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Chapter 16

Ellie's p.o.v.

That night, we waited until everyone went to bed, I had a few things in my backpack just in case we needed it. I ended up talking to them for a bit until everyone was gone.

"I think it's safe to get the cloak." I said

"What are you doing?" I turn my head to see Neville, He was sitting behind an armchair, clutching Trevor the toad.

"Nothing, Neville, nothing," Harry said hurriedly putting the cloak behind his back.

"We were just gonna stay up and talk some more." I quickly said

"You're going out again." He said.

"No, Neville it's not like that." I said

"No,Why don't you just go on up to bed?" Hermione said

"No, I won't let you go," he said, looking nervous. "You'll get Gryffindor into more trouble!"

"Neville, you got it all wrong, just go to bed." I said

"I won't let you guys go." he said hurrying to stand in front of the portrait. "I'll…I'll fight you!"

"Neville." Ron exploded "Get away from the hole and don't be an idiot…"

"Don't call me an idiot!" Neville growled out "I don't think you should be breaking any more rules! And you were the one who told me to stand up to people!"

"Yes, but not to us," Ron said in exasperation. "Neville, you don't know what you're doing." He took a step forward and Neville dropped Trevor the toad who leapt out of sight.

"Go on then, try and hit me!" He said raising his fists. "I'm ready!"

I knew that we were wasting time before I could even grab my wand, Hermione pulled her wand out and pointed it at Neville.

"I'm sorry about this, Neville." she said. "Petrificus Totalus!"

Suddenly his whole body went rigid and he fell to the ground. I got worried and ran over to Neville, he couldn't move a muscle the only thing he could move were his eyes.

"Did you just do that?" I asked Hermione.

"Yes, It's a fully body bind," she said. "Oh, I'm so sorry Neville!"

"Sorry Neville, I'll give you one of my seashells Necklaces later." I told him.

"We had to Neville, no time to explain." Harry said

"You'll understand later, Neville." Ron said

Then we all got underneath the cloak and left the room. We managed to make it to the third floor without anyone noticing us, but Peeves was almost close in catching us if it wasn't for Ron's imitating the bloody baron's voice, we got away Scott free.

After a few minutes we made it to the room that Fluffy was in. When we opened the door, the dog started to growl and Harry pulled out his flute. As soon as the music started, the dog fell right to sleep. Beside the dog's foot, there was a harp. We knew that someone already got here.

We carefully moved Fluffy's paw to see the trap door, when we opened the door it was pitched black.

"Okay, who goes first?" Hermione asked nervously.

"I'll go first," I said.

Ron gave me an encouraging smile as I prepared to jump.

"Geronimo!" I shouted as I jumped through the trapdoor and landed onto something soft, I moved my hand and I felt vines and leaves, as if I jumped into a pile of leaves.

"Are you okay?" Ron called down to me.

"Yeah," I called back up. "It's a soft landing, you guys can jump!"

In less than a minute Ron and Hermione were with me, I looked up waiting anxiously for Harry. I heard growling noises from above, I figured that fluffy was awake. I saw a small figure jump in before anything happened. Once I saw that Harry was okay and unharmed I let out a sigh of relief.

"What is this stuff?" Harry asked.

I look down at myself My legs were bound tightly in long creepers without me noticing. Hermione was able to free herself before it had a firm grasp on her. I fought with all my might to break free yet the more I fought against it. The tighter it got.

"Stop moving!" Hermione ordered us. "I know what this is…it's Devil's Snare!" I felt my eyes widen slightly as I froze.

"Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help!" Ron snarled leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck.

"Shut up for a minute!" I snapped."Devil's snare...I remember now!" I stayed still calming myself down feeling the vines a bit loose. "Guys! If you keep moving it'll be tighter!"

"Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare…What did Professor Sprout say?...it likes the dark and the damp." Hermione recalled

"So light a fire!" Harry choked out.

"Yes of course! But there's no wood!" Hermione cried, wringing her hands.

"HAVE YOU GONE MAD?" Ron bellowed "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?"

"Stop shouting!" I snapped feeling around for my wand.

Then Hermione pulled out her wand and said a spell that made blue fire out of her wand causing the plant to unravel itself from us all. We ran far away from that place.

"Lucky you two pay attention in class…" Harry said as we walked through the passageway.

"Maybe you should do it too." I answered

"Lets go that way." Harry said, pointing down a stone passageway, which was the only way forward. All you could hear was the gentle drips of water trickling down the walls.

"Can you hear something?" Ron whispered after a bit. I stopped to listening to the sound. "Do you think it's a ghost?"

"I don't know…sounds like wings to me."Harry said

"It could be bugs or something." I answered

We reached the end of the passage way and saw another room, It was full of small, jewel bright birds, fluttering and tumbling all around the room. On the opposite side of the chamber was a heavy wooden door.

We all ran and tugged at that door. It wouldn't budge we eve tried to use charms on it to open the door and nothing.

Now what?" Ron said.

"These birds…they can't be here just for decorations." Hermione said staring up around us.

"They're not birds!" Harry said suddenly. I look up looks very closely,they are keys. "They're keys! Winged keys, look carefully. So that must mean…"

I saw a few broomsticks on the wall, fro that I knew that it meant that we had to catch them and find which key would open the door. I look back at the lock on the door "We're looking for a big, old fashioned one…probably silver, like the handle. You guys grab the keys and give them to me."

I watched as Harry, Hermione, and Ron grab a broomstick and soar into the midst of keys.

Harry flew around the ceiling while being somehow attacked by the many keys that flew around him. Somehow, in all of that confusion, he managed to find it.

"There it is!" Harry yelled.

When he tossed the key to me and i quickly unlocked the door and ran in. Within seconds, the others quickly went to the door. I slammed the door shut before any of the keys got through.

"Now what?" Hermione asked looking ahead.

The room that was pitch black before them, suddenly filled with light. In front of it stood what I was shocked to see a giant chessboard.

"We've got to play our way across the room." Ron said I saw behind the white pieces there was a door.

"How?" Hermione asked nervously

"I think, we're going to have to be chessmen." He walked up to the black knight and put his hand out to touch the knights horse. At once, the stone sprang to life. The horse pawed the ground and the knight turned his helmet to look down at Ron.

"Do we…er…have to join you to get across?" The black knight nodded. Ron turned to us.

"This needs thinking about." He said "I suppose we've got to take the place of four black pieces…" I stare at Ron shocked and he was serious. But since Ron is the only one in the group that's the most experienced in this. "We have to take the spot on the chess board and play"

"Okay…" Ron said looking at the board. "Harry, you take the place of the bishop…Hermione, the castle…Ellie, you can be other castle…"

"What about you?" Harry asked.

"I'll be a knight," Ron walked over to take his place and the rest of us did the same.

Soon there was a huddle of limp black players slumped along the wall. Twice, Ron only just noticed that Harry and Hermione were in danger. Ron would dart around the board, taking almost as many white pieces as we had lost black ones.

"I'm going to have to be taken." Ron said thinking carefully at the game, seeing all of the remaining pieces in the game.

"NO!" we all yelled at him.

"You can't Ron!" I yelled."You could get seriously hurt!"

"It has to be done," he told us. "When I move forward, Harry you'll be able to checkmate the king."

"But-"Me and Harry started

"Do you want to get to that Stone or not?" he asked cutting us off.

Then he moved forward a single space and the queen moved to take him. When the queen struck him,I couldn't breath I got scared as she smashed him into the ground and Hermione screamed, I started to shake I wanted to move to check on him but we were still playing. I looked over to my brother who was already walking.

"Checkmate!" Harry said as he moved to his new space.

The king took his crown off his head and threw it to the ground. The game was over and we had won, I ran over to check on Ron to see if he was okay. A few scrapes and cuts, he was still breathing as I let out a sigh of relief. I glanced at my brother and Hermione running towards us.

"How is he?" Hermione asked watching us.

"He's still breathing."I said

"Hermione, try to wake Ron up," Harry said. "When he does, you two use the brooms from the key-room to get out and when you do, go straight to the Owlery and send Dumbledore a letter."

She nodded and said, "Good luck."

Me and Harry ran down the passageway.

"If each teacher was using a spell to guard the stone That only leaves us with Quirrell and Snape's spells." I said remembering the conversation.

We had finally reached another door. Harry pushed it open a disgusting smell filled the room. It smelled so bad like a mixture of gym shorts and sweaty socks with moldy cheese.

I gagged slightly and saw in front of us was a troll, he was even larger than the one Harry and Ron had tackled to save me and Hermione, the troll was out cold with a bloody lump on its head.

"I'm glad we didn't have to fight that one." Harry whispered as we carefully stepped over one of the massive legs.

"So disgusting...it stinks worse than when I had to do my dad's laundry...I'd rather smell stinky fish than this." I said pulling open the next door. There was a table with seven different shaped bottles standing on it in a line.

"Snape's," Harry said before facing me. "What do we have to do?" We stepped over the threshold, and immediately a fire sprang up behind us in the doorway. It wasn't ordinary fire either; it was purple. At the same time, black flames shot in the doorway leading onward. We were trapped.

I noticed a roll of paper lying next to the bottles. I started reading it out loud.

'Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,

Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,

One among the seven will let you move ahead,

Another will transport the drinker back instead,

Two among out number hold only nettle wine,

Three of us are killers, waiting bidden in line.

Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore,

To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:

First, However slyly the poison tries to hide

You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;

Second, different are those who stand at either end,

But if you would move onward, neither are your friend;

Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,

Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;

Fourth, the second left and the second on the right

Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.

"It's a riddle..." I said "This might take a while."

I knew that Harry isn't good with anything that's related to potions so I was alone on this one I kept reading it and looked at the bottles in between it I started to hum a bit.

"Are you humming? At a time like this?!" Harry said

"Hey! It helps me think!" I stated

"So?" Harry said "Are you done?"

"Give me a second, I almost had it until I was interrupted." I said.

I read through the paper again making sure everything I thought of was right.

"I got it." I said grabbing the smallest bottle. "The smallest bottle gets you through there."

"Are you sure?" Harry asked.

"When it comes to riddles and potions I'm never wrong." I said reassuringly.

Before Harry took a sip of the potion he looked at me.

"Ellie, well...if we don't make it out I just want to say that I'm glad that you're my sister..."Harry said.

I literally felt my eyes water. "Don't say stuff like that..."I said I looked at my brother...my only brother, I gave him a hug. "I'm so glad that you're my brother..." after the hug Harry held the bottle.

"Ready?" he asked.

"Always." I replied

He took a small sip and gave me the bottle. I took a sip, I felt like It was like ice was flooding through my body. I put the bottle down and walked through the black flames while my brother held my hand comforting eachother. We entered the other side in the last room.

I saw someone was already there. It wasn't Snape. And it wasn't Voldemort.

"You?...I did not see that coming." I said clearly shocked.

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