Rose Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

The Forbidden Forest

Why me? Why me? What did I do to deserve this?

Filch took Harry, Hermione and I down to Professor McGonagall's study on the first floor, where we sat and waited without saying a word to each other.

I was trembling, so was Hermione. How could we've been so stupid as to forget the Cloak? Professor McGonagall appeared and was lead by Neville.

"Harry! Rose!" Neville burst out, the moment he saw us. "I was trying to find you to warn you, I heard Malfoy saying he was going to catch you, he said you had a drag-"

Harry shook his head violently to shut Neville up, but Professor McGonagall had seen. She looked more likely to breathe fire than Norbert as she towered over the four of us.

"I would never have believed it of any of you. Mr.Filch says you were up in the Astronomy Tower. It's one o'clock in the morning. Explain yourself."
It was the first time Hermione had ever failed to answer a teacher's question. She was staring at her slippers, as still as a statue.

"I think I've got a good idea of what's been going on," said Professor McGonagall "It's doesn't take a genius to work it out. You fed Draco Malfoy some cock-and-bull story about a dragon, trying to get him out of bed and into trouble. I've already caught him. I suppose you think it's funny that Longbottom here heard the story and believed it, too"

I caught Neville's eye and tried to tell him without words that this wasn't true. Neville looked stunned and hurt. This was so unfair, Neville did nothing wrong and he was getting in trouble for our wrongdoing. I knew it took a lot of courage for him to try and find us in the dark, to warn us.

"I'm disgusted," Said Professor McGonagall "Five students out of bed in one night! I've never heard of such a thing before! You, Miss Granger, I thought you had more sense. Miss Potter, I thought you would've been the one to stop them from doing something like this, you're a Hufflepuff, you're supposed to do the right thing. As for you, Mr.Potter, I thought Gryffindor meant more to you than this. All four of you will receive detentions-yes, you too, Mr.Longbottom, nothing gives you the right to walk around school at night, especially these days, it's very dangerous. Fifty points will be taken from Hufflepuff- and fifty points will be taken from Gryffindor."

"Fifty?" Harry gasped, that means they would lose the lead, the lead Harry had won in the last Quidditch match.
"Fifty points each," said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily through her long, pointed nose.

Fifty Points each? That's terrible! I understand why she took Fifty from both houses, but Fifty points each from all three of them!

"Professor- please-"
"You can't-"
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do, Potters. Now get back to bed, all of you. I've never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students."

*****

"Come on Rose, you can't be locked up in your dorm forever," Emily said.

"Yes I can, just watch me," I said, hiding under my covers.

"Please Rose, no one will be mad at you," Lizzie said.
"Is that really true?" Jade whispered to Lizzie.
I heard Lizzie punch Jade and Jade saying "Ouch."

They kept trying to pull the covers off of me, but I wouldn't budge.

"Ok, we need help," Lizzie said.

I heard them leave and go down the stairs. I heard them coming back up, but someone else was there.

"What do you want me to do?"
"We want you to get her out of bed."
"She's really stubborn though."
"Just do it already!"