Sorry about the long amount of time it took me for this chapter. I considered not writing this anymore because of the information we got in OoP but I decided to finish it, and then work on the rest of the series so that it's cannon.
A lot of inspiration for this came from "Heir Apparent" by Vivian Vande Velde. So sue me, but this chapter had a lot of stuff that she used. Not the doors, no that was the Matrix and Monsters Inc, but the poem bit.
Enjoy!
Chapter Twenty
Doors and Poems
The door way led into a long narrow passageway. Lily took the lead, followed by James. When they got to the next doorway Lily groaned at looked for a key.
"It's locked." She muttered to her friends.
"Have you tried a spell?" Karrie asked.
"Yes." Lily replied.
Peter looked down and saw a small bronze key. "Hey, look!" he bent down and picked it up. The door swung open.
"What did you do Pete?" Sirius asked.
"I just picked up this key." Peter said, looking scared.
"Well it worked." Lily said and the group trouped into the room.
But it wasn't really a room. it was a place where there were thousands of doors. They hung, floated, sank and bobbed all around the room.
Lily groaned and looked at her friends. "What do we do? Should we find the door that we go through? Can we open the other doors?"
The metallic voice said "You can only open two doors without all the areas behind the doors moving and switching. If the switch occurs, you will never get out."
Lily looked around. "Well then, we have to find a door that fits the key that Peter has."
Everyone stared at her. "How do you know?" Sirius asked.
"It's obvious, isn't it? The key didn't open the door out there, so it must fit one of these doors." Lily replied, looking around at the vast amount of doors.
"Well, it's a small lock that's probably bronze." James said.
the group split up and they began to wander around the room, the doors bobbing and moving in their wakes.
Peter stayed at the center of the room and looked from there.
Then he saw it. Tucked among a group of unusually large doors was a small door, so small it looked like it would be impossible to get into it, but Peter was sure it was the door they were looking for.
Moving carefully towards it Peter pulled out the key. He placed the key in the lock and turned it. The door swung open and Peter was scared for a moment that he had failed this, but then he saw a note laying on top of a button.
You must press this button, and remain holding onto it, for the door to the next chamber to open.
Peter yelled to his friends. "I FOUND IT!"
The group hurried over to the doorway, but none of them could fit through the door. "This can't be it Peter." Remus said, looking worried.
"It is, but it means I have to stay here." Peter looked nervous. "When I press that button a door will come open and it should lead to the next chamber. You have to keep the button held down and since I'm the only one who is small enough to fit in here, it has to be me."
"No." Lily said. "We don't know if you come out at the end!"
"Well, I'm assuming that since we're on the easiest level of this spell, we will all be aloud to get out at the end." Peter said, his voice was unusually high and he was shaking slightly.
"Peter no." James said.
"Peter's right." Arabella said sadly. "I'm too big to fit in there and you boys aren't either, Lily has to continue and Karrie's to big too. It has to be Peter. Or else we won't get out."
The group all looked terrified.
"I'm going to press the button, you get out of here as soon as it opens." Peter said, his voice shaking slightly.
Finally they agreed and all said goodbye to Peter.
Peter, shaking slightly, pressed the button and a door opened suddenly overhead.
It zoomed down to in front of the group and opened. Looking back once, the group hurried through the door. It slammed shut behind them and Peter let go of the button. He ran to the door and opened it. A field of grass and flowers was ahead of him, closing the door he moved over to the small door and looked into it. It was a mountain. Crying slightly Peter sat down on the ground and curled up, scared.
The next chamber was dimly lit and the group looked around for instruction. A small, old woman scuttled towards them. "Welcome to Sir Alexavier's Hall." She said in a screeching voice. "I have been instructed to take you in one at a time."
A nasty grin crossed her face as she looked at the group.
"And what are we doing?" Lily asked.
"Reciting poetry!" the old woman screeched with laughter.
The group exchanged glances. "Does it have to be poetry that already exists?" Sirius asked, looking worried.
"You have to make it up!" the old woman screeched again in laughter.
Lily looked taken aback, but she offered to go first. The old woman limped down the hall until they reached a cave like place. "If you don't make it up, or if he doesn't like your poem, he'll chop off your head." The old woman shrieked and hurried into a corner.
Lily turned to look at the Knight. It was just a suit of armor. Frowning, Lily thought quickly.
"There once was a knight
who traveled the lands afar
but when came the night
he would run to the—bazaar!"
Lily said. the old woman ducked, but the sword at Sir Alexavier's sword didn't come up.
"He must be in a very good mood." The woman looked slightly disappointed.
Lily sighed.
"You stay here, I'll go get your friend." The woman limped off and returned with Sirius, who was looking terrified.
"Dew drops down from high heights
falling quickly
in their flight
towards the ground covered thickly."
Sirius looked nervously at the sword, but he too was aloud to join Lily.
Arabella was next. She smiled at the suit of armor and then began to recite a long poem:
You are a faceless person
You have no feelings
You have no nose, lips
You have no eyes to see
You are a faceless person
All white and like a ghost
How can I say good bye to my country
With you behind me?
You are a faceless person
You were never real
You can't smell the stench
You have no feelings to tell
You are a faceless person
You don't know our pain
You sit on the deck
With the sun beating down
You are a faceless person
Under the deck all day
Chained to your brother
Who has no face I can see
You are a faceless person
You sit in the fresh air
You have weapons
And beat us, my brothers and sisters and me
You are a faceless person
I can't see the pain in your eyes
You have no eyes
Not on a faceless person
You are a faceless person
So I don't need to know about you
You are a faceless person
So why would I care who you are?
The old woman didn't even crouch, but brought Arabella over to Sirius and Lily.
"How did you do that Arabella?" Sirius asked.
"I write poetry sometimes." She replied. Sirius looked at her, his eyes glassy with admiration.
James was next.
"Who wants to be alone?
I do, I do.
Who wants the rains to move them into the ground?
I do, I do.
Who wants to be alone?
I do, I do.
Who wants the world to come crashing down?
I do, I do.
Who wants to be alone?
I don't."
The old woman crouched slightly, but then led James over to the group. "I think Sir Alexavier likes rhyming poetry. We just had two in a row that weren't." Lily muttered to James as he joined them.
"Oh." James looked abashed.
Karrie stepped into the light.
"From unknown lands
She came.
Her hair a raven black,
Her eyes to match the sky
Princess of another land, come to attack
The dark lord
Was she
The Daughter of the Night"
She looked worried, but the old woman led her to the group and left.
Karrie looked like she was going to cry. "It's so scary right up there." she mumbled.
Remus came up. he smiled slightly and began.
"When the moon is full
the call of the wolf aboard
can be heard among the wool
and watch the sheep for the maul
that may come from the terrible hurt
that is a werewolf.
Remus walked over to the group and they all looked at each other. "You ready to go?" Lily asked in a squeaky voice.
They all nodded and Lily led the way through the door, leaving Sir Alexavier and his crazy woman behind them.
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