Title: Lost and Found
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 326
DramioneDrabble's Halloween2011 prompt 4: chocolate, enchanted, banshee
Notes/Warning: little bit of horror
Draco walked briskly around the next bend in the corridor and swore at the three possible paths in front of them. "When will this bloody maze end?"
Hermione trailed behind him while casting direction-finding charms. "It's no use. The magic in this place is messing with my compass spells. Even marking which way we've come doesn't help as they are erased a moment later."
Deciding on the left passage, they rounded a corner and startled the floating woman who resided there. Her face flared in anger and she shrieked at them.
"A Banshee! RUN!" Clasping hands over ears, they ran haphazardly taking turn after turn.
Finding themselves at a dead end, they stopped and panted. They listened in fear of pursuit, but all was quiet. Hermione sagged with relief, even though her heart would not stop pounding.
A dark square was thrust under her nose. "Chocolate? It'll help dissolve the fear."
"Among other things," she said vaguely as she took the sweet from him. "Thanks."
After calming down, Hermione noticed a small mark on one of the lower stones. "This is one of the markers I put down in a corridor. What is it doing at a dead end?"
"Well, it is an enchanted castle."
"That's the key then, Malfoy!" Hermione looked like a kid at Christmas. "That's how we get out of the maze." She closed her eyes and envisioned the way out, pointing her wand in the direction of the marker, and chanted Portus. In the flash of an instant, the wall disappeared and the main corridor of the ancient place came into view.
"Brilliant. Perhaps I should have fed you the chocolate sooner," he smirked.
"Oh, hush. At least, we won't be seeing anymore of that Banshee."
"Point. Let's hurry and make it to the Halloween feast. I'm starved." Taking her hand, Draco led her out of the Hogwart's Mysterious Maze put up just for tricks and treats and sauntered back to reality.