Harry Potter Mudbloods and Murmurs Book 2 - Chapter 8 Part 3

Harry Potter Mudbloods and Murmurs Book 2 - Chapter 8 Part 3

The voice was growing fainter. Harry was sure it was moving away — moving upward. A mixture of fear and excitement gripped him as he stared at the dark ceiling; how could it be moving upward? Was it a phantom, to whom stone ceilings didn’t matter? “This way,” he shouted, and he began to run, up the stairs, into the entrance hall. It was no good hoping to hear anything here, the babble of talk from the Halloween feast was echoing out of the Great Hall. Harry sprinted up the marble staircase to the first floor, Ron and Hermione clattering behind him. “Harry, what’re we —” “SHH!” Harry strained his ears. Distantly, from the floor above, and growing fainter still, he heard the voice: “…  I smell blood. … I SMELL BLOOD !” His stomach lurched — “It’s going to kill someone!” he shouted, and ignoring Ron’s and Hermione’s bewildered faces, he ran up the next flight of steps three at a time, trying to listen over his own pounding footsteps — Harry hurtled around the whole of the second floor, Ron and Her…