Changing from within

Chapter Seven

Changing the Past

Chapter Seven

Slytherin Fun?

Having made our decisions concerning our fate, we slowly get up and leave, Gregor, Adam, Katherine and Steph making immediate left turns, heading up the stairs to their respective dorms. Megan, Hannah and I continue on our way down.

"How do you get to your dorm?" I ask after two flights of silence, "Is it near the kitchens?"

Megan laughs at the eagerness in my voice whilst Hannah shakes her head, answering me, "No, I don't think the kitchens are in the dungeons, there are a set of barrels, we hit them in a pattern and get in,"

"That's it?" I ask, incredulous, "That's all the safety you get, hitting some barrels?" Megan answers for me this time, with a smirk.

"I'd like to see you have a go, if you hit the wrong barrel or tap the wrong amount of times you get hit in the face with a stream of magically induced vinegar."

"Magically induced how?" I immediately question, lowering my voice as we pass a Ravenclaw heading up the stairs.

"It's enchanted so the smell won't go away for a week." Hannah informs us, I wrinkle my nose, imagining the smell of vinegar for a full week – yuck. "What about Slytherin?" Hannah continues as we near the last flight, the Great Hall in sight in front of us.

"We have a wall behind a draping, it's much like the wall at Diagon Alley," I answer readily, inwardly wincing at the thought of the other Slytherins hearing me tell them this.

"Is it really littered with the bones of the previous Muggleborn's?" Megan asks, I stop in the middle of the stairs, turning to look at her directly, her face is blank, but her eyes are glinting, something she never could hide.

"And where on earth did you hear that!?" I grind out, continuing my walk down, turning left at the bottom of the stairs, towards the dungeons.

"Hannah Bones and Susan were informing us last night, and how you must be evil to have been allowed to go there," Hannah tells me, I turn, stopping at an alcove just before the dungeons, not willing to stop our conversation this soon.

"Well you can tell Hannah and Susan," I begin with my head up, looking down at my friends over my nose, making my voice high and pompous, "that we live in a mysterious, underwater shipwreck."

"A shipwreck?" Hannah asks, eyebrow raised, I sniff and nod, turning my back on them.

"And I am highly insulted at their vulgar claims. I would never sleep on the bones of those before me – I'd much rather sleep on the skin of my foes."

"And that's better, how?" Megan asks, I turn my head slightly, seeing Hannah has her hand over her mouth, either trying not to puke or laugh, same difference.

"I personally skinned them for offending me." Hannah loses her battle and starts laughing, Megan and I join in soon after, the three of us sitting on the floor of an alcove, Hufflepuff's and Slytherin's alike giving us odd looks as they pass.

"We should probably head, I think it's almost curfew, and we'll be working on Homework together." Hannah inform me when we sober up. Together, we stand back up, still grinning stupidly.

"All right," I sadly agree as we start to walk to our separation, "Ensure you remember to give Susan and Hannah my message though," I add as the turn right half way down the next hall.

I continue on alone, wandering silently down the echoey hall, thinking back on my first day at Hogwarts. It had gone so fast, I have already had Potions, Defence and Charms. Snape, Quirrel and Flitwick all in one day, what fun.