Chapter 9: The Three-headed Dog!
They were again quickly walking forwards, and towards their common room as it was still darkness around them.
"I'm telling you, it's spooky. She knows more about you than you do!" Ron whispered and looked back at Hermione who was walking behind them.
"Who doesn't!" Hadriana was sad that it was the truth, and it made her irritated because no one would talk to her.
When the staircase where the three of them were standing, began to move. This caused Hermione, who was walking in front of them, to fall back, Hadriana caught her before she faceplanted on the ground.
"What's happening?" Hadriana asked to get their thoughts away from what nearly happened.
"Remember? The staircases move." Hermione said in her know-it-all voice, something Hadriana still grated over as it was irritating. It moved until it connected with another platform, leading to a wooden door.
Hadriana smiled and patted Ron on his shoulder before gesturing to the door that was standing in front of them.
"Let's go this way," Hadriana said, while Ron and Hermione followed her through the door not wanting to be caught in the moving staircase again.
Opening the door they came to a dark corridor, a corridor covered in cobwebs and dust. "Does anybody else think we shouldn't be here?" Ron asked them, as they continued walking.
"We are not supposed to be here, this is the third-floor corridor! It's forbidden." Hermione said, in her holier-than-tough voice.
"Wouldn't this corridor be better charmed if they didn't want us to wander this way?" Hadriana questioned out loud, though no one listened to it because they were so shocked that they even were there in the first place.
"Sorry, we didn't hear it!" Hermione and Ron said at the same time, because maybe then they would have questioned the headmaster earlier than their fourth year.
"It's okay," Hadriana said, knowing that they were thinking about why it went years before they questioned the dear headmaster.
Then a pillar suddenly lit up the room behind them, then a black cat came tripping through the door they had just entered in.
"Let's go," Hadriana said worried and turned around where the three heard a meow, making them all stop.
"It's Flich's cat!" Hermione said with wide eyes, as they looked at one another.
"Run!" Hadriana yelled quietly, and they ran through the corridors that lit up as they did, "quick let's hide through that door," Hadriana told them and pointed at a random door to their left, while the other two nodded in agreement.
Running over to the door she tried to pull the handle, but it wouldn't budge open. "It's locked!" Hadriana whispered.
"That's it! We're done for." Ron said, running his fingers down his face.
"Oh, move over!" Hermione said, and slightly pushed Hadriana out of the way even when she was about to take out her wand to cast a spell. "Alohomora," Hermione whispered before Hadriana could, and heard the door unlock on its own.
Hadriana grumbled irritated to have been shoved like she couldn't do anything without someone's help.
They looked at one another, before rushing into the locked room. Hermione entered first followed by Hadriana and then Ron that closed the door behind them.
"I am sorry, Hadri." Hermione winched, because of how she behaved like they couldn't read back then.
"It's okay, we're good," Hadriana told her.
"Oh, Thank Helga!" Some Hufflepuff's exclaimed together with Ted Tonks, as he put his hand over his heart glad that things worked out.
"I don't think you will be saying that after what happens next!" Ron told him smirking, but at the same time looking on.
"Alohomora?" Ron asked confused over the spell.
"Standard Book of spells. Chapter seven." Hadriana told them before Hermione could say anything more, and they heard Filch hurried steps running down the corridor. Glad that they had escaped his wrath.
They heard him talking to his cat before t became quiet. "Filch is gone." Whispered Hermione in relief.
"He thinks the door is locked," Ron told them because he and Hermione still weren't watching what was going on behind them, not noticing Hadriana's terrified posture at what she was looking at.
"For good reason," Hadriana said as Ron and Hermione turned around to see what she was looking at.
There waking up from its nap, a giant tree-headed dog stood in front of them, growling, all six eyes trained in on the trio.
Every other student was glued to their seats in fear wondering what was happening and how such an animal could be in the school at all. The first years huddled into the older students to have some comfort.
The trio of students, watched as the beast came more and more alive. Fear coursed through their bodies, as they suddenly began to scream loudly – Hermione quickly opened the door and they ran out of there quickly as they could manage. One of the dog's heads poked out of the door, or tired to, as they struggled to close it before they locked it once again.
Hadriana just shook her head in disbelief because this wasn't the worst thing that had happened to them. *I wonder how they are going to take the other years… *
*Me too! * sighed Sirius, *this isn't even the worst year, pretty much one of the tamest if you don't count your sixth or eighth. *
While they were talking to one another there was being held another talk with the grown-ups of the generating they had invaded.
"WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THAT IN A SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN!" Euphemia, Molly and Andromeda yelled at the same time, as they turned to Dumbledore together with McGonagall in outrage.
"THAT THING COULD HAVE KILLED THEM! IT COULD HAVE DESTROYED THEM!" Continued Molly Weasley to yell at the headmaster.
The headmaster didn't show much emotion over what was happening, because surely the reason would be explained at the end.
The three of them ran all the way back to the Gryffindor common room, not even stopping to catch their breaths. Ron practically screamed the password at the Fat Lady who opened it without a question.
Hadriana and Hermione fell onto the couch trying to calm their breath, panting heavily looking at one another with disbelief written all over their faces.
"What do you think they are doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?" Ron asked once they had all caught up with their breath.
"You don't use your eyes, do you? Didn't you see what it was standing on?" Hermione asked while he gave her an offended expression.
"I wasn't looking at its feet! I was looking at its heads. Or maybe you didn't notice. It had three!" Ron quietly yelled, staring at her like she was insane as they walked upstairs and into their dormitories.
"Guys, it was standing on a trap door!" Hadriana told them both before another argument could be issued between them.
"That means that it wasn't there by accident!" Hermione told them as a matter of fact.
"Guarding something?" Ron questioned curiously.
"Right! Now, if you two don't mind I want to sleep before tomorrow." Hadriana told them, without saying so much as a word.
"I am going to bed before the two of you come up with another clever plan to get us killed! Or worse expelled!" Hermione said like no one heard and walked up to the girls' dormitories and slammed the door.
"She needs to sort out her priorities!" Ron mumbled to Hadriana before things got yet more interesting with Hermione walking out again and dragging Hadriana into the room with her. Hadriana couldn't help but roll her eyes at the girl, but knew that they needed to go to sleep soon.
"Certainly interesting, I wonder what else will happen." One of the many auror stationed around the room said curiously.