Chương 22: Ch 22 - Eating Devil's Snare
"I don't think you came just to help us," Hermione said, crossing her arms.
"If you weren't a Mudblood, maybe I'd appreciate your moments of intelligence," Kaguya separated from Ron and stood in front of the brunette, "I want you to tell me what's going on with the Filmoserial Stone."
"We don't know what you're talking about," Harry spoke seriously.
"I am not an idiot, Potter," Now it was Kaguya's turn to cross her arms, "I know someone's trying to steal the stone. I know there's a three-headed dog on the third floor. And I'm sure a teacher could be possible thief."
"fufu....."
"What's so funny, Granger?"
"I-It's nothing," Hermione tried her best to keep a straight face, but it was getting very difficult for her to do so.
The three Gryffindors looked at each other when Kaguya said the last thing, "Are you going to tell me or do I have to save you from a troll again?" She was addressing Hermione.
Because if anyone knew what was going on, it had to be her.
"We can explain it to you," Harry was slowly being persuaded, and felt pressured, "But not here. Let's meet on the third floor, tonight."
Hermione immediately looked at Harry, wanting to protest. 'There was no point in telling her what we knew or suspected; Black didn't believe half of the things we said. She could even be gathering information for Snape.....!'
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But Kaguya did arrive that night, against Hermione's expectations.
Obviously she had to sneak out to get there.
Because her friends couldn't find out that she was going to have a meeting with Potter, the Mudblood and Ron.
The only one who suspected was Draco, but after Kaguya said that Potter didn't want to tell her anything, he calmed down a bit and didn't even notice when she left the common room.
"Damn it," Kaguya muttered when she saw them appear from under a strange cloth.
"They are scaredy-cats!" Black mocked. Since she didn't have invisibility powers or a cloak like Potter's, she had to be clever and fast, having a higher risk of being caught.
"You know someone's trying to steal your Filmoserial Stone," Hermione said ignoring Black's taunts, "We think Dark Lord is back, but he's weak, that's why someone was drinking unicorn blood. That someone knows Dark Lord will get stronger thanks to Filmoserial Stone, he tricked Hagrid into telling him how to calm Fuffly down so he could break in and steal. Are you even paying attention?" she asked as Black was checking her nails.
"I stopped listening when you said Filmoserial. It's Philosopher Stone. That person wanted to steal it on Halloween, that's why he freed the Troll. And since he didn't succeed, he resorted to plan B of tricking Hagrid and blah blah...." Hermione rolled her eyes tiredly at Kaguya's non-chalant attitude, "When do we get to the part where we say it's Quirrell?"
Black said it in a way, like it was Hermione who got the name wrong in the first place!
She was really frowning now.
"Quirrell?" Harry asked dumbly, and cried in a low voice, "It's Snape."
"Snape tried to hurt Harry in middle of the first Quidditch game," Ron said nodding with his eyes.
"And his leg was injured from when he tried to steal the stone on Halloween," Harry continued his story after his red-haired friend.
"Did you all practice this before coming? How cute."
"We did not!" Hermione stomped her foot angrily on the floor, she definitely did not participate in such a club.
"Point. Quirrell has been lurking around here and he's trying to open Cerberus's door," Kaguya objected, looking even more down on Hermione after this outburst.
"You have less evidence than us!" Hermione stressed using her fingers, "and his name is Fuffly!"
"Why are you always shouting? I don't trust you guys," Black declared in a serious tone, as if other students were guilty and did her wrong, "Oh, you're such a annoying person."
That's it, Hermione had enough, "No, but you call me a nerd, a mudblood, unbearable...!"
"When I do that, I'm describing you."
Hermione took a completely angry step towards Kaguya after she heard this, ready to pounce her on the ground, "You know what I think, according to me, you are self-centered, uncle's spoiled child, bad girl, a mistake."
Harry and Ron watched in fear as the hellfire appeared in both of their eyes.
Hermione knew she was more than just a mudblood. Kaguya didn't want her to know she was right.
"That's enough," Harry interjected before they caused more trouble, "we must go get Filmoserial stone before they come to steal it."
"It's Philosopher Stone!" Hermione and Kaguya yelled in unison, stepped away from each other.
And started with the plan.
"....." Harry who suddenly got yelled, and was reprimanded.
The four of them entered the room.
Fuffly was quiet as someone had come in earlier and enchanted a harp to play soothing music.
They crawled to the trapdoor and carefully opened it.
Kaguya poked her head out, but saw only complete darkness. There was no way down, they could only fall.
"I'll go," Harry said, approaching the trapdoor, "If anything happens to me, go straight to the owlery and send Hedwig to Dumbledore."
His friends nodded, Kaguya stood still waiting to hear Harry hit the ground, and have fun with loud screams.
To her disappointment, which didn't happen, as Harry had landed on something soft and strange.
"All right," He shouted from other side of the trapdoor, "You can come down."
Kaguya lit her wand and tried to look into the depths, but there was nothing to be seen, not even Harry.
Ron was next to go down, nothing was heard breaking so you could tell he had landed on the same soft thing as Harry.
Kaguya and Hermione looked at each other a little scared and for the first time they agreed to do something together, but two of them didn't fit in the trapdoor.
The music stopped playing, so Hermione jumped and Kaguya followed her before the dog bit them.
Black regretted it the moment she fell into that plant.
Ron and Harry seemed happy to be there, but she and Hermione knew it was that plant.
They tried to run but it was already stretching out for Hermione's arms.
Harry and Ron already had their legs covered without realizing it.
Kaguya looked horrified as they probably died in front of her.
She had said several times that she wanted to kill him, but that was another level.
"Stay calm," She whispered trying to knock a little sense into those idiots.
Hermione was the only one still, other two were still struggling to free themselves, "IF YOU DON'T STAY STILL, I'LL FREE ONLY GRANGER! UNDERSTAND?"
Ron and Harry stood still more because of Kaguya's scream, which scared them more than plant itself.
Black waved her wand at the plant and orange flames began to rise up through it.
It slowly released the boys as creature moved away from light and heat of the spell.
The devil's snare doesn't like light.
The four of them continued on their way down a stone passage, which was the only path there was.
They continued forward until came to a brightly lit room with what seemed to be birds, and on the other side there was a door.
"Oh great, now I'll die along with four eyes and dirty blood from a stable."
"I really can't stand you!"
Both girls snorted, looking at each other out of the corner of their eyes.
Kaguya held her wand out as if threatening the birds, but before they could do anything, Harry was already running with his arms over his head.
No bird attacked him, in fact they didn't even look at him.
The other three also ran to other side and together tried to open the door, which seemed to be attached to wall.
They tried Alohomora but nothing worked.
"When did you think coming to look for the stone was a good idea?" Kaguya asked, pulling on the door.
"I think about the same time as you," Harry replied from beside her, to be real he didn't know why he is always being targeted by Black, but it was fun....spending his time away from Dursleys like this.
"Those birds... They can't just be there for decoration," Hermione said, watching closely.
Kaguya joined her and soon discovered they were not birds, but winged keys.
By pure chance and convenience, there were brooms there, 3 of them exactly.
Since they didn't know which one was the key, decided to look for one that stood out more than others.
"Why don't you eat some of them? It can decrease our workload."
"(๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭" Hermione's face became.
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