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James_Potter
William had yet again gone around exploring more of the castle. It had been almost two months since he arrived at Hogwarts, and he still only knew most of the upper towers of the castle. He had rarely gone down into the Dungeons. But as he walked down this dank, dark passageway, he was beginning to think he was lost. His footsteps eerily echoed along the rough walls, and he could hear a faint dripping noise from somewhere ahead. There were no torches down this passageway, it seemed, and the farther he went along it, the darker and darker it got. As the first-year almost reached pitch blackness, he pulled out his wand from the depths of the pockets of his robes, and held it above his head.
"Lumos," he muttered, which didn't help for his voice echoed louder than the volume of which he had said the incantation. His wandtip ignited, which gave Will a good five feet radius of light. As he walked a bit further, he began to hear foosteps that didn't match his own. He spun around, and saw no one behind him. Standing still, he could hear the footsteps coming from ahead of him. He rushed forward a bit, and, with the help of his lit wand, discovered the unknown foosteps belonged to a fellow Ravenclaw girl.
"Hello," he said before realizing how frightening it must've been for him to have said that in a dark passageway behind her.
Jez heard voices in the passage in front of her. She frowned. How many people knew about this place? This was a secret passage - emphasis on the secret! "
Lumos," she murmured, making light spring to the end of her wand. She saw Sarah, the girl she'd met at the library, and that Ravenclaw boy she'd seen at the feast - she wasn't sure of his name. "Hello," smiled Jez. "Sorry if I interrupted something." Not that that last sentence implied anything ... She inspected the walls carefully. "This is definitely the passage Keegan was talking about ... There it is!" She held her wand light close to the wall to read the words scratched there.
Keegan Drake Black, Seventh-Year, 2074
To Jez, or Than, whoever finds this first - don't bother going down there. It's blocked. Disappointing, but whatever, there's more secret passages where this came from! Keegan
Jez took out her quill, and started scratching a note under her older brother's.