I walk some stairs up, slither through long corridors until I arrive to an indoor square. They have to be my favorite places of the castle. I can see the moon, which is, I guess, ten days from a full moon. It's cold, and I wish I brought a jacket. My heartbeat is even, my cheeks back to normal, Lucius is already a fading memory, until tomorrow. I lower my hair down, it's pitchblack, and I rather like it. The wind is cool and I decide to go inside the castle and wander some more.
I hear footsteps. I hope it's not Filch, or worse, his cat. I'm afraid of cats like her, they seem to communicate with their owners. I hear chuckles, those are not from one person, and I know they belong to.
"Queen S wandering by night in the castle, wonder what Slughorn would think of it" says Potter. "What were you guys doing in the common room, approximately 76 minutes ago?"
I try as hard to ignore him, but now I have to know what he's talking about. Our secret meeting ? No one knows about it, even the two pussies don't remember. How could they know? Or are they talking about Lucius. I blush.
"I'm sorry, but I don't know what you are talking about. And, if I'm not mistaken, you are not allowed either to wander by night. Am I wrong?" My tone is even, but the words are almost spitten. I hate them, especially Potter and Black. Lupin is understanding, he could have done a great job in Slytherin. Black talks :
"I was asking myself, under what circumstances, you and my sister could have been sitting in the same room for almost two hours. After midnight." They are talking about our meeting, who told them?
"I don't know who told you that, but he must have dreamt it." I snap. I turn myself in an elegant but sharp way and walk towards my common room. I have at least fifteen minutes of walk, but thankfully I know my way and I won't get lost. The castle is really hard to map even in the most brightest minds. This time, Lupin talks. I stop, but don't face him, he always disturbs me, the way he is right all the time.
"No one told us that. We just know." I chuckle, fool words to scare me. "And no, those are not rubbish sentences, we know a lot more than you do."
I turn around. As if four, but really it's only three, the last boy never talks, pitiful Gryffindor could scare me off, or better, know more than I did. I probably knowledge more things than the four of them reunited.
"Well, then, enlighten me. Tell me one thing I don't know." My tone must be very arrogant because more arrogant than me, Potter, answers.
"There are four boys, at least, that know that Malfoy is not faithful to Sirius' sister, and that she's cheated on because of you."
And now I'm shocked. How on Earth could they know that. Even Severus doesn't know! Should I be afraid of Black now that I'm offending his sister? Probably not, he hates her as much as I do, no wonder why. I close my mouth as soon as I feel it's open, but it's probably too late. There is a slight vicious smile on Potter's face. It's no more secret, and all will have to stop. I don't want any trouble, I already have my owns. I hear more footsteps in the corridor. And as smart as they say they are, they don't even move a bit. Black opens a parchment.
"What do you think you are doing, we should run !" I say, hoping they might protect me. I put the most angelic smile on my face, the kinda smile all guys fall for, even though Potter seems to be insensitive.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good", says Black. I'm really confused now, and I don't want troubles two weeks before final exams. I'm about to talk again, because I don't understand how parchment will help us out. But Black anticipates it and goes for a "Shhhh."
But then I see it, the parchment is alive. It looks like a map, I hope of Hogwarts to take us to the best secret stairs I'm not aware of. Then it moves, dots on the map moves. Lupin has a little laugh when he sees me, because I'm making the best surprised face you can imagine. I spot our names in a corridor, which explains how they knew about the meeting. I can tell them we were partying, we Slytherin know how to throw huge ones. This could be a small one, and Lucius and I are over, I don't want them to spot me again on the map with him on a same couch.
"It's Filch. There is a secret passage way a bit back and on the left. Dunno where it goes but let's do it." Says Potter, and to my surprise, he grabs my arm for me to follow them. They are not letting me down, quiet respectable, but now I owe them, I don't like that.
The passage way is behind a tapestry, I never knew of this one, never the saw the tapestry either. We are walking in the dark, and the forth guy is wining because he's afraid. He's disgusting, who would cry in front of me?
"Lumos" I whisper, and we now see we are in front of stairs, going up and down."Which way?" I ask. Black comes next to me with his map and points an empty wall on the map.
"This is where we are right now. It's not on the map, but it was seconds ago." By the way he is frowning, I know we feel the same : very, very curious. I now understand that the map changes because of the steps of people, but the fact that the walls are changing is really weird. "Let's not move, and wait till Filch is far away. Then we all go to our respective common room. Understood Queen S?" I nod, even though my curiosity is killing me right now. Where does this passage way lead ?