Hogwarts, A History
Less than a week after the quidditch match, won by the hufflepuffs against the ravenclaws, Penny learned just who Harry was. She'd left her room after she'd finished her potions scroll, to do some research on werewolves for her Defense Against the Dark Art's class.
She walked down the empty corridors, not knowing exactly where she was going. She'd only been to the library once, with Hermione, who had for some reason brightened up a lot in the short time they were there.
As the halls echoed she suddenly realized that she was in the wrong corridor and she heard footsteps ahead. She stopped in her tracks looking around her and hoping to find that she was in a place where she had been before, somewhere that she couldn't get in trouble for being.
As the first foot moved around the corner, she gasped, and stood up straight, deciding if she was caught where she shouldn't be, at this point, there was nothing she could do about it...but it was the foot of a student-and only the foot of a student?
As the foot came around the corner it stopped in front of her. Suddenly something silver flickered around it, and fell to the ground around the figures of two students. Harry and Ron smirked at her sideways as the last piece of the invisibility cloak was shed, from Harry's shoulder, coming to rest in his arm.
"Well now, what are YOU doing out of bed?" Harry asked and was quickly echoed by "Blimey we're not the only ones." which came from Ron at his surprise that he and Harry were not the only students that went creeping around the school down unused corridors.
Penny blinked widely 'What? Not the only what?"
Ron smirked again, his freckles forming straight lines instead of being chaotically spread around his face as his face twisted.
"What are you two doing hiding under that..thing?" she asked, "what is it anyway?" Ron gave her the "you really are daft, aren't you?" look, and she rolled her eyes at him, looking to Harry who she trusted would answer her. He smiled, and started into the story of the cloak, how he'd first gotten it, and why.
As he explained about his parents, and lord Voldemort, and the many rises to power he'd tried to make, Harry went through a variation of expressions, ending with silence and depression. She sighed, and shook herself awake. He had a somewhat soothing voice.
"I'm Sorry to hear that you had to go through that Harry." was all she could say before the sound of Filch's cat, Mrs Norris, meowing echoed around the corridor, and Harry and Ron pulled her surprisingly under the Invisibility cloak to hide from Filch and Norris.