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BanaBatGirl · #1 (**permalink**) 12-16-2012, 02:20 AM

Down the main staircase in the Entrance Hall and to the left lie the dungeons of Hogwarts. In order to reach the various classrooms down here and the Slytherin Common Room, you have to make your way through the creepy, dark, green-tinged dungeon corridors... beware of cobwebs and mold growing in the corners...

**Portraits** · 01-22-2015, 04:08 AM

She was finally placed back where she belonged. Someone in this castle finally had brains. It had to be a Slytherin she just knew it! Elizabeth Burke did not just hang anywhere in the castle, no, she needed to be in the Dungeons near her Slytherins. They were the best wizards and witches Hogwarts could ask for. Especially since they were mostly purebloods. Her nose crinkled thinking of the muggleborns wondering around the halls.

No they would not be coming down here while she stood guard of the corridor. She'd be asking them all for a password, which any true Slytherin would know. If not she'd tell them, but only them. Yes this corridor now was hers again and she was going to make sure only the best came down here.

StarShine · 01-23-2015, 08:35 AM

Thankfully, it wasn't a long way from the meeting room to here and Cosgrach hoped they all made it ~~safely~~. He stopped to look at them and see if they lost some to other groups.

"So, you heard the man and Headmistress: document everything into your notebooks. Draw it when you can... and.. yeah. Note everything." All clear? He hoped so. Meanwhile...

Who was this portrait and what was it doing in his corridor?

Hera · 01-23-2015, 08:57 AM

Zeke followed Professor Culloden down the stairs into the darker and dingier part of the castle. It wasn't so bad down here though, it had its charm.

Green notepad and pencil in hand, Zeke started mapping out the passage that they were in, drawing neat straight lines and labelling the void they were standing in, CORRIDOR.

Hhhmm? Portrait? Zeke analysed his parchment and drew in as best he could the space on the wall on which it hung.

"Hi, who're you?" he asked it, so that he could write it on his page. Important info you know.

*Kolyander* · 01-23-2015, 01:00 PM

Hady followed Professor Culloden down into the dungeons staying behind her fellow group mates. It was easy to get lost down here or left behind being small. She knew it was easy to be overlooked.

When the Professor came to a stop in one of the corridors Hady took the moment to sketch out the staircase they had taken to get down to the dungeon and then the corridor they were currently standing in making sure to label it clearly. Sketching out the portrait next she tilted her head at it curiously.

"She's new. I haven't seen her down here before. Do you know who she is Professor?" Hady asked quietly figuring if anyone knew he should.

**Portraits** · 01-23-2015, 01:18 PM

As Elizabeth stood her ground in her portrait she waited and watched. She would be the protector for the house of Slytherin in this corridor. No one that wasn't a true Slytherin would pass. Seeing people coming into view she looked them over. The older man must have been a professor, but that didn't mean he was worthy to be down here. She had noticed that the standards of professors had been going down hill over the years.

"There is now a Password to come down here. No one that isn't of pureblood shall pass."

Her eyes turned to a small child in green robes. She looked like she belonged, but did she really? "I am Elizabeth Burke and I have always protected the dungeon corridors for my dear house of Slytherin." That was until she was forcibly moved a few years ago.

*Kolyander* · 01-23-2015, 01:34 PM

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As Elizabeth stood her ground in her portrait she waited and watched. She would be the protector for the house of Slytherin in this corridor. No one that wasn't a true Slytherin would pass. Seeing people coming into view she looked them over. The older man must have been a professor, but that didn't mean he was worthy to be down here. She had noticed that the standards of professors had been going down hill over the years.

"There is now a Password to come down here. No one that isn't of pureblood shall pass."

Her eyes turned to a small child in green robes. She looked like she belonged, but did she really? "I am Elizabeth Burke and I have always protected the dungeon corridors for my dear house of Slytherin." That was until she was forcibly moved a few years ago.

Elizabeth Burke? Hady thought hard for a moment and then grinned. She remembered! Her father had told her about the portraits in the dungeons long before she had even came to the school. It was known from the beginning she'd be in Slytherin. Why was she removed from the corridor though and who had done it?

"Well hello then Miss Elizabeth Burke. My name is Hady Lynch. I haven't seen you before down here but it's nice to see you've returned."If this was were she belonged then it was only right for her to be here.

DuckyLinJi · 01-23-2015, 02:19 PM

It had been a good decision to go with the dungeon group because it meant that they wouldn’t have to walk that far from the room off the great hall. He followed Culloden down the stairs while holding his green notepad and pencil, drawing lines as the stairs they had just walked on and scribbled the word “stairs” in case he forgot.

He came to an halt when he heard Zeke asking a question and was surprised that it wasn’t directed to Culloden. Standing next to him to look at the portrait himself and raised his eyebrow. “I never seen that portrait before” and believe him, he may not be a gryffindor but he spend a fair time in the laboratory …..and detention dungeons… and he would have remembered this. "I'm a pureblood" he said. "So let me pass" now.

Uncle Moose · 01-23-2015, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by The Portraits

As Elizabeth stood her ground in her portrait she waited and watched. She would be the protector for the house of Slytherin in this corridor. No one that wasn't a true Slytherin would pass. Seeing people coming into view she looked them over. The older man must have been a professor, but that didn't mean he was worthy to be down here. She had noticed that the standards of professors had been going down hill over the years.

"There is now a Password to come down here. No one that isn't of pureblood shall pass."

Her eyes turned to a small child in green robes. She looked like she belonged, but did she really? "I am Elizabeth Burke and I have always protected the dungeon corridors for my dear house of Slytherin." That was until she was forcibly moved a few years ago.

Aegis had been standing back a little sketching out the Corridor to the best of his ability. He may have been going a Tad overboard with his labeling. 'Cobwebs past First Dungeon Pillar', Big Moldy Spot on the Wall' Just to name two. Then he stopped before this Portrait. "There shouldn't be any Password." The Sixteen year-old retaliated "Just because someone put you down here doesn't give you the right to claim the Corridor yours"Seriously what was a Picture going to do to keep them from advancing in the Dungeon and continue exploring it. He quickly jotted down on his Green Note Pad this location 'Stupid Painting' and looked around to see if there was anything else more interesting to note.Then IKB (Kevin) spoke to the Portrait too. "No, we don't need to tell her diddly-squat." He closed his notebook and folded his arms across his chest. "Look I'm going to just walk right past her, and nothing will change. It's as you said she's new, so what can she do from stopping us?" See look Aegis took a few steps further away from the Portrait going down the Corridor. They don't need to give her a password.

Hera · 01-23-2015, 03:49 PM

Whoa whoa whoa!!!

...

Say what now? Zeke scribbled down the name regardless, but couldn't say he was too thrilled about this AT ALL. Miss Elizabeth Burke was being a downright SNOB!

He looked between Hady, Kevin and Ægis. "What he said," Zeke added, pointing to Ægis, who clearly had the right idea about this.

"And.. and... you can't stop me either!" Zeke said defiantly, he'd been down here PLENTY of times without having been asked for a stupid password. Besides, there wasn't anything all that great about being a pureblood, he would know, his mum had said as much and SHE was a pureblood.

Professor Culloden? TELL THE MEAN PORTRAIT TO GO BUG ANOTHER WALL.

oh its Erik ok · 01-23-2015, 04:29 PM

Dante had followed the group after meeting up with Zeke back in the classroom. It was gong fine and all. Dante was even taking some notes. Surprising even himself. Though there would be that one thing to make people upset and that was this portrait. They were fun to annoy and all. But Dante never listened to them unless they had a cool story to tell.

"So Miss Potrait Lady. Can Slytherin's pass or just Purebloods?"

Please don't say Pureblood Slytherin's.

That would be a major bummer

StarShine · 01-23-2015, 07:33 PM

Cosgrach was more amused by the portrait than annoyed, to be honest. He raised his eyebrows at her while the kids spoke to her, and once Aegis made perfect points, he nodded.

"What Aegis said, but a bit more kindly," he said and stepped forward, "Things are different and better now, Ms. Burke. Blood status doesn't mean anything." And just like that, he turned to the kids and his back to her. He didn't want to be detained by a portrait.

"Let's, uh... go on with documenting. Everyone note the portrait down and finish the corridor first. Check the special nooks and stuff as well. Write every detail down, please." Even he would document, see? He got his pencil, opened his notebook and started writing down what he saw.

**Portraits** · 01-23-2015, 10:06 PM

See someone knew how to speak to her. "Miss Lynch." She gave a nod, but watched the others. They were not to be trusted, but this Slytherin seemed like she had potential. "I would have always been here if I wasn't removed, but not to worry I always find my way back." This was her place and she deserved to be here. Slytherin needed her here. Looking as three boys in red decided to start talking she glared, "How do I know you aren't lying. You all need a password." They would be giving her a password, she would not let them pass without it.

"There is a password and you must have it to go through." Were they not listening to her? They would not be going anywhere without it. Not tell her, they had to be mudbloods or they would just work with her. "DO NOT MAKE ANOTHER MOVE." She screeched in her highest pitch yell she could muster. "This corridor is for only ones lucky to be in the best house at the school."

Puffing out her chest in pride she glared as the next said he was going to move as well, "You will not, you will not take another step without the password." Another boy in green made her frown, "Not a pureblood?" Had Slytherin started letting others in? Oh this was worse then she thought, she had to guard this corridor even more now. "You will only pass with a password." If he was a true Slytherin then it would have been passed down to him.

"It most certainly does. We do not want just anyone learning our secrets and we do not want just anyone in the house of Slytherin." This was just proving the standards of this school had died. "YOU WILL NOT BE DOING ANY SUCH THING!! PASSWORD OR GET OUT."

She looked back to Miss Lynch and the other green robed child. "You could prove your a Slytherin by disposing of these three wizard wannabes." They would still need a password to get through, but she'd at least be rid of the mudbloods.

Hera · 01-24-2015, 01:26 AM

Stupid portrait. Stupid witchy portrait that spoke rubbish and deserved to be set on FIRE. Zeke frowned as he continued to work on mapping out the corridor, taking note of steps and corners, notable features and the like.. and as soon as he was done, he was OUT OF HERE... but DOWN into the dungeons further. Ain't no bossy portrait gonna tell him what to do.

Password or no password, no Slytherin or ppuuuuuureblood, he was going.

"C'mon, Hady," she didn't need to listen to this stupid portraits filth. Dispose of them. Pfffttt. Hady would never. In fact, if anyone TRIED to get away with things like that, well, the MLE would come to their rescue, right?

"Smell ya later," he said to it as he gave the it EVILS and walked VERY deliberately forward.

oh its Erik ok · 01-24-2015, 01:39 AM

Huh, why would he want to get rid of his friend. Was this portrait mental. He did not care about the older gryffindors since he did not know them. But He and Hady would not do that to Zeke. Plus not like two second years could take on a fifth and a fourth year and Culloden. Professor C was cool and Dante thought he was a former slytherin too.

Yeah this portrait was completely bonkers.

"Yeah......we are only second years and not completely mental. Though i will try the password though." His parents did not go to Hogwarts so yeah complete guess. Plus this was a chance to one up this portrait. If he got it right. "Is the password Pure-Blood?"

If it was wrong he will just go to the secret passage. He goes to the slytherin wall everyday. Is boring just to stand there.

So win win for Dante

*Kolyander* · 01-24-2015, 02:02 AM

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See someone knew how to speak to her. "Miss Lynch." She gave a nod, but watched the others. They were not to be trusted, but this Slytherin seemed like she had potential. "I would have always been here if I wasn't removed, but not to worry I always find my way back." This was her place and she deserved to be here. Slytherin needed her here. Looking as three boys in red decided to start talking she glared, "How do I know you aren't lying. You all need a password." They would be giving her a password, she would not let them pass without it.

"There is a password and you must have it to go through." Were they not listening to her? They would not be going anywhere without it. Not tell her, they had to be mudbloods or they would just work with her. "DO NOT MAKE ANOTHER MOVE." She screeched in her highest pitch yell she could muster. "This corridor is for only ones lucky to be in the best house at the school."

Puffing out her chest in pride she glared as the next said he was going to move as well, "You will not, you will not take another step without the password." Another boy in green made her frown, "Not a pureblood?" Had Slytherin started letting others in? Oh this was worse then she thought, she had to guard this corridor even more now. "You will only pass with a password." If he was a true Slytherin then it would have been passed down to him.

"It most certainly does. We do not want just anyone learning our secrets and we do not want just anyone in the house of Slytherin." This was just proving the standards of this school had died. "YOU WILL NOT BE DOING ANY SUCH THING!! PASSWORD OR GET OUT."

She looked back to Miss Lynch and the other green robed child. "You could prove your a Slytherin by disposing of these three wizard wannabes." They would still need a password to get through, but she'd at least be rid of the mudbloods.

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"C'mon, Hady," she didn't need to listen to this stupid portraits filth. Dispose of them. Pfffttt. Hady would never. In fact, if anyone TRIED to get away with things like that, well, the MLE would come to their rescue, right?

"Smell ya later," he said to it as he gave the it EVILS and walked VERY deliberately forward.

Okay everyone just needed to chill. So Miss Elizabeth Burke wanted a password. A password only a true Slytherin would know. Which her father was and which both her birth parents were. She could recall passwords being told to her as she could recall names or portraits as well. Which password was wanted here she didn't know but after hearing what had been said to her about proving herself a true Slytherin she thought she knew.

Clearly Elizabeth only cared for purebloods. Which it appears wasn't some of her friends. Inhaling sharply and glancing to Zeke she shook her head. "Just hang on a second, okay?" Hady whispered to him chancing a quick look back at the portrait.

Stepping up closer so she wouldn't have to speak so loudly she asked in a soft tone, one only heard to Elizabeth. "Would the password you're looking for be Slytherins are supreme?" The young girl knew this was a long shot but it was well worth the try. She just hoped her friends would understand.

**Portraits** · 01-24-2015, 06:08 PM

"DO NOT TAKE ANOTHER STEP." She half growled from her frame. Her eyes moved around the corridor to the other portraits hanging, why would they not be helping her? She'd push them out of the way if she had to follow these fake wizards.

Focus turning on the two in green she first looked at the boy with disgust. "Mental or not, you are not showing a Slytherin side at all. Has that rubbish hat broken?" It seemed to her that it was really forgetting what true Slytherin was. "Pureblood is not the answer and you will not pass." She had secrets of Slytherin to protect and she would not be letting these incompetent children or Professor pass.

Looking to the girl, the girl she felt had the most potential she started to smile. "You are correct. You and only you may pass. You have proven to be a true Slytherin."

Uncle Moose · 01-24-2015, 10:08 PM

Aegis was getting real tired of this Painting, and yet the girl with them was still talking to her. No one was turning on anyone so that was a plus, lucky them. "That's great and all, really. You got the Password. But she can't stop the rest of us from continuing." He wanted to keep going down the corridor of the Dungeon, but this farce with the Portrait was holding them up. Also a New Painting in the Dungeons asking Slytherin's for a Password. REAL Original, The Fat Lady does it better. He looked over to Mr. Cullo...Errm Professor Culloden. (He had to remember he wasn't at Bart's House. So Culloden was a Professor here.) "Professor, can't we just flip this painting around so it'll shut-up?"

Aegis took a few more steps down the Corridor. Turning around to see who else was following. Neat Zeke was right along with him. He liked his spunk.

Still nothing was happening. "HALF-BLOOD GRYFFINDOR COMING THROUGH! MAKE WAY DUNGEONS THE PAINTING DOESN'T WANT ME HERE!" He yelled down the corridor too, just for the hell of it. He was totally mocking her.

Deezerz · 01-25-2015, 12:56 AM

Beverly stood at the entrance of the dungeons amused. Sure she believed in keeping up the legacy of Slytherin and all that great honor stuff, but ages have changed. There were Slytherins that represented this house in the best of ways and not all of them were pureblood. It stung that the painting would say such things given her brother's blood status.

Bloody hell, it was just a painting, people.

"Move it guys," she called from behind the group.

Oh look. A Gryffindor defying a painting. How...Gryffindor of him.

Beverly shot the portrait a defiant look with her multi-colored gaze. She was a Slytherin, a pureblood and she wore the badge of past Prefects. She was a legacy. Now that portrait could shove it up her shiny old frame.

And.........she really wanted to get this map thing done. Excitement, ambition, call it whatever. She was getting what she wanted.

"I hope you have a good day." Another look at the portrait and Beverly Wayne walked pass it. 'Least she was being respectful.

StarShine · 01-25-2015, 06:46 AM

Password?

Oh, please.

Cosgrach sighed at the portrait as the students talked to it. He nodded at those who DEFIED it and passed right through. Meant these kids weren't easy to fool. He liked that.

He lifted his foot to take a step away, but the portrait SHRIKED right beside his EAR. He JUMPED and gasped, then, turning at it, he glared.

"With all due respect, true Slytherins don't even need tests to prove themselves. So, excuse me." If only his hair was long! But alas, all he could do was to flick his head, which cracked a little, but he was fine! He was fine...

He didn't directly answer Aegis, but if the boy... did that while Cogsrach wasn't looking, the man wouldn't ask questions. Instead, he moved on to the Slytherin wall and passage.

DuckyLinJi · 01-25-2015, 12:36 PM

He had to admit that the way Aegis handled the painting by stepping past it and SHOUTING loudly about what he was and what he was doing was pretty funny and he couldn't help getting a grin on his face as he walked further as well, ignoring the portrait. "Geez, does she still think its the 19 hundreds or something?" he asked no one in particular as he was now scribbling down the hallway they were in.

When he was finished , the Gryffindor followed the others.

**Portraits** · 01-25-2015, 01:08 PM

They were all just moving past, well that wasn't going to fly with Elizabeth. She shriek again, "YOU WILL NOT PASS" Seeing the professor jump made her give an evil grin. She hoped she made his ears ring for hours.

Halfblood? No, no that wasn't good. "Stop right now." She growled and watched as the others passed as well. She would be shoving other people out of their portraits if she needed to get them stopped.

Another one in green just walking by, "This castle has really failed. Pathetic excuses of Slytherins. What's the password." She even had a badge and still walked around with these half and mudbloods.

*Kolyander* · 01-25-2015, 01:14 PM

She had given the right password? That came as a little bit of a surprise to the second year. With fer usual smirk set into place she gave a nod of her head to the portrait. "Thank you Elizabeth. Please do not let them get to you and have yourself a fine day."

Slytherin or not, pureblood or not Hady knew when to use respect especially in the company of a Professor. Plus it wasn't really all that big of a deal. Stepping back from the portrait she glanced towards Zeke hoping he wouldn't be upset with her about this. Cause losing her best friend over something as stupid as a password wouldn't be great. Taking down some quick notes including the password she closed the book again.

As she moved towards the rest of the group she left her footsteps fall into step beside Zeke's almost hesitantly brushing her fingers to his muttering a very almost unheard. "Sorry..."Hoping he wouldn't be to angry she opened her book once more and tipped it towards him so he could see the what she'd written on it near the portrait (it's password) when she heard Elizabeth ask for it again before closing the book once more.

Hera · 01-25-2015, 02:03 PM

SPOILER!!: Hady

He'd done it. Walked off without ANY consequence at all. The stupid portrait as stupid. And whoever 'returned' it, since it wasn't always here, was just as stupid. Wasting all their time. Nasty piece of work that needed burning.

After moving further down the corridor and documenting what was there, he waited for Hady to catch him up. He knew it was all stupid. This whole Slytherin pride and pureblood thing. He was just as good a wizard as a pureblood, even if he was muggleborn. SURE, he wasn't the BEST at everything, but he wasn't failing either. What disappointed him, was that for the first time at Hogwarts, he didn't feel like he belonged.

The one thing he didn't expect, was for her to take his hand. Really? After the portrait had tried to set her against him? ... He didn't remove his hand, but his fingers didn't embrace hers as they usually would. Her hushed 'sorry' was met with a small nod. He was fine. She didn't do anything wrong. It was fine. He was about to say as much when she showed him her mapping, and the note about the password. Slytherins are supreme? ... "Well I'm not Slytherin, and I'm not a pureblood either... it won't matter either way." The password was useless to him with he was in Gryffindor robes, and while he was Zeke Rogers.

"Let's keep moving," he said, deciding staying down this corridor was the worst way to spend their time. There was much more to see, no?

*Kolyander* · 01-25-2015, 02:19 PM

Hady walked along side Zeke without a sound for just a moment. He didn't snap at her or pull away but he also didn't seem to be like himself anymore and that's what hugged her most. So what if he wasn't a Slytherin or a pureblood she didn't care in the least and he was her best friend.

"Zeke...listen to me a moment okay? Don't listen to her at all she doesn't understand about the school and how times have changed. You're smart, brave and an epic wizard. You don't need to prove that when you yourself know it. Okay?" She gave his fingers a small squeeze. "Plus you're my best friend and I could careless what the portrait thinks."

Hady wasn't sure if he was listening or if he would even care but it was something she felt she needed to tell him. That being said she gave a nod to him wanting to keep going. "Yeah let's keep going..." There was more she could've said right then and she might've wanted to hug him to even if just to get a tiny smile but she thought better of it and kept walking.

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