Title: Crocodile On The Sandbank
Rating: K
Summary: Isis Granger comes to Hogwarts and meets one Teddy Lupin. Soon their both off on Isis first adventure, one that has many unexpected turns and might end up being deadly.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, their owned by J.K Rowling, but I like to have fun with them.
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To notwritten: Thanks for the review.
To sjrodgers108: Thanks for your review, loved it.
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Chapter 5: The Unknown Tomb
"So are we near anything?" Isis asked Teddy.
"I don't think so," Teddy answered. "Of course I've never been in this part of the castle."
The corridor had the smell of time and of no human's around. Cobwebs hung all around and Teddy joked that Ron Weasley would freak out if he saw the cobwebs.
"Why do you ask?" Isis asked him.
"He's scared of spiders," Teddy answered and Isis snorted with laughter.
They continued to walk, sometimes going over chunks of fallen stone, and Isis felt the excitement that her mother claimed she felt when she was about to open a tomb, coming over her. However her mother told her that she had to keep her eyes and ears opened so that she didn't do something that might cause her to end up dead. Finally at long last they reached the end of the tunnel and a sold wall of blue stone stopped them.
"Now this is strange," Isis told Teddy. "The rest of the castle is made of stone but this is a blue stone."
"How do you know?" Teddy asked.
"I've seen examples of it at the museum," Isis answered. "And sometimes it's used to keep people out of a tomb."
Teddy stared at her. "A tomb, but that's impossible."
"It's not," Isis told him. "But the writing on this wall is ancient."
"So we won't find out what it means," Teddy said.
"No we can," Isis told him, "But I'll have to use an Egyptian spell on the writing. It will convert it to a language that I can understand and then I can tell you what the stone is saying."
She didn't have her scroll with her but she remembered the spell by heart. She closed her eyes and chanted the ancient words. As she did the writing changed from whatever it had been to Egyptian.
"Here lies the body of Rowena Ravenclaw, co-founder of Hogwarts and of Ravenclaw House. Let her spirit lie forever in the stars and let her magic protect the castle from harm," she read.
Once she was finished the writing returned to normal.
"Oh my Gods, this is-."
"Ravenclaw's tomb," Isis finished and then she motioned for Teddy to look for any gap in the wall.
"Why?"
"Because no stone slab is placed here without evidence of where it had been placed."
Teddy did as he was told and after a few minutes of looking he pointed something out to Isis.
"This is it," Isis told him, looking at the hole.
She took a piece of stone and started to pick at the hole. As she worked she noticed the hole getting bigger. Suddenly, and without warning, it fell through and Isis covered her nose and mouth.
"We'll come back tomorrow," Isis told him.
"Why?"
"Because we need to let the tomb air out and anyway no one knows that this is here," Isis explained.
Teddy wanted to go in but thankfully he listened to her and both students left.
The next day, after class, Isis and Teddy were back. They had brought candles with them as well as matches. Upon entering the torches flared to life, giving the room more then enough light. Once it was bright enough Isis saw right away that Rowena didn't have a normal burial. Every culture that you could think of was represented here. Celtic, Roman, Greek, and most importantly…Egyptian.
"What in the world is going on here?" Teddy asked.
"I don't know but I think Rowena is showing her love for all forms of knowledge," Isis said. "These worlds were known for their vast amount of knowledge."
"Okay, so what should we do now?" Teddy asked.
"We need to check to see if anyone stole her body," Isis told him. "Then we can sit to work on what to do next."
"Isis, I don't think that the Ministry of Magic will like this," Teddy told her.
Isis frowned. "Why not?"
"Well Rowena Ravenclaw was the greatest witch of the age and to do this would-."
"Teddy, I'm not going to steal anything from the tomb, I'm not like that," Isis said. "But someone else might find this tomb and that person won't care if we find out nothing about her."
Teddy didn't like what she was saying but he followed her.
Rowena Ravenclaw's burial chamber was beyond anything that Isis thought was possible. Rowena had a strange coffin, one that was a mix of Celtic and Egyptian. The writing showed that if anyone, except those that wanted to see this for knowledge, was ever to take anything out they would die.
"A curse, but Rowena didn't do black magic," Teddy said.
"There's a lot of stuff that you don't do when you're alive but do when you're dead," Isis told him.
"I don't believe this," Teddy said.
"Believe it," Isis answered. "Now we need to gather this stuff up and as we remove each item we need to write down what it was."
"And what are you going to do with it?"
"Let the Headmistress do what she believes is right," Isis answered.
"Let's just hope that it doesn't include us being expelled."
Over the next several days Isis wrote down everything that was in the tomb, including what the item looked like and where it had been found. Since she was good at drawing she drew each item. Teddy thought it was pointless but Isis told him that nothing was pointless.
"So when do we tell the Headmistress?" Teddy asked.
"In about a day or two," Isis answered. "I want to make sure that I get everything down."
So while either both of them were done with their homework or Teddy was off doing Flying Lessons Isis was busy working on what she had found. Finally several days after she had told Teddy that in a day or two they would tell the Headmistress Isis had everything finished. She closed the notebook, gathered her notes, and then headed off to see the Headmistress.
However she had never been to the Headmistress office so she didn't know where it was. Finally she found a teacher and told him that she needed to see the Headmistress.
"Whatever for?" the man asked.
"I've found something that she will be interested in," Isis told him.
He looked at her, doubtful, but took her to see the Headmistress.
The Headmistress office was plain but nice-looking. Headmistress McGonagall looked at Isis when she walked in and the door was closed. Isis noticed that today she was wearing the same thing that she wore all the time. Isis wondered if the woman ever changed into something different.
"What can I do for you?" McGonagall asked.
"I've found something that you might be interested in," Isis told her. "But you need to see if first. Once you do then you'll fully understand why I'm here."
McGonagall looked at her with a strange expression but got up and followed Isis out.
McGonagall gasped when she entered the tomb of Rowena Ravenclaw. Isis told her about Peeves chasing them and how they had found the tomb. When she told McGonagall that Rowena's body was still here she turned to Isis.
"You didn't open it, did you?" McGonagall asked.
"No," Isis answered. "However do you want to see it?"
McGonagall nodded at once and Isis led her into the burial chamber. However Isis noticed something off. Things were scattered everywhere and in a corner Isis felt like screaming. There was a dead body there and it was the man that had showed her where the Headmistress office was.
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A/N: Okay, I don't think that Isis expected that. Next up: The school hears of the find and thinks that the tomb is cursed.
