Ilvermorny (Harry Petter Book 1)

Chapter 11: Tortured!

It seemed like Professor Scorttey was extraly smiling at Harry as Harry glanced at the golden goblet in front of him. Finally, delicious foods appeared in front of him. He took a bite of some potato chips and corn dogs. Cornelase took a large bite of a few tater tots. Harry had some salad leaves and a large pile of ranch on top of them, and Cornelase was eating a carrot. Harry finished his steak with ketchup and burped loudly before they went. As they went they saw a boy trip on a bewitched staircase. They came to the portrait hole as Herbology neared (it was at 2:30), and Harry couldn't wait for another new class. As time neared and neared it became 2:00. Harry thought of Daricer getting the potion wrong in Potions next class, and then the portrait hole swung open and a lady came in.

"Yesterday evening I heard some crashes in the forbidden dormitory. Was it any of you?" the lady said, walking around the room.

Harry knew it was him determining in a dark room last night but he said, "What is it?" like the rest of the students, trying to look as honest as he could when he said it.

The teacher introduced her name and kept talking. Her name was Cello Sarel. Professor Sarel said she was Wampus head, and then she left to tell the rest of the houses who weren't in class. Class was in fifteen minutes, and Harry thought that Pukwudgie was gonna be way better at Herbology than Wampus because the teacher was their head of house. When he loaded his books he thought the Pukwudgie students deserved it because Harry was going to have a different class with the Wampus head.

Then Cornelase came over to Harry. "I was thinking about our head of house because Johnny told me loads of stuff about Ilvermorny including this when I was young," began Cornelase as they went out of the portrait hole. "When Johnny was as old as us he had Professor Sarel, like us," he ended as they zoomed through the hallways. "One more thing. He thinks she's fine, except a little strict," he said as they were going into the classroom. It was getting close to dinnertime as they sat on the chairs, and Harry glanced at the checkerboard floor and then looked back at the teacher. She had long, brown hair, light green, soft-looking eyes, and a thin mouth. "Good day, my students. My name is Professor Lesser, and we will learn how to do Herbology," she said, looking at Harry and the other students. They wrote down notes and learned about different weird plants. When class was over they went to the Hall to eat dinner. Harry ate his usual stuff. When he came to the dormitory with Cornelase it was getting darker. "I have to tell you and Hermonie something secret," Harry whispered to Cornelase, so they told Hermonie, who was doing homework, and finally they were all siting in Harry's four-poster, the hangings of it closed.

"I'm the one who went to the forbidden dormitory at night and made that noise," whispered Harry.

"Why?" said Hermonie anxiously.

Harry wanted to look at his round glasses, and then he answered the question. "When you brought me that letter there was a key on the bed. I tried to open a room and it worked, but it was locked from the inside so I couldn't get out, and there were a bunch of ghost sounds as well, and I found a trapdoor and got out."

They both looked at him vividly.

"Why'd you bring me that key? You probably knew it would be to a bad place," said Harry.

"I didn't!" said Hermonie loudly.

"What?" said Harry.

"I didn't!" yelled Hermonie again.

"I wanna go there with you guys to see what happens with more people," said Harry.

"I'm not going!" said Hermonie daringly.

"You, Cornelase," said Harry.

"Okay, this night," said Cornelase quietly so no one else heard.

After a while they went to bed, but Harry and Cornelase extraly had their eyes open. After they knew everyone was asleep they sneaked out of the common room and Harry had his invisibility ring. They went through a hallway, and when they were at the second hallway Harry heard footsteps so he wanted to put on the ring, but it didn't work. He just stared in front of himself, Cornelase at his side. They heard footsteps behind them. They were tortured, they were caught. In front of them they saw Professor Alisure coming. Behind them Professor Sature was coming with a grouchy face as usual.

"Caught some students," he groaned.

Harry tried to run away, but he couldn't get past Professor Sature. "We were just going to the bathroo–" Harry lied.

"Too fast, Petter. And you have a bathroom in your common room," said Professor Sature.

"Wandering at night," said Professor Alisure.

"Yes, right," said Professor Sature. They were in trouble. "Fifty points from Wampus and detention for one hour, Wetter," said Professor Sature as Cornelase shivered.

"Can–we–at–least–just–go–to–our–common–room?" Cornelase said joltingly.

"One second, Wetter," said Professor Sature, raising his wand.

"No!" yelled Harry, feeling brave as he raised his wand, the wind blowing on his hair. "Daramoe!" shouted Harry before Professor Sature said it. (Note: Daramoe [pronounced DARE-uh-moe] is a curse.) Harry ducked as the curse hit Professor Sature and he fell over, his wand rolling on the floor.

"Harry!" yelled Professor Sature, extremely angry.

Harry ran past Professor Sature. Harry looked back and saw Professor Alisure raising his wand sadly on his knees. Harry made it till the Wampus common room with Cornelase. Panting, Harry said the password and Cornelase and Harry came in and fell on their beds and fell asleep.