here's chapter five

whatever happened to Jared?

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What Melanie Said

"Where's Melanie?" asked her friend Corynne. Corynne Elld had been friends with Melanie since their first year, she was tall, had blong hair, blue eyes, very shy, soft spoken, did not abuse her powers, but she had a whole different side to her.

"I'm not sure," her boyfriend Will said as she got up off the couch in the Slytherin common room.

"I'm going to look for her," Corynne said as Will grabbed her hand and started to walk with her.

"I'm going with you," Will said as they walked out of the common room. The school was not as busy with students since it was a Friday night, but it was nice to just walk down semi-quiet hallways. Several people went up to Corynne and asked where Melanie was, and since she did not know she started to ask people if they had seen Melanie.

"Not since this morning," one girl said.

"No, I haven't."

"I saw her heading up toward the third floor with Jared," a seventh year Gryffindor said.

"Thank you so much," Corynne said letting go of Will's hand and running to the staircase that led to the third floor. Will ran after her and caught up with her just as the staircase moved to the other side of the school, but when the stairs moved, Corynne and Will were staring at a blank wall.

"This is the entrance," Will said going up to the wall and feeling it in case there was another way of getting in, but it was a solid wall.

"The girl has to do it," a woman said in the painting above them. Directly about their heads was a dark painting with a dark haired woman along with her three children. She had dark brown hair, a very pale complexion, a sunken face, bony hands and arms, and she coughed a lot.

"Why do I have to do it?" Corynne asked the woman coughed.

"Because it took a powerful wizard to make the door disappear and now it will take a powerful witch to bring it back."

"Thank you," Corynne said feeling the wall, but it was a solid wall.

"Try harder," Will said, "Try to feel for something other than the door." Corynne nodded her head and started to look for a doorknob. She assumed that the doorknob would be somehwere around her waist, so she stretched out her hand and grabbed something round and hard. She turned whatever she was holding ans a door appeared and opened into a dark room.

"That's it," Will said kissing Corynne on the cheek, "Good job." Will stepped inside the door, but Corynne stayed out.

"Who made the door disappear?" Corynne asked the lady in the portrait.

"A man and a lady," the woman said as she left the painting and into an empty frame filled with three beds and a rocking chair, "They said if you ever came by, to kill you."

"Who were they?" Corynne asked.

"Jared Schmidt and Katrina Brown," the woman said coughing.

"I knew it," Corynne said rubbing her forehead in frustration.

"Now go save Melanie," the woman said smiling, but then she coughed very violently almost to the point of coughing up on of her lungs.

"Maybe you should save yourself," Corynne said smiling, "You really shouldn't smoke."

"I will stop if you go save Melanie," the woman said.

"Alright, I'll hold you to that!" Corynne said waving goodbye and she ran in to join Will. After Corynne closed the door, it disappeared again and they were left in the dark.

"I think I know where she is," Corynne said taking out her wand, "Lumos!" They walked down the hallway for not even a minute and Will stumbled over something bulky that was lying on the ground. He fell on his stomach and smacked his head on the ground. He felt his head and wiped the blood off to discover that he tripped over a bulky mass that happened to be the troll's right arm.

"Are you alright?" Corynne asked helping up, "What did you trip over?"

"The troll," Will said wiping more from his head.

"It looks to be only unconcious," Corynne said looking at the troll's face and seeing its eyes moving under its eyelids, "Come on, we need to find Melanie."

"That's Fluffy's room," Will said frightened.

"The door is broken off its hinges," Corynne said pointing to the door, "Melanie could still be in there."

Corynne went into the room, but did not see a lot of damage; the three headed dog was dead and the trap door, leading to where the Sorcerer's Stone used to be, was now scattered into several shards of wood around the room. She walked around the massive dog to find Melanie leaning against the corner with her right leg bent, her left leg flat on the ground, her right elbow was proped on top of her right leg, her head was grasped by her right hand, and her left arm was bent and holding her wand.

"Melanie? Are you alright?" Corynne asked shaking her. Melanie's eyes were closed, but she was alive. Corynne shook her awake to discover Melanie had no idea where she was.

"Where am I?" Melanie asked wiping her bloody nose.

"You're on the third floor," Corynne said helping Melanie to her feet, "What's the last thing you remember?"

"I remember coming in here, running from the troll, being trapped between the troll and Fluffy," Melanie said as Corynne led her away from Fluffy and out to Will.

"Are you alright?" Will asked hugging her.

"Yea," Melanie said looking at the mayhem.

"Let's get out of here before someone finds us," Will said as they went to the entrance to discover Mr. Filch standing in the middle of the open doorway holding Mrs. Norris.

"Well well well," Filch said smiling menacingly, "Why would three young Slytherins be during on the third floor?"

"I think someone found us," Will said as Corynne rolled her eyes and Melanie laughed.

"Professor, I swear we were only up there to save Melanie," Corynne said to Professor Snape, but he merely scowled at them.

"I don't care if you're in my House or not," Snape said taking a quill and writing something on a piece of parchment, "You all are being suspended."

"Professor, please!" Melanie said, but Snape raised his hand and silenced her.

"I did not give you permission to talk," he said.

"But Professor..." Melanie said.

"Ms. Potter!" Snape yelled, "When I give you permission to talk, that's when you talk."

Snape stood up and slammed his fists on his desk, "Are you trying to get expelled? Shut your mouth!"

"I'll shut my mouth when you get a shower!" Melanie said as Will and Corynne stared at each other and almost burst into laughter. They had no idea that Melanie had the guts to tell off Professor Snape, but now they knew that Melanie was in terrible trouble.

"You are so like your father," Snape said glaring at her, "You now have a years worth of detention." Melanie did not care about detention, she cared about exposing Snape for the Death Eater he was really was, but she had no proof and when Snape went to sit down fate happened. She saw the Dark Mark on his left arm.

She retaliated with, "I may be like my father, but at least my father wasn't a Death Eater." She left Snape's office with a huge smile on her face.

Once they were out of the dungeons Corynne said, "That was amazing! I didn't know you had it in you."

"Someone had to," Melanie siad as they went back to the Slytherin common room smiling and laughing.