The Christmas holiday's have ended which everyone is back at school. Hermione has been telling me and Grace all about her Christmas with her family, it sounds like she had a lovely time, she was disappointed that we didn't find anything out about Nicolas Flamel.
We are all just chilling out in the common room, Ron and Hermione are playing chess, something that Hermione is struggling with, Ron on the other hand, is loving the fact that he can do something she can't.
Me, Grace and Harry are having a little tea party with rainbow and her teddy bear that she got off the twins. "Would you like some more tea, sissy?"
"I would love some" I hold up my cup and she pretends to fill it up. "Thank you baby girl" I say as I pretend to drink it. "Best cup of tea I've ever had."
Grace smiles at me, then looks at Harry. "Would you like some more tea, Harry?"
"Yes please" she pretends to fill up his up, then Harry drinks it.
"Lovely" she smiles at him, then gives rainbow and teddy some fake cake.
"Was that nice rainbow?" Grace asks. "Yes, yummy" Grace says in a different voice, which I'm guessing is the voice of rainbow, I smile at her.
The common room door opens and in walks Neville, well trying to walk the best he could anyway, his legs seem to have been stick together.
He falls on the floor Ron and Harry laugh under their breath whilst me, Grace and Hermione rush over to him.
"Are you ok Neville?" I ask.
"Y-yeah, I'm fine."
"Why can't you walk?" Grace asks as Hermione undoes whatever jinx was put on him.
"Thank you Hermione" Neville says as he stands up, "and it was Malfoy, I met him outside the library and he said he's been looking for someone to practise Leg-Locker Curse on."
"Go to Professor McGonagall, repot him" Hermione says.
"I don't want more trouble."
"You have got to start standing up for yourself Neville" Ron says.
"You're worth 10 of Malfoy" Harry says, then he goes into his pocket. "Here, it's my last one, but you can have it."
"Thank you Harry, do you want the care, I know that you collect" Neville says.
Harry nods and Neville hands him the card. "I think I will just go to bed, night guys."
"Night" we all say together.
"Who's on your card?" I ask as I sit next to him.
Harry looks at the card. "Dumbledore."
"Oh my god" I say grabbing the card out his hand.
"What?" they all frown.
"I've just remember where I've seen the name Nicolas Flamel before" I turn the car over and start reading. "Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindewald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel."
"Of course" Harry says grabbing it back off me. "I had this card on the train coming up here. I knew I have seen it somewhere before" just then Hermione gasped and stood up and rushed off upstairs.
"What was all that about?" Ron asks.
"No idea" I say. Harry was about to say something when Hermione came walking back into the common room with a massive book.
"I got this out the library for a bit of light reading" she says putting down on the table in front of us.
"This is light?" Ron asks. Hermione glares at him, but doesn't say anything and opened the book and flicked through the pages, she stopped on a page, and start running her finger down the page. "Of course, here it is, Nicholas Flamel is the only known maker of the Philosopher's stone."
"The what?" Ron and Harry ask.
"Honestly, don't you two read?" Hermione says which made me and Grace laugh a little, they roll their eyes. I pull the book in front and start reading.
"The Philosopher's stone is a legendary substance with astonishing powers, it will transform any metal into pure gold and produces the elixir of life which will make the drinker immortal, the only stone currently in existence belongs to Mr Nicholas Flamel, who last year celebrated his six hundred and fifty-fifth birthday" I say and we all look at each other.
"That's what Fluffy's guarding on the third floor, the Philosopher's stone" Harry say, we all nod.
Its later in the day and we have decide to see Hagrid to ask him about the stone, I wanted to put Grace in bed, but she wouldn't go to sleep, so she's coming with us, but we have to be quite since we are not meant to be out because it's after curfew.
We make it to Hagrid's house without being seen, Harry knocked on the door and we stood there waiting for him to answer it, we heard movement and then the door opened, we look and see Hagrid standing there in an apron and wearing oven gloves, Grace giggled to herself.
"Oh hello, I don't wish to be rude but I'm in not fit state to entertain today" he says closing the door.
"We know about the Philosopher's stone" we all say together, well apart from Grace, who's still giggling to herself.
"Oh" he says opening the door. "Quickly, get in before someone sees you" he says moving out the way so we can walk in.
"Snape's trying to steal it" Harry says the second the door closed.
"Blimey, you're not still on about him, are ya?"
"Hagrid, we know he's after the stone, we just don't know why"
"Snape is one of the teacher's protecting the stone, he's not about to steal it" Hagrid say
"What?"
"You heard, now come on, I'm a bit preoccupied today" Hagrid says.
"Wait a minute one of the teachers?" Ron asks.
"Of course there are other things defending the stop aren't there spells and enchantments" Hermione says.
"That's right waste of bloody time really if you ask me, ain't nobody gonna get past Fluffy not a soul knows how except for me and Dumbledore" Hagrid say.
Just then there the pot that was boiling over the fire started to rattle, we all looked at it confused. Hagrid reached in and picked out a greenish coloured egg, he placed it on his kitchen table, and we all crowded around it.
"Erm Hagrid, what exactly is that?" Harry asks.
"I know what that is, but Hagrid how did you get one?" Ron asks.
"I won it, off a stranger I met down the pub, seemed quite glad to be rid of it matter of fact" he says, just then the egg hatched revealing a small baby dragon.
Grace gasps. "It's a lizard."
"It's a dragon baby girl."
"A dragon, even better" she says smiling.
"It's a Norwegian Ridgeback, there's one of them in Grace's book" I say.
"I know them, my brother Charlie works with these in Romania" Ron says.
"Isn't he beautiful, bless him he knows his mommy, hello Norbert" Hagrid says as the dragon looks at him.
"Definitely beautiful" I say smiling at the dragon. I can't believe I'm looking at a real dragon.
"Norbert?" Harry asks confused.
"Yeah well, he's gotta have a name, don't he?" he says. Hagrid starts tickling the dragon under his chin and Norbert coughed and I've read that they spat out fire so that probably isn't a good idea.
"Erm, you might want to stop that" I say, the dragon coughed again and spat out fire which landed on Hagrid which caused his beard to catch on fire, Grace jumps.
Hagrid quickly started patting his beard to put it out. "He will need to be trained up of course" Hagrid say smiling at us then he looked at the window. "Who's that?" he asks, we all turned to see someone peering in.
I rushed over to the window, I turn and look at them "Draco" I say, and they all looked worried.
We say goodbye to Hagrid and quickly made our way up to the school. "Sissy I need the toilet" Grace says as we walk to the common room.
I look at Harry. "I'm going to take Grace to the toilet, I will meet you back to the common room."
"Ok, try not to get caught."
"You too" he nods and he walks off one way and me and Grace walk off another way.
Grace quickly uses the toilet, then we make our way to the common room. "Sissy."
"Yeah?"
"Can you give me a piggyback" she says through a yawn.
"Sure" I bend down n front of her and she climbs on, I stand up and start walking.
I'm just walking down the corridor when I hear "Miss Turner" you have got to be kidding me, of all the teachers and it had to be Snape.
I turn around and look at him. "Why are you walking around the corridor at night? And with your sister on your back?"
"She couldn't sleep, so we went for a walk. Is she asleep?" he looks at Grace and nods.
"You shouldn't be out after curfew" he says looking at me.
"I was only walking around, I wasn't doing anything I shouldn't."
"I'm going to have to give you a detention for this" he says.
"I kind of knew that already, all you do is give out detentions" I say without thinking, he rises his eyebrow at me
We hear a noise and I automatically move closer to Snape, and bump into his arm, he looks at me "sorry" mumble moving away from him.
"It's fine, come on, I will walk you back to your common room" I nod and we start walking. "Do you normally walk around when your sister can't sleep?"
"Not normally, but I've always wanted to know what the school looked like with no one walking around, so I said we should go for a walk."
"I see."
I look at him. "How come you're not asleep?"
"It's my turn to patrol the corridors."
"All night?"
"No, this was my last corridor for the night" he says looking straight ahead.
I look at him. "Do you like being a teacher?"
"Not really" I laugh a little.
"I think you're a good teacher, a mean one, but good."
"Thank you, Miss Turner, I shall take that has a compliment and an insult" he says.
"At least I give you a compliment, I normally just insult you. Which I don't mean to by the way, but my mouth says it before I've had time to think about what I'm saying."
"I can see that. Do you normally talk without thinking?"
"Yeah, it gets me into trouble, especially at home."
"What you mean?"
"Nothing" I say not looking at him.
"How come you didn't want to go home at Christmas."
"It was safer here" I say without thinking about what I've just said.
Snape stops me from walking, I look at him. "What you mean, it's safer here?"
"My mom and dad -" I start but stop myself, he doesn't need to know, there's nothing he can do anyway. "Nothing, everything is fine."
"I can tell that you're hiding something, if you talk to me then maybe I could help."
"I'm not hiding anything" he was about to say something, but Grace started screaming. I almost dropped her, but Snape took her off my back and held her in his arms, she stopped screaming.
Snape looks very awkward, I smile at him. "It's ok, she's not going to explode you know, you can relax."
He rolls his eyes. "I know that."
"Want me to take her?" he nods and I take her out his arms which makes her wake up.
"Sissy, I had a scary dream again" she says hugging my neck.
I can hear her crying. "Shh, it's ok, it was just a dream, it's wasn't real."
"It was horrible."
"Why? What's your dream about?" I ask as I put her down.
"We got eaten by the 3 headed dog."
"You have been having dreams about that dog?" she nods. "Grace, you're not going to be eaten by that dog. You will never see that dog again."
"So you have been on the 3rd floor?" Snape asks. Grace jumps a little. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you jump."
"I didn't see you there" she says.
"Come on, I will walk you to your common room" we nod and start walking again.
"So" Snape say.
"So" I say back.
"So you have been on the 3rd floor?"
"We wasn't snooping around, if that's what you're thinking."
"How did you end up on the 3rd floor then?" he asks.
"The stairs moved and we went through a door, sissy didn't want to, but Harry pulled us in and we saw the dog" Grace says.
"So Potter was with you?"
"Yes."
"Hmm" he says. He looks at me. "20 points from Gryffindor."
"What for?"
"For being on the 3rd floor" We make it to the common room.
I look at him. "Thanks for walking us back."
"Just don't let me see you out at night again."
"You won't because next time I will be careful" he raises his eyebrow at him and I just smile.
"I will be in touch with the details of your detention" he says with a little smirk I nod. "Go in and don't leave until morning."
"We won't" he nods, I say the password and the portrait opens.
I look at Snape. "Good night Sir."
"Good night Miss Turner."
"Good night teacher."
"Good night Grace" she smiles at him and we walk into the common room.
I look and see Harry, Ron and Hermione sitting on the chairs, they look at us. "Where have you been?" Harry asks.
"We got caught by Snape, he's gave me a detention, dunno when for though, he said he will let me know."
"Oh poor you, we got caught by McGonagall thanks for Malfoy, she gave us all a detention, even Malfoy" Harry says smirking.
"He also took 20 points from us" I say.
"McGonagall took 50 points each" Hermione says.
"170 points in one night, that's not good" Ron says.
We all sigh. "Come on, we better get some sleep or we won't get up in the morning" Hermione says and we nod. We say good night to each other and head to bed.
It's been a few days since we got caught walking around the school at night and it's time for our detention. Snape asked me and Grace to come to his classroom for 5. I have no idea what the others are doing, but there detention isn't till tonight.
"Wait, so let me get this straight, you all got detention for being out at night, yet your detention is at night" I say as we all sit around the fire in the common room.
"Yeah, it didn't really make any sense to us either" Hermione says.
"I hope it's nothing bad" Ron says.
"It won't be" Harry says. "I hope" he added in a whisper.
I look at the clock on the floor and it's nearly 5, I sigh. "I better get ready for my detention."
"You going to be ok?" Harry asks.
"Yeah, I will be fine."
"You starting to trust him now then?" Ron asks.
"No, I don't trust him at all, there's just something about him, I'm not sure what it is, but he makes himself untrustworthy" I say and they nod.
"I can understand that, I would never trust Snape, not even 1%" Harry says.
"Maybe in time things will change, but for now my guard is 100% up."
"I like him, he said good night to me for the first time the other day" Grace says smiling.
We all look at each other, I look at the watch again and we have 10 minutes to get to Snape office, and it takes a good 20 minutes to get there.
I look at Grace. "Ready to go baby girl?"
"Yes, oh wait, I need rainbow" she rushes off up stairs.
"I wonder what he's going to make you do, I mean Grace shouldn't even be there" Hermione says.
"I know, I thought the same. He really wants to know what's going on at home, maybe if he thinks Grace is there, then she will let something slip" I say.
"Hopefully she doesn't" Harry says.
I nod. "Yeah, Snape doesn't need to know anything, there's nothing he can do anything" I say, Harry was about to say something but Grace came rushing back into the room.
"I've got her, let's go."
I look at them. "I will see ya later."
"See ya later" they all say, I hold out my hand and Grace takes it and we walk out the common room and make our way to Snape's classroom.
We are 10 minutes late by the time we got there. Please don't be angry, please don't be angry. I knock on the door. "Enter" ok he's sounds normal.
I push open the door and we walk in, he looks at us. "Why are you late?"
"I didn't realise what time it was" I say and he nods and points to two chairs. Good, he's not angry.
We walk over and sit down. "Miss Turner" I look at him, "you can clean the tables and Grace" she looks at him, "you can sit and colour."
"Ok teacher" she says smiling.
"Aww, why can't I colour too?" I ask.
Snape rises his eyebrow at me "because it's your detention not your sisters."
"I know, I was joking" he nods. "Grace, can I have a word with you a minute" I look at Snape, then back at Grace, "alone."
"Ok sissy" she stands up and we walk to the back of the classroom.
"If Snape starts asking you questions about our home life, don't tell him anything ok" I say quietly just in case he can still hear me.
"Ok sissy. I won't say anything."
"Good girl" we walk back over and Grace sits down and Snape hands her some paper and coloured pencils.
"Thank you teacher."
"You welcome Grace" Snape looks at me. "Miss Turner, you may start cleaning" I nod.
I start clearing the table at the back of the room, I look and I see Grace drawing and Snape marking papers. I carry on cleaning and before I know I've finished the back tables, now it's time to do the front.
I walk over to where Grace is sitting, she looks at me. "Sissy, can you help me write?"
"Sure" I ignore Snape looking at me and sit next to Grace. I look at her picture and smile, it's a picture of her and Harry at the park.
"Do you think Harry will like it?" she asks.
"He will love it" I say smiling. I pick up a pencil "what do you want to write?"
"I love you Harry" I can see Snape looking at us, but he doesn't say anything, I pull her paper closer to me and lightly write 'I love you Harry' so she can go over the top of it in the pencil.
"That's a lot of writing" Grace says.
"I know, but just try your best ok."
"Ok sissy" she takes the pencil off me and starts writing over the top, I'm just watching her, she looks at me and smiles, I smile back and she carries on writing.
"How long have you known Potter?" Snape asks.
I look at him. "Since we were 4. We went to the same school."
"And he lives in the house next door to ours" Grace adds.
"I see. Dose he know what's going on at home?" he asks and me and Grace look at each other.
I look at Snape. "There's nothing going on at home."
"Yes, nothing at all" Grace says.
"Why won't you tell me what's going on?" he asks.
"Because there's nothing going on, everything is fine at home" he nods.
"Miss Turner, shouldn't you be cleaning?" I nod.
"Do you want some help sissy?"
"No I'm fine, you just finishes your picture, then you can give it to Harry when we get back" she nods with a smile, I kiss the top of her head and carry on cleaning the tables.
Before I knew it, I'm finished cleaning the tables. I walk over to Grace only to find that she's gone to sleep, I smile to myself.
"She fell asleep about 5 minutes ago" Snape said.
I look at the clock on the wall and it's half 8. "She's normally in bed by now."
"You're really good with her" Snape says.
I look at him. "Thanks, I've looked after her since she's been born."
"Why didn't your parents take care of her?"
"Erm, they were always working."
"That must have been hard."
"It was, but I had Harry, he helped me a lot, still dose."
"I see."
"Anyway, can I leave so I can put Grace in bed?"
"yes, you're free to leave" I nod.
I put Grace's picture in my pocket and try and pick her up the best I could without waking her up, god she's heavier than I remember.
"Are you going to be ok getting get back your common room?"
"Yes, I will be fine" he nods and I walk over to the door, but I can't open it without dropping Grace.
I turn around only to find Snape walking over to me, I move out the way and he opens the door for me.
"Thank you."
"Your welcome."
"Good night Sir."
"Good night Miss Turner" I walk out his classroom and head to the common room.
I walk into the common room and found it filled with people, they look at me and smile, I smile back, I look around and I can't see Harry, Ron and Hermione, they must still be at their detention.
I walk up to the bedrooms and put Grace into bed and she stayed asleep, I look and see Daisy and Scabbers lying at the bottom of my bed, I smile and stroke her their heads, then head down to the common room to wait for Harry, Ron and Hermione to get back.
It's half 12 at night and everyone has gone to bed, I'm still in the common room, they haven't come back from their detention yet and I'm starting to get worried, they should have been back by now.
Just then I see them walking into the common room with pale faces. "Are you ok?" I ask making them all jump.
"Jade, don't scare us like that" Hermione says.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to too, why do you all look so pale?"
"Voldemort is in the forest" Harry says. Me and Ron shiver at his name.
"What you mean in the forest? You were in the forest for your detention?" I ask.
"Yes, someone has been killing the Unicorns and it was our job to find out what" Ron says.
"But it turns out it was Voldemort, he's living of the Unicorns blood, don't you see, we had it all wrong, Snape doesn't want the Stone for himself, he wants it for Voldemort, and Voldemort is waiting in the forest for him" Harry says.
"So if Snape gets the Stone and gives it to You-Know-Who, then he will be able to come back?" I ask.
"Yes, then he will be able to finish me off" Harry says.
"Harry, you're forgetting something" Hermione says.
"What's that?"
"Who's the one person that You-Know-Who is scared of?"
"Dumbledore" I guess.
Hermione nods. "Yes, with Dumbledore around you're safe, with Dumbledore here, you can't be touched" Hermione says smiling, Harry smiled back but looked unsure.
