Matthew Weasley Chp. 16

Instructions

Emily and I followed Calypso to were everyone else was waiting. They were all standing next to an enormous snake skin. "That's the Basilisk." Asher told me as we all continue to walk onward. I was walking along the Basilisk skin, when I heard Ron yell. I whipped around to find a teacher, with curly orange hair, shiny white teeth and was wearing bright violet robes. He had Ron's wand in his hand and started to mutter a spell. There was then an explosion and the Professor was knocked back into the wall. Rocks started to fall so I did the only thing I could think of. I saw Emily standing under it, I lunged for her and knocked her down beside a, now, pile of rocks. "Are you two okay!?" Havi asked. "Yeah, but Matt, I think you broke my wrist or something." Emily said, still laying down on the ground. "I'm sorry," I held out my hand to help her up with her left hand, not her injured one. Emily's tone of voice reminded me of her fiery personality that I've known, not the frightened one from only moments ago. She took my hand and stood up, steadying herself on my shoulder, which ached from the fall. "This keeps happening to us today, doesn't it?" I said. She nodded. No one was paying much attention to them, they were examining the Professor and the rocks. I thought to myself for a moment, we could have both died. I decided to hug Emily. I don't really know why I did it. It felt good to me, it was warm. I had never felt like that before. Emily hugged me back, and we broke apart only when Ron shouted: "Harry! Are you there?!" As we broke apart, we each glanced around at everyone. No one had watched, no one had seen. I grinned at Emily, her face pink. She grinned back. We both went over to see what had happened. "Ron! I'm here on the other side of the rocks!" Harry shouted back. "I'm trying to dig through!" "No Harry! Keep going we have to save Hermione and Jackie!" Havi shouted. "Alright! But will you guys try to undo the pile of rocks?" "Yeah, Harry they'll be gone when you come back!" Ron said. He added in an undertone to the rest of us, "I hope so." I quickly got to work removing rocks. "So, Ron, who is that?" I asked. "Oh, that's Professor Lockhart, my mum fancies him." He said, as we both removed a large rock. Soon with the whole group of us working, we managed to create a large enough hole for one person to go through at a time. I sat down and we all waited. There was an earsplitting screech as Fawkes the phoenix flew through the whole, dragging a brown triangle with him. "What the-?" Isabella said, standing up to get a better look. //Where is he going?//