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Vukk; I wanted to talk about time travelers, so I needed to borrow two time travelers from my other stories to do this
Penny; I thought it was nice
Leaf; The Sage has a lot of things to be revealed about her. Hiding those things was the reason behind the wording, along with Taisune for readers who haven't met him
Naruhina; Very good question, what does an Undersecretary do?
Animeman; A look into time travel
azphxbrd; Thought I should mess more up while I was at it
Well then, let us get going
The 31st, Halloween
The loud and energetic breakfast on this hallows eve was in full swing, the air rich with the aroma of baking Pumpkin, as the time travelers were currently in a muffilato'd discussion
"The Troll...it happened today" Harry frowned "And it doesn't exactly seem like that changed"
"But we have an advantage" Hermione said quietly "I won't be in the bathroom this time around...because Ron won't be around to..."
Flashback
It's no wonder no one can stand her," he said to Harry as they pushed their way into the crowded corridor, "she's a nightmare, honestly."
Someone knocked into Harry as they hurried past him. It was Hermione. Harry caught a glimpse of her face — and was startled to see that she was in tears.
"I think she heard you."
"So?" said Ron, but he looked a bit uncomfortable. "She must've noticed she's got no friends."
End Flashback
"He'd say something worse you know" Daphne frowned "Seeing as he's worse in this timeline"
"We don't have Flying or Potions today, so there is no way he can set up anyone in the bathroom crying this time..."
"HOW DARE YOU DISOBEY ME!" a howler went off...seemingly three times as loud
They looked around, trying to figure out where the howler was coming from, before Harry spied where it was coming from
Three Howlers...and they were going off at Katie, Alicia and Angelina? All of whom were petrified in shock
What?
"I TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NOT TO PLAY QUIDDICH! IT IS A MALE SPORT, NOT A PLACE FOR GIRLS!"
Harry recalled how Eris and Discordia snuck their brooms in for them, and how they were nervous, now it was making sense
"YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A DISGRACE TO THE PROUD HOUSE OF JOHNSON/SPINNET/BELL" Harry was getting a nasty reminder of what Daphne was given "YOU WERE ALWAYS BAD EGGS! YOU ARE NOW FOREVER DISENHERITED, CUT OUT AND BANISHED FROM THE HOUSE OF JOHNSON/ HOUSE OF SPINNET/ANCIENT AND NOBLE HOUSE OF BELL!"
The howlers burned themselves up...as an uncomfortable silence filled the dining hall...
Before a blur of motion formed as the three Chasers ran out of the hall, Harry was startled to see tears in their eyes
The only time he had ever seen something like that with the strong willed chasers was when Fred...
Flashback
"Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?"
"You're joking, Perce!" shouted Fred as the Death Eater he was battling collapsed under the weight of three separate Stunning Spells. Thicknesse had fallen to the ground with tiny spikes erupting all over him; he seemed to be turning into some form of sea urchin. Fred looked at Percy with glee.
"You actually are joking, Perce. . . . I don't think I've heard you joke since you were –"
The air exploded. They had been grouped together, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, and Percy, the two Death Eaters at their feet, one Stunned, the other Transfigured; and in that fragment of a moment, when danger seemed temporarily at bay, the world was rent apart, Harry felt himself flying through the air, and all he could do was hold as tightly as possible to that thin stick of wood that was his one and only weapon, and shield his head in his arms: He heard the screams and yells of his companions without a hope of knowing what had happened to them –
And then the world resolved itself into pain and semidarkness: He was half buried in the wreckage of a corridor that had been subjected to a terrible attack. Cold air told him that the side of the castle had been blown away, and hot stickiness on his cheek told him that he was bleeding copiously. Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his life. . . .
And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three redheaded men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood.
"No – no – no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"
And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.
End Flashback
She hadn't even looked like that when Snape removed George's ear...by accident...
Professor McGonagall exchanged a few concerned looks with the other teachers "Um...lets excuse them from today's classes"
"Agreed" the staff nodded, Snape not having them so he didn't need to answer
However, as the somewhat startled student body left for class, laughter was let out
The group turned to see Ronfoy laughing along side Crabbe and Goyle
"Did you see those little bitches cry! Classic, now that boys, is a prank"
The group looked at Ronfoy with hate
"That, was not a prank, Prewett" Padma growled. Neither twins nor marauders would have ever done something like that, not even Harry's dad or Sirius would have done that to Snape.
And that was saying something, since Sirius nearly sent Snape to his death by a transformed Remus
"Oh yes it was, call it a bit of payback Potter!" Harry glared at him "Maybe next time you won't get your superiors in detention!"
"Payback...You mean you did that to them...because you wanted to get back at me!"
Ronfoy smirked "Well, it appears that time with those muggles hitting you with pots and pans didn't damage your defective half blood brain, whatever was left of it after you were born to a filthy little mud..."
"Larcarnum Inflamarae!" Hermione blasted a fire spell straight at Ronfoy, setting his robes on fire
"HOT HOT, YOU DAMN MUD..."
"LEVICORPUS!" Daphne magically yanked Malfoy by his ankle and sent him into an alcove, smashing him against the wall.
Crabbe and Goyle were ready to punch them, however...
"STUPEFY!" Harry blasted Goyle to the ground, stunned as Parvati made Crabbe's skin cornflake like before Harry stupefied the lump as well
Susan, having cast a spell to hide the sound of the duel, turned on Harry
"Harry, why didn't you..." Harry gritted at Susan's accusation
"I'm sorry...I just can't attack Ron...even if he's a Ronfoy" he turned to get to class, as Hermione oblivated the memories of the Slytherin's as insurance.
The girls frowning, Harry had to be taking this Ronfoy thing hard
Charms class was pretty much the same as it was in the original timeline, aside for them getting the Wingardium Leviosa charm easier than before
However, after several classes, they were once again in the Great Hall, during the bat filled celebration. In fact, one bat was Snape himself, who landed next to a Gryffindor Seventh year who had a bottle of Fire Whiskey with him.
"Detention, Mr. Bauchal"
"FU..."
"10 points from Gryffindor and two more detentions, Mr. Bauchal"
However, a problem other that the point loss was at hand. The Chasers hadn't returned...
"It would appear that history is to repeat itself" Susan frowned. Parvati chuckled
"Oh relax...if Harry and Ron beat a troll as first years, with a simple spell...
Flashback
It was a horrible sight. Twelve feet tall, its skin was a dull, granite gray, its great lumpy body like a boulder with its small bald head perched on top like a coconut. It had short legs thick as tree trunks with flat, horny feet.
The smell coming from it was incredible. It was holding a huge wooden club, which dragged along the floor because its arms were so long.
The troll stopped next to a doorway and peered inside. It waggled its long ears, making up its tiny mind, then slouched slowly into the room.
"The keys in the lock," Harry muttered. "We could lock it in."
"Good idea," said Ron nervously.
They edged toward the open door, mouths dry, praying the troll wasn't about to come out of it. With one great leap, Harry managed to grab the key, slam the door, and lock it.
"Yes!"
Flushed with their victory, they started to run back up the passage, but as they reached the corner they heard something that made their hearts stop — a high, petrified scream — and it was coming from the chamber they'd just chained up.
"Oh, no," said Ron, pale as the Bloody Baron.
"It's the girls' bathroom!" Harry gasped.
"Hermione!" they said together.
It was the last thing they wanted to do, but what choice did they have?
Wheeling around, they sprinted back to the door and turned the key, fumbling in their panic. Harry pulled the door open and they ran inside.
Hermione Granger was shrinking against the wall opposite, looking as if she was about to faint.
The troll was advancing on her, knocking the sinks off the walls as it went.
"Confuse it!" Harry said desperately to Ron, and, seizing a tap, he threw it as hard as he could against the wall.
The troll stopped a few feet from Hermione. It lumbered around, blinking stupidly,
to see what had made the noise. Its mean little eyes saw Harry. It hesitated, then made for him instead, lifting its club as it went.
"Oy, pea-brain!" yelled Ron from the other side of the chamber, and he threw a metal pipe at it. The troll didn't even seem to notice the pipe hitting its shoulder, but it heard the yell and paused again, turning its ugly snout toward Ron instead, giving Harry time to run around it.
"Come on, run, run!" Harry yelled at Hermione, trying to pull her toward the door, but she couldn't move, she was still flat against the wall, her mouth open with terror.
The shouting and the echoes seemed to be driving the troll berserk. It roared again and started toward Ron, who was nearest and had no way to escape.
Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid:
He took a great running jump and managed to fasten his arms around the troll's neck from behind.
The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wand had still been in his hand when he'd jumped – it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.
Howling with pain, the troll twisted and flailed its club, with Harry clinging on for dear life; any second, the troll was going to rip him off or catch him a terrible blow with the club.
Hermione had sunk to the floor in fright; Ron pulled out his own wand — not knowing what he was going to do he heard himself cry the first spell that came into his head: "Wingardium Leviosa!"
The club flew suddenly out of the troll's hand, rose high, high up into the air, turned slowly over — and dropped, with a sickening crack, onto its owner's head. The troll swayed on the spot and then fell flat on its face, with a thud that made the whole room tremble.
End Flashback
"...Then certainly two third years and a second year can as well..." At this point, Quirrel burst in
"GOLEM IN THE DUNGEON, JUST THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW" He fainted
Of course...
Panic began to ensure as Harry looked at Hermione
"WHAT?"
"Your the only who generally knows things, what the hell is a Golem?"
"A giant rock monster, created by dark magic, a carnivore that seeks to destroy anything in its path" large explosion somewhere in the castle as Dumbledore stood up
"Prefects, get the students back to their dormitories" Harry however, then caught him giving a glance to Snape
Most likely a non verbal order to make sure Mr. Whiskers wasn't compromised.
As Snape turned into a bat and flew off, they exchanged looks
"Why do I have an odd feeling the Golem's going to pop up near the bathroom?" Hermione sighed
"Well, this time you might as well do it legally" Susan frowned
"Huh?"
"Wood's a prefect this time around..." Padma began
"Oh, I see" Harry smirked as they spotted Wood hovering over the second years funneling to safety.
"Hey, Oliver!" Harry called as the Keeper noticed them and came over
"Why aren't you with the other first years" he asked with concern.
"Oliver, Katie, Alicia and Angelina are still in the bathroom!" Daphne said with concern "They don't know about the Golem!"
Wood was now alarmed, his team...
"I'll inform Mcgonagall, now hurry!" they ran after the tearful chasers
The Bathroom hall
The first year time travelers dashed down the hall, hoping that the Golem choose not to immitate the Troll
And they were shown to be wrong
"EVERTE STANIUM!" Angelina fired a hex straight into the golem, who wasn't harmed, much like Hagrid by stunners
The Golem was the size of the troll, but covered in gray stone. Its head was fused to its body, minus any neck, with pole like feet and hands like sledges
It slammed its hand across the hall, smashing Angelina into the wall, where she collapsed. Alicia and Katie were hardly looking better
"HEY! LEAVE THEM ALONE YOU ROCK HEAD!"
"Harry...that was horrible" Daphne frowned as the Golem turned on them
"You...idiot" Angelina groaned, first years going at the Golem would be suicide...
"WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!" Padma and Parvati used the spell, trying to stay as 1st years, to levitate two nearby statues nearby axes into the beast, the sharp objects impacting into the stone monster's chest.
It roared, as it just removed the weapons and tossed them at the group like projectiles, which they dodged with rapid running.
However, one of the axes impacted into Daphne's uniform, the sleeve of the black fabric binding her against the wall by her wand arm
It charged at them, as Hermione drew her wand alongside Susan and Harry, casting the bluebell flame spell on the ground, the blue flames burnt the monsters foot
The monster roared and tumbled, as one of its giant arms slammed down rapidly at Daphne, who was trying desperately to remove the axe
Harry was alarmed...only one spell could hope to...
"SECTUMSEMPRA!" the severing spell invented by snape slashed into the stone monster's arm, cutting it off completely as the arm collapsed just feet away from the former Slytherin
"HARRY!" Hermione yelled
Harry hadn't known what exactly that spell did originally, he found it out when Draco and him dueled in their sixth year when Draco was about to use Crucio on him, and after which only used it in the most desperate situations
Flashback
"No! No! Stop it!" squealed Moaning Myrtle, her voice echoing loudly around the tiled room. "Stop! STOP!"
There was a loud bang and the bin behind Harry exploded; Harry attempted a Leg-Locker Curse that backfired off the wall behind Malfoy's ear and smashed the cistern beneath Moaning Myr-tle, who screamed loudly; water poured everywhere and Harry slipped as Malfoy, his face contorted, cried, "Cruci —"
"SECTUMSEMPRA!" bellowed Harry from the floor, waving his wand wildly.
Blood spurted from Malfoy's face and chest as though he had been slashed with an invisible sword. He staggered backward and collapsed onto the waterlogged floor with a great splash, his wand falling from his limp right hand.
"No —" gasped Harry.
End Flashback
The chasers were now stunned at the power of that spell, used by a first year, as the Golem charged at them, which appeared to have rather infuriated them all to a berzerker state
"BOMBARDA!" Hermione blasted the golem with a spell, causing it to stumble back.
"GLOBUS IGNIS!" Susan slammed a fireball into the beast next, forcing it back a little more.
"AQUAMENTE!"
"VENTUSSEMPRA!" the Patil twins slammed water and wind into the beast, forcing it back even more as Harry acio'd the axe off of Daphne
"Thanks, Harry" she panted, before they added their own spells to the attack
"Terra Projectilis!" Daphne sent hundreds of rocks impacting into the golem, like machine gun fire
"REDUCTO!" Harry blasted a blasting curse into the Golem, creating a hole in the beasts chest The Chasers were stunned at the spells that the First Years were using...it was odd...
Then they seized up
"And here are the Gryffindors!" yelled Lee Jordan, who was acting as commentator as usual. "Potter, Bell, Johnson, Spinnet, Weasley, Weasley, and Wood.
Widely acknowledged as the best team Hogwarts has seen in a good few years
The Golem, however, growled as the hole in its chest began to repair...
As it was bound as if by an unseen hand
"What is this!" Professor McGonagall said in shock as she, Professors Sprout, Flitwick, Quirell and Dumbledore arrived, Quirell wimpering at the sight of the golem
Dumbledore observed the scene, his spell immobolizing the giant, before he cast another spell that caused the golem to collapse into pebbles
"I do believe that the younger Gryffindors came to warn their fellow Gryffindors of the Golem, and were caught in a problematic situation" he explained for the non time travelers "They then most likely tried to use what spells they could manage to hold it off...that is what happened, correct Angelina" well, seeing as they were disinherited...could they use Johnson, Bell or Spinnet?
The first years gulped...if they mentioned those spells they used...it would be really, awkward...
"Yes, Professor Dumbledore sir" Angelina said, surprising them as the other chasers nodded.
Why were they lying for them?
"Well then...5 points to Gryffindor, for each of you" McGonagall smirked as they turned to leave. As the Professors left their eye sight, the first years turned to the Chasers.
"Wait...why didn't you mention all that magic?" Oh come on, Sectumsempra was borderline dark, and they didn't comment on it?
"Why would we do that?" Alicia frowned
"It would just raise weird questions" Katie pointed out
"People would look at you all and think your all some sort of powerful dark wizards...your second year all over again"
"Yeah...WAIT WHAT! YOU REMEMBER THAT!"