The Light of the Dark: Harry Potter x OC

Chapter Eleven - Year One

"Ow, Ron! You stood on my foot!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Sorry." Ron told her. In order to fit under Harry's invisibility cloak, Hermione had to stand in front of Ron and I had to stand in front of Harry.
We then reached the door and I poked my wand out from under the cloak.

"Alohomora." I said, pointing my wand at the locked door. The lock clicked and the door opened for us. The four of us then walked into the room. The sound of a harp filled my ears and I saw it near the corner of the room. Fluffy was right in front of us, sound asleep. As we slowly got closer to Fluffy, I heard the door close behind us.

"Wait a minute. He's..." Ron was cut off by Fluffy's breath blowing the invisibility cloak off of us.

"...snoring." Harry finished. "Snape's already been here."

"He's put a spell on the harp." I pointed out. The four of us then walked closer to Fluffy.

"Ugh, it's got horrible breath." Ron said as Fluffy exhaled.

"We have to move its paw." Harry observed. One of Fluffy's paws was covering the trap door that we needed to get through.

"What?" Ron asked.

"Come on!" Harry urged. The four of us then leaned down and each grabbed hold of Fluffy's paw. "Okay." Harry said when he saw we all had some sort of grip. "Push." He told us. The four of us pushed Fluffy's paw until it was completely off the trap door. We all then took a step back to make sure Fluffy was still asleep. Once we saw it was, we knelt down and opened the trap door. We then looked down into the hole and saw nothing but absolute darkness. "I'll go first. Don't follow until I give you a sign. If something bad happens, get yourselves out." Harry told us. A confused look then crossed his face. "Does it seem a bit quiet to you?" He asked. It then caught my attention that it was a lot quieter in the room than it had been only moments before.

"The harp," I said with realization, "it stopped playing." We all turned around and looked back at the harp.

"Ugh!" Ron groaned. I looked over to see a large glob of what looked like slime on his shoulder. "Yuck!" The four of us then looked up, attempting to see where it had come from. Standing above us, awake, was Fluffy. It's three heads began to growl at us.

"JUMP!" Harry yelled, jumping in. I followed him as Hermione and Ron jumped in after me. A few seconds later, I landed on something slimy. Suddenly, Ron and Hermione landed near me. I looked ahead and saw Harry right across from me.

"Whoa." Ron said, looking around at all of us. "Lucky this plant thing's here, really."

"Whoa!" Harry yelled, shocked. Suddenly, the vines from the plant were beginning to wrap around us. My legs were tied together and my arms were pinned to my sides. I began to struggle as the vines started closing around my chest until I realized what plant this was.

"Stop moving, all of you." I told them, freezing in place. "This is Devil's Snare."

"You must relax." Hermione told the boys. "If you don't, it will only kill you faster."

"Kill us faster? Oh, now I can relax!" Ron sarcastically yelled out, struggling even more now. I felt myself beginning to sink through the plant. Hermione gave Ron a face and began sinking down herself.

"EMILY! HERMIONE!" The boys yelled. A second later, I felt my feet hit solid ground. I stumbled a little as I landed. I heard someone behind me and turned around to see Hermione land as well.

"You alright?" I asked. Hermione nodded.

"You?" She questioned.

"Never better." I joked, looking back up at the boys.