RAVENCLAW!

16. Books and Notes

"Come here, guys, I found something."

Ron and Harry immediately came hurrying towards their friend.

"What is it, 'Mione?"

She was sitting on the floor, books surrounding her, one of them lying open in her lap. Without looking up at the boys she started reading the interesting passage out loud.

" ' The Blood of the unicorn has an espacially dubious power: If one might go as far as to drink the silvery liquid running through the beautiful creature's veins, they will be able to live forever. But, sinners, be warned: whoever is committing a crime like this will be severely punished. A life lasting curse will be cast upon you the second the blood covers your lips and you will never be able to live happily ever again! ' "

"Wow, that sounds like some dark shit..."
Ron huffed out, sounding rather impressed.

After a short silence Harry spoke up,
"But who would want something like this?"

"Well, isn't it obvious?",
Hermione said.
"It's You Know Who! He's trying to gain his powers back! That's why Snape wants the stone! He wants to give it to him!"

"I don't know, sounds a little far fetched, doesn't it?"
But neither Hermione nor Ron seemed to have listened.

Hermione out of enthusiasm about what she just found out and Ron out of panic.

"But that means if we want to stop Snape we'd be working against You Know Who! Godric, he will kill us! We're dead!"

"Calm down Ronald. He won't get into this school. Dumbledore is here, and everyone knows that Dumbledore is the one wizard whom You-Know-Who always feared."

The last question they were now facing was, how they ever would be able to stop Snape from getting that stone. They wrecked their minds over it but Ron was only whining about how he needed food because he would be starving so they called it a day, went to dinner and split up afterwards, everyone heading for their respective common room.

'What has roots that nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
Yet it never grows?'
(Credit for the riddle goes to d.e.a.t.h.l.y_h.a.l.l.o.w.s  on Instagram!)

"Umm, oh! 'Mountains'!",
Harry answered immediately.

He'd gotten quite used to the way these riddles worked and barely struggled with them anymore.

"Hey, Harry. Come over here!"
Marietta, Cho's best friend, had spotted him and indicated to him to join them, where the two of them were sitting on a sky-blue love seat.

Leaving every thought of Snape and Voldemort behind, Harry followed.

"Hey!"

Between the girls there were lying some notes, written in beautiful handwriting, and some ancient looking books were open on their laps, reminding him of Hermione when she was doing homework. Yet what they did didn't look like homework at all.

"What is it you're working on?"

Marietta looked like she'd been waiting for him to ask that question all along.

"Tell him, Cho!"

Cho smiled up at Harry, looking excited as well but in a more shy way. She was indeed a very beautiful girl.

"We're trying to create a spell that makes you have crush on somebody. We've just had a breakthrough, we only have to try it on someone."

Harry was confused.