Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter, or the idea of Ron dying, or the English language, or gravity.
Darn! Why didn't I patent gravity when I had the chance?
Yes, this is an actual chapter and not a quickie.
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January 7th
The staircases moved ominously back and forth, almost daring an unwise student to climb them. A lone boy stood at the top of the stairs. He had mastered them. He was a champion, a conqueror, a Slytherin.
Draco Malfoy spent the better part of his afternoon reaching the almost unreachable south corridor of the seventh floor of Hogwarts castle. The journey was much like a video game, hopping from one staircase to the next; avoiding trick stairs and performing the levitation spell on one's own body if one should fall.
It would all be worth it in a little while. First, it's important to know about the secret passage way to the seventh floor. There is a secret passage way to the seventh floor, but it happens to be through the Gryffindor boys' dormitories, and seeing as how Draco would never be caught dead in there, he was forced to se the stairs.
Ron Weasley on the other hand, used the passage way all the time.
His best mate Harry told him about the passage way a few months back, because the desolate, unused seventh floor was a good place to go if a person wanted to study away from the crowds of the common room, or in Ron's case, escape a nagging girlfriend.
"Ron do your homework! Your grades are slipping!"
"Ron take a shower! You've been playing Quidditch all day and you're filthy!"
"Ron you know copying Harry's answers is cheating and that's against school rules!"
Bloody hell. All she did was criticize. When Ron and Hermione got together, Mrs. Weasley was thrilled and told Hermione to take good care of him and she did, with enthusiasm. Ron ate all his vegetables, he never stayed out past curfew, and thanks to his new haircut, his hair no longer covered his eyes while he slept during class.
Ron knew Hermione loved him, and he definitely loved her, but sometimes Ron just needed to get away from it all and be alone. That's when he came to the seventh floor.
Tonight, it was so peaceful; just the moon in the window, the sleeping portrait, and that scumbag Malfoy.
Ron did as double take as he saw Draco leaning up against a walk a few meters away from him.
"What are you doing here Malfoy?"
"Temper, temper Weasel. As Head Boy I can go anywhere in the castle I want. You on the other hand, are out past curfew." Malfoy smirked at Ron, trying to decide how many points to take off.
Luckily for Gryffindor, Draco remembered his reason for being on the seventh floor and bit his tongue.
Ron, trying to forget the stuck-up pureblood's presence, leaned over the railing separating him from six flights of stairs.
"Long way down Weasley." Malfoy commented.
Ron spun around upon hearing Malfoy's voice so close behind him.
"Why are you here Malfoy?" Ron asked, sensing a hidden agenda.
"Calm down. If I wanted you dead, I could have killed you a long time ago." Malfoy was pleased that his comment attained the desired look of fear on Ron face.
Of course he could have killed him long ago, but he had his orders. He was to wait until 11:30. At that moment, the stairs would shift creating a gaping hole down the center of the school.
First contrived as a way to keep students in their beds after curfew, the arrangement had the potential to be deadly. With no staircases, a student could theoretically free fall six stories, almost surely to their death.
Draco checked his watch.
11:28.
Only two more minute before his task could be completed. The awkward silence remained, both boys deep in their own thoughts.
11:29.
One more minute. Draco began to wonder if he would be able to pull it off. Surely Ron was strong enough to play keeper for the only team that could beat Slytherin. Who was to say that Ron could not easily over power him?
11:30.
Too late now.
The clock in the Great Hall could be heard far, far, below sounding the half hour.
Ron was still leaning over the banister, lost in thought, when he heard "Silenco" and felt his legs being pulled out from under him.
He opened his mouth to yell, but no sound came out. He plunged through the air, unable to grab anything.
The last thing he saw was a smirking Draco Malfoy shirking into the darkness above him as he fell into the darkness below.
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Professor Lockhart had, to the dismay of the students, returned to teach Defense Against The Dark Arts. The students didn't take to him any more than they had years before, and truth be told the teachers didn't seem to like him any better than the students did.
He was just going for his 11:25 walk around the castle. His favorite thing to do was to watch the staircases shift to their nightly resting places.
3…2…1…shift. A few creaks were the only sound to be heard. Lockhart stood looking upward to the ceiling for a moment longer before he saw a dark figure moving toward him.
His last thought was 'That looks like young Mr. Weasley.'
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Draco Malfoy gazed in satisfaction as Ron Weasley's body fell unto theconvientiantly placedbody of Professor Lockhart. Not part of the original plan, but a nice added effect.
Now, to go see his partner in crime.
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The door to the Room of Requirement creaked open, revealing a small sitting room for two. A man sitting in a chair before a roaring fire turned around and looked at Draco when he entered.
"Well Harry, it's done."
And Harry smiled.
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Ok, a lot of people told me to have Harry kill Ron for a change, and since it wasn't technically Harry killing Ron, it was the thought that counted, and Harry wanted him dead.
I guess I kinda proved that I can write a chapter in only one day, despite what I had told some reviewer. I just can't turn down a dare. (If you don't understand read my reviews for chapter 6.)
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