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The Feast was just about to begin as Harry Neville and Draco stood outside the door to the girls loo trying to coax Hermione outside so that they could go to the feast together. Hermione however was not going to budge, so they left for the great hall after promising to save some of her favourite foods and bring them to her afterwards. So it was a sad group of Hufflepuffs who made their way to the great hall without their friend Hermione.

Harry glumly sat down at the table and began to pick forlornly at the food there. He wasn't feeling very hungry at the moment. He had just decided that the feast was not worth attending without Hermione there when the doors to the great hall burst open and a strange looking man with a turban on his head burst into the school. Harry looked up at the table and saw that the other teachers looked just as confused as he felt. His dad looked as if he was ready to eviscerate the stranger if he made a wrong move and Dr. Strange looked, to be blunt, murderous.

"What do you think you are doing here Mr. Quirelle?"

"I was just in the neighbourhood when I saw a troll break into the castle. I-i-i-t l-lo-looks as i-f-f-f it's in the dungeons. I thought you might want to know." With that the man fell face forwards onto the floor in what looked remarkably like a dead faint. Harry could tell he was faking and he had no doubt thatDad could tell too. He whispered something to Snape and then to Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange stood up.

"Everyone will make their way back to the dormitory while the teachers, excluding Professors Snape Howlett and McGonagall, will search for the troll. Snape Howlett and McGonagall will stay here with Mr. Quirelle and see to it that he leaves the school and its grounds in one piece. That is all." With that Dr. Strange led the other teachers out of the hall while the students left for their dorms. They were halfway there when Harry slapped his forehead. He had forgotten about Hermione. He turned to the others and told them that they needed to find her. Apparently the twins and Cedric overheard and convinced them to take them with them to find her. They had also gotten a seventh year prefect to come along with them. Soon they were on their way to the girl's loo where she had last been seen. All they had wanted to do was to go in and get Hermione out but when they were almost there they saw the troll enter the bathroom. They ran as fast as they and when they were only a couple of feet from the door they heard Hermione scream. Harry ran as fast as he could and when he was in the room he saw the giant smelly creature swing at Hermione, she ducked and rolled out of the way just in time to avoid the blow but she had somehow wound up in the corner with no way to escape the next blow. Harry felt himself getting very angry at the thing that was trying to kill one of his best friends. His anger was making him see red and before he knew it he was charging the foul thing and had hit the back of its knee with everything he had. The second after he did that he felt like an idiot, what could a small child like him do that would cause that thing to even notice him let alone be frightened of him, but before he could think any further the Troll let out a loud roar of pain and fell backwards onto the bathroom floor, cracking it's head with a sickening sound as it landed. It was unconscious and Harry was frightened because he had no idea what he had done. He took a deep breath and smelled blood. He looked down. There around the back of its knee was a rapidly growing pool of blood. Harry looked at his hands slowly. He had seen his dad with his claws out before but he had never thought that he would have claws as well. As he looked down between his knuckles he saw three claws, maybe no more than four inches long. Not as impressive a length as his dads foot long claws but still enough to do some serious damage. They were thick shiny and black. What was more they didn't seem to hurt when he pushed them out, his dads always hurt him when he had to use them. Harry retracted his claws and noticed that he didn't feel any unnatural openings made by the claws healing up. He looked at his hands where his claws had come out. There were three tiny natural openings that were shut tight at the moment. He heard some other people breathing and that's when he became aware that he was not alone in the room.

"Bloody hell Harry" He looked up at his name being said, Cedric had the most amazed expression on his face "That was wicked." The twins nodded their agreement while Neville and Draco helped Hermione up from the floor. That was when they heard some frantic footsteps outside the door. It shortly burst open to reveal Snape his dad and McGonagall. They took one look at the troll then at the Hufflepuffs that were standing in the same area. McGonagall was the first to recover.

"Explain yourselves, all of you!"

They all looked at each other and decided to tell the truth. The seventh year prefect did so right from where they realised that they had to go and get Hermione to where they saw the troll go into the bathroom to where they came in and saw the troll fall down. He mentioned nothing about Harry having claws. McGonagall sniffed and glared at them.

"I hope you realise just how lucky all of you are, twenty points from Hufflepuff for sheer stupidity, twenty points for each of you for bravery. I just hope that you don't take any more stupid chances like that again as you may not be so lucky next time."

Logan looked at Harry and stepped forward to examine the pool of blood gathering under its knee.

"No offence Professor but I don't think that luck had anything to do with it." He held out his hand and took Harrys wrist gently and examined his knuckles.

"All right trooper lets see what you got." Harry tried but he had no idea how to bring his claws out, His dad looked at him with understanding and gently manipulated his wrist until his claws came out. He examined the four inch long claws. He ran a finger over them as he looked at the sharp cutting edges and the points and looked at how they reflected the light. Eventually his dad grunted in approval.

"Those are some dangerous little claws ya got on ya. They'll probably grow with time but they are nothing to laugh about now. Come on; better get the lot of you back to your dorms. It's going to be curfew soon enough." Logan led the Hufflepuffs out of the girls loo and to their common room and then they went to their quarters and tucked him into bed.