Hogwarts: Alone Again

Midnight Duel

Chapter 5: A Three Headed Monster
Ron and Hermione were arguing for the past few minutes, until Harry got tired of them. "Shut up, both of you! I heard something."

[Name] look around, wondering what Harry could've heard until she heard some snuffling movements in the dark. She quickly hid behind him, not wanting to know what on the other side.

"Mrs. Norris?" Ron whispered, squinting in the dark trying to see who was walking towards them. As the group walked together into the dark, they let out their collective breath as it was only Neville who was sleeping on the ground, but was suddenly awake after hearing their footsteps.

"Thank goodness you found me! I've been out here for hours. I couldn't remember the new password to get in to bed."

Ron whispered quietly while yelling at Neville to keep his voice down and telling him the password, giving him the bad news that the Fat Lady had already left.

"How's your arm?" Harry asked

"It's fine, Madam Pomfrey mended it in about a minute." He said, showing them his arm being okay

[Name] sigh of relief and smile, glad that Neville is alright while Harry was telling him that they gotta be somewhere until Neville convinced them to not leave him alone especially since the Bloody Baron's had already past twice.

Ron glance at his watch and glared at Hermione, [Name] and Neville, "if either of you get caught, I'll never rest until I've learned that cursed of the bogies, Quirrell told us about, and used it on you."

Hermione was about to open her mouth, possibly to tell Ron how to use it but noticed the look she received from [Name] and Harry, which she kept her mouth shut. The group headed down the corridors as the moonlight shine from the window up high, [Name] was holding onto Neville sleeves which almost startled him.

They sped up to the staircase on the third floor and headed towards the trophy room. There was crystal trophy cases that glimmered from the moonlight shining on them, as there was cups, shields, plates and etc. Their back was against the wall, keeping their eyes on the door just in case Draco walked into this room.

As minutes crept by, Malfoy and his friend was still not here. "He's late, maybe he's chickened out." Ron whispered. A door open causing them to jump, as Harry was raised his wand until they heard a voice that doesn't match Malfoy.

"Sniff around, my sweet, they might be lurking in a corner." Flich said, letting her cat Mrs. Norris sniff around for any wandering students that are still out past curfew. They scurry down the long gallery full of armors suits, as Flich was getting closer. Neville let out a frightened squeak and started to run, unfortunately for [Name], she got caught into this as his arms was around her waist tumbling both of them into the armors as it made a lot of noise that alerted Flich and her cat.

"Run!" Harry yelled, and the group sprinted down the gallery not wanting to look back to see if Flich was on their tail. They continue their way down the corridor then another, as they were running blindly and ripped through a tapestry and found themselves in a hidden passageway. At the end of the passageway, they somehow ended up in Charms classroom.

"I think we've lost him." Harry said, out of breath from all that running while leaning against the cold wall.

[Name] had also ran out of breath, clinging her chest as her heart was beating fast. Hermione was keeping telling Harry and Ron that she's told them so, panting.

"We've got to get back to Gryffindor Tower, as quickly as possible." Ron said

"Malfoy tricked you," Hermione said, directed at Harry, "you realized that, don't you?" She explained how Malfoy must've tipped off Flich about them being out past curfew.

"Let's go." Harry replied, about to head out until the doorknob rattled and something shot out of a classroom in front of them. In front of them was a ghost named Peeves, caught the students in his cosight and let out a loud squeal of delight.

"Shut up, Peeves, please you'll get us thrown out."

Peeves started to cackle, "Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty." He taunted them

Ron pleaded to Peeves to not rat them out, unfortunately Peeves continue to taunt them even saying that he should tell Flich. Ron snapped, "Get out of the way." He took a swing at him, which was quite a big mistake to do to a ghost.

Peeves was quite upset and started to yell, "Students out of bed! Students out of bed down the charms corridor!"

[Name] ran after the others, running down the corridor when the door was locked in front of her. She started to panic, as she didn't want to get expelled after being here for a couple of days.

"This is it! We're done for! This is the end!" Ron groan, pushing the door helplessly, as footsteps could be heard knowing it was Flich since he heard the yelling from Peeves.

"Oh, move over." Hermione grabbed Harry's wand and casted Alohomora on the lock. The door was unlocked and swung open, they enter the room and shut the door behind them.

Behind the closed door, Flich was questioning Peeves on where they were at, but the ghost was teasing him and avoiding his question. [Name] sighed of relief, hearing Flich footsteps walking away while hearing him curse in rage.

"He thinks this door is locked, I think we'll be okay," Harry whispered, feeling something on his back, looking behind him to see it was Neville. "Get off, Neville!"

Neville was tugging on his sleeves for past couple of minutes, which started to annoy him. "What?!" Harry shouted, until looking up to see a monstrous dog creature with three heads, as all of them were drooling with yellowish fangs ready to take their meal on the first years.

[Name] was wondering why it went quiet and turned around to see the three headed dogs which almost cause her to faint. The door suddenly opened, she wasted no time running out of the door with the others as Harry slammed it shut.

They continue to run down the corridor and back to Gryffindor Tower, [Name] was breathing heavily as she needs to take a breather before heading back to Ravenclaw Tower.

"[Name] do you want to stay with us for the night, it quite late and who knows what happens if you bump into Flich." Hermione said, also taking a breather

She shook her head and mumbled a goodbye, heading off to Ravenclaw Tower. She successfully made it back to her dorm and went to bed, as she need a good sleep after what just happen.