Ron Weasley

So the rest of us kind of put our heads together and made a plan. Well, mostly Parks and Bones figured out the plan and Harry and I did the climbing. And it was really sorcerous, too! We had to figure out what kind of warding spell they'd hit, so I went down the rope and it turned out the sides of the hole were hexed, and I can totally see how Macmillan got knocked off his rope! But then Pansy saw that we could hook the rope through this kind of crevice in the rock overhead and it would hang down pretty much in the middle of the hole, so we could get down without touching the sides. The only trouble was figuring out how to get the rope up there and make sure it would stay! Moon had a bunch of really naff ideas that would never have worked and would probably have ended up with me falling and breaking my neck (which maybe what he hoped, the git). But Brocklehurst and Pansy figured out how to do it and they cast the spells. And it totally worked!!

So, anywiz, I climbed back up my rope and then Harry Marvolo used the new rope and swung out over the hole, and then he was able to climb right down. I went down, too, once he'd got down there.