CHAPTER 14 - SNAPE'S GRUDGE
The Longbottom boy has been sulking and serve him right! He walked in on me while I was trying to get Peeves to chase me out of the building. Normally I wouldn't do this but hopefully I would be able to make him chase me to Sirius, who he used to be fond of. I doubt Sirius, who says Peeves should be "persuadable". Longbottom STILL hasn't made it up to me for sitting on me, or letting his Monster Book of Monsters out and not catching it before it bit my tail.
What's more, Sirius's attempt mean there are now TROLLS assigned to keep him from getting in Gryffindor Tower. Neville Longbottom was sent an exploding letter (what was his batty old grandmother thinking? My momma kneazle used to say "If it explodes, and it ain't edible, stay away from it".) It scared the boy, which shows he's sensible about something, and he threw it into the hallway, where a troll was passing. It exploded, knocking a rock off the ceiling, which then proceeded to bash the troll's head in.
My human told me once about how Harry Potter and Ron Weasley once beat a troll that was about to kill her by making its own club smash its head, but the falling rock didn't even faze it for P17. P is a time consistent with, say, the time it takes for one to scream "GET THE BLOODY HELL OUT OF HERE!" and then run around like a maniac and get to Transfiguration class no more than about five minutes late. P17 is P divided by 17, and is not a fixed timescale, but is frankly far too fast.
The troll bled this disgusting purple blood that stuck to my fur through a small crack in its head, and then went on a rampage with its buddies. I hid in a suit of armor but they knocked it down during the stampede, after which it smashed open leaving shards of metal everywhere. I didn't even know metal formed shards. I fled. During this whole time, the students were in the Great Hall and the door, which is magically soundproofed, was bolted closed, so none of the students ever found out about Longbottom's stupidity.
Harry Potter left the school today. Sirius, having abandoned the attempt to persuade Peeves and the attempt to free Buckbeak (Ministry officals have arrived at the school and said stuff paraphrasable as, "If you don't hand over the hippogriff, you will be very miserable indeedy, Mr. Hagrid".) Apparently Harry broke out or something, and Sirius wants to see if he used the passage Sirius used to escape as a boy. If you are wondering why I told Sirius, Hermione told me first, so don't say anything to that. I followed Sirius there to make sure he wasn't using this as a chance to commit the murder the whole rest of the wizarding world has accused him of planning.
Sirius Orion Black, legendary infamous mass murderer and spy for the former Dark Lord Voldemort of the Death Eaters, is almost certainly innocent. He had several chances to kill Harry and never did.
In other news, I've been meandering about Hagrid's, waiting to see if he is allergic to me or just Mrs. Norris, when I happened to see a rat missing a paw and smelling unusual running into the building. Wormtail! I've got him cornered and he doesn't know it. Sirius and I, we'll get our plans in action before long...
Author's note: If you caught the reference in the third paragraph, I'm impressed. Also, lots of Neville bashing in this chapter, but I personally don't feel that way. Crookshanks (or at least how I picture him) is just unforgiving about clumsiness, and I imagine most cats are...