The group of students charged into the entrance hall, and ran to the now
closed door leading out of Hogwarts. Ron charged into it, trying to knock
them open, unfortunately, the doors seemed to be sealed shut. Ron got
knocked back.
'Oww, that hurt!' he groaned.
'Well, you should learn not to barge into doors like that.' Hermione gloated.
'I'm just worried about the door, I don't think it should be locked like this.' Neville said.
'Obviously you're too thick to figure this our Longbottom, someone's attacking the school, so obviously the first things they would do is lock the doors.' Draco sneered.
'Well, there is another way out we could try.' Hermione said. 'Follow me..'
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The group of students travelled far into the dungeons, before they reached an area with a large metal cage being strung up over a huge black pit.
'What is this Hermione?' Harry asked, walking up to it.
'Honestly, this is our fifth year and none of you have read Hogwarts: A History, this is the emergency entrance out of Hogwarts. It magically levitates when someone is inside it, and it runs to the edge of the forbidden forest like it is on railroad tracks.'
'Cool, so who's going first?' Harry asked.
'I am.' Draco said, opening the cage.
'Not so fast.' Harry said, sticking an arm out. 'How about the fourth years go first, and then us?'
In a few minutes, most of the fourth year kids had gotten out of the school, it was finally Colin Creevey's turn to hop on the moving cage. He got in and closed the door behind him.
'I'll see you guys later.' He said.
The cage slid off slowly into the distance. Just as it got a fair distance away, a rope suddenly fell from the ceiling, and through the top of the cage, with a tiny noose in it.
The noosed slid around Colin's neck, and lifted him from the cage, leaving him hanging over blackness. The students all squinted and looked at the ceiling, trying to figure out who or what was strangling poor Colin. Hermione was the only one who acted. She drew her wand.
'Incen.' She began.
'Don't do that you stupid know-it-all, if you burn the rope all you're going to do is make Colin fall.' Draco said, moving the point of her wand away from the rope around Colin's neck.
Hermione just put her face in her hands and turned away.
'How can you all just stand there and watch this, there has to be something we can do!?' Hermione.
'Yeah, we can let him hang, or we can cause him to fall into darkness.' Draco sneered.
'That isn't funny Draco.' Pansy Parkinson, his fellow Slytherin said. 'Even if he is a pathetic Gryffindor, we have to be able to do something.'
Suddenly, the noise from the huge pit stopped, the group of them looked out to see Colin's limp body falling into the abyss, with a bright white tope trailing after him. In the further distance, the cage that was the only way out of the school until the doors were unlocked, also fell into the darkness.
'Great.' Draco said. 'Anybody else have any bright ideas of how to get out of here?
'Oww, that hurt!' he groaned.
'Well, you should learn not to barge into doors like that.' Hermione gloated.
'I'm just worried about the door, I don't think it should be locked like this.' Neville said.
'Obviously you're too thick to figure this our Longbottom, someone's attacking the school, so obviously the first things they would do is lock the doors.' Draco sneered.
'Well, there is another way out we could try.' Hermione said. 'Follow me..'
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The group of students travelled far into the dungeons, before they reached an area with a large metal cage being strung up over a huge black pit.
'What is this Hermione?' Harry asked, walking up to it.
'Honestly, this is our fifth year and none of you have read Hogwarts: A History, this is the emergency entrance out of Hogwarts. It magically levitates when someone is inside it, and it runs to the edge of the forbidden forest like it is on railroad tracks.'
'Cool, so who's going first?' Harry asked.
'I am.' Draco said, opening the cage.
'Not so fast.' Harry said, sticking an arm out. 'How about the fourth years go first, and then us?'
In a few minutes, most of the fourth year kids had gotten out of the school, it was finally Colin Creevey's turn to hop on the moving cage. He got in and closed the door behind him.
'I'll see you guys later.' He said.
The cage slid off slowly into the distance. Just as it got a fair distance away, a rope suddenly fell from the ceiling, and through the top of the cage, with a tiny noose in it.
The noosed slid around Colin's neck, and lifted him from the cage, leaving him hanging over blackness. The students all squinted and looked at the ceiling, trying to figure out who or what was strangling poor Colin. Hermione was the only one who acted. She drew her wand.
'Incen.' She began.
'Don't do that you stupid know-it-all, if you burn the rope all you're going to do is make Colin fall.' Draco said, moving the point of her wand away from the rope around Colin's neck.
Hermione just put her face in her hands and turned away.
'How can you all just stand there and watch this, there has to be something we can do!?' Hermione.
'Yeah, we can let him hang, or we can cause him to fall into darkness.' Draco sneered.
'That isn't funny Draco.' Pansy Parkinson, his fellow Slytherin said. 'Even if he is a pathetic Gryffindor, we have to be able to do something.'
Suddenly, the noise from the huge pit stopped, the group of them looked out to see Colin's limp body falling into the abyss, with a bright white tope trailing after him. In the further distance, the cage that was the only way out of the school until the doors were unlocked, also fell into the darkness.
'Great.' Draco said. 'Anybody else have any bright ideas of how to get out of here?