It was June before the little alliance of Gryffindors and Slytherins made plans to brave the third floor corridor. Not including Neville, who was more of a shy occasional hanger-on than a close friend of Harry and Ron’s. Hermione had a great plan to assign her house-elf Colley to covertly checking in on Professors Snape and McGonagall, with instructions to report in to her immediately if either of them awoke and left their quarters. It was a weight off the Gryffindors’ minds that she had a plan to have someone watching Snape, but they were still determined to secure the stone before he could get his greasy hands on in. For they’d recently learnt from Hagrid that the safest way to get past Fluffy was to play him some music, and they were sure Snape would know it by now too. After their History of Magic exam was concluded (their last test for the year, thank Merlin) they made plans to meet up at eleven o’clock at the staircase leading up to the third floor near the suit of armour with a halberd – there was a tapestry concealing a tiny nook just behind it that would make a good hiding spot if any prefects came by. Though the Gryffindors seemed suspiciously unconcerned about the possibility of getting caught breaking curfew. Theo shared his speculation that Professor McGonagall was probably soft on punishments for her "brave" rule-breaking lions. Though the detention Harry and Ron had gotten in the Forbidden Forest did make him question that assumption, when Hermione raised it as a counter-example.