Chapter 4
Midnight Discoveries
Harry had just woken up from a nightmare. In it, the defense against the dark arts teacher, Professor Quirrell, had been attempting to kill Harry for the entire school year. He also happened to have been possessed by a man with eyes that looked like they belonged to a reptile, and a flat nose that looked like a snake's. When Harry saw him, he woke up, with the image of the face still in his vision. He decided to take a walk to clear his head.
When he looked at the clock nearest to him a few minutes later, it said that it was midnight. A loud yell penetrated the silence, and Harry thought to himself, I have to help that person! As he started to move towards the door of the room, he heard a voice that made him stop dead in his tracks. The voice was high and clear, and Harry remembered it from somewhere, but he couldn't figure out where he had heard the voice before. When Harry reached the door, he found it half open. When he looked inside, he had to use all of his strength to keep himself from crying out. It was the face. The face that he had seen in his nightmare. A memory came to the forefront of his mind, the memory of Hagrid telling Harry about the night his parents were killed.
He suddenly remembered where he had heard the voice before. It was the voice of the man who had killed his parents. Lord Voldemort. He immediately ran away from the door and went straight to Snape's office and knocked softly. Snape answered the door and motioned for Harry to enter the office. "What's wrong, Harry? You look like you've seen a ghost," Snape asked. "Well, I had been woken up by a nightmare, and chose to take a short walk to clear my head,"Harry explained, "I looked at a clock and it told me that it was midnight, so I decided that I should get back to bed. Then I heard a loud scream come from a nearby room. The noise distracted me, and I went over to investigate and see if the person that had screamed needed any help, when I heard a very unsettling voice coming from the room."
Snape looked at Harry like he couldn't believe what he had just heard. What did the voice sound like," Snape asked. "It was high and clear, and it sent shivers up and down my body. That was when I recognized where I had heard the voice before," Harry said. Snape suddenly looked terrified of what Harry had just told him. Snape remembered the voice as well. It was the voice of his old master, Lord Voldemort. He stared at Harry for a few moments, then asked him, "It was the voice of Lord Voldemort, wasn't it?" "Yeah. I remembered hearing the voice when my parents were killed," Harry said. Before Snape could ask anything else, Harry looked at him straight in the eyes, and told him, "There's more, sir. He was possessing someone."
Snape looked at Harry with a confused look. "Whom was he possessing," Snape asked. "He was possessing Professor Quirrell, sir," Harry told him. They stood in silence for a few minutes before Snape brought Harry back to the Slytherin common room. He insisted on accompanying Harry to make sure that he made it back to the common room safely.
The next morning, Harry went to go to breakfast when someone grabbed him from behind and pulled him into a dark area of the corridor. Then, the person who had grabbed him lit his wand. It was Ron Weasley, another first year classmate who had been sorted into Gryffindor house. "Look, Harry, I don't care if we're in two different houses. I want to get to know you better. Also, sorry about grabbing you, I thought that it was the only way for me to be able to talk to you," Ron said.
"It's fine, Ron. I'm glad that we could talk to one another and get to know each other better," Harry said. After this conversation, Harry and Ron became very good friends.
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Quirinus Quirrell looked at the door with purpose. He was going to get the stone for his Master, allowing him to return to full strength. He had also brought someone with him to lure Potter to him. He had apparated to the home of one of Potter's good friends and kidnapped the only child he saw. They went through the trapdoor that the Cerberus, named Fluffy, was guarding, and landed in the Devil's Snare, which Quirrell easily escaped by simply lighting it on fire.
In the room with the flying keys, he simply summoned the correct key and shoved it forcefully into the lock. He then beat McGonagall's giant chess set and easily subdued the troll in the next room.
He then cast a complicated spell on himself that allowed him to easily get through the flames. In the room with the Mirror of Erised, he thought about only obtaining the stone, but not using it, causing him to see the reflection of himself wink at him and slide the stone into his pocket, which also ended up in the real Quirrell's pocket. He then took it out of his pocket and drank a small portion of the Elixir of Life for his Master, and he felt him leave his body, and he slowly returned to his normal appearance while Lord Voldemort rapidly transformed until he was back to his original form. Lord Voldemort had risen once again.