When Harry, Ron and Hermione entered the great hall the next day they found that bowls of porridge had been laid out on every table. Students were eating the stuff out of wooden bowls in silence. Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other. They were all thinking the same thing " What's going on?" They took their seats on the Gryffindor table. All around the table students were eating the porridge like robots. Harry stared down at his own bowl of porridge. Ron had risen a wooden spoonful and was sniffing it. Harry shook his head at him. Then suddenly a bell sounded in the distance and all of the students put down their spoons got up and left the great hall in lines in unison. Harry, Ron and Hermione got stuck in a line and were being shoved along by the other Gryffindors. As soon as they had a chance the three friends slipped out of the line. "The porridge." Hermione said. "Its you and your Spew stuff Hermione" Ron said "Now the elves want to poison us!". Harry looked at Hermione it did sound like a good explanation but in the same way it didn't. Hermione looked around the deserted corridor. "Something very odd is going on this year" She said "Dumbledore's lost it and by the looks of things the students are being mind controlled by something in the porridge."
"PSST" Harry heard something. "What on earth was that?" Ron blurted out loudly. Hermione walked towards a tapestry of a werewolf fighting a wizard. Fred and George appeared out from behind it Hermione jumped letting out a small scream. "Calm down it's only us" Fred said. "What are you two doing here?" Ron asked walking towards the twins with Harry following. "Moody sent us he said that we'd best be the ones to check up on you. " George explained "And by the sounds of it it's a good thing we came" Fred said immediately after. Harry heard footsteps approaching. "Quickly" he hissed, "Come on back behind the tapestry." They all crowded back behind the tapestry into a large space where Harry was sure a wall would've been. Everyone was silent Harry saw something out of the corner of the tapestry. A black cloaked figure. Fred stepped on Ron's foot accidentally and George muffled the scream. But the figure heard something and stopped. It turned slowly but Harry could not see its face. Then it hurried off in the direction of Dumbledores office. "Come on" Harry said to the others "We have to follow it."