The Sister of a Certain Slytherin

The Office

She tells us to never speak of the office to anybody - especially a Slytherin. I think of Draco. Ron is the first one to crawl into the narrow passageway that leads to McGonagall's Second Office.

"Watch out, Madison," he says when he hears that I will be going next. "Ow! Bloody hell! Gryffindor better watch the cieling in this place - I'm gonna see if Dumbledore wakes up so he can do maintenance!"

I crawl through the dark passageway and watch out for the ceilings, as Ron bloody-helled earlier. There is barely any light - no ventilation shafts or small light switches or anything, but I refuse to call it dark as I just stated. Just because it is not bright doesn't make it dark.

I reach the end of the passageway and call out to Harry and Hermione, "You guys can come now!"

Hermione comes faster than Ron or I. I'm expecting she did some sort of spell. The office is one of the biggest rooms I have ever been in - maybe the biggest. It is way larger than Draco's bedroom back in our mansion, and his room is huge! The office is circular, with a big blue carpet on the marble floor. The walls are varnished wood the colour of a varnished log, and there hangs many diplomas and photos of different Gryffindor professors. Some of them are drawings and sketches. That's technically what happened before cameras. One of the drawings and one of the diplomas was of Godric Gryffindor - Gryffindor's founder. At the back, there are four large shelves, filled with books. It is absolutely brilliant. Near the bookshelves, there is a rectangular desk with an old-fashioned office chair. There is a lamp on the desk, and a box that holds pens and pencils.

Harry comes out of the passageway and catches Hermione, Ron, and I glancing at the office. A chandelier hangs from the snow-coloured ceiling, which is domed. "My goodness gracious," Harry says, "look around."

McGonagall smiles at us, knowing that we are impressed by the decor of the office. This is honestly more of a lounge than an office. "The reason I brought you here," she said in a voice that sounded like this is the most important thing in the entire world. "Is because this office is the only room in Hogwarts - or, the World of Wizarding for that matter - that Petrification Trolls cannot enter."

Being the curious girl I was, I just had to ask a question. If Hermione didn't know as much as she did, she would ask it, too. "And how do you get rid of them with the room?"

"No one knows, Madison," Hermione says, McGonagoll nodding in the background. "Oh," I reply.