Saving Snape

14. The rings

The next day I wake up to a silent dorm and Pansy is still asleep. She looks too peaceful so I go down to breakfast without waking her up. After she gave me the necklace we got lost and spent an hour trying to find the door out of the room of requirement. We ended up finding a few things along the way, though. We found two identical rings which we have decided to never take off unless we have to.

I twist mine around my finger as I head up to the great hall. It's black with silver along the edge and it looks really pretty. It's quite comforting to have there, actually.

"Where's Pansy?" Asks some random Slytherin girl coming up behind me.

"Sleeping. Don't you dare wake her or I'll hex you." I growl. No offence to Slytherins, but I really don't like them in general. Sure, there are exceptions, but most of them only care about blood status. Blood doesn't define us.

I sit at the Gryffindor table for a change. Nobody questions this.

"So what exactly did you do yesterday?" Asks Ron through a mouthful of toast. I close my eyes momentarily.

"First, don't talk with your mouth full." He swallows and I continue. "We went exploring."

"Where?"

"The castle. The whole thing. There's a secret entrance to the Ravenclaw common room, did you know?"

"Did you find anything cool?" Asks Harry.

"We found this place called the room of doom. I might show you guys one day." I smirk as Ron gulps. "Ron, it's just probably the place Filch used to use when he was allowed to torture. I think he's forgotten where it is, actually."

Ron nods, still quite pale, and returns to his food. I'm surprised he's even in Gryffindor. First it's spiders, now it's this.

"So..." I say, trying to break the silence. Nobody even looks at me. "Okay then, I'll just go..."

No answer. No nods. Well, that's weird. I stand up and wave at Hermione. She's reading a book. Ron has one on his lap while he's eating. Same with Harry. So that's why they didn't answer... I didn't even notice those books. I sigh and head back to the common room to get a good spot to study before they're all gone.

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So that was super short but I've been excited about Isabelle's twitter. Tweet her something, like a question, and she'll tweet back with a reply. She might even spoil some stuff...

New chapter coming out ASAP!

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~Ericano