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Chapter 13 ~ Tricked

'Where is he?' Parvati bellowed, charging into the Gryffindor common room. She didn't see Hermione or Neville around.

Parvati had been searching for Neville for three days now with no success. She had finally snapped, charging into the Gryffindor common room, terrorising younger year levels.

'Parvati, are you okay?' Dean asked timdly. 'Who are you looking for?'

'Neville,' Parvati snapped.

'We haven't seen him, he hasn't been to classes or anything, don't know where he's gone.' Seamus piped up. This seemed to make Parvati even angrier.

'I suggest to you, that the next time you see him, bring him to me,'

'Why would we do that, Parvati?' Seamus asked cheerfully. 'Why are you looking for him anyway?'

'That, is none of your business, I simply need to talk to him, and I know that he's avoiding me!' Parvati said, trying desperately not to lose her head.

'We haven't seen Ron or Ginny Weasley lately either, I think there might be some conspiracy going on around here,' Dean thought out loud.

'You could be on to something there, Dean,' Seamus said. At that point in time, Hermione entered the Gryffindor common room through the special entrance from the Hogwarts common room. She took one look at Parvati, and tried to slip back without her noticing Hermione's presence, but Parvati was too quick, using some wandless magic to stop Hermione from escaping.

'Hermione Granger,' Parvati said slowly, sauntering over to where Hermione was frozen to the floor. Her feet had been glued to the carpet by Parvati's magic.

'What do you want, Parvati?' Hermione asked, struggling to gte herself free.

'Struggle all you like, Hermione, you'll not get free unless I want you to, and right now, I think I'll leave you there, infact, I think I'll leave you there until you give me Neville,' Parvati said.

'That's blackmail!' Seamus called out from across the room.

'I know that,' Parvati snapped, and turned back to Hermione. 'You'll miss classes, you'll miss important meetings with the other prefects and Malfoy, you may even have your badge taken away,' She sneered. 'Is protecting Neville Longbottom really worth losing all that?'

Hermione whimpered. Parvati had her trapped, and she wasn't going anywhere until she agreed to give up Neville.

'What do you want with Neville anyway? Why is it so important that you - that you talk to him? You've never liked him anyway, why do you now pay so much attention to him?' Hermione asked.

'My business is my own, just call me when you're ready to give him up,' Parvati said, with that she turned and stormed out of the Gryffindor common room. Hermione whimpered, but she knew that she couldn't give up Neville.

'Hermione,' Phillip walked out from the shaddows.

'Phillip, what are you doing here?'

'I came to talk to my friends, but it seems I got more than I bargained for, are you okay? What curse did she use on you?'

'I'm not entirely sure, it was wandless magic, I know nothing about wandless magic,' Hermione said softly.

'Me neither,' Phillip said sadly. 'But we have to get you out, you can't miss classes, or your Head Girl duties,'

'What do you propose we do?' Hermione asked. A smile formed across Phillip's face.

'I have a plan, I'll be right back,' He said, and rushed past Hermione down the stairs headed towards the Hogwarts common room.

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'Parvati!' Hermione yelled, not knowing how she would hear the calls, but surely, there Parvati was, stalking through the entrance to the Gryffindor common room.

'I take it you have Neville?' She asked.

'Yeah, he should be coming down the stairs, um, right now,' Hermione said, pointing at the boys staircase, showing Neville walking down the stairs timidly. He looked over at Hermione.

'How could you, Hermione?' He said in a weak voice.

'Sorry, Neville, I hope you can forgive me,' Hermione replied. Parvati released Hermione from the carpet and grabbed Neville, dragging him out of the Gryffindor common room, and, Hermione assumed, down to her cave.

Hermione slipped down the stairs, past the portrait of Godric Gryffindor and through the door into the Hogwarts common room. Allison and Mitchell were in there, along with the two Slytherin prefects, Samantha and Joel. Ginny was inprisoned by Parvati, and Phillip was no where to be found. The two Ravenclaw prefects, Tony and Luna, were out on the Quidditch Pitch training with their house team as both prefects were on their team.

'Hi,' Hermione said as she came in and sat down.

'Hey Hermione, how are you?' Mitchell asked.

'I'm okay, I've been better,' Hermione answered.

'That's not good, what's wrong?' Allison asked.

'Parvati is out to kill me, I guess that's most of it,' Hermione told them. This came as a shock to the Hufflepuffs, but the two Slytherins sniggered.

'Petty feud between former friends,' Joel jeered. Allison shot him a look.

'This isn't something to joke about, Joel,' Allison warned. Joel and Samantha laughed at her, and they both rose and went up the stairs to their rooms.

'Well that was rude,' Mitchell huffed.

~***~

Neville hung from a cage next to Ron, Ginny being on the other side of Ron. Lavender stared up at the three Gryffindors as she paced the cave. Parvati and Anivatria were rarely ever there anymore, they were always out prowling, invisible of course. Harry had left his invisibility cloak to Parvati, big mistake. She had made a duplicate of it, and now both Parvati and Anivatria had working invisibility cloaks.

'And so the collection grows, pretty soon you will be joined by more Gryffindors, and one Slytherin,' Lavender jeered up at the three. 'Ah, Neville, the latest addition to our collection,' Lavender stared up at him. Suddenly, something quite unexpected happened. Neville began to change, he lost a considerable amount of weight, his hair grew thicker and shinier, his eyes changed, and the tone of his skin changed, until sitting in the cage was not Neville, but Phillip. Lavender gasped.

'Hi, Lavender,' Phillip said cheerfully.

'You little weasle!' Lavender screeched. 'Just wait until Parvati sees! She'll hound Hermione, you wait, you'll be sorry you ever helped her! It's okay, we'll just murder you too!'

Phillip's face turned from cheerful to horrified.

'Murder?' He asked timidly. Lavender cocked her head.

'Did Hermione neglect to tell you when she sent you off to pretend to be Neville? We're collecting friends of Hermione's to kill while she watches, no matter, you may have bought Neville some time, but we will get him,' Lavender informed him. Phillip looked over at Ron.

'Is it true?' He asked softly. Ron nodded slowly. 'So you're saying that we're going to die after Parvati collects all of Hermione's friends?'

'That just about sums it all up,' Ron said.

'Sucks, doesn't it,' Ginny called across to Phillip. 'It means they'll have to find two new prefects for Gryffindor, I can't even begin to imagine Maria, Julia, Cassandra or Sigma being prefects!'

'This has to be some sort of joke,' Phillip said, laughing a little bit, 'Doesn't it?'

'Afraid not buddy,' Ron said. 'They're for real, you saw how mad Parvati is with Hermione, this is her sick way of getting revenge on her for getting too close to Malfoy,'

'You're kidding? That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!' Phillip cried.

'I can't imagine Colin, Alistair or Drew being prefects either,' Ginny said carelessly.

'Yeah, that's what I thought too, but I've been here for nearly two weeks, she's for real,' Ron replied.

'Well, maybe Alistair… nah, he's always running around with Colin getting into trouble,' Ginny muttered.

'Ginny would you shut up!' Phillip cried suddenly. 'This happens to be our lives we're talking about here!' Ginny shut up.

'You're quite right, Mr Cassady, this is your lives you are bargaining with here,' Parvati and Anivatria had returned. Phillip looked down at them, seeing Anivatria for the first time. He was amazed by how beautiful she was, but then reminded himself that she was the enemy. 'Quite a clever stunt you pulled, using Polyjuice Potion, pretending to be Longbottom,' Parvati went on. 'Never matter, we'll get Neville sooner or later, you'll see,'

'You can't just go around killing people, or holding them in cages in your cave!' Phillip yelled down at her.

'Watch me,' Parvati said icily. She turned to Anivatria. 'Neville can wait, he is obviously being protected by Hermione, get Dean and Seamus now,' Anivatria nodded, and swept out of the cave. Phillip frowned.

'You can't do that to people!'

'I am,'

'Someone's bound to notice that people are going missing! They'll put two and two together and it will all trace back to you,' Phillip threatened.

'That's fine, because no one knows where this place is,' Parvati said smugly.

'They can follow you here,' Ron mentioned.

'Shut up Weasley, did I ask you?' Parvati snapped, and turned back to Phillip. 'I just have one question, which is why I didn't think to check for polyjuice potion before, how did you manage to get some so quickly?'

'Well, let's just say I pulled some strings with Professor Snape,' Phillip said. Parvati scowled.

'Parvati, what do you want me to do with them while you're out getting Dean and Seamus?' Lavender asked.

'Just watch them, and don't listen to anything they say, they will try anything to get you to turn soft, so make sure you don't,' Parvati turned and walked out of the cave.

Lavender looked back up at the three cages.

'Don't waste your breath by trying to talk me into letting you go, I'm not going to listen to anything you say,' Lavender pouted, and put a pair of earmuffs on.

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~Gryffindor Gal~