It had been a week ever since Sidney had been in the hospital wing. She was perfectly at home and safe now. That was...until Harry Potter ruined everything for her.


Sidney heard footsteps outside of the dormitory door. She heard familiar voices; "C'mon Ron!" There was a soft knock on the door, and Harry hissed, "Sidney?" She had gotten used to Harry coming down to check on her. She opened the door, only to be surprised to see her brother's and his redhead friends' heads floating in midair. He looked down, "No time to explain."

Of course, Sidney should've seen that this would lead to trouble, but her brother was beckoning to her. "We're going to prove to you that Snape is up to something." Sidney and Harry had been arguing that her head of house was either good or bad. Harry thought he was going to unleash some, 'sorcerer's stone.' She sighed, "Alright!" Harry put a cloak around her; she looked down to see she was invisible.

The walk was quick; they went up to the third floor. That was when she started feeling she shouldn't be there. "Harry," she whispered, "this is the third floor; it's forbidden!" Harry shook his head and opened a door. She expected to die any moment, but instead of screams, the sound of a harp swayed through the air.

Harry said, "Snape must've cursed the harp..." Sidney shivered; Hermione murmured, "I know Sidney..." Harry said, "We've got to get to the trap door." They got to the trap door and slid the huge dog's paw off of it. Harry went in first. Sidney second. Then Ron and Hermione. Hermione said, "Ew! It feels slimy!" Sidney gasped as something curled around her neck. She looked down and yelped, "Devil's snag!" Hermione said, "Oh, no!"

Sidney couldn't reach her wand; she felt the plant squeezing her. She stopped moving, but this Devil's snag was not normal. She felt the plant slowly strangle her. Harry yelled out to her, "Sidney?!" She croaked, "This isn't normal." The snag wrapped around her throat three more times. She gulped as it squeezed.

Hermione reached her wand finally and yelled out the light charm. Unluckily for the others, her wand was facing down. the snag dropped her to a platform below. She heard Ron and Harry yelling for her. That was when she heard Sidney's groans of pain and concentration. She pointed the wand up at Harry, and he fell. Then Ronald screamed, "HARRY, IT'S SIDNEY! QUICK, GET HER DOWN THERE!"

Ronald watched Sidney as she changed from red to crimson to slightly purple. Suddenly there was a sharp crack; Sidney winced, and tears streaked from the corners of her eyes. Suddenly the plant let go of him and he fell.

Harry was panicking. Hermione yelled the charm and Sidney fell onto her back. She groaned, "Harry, if you ever do that again, I'll kill you!" They went through a door and Sidney gasped, "Keys!" No, Harry thought, they're birds. That was when he noticed the heads weren't beaked.

Sidney said, "Harry, that one with the broken wing must be the one to the door." Harry nodded, and said, "You go ahead." She shook her head, "Didn't you see me on that broom? I couldn't hold on. No, Harry, you have a go." He nodded, "Alright!" He mounted the old broom in the middle of the room and took off after the key.

Sidney immediately felt bad because she knew how much keys hurt when they were hurled at you. It must've been even worse; the keys were throwing themselves at him. One of them cut him in the cheek. Hermione tensed up beside her, "Harry...!" He reached out and the key was in his hand. All the keys hurled themselves after him as he threw the key to Ron. He yelled, "OPEN THE DOOR!" They threw the door open as he zoomed past. Sidney was the last out; a few keys stabbed her. She didn't show her pain; she slammed the door to a close and ran away from the door. They all heard the thuds of the keys as they plunged into the door. That was when Sidney realized that she hated keys more than anything...except for dark magic.

Harry looked back to see his sister lean against the wall. She said, "Rest..." He nodded; he was tired too. They took a short rest. Sidney said, "Get the keys out my back, will you?" Harry gasped when she turned around. She had five keys in her back. None of the wounds were lethal. He sighed when she had them all out, though.

The next room they'd entered looked like a chess board; wizard's chess. Harry and Hermione tried to simply walk through it, but Sidney knew better. The chess pieces made a gate around her brother and his friend. Ronald said, "We've got to play!"


I love this chapter's names; The idiotic side of Harry Potter!