Taking on the Magical World 50 Chapter 49: Escape 2

As I finally climbed up to the sixth floor my invisibility potion starts to wear off.

The damn book, I curse, it clearly stated that the invisibility potion should last me a good ten minutes. It has only been a good five minutes, not ten. I am never going to trust in the fine print, I promise myself.

Anyways I am nearly at Gryffindor tower, just one more flight of stairs and then I will be in the home stretch.

As I turn a corner, I notice Filch's dust-colored cat, Mrs Norris. She too notices me, and we stare at each other for a while. I try to act as cat-like as possible and meow.

The damn beast does not move an inch. Instead, it surveys me with its yellow colored eyes.

I try again to ask it if it could stop blocking the passage.

Meow, meow! I say to the unpleasant cat. Move over you dang thing, I think.

As an animagus not only do you have the rare ability to transform into a particular animal at will. You could also slightly communicate with other animals. I have no idea how it works at all, but you just talk to them and understand them, when you are in your animagus form.

What is wrong with this annoying cat, I think, when I see that it is not budging an inch. I take a closer look at her and see that she is smiling. I immediately recognize what type of smile it is, an evil smile.

Meow, meow!!! She says to me.

I take in what she has said to me and try to interpret it as best I can, it turns out to be. "You must be that vile human you has hit me with blue light."

I gulp, she has recognized me.

"Kehkehkehe! I am going enjoy skinning you alive, damn human!" She adds as her claws extend out.

I back away slowly and carefully. "Why don't we talk about this, huh?" I ask while I am really looking for an escape route. What else could I do, it would take nearly a good minute for me to transform back to my human form. During that time this foul cat will scratch me to death.

"Over my dead body, human!" She says and jumps at me.

I quickly dodge to the left. I thankfully escape from that right cat swipe, but I trip over my own tail.

Damn, I am still not used to this new form.

Mrs Norris whips her head around to face me and growls. "Stay still for me, human so I could get you." She says to me.

Fuck how unreasonable can you be? Do you want to stay still for you, just so you could give me a beating!

I quickly get up from the pathetic heap of limbs and tails I was in.

Mrs Norris leapt at me. I did the one thing she did not expect, I run at her.

The shocked expression on her stupid cat face was priceless as I quickly run under her belly and then down the stairway.

"Come back here, human and fight me." I hear Mrs Norris yell behind me.

Who said anything about fighting you, you stupid cat. I think evilly.

With each jump, I briskly take three or four stair steps. Not daring to look back at all or slow down for that matter. Since I know for sure that the black-hearted cat is on my tail.

I jump off the final stair step and run down the Fifth-floor corridor. While dashing through the corridor, I crane my neck around looking for a place to lose that cat.

My mind rapidly fires one idea after another. Not the art room or the music room, I think, I will just box myself inside with that cat and I would have no way to escape.

Let's see if I remember correctly, this floor here should be connected to the hospital tower. Yes, I could lose there, in the hospital tower.

I make a left turn and end up in front of the Prefects' bathroom.

Shit that was a wrong turn.

I quickly turn around and try to run for it, but Mrs Norris is standing in front of me.

I quickly stop myself from bumping into her. "Hey why don't we..." Before I could finish what I was saying, Mrs Norris dashes up to me. I try to swerve to one side and I almost succeed but her claw manages to graze my flank.

Hot pain shoots through my mind and I see red. Shitty little cat, I howl. You will pay for that, I promise.

I extend my claws and take a swipe at her since she is so close to me.

While the two of us are fighting. We do not notice that a portrait is hanging across from us. The resident inside the portrait is shocked with the cat fight going on, right below him. Since he himself cannot physically stop it, he starts to yell at the top of his lungs.

A large booming voice comes from the corner. "What is going on Timothy?"

Hagrid fully bearded face sticks out from around the corner.

The answer he is looking for is right in front of him.

"Blimey, I will be damned!" Hagrid shouts, he quickly grabs the scruff of Ms Norris and picks her up, all the way up to his own eye level.

"I know yeh be trouble, been 'specting it all along." Hagrid shakes his head and his great buffy beard also shakes. "Now get out of here, before I whomp yeh ass!" He adds and throws her away, she hisses at Hagrid. Hagrid takes on look at her and she scurries away.

Hagrid turns to look at me and I act like a scared little creature.

"Ar' yeh alright little one, she must have done a number on yeh. Come here." He says while holding out his pan-sized hands.

I continue with my act since I do not want to give myself away. I take a careful step on to Hagrid palm and he picks me up.

"It is goin' to be alrigh' little one I will fix you up at my hut."

Chapter end