The room was large, and dust filled ever corner of it. It was mostly empty, except for a large piece of furniture that sat covered with a dusty white sheet on one wall of the room.
“Whoa,” breathed Ron nervously.
Harry walked over to the ‘thing’, his wand ready. He put out a shaking hand, and pulled the sheet off and stepped back. What had been under the sheet was a cabinet—a cabinet filled with precious belongings.
“By any chance would one of these goblets happen to belong to—" but Hermione stopped short.
The three of them looked around.
“I’m sure I heard something,” muttered Harry. “Coming from up the stairs.” And with that, he walked quietly to the stairs. Ron and Hermione exchanged glances and followed him, their wands ready.
*****
Ginny crept out of bed that night, careful not to wake the other girls. She grabbed her broomstick from beside her bed and opened the window. She carefully climbed onto the moonlit windowsill and mounted her broom. She stumbled as kicked off from the windowsill. She grabbed for her broom but it was too late. She tumbled toward the ground, and landed with a soft thud, her broom falling down beside her, breaking in half.
Ginny groaned as she lay there. She slowly rolled over, grabbing her arm from the searing pain. She heard footsteps coming toward her.
“Well, well, well,” said a voice. “Look who we have here.”
Ginny looked up into the eyes of—
oooh! cliffy! lol! kinda a short post, but the next one will be alot longer...and 'things' will be revealed! should be up sometime this week.