The Slytherin princess

Chapter 14 // everything comes back to this

Hermione's POV // June 6th, the night

"where are you going?"

Draco caught me trying to sneak out after I thought he had already gone to bed

"I don't think it's any of your business really"

he smirked "It is because I wanna come too"

I laughed "no, you always get your fun with potter and I'm always the brain behind it all so I'm having my own fun thank you very much"

I tried to push past him but he grabbed my wrist "fine, but don't do anything stupid"

he let me go

"When do I ever?" I exited the portrait hole, leaving him behind

*

I was waiting outside the Gryffindor common room to see if they show up and just as I was about to leave deciding that they weren't gonna show the portrait swung open and revealed-

nothing?

But when I heard footsteps and Parkinson scolding someone

"ouch, you stood on my foot!"

and weasel replying

"sorry"

I realized they must've had a disillusionment charm over themselves

I followed the sound of their footsteps until we got to the third corridor and they opened a door

I looked inside to see a sleeping gigantic three-headed dog, that doesn't really even begin to describe how big it was, it looked like it was thrice the size of that mountain troll from Halloween.

There was also a harp playing music

'take fluffy for example, just play 'im a bit o' music and he falls straight to sleep'

so this is definitely fluffy, and fluffy is supposed to be protecting the sorcerer's stone? I think I understand it now, kinda

I tuned back into what the trio was saying

"snapes already been here, he's put a spell on the harp" oooh so they thought the man Hagrid was talking about was snape? As if

"urh, it's got horrible breath" you try finding three gigantic toothbrushes

they tried moving one of its paws aside, off the trap door, once it was open I decided to see what would happen if I stopped the playing harp

"I'll go first, don't follow until I give you a sign if something bad happens-"

'fluffy' opened its eyes, oh merlin

"does it seem a bit, quiet to you?"

I tried to use a spell to turn the harp back on but it didn't work

"The harp, it's stopped playing" the dog- dogs- dog? i don't know. it moved closer to the trio

One of them even slobbered all over the red-head

"EW YUCK" they looked up, it was snarling and growling

"AAAAAAAAAAA" they screamed at the same time

"JUMP"

one at a time they each jumped inside the trap door with the three dog heads trying to go after them but not fitting

I ran as fast as I could towards the harp without the dogs noticing and used the spell one last time

"musica dulcedo citharae" the music started playing instantly, making it fall asleep "now? a little late" I sighed in relief that I didn't just become a dog's dinner

I heard screams about devils snare and panicking

what do I do? I can't risk letting them know I'm here so how do I find out if they're ok? I thought for a moment before remembering a spell

"oh yeah! Sensus Veneris" I muttered, my mind instantly latched onto the first person it reached, Parkinson, I could feel her panic and frustration with the boy who wouldn't relax

"Lumos Solem," I thought, I felt her emotions relax as she used the spell to let the boy free "relinquo animo" I muttered the counter curse to leave her mind

The screaming stopped a few seconds later

I didn't hear anything for just under an hour until Parkinson came out of the trap door, dragging Weasel with her

"What happened down there!" they were both covered in soot and blood and bruises

"Zabini? What are you doing here?"

I sighed in frustration "never mind what I'm doing here! What happened... and where's potter"

she shook her head "it doesn't matter, but I need to owl dumbledore, take Ron to the hospital wing"

with an argument, I reluctantly dragged the unconscious boy out of the door, up the stairs, and to the hospital wing

as soon as I walked inside Madam Pomphrey rushed toward us both

"what happened?! And why are you here so late?" she snapped

"I don't know exactly... I'll explain in a minute, where do I put him?" she gestured toward a bed on the right

"put him here" after she cleaned all the soot and blood then fixed his bruises and cuts she turned to me

I explained all I knew- well all I knew that I thought I should tell her and once she allowed me to leave I woke up Blaise, Draco, and Wren to tell them everything too