor Snape, and not showing him any respect. It killed me to hear this, but I lived with it. We walked down to the grounds and were talking and walking towards Hagrid's when Harry's hand flew to his scar.

"You all right there, Harry?"

"My scar; it keeps burning." I put my arm around his shoulders.

"It's happened before."

"Not like this," he said while inhaling sharply in pain once again.

"Perhaps you should see the nurse," Ron suggested and Harry shook his head.

"I think it's a warning. It means danger's coming. Ah." Then, we heard Hagrid's flute and Harry seemed to think of something. "Oh, of course!" We all sent Harry an odd look before he ran off, with us following him at his heels.

"What is it?"

"Don't you think it's a bit odd that what Hagrid wants more than anything is a dragon, and a stranger who turns up just happens to have one? I mean, how many people wonder around with dragon eggs in their pockets. Why didn't I see it before?" Hermione and Ron sent him an odd look before I nodded and ran with Harry towards Hagrid. "Hagrid, who gave you the dragon egg? What did he look like?" Hagrid has stopped playing his flute and looked at us oddly.

"I dunno. I never saw his face. He kept his hood up.

"This stranger though, you and he must've talked." Hagrid thought for a moment before saying,

"Well, he wanted to know what sort of creatures I looked after. And I told him, after Fluffy, a dragon's gonna be no problem."

"Did he seem interested in Fluffy?" I looked at Harry and he realized that it was a rather stupid question.

"Well of course he was interested in Fluffy! How often do you come across a three-headed dog, even if you're in the trade? But I told him, I said, I said,' The trick with any beast is to know how to calm him.' Take Fluffy for example, just play him a bit of music and he'll fall straight asleep." All four of us looked at one another before hearing Hagrid say," I shouldn't have told you that. Where are you going? Where are you-?" We all ran off towards Professor McGonagall in the Transfiguration classroom. We ran up to her, scaring the wits out of her.

"We have to speak to Professor Dumbledore, immediately." I nodded and so did Ron. Professor McGonagall looked at us oddly.

"I'm afraid Professor Dumbledore's not here. He received an urgent owl from the Ministry of Magic and left immediately for London."

"He's gone! But this is important! This is about the Sorcerer's Stone!"

"How did you know-?" Professor McGonagall looked at us all with wide eyes.

"Someone's going to try and steal it!"

"I don't know how you four found out about the Stone, but I assure you it was perfectly well protected. Now would you go back to your dormitories...quietly." We all slumped and walked out of the room. Once outside, we all stopped and Harry turned to us.

"That was no stranger Hagrid met. It was Snape; which means that he knows how to get past Fluffy." None of us, but me of course, looked up and saw Professor Snape. I blinked and looked at him.

"And with Dumbledore gone..."

"Good afternoon." I looked around. "Now, what would four young Gryffindors, such as yourselves be doing inside, on a day like this?" Hermione stuttered,

"We were...we were just-" I then cut in.

"We were just talking to Professor McGonagall about our Finals. We were actually discussing your Potions final when you walked up, Professor." He looked at me and nodded before looking at Harry, who was sending him a glare. I grabbed his hand and said," Bye Professor. I'm looking forward to your Potions Final tomorrow." I turned and walked off, dragging Harry behind me. After we turned the corner, I stopped and turned to Harry. Hermione said,

"Now what are we going to do?"

"We're going down the trap door...tonight." I nodded and we all walked off towards the Gryffindor Common Room.

Later that night, we walked down from our dormitories and towards the Common Room. We were wearing street/muggle clothes, thankfully, and I chose a nice, comfy pair of jeans. We arrived and heard a noise coming from the arm of the red couch. It was a croaking toad. I then realized whose toad it was.

"Trevor," Harry said quietly.

"Trevor, sh, go you shouldn't be here!" After Ron decided to whisper that loudly, we heard another voice.

"Neither should you." I noticed the voice to belong to Neville Longbottom. "You're sneaking out again, aren't you?"

"Now Neville, listen. We were...we were..." Harry couldn't say anymore because Neville cut him off.

"No, I won't let you! You'll get Gryffindor into trouble again! I'll...I'll fight you." Hermione blinked and pulled out her wand.

"Neville, I'm really really sorry about this. Petrificus totalus," she said and some sort of mist shot out of her wand. Neville's body went rigid and he fell to the floor like a log. Ron and Harry blinked before Ron said,

"You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant, but scary." I rolled my eyes and we all walked by Neville.

"Let's go. Sorry Neville."

"Sorry." I looked down at Neville.

"I'm sorry, Neville." I heard Ron say,

"It's for yer own good, you know." I rolled my eyes and we got out of the Common Room and went to the third floor corridor. We entered the same way we did last time, except this time Ron stood on Hermione's foot. I had to stifle a giggle as Harry rolled his eyes. We walked into the room after Hermione unlocked the door and saw Fluffy.

"Wait a minute. He's..." The cloak was then blown off by Fluffy's break. "...snoring. Snape's already been here. He's put a spell on the harp." I rolled my eyes and sighed. Ron shot me a look, and I kept my mouth shut.

"Augh, it's got horrible breath." I rolled my eyes.

"We have to move its paw."

"What?" Ron asked. I rolled my eyes and Harry and I said,

"Come on!" We all got behind the paw and Harry said," Okay, push!" We pushed the paw off and opened the trap door. Harry looked at us and said," I'll go first. Don't follow me until I give you a sign. If something bed happens, get yourselves out!" Harry paused. "Does it seem a bit quiet to you?"

"The harp, it's stopped playing," Hermione said while looking at us. I blinked and then looked at Ron as he exclaimed,

"Augh, yuck!" He then picked up whatever fell onto his shoulder before looking up. We saw the dogs' heads and Harry yelled,

"Jump!" Of course, we all did as he said and jumped down one after the other. It went Harry, Ron, Hermione, and then me. We fell down into the darkness and landed on a dark green plant. I blinked and then knew what it was when it moved behind Ron.

"Whoa! Lucky this plant thing is here, really." Then something moved behind Harry and Ron exclaimed," Whoa!" The plant then decided it would be funny to wrap itself around us. It got tighter and tighter the more we struggled. I then stopped struggling as Hermione said,

"Stop moving, both of you! This is Devil's Snare. You have to relax, if you don't, it'll only kill you faster."

"Kill us faster? Oh, now I can relax!" Ron yelled while Hermione rolled her eyes and she fell through the plant. The boys' eyes widened.

"Hermione!" I rolled my eyes and Devil's Snare let me go next. I then heard them exclaim," Alia!" I fell and landed on my feet in a crouching position. I looked up and soon enough Harry fell as well. Ron seemed to be having a conniption fit. I rolled my eyes and said,

"Lumos Solem!" Ron fell through and we asked him if he was okay. He tried to pass it off as nothing, but we all sent him a look. Then we heard a noise.

"What's that?"

"I don't know...sounds like wings." I looked at Harry and we all followed him through a large wooden door.