N/A: Keep in mind that this is my first fan fiction and I wrote it in grade 7

Harry and Ron nodded and Harry walked to his dorm room and grabbed the cloak and came back down to give to Hermione who grabbed it and headed for the library.

It must have been at least 2 hours of playing wizards chess on the floor when finally the Fat Lady's portrait swung open and Hermione walked in carrying the cloak and a book under her arm.

She walked over to Harry and Ron and sat down with them.

"Well now I know what's causing all this!"

"What?" asked Harry and Ron at the same time.

"The Flainctura curse!"

"The what?"

She swung the book open to a certain page and read:

"The Flainctura curse - is a curse that will cause its target to collapse and flinch continuously. Sometimes when the target is hit strange things will occur (different side effects) such as, pointing continuously mumbling under its breath, flu, hot and cold flashes, vomitting frogs, etc. Once the curse is cast upon the victim, the curse will be contagious and everyone who's near the target will get the second symptom which is green mouldy spots all over their body. And who ever was near the person who caught the second symptom will get the second symptom as well and so on. The first target can be any age to get infected but the second part of the curse can not infect ages 17 and older. The curse can only be cured by mixing wolf-bane and wormwood and boiling water and making the sick person drink it. However if the person does not drink the potion within the first 34 hours after they have caught it, they will die. This is a very difficult curse to learn and it is an unregistered, unforgivable curse. It is very dark magic though, the people who know about the curse, find that it has no point in existing.

"Well that explains a lot!" exclaimed Ron. "Hold on! We need to go to Madame Pomfrey right now and tell her or else my sister's going to die!"

"But if we tell her what it is, she'll know that we got it from the Restricted Section-"

"-We'll tell her we had permission," said Harry.

"We can't do that! What teacher would let us look in the restricted section for the Flainctura curse? It's not in our curriculum!" Hermione almost shouted.

"Well maybe the teachers already know what it is and they're curing it as we speak,"

said Harry anxiously.

"That's not possible... it's unregistered!" Hermione yelled. Then she was shushed by

Ron because people in the common room were starring at her.

"Then what is it doing in a book?" Ron pondered aloud.

"Well I was looking on the table where some of the books were and when I went looking

around the shelves I heard a "zap" near the table. I looked on the table again and I found this. This happens to be full of curses no one's heard of. It was probably coincidence that the exact book I wanted fell from the shelf on perfect timing."

"That doesn't explain what it's doing in a book," said Ron.

"Well that's not important, at least we found out what's going on."

Harry nodded showing he agreed with Hermione though he really didn't.

"Hermione, there's a question I've been meaning to ask you. You told us a few hours

ago before you left to the library that you had an idea what was going on. What was all that about? How could you know where this book was and..." Ron asked.

"I, I don't know I just had some gut feeling that I'd find it in the Restricted Section."

"Well, anyway, we can't waste any more time discussing this, we have to tell Madame Pomfrey so the kids can get cured as soon as possible. I don't care if we get in trouble. They're not going to expel us if we save the students lives," Harry pointed out.

"You know what, you're right," agreed Ron and Hermione.

"But we have to take the invisibility cloak, its getting late," said Ron.

"Uh oh! That's not good! How much time do we have before we aren't allowed out any

more?"

"7 minutes!" squealed Harry looking at his watch. "We better get going quick!"