Through the trapdoor

We were ready to go. Nobody could stop us now except… Neville appeared from behind the armchair. He was saying that we can’t go out, we will be caught again. Gryffindor will be in even more trouble. He wanted to fight with us if we go. Poor Neville! I shouted ‘Petrificus Totalus’ and his whole body rigid, he swayed where he stood and then felt flat on his face, stiff as a board. I’m sorry but I had no other choice! Then we took the Invisibility Cloak and we were gone. Suddenly Peeves, the poltergeist of the school, appeared and was asking ‘Who is there ? ‘ He was afraid for Bloody Baron, also a ghost, so Harry pretended if he was Bloody Baron. Peeves let us fortunately go because he believed it! Then we saw the door, it was already ajar… Snape is already got past Fluffy. Harry put Hagrid’s flute to his lips and blew. He kept playing when Ron and I opened the trapdoor. There wasn’t a trap in it, all we saw was black. Harry gave the flute to me and jumped into it. He said it was okay. It was a soft landing. Then Ron and I jumped. It was a plant where we were sitting on, but then the plant started to twist snake-like tendrils around her ankles. The more we strained against it, the tighter and faster the plant wound around us. Suddenly I knew what it was. We had seen it by Herbology. It was Devil’s Snare. I was trying to remember how to kill it. I suddenly knew it, it hated light so I waved with my wand for light and we felt down. It was a very dark place but we were okay. Suddenly we heard something. It was the sound of wings. We reached the end of the passageway and saw keys, flying keys and we saw a door, but the door was locked. We had to find the key but which one? Then we took a broomstick and kicked off into the air. We grabbed and snatched but the bewitched keys darted and dived so quickly it was almost impossible to catch one. Suddenly Harry found him. There was a key where the feathers were all crumpled on one side. Harry streaked after it and had it! He rammed it into the lock and turned, it worked! The next room was very dark. But as we stepped into it, light suddenly flooded the room to reveal an astonishing sight. We were standing on the edge of a huge chessboard! We didn’t know what to do so we asked it to the knight on the horse. He nodded when we asked him if we had to join it to get across. Ron was taking the place of the knight, Harry was taking the place of the bishop and I… I was taking the place of the castle. Then, it started. At a sudden moment, we were nearly there when Ron said something… he had to sacrifice himself. That leaves Harry free to checkmate the king. This wasn’t what we wanted but we had no other choice. Ron had been knocked out and we won. Then we looked at Ron and Harry was saying he is all right so we went on and found another door.  We came in a room with 7 differently shaped bottles standing on it in a line. There was a roll of paper lying next to the bottles with an enigma on it. It was logical so after a few minutes I had found it. I had to drink a bottle for going back to Ron. Harry was saying he had to go on. I had to warn Dumbledore and sent him an owl. I did everything he said and Ron and I were waiting on the stairs till Dumbledore came in, with Harry  who was unconscious and went immediately to the hospital….

 

 

 

 

 

 

the enigma :

 

Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead,
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only nettle-wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line
Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side
Second, different are those who stand at either end
But if you would move onward, neither is your friend;
Third as you see clearly, all are different size
Neither dwarf nor giant hold death in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.