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H Down the corridor H
For once they had been minding their business and not getting into trouble. Just relaxing after the chaos of exams. Most of the group were together but Harry was missing. They were actually using the map to search for her and saw she was near the third floor so they went to find her. They were left shocked when they saw her being drug into the forbidden third floor corridor by Professor Quirrell. She looked injured and was fighting but she was no match for the much stronger adult. "Rae," Oliver shouted as they entered the room with the Cerberus. They were too far away to stop them and when they reached the room, she had disappeared down the trap door with the Professor.
They didn't have time to iron out a plan, they however had no intention of leaving her down there with the professor and intended to follow. "Go," Lee ordered knowing they would need help and possibly medical care since Harry had been bleeding. "I will go tell McGonagall and get help. Get Pomphrey. Be careful."
Oliver nodded as the rest of the group went into the room. They weren't scared of the tasks knowing a fair few of them which they easily passed. After all, they would not be Hogwarts hellions and dare devils if they had not fully investigated the forbidden area months before. Most of the tasks were easily beaten down and they cheated their way through the more complicated ones, getting to the last task in record time.
Tyson froze the flames deciding to skip the riddle recognizing them as cursed flames. Being from a fairly dark family was useful for something after all. When they entered the room, they could see Harry fighting off Quirrell as the back of his head screamed. He was going for her throat and she was holding his face. They sent a blasting hex sending him flying away from her.
"Harry," Oliver said going to her quickly helping her to sit up. They kept their wands aimed at the professors screaming form only to have his face turn to ash and a dark shadow leave it and fly out of the room.
Not one of them had anything to say about that. Not truly understanding what just happened. "Harry are you okay, what happened," Tyson asked quickly checking her over.
"Voldemort...in the back...head...," she said still trying to catch her breath.
They were all gaping, that was what they feared, at least that he might have been a death eater. The dark lord was beyond what they had thought it could be, but they believed her without a second thought. "Damn it Harry you scared the shit out of us, we thought he was a death eater or something. But seriously, it was fucking Voldemort. That's insane," Fae returned hugging her.
"I'm fine," she said having caught her breath. "He was after the philosopher's stone, he clearly didn't get it. He grabbed me when I was in the hallway."
Anything else she was going to say was interrupted when McGonagall, Snape and Dumbledore entered in a rush. "What happened," McGonagall asked seeing the students relatively unharmed.
"Professor, you always ask that when you come up to us after everything's already happened," Fred stated as Oliver helped get Harry to her feet.
"An explanation," McGonagall demanded.
"Quirrell...or Quirrelmort since he was half Voldemort," Harry said ignoring the flinch from McGonagall and Snape with the use of his full name, "Anyways, he grabbed me in the hall and pulled me down here. They saw it happening and followed, got through just as he was attacking me and well..." she trailed off for a moment, she didn't really understand how he turned to ash. "No idea how that happened but well it happened. Here's your stone thing. You should probably get that back to the Flamels."
Once again, the staff seemed to be left speechless by the odd group not knowing what to say to her explanation or the eerily calm way she laid it out to them. McGonagall through experience with them quickly caught her bearings and focused on the most important problems. "Let's get you all to the infirmary," she decided they could deal with everything else once they were taken care of.
Infirmary, they all despised the infirmary and if she could avoid it she would. "I would really prefer not to go," Harry admitted, "she will keep me in and I'm not hurt, just a few bumps and bruises." She left out the strangling since while she wasn't really hurt, she felt they would freak out anyways.
"You should all get calming potion," McGonagall said. After hearing that one of the teachers could have been possessed if they were to believed, McGonagall felt she could use one as well.
They didn't know why they kept suggesting that fowl potion. "Professor, since the school year began we have been attacked by trolls, had my broom jinxed during a quidditch match, been attacked in the halls by Slytherins, attacked during a detention by something in the forbidden forest, frankly I hate to say it but we are pretty much use to it now," Harry stated bluntly causing the women to flinch at each accusation, "besides we always deny taking the potions, hate the bloody things. May we go?"
"Alright," Dumbledore said helping them out of the area seeing they were not showing any signs of injuries, "do you have any questions."
"Not much to ask, Voldemort's alive, still out for my head, I'm sure there is a reason and I'm sure you won't give it to me," Harry stated calmly. She had absolutely no trust for adults as a whole and even less for the Hogwarts staff. "Quirrell's dead and I know we should be upset by that but at the moment he abducted me and pretty much killed himself by allowing Voldemort to possess him, so I would prefer to ignore it for the moment. None of my real questions you would ever dream of answering because I am 11 years old and you wish for me to be a 'child' like every other adult does ignoring the fact that well I am 11 years old and it is my future that will be affected. Therefore, I will prefer to skip the patronizing and go spent the night with my friends because they are better than any calming potion."
"I see," he said looking at her surprised having not expected such reasoning from a child nor how spot on she got every fact and the precise calm and unworried attitude in which she gave the information. "Very well miss potter. 100 points Gryffindor for quick action in protection of a student
"Have a good evening sir," she said as they took off, her calmness making the three professors uneasy. The group of them went to the boys dorm room completely skipping the girls and not caring that it was against school policy.
"I cannot believe you just said that to Albus Dumbledore," George said as they got to the room.
"I can't believe you just fought off Voldemort," Fred added
"and that frankly tonight you were abducted, attacked and nearly killed," George said cringing at that part as they all did.
"Or that we in truth sent a blasting hex at Voldemort," Fred conceded, "and were just a part of a rescue mission."
"Was there a point to restating everything that just happened," Tyson asked.
"Yes, we were getting there," Fred said mock annoyed at the interruption.
"Merlin the school got more interesting when you showed up Rae," They both finished together.
"Not my fault," she said a bit shaken now that reality was setting in. "I don't know what this means now, Voldemort's alive, he attacked me in HOGWARTS one of the most protected places in the world. Should I be worried or..." She wasn't sure what this meant for them now.
"Worrying does no one any good," Tyson stated, "he's alive but he's not back yet or else he wouldn't have had to possess Quirrell, so we have time to deal with that later on. Harry are you alright?" She had been through a lot after all and despite all the nonsense they got up to, she was eleven.
"Yeah," she said as they gave her disbelieving looks. "I am alright, a bit shaken but nothing overly bad. My throat hurts a bit, but he wasn't able to touch me for long enough to cause any damage and well, I get hurt worse in class. It's just the not knowing that bothers me you know?"
"We will deal with it when it comes," Fae decided, "are we devils or not?"
"What exactly does that have to do with the situation at hand," Neville asked not getting her point.
"Devils stick together right? We are in this together, we are a team so whatever comes up we deal with it as a team," Fae stated. "As a family. In the end, this doesn't change anything. We are Devils, we will handle whatever they through at us."
Harry cringed at that. She was extremely grateful for Fae's statement but at the same time, the idea scared her. This was the only real family she ever knew. She didn't want them hurt because they were close to her, the idea made her sicker than the thought of her parent's murderer being out there. "I don't want you all in danger just for being my friends," Harry stated, "Maybe I should..."
Not one of them wanted her to finish that statement and she was quickly interrupted as they realized she was going to be self-sacrificing and try to push them away for their own safety. "Damn it Rae," Oliver growled cutting her off. He had no intention of letting her pull that on them. "Do you not think we would have been involved anyways? If the war started right now we would all be a part of it because of who we are. You don't get to make that decision for us Harry Potter. We are a team just as Fae said. We will always be a team. if the war started now we would have all been targets anyways because we don't conform and don't know when the hell to shut up. We are a group of blood traitors half-bloods and even a muggleborn. How would we not be a part of this, hell just by the crest on our robes wed have been made part of it. This changes nothing do you understand that?"
"Yes," she said startled by how concrete he seemed with the fact especially as the others seemed to look like they thought just as strongly on the subject.
"Good, so we deal with it. You didn't see how quick things went to shit in the last war, we were five when it ended," Tyson stated. "Wed have had reason to fight anyways. Now we know and can prepare well he's weak, before he rises again."
"A thrill," Angelina agreed. "We are fighters so why wouldn't we want to be a part of this in the end? We already agreed we had to get stronger, more prepared after Ty and keep were jumped by Slytherin seventh years last month so now we have more reason to do so, more drive to do so."
"So stop being an idiot," Neville added.
All Harry could do was nod. "Sorry," she offered.
"You should be," Fae said. "We fought a friggen troll together, we are more then friends, we are family. We don't abandon family Harry. Friends through thick and thin right. We've always stood by each other. This is no different."
"Right," Harry said. "I was stupid."
"Trauma," Alicia said. "We can forgive you this time for doubting us. Next time, we sick the twins on you."
Harry couldn't help but grin slightly. "Can't have that."
"No, we can't," Tyson said seriously. "Now, are you okay?"
"I'm a Devil, I'm not just okay, I'm awesome," Harry said. She had found a family. Better one then she could ever imagine. They were a little bit crazy, but they were family. Coming to Hogwarts had clearly been the best thing to ever happen to her.