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Chapter 13They walked up a number of staircases and down many corridors.
Ron had never seen Hogwarts look so dark and evil before, almost every corridor they passed through Peter had to light his wand so that he could see where he was going. All the paintings that used to be on the walls were replaced by paintings of people being tortured and cursed.
Suddenly, Peter opened a door and the bright sunlight almost blinded Ron. He couldn't even hold up his hands to block the sun, since he was still chained to Hermione.
"We have some dirty, dirty, dirty work for you to do, none of the Death Eaters want to do it, it's highly dangerous," Peter said leading them out into the court yard and down the sloping hill where Hagrid's cabin…used to be.
"What have you done to Hagrid's cabin?" Hermione exclaimed.
In its place a type of green room was built, it was huge and fully made out of glass.
Peter pushed them inside the building and threw a few pieces of parchment at them, he muttered a spell to removed the chains and then he closed the door and locked it from the outside with his wand.
Hermione who was in front of him, stumbled onto the floor with Ron falling next to her.
Ron picked up one of the parchments, "What is this?" he asked looking at a horrifying picture of a humungous plant opening its mouth to engulf a wizard wearing a pointed hat.
"Get up Ron, get up!" Hermione exclaimed jumping to her feet, she grabbed his arm and pulled him to his feet.
Just as they pressed themselves onto the glass wall of the green room, small orange-red tendrils were coming out from the soil.
Ron looked at Hermione whose eyes were flying across the parchment reading the information as fast as possible.
"Hurry, Hermione…I think its body is coming out." Ron said, his eyes widened as he saw a mound of dirt rising from the ground like a gigantic wave. As the wave of soil moved higher and higher into the air, he saw that it was approaching closer to where he and Hermione were standing.
"This is mad! The plant that's underneath the soil can control-" Hermione stopped in mid-sentence and looked up at the wave that towered over them. She screamed.
Ron grabbed her hand and ran to the right side of the room, which were full of bushes, "W-what was that thing?" he asked trying to catch his breath.
"Florarthtrol plant, o-once the plant starts to emerge from the soil, it can control the soil that's on top of it. This only happens when the plant detects movement above the ground, the only way we can kill it is to let it take us into the soil with them, and then we have to poke it with some thorns from the Rosalyn plant, there should be one around here somewhere…" Hermione trailed off, pushing away the fine branches of the bushes that kept hitting her in the face.
"These are some violent plants." Ron observed struggling with one of the bushes that got hold of his hands, "We-can't-do-this-without-wands!" he exclaimed breaking free and keeping close to Hermione.
"Muggles do it without wands." Hermione stated stopping in front of a harmless looking rose plant.
Ron made his way in front of Hermione, "Let me get one for you." He said smiling down at her. He reached out to the plant to dislodge one of the roses when Hermione screamed out, "Ron! No!"
He turned around and looked at her quizzically, "What? Nothing happened!" he exclaimed exasperated by Hermione always warning him about everything, this plant couldn't do him anything, it was harmless.
Ron turned back to the rose and saw two beady yellow eyes gazing at him, slowly an orange tongue surfaced from the middle of the flower.
He took a few steps back, when he did that he realized that he shouldn't have, because the tongue zoomed out of the rose and made three circles around his neck, "Help!" he gasped, falling to his knees. The whole room started spinning, he couldn't breathe…he needed air…
Suddenly, his eyes came back into focus and a fresh wave of air rushed back into his lungs. He looked up and saw Hermione looking down at him sternly; her hands were placed on her hips.
Here comes the lecture, he thought as he rose to his feet.
"Why don't you ever listen to me? That thing could've killed you, Ron! If I hadn't pulled out some of the leaves from it's stem then you would've…w-would've…"
Ron saw her eyes quickly filling with tears, his heart raced. That's when he realized that she did really care about him, even if it was only as friends. He took her arm, led her away from that crazy plant, and gave her a hug.
"Why'd you have to pull out the leaves from the stem?" he asked curiously after a few seconds of silence.
Hermione looked up at him, her eyes were glistening, "The Rosalyn plant is very fragile, even though it has killing abilities. Once you hurt it by pulling out the leaves the plant forgets what it's doing and shrinks down into the ground until it heals itself and then it'll once again rise above the soil with new leaves." She explained.
"Thanks, Hermione. I don't know what I would do without you." He said hugging her tightly.
Hermione returned the hug just as tightly and then let go, "We better kill that plant, I think that's our main objective." She said looking down at the parchments.
"Wait…what's that in your hand?" Ron asked.
Hermione opened her fist to reveal about a dozen thorns, "We need these to kill the plant, I told you already."
"Oh, right…"
As they made their way back to the entrance of the green room an important question popped up in Ron's mind, "Um, Hermione? How are we supposed to breathe in the soil?"
Hermione stopped in her tracks, and then shuffled through the parchments, "I saw it here somewhere…"
Ron noticed a vine was ready to curl itself around Hermione's waist; he quickly lifted his foot and gave it a hard kick. The vine looked as if it were made out of glass because it just shattered into a million pieces.
Hermione was so into her reading that she barely noticed anything going on around her. Then, she looked up and said, "Well, naturally we can't breathe in the soil, but it says here that once we're in the plant they have a supply of oxygen which will allow us to breathe."
"What if we get stuck in the soil and we don't get into the plant?"
"We'll die."
Once they started walking, again Ron stopped again, "Hermione?"
She turned around, "What is it?"
He knew that his face must've turned crimson by now, he felt foolish saying what he was about to say, but he felt it was the right moment.
Hermione watched him expectantly.
"Don't ever leave me."
Ron saw Hermione's features soften, "Oh, Ron!" she exclaimed, "Don't worry, I never will."
With that said, Ron felt a hundred percent better, he knew that Hermione never broke any of her promises.
When they reached close to the entrance Ron felt the earth shaking beneath his feet, he looked behind and saw the wave building up again.
He felt Hermione grab onto his arm.
As the wave of soil towered over them, Ron felt bits of soil falling onto him. He gave Hermione a scared look.
In an explosion of dirt, the soil flew everywhere he felt something wrapping itself around his ankles. Then, swiftly he was pulled down into the dirt; he closed his mouth firmly not wanting to suffocate from inhaling the soil.
He felt pebbles scrapping against his face as he zoomed down lower into the ground, at one disgusting point he felt a worm enter one of his nostrils. He started choking on the soil; I don't think I'll make it…he thought.
Suddenly, felt himself being tugged hard and then thrown into an empty space, where he could actually breathe.
He opened his eyes, but it was completely dark, then he heard Hermione's screams from somewhere below.
"Hermi-" He started to scream back, but then he felt the thing he was standing on tilt upwards so that he was sliding down a slimy, wet tunnel.
"Oof!" He moaned when he landed on something sticky, "Hermione?" he said standing up, as his eyes adjusted slowly to the darkness he felt something take his hand.
He screamed.
"It's me!" Hermione said next to him.
He sighed, relieved. Then, he started coughing like mad, "I…think-I-ate-some-worms-on-my-way-here." He said pausing a few times to cough and breathe in some air. He coughed loudly and then he bended forward, he felt something slimy fall out of his mouth.
"Ron, are you okay?" Hermione asked, concerned.
"Don't worry about me." Ron said weakly, "I haven't gone this long without eating. And, when I meant I wanted to eat something I didn't mean worms!"
"Let me warn you that once I stick thorns in this plant we'll be flying out of here really fast." Hermione said.
Ron had no idea what she was doing since he couldn't see a thing, but he could hear a sound like something was spurting out of the plant; he guessed that happened every time she placed a thorn into it.
Suddenly, Ron felt the plant shaking, as if it were having a seizure. It kept jerking up and down and side-to-side.
"Ron, get ready." Hermione said.
He felt himself sliding down the tunnel again and then the plant jerked itself backwards and then forwards and that's when Ron felt himself flying.
He was flying through darkness at first, then moments later he was flying through the air, and then he slammed into the glass wall of the green room.
He slid down to the ground, completely exhausted.
Ron looked up and saw Hermione flying through the air; she hit the glass wall too and landed right next to him.
He looked at the plant and saw it danced around a few seconds before dropping to the ground completely motionless.
Ron looked at Hermione and said, "I-never-want-to-do-that-again."