The library was twice as big as Gringotts, including the underground
tunnels. It was painted a bright gold, and had tunnels that led to
different areas of the library. Harry doubted you could see the whole
place in one day, and he wondered why he never saw the place before. All
in all, Hary thought it looked like a fancy hamster cage.
Ron rushed forward to the doors, but they wouldn't budge, and when he rang the fancy bell, he flew from the door so fast, when he hit the wall on the other side of the street, he bounced back off.
"Ricochet Curse" Ginny muttered.
Neville approached the great pearly white doors, and pulled out his wand.
"Neville, no!"
"You can't use magic!"
"It's propably booby trapped!"
But Neville listened to none of them. "Alohomor---"
All of a sudden, a great hairy hand reached down and snatched up Neville's wand before he could utter any more.
"HAGRID!" Everyone screamed. Even Neville seemed relieved.
"Yep! Jus' thought I might try an' warn ya. Dumbledore put a certain charm on the door. It's sorta the prelimanaries for the tournament. Ya gotta get in this here library, without usin' one bit of magic."
With that, Hagrid handed Neville back his wand, and ran off before anyone could speak.
"Sure wish Hermione was here." Ron said.
"Wow. I never thought I would see the day Ron Weasly wanted me here."
Once again, everyone screamed out a name in excitment, but this time, the words were aimed at Hermione.
"Hermione! What are you doing here? I thought your family was in an Asian Dentures Soceity Meeting!"
"It let out early, so I decided I'd come by here to pick up my family's crest. But I've been doing some research, and that library isn't a library. It's a maze. At the end of the maze is a book with every family's crest in it. Unfortunately, if you already know your family's crest, you have a free ride. This maze is to see who can survive in a maze with some pretty powerful things without doing magic. The only way in is to put your wand in the book check in slot. Once you put your wand in the slot, the door will open and let you through.
"How do you know?"
"Erm... I took a job at Hogwarts and Albus told me to---"
"Albus?" Ron asked. "Since when did you call Profesor Dumbldore Albus?"
"For your information Ron, he told me to think of him as my boss, not my headmaster." Hermione snapped. "Now if you dont mind, he told me to clean up his office and, erm, uh, I sort of looked in his pensieve and I saw him planning the tournament, but all I saw of it was the maze because I was on a time limit. I just recently left the job since their are only five days left of holidays." And with that, Hermione walked forward, put her wand in the slot, and the door creaked open. "Are you going join me?" she asked, turning to face the others.
Quickly, Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Neville stepped forward and put there wand in the slot. Then, following Hermione's lead, they stepped through the doors. Immediatly, after all five of them stepped through the door, the pearly white doors slammed shut, cutting out the outside world.
The inside of the Maze was even more increible than the outside, with it's wide, gleaming tunnels, and as Harry turned to Ron to comment on the sheer incredibility of the maze, he noticed that the rest of the group was missing. He should've realized that they wouldn't be allowed to travel the maze as a group. Swearing to himself, Harry walked down a hallway.
As Harry walked down the hallway, he noticed that things were growing taller. Up ahead, Harry saw a fork in the hallway. He began to run, hoping to get out of the maze before dark. But Harry stumbled and tripped. As he got up, he noticed his clothes were sagging so badly, he could barely hold them up. He also seemed to be less physically cordinated, it was difficult for him to even ball his hand into a fist to pull his clothes up. As Harry stood up, he noticed he was extremely wobbly, as if his legs could barely hold up the weight of his body. Harry took of his glasses, and peered into them. What Harry saw when he looked at his reflection in the glasses was enough to make anyone faint. Harry was looking into the face of a little baby, not more than a year old!
"A Time Reversing Spell..." The hallway... the farther down it he walked, the younger he got. Reluctantly, Harry turned around and began heading the other way. When he got to the begining of the hall, Harry had once again become fifteen years old... with a pang of realization, Harry remembered he would be sixteen tomorow. Harry headed down another hall and found himself in a tunnel. As Harry walked in the tunnel, he noticed he was going up. When he got out of the tunnel, Harry saw two things that surprised him. One was a pheonix was sitting on the left side of the room, and the second was two witches standing on the right side. As Harry walked forward, a piece of parchment appeared out of midair. On it it said: The Pheonix will take you where to the half point, and the two witches will each give you two clues; however, one speaks only lies, and one tells only the truth. You may only choose to consult either the pheonix or the witches. Not both.
Harry was confused, but finally decided to recieve the info from the witches. As he approached them, many things happened quickly and unexpectedly. Immediatly, the pheonix took off the room span around and many doors appeared out of nowhere.
The witch on the left said, "Take the second door, but do not trust my sister."
The witch on the right said, "Take the ninth door, but do not trust my sister."
Both witches at the same time said, "All the wrong doors will lead you to a dead end. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" And with that, both witches dissapeared.
Harry walked up to the ninth door and said, "Please let this be it." Harry stepped through the door and with a bang, something catapaulted him forward. A giant book loomed ahead of him. Just as soon as he started, he stopped. The book opened up by itself and flipped to a page with a robe on it. Harry picked up the robe and unfolded it. Stamped across the front of it was a crest of two stags crossing antlers. Harry had won! He was so excited. The giant book dissapeared and in its place stood a door. Harry opened it up and walked outside. He was in front of the maze again.
"That whole thing was luck" Harry thought. Exausted, Harry trudged to his room, put his duel robe in his trunk, and collapsed on his bed, letting sleep overtake him.
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The next day, Harry awoke to a bird sitting outside on his windowsill. It was very pleasent, however, Harry's Firebolt was missing. Figuring Ron had taken it out, He walked downstairs for breakfast. There he saw Ron and Hermione sitting at table eating hash browns and toast. "Where's Neville and Ginny?" Harry asked.
"Er..."
"Well..."
"You see... Neville made it out just fine, but Ginny, well, lets just say Mum and Dad still can't fix her."
"Oh Harry, I almost forgot. Here's your wand. You must have left in such a hurry yesterday that you forgot to pick it up." Hermione handed Harry his wand. All of a sudden, someone let out an earsplitting shriek. Harry looked over his shoulder to see Mr. and Mrs. Weasly playing with a baby.
"Ginny." Ron explained.
Harry felt a pang of guilt for leaving so fast and without checking on the others.
"So Harry, Happy Birthday!" Ron said finally, handing Harry a gift and card. With the air of a two year old, Harry ripped open the card.
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Happy Birthday. I hope you like what I got you, as it was extremely expensive, but don't worry about it, because I've taken a summer job at the twin's store to help pay it off.
-Ron
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Harry took off the wrapping paper to reveal a rather small box, about the size of a snitch.
"Go on Harry, tap it with your wand!"
Even Hermione looked interested. Harry brought his wand down on top of the box and let it sit for a few seconds, until the box began to glow. It then grew to the size of a bookbag. Harry saw a latch on it, and when he undid it, he saw enough room in it to put his firebolt in.
"A portable trunk. You can put all your class things in it, and carry it around in your pocket. They're dead useful."
"Thanks!" Blushing, Hermione slid a long, thin package to Harry. Harry ripped off the paper and to his surprise, saw a broomstick.
"I'm sorry Harry, but recently, I've been reading up on broom enhancements, and I knew you wouldn't agree to having me run a series of tests on it, so I snuck up there this morning. Well, even you would be proud of the job I've done on it. You see, the firebolt has a series of interesting faults, such as, on a Nimbus 2001, it takes aproximately three seconds to reach ninety feet in the air, and on a Firebolt, it takes nearly ten seconds to reach the same height! Not to mention, in dives, there are almost twice as many crashes a year because of dives on a Firebolt, than a Cleansweep 7! So now, your new broom, (She renamed it ofcourse) the Lightningrazor, can go from zero to one hundred MPH in two seconds, and it can reach a max altitude of, well, I'm not really sure, becaues before Fred and George got up to the highest it go, they passed out from thin air, so I think you can imagine how high it can go."
With her last words, Hermione smiled at herself.
"Wow... thanks Hermione!"
"So Harry," Ron asked, "Can I have a go at it later?"
"Ofcourse you can."
Just then, Errol flew into the dining area, looking completely ruffled. Ron had to pry the letter from it's beak to get it to let go. Ron read out loud so everyone could hear.
Students of Hogwarts; due to muggles accidentally wandering onto platform 9 3/4, the train will not run this year. Instead, you will be arriving at Hogwarts by way of a ski-lift. Included in this letter is a map of britian and the ski-lift stations. Tomorrow, at 5:00 A.M. ,you will travel to the nearest set ski-lift station. There will be two to a seat. Happy end of holiday's. Minerva McGonagle.
Harry looked up at Ron. "Five in the morning?"
Ron rushed forward to the doors, but they wouldn't budge, and when he rang the fancy bell, he flew from the door so fast, when he hit the wall on the other side of the street, he bounced back off.
"Ricochet Curse" Ginny muttered.
Neville approached the great pearly white doors, and pulled out his wand.
"Neville, no!"
"You can't use magic!"
"It's propably booby trapped!"
But Neville listened to none of them. "Alohomor---"
All of a sudden, a great hairy hand reached down and snatched up Neville's wand before he could utter any more.
"HAGRID!" Everyone screamed. Even Neville seemed relieved.
"Yep! Jus' thought I might try an' warn ya. Dumbledore put a certain charm on the door. It's sorta the prelimanaries for the tournament. Ya gotta get in this here library, without usin' one bit of magic."
With that, Hagrid handed Neville back his wand, and ran off before anyone could speak.
"Sure wish Hermione was here." Ron said.
"Wow. I never thought I would see the day Ron Weasly wanted me here."
Once again, everyone screamed out a name in excitment, but this time, the words were aimed at Hermione.
"Hermione! What are you doing here? I thought your family was in an Asian Dentures Soceity Meeting!"
"It let out early, so I decided I'd come by here to pick up my family's crest. But I've been doing some research, and that library isn't a library. It's a maze. At the end of the maze is a book with every family's crest in it. Unfortunately, if you already know your family's crest, you have a free ride. This maze is to see who can survive in a maze with some pretty powerful things without doing magic. The only way in is to put your wand in the book check in slot. Once you put your wand in the slot, the door will open and let you through.
"How do you know?"
"Erm... I took a job at Hogwarts and Albus told me to---"
"Albus?" Ron asked. "Since when did you call Profesor Dumbldore Albus?"
"For your information Ron, he told me to think of him as my boss, not my headmaster." Hermione snapped. "Now if you dont mind, he told me to clean up his office and, erm, uh, I sort of looked in his pensieve and I saw him planning the tournament, but all I saw of it was the maze because I was on a time limit. I just recently left the job since their are only five days left of holidays." And with that, Hermione walked forward, put her wand in the slot, and the door creaked open. "Are you going join me?" she asked, turning to face the others.
Quickly, Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Neville stepped forward and put there wand in the slot. Then, following Hermione's lead, they stepped through the doors. Immediatly, after all five of them stepped through the door, the pearly white doors slammed shut, cutting out the outside world.
The inside of the Maze was even more increible than the outside, with it's wide, gleaming tunnels, and as Harry turned to Ron to comment on the sheer incredibility of the maze, he noticed that the rest of the group was missing. He should've realized that they wouldn't be allowed to travel the maze as a group. Swearing to himself, Harry walked down a hallway.
As Harry walked down the hallway, he noticed that things were growing taller. Up ahead, Harry saw a fork in the hallway. He began to run, hoping to get out of the maze before dark. But Harry stumbled and tripped. As he got up, he noticed his clothes were sagging so badly, he could barely hold them up. He also seemed to be less physically cordinated, it was difficult for him to even ball his hand into a fist to pull his clothes up. As Harry stood up, he noticed he was extremely wobbly, as if his legs could barely hold up the weight of his body. Harry took of his glasses, and peered into them. What Harry saw when he looked at his reflection in the glasses was enough to make anyone faint. Harry was looking into the face of a little baby, not more than a year old!
"A Time Reversing Spell..." The hallway... the farther down it he walked, the younger he got. Reluctantly, Harry turned around and began heading the other way. When he got to the begining of the hall, Harry had once again become fifteen years old... with a pang of realization, Harry remembered he would be sixteen tomorow. Harry headed down another hall and found himself in a tunnel. As Harry walked in the tunnel, he noticed he was going up. When he got out of the tunnel, Harry saw two things that surprised him. One was a pheonix was sitting on the left side of the room, and the second was two witches standing on the right side. As Harry walked forward, a piece of parchment appeared out of midair. On it it said: The Pheonix will take you where to the half point, and the two witches will each give you two clues; however, one speaks only lies, and one tells only the truth. You may only choose to consult either the pheonix or the witches. Not both.
Harry was confused, but finally decided to recieve the info from the witches. As he approached them, many things happened quickly and unexpectedly. Immediatly, the pheonix took off the room span around and many doors appeared out of nowhere.
The witch on the left said, "Take the second door, but do not trust my sister."
The witch on the right said, "Take the ninth door, but do not trust my sister."
Both witches at the same time said, "All the wrong doors will lead you to a dead end. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" And with that, both witches dissapeared.
Harry walked up to the ninth door and said, "Please let this be it." Harry stepped through the door and with a bang, something catapaulted him forward. A giant book loomed ahead of him. Just as soon as he started, he stopped. The book opened up by itself and flipped to a page with a robe on it. Harry picked up the robe and unfolded it. Stamped across the front of it was a crest of two stags crossing antlers. Harry had won! He was so excited. The giant book dissapeared and in its place stood a door. Harry opened it up and walked outside. He was in front of the maze again.
"That whole thing was luck" Harry thought. Exausted, Harry trudged to his room, put his duel robe in his trunk, and collapsed on his bed, letting sleep overtake him.
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The next day, Harry awoke to a bird sitting outside on his windowsill. It was very pleasent, however, Harry's Firebolt was missing. Figuring Ron had taken it out, He walked downstairs for breakfast. There he saw Ron and Hermione sitting at table eating hash browns and toast. "Where's Neville and Ginny?" Harry asked.
"Er..."
"Well..."
"You see... Neville made it out just fine, but Ginny, well, lets just say Mum and Dad still can't fix her."
"Oh Harry, I almost forgot. Here's your wand. You must have left in such a hurry yesterday that you forgot to pick it up." Hermione handed Harry his wand. All of a sudden, someone let out an earsplitting shriek. Harry looked over his shoulder to see Mr. and Mrs. Weasly playing with a baby.
"Ginny." Ron explained.
Harry felt a pang of guilt for leaving so fast and without checking on the others.
"So Harry, Happy Birthday!" Ron said finally, handing Harry a gift and card. With the air of a two year old, Harry ripped open the card.
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Happy Birthday. I hope you like what I got you, as it was extremely expensive, but don't worry about it, because I've taken a summer job at the twin's store to help pay it off.
-Ron
**************************************************************************** ******
Harry took off the wrapping paper to reveal a rather small box, about the size of a snitch.
"Go on Harry, tap it with your wand!"
Even Hermione looked interested. Harry brought his wand down on top of the box and let it sit for a few seconds, until the box began to glow. It then grew to the size of a bookbag. Harry saw a latch on it, and when he undid it, he saw enough room in it to put his firebolt in.
"A portable trunk. You can put all your class things in it, and carry it around in your pocket. They're dead useful."
"Thanks!" Blushing, Hermione slid a long, thin package to Harry. Harry ripped off the paper and to his surprise, saw a broomstick.
"I'm sorry Harry, but recently, I've been reading up on broom enhancements, and I knew you wouldn't agree to having me run a series of tests on it, so I snuck up there this morning. Well, even you would be proud of the job I've done on it. You see, the firebolt has a series of interesting faults, such as, on a Nimbus 2001, it takes aproximately three seconds to reach ninety feet in the air, and on a Firebolt, it takes nearly ten seconds to reach the same height! Not to mention, in dives, there are almost twice as many crashes a year because of dives on a Firebolt, than a Cleansweep 7! So now, your new broom, (She renamed it ofcourse) the Lightningrazor, can go from zero to one hundred MPH in two seconds, and it can reach a max altitude of, well, I'm not really sure, becaues before Fred and George got up to the highest it go, they passed out from thin air, so I think you can imagine how high it can go."
With her last words, Hermione smiled at herself.
"Wow... thanks Hermione!"
"So Harry," Ron asked, "Can I have a go at it later?"
"Ofcourse you can."
Just then, Errol flew into the dining area, looking completely ruffled. Ron had to pry the letter from it's beak to get it to let go. Ron read out loud so everyone could hear.
Students of Hogwarts; due to muggles accidentally wandering onto platform 9 3/4, the train will not run this year. Instead, you will be arriving at Hogwarts by way of a ski-lift. Included in this letter is a map of britian and the ski-lift stations. Tomorrow, at 5:00 A.M. ,you will travel to the nearest set ski-lift station. There will be two to a seat. Happy end of holiday's. Minerva McGonagle.
Harry looked up at Ron. "Five in the morning?"
