Chapter 8: Trouble
"i tell you not to do anything. yet you continue to do it anyway." Hermione was screaming at Ron.
"oh, so you blame me for this?"
"yes, i blame you!"
"all i did was read from a stupid book. and it wasn't even in our language."
"i told you not to read from the book. but, 'ron's too good to listen to his best friend who especially knows way more than me.'
"i don't have to take this."
"then don't!"
"i won't!"
Ron slammed the door as he left. Hermione sat by the coffin, trying hard not to think about what horrors Ron had unleashed. This is really bad. What was going to happen? This was all her fault. Well this was her mistake and she was going to have to fix it. No matter what it would take.
She got up and walked toward the door but froze. For something was happening. She heard a big rustling noise and turned slowly back around trying hard not to make even the tiniest little sound. But the coffin was open. She could not believe what she was actually seeing.
She quickly closed her eyes, dreading what she would see when she opened them. She held her breath for what seemed to be an eternity then slowly opened her eyes and walked very steadily towards the coffin hoping to find a dead mummy there, but when she finally got there, she noticed that the mummy was indeed gone.
Hermione turned back around hoping to leave quietly, when suddenly she let out a piercing scream.
Ron was running along the corridor. And up to professor Dumbledore's office. Where he had to give the password, 'fizzing wizbee'. Ron burst into the office, receiving disapproving glares from the pictures of the old Hogwarts headmasters and Headmistresses. One of them even said, "Really, the way kids are these days."
But Ron ignored them and continued on toward the desk where Dumbledore himself was sitting, reading a parchment of some sort. He looked up at Ron and said. "Ah! Mr. Weasley. What can I do for you?"
Ron was panting. "I....want you...to...get...everybody...out of...the school."
Dumbledore now looked alarmed. "Why what's happening?"
"Imhotep, is alive."
Dumbledore was now standing up. "You didn't read from the book of the dead, did you?"
Ron nodded, passing out.
"All of you must vacate the school immediately. Do not panic. Just leave the school in an organized fashion." Dumbledore's magically magnified voice rang out through the school.
Students were filing out of the school and onto the grounds. They were all very alarmed at what was happening. Word got out that it was Voldemort that was terrorizing the school. But they couldn't see anything.
Ron, came to then he battled his way through the crowds of people trying to find Harry, when he finally found him. "Harry, there you are. I've been looking for you."
"Do you know what's going on here?"
Ron nodded, "Everyone had to vacate the school because Imhotep is alive."
Harry was staring at Ron bewildered, "And this matters how?"
"Because he's a very evil mummy that they killed about three-thousand years ago."
"Then how did he wake up, if he's dead? I mean, he can't exactly wake himself up, can he?" Harry asked laughing.
"I'm the one that woke him up, Harry. I released him. This whole thing is my fault."
Just then they saw people pointing and screaming. A Ravenclaw first year was shouting, "look at the north tower, there's something on the roof.."
Everybody was looking up. The mummy was on the roof, It looked like he was carrying somebody along the roof of the castle.
"Ron?" Harry asked, turning towards him.
"Hmm?" Ron asked, looking astonished at what was happening on the roof.
"Where's Hermione?"
A/N: Imhotep will come after you if you dont review!