This past week has been a crazy whirlwind. I cannot believe what has happened. So, one day we were in detention in the Forbidden Forest (it is crazy that detentions take place somewhere that we are not supposed to be), and we were looking for someone who had been killing unicorns. So we were wandering around with Hagrid, and all of a sudden we spy a unicorn with someone drinking its blood! It was HORRIBLE! Then this guy comes towards Harry and apparently a centaur rescued him from the man (I was with Hagrid, whereas Harry was with Fang and Malfoy). The centaur also told Harry that it was He Who Must Not Be Named who was killing unicorns! Can you believe it! Him! In Hogwarts! Anyways, this of course has made Harry completely obsessed, because now we have determined (with the centaurs help of course) that He Who Must Not Be Named is after the Philosopher's Stone! Harry has this crazy idea in his mind now that he is going to go and get the stone. I can't leave him to do that alone, he would probably be killed, so I (reluctantly) agreed to go with him.
So off on a supremely dangerous quest we went. Why I agreed to go, I will never know. Honestly what was going though my mind?! Anyways, the 3 of us set off, and thankfully Harid is terrible at keeping secrets, so we knew how to make Fluffy go to sleep. The only troubling thing was...Fluffy was already asleep when we went through the door. So we knew that someone was down there. We all hopped through the trapdoor, and landed in Devil's Snare. That was terrifying, because no one knew what it was, and it began to strangle all of us, and if you fight it it only gets tighter, so struggling only made it worse. Honestly, thank goodness I agreed to along, because Harry couldn't remember how to fight it, and Ron was in a full-blown panic attack. I mean, I did momentarily forget that I could conjure fire, but at least I knew what Devil's Snare is afraid of!!
Next, we faced a very bizarre puzzle. We walked into a room filled with hundreds of flying keys. Harry Ron and I looked at each other because we didn't know what on earth we were supposed to do, but then Harry noted that the door across the room was locked, and surely we needed to choose the right key to open the door. This proved more difficult that originally thought, as we had to catch the key off a broomstick and make sure the other keys didn't attack us! Good thing that Harry is a Seeker!! Once we finally got through the door we came upon another strange sight. A giant chess board sat in front of us. Ron tried to make the pieces do his bidding, as he is surprisingly good at Wizard chess, but to no avail. He then came to the conclusion that perhaps we had to take the place of one of the pieces. Now, if know anything about Wizard chess, you will know that it is quite dangerous, and the pieces get all banged up and bent out of shape, so taking the place of some of the pieces is quite the scary proposition. But we did it, with Ron's guidance. He had to sacrifice himself, and did so willingly despite the fact that he was very battered and bruised due to that.
After the game, we had to leave the injured Ron, and head through the next door. This one facing us was a riddle. I really enjoy riddles so it wasn't really a big deal for me to figure it out. I chose the correct potion, and ushered Harry through the magical fire as I returned through the other side to go see Ron and get some help for Harry.
As I rushed back to Ron, he was barely conscious. I half-carried, half-dragged him through the room with the keys, and then when we returned to the Devil's Snare is when I was not sure what to do. You see, we fell down the hole...How was I supposed to get back up...And if I did, would Fluffy still be sleeping?
What we failed to notice on our way down was that there was a ladder carved into the side of the shaft we fell down. Fortunately for Ron, I was the only one in the class to perfect Wingardium Leviosa, as that is how I got him back up the shaft. Turns out Fluffy was still sleeping so I quickly dragged Ron over to the flute and staryed making noise with that to ensure Fluffy stayed that way! After I made it to the hallway, I left Ron sitting by the wall, and ran to find Professor McGonagall. As I raced down the corridor, I met Dumbledore, who was running towards me. As I tried to rush an explanation out to him, he simply waved me off and hurried through the door. I still went to find the Professor, as I wasn't sure what else to do. She was quite alarmed when I told her, but told me not to worry, that everything would work out, and why didn't we tend to Ron. Thank goodness for her, otherwise I might have gone crazy!!
Anyway, turns out that Harry actually met He Who Must Not Be Named who was fused onto the back of Professor Quirrel's head! There are so many crazy things that happen here. I am just glad that everything works out for the best, and everyone is okay. Well...Professor Quirrel isn't but I mean all my friends.
