The castle was huge and daunting, everything about it made to frighten him as he walked towards the entrance. It was towering over him more and more with every step and he didn't know why he was still going.
He walked over the bridge, leading to the Entrance Hall, and across the moat which was filled with shallow water - something that gave him some relief which meant that there wasn't any killer crocodiles or sharks living in there.
The Queen was sat in the throne room which he was led to once in the castle and he was filled with fear at the dark look on her face. He looked for escape routes but found none.
"Do not be afraid, young one," the Queen spoke, rising from her throne and meeting him at the bottom of the steps that came from her dais. She waved her hands in an extravagant fashion and a small, golden light began to be emitted from the gaudy locket that rested around her neck.
Immediately his eyes latched onto the jewellery and he couldn't look away. He vaguely heard her talk about his uses in the kingdom but he was too focused. It was as if she'd used the locket to hypnotise him.
"Now," she spoke, finally being able to drag his attention away from the necklace and too her. "I need you to do a very brave task for me." He nodded, jutting his chest out to show that he was manly and capable. "I need you to-"
A loud beeping sound echoed through the throne room, shaking the castle walls and causing dust to fall from the rafters. "What is this sorcery?" she screeched. He couldn't answer her and as bricks fell from the walls, his feet were planted firmly in place. "Run, you fool! Try to find the source of this… monstrous noise!"
"I already know what it is," he spoke. "It's my… alarm." He looked around him, with wide eyes and watched as the pieces of the castle disappeared and vanished, to be replaced with the boys dormitory in Gryffindor Tower at Hogwarts. "Damn," he groaned when the Queen turned into a naked Damon Crane, fresh from his shower.
"Have a nice dream, Weasley?" he asked, laughing at the sour face Charlie pulled. "What was it about?"
"Castles and queens," he mumbled.
"Huh, you'd think that since you practically live in a castle for the whole year, that you'd actually dream of something normal."
September Event: dormitory
Gringotts Prompt Bank: Charlie Weasley (character), fear (verb), Damon Crane (male OC name), towering, alarm, frighten, shallow (word set)*, queen, gaudy, dream, hypnotise (word set)*