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They been at Hogwarts for a month now, things were starting to calm down and the homework was starting to get ridiculous. It was almost eleven o'clock and everyone else was in bed. Except for Jordan and Hailey who were up doing Charms homework. The sound of quill scratching parchment was the only sound that was being heard in the common room.
"Agh! This is ridiculous! Why do we have to do a two page assignment on the effects of the softening charm! This is just down right maddening!" Jordan exclaimed clutching the back of his head before banging it repetitively against the table.
"Stop that, you are giving me a headache by doing that. Come on we are almost finished." Hailey told him as she lifted his head up and gave him a look.
"Okay, okay fine!" He moaned out continuing on with his boring paper, another few minutes went by and Hailey had finished her assignment. She was now just looking at Jordan, trying to figure something out.
"Is there something on my face?" He noticed her staring and was now rubbing his face thinking that there was something on there that she was staring at.
Hailey laughed at him, "No there is nothing on your face. I was just thinking. That's all."
"Well what are you thinking about?" He asked her putting his quill back in its ink holder.
"Remember sorting? You said you were all okay and fine. That it was just over whelming. I knew you were lying that night but I let it go because I know you didn't want to talk about it and we weren't really friends back then but now we are best friends, and I care about you, I just want to know what happened." She blurted it all out. She felt the red coming to her cheeks as she was almost a little embarrassed at her outburst now.
Jordan looked at her, he knew that this would happen eventually, that someone would have eventually caught on that he really wasn't okay that night. "It's nothing Hails, it was over a month ago. I am fine now." He told her.
"Jordan Lee Sim, don't you lie to me. I spend every day with you. Don't you think I can tell when you're lying to me?" Hailey had turned on him very quickly.
"Alright, alright. I will tell you. When the sorting hat was put on my head, he told me I had a half-brother. He didn't say who, or anything. All he said was that he had already sorted him. That I could choose to be with you guys, or him. Or maybe you guys and he would already be in the same house. I don't know what to think is going to happen. I don't know if he is in Gryffindor or anywhere. Or maybe the hat was messing with me. I don't know." Jordan explained it all to Hailey, he looked at her and she had a shocked and concerned look on her face.
"Jordan...if I would have known something like that is what happened then I wouldn't have forced you to tell me what it was. I'm sorry." Hailey got off her seat and walked over to Jordan, pulling him into a soft hug. "We are going to figure this out okay? We will find out who the hat meant and what he was talking about. I promise." She let go of him and gave him one of her smiles, a smile that could light up the room. He would bet all his money that her smile could even make Malfoy smile.
"Thanks Hailey, please don't tell the others okay? I want to tell them when I am ready."
"I won't I promise. We should head to bed though, it's getting very late. Goodnight Jordan." She waved to him and hurried up to her dormitory.
"Goodnight Hails." He said as he watched her go off upstairs before heading to his own dormitory.
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"Man am I hungry, I could eat this whole table!" Christian eagerly started attacking all the food filling up his plate.
Jordan laughed at his friend, who just always seemed to be hungry. "So what do you guys want to do today? It's a weekend. I haven't even seen Rose or Hailey all day so I haven't had the chance to ask them either." He asked looking at his two friends.
As if on cue Rosie and Hailey came running into the Great Hall, "Come on! You guys have to come see this!" Rose exclaimed almost out of breath before taking off running again, the other four in hot pursuit of her.
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What they arrived too wasn't something you saw every day, one of the statues was looked to be pushed out of the way. There was an old secret tunnel that was behind it, that was in front of them now. "What is it?" Christian asked looking at it.
"It seems to be one of the secret entrances but, it looks like it hasn't been used in years." Albus explained as he pulled down one of the cobwebs.
"Where do you think it goes?" Hailey asked, hiding behind the three boys as if something was going to pop out at them.
"I have no idea." Jordan told her as he put his hand on the wall, feeling something wet and sticky on the wall. He pulled his palm had been covered with a dark crimson type substance. It was blood. "That's blood. Something was either trying to escape or get in." Jordan had a quick look of panic on his face as did the other four.
"Well what do we do?" Christian asked still staring at Jordan's hand, eyes like saucers.
"We go check it out of course." Albus told them as he started to enter secret passage.
Rose followed him, muttering a lumos spell that lit up the cave. Followed by Jordan, Christian and then Hailey.
"How did you know that spell?" Christian whispered to her as if someone was listening to them.
"I actually pay attention in class, I always do some reading ahead as well." She told him with a proud look on her face.
"Guys more blood." Jordan told them as he pointed to the walls as they had more handprints along it. "Something was trying to get away." He looked back down the passageway and could see something, something was on the ground. It was moving.
"Look." He whispered, all of them turned their heads to see what it was. Rose pointed her wand at the thing to see it was a student on the ground. Jordan had ran forward to go to them and so did Albus right behind him. Jordan had gotten to the student to see them almost hunched over, he slowly reached out to turn him around, and something didn't feel right. The person in question quickly whipped around blood covering his hands and his face looked like it was peeling off almost.
"Tell McGonagall the beast rises once more. Now run. Get out of here. Run." He whispered out, Jordan noticed it was Josh, the same guy who helped them to their common room when they first arrived at Hogwarts. With that the man gasped in more pain and fell over. Dead. Suddenly the whole passageway started to shake.
"You guys the statue is moving back! It's closing!" Hailey yelled at them as Rose, her and Christian started running back. Jordan couldn't stop staring at the body.
"Come on Jordan let's go! We have to get out of here!" Albus yelled at him pulling on him, Jordan had snapped out of his trance as they started sprinting back to the exit, they could see the statue slowly moving back, there friends yelling at them to hurry.
"They aren't going to make it." Christian said worryingly, he started to push back at the statue to give them more time, soon Hailey and Rose all started trying to push against the statue, trying to slow it down or something.
The three kids were struggling as the statue was over powering them, just before it slid into place Albus had managed to make it through, followed closely by Jordan's tuck and roll dive.
They all just sat there on the ground, no one moving.
"Well that was close." Jordan breathed out as they all sat there nodding their heads.
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"The beast rises once more? What in the bloody hell is that supposed to mean?" Christian said in confusion as Jordan and Albus had explained what had happened in the tunnel.
"I don't know but all I know is that we have to tell McGonagall." Rose told them as they all sat around in the common room.
"Yeah your right, Albus and I will go now to talk to her. You guys stay here and we will go. It's better than us all getting caught and all of us losing house points. Plus me and Albus were the only ones who really saw anything." Jordan told them as he stood up.
"Okay, well just don't get caught. We will be waiting here until you guys get back." Rose told them as the other two agreed.
"Come on Al." Jordan said getting off the couch as the two of them ventured off to go to the Headmistress' office.
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They arrived at the office not being seen by anyone, there really wasn't many people out to begin with so it was much easier. "Great now how do we get in? I don't know the password." Jordan groaned as they both stood there trying to think of something.
Suddenly it all started to rotate as stairs began to appear, they both looked at each other and shrugged, each stepping on a stair as the it rotated its way to the top.
"Do you think she knows we are coming?" Jordan whispered to Albus who just shrugged his shoulders and shook his head not knowing what to think. The phoenix quit rotating once they hit the top, Albus and Jordan walked towards the door, about to knock when it was opened and they were met face to face with Headmistress McGonagall.
"Good evening boys. Don't you think it's a little late to be wandering the halls?" She asked them with a stern look on her face that never seemed to go away.
"Yes Headmistress but we had come upon something important and couldn't wait to tell you what had happened." Albus answered.
"Well please come in then. Share your story." She moved out of the way so the boys could enter her office. The office was piled with books, and everything imaginable. A sword was sitting in a glass case on one of the shelves along with the sorting hat. "Now tell me this story." She told them as she sat down.
"Well we were sitting in the Great Hall at breakfast, then Rose and Hailey had come running in telling us that there was something weird happening and we needed to come take a look. We all ran behind Rose which led us to a statue that looked like it was forced out of the way. We looked around it and it looked like it hadn't been used for years. I reached in to look then I felt something wet on my hand. IT was blood. We all decided to check it all out when we noticed that there was more blood on the walls but in handprints. Like someone was trying to get out or in. Then we noticed a body, Albus and I ran towards it to see if they were okay. It was that fifth year Josh Saprah, he was all bloody and it looked like part of his face was starting to melt off, he looked badly hurt. He told us to run, and then he said..." Jordan was explaining the story as he started to trail off.
"Then he said what Mr. Sim." The headmistress was starting to stand up, leaning on her desk to hear what he had to say.
"He said to tell you that 'the beast rises once more' then the whole passage started to shake so we ran out of there, the statue was moving back and we just barely made it out of there." Jordan was now looking at his feet as he finished telling her.
The headmistress was looking at them with a shocked expression on her face. "Thank you boys, now hurry back to your common room." She was already facing the back wall.
"But McGonagall, what does that mean?" Albus asked her still confused about what everything had meant.
"It is nothing to worry yourself about dear. Now please head back to your common room." She turned around and gave them a soft smile, with that they had turned around knowing they weren't going to get anymore answers.
As they left the office and got back down to the main hall Albus looked over to Jordan. "She looked worried. What do you think is happening?"
"I don't know Al, but whatever it is. We are going to find out." Jordan told him as Albus nodded his head in agreement as they both ventured back to the common room.
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Well there you have it, I told you I was going to turn it up a notch. So many mysterious to become solved! Now Read, Review, PM, Follow or Favourite! Do whatever you please!
