Chapter Seven:

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On Tuesday morning, Hermione dressed in some stretch jeans and a simple pink baby tee with a grey sweatshirt on top. She brushed her hair back into a ponytail and went out to the common room. A roll of parchment was waiting for them next to the vase of orchids. Hermione unrolled it and read it. Draco came out of his room dressed in baggy jeans and a black t-shirt. He looked at the parchment in her hands and raised an eyebrow.

"What is it?"

"It says to meet Bon outside." Hermione said. Draco shrugged nonchalantly and frowned at her.

"Well? What are you waiting for?" He snapped. Hermione sighed and she turned and led the way outside. It seemed she might have been mistaken about Draco. It was annoying how he constantly changed her views of him. Sometimes she felt like they were getting along and could be friends and the next second he made some cutting remark and she was back to loathing him. She sighed again and looked up. Bon stood in front of a large doorway wearing a huge grin on his face.

"Good morning! Today you are going to do a very special exercise. Through this door are a series of magical, intellectual and physical obstacles. You will have to work through it together. Now this course hadn't been used for two or three centuries, back when it used to be a wizarding camp to help train the Triwizard contestants. However, I'm quite sure that it will still be in fine working order. However, if anything does go wrong send up some red sparks with your wands which I have brought for you." He handed them their wands then opened the door. Hermione and Draco stepped through. They found themselves in a large stone hallway with purple carpeting. The high ceilings were vaulted. Hermione turned around and found the door they had come through had disappeared. Hermione turned around and realized that the hallway extended for a while on both sides.

"Left of right?" She asked Draco. He looked both ways before shrugging indifferently.

"Whatever you want, mudblood." He sneered contemptuously. "You've done this sort of thing before haven't you? In the chamber of secrets. Poor, ordinary people like me haven't had that experience."

"You definitely aren't poor, Malfoy, and not at all ordinary. Though I would say your rather dim." She sighed softly to herself.

"What?"

"Nothing. Let's go this way." She said and pointed to the left. They walked a while before turning a corner and finding a blank wall made of the same stone as the others. Hermione was turning away when Draco caught her arm and turned her around. Words were forming on the stones.

"What walks on four legs, then three legs, then two legs?" Hermione read out loud. She almost laughed. She had probably read Sophocles's Oedipus a hundred times. "A man." She said. The stones parted revealing  a wall made of bricks. New letters were forming on the wall.

"What kills birds, flowers, kings and trees and brings high mountain to crumble down?" Draco read. He frowned then he smiled. "Time." He cried and the bricks parted to reveal an arched doorway with a wooden door. Draco tried it but it was locked. New words were forming on the door.

"Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters, toothless it bites and mouthless it mutters." Draco and Hermione read together. They turned to each other and grinned. This was easier than they expected.

"Wind." They said together and the door swung open. They walked through and Hermione skidded to a stop. Draco wasn't so lucky. He slipped and fell into the pond below soaking himself.

"Go on! Laugh! You're just a stupid female! You're all alike!" Draco cursed glaring at Hermione. Her eyes narrowed.

"For your information, I had no intention of laughing. You have a lot of nerve, Draco. You know what? Forget it. You can get out of here on your own! I'm tired of having to deal with a childish brat like you!" She cried. She walked away. She had already seen that the only deep part of the pond was the one Draco had landed in. She carefully walked towards the shadows on her left. She walked for a while. Suddenly she froze. She could hear a hissing breath.

"What Granger? Missing me already?" Draco taunted from faraway behind her. Hermione barely heard him, there was something moving in front of her. Slowly, she raised her eyes and screamed at the sight before her.