The Traitors [HP6] *EDITING*

Chapter 10

||it's getting more and more hilarious.... buckle up||

"Its been stolen!?" yelled Harry.

"Shh!" came a different voice. "You don't want her to come out again, do you?" "Hermione?" asked Harry. "Are you here too?"

"Yeah, I've been waiting here ever since you came first in," she said. "Your

Invisibility Cloak works very well."

"Well, there's no reason it shouldn't," said Harry, lowering his voice. "Anyway,

how do you know it's gone?"

"I went upstairs to change before coming down to see you," explained Ron, "and I

saw the drawer you put it in. It was opened up and the Stone wasn't inside."

"How did you know I put it in the drawer?" asked Harry.

"Oh, I heard you open and close it and then put the trap on it," said Ron. "I

couldn't fall asleep, you know, with immortality just two beds away."

"But who took it?" demanded Harry.

"We don't know," sighed Hermione. "Ron didn't see the culprit."

"Who could it have been?" wondered Harry, thinking hard.... Then it hit him! Who

else had been awake when he had put the Stone away? Neville! His breathing that night was not like a sleeping person's... much louder than usual. Why didn't he notice it before?

"Neville took it!" gasped Harry.

"Neville?"

"Yes," said Harry, jumping out of his bed, feeling perfectly fine all over. "And

who knows what he could be doing with it."

"Probably giving it to Voldemort," said Hermione and Ron together, still

invisible.

"My thought exactly," said Harry, pulling his bandages off. Underneath them, the

skin was perfectly healed. "And we have to stop him as soon as possible."

"Right," they said, finally becoming visible again. Hermione lowered the hood of

the cloak and Ron changed back into his human form.

"Let's go check if we can find someone who's seen him recently," said Ron.

The three of them snuck out of the Hospital Wing, trying to leave before Madam

Pomfrey's returned. Once they escaped that room, the three of them burst into a full sprint all the way back to the Gryffindor Common Room, and then to Ron and Harry's dormitory.

"Harry! Ron! Hermione?" exclaimed Seamus and Dean together who were sitting on the floor, playing Wizard Duel. "You can't come in here Hermione!"

"Are you okay?" asked Dean. "You look like you're out of breath!"

"Have you seen Neville?" gasped Harry, ignoring their questions.

"Yeah, he just left a little while ago," said Seamus, still looking at Hermione, and

wondering what was going on, and appearing to be a little confused. "He looked like he was in a big hurry."

"So it was him," said Ron.

"What did he do?" asked Dean. "Is Neville in trouble?"

"Did he say where he was going?" asked Ron, still ignoring their questions. "No," said Seamus, shaking his head.