Jennifer kept falling down, down and down till she hit something with a muffled sort of thump, it was some sort of soft plant. Jennifer called up to the others. "It's okay! It's a soft landing, you cans jump!" Cooper, Ginny, Neville, and Hermione quickly followed, this the music stopped just before Harry jumped down and joined them. Just as Harry landed that Jennifer felt something wrapping itself world her feet, Jennifer pulled her wand out and said, "Lumos." When her wand tip glowed that she saw they were on a plant and it was wrapping itself around them. Before any of them could do anything that the plant loosen it's grip and unraveled itself from their bodies. They clambered to the jaunt before Hermione send a fire spell on the plant destroying it, Jennifer had her wand pointed towards the plant.

"What is that?" It was Hermione who answered.

"Devil's snare. It likes the dark and damp."

"So which means it hates the Lumos spell and fire spells." Jennifer and Cooper looked at each other, they seen crazy things in SHIELD, but there times when they wondered which place was we ride from crazier, the wizarding world or SHIELD. Jennifer looked away before she went on talking. "Come on. This way." Jennifer pointed to down the stone passageway of which was the only way forward for them to go since there was a wall at the other end. Besides their footsteps, the only other sounds in the corridors was the dripping of water going down the walls. As they went further down that Ginny spoke up.

"Can you hear something?" Jennifer listen, there was a soft rustling and clinking sound coming up from ahead.

"Do you think it's a ghost?"

"I don't know... sounds like wings to me."

"There's light ahead - I can see something moving." When they reached the end of the passageway that Jennifer noticed the passageway was a brilliantly lit chamber, it's ceiling was arching high above them. It was full of small jeweled bright birds, fluttering and tumbling all around the room, on the other side of the chamber was a heavy wooden door. Jennifer and Cooper looked up at the birds as the others spoke and went running over to the door as if the birds might attack them. When Jennifer heard Neville ask what they should do now that she realized something of the birds.

"They are not birds, they are keys." As Jennifer sad that, that cooper snd herself step forward into the room, it seems that the others realized this as well. Jennifer looked around and noticed the three broomsticks and she pointed that out to the others, so Ginny, Hermione and Harry went onto the broomsticks and caught the key that they needed. As soon as Harry caught the key that the three of them landed and Harry rammed into the lock before turning it. The lock clicked open, the key took flight as Harry let go of the key, the key looked rather battered now that it was caught twice. Harry looked at Jennifer, Jennifer in turn looked at the others.

"Ready?" They nodded and Harry opened the door and they went inside. The next chamber was dark, but as soon as they stepped into the chamber that light flooded the chamber. What lay before them was a huge chessboard and they were behind the black pieces, of which were all towered above them, across the away in front another door were the white pieces. Harry was the one at spoke up.

"Now what do we do?" It was Ginny that responded.

"It's obvious, isn't it? We've got to play our way across the room." Jennifer looked over at Ginny when she said that.

"How?"

"I think, we're going to have to be chessmen." Ginny walked up to a black knight and touched the knight's horse, at once the black knight sprang into life. The horse pawed the ground and the knight looked down at Ginny as Ginny managed to speak to the knight.

"Do we - er - have to join you to get across?" The black knight nodded. When the black knight nodded that Ginny turned to the other four.

"This needs thinking about, I suppose we've got to take the place of six of the black pieces... Now, don't be offended or anything, but I am one of two good chess players here and the only other good ones playing chess is Jennifer and Cooper -"

"We're not offended. Just tell us what to do."

"Well, Harry, you take the place of that bishop, and Hermione, You next to him instead of that castle. Neville, you take knight next to Harry. Jennifer, you will take the queen, Cooper take the king.."

"What about you?"

"I'm going to be the other knight." The chessmen seem to be listening, for both knights, a bishop, a castle, the king and the queen walked off the board leaving five empty spaces. Jennifer took the queen spot with Cooper standing next to her, Ginny directed the pieces and she made sure that none of them were in harm way and she would move them out of the way. Neville offered to put himself into danger when Ginny was unsure of how to keep Neville safe. So Neville was taken to make sure the others were safe, thankfully Ginny took a lot of white pieces like the white took their pieces. They were close to the edge of the board to the door, Ginny was thinking, the white queen was looking at Ginny. The only one that was not close to the door was Cooper of who remained in the king spot, Jennifer was a few squares away for, being able to checkmate the king.

"Yes... It's the only way... I've got to be taken." Hermione, Harry, Cooper and Jennifer shouted at the same time.

"NO!"

"That's chess! You've got to make some sacrifices! I take one step forward and she'll take me - that leaves you free to checkmate the king, Jennifer!"

"But -"

"Do you want to stop Snape or not?"

"Ginny -"

"Look, if you don't hurry up, he'll already have the Stone!" There was no alternative, Ginny looked pale but determined. Jennifer nodded, there wasn't anything else they could do, err was. It any other move she coils think of. Looking at Cooper that he was thinking the same thing as well, Ginny would have to be taken by the white queen.

"Ready? Here I go - now, don't hang around once you've won." Ginny step forward to her location once Ginny was there that the white queen pounced on Ginny. The white queen struck Ginny across the head with her stone arm making Ginny crashed to the floor. Jennifer heard Hermione screamed from behind her but Hermione stayed in her square, Jennifer watched as the white queen dragged Ginny to one side. It looks like that Ginny was going to be knocked out for a while, shaking, Jennifer moved up so that she was in position to checkmate the king. When she was at the square and said Checkmate that the white king took off his crown and threw it at her feet. The white chessmen parted and bowed, leaving the door clear, with one last look Jennifer and the other three looked at Neville and Ginny before they enter the passageway ip that leads to the next room.

"What if they -?"

"They will be all right. What do you reckon's next?"

"We've had Sprout's, that was the Devil's Snare; Flitwick must've put charms on the keys; McGonagall transfigured the chessmen to make them alive; that leaves Quirrell's spell, and Snape's." They reached another door, Jennifer stopped just in front of the door.

"All right?"

"Go on." Jennifer pushed it open and a smell filled her nostrils, they pulled their robes up over their noses. In the room was a troll and it was rather large, Harry and Cooper went in first and managed to knocked it out by using it's club to have fly it over it's head. Harry offered to stay there just in case the troll wakes up. Jennifer, Cooper and Hermione went on to the next room, Jennifer opened the next door and went inside, there was only a table with seven differently shaped bottles standing in a line.

"Snape's. What do we have to do?" They stepped over the threshold at once a fire sprang up behind them in the doorway. It wasn't normal fire either, the fire was purple, at the same time that black flames shot up in the doorway leading onward so that the three of them were trapped.

"Look!" Hermione seized a roll of paper lying next to the bottles. Jennifer and Cooper looked over her shoulder to read it:

'Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,

Two of us will help you, which ever you would find,

One among us seven will let you move ahead,

Another will transport the drinker back instead,

Two among our number hold only nettle wine,

Three of us are killers, waiting bidden in line.

Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore,

To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:

First, however slyly the poison tries to hide

You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;

Second, different are those who stand at either end,

But if you would move onward, neither is your friend;

Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,

Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;

Fourth, the second left and the second on the right

Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.'

Jennifer looked at Hermione in surprise when she let out a great sigh, sure she has to use logic when she was on missions but this kind of logic was different from what she has to use on missions. Hermione was smiling of which slightly unnerved Jennifer, looking at Cooper that she could tell Cooper felt slightly unnerved as well.

"Brilliant. This isn't magic - it's logic - a puzzle. A lot of the greatest wizards haven't got an ounce of logic, they'd be stuck in here forever."

"But so will we, won't we?" Jennifer knows that if it was just her and Cooper that would be the case, maybe, for there was a chance that they could figure it out but it would take forever though.

"Of course not. Everything we need is here on this paper. Seven bottles: three are poison; two are wine; one will get us safely through the black fire, and one will get us back through the purple."

"But how do we know which to drink?"

"Give me a minute." Hermione read the paper several times, she walked up and down the line of bottles muttering to herself as well as pointing to the bottles. Jennifer and Cooper looked at each other as Hermione sorted through the bottles, than Hermione clapped her hands.

"Got it. The smallest bottle will get us through the black fire - towards the Stone." Jennifer looked at the tint bottle

"There's only enough there for one of us. That's hardly one swallow." Jennifer, Cooper and Hermione looked at each other.

"Which one will get you back through the purple flames?" Hermione pointed to the rounded bottle at the right end of the line. "You two drink that. No, listen, get back and get Ginny, Neville and Harry. Grab brooms from the flying key room, they'll get you out of the trapdoor and past Fluffy. Once again, I hate to admit this but go straight to the owlery and send Hedwig to Dumbledore, we need him. I might be able to hold Snape off for a while, but in terms of magic I'm no match for him, really."

"But Jennifer - what if You-Know-Who's with him?" Jennifer pointed to her scar.

"Well - I was lucky once, wasn't I? I might get lucky again." Hermione looked she was close of crying, this she dashed at her and hugged her. Cooper looked ready to burst into laughter. "Hermione!"

"Jennifer - you're a great witch, you know."

"I'm not as good as you." Hermione let go of her.

"Me! Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Jennifer - be careful!" When Hermione walked back that Cooper hugged her.

"Be careful, make sure you kick them half way across the world." Cooper kissed her on the cheek before letting go of her, Jennifer blushed when Cooper kissed her cheek. Cooper never once kissed her in the cheek before, Cooper hugged her before yes but he never kissed her cheek.

"You two drink first. You are sure which is which, aren't you?"

"Positive." Hermione took a long drink from the round bottle at the end before she shuddered. Cooper also took a long drink and shuddered

"It's not poison?"

"No - but it's like ice."

"Quick, go, before it wears off."

"Good luck - take care."

"GO!" Hermione and Cooper turned and walked straight through the purple fire, Jennifer would have liked Cooper with her but she didn't dare bring him with her. This was something she could face alone, despite her training for muggle fighting and guns that she didn't have her guns or knives. She didn't think she could fight hand to hand with Voldemort or Snape and thyme would more likely use magic instead. Jennifer took a deep breath before she picked up the smallest bottle, than Jennifer turned to face the black fire, wondering what will await her on the other side of the fire.

"Here I come." Jennifer drained the little bottle in one gulp. When she drank the potion that it did felt like ice was flowing through her body, she put the bottle down before Jennifer walked forward. She braced herself, the black fires were licking her body but she couldn't feel them at all. Soon enough she was in the last chamber, there was someone in there like she expected. But it wasn't Snape, it wasn't even Voldement. It was Quirrell.