Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco all sat pouting at their desks. All the other students had departed and now the five of them sat alone in detention. Malfoy was drumming his fingers impatiently. Hermione had her nose buried in her book, trying not to send glares at Ron and Harry.
"Ya know," Ron said, leaning over to Harry "I didn't think 6th years still got detention."
"They do when they act like first years." Snape said standing next to him.
Ron made a face to Harry "They do when they act like first years…" he said mockingly. Harry smirked. Severus however was not amused "Mr. Weasley," he said "When one plans to mock someone, one must wait until they are not looking right at them!"
"It-it's because I-I shouldn't be in this seat…" Ron said awkwardly. Snape rolled his eyes and started to head out of the class room. "This is detention," he said as he went "No talking, moving, no frivolity of any sort and…" he took Malfoy's wand out of his hands and placed it on his desk "…wands down, for the next three hours." And he continued to the door.
"Where is he going?" Harry whispered to Ginny.
"I am not in detention, Mr. Potter." Snape said, who seemed to be able to hear across classrooms. "I can do as I please. But know this that just because I am not present doesn't mean you are not being watched." And with that, Snape slammed the door behind him. As the door slammed shut a crack of thunder sounded outside the castle. Ginny jumped in her seat.
The students looked around at eachother in silence for several seconds until Draco sighed, resting his chin on his fist. "All I wanted was my quill."
"Oh stuff it, Malfoy!" Ron snapped "You're lucky to even be present!"
"I don't happen to see it that way, Weasel!"
Harry then got up from his seat and headed towards the door.
"And where do you think you're going?" Hermione asked.
"Well if I'm going to be stuck her for the next hour and a half I'm going to up to get a butter beer." He tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge. "Oh can you believe that? Snape locked us in!"
"He can't do that!" Ron protested "It's against the Geneva Detention Convention!"
Hermione sighed as she stood up "If you must!" she held out her wand "Alohomora!" The lock didn't even jiggle. "Blast!" Hermione cursed "No use, he must have placed a special charm on it."
"Why would he do that?" Ginny asked, also standing.
"Why else, so Pothead couldn't try to sneak out." Draco said.
Suddenly they could hear the clumping of what sounded like heavy boots. Slowly, Harry and Hermione looked up and opened the tiny window in the in the door. Both of them shriek as a bolt of lightening cracked and in the window sat the ugliest, most frightening face starring at them. Then Hermione breathed a slight sigh of relief. "Oh…its just Filch." She said.
"Hehe…yeah…" Harry forced a grin, then turned to Ron "Huge relief…" he said, the sarcasm only too obvious. Ron nodded. Filch smiled revealing his rotten yellow teeth through the window, then continued on his way.
"That was weird…" Harry said.
"This is getting kind of scary…" Hermione started backing away slowly from the door.
"What's going on?" Ginny ran up and clung herself to Harry. Harry turned and looked down at the red head holding onto him "I don't know…" he said "…but I kind of like it." Then he wrapped his arms around her waist. As he did so there was suddenly the sound of glass breaking, causing everyone to turn towards the chalk board. A vile had fallen from the shelf and was shattered on the floor. Ginny looked up and screamed. There on the chalk board said "NOBODY LEAVES HERE ALIVE!" The students gasped. "Now I don't like it so much." Harry said.
"Harry…Hermione said, looking at the chalk board closer "…it's written in blood!"
Harry, Ron and Hermione turned to Ginny who displayed a look of terror "I didn't do it this time! I swear!" she yelled. Hermione ran up and hugged her.
"Then who could have…?" said Ron.
"It's Snape!" Harry answered.
"There is blood on the black board, Harry. I don't think it's because he ran out of chalk!" Ginny snapped.
"Don't you see it's fake? Its looks like Kool-Aid! He's pulling a hoax!" explained Harry.
"Smells like chicken blood…" Malfoy stated.
"Shut up!" Harry snapped.
"Well what's Snape trying to teach us?" Hermione asked.
"Pay attention or we die." Ron said.
"You're bloody mad!" Hermione accused to Ron.
"Stop bloody attacking me!" He shot back.
"Don't say "bloody"!" Ginny shrieked, covering her ears. "Oh…this doesn't make any sense."
"It does if you've watched as many horror movies as I've had to watch. My cousin Dudley has a huge collection of them. This is a classic, the locked door, freaky Filch, the bloody warning AND…" he then pointed to Malfoy "…our soon to be first victim."
"What? Why me?" Draco asked in disbelief.
"Well Malfoy it's certainly not going to be any of us, I mean, c'mon!" Ron laughed, the others joining along with him. Just then, a faint pounding was heard outside the door. It seemed to be coming down the corridor towards the classroom. It echoed in rhythm. Ginny turned towards the door. "Ok…" she then took hold of Harry's robe "You're the classic horror expert. WHAT'S THAT!"
"That, is the sound of our beating hearts. It signifies our height in fear, and the fact that something horrible is about to come in through that door, right now!"
The door handle began to jiggle and the lock released. The door creaked as it opened slowly. The group of students huddled together, shaking with fear. Ginny screamed as two dark figures emerged from the doorway. "Oi! What's all the yellin' about!" said a familiar voice.
"Still afraid of a little lightening, sis?" said another.
The students stood stalk still. "Fred? George?" Ron said. The two figures stepped into the light, revealing them selves to be Fred and George Weasley "Hidy, Ho!" Fred smiled, holding a quaffle in the crook of his arm. The rest of the students sighed in relief.
"Hey, whose blood is on the chalk board?" George asked.
"Wait, what are you guys doing back here?" Harry asked.
"Oh well," Fred said "George and I were down at the Quiditch field, tossing a quaffle around. We missed the smell of the old robe rooms ya know?"
"Did you see Snape out there?" Ron asked.
"Nope" George answered "Not a soul…actually, it was kind of creepy…"
"Why creepy? Why's it creepy? Why'd you say creepy? Why creepy!" Hermione asked really fast.
"Ah, nothing it was just Filch." said Fred.
"I knew it!" Harry proclaimed.
"See, we finished playing and we went to change our robes, and there we was dragging his feet, walking along the corridors with that damn Mrs. Norris trailing behind him." George explained.
"But that isn't so creepy…"
"Oh and there was blood coming out of the showers." said Fred.
"AHHH!" Hermione gasped.
"Oh, how's the pressure?" Ron asked.
"Oh it was great, man." Fred.
"Really?"
"Yeah, got all the soap outta the hair, it was nice…" Fred and George started running their fingers through their hair, which now seemed much redder than usual. Hermione stepped away from them, suddenly feeling queasy.
"Blood in the showers!" Harry said finally.
"Yes, Pothead, they just said that…" Draco said, sounding more than a little irritated.
"No, you git. Blood in the showers! This is straight out of that Horror Film classic, "Blood in the Showers" no this isn't Filch, this is the work of a diabolical master villain!"
"Snape!" Ron said.
"Absolutely Snape!" Harry nodded. "I just feel bad that Draco will be the first to die."
"Will you stop saying that!" Draco yelled.
Harry shook his head and went to sit back down at his desk "So what do you think Snape is trying to do?"
"I think," Ron said "that he knows we're too old for detention to scare us like it did when we were little kids right, so he turned this school into a total chamber of horrors!"
"Severus Snapes School of Spooks!" Ginny said.
"This doesn't scare me!" Draco said "Nothing scares me! And Granger doesn't belong to the Weasel anymore, Potty! So if I want her to pick up my quills I will have her do it! What are you going to do about it?" The lightening and thunder struck as he finished. And the lights were doused. Ginny screamed in terror.
"Lumos!" Harry lit up his wand and muttered another spell to light the candles again. Fred had jumped into George's arms in fright. "Bro, did you put on a little weight since the last time you were scared?"
"Possibly…"
Ginny screamed again. Harry shook his head "No, no, no, you scream when the lights go out, screaming when the lights are on only takes away from the first scream."
Ginny let out another scream, and points. Harry sighed "Now you're just being loud."
Everyone else looks to where Ginny was pointing and scream. Draco was up against the wall with his quill jabbed in his forehead. His body then started to sink to the floor, leaving a trail of blood and ink on the wall. The students start to back away, except for Ron who walked up to the wall and placed his finger to bloody ink mark. "And we'll always remember that he was that tall." He said.
(A/N: And its not the end!)