DICLAIMER : HP and FF7 arnt mine
A/N : Might seem a bit rushed but since there wasnt much differences figured i'd just go ahead and get a bit farther in the story. Hope you all enjoy this :)
Harry was scrubbing another cauldron. 1hr left and then that horrible detention would be finished. He couldn't wait for school to start again the next day if only because it meant no more of those dirty cauldrons. He didn't know what Snape was trying to do but they were so hard to clean and the smell was making him feel sick. That was how bad it had been every day that week. The greasy git was not kidding when he had said he would regret his little adventure in the library… Even more since it had been a waste of time in the first place.
Once his detention was finished, while he was roaming around in the castle he felt someone push him hard while he was in the stairs and just before he crashed to the ground he saw the purple turban of professor Quirrell as the man was fleeing the place. After that Harry lost consciousness.
Sometime later Harry woke to the blinding lights of the infirmary. His friends were worriedly surrounding him.
- Harry! What happened?
- I… I wasn't paying attention. Q…Someone pushed me down the stairs as I was walking around. I did not see who it was.
Lied Harry once he noticed that professor Snape, Ron, Hermione and a few other people he didn't know were also in the room.
- Everyone out! Potter drink this
Said Snape while glaring darkly at Harry.
- Don't Harry he's trying to poison you to finish the job he started in the stairs!
Screamed Ron urgently. Everyone stared at the red head as if he was completely crazy while professor Snape was turning around very slowly. It looked like the room had turned frosty and that the time had slowed down tremendously.
- What did you just say Mr. Weasley?
Asked Snape in a deadly whisper. It looked like the freckled boy was going to add something equally stupid but Hermione put a hand on his mouth while pulling him out of the room and apologizing to the professor.
- It will be 200 points from Gryffindor Mr. Weasley, a letter to your parents and a week of detention with Mr. Filtch.
Screamed Snape to the retreating Gryffindors before turning back to Harry and offering him the potion.
- You are sure Mr. Potter that you do not know who attacked you today?
- Yes sir I am sure.
Answered Harry before drinking the dreamless sleep potion and falling asleep. A few days later, in their usual training room the 4 kids were once again discussing strategy. Harry explained to them what had happened on the stairs and none of them were surprised to hear that Quirrell was the one to attack him. They had to find out why that man wanted Harry dead so much. A few weeks later they decided to go check in the man office.
Cho went to see professor Quirrell after dinner to ask him some questions about stuff they had talked about in class while Susan, Blaise and Harry went to the defense against the dark arts professor office. Once in there they searched every books, drawers, boxes in the office. They found a lot of books about the philosopher stone as well as books on how to revive a spirit. In one of the box there was newspaper cuts showing baby Harry and Voldemort and explanations on how Voldemort got vanquished and such.
- Maybe he's an ancient death eater or something. It would explain why he want to kill you. You killed his master after all.
Said Blaise.
The children heard some noise coming from the beginning of the corridor so they hurriedly got out while hiding under the invisibility cloak that Snape had given back at the end of his detention. And speaking of Snape the man was walking furiously toward them so the 3 children got as close as they could to the wall a bit farther from the office door to not risk that the man bump into them or hear them walk.
The man walked until he reached the office door but the kids were very worried to notice that the whole time his eyes never left the spot where they were waiting.
- Take that damn cloak off Potter and do not expect to have it back before the end of the year.
Half a second later the professor lost his patience and pulled the cloak off of the 3 children roughly.
- I see. I want the 3 of you in my office in 5 minutes. Do not be late.
Snape stormed off with the cloak in the direction opposite to his office. Harry, Susan and Blaise walked quickly to the professor office.
- He looked even more pissed off than usual if that's even possible.
Said Harry a bit worriedly
- Yea well we were poking around a professor office.
Said Susan softly.
- There was something else. He looked livid.
Said Blaise a little bit white faced. When they arrived to the office the professor was already there waiting for them.
- Sit. Tomorrow evening you 3 will join Mr. Weasley for his detention with Mr. Filtch an 10 points will be taken from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and... … Slytherin
Started the man calmly making a grimace when he had to take points from his own house but then his eyes turned even darker than usual and his voice turned frosty as he started shouting at the 3 cringing children.
- Now can someone tell me what they hell you were thinking?
Blaise opened his mouth to say something to try to calm the irate professor but the man glared at him and started shouting again before he could say anything.
- No don't answer. The four of you, because I know miss Cho is part of that harebrained scheme of your, were not thinking. What the hell were you doing in the office of a man that just attacked Mr. Potter barely a few days ago? Are you all suicidal? And don't bother denying it I know that you all know that professor Quirrell was the culprit. What I don't know is why you haven't told anyone and more importantly why you did something as stupid as going in his office.
- We wanted to know why he wanted to kill me!
Said Harry emotionally.
- Yes and giving him the perfect opportunity to do so by going in his office was so bright. Then again, a Gryffindor I can understand you are brash and stupid. I can see you convincing that loyal Hufflepuff friend of yours to run to your death. Mr. Blaise I am disappointed in you I would have thought that you would have talked them out of doing something so stupid. Anyway, a letter will be sent to your relatives about what happened today. I better not catch any of you in such a situation ever again. You may leave.
- They won't really care
Said Harry before he could stop himself.
- Oh I am sure they will prince Potter I doubt they would like hearing that you did something that could have got you killed.
Said Snape before kicking them out.
Later that evening, Harry, Susan, Blaise and Ron arrived at Mr. Filtch office. The man grumbled the whole way about good old day when misbehaving students were hug by their toes as punishment. After a while, they stopped near a small hut outside from which exited the caretaker Hagrid who is a bearded half giant. The huge man accompanied by his dog Fang took the 4 children in the forbidden forest to investigate unicorn blood poodle on the ground. Hagrid sent Harry one way with fang, Blaise another way and he continued with Ron and Susan the other way.
These teachers are messed up Harry. One tries to kill you. Now another sends us alone in middle of the night to look for something that is murdering unicorns… I am coming with you no matter what that oaf said…
Mumbled Blaise angrily. The two boys watched Fang run away in fright and they froze in their spot as they saw a hooded figure bent down over something. Harry clutched his head and felt to the ground in pain.
The weird figured turned toward them and started flying at full speed toward Harry. Blaise thrown himself in front of Harry and covered him with his body to try to protect the screaming boy. Harry was breathing hard, the pain in his head was unbearable. Kill kill kill the thing was hissing. Then suddenly the noise and pain stopped and Harry could breathe normally again.
A centaur who informed them he was called Firenze, was standing guard in front of the two children and he had chased off the spirit. Once everything was calm again, he explained that the monster was the spirit of Voldemort and it was drinking unicorn blood to stay alive until he could drink the elixir of life to be truly alive again.
All the pieces of the puzzle were finally putting themselves together. Why Quirrell had all that information in his office, why the man wanted to kill Harry the only thing they could not understand was why Dumbledore had brought the stone in the castle in the first place and why he was letting Voldemort roam the school. The old man had to know that he was there.
Firenze left just before Hagrid joined them and then the half giant took them all out of the forest and sent them to bed.
The next morning, Harry got called to Dumbledore office so he walked there and said the password that his head of house, professor McGonagall had told him.
- Ah Harry my boy! Take a seat.
The old man had a long beard. A canary yellow robe with purple stars on it. Little glasses and sparkling blue eyes. His grandfatherly smile was making Harry a bit nervous.
- Lemon drop?
- No Thanks Headmaster. You asked to see me sir?
His father always said that no matter how you feel about someone, false politeness will get you much farther then true rudeness.
- Yes my boy that I did. I heard you had quite an adventure last night child. Seen an ugly spirit and managed to fight it off on your own before Hagrid found you from what I understood since the spirit was gone when he got there.
Dumbledore had a proud sparkle in his eyes. Harry was wondering what that was all about he would have to talk about this to his friends.
- Yes sir. If that's all I really need to go to class sir.
- Ah yes I understand my boy. Have a good day!
That twinkle in his eyes and the grandfatherly smile never left Dumbledore eyes. Harry and his friends were once again meeting in their training room.
A week before the end of the school year the 4 children were training to get rid of the stress of the exams as well as to rant a bit.
- That man had to know that the spirit would be there it's the only explanation of how he could have such accurate and at same time totally inaccurate story.
Said Blaise for the Xth time
- Yes. Centaur never lie so Firenze can't have informed Dumbledore of what happened without telling him the whole truth.
Said Cho
- Ok so let's see. So far we have a crazy psycho dark lord who is drinking unicorn blood and who's getting Quirrell to try to kill me and to try to get the philosopher stone to resurrect Voldemort. Second, we have a crazy lunatic old man sending me to my death in the forest to go fight psycho spirits. I think that summarize the situation well right?
Said Harry in an amused tone.
- Yea… Now to figure how to solve that issue before Psycho or lunatic manage to get you killed…
Said Blaise while rolling his eyes.
- Well I guess that first we have to get rid of psycho minion
Said Susan while cracking her knuckles.
- And how are you children planning on doing such a thing?
Asked a not stuttering Quirrell as he slipped in their training room.
- Ah looky there he doesn't stutter anymore
Said Blaise playfully as everyone tensed. Glad they hadn't dropped their training weapons since they were training while talking.
- I must say that I am surprised that mere children were able to find out that much about poor stuttering professor Quirrell.
Said Quirrell with disgust.
- Now enough with the games. I know that the stone is in this room I feel it. You were fool children to take it out of Dumbledore hiding spot. He knew I would go for it and used it to bait me here to test you Potter. How nice is it to play right into the old man game? Soon you will just be a little puppet doing everything his master want but I can help you with that Potter!
- Says the man who serve the dark psycho nut case.
Said Blaise sarcastically.
- Let me talk to him!
Said a weak voice.
- Master you are sure?
- NOW!
- Yes master.
Quirrell took his turban off and turned around and a weird face looking thing that was sticking out of Quirrell head was now looking at the 4 children who were staring at the… thing… in disgust.
- Harry Potter. Your parents were fools to defy me as they did. But I can forgive you for their sins. I offer you a place by my side. I will teach you the way to greatness if you tell me where the stone is I could even bring your parents back to life.
Said the snake like visage. Blaise, Susan and Cho seeing that the thing was focused on Harry started walking around getting ready to attack Quirrell and its parasite.
- Thanks for the offer but I am afraid that the stone will stay where it is.
- FOOL! Quirrell kill the boy and his friends then let's find the stone!
- Yes master.
Since the children were all on a different angle around the man Quirrell could only attack one person at a time so he sent a curse flying toward Harry who dodged it easily since the first thing he ever learned to do in his father defense training was to dodge and fall safely so with the years he had gotten quite good at dodging even hits and objects thrown randomly for no reasons during the day his dad had painfully caught him out of guard way too often for him to not have learned from it.
One of the children swiped Quirrell feet from under him which made the older man fall on the floor not having expected the children to use anything else then magic to defend themselves. Cho grabbed the man wand and snapped it in two.
Voldemort screamed in rage and fled Quirrell body just as Snape entered the room and stupefied the fallen professor. Voldemort spirit fled the castle, it had to rebuild its forces and find a new plan.
Quirrell was sent to St-Mungo mental ward and the children were sent to the hospital wing to get a check-up before they had to leave for home a few days later.
Dear Mr. Rhapsodos,
First of all, I must say that I believe your son just might survive this year finally… If he manages to get himself in a deadly situation again I believe I will kill him myself just so you are forewarned.
The main source of danger that he was facing has finally been taken care of. By your son and his friends themselves I must add. The boy is going to be the death of me by the end of his school years.
I will come visit a week after the starts of the summer vacations. I believe you will have my favorite meals ready for Friday evening right?
Looking forward to seeing you and your friends
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