Chapter 25

Harry walked up the staircase that led to the common room. He was dead tired from the game and wanted to get to the common room as fast as possible. He walked up a certain flight of stairs which suddenly started shifting.

"Ain't no place safer my ass Sirius, goddamn place is a hazard" Harry said.

The stairs stopped towards a door, Harry looked at the door and knew that it wasn't the common room. He knew he had to stay put but something about the room was drawing him in, suddenly…

Flash

"Where is the boy?" the high pitched voice asked.

"No, not Harry!" a woman screamed.

Harry shook the image from his head and then walked towards the door. Soon he began hearing a voice in his head.

"Get him out of here! Now!"

Harry kept walking towards the door. As he was walking, the throbbing in his head grew more painful. As he reached the door and placed his fingers on the knob…

Flash

Someone's wand was pointed at a woman. She was screaming. Then came a flash of green light. The woman dropped dead to the floor.

Harry started panting as he opened the door to reveal a dimly lit corridor. Harry sighed in relief as it wasn't as he thought it was. The only question on his mind was why this place was so dark and empty.

"Of course, I'm not supposed to be here. This is the third floor" he said to himself.

He looked around the corridor and didn't see much apart from a door to his right side. Part of him wanted to turn back and head to the common, the other part of him was curious. Harry decided to feed his curiosity and headed towards the door.

As he moved closer he heard a strange, yet soothing sound emitting from the other side of the door. Once he got to the door he heard it much clearly.

"Music…but what kind of instrument was that?" he asked himself.

Harry slowly tried to open the door but the handle wouldn't budge. He pulled out his wand and whispered "Alohomora!"

The lock opened by itself, and then Harry slowly opened the door, what he saw next made him gasp so much that he had to cover his mouth. Inside the room was a gigantic, three-headed, black dog.

"What…the…fuck" Harry thought to himself.

He determined that the dog was asleep since it didn't attack or bark at him. It was then that he noticed the enchanted harp playing on his right side.

"So music puts this thing to sleep eh" he said to himself.

He also noticed something else near the base of its paws, so he moved closer to it. All he could make out was the outline of a wooden trapdoor.

"Is this where it's hidden then?" Harry asked himself.

He then slowly began to walk backwards, when the harp suddenly stopped playing. At this point Harry's heart raced because the three-headed was slowly waking up. Harry wanted to move but his body remained frozen. The dog had seen him and caught his scent.

BARK!

Harry started running towards the door but not before pointing his wand to the dog and yelling "Protego Maxima!"

He had casted a shield near the dog so that it couldn't get him. Harry quickly exited the room and locked the door. He was panting heavily, the adrenaline was still pumping, and his heart was still racing, suddenly…

"Who's there?" someone called out.

Harry's eyes went wide, "Shit!"

Ron Weasley had just gotten into the common room, along with a few other Gryffindor's. Everyone immediately went to sleep; he didn't because he had noticed a certain dirty-blonde witch reading a book by the fireplace, alone. He walked over and sat beside her.

"You missed one hell of a game" he said. Hermione responded by groaning.

"Harry was certainly disappointed" he said. This caused a little bit of a reaction from her but not as much as he anticipated.

"I wasn't feeling well. I'm sure he'll understand" she said, softly "Did you guys win?"

Ron nodded his head.

"Well, that should make up for my absence" she said, bitterly.

"You are not something materialistic, Hermione. You can't be replaced if you go missing or are broken. And you know Harry feels the same way about you" he said

"I suppose so" she said again, softly.

"I don't know what happened between you guys, but you two have really got to sort it out" Ron said, a little angrily.

"It's complicated, Ron" Hermione said, rather coldly.

"Well then 'uncomplicated' it for me" he said.

Filch was walking down the corridor, he was getting close to Harry. Harry hid behind one of torch pillars in the middle of the corridor. He could hear Filch coming from his right side. He had only moments to react before getting caught. He pulled out his wand and then yelled "Lumos Maxima!"

A blinding light shone on Filches face, Harry managed to shield his eyes and find a way out. He ran towards the door and hurried up whatever staircase was near him and made his way quickly towards the Gryffindor common room.

For some odd reason he was laughing on his way to the common room. He was laughing because he just made it out of two sticky situations in one piece and found his almost mishap amusing. He reached the common room portrait, "Knox" he said.

"Quite so" the fat lady said before opening up for him.

He climbed through the door hoping to tell his best friends about his little escapade. What he saw once he entered the common room, made his heart sting. Anger, jealousy, sorrow, revenge, hatred all bubbled up inside of him as he saw Hermione Granger hugging Ron Weasley.

AN: Well here it is guys, the next of many chapters to come. I know I've screwed up with timing issues in the story, I hope to fix that issue in the next book. Speaking of which, none of you guys have yet to cast any votes as to who I should not kill in the next story. If you guys don't stop me or say anything I could just kill off some important character, perhaps it could be one of your favourite characters. Remember you guys are voting for who you DON'T want killed. I will tell you right now that Snape, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Dumbledore will be alive for the next one. I want to welcome some new followers to the stories, thank you for favouriting either the story or me (or both). Please guys leave comments, please review it only motivates me to write more.

P.S Sorry it was short, the next one I promise will be longer.