Chater 23: Part One: Harry and The Dragon
That evening they kept a constant watch on Snape�s whereabouts using the Marauders Map. They had already prepared the invisibility cloak for the night and had hidden it just outside the common room portrait. When they saw Snape start to make his way out over the grounds towards the cottage they quickly left and donning the cloak followed him. They watched and snorted quietly as they saw Snape begin to change into a Warthog as he quickly performed the counter curses. Once he was in they sneaked the door open quietly and hid in the never used dining room.
In the Kitchen George was greedily stuffing himself from the box of mokes as Snape sat at the table drinking coffee and keeping a wary eye on George, Osanna�s pet or not, he still didn�t trust the little dragon. Suddenly George stopped eating and cocked his head on one side.
He looked towards the hall and whined, then completely out of character, he went up to Snape and started to snuffle at his legs, he kept looking at the dining room and whining. Snape hastily tried to remove his legs from the dragon at the same time not trying to provoke an attack; George might be small but his flame was still very powerful. He shook his head and found himself talking to George, "They are in London and won�t be back for a while, you�ll just have to put up with me until then", to his own horror he reached down and scratched the dragon behind his ears. George gave up on Snape and went back to the Mokes; he�d fix the intruders after dinner.
After Snape left the three intruders sneaked out of their hiding place and began to creep around the house looking for evidence. George slept soundly on Osanna�s bed, or so it seemed as he kept one eye and ear firmly open, wary of the unexpected company. Harry pushed open the door to the women�s room and started to rummage around. "Nothing!" He whispered to himself, "Not a damn thing", he went back down into the kitchen where Hermione and Ron waited for him.
George slunk off of the bed and followed him.
"Did you find anything?" Ron asked Harry as he entered the room.
"Nothing, how about you?" Hermione looked around from where she was staring at the fireplace. "I think there might be something here though. I�m not sure why but this brick looks like it�s been removed recently, the only problem is that it won�t budge for me." She paused thoughtfully and then pulled out her wand, "Alohamora?" she cast the spell and the stone shuddered slightly and then went still, pulling at it, it still refused to move.
George, sensing that magic was being performed in his own house and it was not the work of his Mistresses had had enough and came running into the kitchen, smoke pouring from his nose.
Ron screamed and Hermione grabbed him and started dragging him towards the door. Harry hesitated and George latched on to his scarf. Backing away quickly Harry tugged until finally the scarf ripped, George tumbled backwards and Harry seeing his chance ran outside and slammed the door behind him. Breathing heavily they ran back to the common room and collapsed on to the chairs.
"Well that was close!" Harry whispered, still wary about speaking at a normal volume. "That damn dragon nearly spoilt the whole thing."
"Nearly? What did we find Harry? Nothing that�s what" Ron was scared as usual.
Hermione sighed, "Well at least we know they are hiding something behind that brick, I just whish I knew the spell to open it. But knowing those two it�s probably something very dark and dangerous."
"HOLY SHIT" Ivy exclaimed loudly. Osanna dropped the book she had been searching in on the floor. It hit the ground with a loud, resounding "THUD" for emphasis.
"What?" Osanna asked.
"I was going to send Draco a owl! I FORGOT! FUCKITY-FUCK-FUCK-FUCK!"
"Uh-Oh" Osanna remarked with a smirk. "Cant make Malfoy Jr. Angry now can we?"
Ivy shot her a look and bolted from the room in a dead run, she sprinted back down the hallway at full speed, she came to a skidding halt around the corner, back up at the front desk, the man who had weighed in their wands looked up, seeing Ivy he nearly broke out into a sweat again. "The Ministry is closing.... I..."
"I NEED TO SEND A OWL!" Ivy yelled at the top of her lungs, she looked as if she were about to explode. "NOW!"