Sorry about the delay guys! I've been SWAMPED with stuff. Have been in and out of hospital, college getting way too stressful, mental health deteriorated quickly and all sorts of other stuff.
*Susan*
As we woke up the next morning, the sun was just starting to climb the sky.
"September..." I yawned.
"Wake up sleepy head! You do realise you'll be learning Apparition first thing?" Julie answered.
"Yes! I'm excited about that. I am only worried what will happen today. A day at Hogwarts is never a day without any drama. Like last night!" I answered
"Lighten up, you! It's as if anything would happen!" Vera said,
"Uh, I hate to remind you that there would not be a day in Hogwarts without drama!" I replied
After changing and washing, I walked downstairs. Dan and Oliver were playing Exploding Snap and Vera and Julie were going over the 45 Minute Advanced Magical Defense material.
"Morning, Susie!" someone said from behind me.
"Tasman!" I said and hugged her. I haven't seen Tasman since I was six.
"How are you, it's been ages!"
"Still recovering from the attack I emailed you about"
"Are you okay?" She asked
"Yeah. Still a little wobbly on the bone front, but okay in general. How's your mom?" I replied
"Not too well, actually. That Umbridge woman hates her, and does everything she can to try and kill her. Since Avada Kedavra has been completely banned, and the wands don't respond to it, Umbridge has been using other Unforgivable Curses to make her life hell. She is in hospital for Crucio bodily damage" She explained
"I'm sorry. Umbridge is a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher here. We've had a few problems with her last year!" Vera joined in
"She nearly killed Julie for attacking her last year!" I said
"Monster." Tasman said
"Ahem, ahem. Susan and Tasman see me in my office!" Umbridge's annoyingly high pitched voice resounded from a hidden speaker.
"Right." We said together.
"Oliver, Dan, Harietta, huddle!" I said
We huddled up.
"We will come with you, and hide behind the door. If we hear any screams or shouts, barge in and attack. We cannot let her have the satisfaction." Julie said
"Then, we all run and scatter. It's much harder to keep track if you don't know who she's chasing!" I said
"Plan!" We all said together and left.
On the Grand Staircase.
*Tasman*
"Okay guys, stay a little bit away from us, so she doesn't suspect that you're with us" I said to the others.
"Good idea" Julie said and they waited until Susan and I were on the landing before they started moving.
As we walked into her office, the screeching noise of the cats on the walls gave me the urge to destroy all the plates.
"Good morning girls!" The high pitched voice of the monster came out.
"Good morning, professor. Would you mind telling us, why are we here?" Susan asked calmly.
"You are here...." She said and used her wand to create a a bubble shape. The bubble shape was a glass cage.
"Let us go, you monster!" I screamed
*Julie*
"There's the scream..." Vera said
"Let's go!" We said together
As we barged into the room, Umbridge has imprisoned Tasman and Susie in a glass cage, which I recognised immediately.
"Don't get close!" I shouted
"Why?" Julie asked
"It's a cage that tightens with every step closer we make." I answered.
"Quick, I know what to do!" Vera said and very quickly cast a non verbal spell to free them.
"How..." Oliver asked
"Simple. It was a non verbal cage spell. A nonverbal spell works to counteract it. A verbal spell would have an opposite effect!" I replied.
*Tasman*
"Thanks Vera!" I said
"Yeah, thank you so much!" Susie agreed
"No worries. Time to go. Umbridge is in her confiscation area. It won't be long until she's outta there!" Dan said
We ran out of the office.
"What do we do?" I asked
"Simple. Carpe Retractum" Susie replied and pointed her wand at the ceiling of the Grand Staircase. As she was pulled away from the floor to hang in the air on a red bolt of light coming from her wand, we did the same.
"There you are, little children" Umbridge groaned
"What's wrong professor? Tired of us hanging around?" Susie said
"Susie, I have a plan, but it's dangerous!" I said
"Don't even think about it!" Dan said.
"It's our only hope! Finite Incantatem" I said and began to fall.
"Levicorpus!." I whispered and pointed my wand at Umbridge.
Umbridge was lifted off the ground, over the gap and I finished the spell.
"Carpe Retractum" I said and my was hanging in the air on a red bolt of light, pointed at a railing. I caught Umbridge's wand as it fell.
When she ended up on the ground, I sighed.
I jumped over the railing and finished the spell. I hated heights, so doing something like that was a moment of utter fear.
"Tasman!" Julie yelled at the top of her lungs out of relief and hugged me when she came downstairs.
"You are madly brilliant, do you know that? That was mad and scary, but flipping brilliant!" Julie asked
"Thanks. I knew it'd work."
"Tazzy!" Susie shouted. She liked to call me Tazzy
"Don't ever do that again. I admit, it was brilliant but you had us hanging on a thread of fear" she said
"You and your puns, Susie!"
"What?"
"Hanging by a thread..."
"Ah, right."
We giggled.
We went downstairs to check on Umbridge. She laid on the floor motionless. But, she violently got up (how did she survive a fall like THAT? I mean, that was right from the top of the staircase!)
"You little....!"
I gave her a cheeky smirk before we all went to our first period class.
*Oliver*
After lunch, we all gathered in the Common Room.
"That was an amazing morning!" Julie excitingly said.
"I know. Advanced Potions and Advanced Magical Defense were the bomb!" Susie answered
*Tazzy*
Susan walked up to the table.
"What's this?" She asked as she lifted up a piece of an envelope.
"It's a torn piece of an envelope. I wonder why it's here." I replied
"There is a note with it! Tasman, your challenge is to find all the pieces of the envelope."
"Oh, that is McGonagall's challenge for me. I need to find all the pieces of the envelope to learn how to use the new spell she created. I better get on it!"
"Someone should go with you!" Dan said without drawing breath,
"Why?" I asked
"Oh, you know, after this morning..."
"I'll be alright Dan, It's not something like attacking Umbridge or anything"
"Wait.... Why won't McGonagall just teach you the spell. That's what she ALWAYS does. Something is not right here....!" Susie said
"It's alright Susan. I'll be alright. I better get on it!" I replied and walked out of the Common Room and went onto finding the missing three pieces of the envelope.
It was strange to find the staircase completely empty. It was lunch break after all. As I picked up the second part of the envelope, I felt a gentle tap on the shoulder. I turned around.
"Professor McGonagall!" I said
"My goodness, am I glad to have found you." She replied, with a blank expression on her face.
"What's wrong, Professor?"
"Follow me!" She commanded
I nodded and followed her up the staircase. She opened the door that led to Umbridge's office.
"Professor, why are we going in here?"
Silence.
"Professor?"
Then, I have seen the great, ugly brute that Umbridge was walk out to the door in her -just as ugly- pink dress and fluffy, hell pink hat.
"Professor!" I shouted at McGonagall.
"No need for this, child. She's under my control!" McGonagall said
"The Imperio Curse...." I answered
"Correct, little girl."
I tried to run away from the scene, but Umbridge managed to grip my wrist.
"Let me go!" I yelled at Umbridge
"After what you've done to me this morning? Not a chance"
She dragged me into her office and locked it, locking McGonagall out. She also ended the spell as she locked the door.
"What... is..... going.... on?" I heard her ask through the walls.
"Umbridge, what is it that you're planning to do with me?" I asked her, annoyed
"You will see!" She said cast a spell at the floor. I was consumed by a trap door. There was a dark slide, that led me somewhere. I don't know where.
I was enclosed in a room. An empty, dark room, lit by a single candle.
There were no doors or windows to the room. It was just an empty, dark box.
*Susan*
It was now 9 o'clock at night.
"Guys, I am worried." I said to the others.
"Is she still not back?" Julie asked
"No. She went out at lunch. She wasn't in class, or at dinner. I am really worried."
Then McGonagall walked in.
"Professor!" Vera exclaimed.
"What is wrong, Vera?" McGonagall asked
"Professor, Tazzy is missing. We haven't seen her since lunch. She wasn't in class, we haven't seen her at dinner or she hasn't shown up at all in the Common Room since. Do you know where she is? She went out on your envelope quest." Vera replied
"Hold on, what envelope quest?" McGonagall inquired, obviously confused.
"Here" I said, giving her the note she sent with the piece of envelope.
McGonagall looked at it intensely.
"This is my handwriting but I have no clue of what it is about. I've never sent her out on any quest. I would have taught her the spell."
"See! I told you!" Dan said.
"Professor, can you tell us what you've been doing at lunch?" Julie asked
"Julie!" I hissed.
"It's okay Susan. That is a very good question. I don't know. All I know is that I was at Professor Umbridge's office at 12:13. Why?" She answered
I looked at the others. They nodded. We all knew what had happened and we ran out of the Common Room and into Umbridge's office. No one was in.
*Julie*
"Okay, no one is here." I said
"Yeah, but Tazzy's scrunchie is here. And I can bet Umbridge was here." Susan replied
Dan walked up Umbridge's desk.
"Guys listen! 'Now that I have captured her, the others will come to get her. I will be ready for them!'" He read out.
"It's a trap! I knew it. What do we do? We don't have a clue of where she is keeping her."
"But, I might..." McGonagall said, walking out of the shadows.
"Professor."
"I remembered something. At around 12:15, I remember being myself again. I heard something happening inside Professor Umbridge's office. Wasn't sure of what it was, but I definitely heard the floor creaking and as if it was opening up." She explained
"So, there MUST be a trap door of some sorts in one of the floors. Open-able with magic!"
"And I think I know where it is." Dan said and stomped on the part of the floor he thought is the trap door.
"The floor sounds very different here!" He continued
"It very much does! Everyone, stand back!" I shouted.
Everyone stood back as far as they could.
"Bombarda!" I yelled
The part of the floor exploded, revealing a secret passage.
"Okay. We've found a passage. Now, what?" Oliver asked
"One of us, and one of us only goes in" I replied.
"I'll do it." Susan said, standing tall
"You know her a lot more than we do. Go on. We will find a way to you!" Dan answered.
"Good luck!" I said to her
*Susan*
I jumped in. The passageway was dark and damp. It was a spiral that led further and further into darkness. Further down.
I dropped onto hard floor in a dark, windowless and door-less room, with a single candle to keep light.
"Susie?" I heard Tazzy's gentle voice coming from a corner.
"Tazzy" I said and hugged her.
"How did you....?"
"Long story. We have got to find a way out."
"There isn't. This place has no windows or doors. It's just a box!" She explained
"Or is it?" I asked
"What do you mean?"
"It COULD just be an illusion. Finite Incantatem!"
The spell rushed through the room, revealing a door, a window and...
"Umbridge!" We shouted, backing up against the window.
"Well done for figuring out it was just an illusion. But I have a bone to peck with you" She said
"Um, no. Stupefy!" I yelled and Umbridge went flying through the air, hitting head first against the wall.
We ran across to the door.
"Alohomora!" Tazzy shouted
The door opened and we stormed out, trying to find our way
"How do we find a way out?" Susie asked
I put my wand in my left palm.
"Point Me!" I said
The wand spun in my hand and pointed north.
"Let's go." I said and we ran along the cold, dark corridor. We have realised that we were in the dungeons.
We have seen the great lights of the entrance hall and we sighed with a huge relief.
"We do well as a team, Taz!" I said
"Totally, Susie!" I replied and high-fived her.
"Tazzy!!" Everyone else exclaimed
Group hug.
Professor McGonagall came up to us.
"Professor..." Tazzy said
"I am glad you're safe. I have not sent you on an assignment like this" she replied
"I know. It made sense when I've seen the blank expression on your face when you led me to Umbridge's office. You were under the Impero curse." I said
We have all went to bed that night. But none of us slept.
How do you like this? The adventures are getting more and more crazy, aren't they? Stay tuned for more!
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