"What does it say?" Hermione asked inquisitively. "Let me see it."
Harry handed over the paper. It had stopped glowing its vibrant green color and looked ordinary, although its message begged to differ. Hermione read aloud:
The Dark Lord will come once again,
His wrath will come to rule.
A place once lost will be key,
And it shall all come down to one duel.
For now the place is lost,
But soon to be uncovered,
The light one shall find
And much shall be discovered.
Together two ages will come,
The time between will mend.
Young and old will be bold
And continue to the end.
For once they've started,
The beginning will have begun
And the end will be far away,
'Til the last words have been done.
"What do you think it means?" Shane asked with a look of curiosity.
"To tell you the truth," Harry replied, "I have absolutely no clue other than Voldemort will be back." As Harry said He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named's name both Ron and Estania winced.
"It seems to be like a riddle. You know what I mean?" Hermione said in deep thought.
"Not really," Estania said.
"Well," Hermione tried to find the right words to describe it. "You can't take everything in the message exactly literally. In the second part it says 'the light one will find, and much shall be discovered' the light one is referring to a person or thing, but we have to find out who or what that is."
"Oh, I get it."
"So I take it we will be in the library deciphering this message as soon as possible?" Ron groaned.
"How did you guess?" Harry said sarcastically.
Hermione just glared at the two of them. "All right we'll help." Ron finally gave in.
"First don't you think that we should find the professors?" Anthony asked meekly.
"Probably," Harry replied.
"Well let's go back to the Great Hall first and check on everyone." The six of them walked back to the Great Hall with only getting onto one staircase that changed directions on them.
As they entered the Great Hall the door at the other end opened. Four Sixth Years walked through the door with their brooms in hand. All of them played on their house's quidditch team.
"I can't believe we made it. The weather was starting to really turn on us. The wind had to be at least forty-five kilometers per hour and the snow, sleet, hail or whatever that was had to be coming just as fast at our faces," Collin Creevy said while entering the room.
"I thought more of you had brooms, why are there only four of you here?" Hermione asked.
"Well, originally ten of us started out, but the other six weren't the greatest at flying, so we sent them back when the wind started to pick up. The only reason that any of us left the station was that the ten of us had our brooms in our compartments with us. So we were able to take them off the train. When everyone else went to get their brooms, they found that all of their things were sent up here, like it always works."
"That's right. I forgot about that," Hermione mumbled under her breath.
"Have you guys found the professors yet?" Ginny Weasly asked.
"No, they weren't in Dumbledore's office or anywhere else that we could tell, but then again this school is so huge," Ron answered.
"So what do you think we should do?" Ginny asked. "I mean it's already seven o'clock."
"I have an idea," Lavender Brown piped up. "I think that we should all take our buddies to our dormitories and sleep there for tonight and then go looking for the teachers tomorrow."
"But what about the rest of the people at the train station?" Hermione asked.
"I know," Harry joined in, "Why don't we use our transfiguration skills and turn something into carriages and send them down to pick up the rest of the students. Then we can all get together here in the Great Hall and eat before we head off to our dormitories. And, as Lavender said, the first years can stay with their buddies."
Everyone agreed this was their best bet, so the seventh years got together and worked on getting a shoe to turn into a carriage. After multiple explosions (most by Neville) and a shoe that turned into a huge pumpkin, they finally got it to work. Then they created a lot more carriages, and one person went along with each carriage (or shoe, however you want to look at it) to go pick up all of the second through sixth years.
Once the rest of the students got back the seventh years had somehow come up with food. Although, the rest of the students didn't want to know where they got the food from, they were still starved so they ate it and went off to bed. All of the first years followed their buddies to the dormitories and slept there for the night.
Harry handed over the paper. It had stopped glowing its vibrant green color and looked ordinary, although its message begged to differ. Hermione read aloud:
The Dark Lord will come once again,
His wrath will come to rule.
A place once lost will be key,
And it shall all come down to one duel.
For now the place is lost,
But soon to be uncovered,
The light one shall find
And much shall be discovered.
Together two ages will come,
The time between will mend.
Young and old will be bold
And continue to the end.
For once they've started,
The beginning will have begun
And the end will be far away,
'Til the last words have been done.
"What do you think it means?" Shane asked with a look of curiosity.
"To tell you the truth," Harry replied, "I have absolutely no clue other than Voldemort will be back." As Harry said He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named's name both Ron and Estania winced.
"It seems to be like a riddle. You know what I mean?" Hermione said in deep thought.
"Not really," Estania said.
"Well," Hermione tried to find the right words to describe it. "You can't take everything in the message exactly literally. In the second part it says 'the light one will find, and much shall be discovered' the light one is referring to a person or thing, but we have to find out who or what that is."
"Oh, I get it."
"So I take it we will be in the library deciphering this message as soon as possible?" Ron groaned.
"How did you guess?" Harry said sarcastically.
Hermione just glared at the two of them. "All right we'll help." Ron finally gave in.
"First don't you think that we should find the professors?" Anthony asked meekly.
"Probably," Harry replied.
"Well let's go back to the Great Hall first and check on everyone." The six of them walked back to the Great Hall with only getting onto one staircase that changed directions on them.
As they entered the Great Hall the door at the other end opened. Four Sixth Years walked through the door with their brooms in hand. All of them played on their house's quidditch team.
"I can't believe we made it. The weather was starting to really turn on us. The wind had to be at least forty-five kilometers per hour and the snow, sleet, hail or whatever that was had to be coming just as fast at our faces," Collin Creevy said while entering the room.
"I thought more of you had brooms, why are there only four of you here?" Hermione asked.
"Well, originally ten of us started out, but the other six weren't the greatest at flying, so we sent them back when the wind started to pick up. The only reason that any of us left the station was that the ten of us had our brooms in our compartments with us. So we were able to take them off the train. When everyone else went to get their brooms, they found that all of their things were sent up here, like it always works."
"That's right. I forgot about that," Hermione mumbled under her breath.
"Have you guys found the professors yet?" Ginny Weasly asked.
"No, they weren't in Dumbledore's office or anywhere else that we could tell, but then again this school is so huge," Ron answered.
"So what do you think we should do?" Ginny asked. "I mean it's already seven o'clock."
"I have an idea," Lavender Brown piped up. "I think that we should all take our buddies to our dormitories and sleep there for tonight and then go looking for the teachers tomorrow."
"But what about the rest of the people at the train station?" Hermione asked.
"I know," Harry joined in, "Why don't we use our transfiguration skills and turn something into carriages and send them down to pick up the rest of the students. Then we can all get together here in the Great Hall and eat before we head off to our dormitories. And, as Lavender said, the first years can stay with their buddies."
Everyone agreed this was their best bet, so the seventh years got together and worked on getting a shoe to turn into a carriage. After multiple explosions (most by Neville) and a shoe that turned into a huge pumpkin, they finally got it to work. Then they created a lot more carriages, and one person went along with each carriage (or shoe, however you want to look at it) to go pick up all of the second through sixth years.
Once the rest of the students got back the seventh years had somehow come up with food. Although, the rest of the students didn't want to know where they got the food from, they were still starved so they ate it and went off to bed. All of the first years followed their buddies to the dormitories and slept there for the night.