Harry and Lupin entered the classroom where Goyle kept his animals and looked around.
"This is where Goyle spends most of his time," said Harry. "Maybe there's something in here that'll lead us to the witching chamber." Lupin nodded and they began looking through papers and folders that belonged to Goyle trying to see if they could find anything.
Lupin was at the table where Sarah the mouse sat in her cage, scratching at one of her plastic tunnels. Lupin lifted the little door and Doris climbed inside, giving him a sudden thought. He reached up to one of the above tubes that was in the shape of a 'U' and pulled it up slowly until one of the holes it went into was open. He moved the tube to the side making the hole completely uncovered and then placed the tube back in place.
"I think I've figured it out," he said, turning to Harry. "Come with me." They ran out of the room, and Lupin lead him back into the boiler room.
Hermione lay absolutely still as she felt five of the large spiders crawling around the inside of her suit. If she moved she would startle them and they'd bite her for sure. Goyle was standing by the altar, watching his spider with facination.
"I wonder how I'll be remembered," he muttered, turning to Hermione. "Me? No one remembered my uncle, not until I made him famous."
"Goyle," said Hermione softly. "This is not the way-"
"Sh!" said Goyle, shaking his head. "Don't talk. It makes them nervous." He began unbuttoning his shirt. "If I let you live, you'll tell everyone about me and walk away the hero, and I'll be locked up in JUVY with more Weasleys, Bayneses, and Boltzes." He reached over to his large spider and took it out, holding it in the palm of his hand. His shirt was completely unbuttoned and he began to place the large spider on his chest. "A jabbing wolf," he said softly. "He doesn't care about feremones..."
"No, Goyle, don't..." But it was too late. Goyle placed the spider on his chest, pushed it down so it felt threatened and the spider bit down immediatly. He gasped in sudden pain and fell to his knees as the area around the spider turned red. "Goyle, stop it!" shouted Hermione, sitting up without thinking. She began to feel several pin pricks all up and down her back and she flinched. The spiders were biting, but she didn't care about that now. Goyle finally lost conciousness and fell flat on his face, the spider releasing and crawling away. He looked like he was dead.
Hermione felt a sudden shot of dizziness and fell backwards with a cry as the area around her began to spin in circles. The colors around turned to black an white and she could see Abel Frye standing in front of her, a menacing smile on his face.
"Hermione... Hermione..." He called, holding the noose in his hands. Hermione closed her eyes until she lost conciousness altogether. The last thing she recalled was hearing Abel's voice say, "Hermione, c'mon! Wake up. Everything's going to be alright."
Harry sat on his knees gently shaking Hermione and begging her to wake up. Lupin had found the way in by pulling back one of the pipes and pushing it to the side, just like the mouse cage. Hermione's eyes rolled back into her head and she lay there, not moving and barely breathing.
"Hermione, c'mon!" begged Harry. "Don't do this to me!" There came a crash from the side and Lupin and Snape stepped in, breaking through one of the walls. Lupin had been too big to fit through the tunnel.
"Oh no," he muttered, catching a glimpse of Hermione.
Hermione was carried out of the building and soon injected with the anti venom. Malfoy came running up, wide eyed and beginning to freak out.
"She's got a lot of bites," he muttered, shaking his head. "This was all my fault..."
"It wasn't," said Harry, looking at him. "It wasn't you. Just calm down."
"Is she going to die?" he asked Lupin. Lupin shook his head.
"I don't know," he answered.
"Oh man," muttered Malfoy as he sat down and held his head in his hands. Harry sat down with him.
"She'll make it, Malfoy. So will the others." Malfoy looked back at the other healers who had Goyle laying on a stretcher as they fought to save his life. He shook his head.
"I can't believe it got this bad," he muttered. "I should've listened."
He watched as the healers continued to work on Hermione for the next hour...
Lupin brought out a platefull of burgers and set them down on the picnic table. Tonks smiled as she set out some ketchup and mustard. "It smells great, Remus," she said with a smile. She walked over to Algeron who was tossing bread crumbs at an anthill.
"Am I feeding you or the ants?" she asked.
"Oh, these aren't any ordinary ants," said Algeron. "They're fire ants."
"Don't stand too close," said Hermione from her seat. She had a cast on her leg and was reading Hogwarts a History for the one millionth time. Everytime Lupin looked at her, he knew she was living proof that miracles were real. And if she wasn't proof enough, Malfoy and Pansy certainly were.
Malfoy tossed out a frisby to Pansy who lept for it, along with Harry. Both fell to the ground laughing and Blake laughed, shaking his head.
"Man," he said to Malfoy. "That's not how you throw a frisby." Malfoy snickered. He was wearing a pair of jeans and grey t-shirt, very different from all the black everyone had gotten used to seeing.
Pansy was wearing a baby blue t-shirt and jeans, and was currently running from Harry with the frisby.
"She's all that, isn't she?" said Blake. Malfoy nodded.
"And a bag of chips," he said.
"You know, you're gonna have to treat her right, or else you may find yourself with a little competition." Malfoy laughed and shook his head. Pansy ran right to them with the frisby and knocked Malfoy down, Blake falling on top. Harry shrugged, shouted out, "Dog pile!" and jumped on top.
"Dinner!" called Tonks. They all stood up and walked over to the table and sat down to eat, under the setting sun.
(A/N: This was a little hard to do since a lot of the elements were muggle, but I tried. Tootles!)