The next morning Hermione was mad at the three
" Saw that coming" Brenda thought and sighed
They went down to the Great Hall and ignored Malfoy who looked dumfounded that they were still at Hogwarts, he thought he had the perfect plan to get rid of them
" So what do you think is under the trapped door?" Brenda asked while pouring herself some pumpkin juice
" I don't know, all I do know is that it's only a few inches long, I think whatever it is, it's the thing that Hagrid got when I was in Diagon Alley" Harry said then took a bite of his cereal
The three of them began thinking and then got bored of the topic
A few weeks later during breakfast
" Oh mails here" Ron said smiling
All the owls swooped down to drop the mail to the owners and when two packages six owls to a package came through the window, everybody looked up, the packages were long and thin and they were coming down to the Gryffindor table and landed in front of Harry and Brenda and also a note to both of them
Harry was about to open the package but his sister stopped him
" Harry it is polite to open the card or note first" Brenda said in a motherly tone
" Sheesh you sound like my mother" Ron said
Brenda rolled her eyes and opened the letter
Dear Brenda Potter, Congratulations on making the team, even though the way you made it I didn't like, anyway, Wood and I agreed that in order for you to be on the team, you need a decent broom, so I purchased this Nimbus 2000 for you... think of it as a belated birthday present, don't open it up at the table, wait until you get to the common room. You and your brother will begin Quidditch practice at 7:00
Professor McGonagall
PS. I'm excited to see how fast this thing can fly
Harry and Brenda looked at their packages and then looked at each other and smiled excitedly and then looked at McGonagall and nodded their thanks and she nodded back and smiled a you're welcome
" Lets open them up already" Ron said
" In the Common room" The Potters said at the same time
All the Gryffindors were excited, they wanted to know what were inside the packages and so they all walked to go back to the Common room but they were stopped by Draco Malfoy
" What do you have there?" Malfoy said
" None of your business Malfoy" Brenda said
Malfoy took the package away and felt it and gave it back to Brenda with a shove
" It's a broomstick... first years aren't aloud to have broomsticks, check your acceptance letter" Malfoy said
" Check with Professor McGonagall, she gave the ok since we're on the Quidditch team" Brenda said
" So what kind of broom is it" Fred asked
" A Nimbus 2000" The Potters said at the same time
There were gasps
" Now get out of our way Malfoy" Harry said
Malfoy didn't move
Fred and George went up to Malfoy and lifted him by the armpits to the other side and they ran up the stairs and then there was a loud noise and a scream coming from Malfoy
"All right" the Weasley twins said at the same time
" What did you do?" Brenda asked and she was laughing
" We put a muggle contraption in Malfoy's pocket" George said
" I believe muggles call them... firecrackers" Fred said
That got the muggleborns and the Potter's laughing
" How dare you do that to me Weasley" Malfoy hissed after he composed himself
" That first year doesn't know a good joke if it explodes in his pocket" George said
" Yah it's no wonder he has only two friends" Fred said
The Weasley twins started laughing
" Will you two stop being so immature?" Percy asked his brothers
" Aw, you're no fun Perc" George said
" Wait until mother hears about this" Percy said
" Percy they were only having a bit of fun" Ron said
" Those things aren't dangerous, they just hurt for a bit" Harry said, " My cousin Dudley did that to me every fourth of July when we were younger... when I couldn't run as fast"
" Still they should know better than to do childish things like that" Percy said, " Now lets go to the common room to see your broom sticks
The Gryffindors all went to the common room and the Potters opened up there packages and everybody was in aw
" It's the newest model yet" Seamus said
" It looks so fast" Dean said
" Ok we have now seen the brooms now lets get to our classes before we all get detentions and have to spend it with Filch or Snape" Percy said
There were groans from a lot of people but they did as they were told and the Potter twins put there brooms under their beds and hurried to class. During class they weren't paying attention, Brenda was daydreaming about flying and Harry was daydreaming at beating Malfoy at a flying race and they both couldn't wait until 7:00 to start practice. Finally at 6:45 Brenda got really excited and they hurried off to the Quidditch Pitch
" Good you both are here, ok since it's too dark for you to practice with the Snitch Harry, you're going to practice with a flying Golf Ball, and Brenda, you are going to practice getting the Quaffle and aiming and scoring goals, Harry those golf balls have a spell on them that activate once you are ready and when you catch one golf ball it falls to the ground and another one will take it's place, Brenda I'm going to pretend that I'm on the opposing team, all I want you to do tonight is aim and score, no need for blocking... ok
" Sounds good" The twins said
" Great" Wood said not surprised about the talking at the same time thing, he gets a lot of that from the Weasley twins
They practiced for an hour and a half and then called it quits
When they got in the common room, Wood and the two Potters saw Ron and Hermione arguing
" Ronald I'm just trying to help you pass Charms" Hermione said
" I never asked for your help Hermione did I? No I didn't so just leave me alone or go pick on somebody else and tell them how to say WINDGADRIUM LEVIOSA or how you say it WINDGADRIUM LEVIOSA
Hermione was stunned and she ran up to the girls dorm and she was crying
" RONALD WEASLEY" Brenda started " Why did you just do that to her? She was only trying to help, you're not that good in Charms and you know it"
" Yah well she's being a know it all" Ron said
" You didn't have to tell her like that" Brenda snapped
" I'll leave you first years alone" Wood said a little uncomfortable as he headed up to the boys dorm
" Well can you blame me? She's a nightmare, a living nightmare, it's no wonder why she doesn't have any friends" Ron said
There was a gasp coming from the girls dorm
" Ron how can you be so heartless? You haven't even given her a chance, she is really nice once you get to know her, I am one of her friends" Brenda said with a glare and then she went up to the girls dorm to talk to Hermione
The next day was Halloween and Hermione was still really sad, she wouldn't talk to anyone, she wouldn't even raise her hand up to answer a question when she obviously knew the answer.
Finally it was the Halloween feast, there were decorations all over the Great Hall and the tables had big bowls filled with candy in them
" Wow this place looks neat" Brenda said, " I'm impressed"
Everybody sat down for the feast and then Ron noticed that Hermione wasn't at the table
" So where's Hermione at? She's been acting weird" Ron said
" She's in the girls bathroom crying Ron... you are to thank for that" Brenda said in a snippy tone, " I tried talking to her but she didn't want to talk, I hope you can live with yourself"
Ron looked down at his empty plate but then there was a noise coming from the ceiling and up there were bats flying around and they would swoop down and create a spectacular sight and then the feast began
After about 10 minutes Professor Quirrell came in the Great Hall
" TROLL IN THE DUNGEON TROLL IN THE DUNGEON! Thought you ought to know" Quirrell said before he fainted and got everybody screaming
"SILENCE!" Dumbledore yelled
It got quiet right away
" Professors will follow me to the dungeons, Prefects will lead their houses back to there houses
Everybody started moving
" You guys... Hermione, she doesn't know about the troll" Brenda told the two
" What do you want us to do about it?" Ron asked
" We have to go find her" Brenda said
" Fine, but we better not get in trouble" Ron said
The three hurried to the girls bathroom and just before they reached it, the troll was in there
" Looks like it left the dungeons" Harry whispered
" Gee you think" Brenda said rolling her eyes
" Do we have to go in there" Ron asked scared
" Yes we do" Brenda said
" Easy for you to say, you're a girl" Ron said
" It's a bathroom, only Hermione's in here, now come on" Brenda said
They got to the bathroom and yelled, "HERMIONE"
That got the Trolls attention but Ron through a rock at it anyway yelling, " HEY PEA-BRAIN!"
The troll ignored Hermione and went after the other three. Brenda dodged the troll and went up to Hermione trying to get her to move but she had a smashed pipe on her leg and she couldn't get to her wand to levitate it. The troll started coming after the girls again
" GIRLS WATCH OUT" Harry yelled, as he jumped on the troll's neck trying to confuse it and with the only thing he could think of, he stuck his wand up the trolls nose and Brenda and Ron both saw that and made a gross face then Brenda went back to her task to getting Hermione up.
Brenda took out her wand and aimed it at the pipe" WINDGADRIUM LEVIOSA"
The pipe lifted and Hermione was free but Harry was at the mercy of the troll who had Harry by the feet
" Ron do some thing" Harry panicked
" What" Ron asked looking around
" ANYTHING" Harry yelled
" Ron... WINDGADRIUM LEVIOSA" The girls yelled
Ron nodded and aimed his wand at the club in the trolls hand, " WINDGADRIUM LEVIOSA" The club flew out of the trolls hand and Ron brought it over to the trolls head and let the club drop on it's head,
" cool" Ron said smiling, he finally did that stupid spell right
But then the troll dropped Harry from 15 feet in the air and he was going to land on his head
" WINDGADRIUM LEVIOSA" Hermione and Brenda yelled and gently set Harry on the ground
" Thanks" Harry said
Hermione went to the troll, " Is it... dead?"
" I don't think so... just knocked out" Harry said as he got his wand out of the trolls nose
" Gross, troll boogers" He wiped the boogers on the trolls pants, and then to the students horror, McGonagall, Snape and Quirrell appeared and saw the four students and an unconscious troll in the girls bathroom
Snape stooped down at the troll and made sure it was breathing... it was
" Explain this... all of you" McGonagall demanded
They all tried explaining
" One at a time" Snape snapped
Everybody looked at Snape shocked
Harry looked down at Snape's leg and it was bleeding and Snape quickly hid his wound
" I'll talk" Brenda said, " What happened was that Hermione was using the restroom when all of this took place, when she came out, there was a troll in here and it started charging, I knew that she was in the bathroom and I told these guys and we headed towards here not knowing about the troll until we got here, we didn't have time to fetch anybody because Hermione's leg was caught under that pipe and was about to finish her, we had to distract the troll and I snuck around it and I helped her out with the levitation spell we learned in Charms. Harry confused the troll by somehow getting on the troll's back and sticking his wand up the troll's nose and Ron got the club the troll had in his hand to levitate above the trolls head and to smack down on the trolls head and knocked him out"
" Is that what happened?" McGonagall asked the rest of the students and everybody nodded, " Very well, 10 points will be awarded to each of you for being really lucky, you guys may go now, you will finish the feast in the common room"
The students nodded and went passed the professors and headed up to the common room and Hermione became friends with all three of them
" You guys, I think Snape went after that three headed dog" Harry said
" What?" the three asked
" I saw something that looked like a bite wound on his leg, it looked like a dog bite wound" Harry said
" Harry we need more evidence, we just can't make accusations because he has a bite wound, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying we need more proof" Brenda said
" You're right" Harry said
" Lets enjoy the rest of our Halloween as best as we could" Ron said