Chapter 9

The Sorcerer's Stone

At 11 the three of them left the common room after casting a spell on Neville. After a few minutes I ran after them. Neville was back to himself and gave no trouble.

"Are you going after them Aeris?"

"Yeah Neville I am. If Fred comes down tell him I'm already in bed." I told him. He looked more relaxed.

"Aeris... Is it true your friends with Malfoy?" Neville asked. I was almost out of the common room when I froze.

"How did you-"

"I saw you two in the Great Hall tonight. Both of you are going?" Neville asked.

"On Dumbledore's orders. Yes Draco and I are friends but no one is allowed to know got it?"

"Yeah I won't tell anyone Aeris. You better hurry. That dog doesn't stay asleep for long." And Neville went up to bed.

I rushed out of their and down the hallway to see Draco standing outside the door.

"They already got past the dog!" He hissed.

"Yeah well Neville knows about our secret." I told him before opening the door. Draco cursed under his breath and i opened the door. The dog was fast asleep and the trapdoor was wide open.

"Ready?"

"Ready." I told Draco and we both jumped through the trapdoor. It was like a slide taking us all the way down to the bottom of the castle. We landed on a soft mushy ground.

"AH." Draco said trying to move but he couldn't.

"STOP MOVING! IT'S DEVIL SNARE!" I told him. He stopped moving and I tried to grab my wand. When I did I touched the plant with a blast of fire and it dropped us onto a hard marble floor.

"Ugh. Lumos!" Draco said and his wand tip turned a bright white. We followed a path until we came to a room with a bunch of flying keys and three broomsticks that were in the middle of the floor. I pushed on the other door but it was locked.

"Damn." I said.

"So we gotta catch the key? Which one is the right one?" Draco said looking around. I looked around and saw a key with battered wings trying to fly but wasn't doing a good job.

"THERE!" I told him. As soon as he saw it Draco took a broom and flew up to grab it. He got a hold of it and jammed the key into the keyhole. As soon as the door opened the key shot out. With a quick flick of my wand the key's wings were fixed and it was back to normal. We walked into a disaster. There was a huge Wizard Chess board in the middle of the room and the door across the room was flung wide open to show blue flames. In the middle of the board was broken chess pieces and a wounded Ron.

"Ah Aeris?" Ron said looking at me.

"RON!" I screamed and went over to him. Draco hid himself behind a chess piece that fell over.

"Harry... he and Hermione went past the door. Ah my leg." Ron said grabbing his leg.

"Just a sec." I told him and took the vile out of my robes. I gave him the vile and he drank a little bit of the potion.

"Thanks Aeris." Ron said now standing up.

"Your leg is still mangled up but the potion took the pain away so you can't feel it."

I quickly got up and ran to the other door with Draco at my heels.

"Is that Malfoy?" I heard Ron say but I didn't stop to explain to him. We ran over to the flames where we could hear Harry talking.

"Harry drank all the potion to get to the other side. Their isn't another one to go through." Hermione said. She held out a purple bottle.

"This one takes us back." She said and opened the bottle and drank out of it. She paused and shook the bottle. She tipped it over but nothing came out.

"It's- It's empty..." Hermione said throwing the bottle against a wall and it smashed into pieces.

I took out another vile that had a green liquid inside.

"Here. This will take you and Ron back to wherever it is the purple flames lead to. Tell Snape to come down quickly cause Voldemort is in there!" I pointed at where Harry was. Hermione grew pale and grabbed the vile.

"I'll go grab Snape right away actually. How are you going to get to Harry though?" Hermione asked me.

I took out another vile that had a blue liquid inside.

"You only got 1 vile from Dumbledore's office!" Draco shouted.

"That doesn't mean that one vile becomes 3 potion bottles. Dumbledore warned me about the tasks before so I thought I should grab the enchanted vile from his office. One takes away the pain if one get's hurt. One takes you back to where you once were before. So the common room Hermione. This one lets two people get through any barriers like this fire." I said. Hermione quickly drank the potion.

"Good Luck Aeris." Hermione said and walked through the purple flames. I handed the blue vile to Draco.

"Just drink a little." I told him. He took a sip from it and handed me the vile. I drank the rest of it and we both walked through the fire. We soon saw Harry talking to a man that had a turban and wearing a purple cloak.

"Aeris it's Professor Quirrell!" Draco whispered. I knew it. I always thought Quirrell was strange after this year.

"What do you see Harry?" Quirrell said in a hiss that didn't sound like his voice. Voldemort must be talking now. Harry was standing in front of a tall mirror. His eyes looked into it trying not to look at Quirrell.

"I see myself shaking hands with Dumbledore. I won the House Cup."

Quirrell pushed him and I saw a weird shape in Harry's pocket.

"Draco he has the stone! Harry has the stone!" I hissed in his ear. Draco looked at Harry and saw it was in his pocket too.

"He lies... He lies!" A voice that didn't sound like Quirrell at all.

"Potter, Come back here!" Quirrell said. "Tell me the truth! What did you see?" Harry looking dead scared didn't move at all. Quirrell started looking angry.

"Let me speak to him... face-to-face." The high voice said. Quirrell froze.

"Master you are not strong enough!"

"I have strength enough... for this..."

Quirrell slowly unwrapped the Turban from his head and turn to face Harry. Harry didn't move. He looked like he was going to scream but he couldn't. I grabbed Draco's hand and tried not to scream. The thing that was in Quirrell's Turban was the most horrible thing ever. It's face was chalk white. Beady blood red eyes and two slits as his nose like a snake.

"Harry Potter..." The thing said.

"It's Voldemort." Draco said and held my hand tight.

He started talking to Harry. He told him about Quirrell drinking the Unicorn Blood and how it was giving him strength.

"Now why don't you give me that stone in your pocket?" Voldemort said. Harry fell backwards.

"Don't be a fool." Voldemort snarled. "Better save your life and join me... or die like your parents... they begged for mercy."

"LIAR!" Harry screamed.

"Liar? They didn't want me to kill you or your sister!" Voldemort laughed. Wait... Harry had a sister?

"Harry has a sister?" Draco asked.

"I... I don't have a-"

"Oh, but you do! She's in this room! She's watching us now!" Voldemort said laughing. Harry couldn't take it anymore.

"I DON'T HAVE A SISTER YOU LIAR!"

Voldemort laughed. "She is still alive. Unlike your mother... She tried to protect both of you. Now hand over that stone unless you want her to die in vain like your mother!" Voldemort shouted at Harry. Harry was looking around. Draco hid behind a marble wall.

"NEVER!" I heard Harry yell.

"SEIZE HIM!" Voldemort shouted. All of a sudden I heard Harry yell in pain. His scar must be burning! My scar started prickle. Then Quirrell started to scream as well. He let go of Harry and looked at his hands.

"Aeris. When Quirrell touched him his finger started to burn!" Draco said looking over the wall. I looked over too. Quirrel grabbed a hold of Harry's neck but both of them started screaming. Quirrell let go of him and Harry got up and ran to the other side of the room.

"Master I can't touch him!" Quirrell said screaming in pain.

"Then kill him and be done!" Voldemort shouted. Quirrell lifted his wand but Harry was to fast and grabbed Quirrell's face. Quirrell gasped in pain. I couldn't take it anymore. I quickly got up and grabbed a hold of my wand.

"AERIS!" Draco yelled.

Harry fainted and Quirrell was screaming in pain.

"KILL HIM. KILL HIM!" Voldemort screamed. Quirrell grabbed his wand and was about to preform the killing curse.

"NO!" I shouted and jumped on Quirrell. The pain on my hand was unbearable. It was like my hand was about to split into two. Quirrell also screamed in pain.

"AERIS! BE A GOOD GIRL AND GRAB THE STONE!" Voldemort shouted.

"NO I WON'T LISTEN TO YOU!" I shouted and punched Voldemort's face. I couldn't take the pain in my hand anymore. Voldemort's face burned and he screamed in pain. Both Quirrell and Voldemort were screaming in pain. Draco came by my side and took out a pocket knife.

"We have to kill him Aeris." Draco said and he grabbed my hand and set it on Quirrell's bare arm. The pain in my hand made my head hurt and Quirrell screamed so loud in pain. Draco then stabbed Quirrell in the chest. Right in the heart. I let go of Quirrell and he fell over. He wasn't bleeding though. He was turning into ash and Voldemort screamed. After Quirrell's body blew away into the fire Voldemort's spirit rose up into the air and flew towards Harry but someone shouted a spell and Voldemort banged into a invisible shield that between him and Harry. The spirit screamed and disappeared. Draco hugged me and I hugged him tears rolling down my face.

"Looks like you did what I asked you." Dumbledore's voice said. We both turned to see him smiling at us.

"Dumbledore!" I shouted.

"Aeris you did it. Now do me a favor and look into the mirror." Dumbledore said. I nodded my head and stood up. Brushed off some dust and walk over to the mirror. I looked and saw my reflection at first until a few shapes appeared. I saw a young women with red hair and smiled at me. I then saw a young man in his 30s maybe? He had messy black hair and wore glasses like Harry. The women though had green eyes. My green eyes. I saw on my shoulder was Lynn. Then I saw Snape stand next to the Lady and gave me a smile. Then another person appeared. Someone I was hoping to see. Draco Malfoy stood next to the man who looked like Harry and waved. I didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay here and look at this mirror forever.

"It's the Mirror of Erised Aeris. It shows what you want most. I can guess you can see Snape?"

I nodded my head.

"Yes cause Snape to you felt like he was the only person who treated you like family." Dumbledore explained. He picked up Harry and walk towards me.

"Aeris I know you might want to stay here forever but it's time we leave."

"Dumbledore what do you see when you look in the mirror?"

"I see myself holding a pair of thick woolen socks." He said smiling. Draco looked at him like he was crazy and back at the mirror where he saw something unreal and his eyes grew wide.

"One can never have enough pairs of socks." Dumbledore said. "This Christmas all I got was Books. I wanted a pair of socks." Dumbledore took Harry and walked through the flame to the other room where we left Hermione.

"I don't believe him." Draco said and followed Dumbledore. I believed Draco but looked back into the mirror. The man look like Harry and the Women had my face and eyes. They were holding hands so did this mean Harry was my...