The Silver Duo

Chapter Nine

Their classes went on as normal without thinking of the dog. By the time December came and it began to snow, they had almost completely forgotten it. They had decided not to wander around in the middle of the night anymore. It's not worth being expelled and sent back to the dull Muggle world after everything they had experienced. They could hardly imagine it...

One morning, when they went into the Great Hall for breakfast, Professor McGonagall came around the tables, having everyone staying for the holidays to sign the paper.

They had already decided they were going to stay; they guessed they hardly seen one the castle's many secrets. With almost an entire month without classes, they could wander around as much as they liked.

On the first day of the Christmas holidays, almost all the Slytherins were gone, including Pansy Parkinson and the other girls in Anna's dormitory. She couldn't be more happy.

"I can finally go to sleep without feeling completely furious!" she begins during breakfast at the nearly deserted Slytherin table. "I can practice magic without being told off, I can actually walk in whenever I feel like it, I don't have to sneak in there when everyone's sleeping, oo, maybe I can even sneak a few Dungbombs in their blankets for when they come back."

She chuckles at the thought of Pansy Parkinson sitting on her bed and making a loud fart sound, making the room smell like poop.

The halls of the castle were cold. Through the windows they could hardly see anything, but they could hear the whistling of the wind as it banged against the windows.

When they went back to the common room they started playing another game of Wizard's chess. The night before, they had played it, but found that no matter what Kane said, Anna's chess men wouldn't obey him. They would even wriggle out of his hand when he tried to move them himself. They decided to use their own pieces, which was a lot easier, but they seemed confused when they pushed each other aside off the board.

After playing three games, they got bored and started out the common room door and up the spiral staircase, passing their usual dueling room, continuing across the stone bridge, into the next corridor, but this time, turning right.

Through the wooden door across from the back entrance of the Transfiguration was a strange corridor. It's walls were lined with about ten wooden doors. A basin full of blue flames lights another two suits of armor on either side of the door on the end of the corridor.

Curious, they reach for the door closest to them. They push the door open, revealing another corridor.

Kane groans.

"Honestly, how big can the castle be?"

"Well, obviously, since it is a castle, it's pretty big."

He rolls his eyes.

"Should we go through here, or look through one of the other doors?"

She was already walking to the one across the door he was standing by. When she opens it, they see a room lit with bright candles. A few tables and chairs dot the room. There's a large, ugly wardrobe against one of the walls.

Both of them make a loud gasp.

"The Professor's lounge," she says under her breath.

She immediately closes the door quietly and goes to the next, which leads to another corridor. The next opens straight to a brick wall, covered by a tapestry. Strange as that was, the last thing in the corridor is a large, dirty, slightly rusted mirror.

But, strangest of all, there was a slight draft coming from a tiny crack between the mirror and the stone wall.

Curious, they grip the edge of the mirror and push to the right.