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At half past 11, Harry and Ron were preparing to go face Malfoy. Cameron asked to go along. Just in case Malfoy tried to cheat or something and brought Goyle along with Crabbe. Dan also asked to go.
"I want to see Harry bash Malfoy!" was all he would say. The 4 of them climbed down the stairs to the common room. They had almost reached the door when a voice rang out making everyone jump.
"I can't believe your going to do this, Harry" A lamp flickered on it was Hermione Granger, wearing a pink bathrobe and a frown. Cameron groaned he should have smelt an extra person in the area his instincts where telling him someone was in the room but did he listen to them? He hit his forehead with the palm of his hand for not paying attention to his instincts. Dan gave a snort hiding his laughter.
"Look- at- her- robe" he said small laughs traveling between the words. "Its pi- pi-pink" He turned to Hermione "nice robes" he said still snickering. Hermione glared at him.
"YOU!" Ron said, "Go back to bed"
"I almost told your brother, Percy… He's a perfect, he put a stop to this."
This girl is impossible Cameron thought there's no winning with her she's worse then a teacher!
"Come on" Harry said to Ron, Cameron, and Dan. He pushed open the portrait and climbed through the hole. Cameron had to hold a hand over Dan's mouth because he couldn't stop chuckling.
"Don't you care about Gryffindor? Do you only care about yourselves? I don't want Slytherin to win the house cup, and you'll lose all the points I got from Professor McGonagall for knowing about switching spells" Hermione had followed them.
"Oh ya and none of us have ever gotten any points." Cameron said sarcastically.
He had earned Gryffindor plenty of points not from Transfiguration but from Charms and Herbology.
"Not as many as I have" Hermione told him
"You're right, forgive my mistake. All bow down low for the all mighty point earner of Gryffindor may she reign long and without mercy to her low biding non point earning subjects we are not worthy to stand in your presence for our intelligence is no match to her majesty." Cameron said he grinned and bowed lowly to Hermione who glared at him and rolled her eyes. Harry, Ron, and Dan chuckled.
"Cameron I thought you'd have a little more sense and a little more maturity then this-" Hermione started to say,
"Go away" Dan said.
"All right but I warned you, you just remember what I said when you're on the train home tomorrow, you're so-" But Hermione didn't get to finish she turned to head back into Gryffindor and to her surprise. The Fat Lady was gone. She had gone on a nighttime visits and Hermione was locked out of Gryffindor. Dan doubled over in laughter. "Now what am I supposed to do?" she asked
"That's your problem" Ron said, "We've got to go we're going to be late" They hadn't even gone that far down the hall, when Hermione came up behind them.
"I'm coming with you," she said
"Oh no your not!" Cameron said
"You are not"
"Not in this life time" Dan said.
"Do you think I'm going to stand out here and wait for Filch to catch me? If he finds all 5 of us I'll tell him the truth that I was trying to stop you-"
"Why you Benedict Arnold! Ooops excuse me technically you'd be a Betty Arnold" Dan said loudly "you'd turn your fellow Gryffindors in to save your own skin? How low can one person sink?"
"-And you can back me up." Hermione finished ignoring Dan's comment Cameron glared at her,
"Yea we're going to be stupid enough to turn ourselves in just so you can get off Scot free? No way, it's your own fault for following us through the portrait! We didn't ask you to come with us did we?" he said.
"But is it my fault you wouldn't listen to me?" Hermione said
"You've some nerve-" Ron said loudly at the same time Dan said to Hermione
"I'm sorry I can't hear you! I'm not listening"
"Shut up all of you! I heard something," Harry said loudly
"Mrs. Norris?" Ron breathed squinting through the darkness. Cameron sniffed the air. No it wasn't Mrs. Norris; it wasn't a cat at all for that matter. It smelt human. Suddenly the smell registered with his brain.
"Wait a sec its Neville" Cameron said looking through the darkness. He could hear Neville's familiar snores; the others obviously didn't hear them. But Cameron's extra sensitive ears did. Neville had been curled up on the floor asleep. But woke up right away when they came near him.
"Thank goodness you found me! I've been out here for hours, I couldn't remember the new password to get in to bed." He said loudly. Cameron glanced nervously around, with all the noise they where making he was surprised McGonagall or Filch hadn't been up here to find out what was going on.
"Keep you voice down, Neville. The passwords 'Pig snout' but it wont help you now, the Fat Lady's gone off somewhere," Cameron told him.
"How's your arm?" Harry asked
"Fine, Madam Pomfrey mended it in about a minute."
"That's great Neville" Dan said
"Good…. well, look Neville, we've got to be somewhere, we'll see you later-" Harry started to say.
"Don't leave me!" Neville said, scrambling to his feet "I don't want to stay here alone, the Bloody Baron's been by twice already." They had no choice they had to bring Neville and Hermione.
"If either of you get us caught, I'll never rest until I've learned the Curse of the Bogies Quirrell told us about and used it on you," Hermione opened her mouth, probably to tell Ron exactly how to use the curse, but Harry hissed at her to be quiet. The followed Harry along the corridor, Cameron walked next to Harry, keeping all his sense on the alert. His ears picked up every little noise. Every corner Cameron smelt the air, hoping that if he did smell cat, it was Felicity, he'd be in big trouble if it wasn't. They reached the Trophy room; Malfoy and Crabbe weren't there. Cameron's instincts began telling him something wasn't right. The minutes crept by. Cameron turned to Harry to tell him he was sure the whole thing was a trick when someone came in the room and it wasn't Malfoy. It was Filch and Mrs. Norris.
"Sniff around my sweet, they might be lurking in a corner."
"This way" Harry mouthed to them and the crept down the gallery of suits of armor. They could hear Filch getting closer. Out of panic Neville let out a squeak and took off running, he tripped and grabbed Ron around the waist, they both toppled into a suit of armor, the noise was loud enough to wake up the whole school.
"RUN!" Harry shouted and the 6 of them took off running down the hall. They stopped outside Charms classroom.
"I think we lost him," Harry panted; Dan was leaning against the wall trying to catch his breath. He took a puff from his inhaler and sighed with relief.
"We've got to get back to Gryffindor tower, quickly as possible." Ron said and Cameron nodded in agreement. Hermione began lecturing Harry about Malfoy tricking them.
"Lets go" Harry said. They hadn't gone that far when a doorknob rattled and something came shooting out of a classroom in front of them. It was Peeves he caught sight of them and squealed with delight. Dan gave a groan, Peeves saw Dan and grinned evilly, they had all figured out that Peeves really didn't like Dan many of his practical jokes and such where aimed at Dan though they couldn't figure out why Peeves hated Dan so much.
"Shut up Peeves… Please…. You'll get us thrown out." Dan said Peeves cackled
"Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut naughty, naughty, you'll get caughtie."
"Not if you don't give us away, Peeves please," Cameron said
"Should tell Filch, I should" Peeves said in a saintly voice, which gave Cameron the chills. "It's for your own good, you know."
"Get out of the way!" Snapped Ron taking a swipe at Peeves, which was a big mistake.
"STUDENTS OUT OF BED!" Peeves bellowed "STUDENTS OUT OF BED DOWN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR!" Ducking under Peeves they ran until they slammed into a locked door.
"This is it! We're done for! This is the end!" Ron moaned They could hear footsteps; Filch was speeding towards Peeve's shouts. Hermione pushed them out of the way; she tapped the lock with her wand and said
"Alohomora" softly, the lock clicked and the door swung open.
"Nice one Hermione!" Cameron said as they piled into the room. They could hear Peeves arguing with Filch, then Filch getting mad at Peeves because Peeves wouldn't tell him which way they had gone. Neville began tugging on Harry's robe, Harry turned around to see what was wrong with Neville. He stared and tapped Ron's shoulder who tapped Cameron's who tapped Dan's who tapped Hermione's. They where in the Forbidden Corridor and Cameron decided the school had a very good reason for it being forbidden. They where looking straight into the face of monster of a dog, it took up the whole corridor. It had 3 heads all which where growling and snarling intently at them.
"ITS GODZILLA DOG!" Dan said loudly. They where between Filch and death by a dog, it looked at Cameron and between its snarls sniffed the air.
Oh this is great Cameron thought if I could transform I could talk to him and we can get out of here safe, but I cant transform in front of everybody it really scare everyone. I'd be breaking my promise to Dumbledore and Uncle Remus, plus Serena would er hurt me. If he gets to angry then I'll do it but not yet, I don't feel like being feared by everyone right now. Before Cameron could do anything, Harry opened the door and they all fell out of the room. Harry slammed the door shut and they ran down the corridor. They didn't stop till they had reached the Portrait of the Fat Lady on the 7th floor.
"Where on earth have you all been?" she asked staring at them.
"Never mind that-Pigs snout Pigs snout," Harry panted and she swung forward. They scrambled into the common room and collapsed into armchairs. Cameron sank to the floor leaning against one of the chairs. No one said anything for a moment, Neville looked as if he'd never talk again.
"What do they think they're doing? Keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?" Ron said breaking the silence. "If any dog needs exercise, that one does."
Harry turned to Dan.
"Dan you know about dogs, what was that thing?" he asked.
"That was a Cerberus 3 headed dog," Dan said in a serious tone "in Greek Mythology he guards the gates to the underworld for the Greek God Hades ruler of the underworld. He was supposedly a gift from Hercules after he completed his 12th task. Er that's a very long story so don't ask it'll take forever to tell trust me it would take a while. I've only seen pictures of him in my mythology books but that was definitely a Cerberus." Hermione glared at Dan, Cameron wasn't sure if it was because Dan had known something she hadn't, or because her temper was returning.
"You don't use your eyes, any of you, do you?" she snapped "didn't you see what it was standing on?"
"The floor?" Harry suggested, Cameron snickered "I wasn't looking at its feet, I was to busy with its heads."
"No, Not the floor. It was standing on a trapdoor its obviously guarding something."
"is there a echo in here or somthin, I just said that's what Cerberus are used for, guarding stuff. Important stuff. It's nearly impossible to get past them. Which is why they where such a prized procession of Hades. They prevented anyone from entering the Underworld because that was totally forbidden only the gods where permitted to visit the underworld and even then they had to get special permission from Hades. Cerberus also prevented anyone from leaving the dead I mean the dead went allowed to leave. And it is impossible to trick a Cerberus they're smart and powerful. They're the ultimate watch dog." Dan said he seemed please with himself that he knew something Hermione hadn't.
After glaring at Dan one more time Hermione stood up and glared at all of them.
"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could have all been killed…. Or worse expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed." Ron stared after her his mouth hanging open.
"No we don't mind, you'd think we dragged her along, wouldn't you." He said.
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So? Did you like? My favorite part of that is when Dan shouts 'GODZILLA DOG' That part still cracks me up. What about you tell me what you think, I'd love feedback and constructive criticism however flames will not be tolerated. *Bows* danke