After dinner Cinder sat nervously in the common room. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Cinder agreed to wait till everyone fell asleep so they can get to the Philosopher Stone before Snape does. Cinder and Hermione were going to use the Teleport Ring and Harry and Ron were going to use the Invisibility Cloak. The cloak stork 12 and finally Crabbe and Goyle went up to their dormitory. Quickly and quietly Cinder rushed in the middle of the common room, closed her eyes and thought about the Gyrffindor's common. She opened her eyes to Hermione's face right in front of her.
"Come on go we'll see you there" Hermione said as she tried to shove Harry and Ron out of the common rom. She turned to Cinder and said "so how does it work -"
"What are you doing?" said a voice behind them. Neville appeared clutching Trevor the toad, who looked as though he'd been making another bid for freedom.
"Nothing, Neville, nothing" Harry said, hurriedly putting the Cloak behind his back.
Neville stared at their guilty faces and stopped at Cinder. "What are you doing here?" he said
"Why don't you go to bed Neville" Cinder said angrily looking at the grandfather cloak by the door. They couldn't afford to waste any more time, Snape might even now be playing Fluffy to sleep.
"You can't go out," said Neville,"you'll be caught again"
"You don't understand," said Harry,"this is important"
But Neville was clearly steeling himself to do something desperate.
"I won't let you do it, "he said hurrying to stand in front of the portrait hole "I'll - I'll fight you!"
"Ok I had enough of this," Cinder said and stepped forward,"I'm sorry about this"
She raised her wand.
"Petrificu Totalus!" She cried, pointing it at Neville.
"Brilliant Cinder" Hermione said,"oh and we're sorry Neville"
"What've you done to him?" Harry whispered
"It's the full Body - Bind,"said Cinder " sorry Neville"
They walked out of the common room and Ron and Harry took off. Hermione turned to Cinder and said,"So how does it work?"
"Well I just close my eyes and think about where I want to go, and when I open them I'm there" Cinder explained "But. . It doesn't work when I'm under pressure"
"Ok let's hope you don't get under pressure" Said Hermione "do I hold your hand or something?"
"Yeah just hold my hand " she said and raised her hand to her. Cinder closed her eyes and Hermione did as well. When they opened their eyes they were outside the third - floor corridor- and the door was ajar. Harry and Ron were already there.
"Well they you are,"Harry said quietly,"Snape's already got past Fluffy"
Cinder pushed the door open.
As the door creaked, low, rumbling growls met their ears. All three of the dog's noses sniffed madly in their direction.
"What's that at its feet?"Hermione whispered
"Looks like a harp,"said Ron"Snape must have left it there."
"Well, here I go. . " Harry said
He put Hagrid's flute to his lips and blew. It wasn't really a tune, but from the first note the beast's eyes began to droop, then it slumped to the ground, fast asleep.
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Cinder and the Philosopher's Stone ( part 1 )
FanfictionYou might know the story of "the boy who lived" but did you know the story of "the girl who lived" Cinder is an orphan at the Seventh Sea orphanage. Her mistress had given her a really hard life with the cooking and cleaning, and had to always remin...
