Mirabel the Witchlet

Trials

Mirabel packs her bag with her mother's food, her journal, and a picture of her family on it. She looks at it brushing her thumb over Antonio's small frame. If tonight doesn't go well he's not going to even remember her.

She clutches it to her chest and whispers in Spanish. "Protect me tonight Abuelo Pedro as you've done before," She says. "You ready?" Mirabel looks at Hermione dressed in a sweater, and skirt. Mirabel gives a nod. "Ready as I'll ever be,"

It was pretty easy sneaking out. Neville did try stopping them though. "Neville move aside we don't want to hurt you," Mirabel said.

"No! I'm not letting you leave, I got nothing left to loose by stopping you," Neville said. Hermione sighs and takes out her wand. Mirabel stops her and looks at Neville. "Neville I know your trying to be brave, and your trying to stop us because you care. If you let us pass we can prove you did nothing to hurt me and you can stay at Hogwarts," Mirabel said. Neville, who was still holding his hands up like he was going to physically fight them, does not pack down, but you could see the hesitation in his eyes. "Neville let us pass. It's one thing to be brave for yourself, but it's another thing to be brave for others," Mirabel said.

This seemed to get to Neville who slowly lowers his arms. "Neville if we're not back by lunch tomorrow tell Dumbledore where we are okay?" Mirabel asks. Neville looks unsure. "Neville if you want to help us be safe, this is your best chance," Mirabel said. "If you don't Hermione will do something to stop you," Ron points out. Neville lowers his arms and has a defeated. "If your not back in the morning I'll tell Dumbledore," He said.

The four passed, but Neville grabs mirabel's arm. "Please come back. I'm sorry for not going near you, I was afraid I would hold you back," He says. Mirabel gives a kind smile. "It's okay," she said as she left with the others.

"How do you do that?" Hermione asks her as they walked to the third corridor. "Just something I'm good at," She said with a shrug. "My mum would call it a gift," Mirabel winces at Ron's words, but they don't really seem to notice.

They reached the corridor and walked down to the door where fluffy was. Harry grabbed the door knob and holds up a hand to his mouth to tell them to be quiet.

They opened the door and saw Fluffy was fast asleep with a paw over the trap door. In the corner a harp was playing soft music, Mirabel almost yawned just hearing it.

"Snape's already been through here," Harry said. "Than we best hurry," Hermione said being ever the brave one and walking forward. She carefully pushes the paw off the trap door and gestures for the others to come forward. Harry and Ron open it and the four gather around each of it's sides looking down in a seemingly endless hole.

"Should we just jump?" Mirabel asks. "No way! What if we land on a troll?" Ron asks and Mirabel shivers remembering that terrible Halloween night. "I'm more worried about facing Snape," Harry admits. As they discuss how to get down Mirabel notices something. "Hey? Isn't it kinda quiet?" Mirabel asks them and they slowly each notice too. "The harp, it stopped playing," Hermione looks at the harp behind her. Ron makes a whimpering sound and Mirabel looks to see dog slobber on his shoulder.

Slowly they all looked up to see Fluffy growling at them with all three heads. Fluffy did not like how Mirabel had brought friends and was very cranky from being woken up. Ron screams and this sets Fluffy off. They tried getting down to the trap door, but Fluffy blocks them with their giant paw. "The door!" Harry yells, but Fluffy quickly rounds on them blocking the door, and the right head kept them from getting too the trap door while the other two looked ready to eat them.

"I can't believe it we're going to die! I'm too young to die!" Ron states terrified as he was backed up against the wall. "We're all the same age!" Hermione snaps. "There's got to be a spell," Harry tries coming up blank. Mirabel's brain was rushing with thoughts of getting out of this when she realizes. "Oh I know!"