Shane still wasn't sure exactly what they were going to do. They needed a way to take out the house elves all at once without destroying part of the castle or themselves. If he remembered correctly thee was a passage in the next hallway that would take them almost to Hufflepuff.
They turned the corner, and Shane breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was empty.
"Okay," he said. "Providing that the passage behind the picture of Bellamus the Bard in the next hallway is still open, we're in the clear."
They reached the end of the hallway, and Shane was about to comment on their good luck when he heard the familiar shuffling sound he'd come to associate with the house elves. It was coming from in front of them. And from behind. They were so fucked.