When I arrived back in my dorm Abby and Jane were ready to go down to Great Hall for breakfast they waited for me as I quickly put on my school robes and brushed my teeth. I looked in the mirror and straighten my new Ravenclaw robes which I had to admit looked quite smart on me.
I was interrupted by Jane who insisted that if we don't move now we would be late, even though it was twenty minutes before breakfast. We didn't bother bringing our books because we didn't know which classes had.
When we were ready to go, we walked down from the dormitories into the Ravenclaw common room and out the Ravenclaw tower door. We walked down the spiral staircase and through the first door we saw thinking it would lead us to the Grand Staircase, but, boy, were we wrong!
We walked down a long corridor which kept getting longer and darker. Suddenly after a while, the corridor came to a dead end. Forcing us to admit we were lost.
"I knew this would happen!" exclaimed Jane her voice echoing through the empty corridor. "We should have left earlier."
"There's always a way past dead ends like these in movies." Said Abby groping the wall in front of us.
Jane and I gave her a confused look.
Abby then said very slowly and clearly. "I am checking for a stone in the wall that will activate the secret passage."
Jane and I both nodded still confused.
"We should go back." Jane said turning to walked in the opposite direction but was stopped dead in her tracks when the wall Abby was groping let out a low grumble and moved aside forming a clearing for us to walk through. I felt my jaw drop. I had read nothing about this. Abby let out a cheer and began doing an extremely bad victory dance.
"I don't think with should go in there." Jane said worriedly. "It could close in on us or trap us or make us even more lost."
"Does anyone actually remember where the Great Hall is?" I asked because I sure didn't. All I remembered was nearly falling off the Grand Staircase, being really full and tired and climbing lots of different staircases.
My friends thought for a moment.
"No." they both said at the same time.
"So we couldn't be more lost so let's go through there." I said fearlessly, trying to ignore what Jane had said about it trapping us or closing in on us.
"That's the spirit, Rose!" Abby said brightly. "It's just one big adventure."
Abby and I then stepped into the new passage. Jane was forced to follow as she didn't want to be lost alone. The passage was darker than the corridor. I immediately took out my wand and said "Lumos" lighting the tip of my wand, Jane and Abby did the same giving us some light. The passage was long and it felt like we were walking down a steep hill. The passage was lined with glossy black bricks and smelled strongly of damp. Finally, we came to another dead end. We all began to paw at the wall in front hoping to open another secret passageway.
"Ha!" said Abby as she found the stone. The wall let out a low grumble and moved aside. But this time, it revealed the middle of a very cold corridor with touches glowing on the walls lighting the corridor. We stepped into the corridor and look up and down it. There were a couple of doors in the corridor but, there was nobody there.
Then the passageway let out a grumble once again and sealed itself. We turned around to look at it only see a plain grey brick wall like what was all around us.
Then Jane let out a gasp as checked her watch "There's only ten minutes left in breakfast. We got to go."
"Which way should we go?" I asked looking up and down the corridor.
"We could flip a coin." Abby suggested.
"Quiet, both of you." Jane said. "I hear something."
I listened and heard it too. It was the voices of people. Without any warning, Jane started walking quickly in the direction of the voices. Abby and I followed after her. Abby and I caught up with her as we were approaching a corner. We were walking pretty fast and I wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of me as I was trying to tell Jane to slow down because I had a really bad stitch in my side.
Then all of a sudden SMACK! I went straight into a person coming around the corner and landed on top of them.
A chorus laughter erupted when the person and I fell. I landed on the person in a way that our foreheads were touching and I was lying stomach down on top of theirs. I was staring into the person's eyes and they were staring back into mine. They were bright grey almost silver, kind of interesting to look at. But wait… I had seen these type of eyes before.
I lifted my head to get a look at their face. Oh, I couldn't believe it, of all the people in Hogwarts it had to be Scorpius-freaking-Malfoy! And I was still on top of him (eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww!)
I cringed and jumped off of him. He stood up too giving me something that was a cross between a smirk and a sneer, but it wasn't either one. I turn to see around us were bunch of Slytherin first's years (sort of like a gang) laughing like maniacs. I was shocked to see Albus was a part of the gang of Slytherins, laughing with them. I turned around to see Abby and Jane looking amused and uncomfortable.
Scorpius Malfoy began dusting non-existent dirt off his robes (was that some kind of an insult!? Because I am not dirty!)
"Weasley," He said to me obviously trying to sound cool. "Watch where you're going. Not everyone is going to move out of your way, you know."
The gang laughed harder only increasing my growing anger at Malfoy (I suppose I should call him that now since he called me Weasley.)
"Same to you." I spat back.
I began to walk away when he said.
"What are you Ravenclaws doing down here anyway, not lost are we?" he asked. Our silence and the looks on our faces probably told him we were lost.
And then he said snidely. "I thought Ravenclaws were supposed to be smart."
The gang laughed and walked off not giving me time to retort.
"I'll catch up with you guys." I heard Albus say as he walked towards me.
I frowned at him. He didn't bother to stick up for me or help me up or anything (not that I needed him to).
"Hey, Rose." He smiled his green tie beaming on his chest. He looked much happier than yesterday.
I didn't say hi to him I said the first thing that came into my mind that I thought wouldn't offend anyone.
"You're getting along well with the Slytherins."
"Yeah, they're actually really nice once you get to know them."
Then he looked at my friends and said to me "I tell you about it later."
There was a moment of awkward silence.
Jane spoke up and asked him. "Where are we?"
"The dungeons." He said matter-of-factly.
"Do you know how to get to the Great Hall?" asked Jane eager to get out of the dungeons.
"Yeah, just take the stairs at the end of the corridor." Instructed Al. "The stairs will take you onto the ground floor and you'll see it."
Jane followed by Abby hurried towards the stairs.
"Your friends seem nice." said Al doubtfully.
"Yeah, they're actually really nice once you get to know them." I mimicked Al from earlier, letting some steam from my Malfoy encounter off.
"I'll find you later after class we can talk then." Al said.
"Sure, see you. Al." I said as Jane yelled from the top of the stairs "ROSE, HURRY UP! I THINK BREAKFAST IS ENDING!"
I ran over to my friends as Albus said goodbye.
