CHAPTER 7

BACK TO WORK

The next few months passed uneventfully, Christmas came and went, and Ron and Hermione were still together and as much in love as they ever were. Harry and Ginny were also still together, and they were now engaged, Harry had asked Ginny to marry him on Christmas day, and Ginny accepted naturally, as she had loved Harry since she had first seen him.

It was a Friday and their first lesson on a Friday, was double potions with the Slytherins. This lesson Snape was in a particularly vindictive mood and he assigned them all a 10,000 word essay to be done by Monday on the brewing and uses of Love potions. Harry, Ron and Hermione all had plans for most of the weekend which mainly consisted of going to Hogsmeade getting drunk and having fun. So they all decided that they would go to the library after dinner that night and research the potions, they would take Harrys invisibility cloak so that they could stay as long as took to finish the essays, so they would have a free weekend.

After dinner that night Harry walked up to his room and took his invisibility cloak out of his drawer and put it in his rucksack, before heading to the library where Ron and Hermione would be waiting for him. Once the three were in the library they worked until the library was about to close for the night, then they threw the invisibility cloak over them and waited for Madam Pince to leave the Library, before they uncovered themselves and started back to work again.

''I've nearly finished, how about you two, mine should only take an hour more, at the most.'' stated Hermione.

''Yeah, we are nearly finished too.'' Harry replied, answering for them both.

Once they had all finished their essays it was around midnight and they walked towards the library door, waited for Hermione to perform the Alohomora charm to unlock it and they left the library and started walking very slowly and quietly up to the Gryffindor common room.

They were around by the entrance to the dungeons when they heard it, a high-pitched, piercing scream coming from the dungeons. They threw the invisibility cloak off their heads, pulled out their wands and ran down into the dungeons to see what was making that racket. They weren't afraid as by now they had all faced their worst fears and survived them, so they didn't even think what maybe happening in the dungeons as they ran at full speed into the dark shadows.

They saw a light shining from under the doorway to Snapes class room, everywhere else was dark and peaceful, so they thought that that was were the screaming probably came from. Harry walked up to the door and leaned his head against it to see if there was any sound being made in the room. He could hear a slight mumbling sound as though someone was trying to talk but couldn't. Ron whispered to Harry that they should go in and leave Hermione outside to look out but Hermione disagreed straight away. ''I'm quite capable of looking after myself Ron Weasley.'' So they all entered Snapes classroom and none of them would've expected what they saw as they walked into the brightly lit classroom.

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