"Oh my gosh," Fred shouted "They killed Malfoy!"
And with that, the students ran from the classroom, leaving Malfoy's bloody body behind and into the halls. They stopped at the lightening struck and the torches flickered. Some strange music began to play from above them. Ginny and Hermione look up startled. Hermione thought the music sounded strangely like something from an old radio show. They all began to relax, that is until a ery voice began to sing "Welcome all Gryffindor braves, we shall dig some early graves…that's right…come right this way…" and slowly it faded as the music echoed down the halls.
Harry took a few steps from the groups, shaking his head "Snape, Snape, Snape, you are SO low budget…"
"Harry, wake up! This can't be Snape!" Hermione insisted.
"No?" Harry turned to her "Then you think there really IS a psycho killer on the loose here, you'd rather believe that?"
"OH MY GOD!" Fred screamed.
"What? WHAT?" Ron yelled.
"My quaffle is gone too!" Fred shouted.
"No! No it's not!" George stepped in "I got it!" and he handed it to his twin.
"Oh good." Fred took the quaffle and cuddled it, feeling safer.
"Look, I don't care who's doing this, I'm scared!" Hermione cried and took Ron's arm "Could we please get out of here?"
"Of course we can't!" Harry said "Snape is trying to keep us in! So he'll have all the doors locked and charmed by now!"
Despite hearing this new information, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny and Hermione make a dash for it, all leaving Harry behind. They try the door at the end of the corridor leading to one of the main halls where they could get to the stair cases. But it was no use, they couldn't budge it. Then they ran back, past Harry to try the other side which led to a rotating stair case which would go straight to the first floor, but it seemed to bolted shut. "Blimey, he's right!" Ron shouted, now really starting to feel a panic. Hermione turned to Harry like she would admit defeat.
"Why wont any of you believe me?" Harry asked as they approached him again. "It's all so predictable."
"Oh yeah? Well what's going to happen next?" asked George.
"Well first, there will be a shrouded dark figure, creeping around behind us that nobody will see…" After this statement, the whole group turned to look behind at one end of the hall. None of them saw the cloaked figure running by at the other end. "And then" Harry continued "the lights will flicker, and Snape will appear and reveal his master plan to us!" Sure enough, the torches flickered nearing the point of blowing out and the music started up again and the creepy voice started singing "Here's a knife, here's a curse…and it is going to get worse…death is on the menu tonight…" the voice faded as the lights brightened, and just as Harry said, there stood Professor Snape, his expression holding no emotion, as always. Everyone sighed in relief.
"Oh! Professor Snape! I never, NEVER thought I'd be happy to see you!" Ron said, laughing almost nervously. "Now Professor, I got to hand it to you. You REALLY have out down yourself this time, I mean killing Malfoy, obvious choice, but the quill pen Severus, I mean that was genius!"
"I knew it!" Harry said, coming up to the stiff teacher "I knew it was you all along. What's the big lesson? What are you trying to teach us?" Harry gave Snape a firm pat on the shoulder. They never got an answer from professor Snape, for when Harry's hand hit his shoulder the teacher fell forward and flat on his face, his wand jabbed in his back. He was dead. Hermione fell to her knees "NOOO!" she cried.
"Oh my gosh!" Fred shouted "They killed Snape!"
Everybody ran screaming down the hall. Only Harry lingered behind, staring at the dead body at his feet "I…I was wrong!" Harry gasped. Then he looked about him and saw he was very much alone. "What? Where? HEY! Don't leave me out here!" And he ran after his friends.
They all were back again in the potions classroom. None of them were sure where else they could hide. Ginny took a sheet from the storage closet and covered Draco's body with it. Ron and Harry sat on their desks thinking. Fred and George stayed by the door to keep a look out. Hermione was slowly passing the floor, trying to get her head together "Snape is dead, Snape is dead, Professor Snape is dead!" she said.
"Snape can't die! How can Snape die!" Ron asked, looking from face to face.
"He was the first suspect," Harry explained "it's my fault, I suspected him. The second I suspected him, I signed his death warrant"
"Well is anyone of us safe?" Ginny asked.
"Yeah, virgins! Virgins never die!" Harry answered.
"Alright!" Ron cheered, then turned to Hermione "Thanks for saving me!" he grinned. Hermione just gave him a dirty look.
"I'm dead!" Fred said grinning.
"Yeah, I'm dead." Said George.
"Well…how sick can you get without actually dying?" Harry asked.
Ginny just crossed her arms and gave a frustrated sigh. Her brothers looked at her questionably. "Oh don't worry," she said "I'm not dead." All her brothers relaxed. Then Ginny thought of something "Wait a minute…Snape! HE'S dead!"
"Hey, Hey, Hey!" Fred said. And he, George and Harry join in "Go Snape! Go Snape! Go, Go, Go Snape!"
"OK! Listen!" Ron stopped them "As happy as I am for Snape, I am petrified here! Can we please? What do we do?"
"Alright, alright…" said Harry "let's just calmly recap…"
"MALFOY'S DEAD, SNAPE, IS DEAD, WE ARE TRAPPED INSIDE WITH THE KILLER!" Fred stated not very calm at all.
"So basically," George interrupted "we have to try and figure out who the killer is."
"Yeah! Maybe we should split up…" Ginny suggested.
"Right away, wrong!" Harry disagreed.
"Ok, fine, we'll just stay here, and we'll all me fine." Ginny sat down and curled us in the corner. Just then, a sound of heavy footsteps on the stone floors echoed through the halls, outside the classroom. There was something else too, something was squeaking, like wheels. The Gryffindors all looked at each other.
"Don't, don't, don't say it!" Harry said quickly shaking his head!
"Filch is the killer!" Ron said.
"And that's the end of Filch…" Harry sighed and sat back down.
"Oh Harry, you've gone mental!" Ron said.
"I'm starting to agree, Harry." Hermione followed. "You were wrong about Snape, and you're wrong about this."
Harry stood up and got in Hermione's face "YOU were wrong to break up with Ron!" he yelled angrily.
"But…I…" Hermione suddenly found it hard to find her voice. What did he just say to her? "I…What's that got to do with anything?" she finally said.
"Did anything like this happened when you two were together?" Harry asked. Hermione looked like she was about to answer but Harry put up his had first "The Sorcerer Stone, the Chamber of Secrets, or any issues dealing with the ministry, You-Know-Who, or the Order doesn't count!" he said.
Hermione was at a loss "No." she said.
"You killed us." Harry said. "You've killed us all."
"Oy! Harry!" Fred stepped in "Now you're over reacting. There's only been two people that are horribly dead, that's an expectable loss!"
The footsteps and the squeeking got louder and louder.
"He's coming…" Ginny squeaked "He's coming closer, he's coming for all of us!" she screamed.
"C'mon mates, lets get outta here!" George yelled and opened the door and ran out, his twin and others quickly following. But they stopped in the corridor as they saw a lone laundry cart slowly gliding toward them, its wheels squeaking. The students froze. Harry looked around; there was nobody else in sight. There was no sound of footsteps either, just the cart. Slowly he stepped away from the group and walked over to the cart.
"So where is he?" Ron asked, shaking.
"He's probably on his way…" Fred answered.
"I don't think so," Harry said "Ginny?"
"Yeah?" she looked up.
"Are you sick of screaming?"
"Yes." Ginny said, short of breath.
"Then don't look in here…" Harry said.
Everyone immidiatly came over and looked inside the cart. Everybody let out a loud scream. "AHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"There's like 50 pairs of dirty knickers in there!" Ron shouted.
"And this." Harry reached in and pulled up the head of Filch. He was, of course, dead. He had a pair of pantyhose wrapped tightly around his neck like he was strangled.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Ginny shrieked.
(And still more coming!)