Chapter 11: Finding Nicolas


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AN: I'm sorry I didn't update last week, it's been really stressful, first my Dad ended up in the hospital with chest pains and then my car died (now I have to walk to work *sigh*) Then I had trouble with the chapter itself. Anyways, the next few chapters are important for Ron and Ren!

I had a reviewer mention that Harry is a bit OOC, I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this? Even if he is I'm not sure I want to change it since it may have to do with my character's influence on the story… so it seems I need some more thoughts and ideas on the matter.

We're sooo close to the end! And I can't wait to begin year 2!

I will be coming back to update and fix this chapter!

MAJOR EDITING: 6/25/12, 5/29/14

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MischievousAngel


About three weeks had passed after school resumed before all four friends were able to meet in the library to study and research more into their little mystery. However, once school had started again, Serenity felt that she never had a break, all the teachers seemed to be gaining up on the students with assignments and tests and on top of that she and her three friends took any extra moment they could to research more about Nicolas Flamel, it felt as though she never had a moment to breathe.

She really felt bad for Harry who not only had to do everything they were doing but was also deep into Quidditch season, and as the game against Hufflepuff drew near, he began to look as though he might collapse any moment. To help him Hermione suggested that he not worry about Flamel, that she and the other two would keep looking, and he agreed, though albeit reluctantly.

So now here she was a Tuesday evening after dinner, stuck in the library with the boys working hard on her Transfigurations notes. She had been ecstatic when she finally succeeded in turning that damn toothpick into a needle, but because it had taken her so long she felt that she was weeks behind the others.

The boys sat across from her as they looked for more information on Nicolas Flamel with little luck, or at least Harry was, Ron only pretended to search and instead was reading up on Quidditch.

Suddenly, Hermione rushed to them annoyance and excitement flittered across her face "How could I have been so stupid!" she dramatically cried out as she slammed a rather large book on the table in front of them, "I checked this out months ago for some light reading."

Ron glanced at the book and frowned, "that's light?"

Hermione glared at Ron and promptly ignored him as she opened the book and flipped it to a certain page. "Here it is;

"The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Sorcerer's Stone, a legendary substance that with transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal."

Ron's eyes perked up, "immortal?"

Serenity rolled her eyes at the dunderhead, "it means you live forever."

"I know what it means!"

"Are you sure? I me…" Serenity stopped at the look Hermione that gave the both of them to shut them up.

Properly admonished they both stopped their bickering and turned their attention to 'Mione who gave them a smug smirk before she continued on, "As I was saying;

"There have been many reports of the Sorcerer's Stone over the centuries, but the only stone currently in existence belongs to Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover, Mr. Flamel, who celebrated his six hundred and sixty-fifth birthday last year, enjoys a quiet life in Devon with his wife Perenelle (six hundred and fifty-eight)."

That's what Snape wants! That's what Fluffy is guarding, The Sorcerer's Stone."

Ren nodded and took a deep breath to ask the one question that they had all been avoiding, "that's all well and good, that we figured it out, but what do we do now? I don't think it's really any of our business what their guarding, I mean if you three hadn't stumbled onto Fluffy I bet we never would have even begun to look into this."

"That doesn't change the fact that it did happen" Hermione pointed out logically, "besides if Snape is after the Sorcerer's Stone than we should warn somebody, it would only be the right thing to do."

Serenity frowned a little, a may be the right thing to do now but before it really wasn't their business and they could get in trouble for it. She felt her resolve weaken as she could see the determined look on both Harry and Hermione's face she glanced at Ron who gave her a small shrug and sighed before he gave a nod in agreement "Fine but who are we going to go to?"

Hermione shook her head, "no one just yet. We may know that Fluffy is guarding it but there has to be more to it, we need to get some one's opinion."

Harry nodded and tilted his head towards the window, "let's ask Hagrid"

"Well we have free period after class tomorrow why don't we go then?" suggested Ron, who had stayed pretty quite after Hermione's reprimanding look.

Harry shook his head, "I can't I have Quidditch practice all afternoon. Let's go tonight, we can use my invisibility cloak to get there and back safely."

Ron glanced at the girls skeptically before he looked back at his friend, "are you sure it's going to fit all four of us under it?"

Harry shrugged, "well, it's worth a try isn't it?" he asked while he began to get up from his chair and collect his things.

Serenity sighed before she followed his lead and began to put the books they had been using away, she still felt a little iffy about the whole thing, well not about the stone going after that seemed like an awesome adventure that she most certainly wanted to be a part of, it was the idea that Snape was behind the whole thing.

It seemed...off, even during the match when it turned out he was the one who jinxed Harry, it just didn't seem...Oh I don't know! She sighed, honestly, the real reason she didn't want it to be Professor Snape was because he was such a great potioneer. True he was a horrible teacher and a world class jerk but he knew what he was doing and she admired his skills. But, she reminded herself, that doesn't make him innocent.

When she finally placed the last book away, she turned away from the shelf to hurry back to the table only to slam right into Malfoy. She instantly jumped back only to catch his nasty sneer, "watch where you're going Black! You wouldn't want to run into trouble would you?"

Ren's eyes narrowed into a glare, "is that a threat Malfoy? Or are you just talking hot air again?"

He glared back at her before he allowed a small smug smirk appeared at the corner of his mouth, "well I guess you'll just have to find out won't you?" he said before he turned around and sauntered away.

She rolled her eyes and huffed in annoyance that he actually thought she would feel threatened, honestly the boy probably could never really back up to his pathetic threats. She quite easily pushed him away from her thoughts and continued back over to the table to put her notebooks in her satchel and threw the strap over her head. The others were waiting impatiently and begun to walk towards the exit as soon as she was done.

Noise burst into the Library as Harry held open the door for the girls. Ren glanced down both ends of the corridor and could see as a small crowd watched something towards her right.

"What's going on?" Hermione asked an older Ravenclaw who was rushing past, the Ravenclaw stopped and looked behind her, "two of the older student got into a fight, now their dueling. If you excuse me if need to go get a teacher" she said before she took off again.

"I wonder why?" Serenity mumbled with a curious look on her face.

"Does it matter?" Harry asked, "We need to get to Hagrid."

"Right" she said with a nod. Her eyes widened at the sight in front of her, she turned around just in time to call out, "oh Ron! Watch out!"

Hermione glanced back and gasped as she saw Ron slumped down on the floor covered in boils, "did he just get hit with a hex?" she asked.

Serenity hurried over and helped him up "Yeah, come on Ron let's get you to the infirmary. You guys go ahead to Hagrid's."

"Are you sure Ren…" Harry trailed off as he watched her begin to glare at him. He nodded and grabbed Hermione's hand as they ran off towards the dorms to retrieve Harry's cloak.

Serenity sighed and adjusted Ron's weight so she could properly help him to the infirmary. She noticed that he winced with every step, "that must have been a powerful hex" she stated with concern.

He looked at her embarrassment evident on his face and nodded, "I think I have boils in places that I won't dare mention. You didn't have to help me" he mumbled with a slight whimper.

She gave him a comforting smile and nodded, "course I did, what are friends for?"

"I thought you hated me?"

"You annoy me Ron, that's all, and honestly I didn't care for you for awhile, not after what you said about Hermione. But it has been months and she really likes having you as a friend and if it wasn't for that little thing I probably would already be your friend too."

Ron swallowed lightly and a faint blush appeared at the tip of his ears. Luckily the infirmary wasn't too far from the library, and seemed pretty empty, Madam Pomfery spotted poor Ron and instantly ushered him to bed before looking back to Serenity. "What on earth happened?"

"Some of the older students were dueling and Ron got hit by a reflected hex."

Madam Pomfrey gave a loud hurrmph before she hurried towards her potions cabinet searching for what she needed and mumbling quietly the whole time.

Ren sat quietly beside Ron playing wizard's chess as he waited for the potion to take effect. Soon he began scratching at the boils, "will you quit that!" she snapped as she smacked away his hand.

"Sorry! Every time I have to drink this potion it makes them itch!"

She laughed, "You've been hit with it before? How? It can't be the twins; they aren't allowed to use magic outside of school yet."

He blushed for what seemed to be the fourth time that night, "I have two older brothers who already graduated, and a little sister who'll be coming next year."

"Really? I've always wanted siblings; it can sometimes be really lonely being an only child."

"You can have mine."

She laughed again at the disgruntled look on his face.

"You know" he admitted quietly, "I didn't really mean to hurt Hermione' feelings I was just really embarrassed and took it out on her."

"I know Ron, I just...See the first friend I had in primary school stopped talking to me after our first fight, and yes we may have been little kids but ever since then I've always have had trouble trusting people, and Hermione was the first person I ever met that I was able to instantly give my trust too. I'd do anything to protect her, she's my best friend and when you made her cry...I guess I felt I had failed her a little bit. It's been really hard to understand the concept that even though she may be mad at me or even you she still wants to be our friend."

Ron looked a little weary of her confession before he stuck his hand out in front of him, "truce?"

She giggled and nodded before shaking his hand, "truce" and they went back to their game.

About a half hour later they had found out from another student, who came in after eating to many cauldron cakes, that the duel, which gave Ron his boils, had been over a girl, and both parties were given detention for Saturday night after the Quidditch game.

It was well after curfew that Madam Pomfrey had given them hall passes and allowed Ron to leave, she claimed he was healed enough and nothing but a goodnights sleep would cure him.

They both had hurried as fast as they could back to the Common Room, the others should be back by now and both Ron and Serenity were anxious to find out what they had learned, but when they arrived the others weren't there. So they sat by the fire and started another Chess game as they waited impatiently.

They had finished two really competitive games of chess, both of which Ron won, before Harry and Hermione finally arrived back to the Common Room. Serenity jumped up and rushed over to Hermione who, though wasn't crying, looked as though her world had fallen apart. "What happened? Are you okay? What's wrong?" Ren asked in a single breath.

Harry shook his head and fell onto the couch with a defeated sigh, "Malfoy followed us out and told on us to McGonagall, we lost 50 house points each and both have detention Saturday night after the game."

"Oh god! I have detention!" Hermione wailed. Serenity helped sit onto the couch near the boy and held her while the girl began to cry. They fact she was shocked they had even gotten caught was evident on her face; she wasn't surprised that it was the little cretin who snitched on them though. "I hope you punched him Harry!"

"It's fine Ren, Malfoy received the same punishment as us so he didn't gain anything out of it at all."

It was a good thing Ron had been sitting down otherwise he might have fainted, and that would have horribly embarrassing, "well what did you learn?" he asked.

"Well Hagrid is adamant that Snape would never try to go after the Sorcerer's Stone. From the sound of it certain teachers placed special spells and stuff to protect it."

Serenity nodded in thought, "That makes sense, it wouldn't do to jut have Fluffy for protection, maybe that means every things okay and nothing bad will happen."

Harry winced and shook his head, "well that's not the only thing... Hagrid just hatched a Dragon, a Norwegian Ridgeback he said, in his hut."

Ron's eyes widened and he began to sputter, he didn't know whether to laugh or not, "What! Harry those are illegal here! If someone finds out Hagrid has one he'll lose his job for sure!"

"I know that's the first thing 'Mione told him once we saw it and Hagrid is really lucky that Malfoy didn't see the thing and tell McGonagall"

"Well what do we do?" Ren asked, because really she had no idea. How the heck does one hide a dragon anyways? Surprisingly enough it was Ron who came up with a plan first.

Ron shook his head, inside he felt immensely proud that for once he was the one who could provide a solution. "We'll have to contact my brother Charlie, he works with dragons in Romania and he'll know what to do."


Psychoyoshi79- It was adorable wasn't it! I hadn't even planned for the way that scene ended it just…happened, don't you love that! Lol I am really excited to work with their relationship and the problems that they are going to face together and apart, they have a lot of growing up to do! Year 2 is so much fun to write! I have so many ideas to try out so I am really excited!

ashrachellex- Thank You! Yes that is the plan! But not for a few more HP years, so I hope you stick with the story to see it through!