Chapter 10 of Year One: "Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Umbridge"

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So, Daniel had betrayed both of us. Was he brainwashed by that Umbridge woman? Or did he do it willingly? That was the question on our minds. The fact that he wanted us in pain upset me greatly. But he knew that if he tried to turn us in again he would get the punishment from me. 

It was time for yet another boring DADA lesson from Umbridge.
I sat at the back of the class with Vera, as far away from Dan as possible.
"How is your hand, Julie?" Vera asked
"Sizzling with pain and fresh blood just keeps coming out in the mornings. How is yours? It looks better than my one!" I replied
"Well, it is still very painful. I can feel it to my bones. That woman likes torturing kids."
"Vera, I need you to help me look through two scrolls that I picked up before getting apprehended by that Slytherin guy" I whispered for only two of us to hear
"Scrolls?"
"Yeah 'Untold truth about Death Eaters and Umbridge' and 'Secrets About Hogwarts You Never Heard Of'"
"Let's go over them after Herbology. But don't you think we should get more? Two scrolls might not be enough information for us to beat Umbridge and the Inquisitorial Squad. But, if we go back to the fifth floor outside of class time we will be given more lines than last time"
"I have an idea. I am not totally sure if Professor Mcgonagall will let us use it. She might since she hates Umbridge as much as we do"
"What is it?" 
"I'll explain it there. Just now, let's go!" I said and we ran as fast as we could to P. Mcgonagall's Office.
I gently knocked on the door.
"Come in please!" She said
We went on to the spiral stairs that led to her office.
"Ah Miss Sharmons and Miss Eering. How may I help you today?" She asked us
'She's in a good mood, we might pull this off' I thought
"Well, Professor. You might go mental if you hear this but I think we might need the Time Turner." I said
P. Mcgonagall got up from her chair, a bit in an angry mood.
"Why may I ask do you need it for?" She asked annoyed
"Well, we went down to the fifth floor corridor by a complete accident and we discovered some scrolls. They old secrets to beating Umbridge and her Inquisitorial Squad"
P Mcgonagall sighed
"I didn't even know she was back"
"She is not allowing us to use magic in the classroom. That is why we need the time turner. For 'us' to be in her class meanwhile we get all of those scrolls and find out how to beat her She is a pretty powerful witch, especially knowing that she had been pals with Death Eaters in Azkaban"
"I will allow you to use the Time Turner. You can keep it for the entire year just in case if you need more time for looking at the scrolls or if you need more time to browse the fifth floor corridor. You have my permission to be out in the castle at night" She said and wrote out a permission slip and handed me the Time Turner.
"Thank you Professor"
She then noticed our hands
"Did Umbridge did that to you?"
"Um, yes Professor. We were going through things in the fifth floor corridor when my brother turned us in. She brought us into her office and we were made to write out this line. It went through to our skin. It is her Punishment Quills"
"I will speak to her about those!"
"No please, Professor! We don't need her getting the satisfaction. I promise to take good care of this Time Turner."
"I am sure that you will.Good luck? And if you still need more material, I am able to give you locations of it but some might be accessible with a teacher's permission. I will supply it when needed."
"Thanks, I think we should go now." I said and we left the room.

We went down to DADA and the class went rather slowly. But what can you expect from a teacher that actually teaches nothing? According to Umbridge we need the knowledge just for exams. 
I read through the 5th chapter and I just got tired of it.
Vera looked at me and stood up.
"Professor, can't we do anything practical? I mean, Professor Mcgonagall wants us to be taught defensive spells. Why don't you teach them instead of spoon feeding us the theory? I mean really, we don't need the theory of a spell. We must know how to cast the spell."
"You spoke out of turn. But I have been specifically instructed by the Minister for Magic for Magic to teach theory not practical magic"
"So who can teach us practical if you are so incapable of doing so?" I asked
"No one. Theory is more important."
"HOW is theory more important than actual USE of a spell? This is like learning a cake recipe off by heart but not actually making it" Vera asked
"It is like me learning all sorts of art techniques by getting shown or given instructions but not actually using them. It makes the learning PRACTICALLY useless"
"Hush! Be quiet both of you. Minister is above teacher or headmistress and above all Students. Get back to reading.
We sat down
"After this double period, we are reversing time to get the scrolls" I whispered
"REVERSE time?" Vera asked
"Yeah, you'll see what I mean in an hour and a half"

An hour and a half later when we got out of the class as last to ensure no one sees us.
I placed the chain of the Time Turner around my and Vera's necks and span the little hourglass twice. Vera and I freaked out as everything that happened backwards. Something that we weren't used to seeing.
When the hourglass stopped turning and the time stopped reversing. 
"What...just...happened? What time is it?"
"It's 11am. Where were we at eleven?"
"Um.. Mcgonagall's office"
"Come on let's get to the fifth floor and we must not be seen!" I finished and we ran
"Hey, explain everything before we move on" Vera demanded
"No time. I'll explain in the evening when we will be going over the scrolls." I said and we ran on.

We went down by a portrait shortcut to  the fifth floor and we turned right at the door to the room with the scrolls.
"Let's begin scrolling through these scrolls." Vera said
"Let's do this!" I cheered quietly

As we looked through
"Vera, look at this title: 'Umbridge, Darkest Secrets Revealed' " I said
"Well, I found: Dolores Jane Umbridge: Future Of Muggle Borns At Stake" Vera replied
"Here is another: 'Hogwarts: Umbridge's Leadership 1996"
"I found 'Deepest Secrets of Hogwarts Revealed"
"Here is what I found in this pile 'Umbridge's Role in Ministry Collapse in 1998' "
"This is like an Anti-Umbridge library"
"Exactly! Too bad we have not got much time left because there are still about 5 boxes full of these."
"What do you say we come back in the evening before we go over the scrolls?"
"I have a better idea. Let's come back at the weekend. Plenty of time to go through these!"
"Great idea Jules! Let's get to the DADA tower before anyone realises that we weren't there!"
We packed out bags with the scrolls and we ran to the DADA tower
We got there just before the class had ended.
"Hide here. We were the last to come out so we need to wait on ourselves."
"Totally strange how this time thing works."
"Shh, the class had just ended. Come on!" I said and we went into a dark corner, anything there is undetectable to the human eye
Everyone from the classroom started to flood out of the doors with huge relief on their faces.
"Guessing they hate her just as much as we do!" I whispered. 
Then 'we' came out
"Come on, it's us Jules!"
"Not until we disappear. We cannot be seen by anyone!"
Then our doubles disappeared.
"We can come out now!" I whispered and we came out of the shadowy corner.

At the end of the day Vera and I went down to the girls dormitory to take a closer look at those scrolls.
We sat ourselves on the floor in the corner of the room and laid out the scrolls opened on the wooden panels.
"Take a look at this Jules. It wasn't just Hogwarts that she visited in the past 30 years.She came to Beauxbatons 2001 to be an inquisitor for the school. She criticised Olympe for teaching girls inappropriate skills in use of magic and brought in technique-free books. The girls in Beauxbatons rose up against Umbridge and eventually sent her back to Britain." Vera said
"Well, I found something like that in this one. The Alexandria Magic Academy had reported Umbridge for not helping students to learn proper magic. Just theory for 'passing exams'. And, listen to this 'Umbridge punished those who defied her way of teaching them by torturing them with the illegal Cruciatus Curse' " I read out in reply.
"That woman has it in for people who don't really approve of her"
"I know, Vera but listen. In 1996 in Hogwarts, students formed a group under the name of Dumbledore's Army who stood up against Death Eaters and stood up against Umbridge's teaching methods of theories and figures."
"So we have to form something like that?"
"Not yet. Vera. We have to wait for the right moment. It will be when we decide is the best time"
"Like, After the Christmas. We would have to plan out every detail and do it outside of your brother's knowledge."
"That's a plan Vera!" I cheered and we gave each other a high five.
"This weekend is all about the fifth floor corridor. We raid it, collect, read and raid it some more!" Vera giggled.
"Completely. We must find out more about Umbridge"
I looked at my wristwatch - it was 21:49.
"Mind you, Mcgonagall can give us more materials if we need it. Now tell me what the heck is the time turner."
"A Time Turner helps to reverse time to the point that you need it to. E.g. we reversed time so we can be in two places at once. See, like we did it with DADA. We went back in time so we could be in DADA and the fifth floor at the same time. You cannot be seen by anyone who is in your class and most importantly yourself. You would think that you have gone mental."
"Sorry to interrupt your explanation but I have just read something truly shocking. 'At Beauxbatons, she tried to banish all students who were half blood or Muggle borns. If she didn't banish them, she would bring them to her office for torture with the punishment quills or the Cruciatus Curse. She even cast the Imperius Curse to control those students into doing her dirty work by trying to get rid of the other non-pure blood students.' "
"Heartless Monster" I said
"There are a few people that we could try to speak to. Dominique Rose Alix, the Muggle born who was under her Imperius Curse. Amandine Babin, half blood who was under the Cruciatus Curse to the point of her becoming disabled head neck down. She's at St Mungo's Hospital and cared by doctors to help her to be able to function again and Adrian Belair. They all live in London."
"During Christmas, instead of going home we are going to try and find those people and try to , learn something from them!"
"For now, let's just put it to bed until the weekend. And if she tries tricks in DADA, we attack."
"Absolutely!"

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Chapter 9 of Year One: "Midnight Stroll Into Trouble"

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Every time I walked past Umbridge for a few days after she nearly killed me, all I could think about was to get her back for it. She just infuriated me that day. Her denial of helping the Death Eaters was just blood boiling. Her class was boring enough, just reading. As much as I loved to read, reading the same chapter over and over just put me to sleep. Mind you, this Defence Against the Dark Arts class was not teaching us to defend ourselves in anyway. How was reading supposed to teach us about self protection when we were not able to practice the spells? Horrendous...

After Herbology -which was fun may I add- Vera, Dan and I walked towards the Great Hall for lunch.

“You know, I'm still wandering about the fifth floor. The secret door, the slide and the dungeons. There must be something there that we are ought to know about!” I said as we walked into the Great Hall.

“Come on Jules, you know that if we go and try to find out about it we might get expelled!” Vera commented back

“Vera, I think that might be the least of our problems!” Dan said

“LEAST of our problems? Are you kidding? Nothing can be worse than getting expelled”
“We might get killed before we even get expelled. You know what is worse, don't you?”
“Yeah, getting expelled..”
“Sort out your priorities, Vera!”

As we sat at the table, I reached into my pocket. The silver charm that I found in Potions was still there. I felt the deep engraving “Property of the Department of Mysteries” on it as I scanned my fingers top to the bottom of the charm. The smooth cold texture of silver was a pleasant feeling as rested in my fingers gently and the chain's coarse rust was rough and very unpleasant to touch.

“You know, I think the secret of the fifth floor corridor might have something to do with the Department of Mysteries” I said

“Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic? Why would it have anything to do with that?”Vera asked

I took the chain out.

“I found this in the potions classroom a few weeks ago, the day that the cauldron exploded. The charm says that it is the Property of the Department of Mysteries. My guess would be that something that is hidden in the dungeons has to do with the Department of Mysteries”

“You could be right. But then again, it might not. It could just be something out of Gringotts. You never know” Dan said.

“If it was then the charm would say Gringotts. I say we check it out”
“But what could be hidden there?”
“I don't know. Slughorn's stash of files?”

“And you are on your jokey side again. In case you didn't notice, we are talking serious here!”
“Yeah, yeah, whatever.”
“If you don't want to come, it's your choice. Vera, you coming?”
“Yeah, I want to know what it is that is hidden there” Vera replied

After our last class -which was DADA grr- Vera and I went to the common room to get things that we might need for our night time operation. Wands, stink pallets -for distraction- and the charm.

“Right, everything is set. Now, we can roll!” Vera said and we quietly sneaked out of the girls dormitory. Dan was on the bottom of the staircase

“You are not coming with us, are you?” Vera asked

“No, I am stopping you from going” Dan commented back

“OK,I am sorry for what you are about to experience. It's for your own good. Petrificus Totalus!” I said and waved my wand, pointing it at him.

Dan froze in place, with hands by his sides and legs locked next to each other. He then fell to the ground. Apart from his eyes, nothing else could move.

“Sorry Dan!” I said as Vera and I walked out from the Fat Lady's portrait.

Vera and I walked out into the staircase and we ran across the stairs to the fifth floor corridor.

At the common room.

Umbridge walked in and have seen Dan under the Full Body Bind spell. She ended the spell.

“Thank you Professor Umbridge!”
“What happened to you dear?” She asked

“I was a target of the Full Body Bind by my sister who is out and about the castle. I think she said she was going to the fifth floor corridor”
“Thank you, Daniel for this information. If you would be interested, you can become part of my Inquisitorial Squad, which gives you ability to punish those who misbehave. What do you think?”

“Um, sure. Anything to get back at Vera and my sister.”
“Excellent. Come, two of your fellow team mates, Cory and Brian and I will be going down to the fifth floor to find those two”

Fifth floor corridor.

“So where was this trap door again?” I asked as we were walking in the corridor, pointlessly.

“End of the corridor, remember? In that big room”
“I just hope that my horrible excuse of a brother didn't spill his guts to a professor otherwise we will be in trouble.”
We went quiet for a minute. We heard footsteps coming on to the corridor, Vera and I hid in the doors opposite of each other in the corridor. I walked along into room that was hidden behind the door. It was a room filled with scrolls and old papers.

I sneaked over to one of the stacks with scrolls and opened one.

It read 'Untold truths about death eaters and Umbridge, hand written. I took the scroll and put it in my bag and opened the next one it read 'Secrets about hogwarts you never heard of' again I put it in my bag.

Then a guy came and took me by my arms, putting them behind me.

“Let go!” I shouted

“No. You can thank someone later!” the guy replied

He walked my over to the main corridor.

“Umbridge.” I groaned as soon as I saw her.

“That's right, little miss Sharmons. Now that I found you here, you are going to get punished. But first, you might want to thank the person that helped us to find you. Oh come out!” She said

Then Vera and I stood in shock as we saw Dan come out of the shadows.

“Daniel helped us and has become the part of my Inquisitorial Squad. He will choose a suitable punishment for you.”

I looked at Daniel with desperate plea for help. He ignored it and stood there thinking.

“Since you insist on me choosing the punishment, I will choose... Get them to the Forbidden Forest. Hagrid needs help in getting rid of some beasts from there or we could get them to write lines out” Dan said and laughed

“I hate you Daniel. I'm so unlucky that I have to call you brother!” I said

“Take them to my office and do not let them get away” Umbridge said

As Vera and I were lead out of the corridor I looked at Daniel.

“That is what you get for casting spells on me!”
“You never change your ways, Daniel. But what can I expect from someone that never had a stable family or normal parents or lived through the Muggle life”
“Get her out of my sight!” He commanded and we were led on..

Umbridge's Office

“Sit them down boys and get out of here. I will take it from here!” Umbridge sweetly said

The boys pushed us onto the chairs.

“You are dismissed. Use a strong locking spell to ensue that they don't escape until punishment is done”

Boys and Daniel left casting a spell on the door.

“So we meet again Vera and em..um..”

“Julie, professor.” I replied
“Julie. Take these quills and write twenty times on the parchment 'I will never stand up against Professor Umbridge”

She handed out two quills and paper but no ink.

“You have given us no ink, professor.”

“You won't need it”

As soon as we wrote the tenth line, red writing engraved itself on our right hand. It said exactly what we wrote in our handwriting. It looked as if it was written in blood. The pain that it took for the words to engrave themselves was unbearable.

We looked up at Umbridge with pleading looks. We needed to rest.

“All right, all right you may go. But if you defy me again, you will be writing out twice as much”

She cast a spell on the door to unlock it and we ran out with tears in our eyes and bleeding hands as the wounds themselves were freshly engraved by Umbridge's punishment quills.

At the common room as we walked in we saw Daniel. As soon as I saw him, I ran up to him and pointed my wand into his neck.

“You are heartless monster. You have no idea of what we just went through!” I screamed at him.

“Remember, if you cast a spell on me Umbridge will take you in for punishment again!”
I pressed the wand harder in to his neck.

“He is not worth the spell, Jules. Just leave it”

I lowered my wand.

“Remember, if you turn us in again I will not listen to anyone that is trying to stop me. I will get you back for tonight. You evil cockroach!” I shoted and left for the staircase up to our dormitory.

Chapter 8 of Year 1: "Dreadful DADA Teacher"

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I woke up early -around six- to read through my Defence Against the Dark Arts textbook. I sat in the dark and very chilly dormitory and put my night lamp on. The light that came out of it was immense and so bright, that it blinded me for a few seconds. We knew that there was supposed to be a new teacher as Professor Lore was kicked out of Hogwarts for favouritism. We were given new textbooks at the end of the last lesson. But to my dismay, the teacher replacing Lore was more evil than what Lore was.

I started to read through the first chapter of the "Defence Against the Dark Arts - Beginners Guide to Self-Defence" book entitled 'Basics of Defensive and Offensive Spells'

As I read on, the book had absolutely no intention on teaching the spell casting. Just explanations and in-depth spell studies. I closed to book and tossed it into my bag. The bag slid across the floor beside Vera's bed, shaking it violently.Vera woke up, looking around the room with a sleepy and confused expression on her face.

"What, what? Where are a unicorns?" she asked. She always wanted to see a real unicorn.

"Sorry Vera! I tossed my book into the bag and it slid under your bed."
"No worries! What is wrong with the book?"
"Um... It does not teach anything on how to use defensive and offensive spells! What kind of a textbook is that?"

"Probably one where the person that wrote it was a completely dumb twit!"

Later on at the breakfast table, Daniel, Vera and I sat beside each other, trying to figure out the reason behind the useless textbook.

"What do you think Vera?" Dan asked

"Well, I guess they want to keep us from learning the spells"
"Unlucky for them, I already know how to cast the spells!" I commented

"Someone is clearly thinking of not letting us protect ourselves against the dangers of the outside world" Vera continued

"Let me read you something from 'Hogwarts, a History'." I said. " 'In 1995, Ministry for Magic has interfered  in Hogwarts. Senior Undersecretary for Minister of Magic Dolores Jane Umbridge had taken the position of the Defence Against the Dark Arts. With direction from the Minster himself, the DADA textbook had only in depth studies and explanations on what the spell does and it's practicalities. No techniques for actual spell casting had been mentioned in that textbook' "

"So you think that the history is repeating itself?" Dan asked

"Yes. by the way, look at the front cover of the book" Vera said and turned the textbook to the front cover.
I looked at it and opened my mouth in shock.

"No Way! Dolores Jane Umbridge the author of the book! Coincidence or what?" I said

"You think she'll be teaching us?" Vera asked

"Likely, it means that the ministry is interfering at Hogwarts once again" I finished as we left for DADA.

We went down to the Grand Staircase.

"I see that you are speaking to Dan again!" Vera whispered

"I can't stay mad at him forever, it would be like a constant sibling warfare" I replied and we walked on to the third floor.

Keira was standing out in the corridor just by the DADA door.

"Hey Keira! Do you have an idea of who the teacher is by any chance?" I asked

"Yeah. A woman from the ministry for magic. Mum said that that woman is a nasty piece of work."
I turned to Vera and Dan
"It's Umbridge for sure. If she is a nasty piece of work it is sure to be her. And according to the wizarding history, she hates children. Let's just show her just how annoying we can be!" I said and we high fived each other and we went in.

As soon as I have seen the pink fluffy jumper, the bow hat and the kitty teapot, I knew instantly that it was her. I sat in front of the class at the window and Vera sat next to me. Everyone else soon followed and the classroom was full.
"Good morning children!" Umbridge said in her squeaky, high pitched voice.
Dead silence. I looked around the class. No one was even bothered to say anything back to her. They knew she was trouble just as much as I knew.
"GOOD MORNING CHILDREN!" She shouted. Her voice rang in my ears like an echoing bell.
"Good morning, Professor!" We said back to her
"Thank you. My name is Professor Umbridge and I will be teaching you DADA this year. Take out your textbook at page 3 and read it up to end of the chapter."
I coughed.
"I read it five times. There is nothing there to actually teach us about actually using defensive and offensive spells.
"You spoke out of turn! Why would you need to use those spells?" She replied
"Let me think about it. Ah yes, because after the Battle of Hogwarts, Headmistress Professor Mcgonagall said that defensive and offensive spells will be obligatory in the DADA curriculum and plus what if we get attacked like we were at the Hogwarts Express?"
"Who would want to attack children such as yourself?"
"Death eaters!" Vera joined in
"There are no Death Eaters in the wizarding world any more!"
"Yeah right. Especially that you were indirectly linked to them and you were the one to set up the Muggle Born Registration Commission in 1998. Correct or not?" I said
"Incorrect!"
"That's it!!! Stupefy!" I shouted and pointed my wand at her. The bright red string of light shot out too quickly for her to even dodge it. It hit her and she laid there unconscious. I picked my bag up and ran out of the classroom.
Umbridge got up
"Get back here!" She shouted as she sped off after me. I ran down the stairs as fast as I could. The rest of our class followed her.
"Herbivicus! Mind your step, Umbridge." I said laughing pointing my wand at the ground. Green ivy wraps came out of the steps and wrapped themselves around Umbridge.
I ran along to the Grand Staircase.
I sped through the stairs second before I felt being lifted off the ground.
"I got you now" She said moving her wand towards the big open gap. I was hanging in mid-air. I screamed out of fear of heights.
"Haha! You thought you were so smart, just like Granger 16 years ago. Well you are not!"
Mcgonagall came through the main entrance to the staircase
"What is going on here, Professor Umbridge and why are you pointing your wand at this first year girl? Let her go!" She shouted
"As you wish, Minerva!" She said and let go of the spell.
I started to fall at a very fast pace.
"No! My sister! Arresto Momentum!" Dan yelled.
The fall began to slow down and I started to see things. Black, red and pink dots all about the place.
"Professor Umbridge, I want to see you in my office, NOW!" Professor Mcgonagall said and dispersed the crown.

Dan and Vera ran over to me to the bottom of the staircase.
"That was brave of you to attack a teacher, but so stupid!" Vera said
"Vera, did you expect me to sit there and listen to her babbling about the Ministry of Magic's purpose in not using spells in Hogwarts? I decided to take action. It might have been drastic but something had to be done about that toad!"
"Dan saved your life!" Vera continued
I hugged Dan.
"Thank you Dan and I am sorry about ignoring you for those past few days!"
"Hey, I put you at risk because of stupidity. I should be sorry!" He said

We slowly got up and we walked to the common room.

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Chapter 7 of Year 1: "5th Floor Mystery and Escaping the Dungeons"

Where we left off last time, Dan and Jules aren't speaking to each other. Could it be the end of their strong -up to that point- sibling relationship? We are left with a few questions that are to be answered, aren't we?
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I walked through the brightly lit 3rd floor corridor to get to DADA -Defence Aganst the Dark Arts- as fast as I could in hope of avoiding my very selfish and annoying brother. What happened the night before just boiled my blood to the maximum and thinking that I had to sit with him in the same room for an hour and a half made me feel infuriated.

I walked into the DADA classroom and sat in front of the class, near to a window. Soon after, Vera joined me at the desk.
"Jules!" She greeted me cheerfully as she sat next to me
"Hey Vera. Are you all right?"
"I am thank you! But your brother isn't"
"Did you sit next to me just to tell me THAT?"
"Let me think about that one... I think so!"
"Well forget it! I won't forgive him for mistreating me like that!"
"He's sorry though. He wants you to have this back." She said and took out the crystal necklace with the word 'sister' inscribed on it that I chocked down the stairwell the night before
"No. I don't want it. I want nothing to do with a person that clearly cannot take a simple instruction into his mental cells!"
I stood up and went to sit next to Ashlea Roylon.
"Julie! How nice of you to sit next to nobody like me!" She cried from joy
"Ashlea, stop it! I'm a witch just as much as you are! Stop thinking of me popular and think of me as more of a friend!"
"Thanks Julie!"

The teacher -Professor Lore- came into the classroom with banging her door office so loudly, I thought that it could blow my ears off easily.
"Good morning class! Now before we start I want to make one thing straight! There will be no points for any house but Slytherin in this class, are we clear?!"
Everyone nodded apart from me. I sat in that desk already angry at Vera and Dan and now more furious at that Professor's prejudice.
"Anyone have concerns about my system?" She angrily shouted
I stood up.
"I do, Professor Lore. You are a Slytherin head of house, I get it. But that does not mean that you can just be discriminating against other houses. You think your house is superior but I think not. Slytherin is a bunch of self-centred twits that think of nothing more than themselves. They have no emotional levels that other people have. They call us, Muggle borns Mudbloods without thinking of how it might affect the people they are offending. I'm sorry to  be taking up your time Professor, but I think it is absolutely unnecessary   to be putting your favouritism in this classroom as it suppose to be a fair-to-all environment." I said and sat back down
Professor Lore gave me a cold look and replied
"You are out of line Miss Sharmons and fame won't help you in this subject either"
"Well, I have never asked to be famous, have I? You asked us to voice our opinion and I have"
"I agree with her." The rest of the class stood up apart from the Slytherins and Dan, who clearly was furious at what I just said
"Very well. I will still be giving points to Slytherin, wherever you like it or not!" Professor Lore shouted
"Then why ask us to give you our opinion?" Vera asked
"I wanted to see how many of you would snap at me like Miss Sharmons did"
"And she was right. favouritism is not the proper way of teaching" Chlo said
"Never mind all this Let's get on with the lesson. The spell for today is Expelliarmus. Anyone care to demonstrate?"
I shoot my hand into the air almost immediately.
"Come to the front Miss Sharmons, and remember this is for no points only"
"I'm not bothered. It is for educational purposes only to me"

I walked down to the front of the class
"Miss Sharmons, cast the spell"
"Expelliarmus!" I shouted
The teacher's wand jumped out of her hand and my wand released a white glow which threw her backwards.
I took a step back into the shadows as she got up.
"Nice. Your wand is powerful but not as good as my Slytherin student wands."
I rolled my eyes at her saying that and walked back to my desk.

Right after the class, Vera caught up with me
"Well done by the way, for being so fearless in front of a teacher" she said
"You learn at Muggle high school overtime as teachers do your head in from time to time!" I replied. We laughed and Vera walked away to join Dan. I looked at them and walked on.
"I wish she would just open up and speak to you!" Vera said to him
"Yeah. All we can do is 'wish'  but we have to make the step forward otherwise, she'll be twice as annoying at the end of term

I took a wrong turn towards the Fat Lady's portrait(common room) at the end of the day. I walked into a corridor not in anyway lit by any light whatsoever.
"Lumos!" I whispered. Faint light came form the wand as expected to keep a low profile.I walked along the creepy, cold corridor and looked around. There were paintings of previous known professors at Hogwarts and a giant painting of Professor Albus Dumbledore with a quote on the frame "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live"
Sort of reminded myself of me when at Muggle high school, my dream was to be a scientist. I did everything I could to do well on science tests, exams and mini quizzes but I forgot to live out my life. I never had to many friends at high school because of the fact that I was too focused myself too much on my dream and not much on forming long lasting friendships. Reminded me of my argument with my brother.

As I walked along the corridor, I head to pairs of footsteps following me so when I got to the end of the corridor I stood there to wait for them. as soon as they got closer I recognised that it was Dan and Vera.
"What are you doing? This is the fifth floor corridor!" Vera cried.
Now I have realised that that was the reason for the corridor being dark.
"I know where you are!" a creepy, familiar voice said.
"Filch! Knox!" I said and the wand's light extinguished. As soon as it did, we fell through a trap door. The ride was rather freaky. It was dark and very twisty. When we got to the end we landed on a hard concrete floor
"Where are we?" Vera asked
"Dungeons. What could be hidden here?" I asked
"I don't know...potion ingredients?" Dan asked
"Not funny Dan!"
"OK,ok. Sorry Jules"
I groaned
"Can we not argue here? I mean the prefects will be doing their patrols soon so we must get out of here before we get caught!" Vera commented back

We sneaked up to the corridor.
"Yeah I know we had a couple of kids mucking about here after hours yesterday" We heard in the distance.
"OK. Let's distract them. I'll use the Reducto spell that I learned to destroy that statue and we sneak out of here!" I whispered
"Awesome!" Dan said
I counted to three "One... two.. three... Reducto!" I loudly whispered. The statue of Matilda Way, the witch of nature collapsed and the prefects came running in to check the statue and without their knowledge, we sneaked out of the Dungeons and quickly and quietly ran toward the grand staircase

"Wow, great thinking sis!" Dan complimented
"Don't try your nice with me. Sorry Dan but until you learn that sometimes listening to others rather than yourself I will stay away from you!" I said and ran along the stairs, far ahead of them.


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