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Chapter 7: The Mummy is Released Again

It was midnight and Everyone was sleeping in their own dormitory. That is except for one boy. Ronald Weasley, was not able to sleep, because he was thinking about a bushy-haired-know-it-all-book-worm. Why, he didn't know.

He jumped out of bed and put on his bathrobe. He started down the stairs, not really knowing where he was going. But a sudden noise had stopped him. It was coming from the girls' staircase...luckily it was only Hermione. Great, he thought, the exact person he couldn't get out of his mind. What was he supposed to do? Leave? He couldn't do that. Not since she had just spotted him. Wonderful! Ron thought to himself.

"What're you doing here?" She asked, going over to where he stood.

Ron sat down on the love seat by the fire. "I'm down here so late is I can't sleep. What about you?"

"Oh, I can't seem to sleep either and I really have no idea what I'm doing down here."

"So, do you want to take a walk?" Ron asked pleading with his big blue eyes and extending his arm out to her. She nodded and linked her arm with his.

Together they set off out of the portrait hole and down the corridor together. "Do you think we'll get caught?" She asked, voicing the very same thing that Ron was thinking.

"I sure hope not. Let's go to the room of requirement." Hermione looked around at him suspiciously, and he quickly added, "so we don't get caught by a teacher?"

Hermione relaxed. "Ok, good idea."

They didn't really pay attention to exactly where they were going. It seemed to them that their own feet seemed to be leading them to their desired destination. When they finally got there (that is to the room of requirement) Hermione thought that it would be interesting if they had the Egyptian theme. So she once again screwed her face up with concentration. A door appeared and they went cautiously in.

"Wow! Did you do this?" Ron asked Hermione, looking astonished.

Hermione nodded smiling. Oh boy! Why does she have to smile at me? He thought to himself. Doesn't she know she looks way to cute?

The room they stepped in was gorgeous. It's like they were actually in a real mummy-like tomb. There were coffins with royal dead mummies locked inside them, and so many inscriptions on the walls. Ron's eyes fell upon a chest that was in the far corner of the room.

He walked towards it. Hermione saw this and she stuck out her hand to stop him. "What are you doing?"

Ron pointed to where the chest was laying. And she let him go. He tried to open the chest but couldn't. "It's locked!" He said trying to heave the trunk open. Hermione found a necklace covered in spider webs.

"Ron!" She said, showing him what it was. "I think...this may be the key to that chest."

Ron took it from her and placed it in the lock., it clicked unlocking the chest and he threw it open. Inside was a bracelet, and a book. He picked them up. Ron examined it very closely. "What do you think this means?" He asked Hermione.

She knew exactly what it meant. That bracelet was the bracelet of Anubis. The very thing that Evelyn O'Connelle was suppose to protect. Although she had no clue as to what the book was doing there.

Although she knew what it was she just shrugged at him and he opened the book. "Ron maybe we shouldn't be messing with that book." Hermione said, sounding scared.

"No harm ever came from reading a book." He replied, opening it curiously.

"Ron I'm serious."

Ron ignored her but read the inscription anyway.

He who is dead,

Shall be resurrected,

So come forth,

And live again.

At this there was a loud roaring sound. They ran over to the window just in time to see a huge sand storm coming from out of nowhere. This really was scarry because Hogwarts was in a forest in an inhabited area and there was no sand for miles in every direction. Things were really starting to look suspicious. There's never been a sand storm around Hogwarts before that they knew of, at least not since before the four greatest wizards founded Hogwarts.

Hermione looked away from the window and into Ronald Weasley's pale face. "Ron? I think I know what that

book is."

"Well, what is it?" He asked, curiously.

Hermione was taking her time to answer. "It's the book of the dead.....Do you know what that book means?"

Ron shook his head.

"It means that you just woke...Imhotep, the mummy sorcerer."

A/N: Read and review or else. (Just kidding!)