HEART OF HUFFLEPUFF
Chapter 3
She ran. Down the stone hallways at night, moving ever so swiftly. She ran. She had to get to
him, she had tog et there, before, well, she couldn't get there to late. He was coming. She had to
stop him. She was the only one who could. She was the only one with the power. She had to
stop him. He was coming, like in the prophecies Rowena had stated. Nobody knew though,
nobody understood. She ran down the stone corridor of the school trying to stay as quite as she
could. It was easier because she was barefoot, like always, so her feet didn't clink against the
stone. She rounded a corner near the hall, and went down the stairs towards the dungeons, she
had to reach him. She slide down the hall, past the kitchens with the house-elves at work, past a
spiral staircase heading up to the third floor, and strait to an area of stone in the blank wall. The
only way one would know where this was, was if they knew Salazars obsession with snakes.
There was a tiny little carved snake in the wall, so tiny it wouldn't even frighten a mouse.
"Cobra" Helga said quietly. All of the teachers knew all of the passwords into everywhere. Like
the Hufflepuff password was 'Stubble' since Helga had let them all meet him the other day. And
how the password to the Professors meeting room behind the stone gargoyle was Fab Four. Helga
knew the name of every password in this entire school. Sh even knew the ones that the others
didn't. Like those secret tunnels that she was having constructed, and to all of her secret gardens
hidden in every common room, some offices, and even in the Professors meeting room. They all
had different devices that hid them. Like how behind a mirror in her office and the fireplace in the
Hufflepuff common room got to the secret garden of hers. The one in the Gryffindor common
room was if you tapped the lion statue on the mantel and said 'reavlo'. She new this school
backwards and forwards.
She sneaked into the common room, hoping nobody was still awake, she had to stop him.
Something was going on, and Helga needed to figure out what it was. The fire in the grate was
just about dead when she looked around to see if there was anyone there. She stepped out of the
shadows and decided to get to Adrien before this something could. She still hadn't figured out
what was after him. But she had found out from Rowena that it was happening tonight, and she
had to stop it.
Helga climbed the stairs of the third-year boys dormitory. Opening the door she silently sneaked
over to Adriens bedside. She pulled back the curtains and prodded him to wake. He was already
violently stirring in his sheets. She put her hand over his mouth as he woke with what was going
to be a scream.
"Sssh, be very quiet. Something's out there, follow me." She said in a dire whisper. Her tone
was very leader-like, strong and powerful, like she knew what she was doing. When in truth she
didn't have a clue, but as always Adrien trusted her, and sat up in his bed and followed.
Silently she slipped her invisibility cloak over him. He didn't have a clue what it was, since Godric
had only managed to create it about a week ago for her. Right now, Helga, Godric, and Adrien
were the only ones who knew that they even existed. She slipped it over him and the left the
common room looking as if there was only one there. Down the hall she walked, but this time
with confidence, she had a story this time, if any other Professor was down here, she would
simply tell them about one of her secret gardens that she was working on. They all knew she was
working on them, they just never had a clue where.
As they walked down the cold stone hall, both of their bare feet making not a single noise, a
shadow appeared around the corner. In the darkness a figure appeared before them, slinking
along in the Shadows.
"Good evening Young Lassa , how are you tonight?"
The young girl jumped clearly not expecting her to be there. She suddenly dropped her stealth-
like attitude and came back into being a timid young 5th year "Oh! Professor!" She said in a very
frightened tone of voice. "I'm f-fine? A-And you?"
"Good, now Dear girl, would you mind telling me why you are out roaming the halls so late at
night, and especially, so far away from the Gryffindor tower?" Helga said in a sweet but stern
voice
"I-I-I don't k-know ma'am, t-the last t-thing I remember w-was going to sleep tonight, I-I have n-
no Idea how I got here."
"Could it be that you may be sleep walking? The infirmary is open, why don't i take you up there,
since I'm the only person In this castle, who knows anything about medicine."
"...Ok, I guess, I-I really don't have any idea how I-I did get here, y-you believe me, r-right?"
"Of course dear, now come along, we'll have to get you checked out, before I send you back to
bed and tell Professor Godric"
"You're telling him?!?"
"Oh course dear, I must, he needs to know when his students are out of bed at night, but don't
worry, he can't do anything to you, If you were only sleepwalking"
The two, no, three, walked up the long dungeon hallway and up the long flight of grand stairs,
jumping the missing step and going past the stone gargoyle and into the infirmary. It was a newly
finished place, very white and clean. One little house elf that was cleaning the front desk ran out
of sight when the group entered the room. Helga led Lassa over to one of the beds near the back
of the room and sat her on the bed.
"Hold on a moment dear, let me go call on Professor Godric" Helga said and turned around and
went to where Adrien was standing under the cloak.
"What should I do Helga?" He asked quietly as not to let Lassa hear him
"Nothing, sit at the front desk, and actually write her report, start a file on her, like I showed you
the other day, we have to start keeping records here."
"Ok" He said as he went to sit at the desk writing swiftly, with what looked like a flying pen in
midair. Helga grabbed a piece of the cloak and put it over the pen, so that it didn't look so odd.
Now there was just ink magically appearing on Lassa's chart.
Helga went to the door and opened it swiftly. She apperated up to Godric's room, since the no
apperateing charms hadn't been placed, but they still weren't supposed to. Helga was the only one
who did it, but only for emergency, or if it just took way to long to get somewhere, she was
rather lazy when it came to unnecessarily walking up and down giant flights of stairs. She
appeared with a pop in his office, and frightened the living daylights out of him.
"Sorry, I didn't think that you'd be up working this late, I was going to just wake you, since a
student of yours happens to be in the infirmary."
"Oh, ok" He said sleepily "We've really go to get a bigger staff"
"Yes, I know, Maybe next year, since I know for one thing that Rowena can't handle teaching
Defense against the Dark arts for one more year. Salazar would gladly only be teaching potions
and Arthimacy and not more then that, he hates teaching History of Magic. I know you really
don't like muggle studies OR runes for that matter, and I don't like having three classes, period,
and your thinking of having me teach a medicine class, for 7th years who want to get into that, I
don't think so. Don't even talk to be about getting a bigger staff, I KNOW we need a bigger staff.
Not to mention that I cannot be the infirmary witch and a teacher of four classes at the same time,
I'll gladly do it for now, but I don't want to have to cut my classes, seeing as which two of them
are classes that everyone must take for all seven years. We also need a caretaker, grounds-
person, We need a head cook, and more. I can't take all of this. But anyway. Lassa Fitzgerald is in
the infirmary right now, I say we get down there."
"Why, what happened??"
"Oh, I caught her 'sleepwalking' but I want to make sure, that's what it was"
"Alright, lets go." he said with a tired voice, and he popped out of his office, clearly not in the
mood to walk down all of those flights of stairs. She went right behind him.
~~~~~~~
"I just don't know what it could be" Helga exclaimed to Godric in the back room
"Well, you said that there was some magical residue left over her aura, what could that be??" He
said in a stern and confused voice
"I don't have a clue! Go get Rowena would you, maybe she can figure something out" She said
sounding despratly. Godric popped away again, and Helga went over to look at the girl who had
fallen asleep on the little white bed. Helga closed the curtains around her and went over to the
front desk to see how Adri was doing.
"Tired?"
"Yeah" said nothing
"Go lye down on that bed over there, I don't need you right now. Use the bed, not next to Lassa,
but the second one away from her, I don't want somebody sitting on you, but I want you nearby."
"You never did tell me what was going on"
"I'll tell you in the morning"
"I think it already is" He said poking a finger out of the cloak in the direction of a nearby window
to the faint glow across the horizon.
"So I see, well, Adrien, don't bother going to your classes today, I'll need to talk to you, but I
need to figure this out" She said as she turned back to Lassa muttering something about a little
staff.
~~~~~~~~~
Rowena arrived in a few moments with a loose strands in her hurried bun. She had beautiful long
strait black hair that she kept up in a loose bun to keep it out of her face. Sometimes she would
put her square glasses on the top of her head to keep some of the hair back, but this bun, just
looked pathetic.
"What's going on?!Why am I out of bed this early in the morning???" She said in a huff
"Because we have a problem." Helga said
"Ok, well lead me to it, we'll get it fixed before breakfast." Nobody heard a small knock on wood
from a nothing on a bed.
Helga led Godric and Rowena over to Lassa and Had Rowena sit at her side. Helga had never
been very good and Divention, but Rowena was the genuine thing. She had great unbelievable
power. So was so strong in a very complicated field of magic. Some people didn't believe that t
was real, but Helga knew it was because of what she had seen Rowena do.
She got into a trace-like state, diving into Lassa's aura, trying to fin out what had gone on. Helga
had tested her for Sleep-walking just after putting her to sleep. It was a simple spell, that a
second year could do, but it didn't work. It rebounded off of Lassa, and shot back in. Meaning
something was there, that wasn't normal.
Rowena dove deeper into the girl trying to find out what had gone on. Godric had explain the
sleep-walking thing to her, and Rowena had been just as concerned. Rowena fell backwards out
of her trance and Jumped back up with a start.
"Somebody put a spell on her. Its new! I've never seen it before, but it took over her entire
body!" Rowena said with a look of fright on her face. Helga knew something was wrong, when
Rowena didn't know the answer to something.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dum-Dum-DUMMMMMM!!!!!! Yeah, All done with this one. I don't know how to spell
anything. I know all of the letters in the word, but when I type it, it just comes out as all of the
right letters, but in the wrong order. DAMN THE RED DEW!!!Making me sick like that. Well,
at least I think so. Ok, I tried a cliffhanger, I don't know if it has the effect that I wanted, but
yeah. Now I Must return to doing my damn homework. Only a few more weeks, I just have to
keep thinking that. Then I can return once again to my beautiful Garry, and type all the time,
posting and finishing my works over the summer. YEAH!!!! SO long, fare well, lots of funny
words!!! What a movie that sound of music is. I shall see you all in the land of la!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~THE MIDNIGHT GREMLIN
Chapter 3
She ran. Down the stone hallways at night, moving ever so swiftly. She ran. She had to get to
him, she had tog et there, before, well, she couldn't get there to late. He was coming. She had to
stop him. She was the only one who could. She was the only one with the power. She had to
stop him. He was coming, like in the prophecies Rowena had stated. Nobody knew though,
nobody understood. She ran down the stone corridor of the school trying to stay as quite as she
could. It was easier because she was barefoot, like always, so her feet didn't clink against the
stone. She rounded a corner near the hall, and went down the stairs towards the dungeons, she
had to reach him. She slide down the hall, past the kitchens with the house-elves at work, past a
spiral staircase heading up to the third floor, and strait to an area of stone in the blank wall. The
only way one would know where this was, was if they knew Salazars obsession with snakes.
There was a tiny little carved snake in the wall, so tiny it wouldn't even frighten a mouse.
"Cobra" Helga said quietly. All of the teachers knew all of the passwords into everywhere. Like
the Hufflepuff password was 'Stubble' since Helga had let them all meet him the other day. And
how the password to the Professors meeting room behind the stone gargoyle was Fab Four. Helga
knew the name of every password in this entire school. Sh even knew the ones that the others
didn't. Like those secret tunnels that she was having constructed, and to all of her secret gardens
hidden in every common room, some offices, and even in the Professors meeting room. They all
had different devices that hid them. Like how behind a mirror in her office and the fireplace in the
Hufflepuff common room got to the secret garden of hers. The one in the Gryffindor common
room was if you tapped the lion statue on the mantel and said 'reavlo'. She new this school
backwards and forwards.
She sneaked into the common room, hoping nobody was still awake, she had to stop him.
Something was going on, and Helga needed to figure out what it was. The fire in the grate was
just about dead when she looked around to see if there was anyone there. She stepped out of the
shadows and decided to get to Adrien before this something could. She still hadn't figured out
what was after him. But she had found out from Rowena that it was happening tonight, and she
had to stop it.
Helga climbed the stairs of the third-year boys dormitory. Opening the door she silently sneaked
over to Adriens bedside. She pulled back the curtains and prodded him to wake. He was already
violently stirring in his sheets. She put her hand over his mouth as he woke with what was going
to be a scream.
"Sssh, be very quiet. Something's out there, follow me." She said in a dire whisper. Her tone
was very leader-like, strong and powerful, like she knew what she was doing. When in truth she
didn't have a clue, but as always Adrien trusted her, and sat up in his bed and followed.
Silently she slipped her invisibility cloak over him. He didn't have a clue what it was, since Godric
had only managed to create it about a week ago for her. Right now, Helga, Godric, and Adrien
were the only ones who knew that they even existed. She slipped it over him and the left the
common room looking as if there was only one there. Down the hall she walked, but this time
with confidence, she had a story this time, if any other Professor was down here, she would
simply tell them about one of her secret gardens that she was working on. They all knew she was
working on them, they just never had a clue where.
As they walked down the cold stone hall, both of their bare feet making not a single noise, a
shadow appeared around the corner. In the darkness a figure appeared before them, slinking
along in the Shadows.
"Good evening Young Lassa , how are you tonight?"
The young girl jumped clearly not expecting her to be there. She suddenly dropped her stealth-
like attitude and came back into being a timid young 5th year "Oh! Professor!" She said in a very
frightened tone of voice. "I'm f-fine? A-And you?"
"Good, now Dear girl, would you mind telling me why you are out roaming the halls so late at
night, and especially, so far away from the Gryffindor tower?" Helga said in a sweet but stern
voice
"I-I-I don't k-know ma'am, t-the last t-thing I remember w-was going to sleep tonight, I-I have n-
no Idea how I got here."
"Could it be that you may be sleep walking? The infirmary is open, why don't i take you up there,
since I'm the only person In this castle, who knows anything about medicine."
"...Ok, I guess, I-I really don't have any idea how I-I did get here, y-you believe me, r-right?"
"Of course dear, now come along, we'll have to get you checked out, before I send you back to
bed and tell Professor Godric"
"You're telling him?!?"
"Oh course dear, I must, he needs to know when his students are out of bed at night, but don't
worry, he can't do anything to you, If you were only sleepwalking"
The two, no, three, walked up the long dungeon hallway and up the long flight of grand stairs,
jumping the missing step and going past the stone gargoyle and into the infirmary. It was a newly
finished place, very white and clean. One little house elf that was cleaning the front desk ran out
of sight when the group entered the room. Helga led Lassa over to one of the beds near the back
of the room and sat her on the bed.
"Hold on a moment dear, let me go call on Professor Godric" Helga said and turned around and
went to where Adrien was standing under the cloak.
"What should I do Helga?" He asked quietly as not to let Lassa hear him
"Nothing, sit at the front desk, and actually write her report, start a file on her, like I showed you
the other day, we have to start keeping records here."
"Ok" He said as he went to sit at the desk writing swiftly, with what looked like a flying pen in
midair. Helga grabbed a piece of the cloak and put it over the pen, so that it didn't look so odd.
Now there was just ink magically appearing on Lassa's chart.
Helga went to the door and opened it swiftly. She apperated up to Godric's room, since the no
apperateing charms hadn't been placed, but they still weren't supposed to. Helga was the only one
who did it, but only for emergency, or if it just took way to long to get somewhere, she was
rather lazy when it came to unnecessarily walking up and down giant flights of stairs. She
appeared with a pop in his office, and frightened the living daylights out of him.
"Sorry, I didn't think that you'd be up working this late, I was going to just wake you, since a
student of yours happens to be in the infirmary."
"Oh, ok" He said sleepily "We've really go to get a bigger staff"
"Yes, I know, Maybe next year, since I know for one thing that Rowena can't handle teaching
Defense against the Dark arts for one more year. Salazar would gladly only be teaching potions
and Arthimacy and not more then that, he hates teaching History of Magic. I know you really
don't like muggle studies OR runes for that matter, and I don't like having three classes, period,
and your thinking of having me teach a medicine class, for 7th years who want to get into that, I
don't think so. Don't even talk to be about getting a bigger staff, I KNOW we need a bigger staff.
Not to mention that I cannot be the infirmary witch and a teacher of four classes at the same time,
I'll gladly do it for now, but I don't want to have to cut my classes, seeing as which two of them
are classes that everyone must take for all seven years. We also need a caretaker, grounds-
person, We need a head cook, and more. I can't take all of this. But anyway. Lassa Fitzgerald is in
the infirmary right now, I say we get down there."
"Why, what happened??"
"Oh, I caught her 'sleepwalking' but I want to make sure, that's what it was"
"Alright, lets go." he said with a tired voice, and he popped out of his office, clearly not in the
mood to walk down all of those flights of stairs. She went right behind him.
~~~~~~~
"I just don't know what it could be" Helga exclaimed to Godric in the back room
"Well, you said that there was some magical residue left over her aura, what could that be??" He
said in a stern and confused voice
"I don't have a clue! Go get Rowena would you, maybe she can figure something out" She said
sounding despratly. Godric popped away again, and Helga went over to look at the girl who had
fallen asleep on the little white bed. Helga closed the curtains around her and went over to the
front desk to see how Adri was doing.
"Tired?"
"Yeah" said nothing
"Go lye down on that bed over there, I don't need you right now. Use the bed, not next to Lassa,
but the second one away from her, I don't want somebody sitting on you, but I want you nearby."
"You never did tell me what was going on"
"I'll tell you in the morning"
"I think it already is" He said poking a finger out of the cloak in the direction of a nearby window
to the faint glow across the horizon.
"So I see, well, Adrien, don't bother going to your classes today, I'll need to talk to you, but I
need to figure this out" She said as she turned back to Lassa muttering something about a little
staff.
~~~~~~~~~
Rowena arrived in a few moments with a loose strands in her hurried bun. She had beautiful long
strait black hair that she kept up in a loose bun to keep it out of her face. Sometimes she would
put her square glasses on the top of her head to keep some of the hair back, but this bun, just
looked pathetic.
"What's going on?!Why am I out of bed this early in the morning???" She said in a huff
"Because we have a problem." Helga said
"Ok, well lead me to it, we'll get it fixed before breakfast." Nobody heard a small knock on wood
from a nothing on a bed.
Helga led Godric and Rowena over to Lassa and Had Rowena sit at her side. Helga had never
been very good and Divention, but Rowena was the genuine thing. She had great unbelievable
power. So was so strong in a very complicated field of magic. Some people didn't believe that t
was real, but Helga knew it was because of what she had seen Rowena do.
She got into a trace-like state, diving into Lassa's aura, trying to fin out what had gone on. Helga
had tested her for Sleep-walking just after putting her to sleep. It was a simple spell, that a
second year could do, but it didn't work. It rebounded off of Lassa, and shot back in. Meaning
something was there, that wasn't normal.
Rowena dove deeper into the girl trying to find out what had gone on. Godric had explain the
sleep-walking thing to her, and Rowena had been just as concerned. Rowena fell backwards out
of her trance and Jumped back up with a start.
"Somebody put a spell on her. Its new! I've never seen it before, but it took over her entire
body!" Rowena said with a look of fright on her face. Helga knew something was wrong, when
Rowena didn't know the answer to something.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dum-Dum-DUMMMMMM!!!!!! Yeah, All done with this one. I don't know how to spell
anything. I know all of the letters in the word, but when I type it, it just comes out as all of the
right letters, but in the wrong order. DAMN THE RED DEW!!!Making me sick like that. Well,
at least I think so. Ok, I tried a cliffhanger, I don't know if it has the effect that I wanted, but
yeah. Now I Must return to doing my damn homework. Only a few more weeks, I just have to
keep thinking that. Then I can return once again to my beautiful Garry, and type all the time,
posting and finishing my works over the summer. YEAH!!!! SO long, fare well, lots of funny
words!!! What a movie that sound of music is. I shall see you all in the land of la!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~THE MIDNIGHT GREMLIN