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Chapter 7: A Troll and Some More Quidditch

Sunday, October 6th, 1991

The next morning at breakfast Harry got his broom delivered personally.

"Jamie! Dad!" yelled Harry hugging Jamie.

"Oh so I have to wait for a hug from my son?" asked James.

"Always when I'm around." said Jamie laughing.

"I'll have to remember that." said James pulling Harry into a hug.

"Is that…" started Harry.

"That's a Nimbus 2000!" yelled Ron.

"I thought my son deserved the best and right now this is it." said James.

"Thank you dad. Can you stay for a little while?" asked Harry.

"Well we thought we'd stay and watch your first practice and then we can give Jamie a Marauder's tour of Hogwart's." said James.

"Well let's go out to the Pitch to give the broom a try before practice. Ron, do you want to come?" asked Harry.

Ron stopped eating and joined them. Fred and George followed them out too.

"Mr. Potter, did you say Marauder's earlier?" asked Fred.

"Yes. You've heard of the Marauder's?" asked James.

"You are pranksters. We've taken on the valiant struggle of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs." said George.

"Well I can tell you that Prongs is honored that our tradition continues. I solemnly swear I am up to no good." said James.

Fred and George looked at each other and George removed some parchment from his robes.

"You found the map?" asked James.

"We nicked it from Filch's office in first year. We return it to you, Prongs of the Marauder's." said Fred.

"There's a room you might want to add to the map. It's on the seventh floor across from Barnabus the Barmy. It's the Room of Requirement." said George.

"We couldn't figure out how to add it to the map." said Fred.

"The only ones who could would be us Marauder's or our Heirs. Well let's see how this broom does." said James handing it to Harry.

The broom was excellent. Much better than the ones they had at home. With his mom not there Harry tried out the Wronski Feint that his dad had explained to him and was able to pull it off, his feet skimming the grass as he pulled back up. Jamie decided to go up with him instead of taking a turn by herself. She held onto Harry tightly and screamed with joy as Harry flew her around. Ron, Fred and George were all able to try the Nimbus out as well before practice.

"That was amazing. All of you are so good. I don't think you'll have any trouble winning the cup for Gryffindor." said Jamie as they were leaving the pitch to go to the Great Hall for lunch. They were going to have their tour afterwards.

When they got to lunch, Harry introduced Jamie to Hermione and the two of them hit it off well.

"Has Harry done anything else stupid since your birthday, Hermione?" asked Jamie.

"No. I think he learned his lesson pretty well after you wouldn't talk to him." said Hermione.

"Can we just forget that it happened?" asked Harry.

"No." said Hermione and Jamie.

Jamie invited Hermione to go on the tour with them and after they were done James added the Room of Requirement to the map and gave it to Harry telling him that he needed to get started on his own pranks before the Yule Break. Just before they left Jamie gave Harry a hug and a kiss on the cheek. She also whispered something into his ear that made him blush.

"What was that about?" asked James.

"You'll find out on Christmas." said Harry still blushing.

Thursday, October 31st, 1991

Practices and classes continued to go well and quickly it came to be the end of October. Today was the anniversary of the attack on the Potter's and while early on Lily had tried to focus on it being Halloween, Harry had the memories of the attack from Voldemort's point of view so the day always put him in a bad mood.

In charms that day they were going over the Levitation Charm. Harry like always got it finished early and was doing some spectacular maneuvers with his feather while Hermione was trying to help Ron.

"It's Leviosa, not Leviosar. Honestly, Ronald." said Hermione.

"Well if you're so smart you do it." snapped Ron.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" said Hermione and her feather floated up.

Ron was grumpy all the rest of the class and when classes ended he became worse.

"It's Leviosa, not Leviosar. She's a nightmare. It's no wonder she hasn't got any friends." said Ron causing Hermione to shove past him crying.

"You stupid Git. She was just trying to help you. And for your information Hermione does have a friend me." said Harry.

"Well you're the only one." said Ron.

Hermione didn't show up in the rest of the classes that day and Harry was told by Lavender and Parvati at the Halloween Feast that she was crying in the second floor bathroom and that she wouldn't come out. Harry was about to go tell Professor McGonagall when the doors to the Great Hall burst open.

"TROLL! IN THE DUNGEON! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON! Thought you ought to know." said Professor Quirrell before falling in a dead faint.

The students started screaming and Dumbledore silenced them all and told the prefect's to take the students to their common rooms.

As they were heading to Gryffindor Tower Harry tried to get Ron to go with him to get Hermione, but Ron wouldn't. Harry ran without him and found Hermione cowering under the sink with the Troll about to smash her with its club. Harry waved his hand and blasted the club apart which sent a large chunk of it into the Troll's neck. Hermione just avoided getting smashed when the Troll fell to the ground and bled out.

Professor's McGonagall, Snape and Quirrell showed up shortly after the Troll fell.

"What are the two of you doing? Why aren't you in your common room?" asked Professor McGonagall.

"Hermione has been crying in the bathroom all day because Ron was mean to her. She didn't know about the Troll so I came to get her and found her about to be killed. I sent a blasting spell at the club and a chunk of it went into the Troll's neck killing it." said Harry.

"Well that was very brave and foolish Mr. Potter, however you were successful in saving Miss Granger so fifty points will be awarded to Gryffindor. Do either of you need the Hospital Wing?" asked Professor McGonagall.

"I think we're both fine, Professor." said Harry and Hermione nodded in agreement.

"Very well. We'll handle this. The two of you go to the common room. The feast is being continued there." said Professor McGonagall.

Harry and Hermione left the bathroom and Harry noticed that Professor Snape's pants leg was torn and he was bleeding. Harry had heard rumors from the Weasley twins that there was a three headed dog in the third floor corridor and wondered if that's how Professor Snape got hurt.

TFTL

Harry and Hermione joined the rest of the Gryffindor's in the common room and ate some of the food. Hermione was quiet the whole time until everyone started going to their dorms.

"Harry, you saved my life." said Hermione.

"You would've done the same for me." said Harry.

"I would've." said Hermione looking like she was struggling with a decision. She then looked right at him. "I, Hermione Jean Granger, acknowledge that I owe a Life Debt to Harry James Potter of House Potter."

"Hermione, you know how most Life Debts are repaid don't you? I can't accept. I know I'm only eleven and Jamie is nine, but I know that I want to be with her in the future." said Harry.

"You can be with both of us if you want. You don't have to make your decision now. I'm just stating that the debt is owed. Talk to Jamie and your family and see what they have to say." said Hermione.

Hermione gave Harry a kiss on the cheek and went to her dorm. After Harry was in bed he got out his mirror.

"Dad, I know it's late, but I need to talk to you and Mum." said Harry.

"What's wrong, Harry?" asked James.

Harry told them about the Troll and how Hermione said that she owed him a Life Debt.

"I have half a mind to come up to the school now." said Lily.

"Lily, Harry's fine. We need to decide what to do about this, but it's late. Harry, we'll think on this, but it probably would be best to talk about this during the Yule Break when we're all together." said James.

"Ok, Dad. I love you both. Tell Iris and Ivy that I love them too." said Harry.

"We will. And we love you too." said Lily.

Saturday, November 2nd, 1991

The day of the first Quidditch game of the year came and Harry was ready, but nervous. After breakfast the team geared up and listened to Oliver's pregame speech. Quickly though it was time to go out to the pitch. Everyone got into position.

Harry was looking at the stands and saw that his whole family was there with the Blacks and Remus as well. Jamie was in the front of where they were seated screaming his name. Harry waved as Lee started his announcing.

"Welcome to the first game of the Hogwarts Quidditch Season, Gryffindor Versus Slytherin. I'm your announcer, Lee Jordan. The Captain's come to the middle of the pitch and shake hands and it looks like Marcus Flint is trying to break Oliver Wood's hand. Dirty Snake." said Lee.

"Jordan!" said Professor McGonagall.

"Sorry, Professor. The Snitch is released followed by the Quaffle and the game begins. Johnson gets the Quaffle and makes her way through the Bludger's and fires the Quaffle past Bletchley. Ten points to Gryffindor!" said Lee.

After that first score the game started to get a little more hectic. As good as the Gryffindor team was they couldn't handle all the fouls the Slytherin team did. Katie Bell scored another goal, but then,

"Son of a bitch!" said Lee ignoring Professor McGonagall he continued. "And Flint takes the bat from his Beater and sends the Bludger into Wood's face breaking his nose allowing a score. Ten points to Slytherin!"

Harry saw the snitch and started to go for it, but his broom started jumping side to side and up and down trying to throw him off. While Harry was trying to get his broom under control Flint kept scoring while everyone was distracted. When Harry finally got control the score was 20-60 Slytherin.

"Potter gets stable and shoots forward.. He's seen the Snitch! Potter is speeding towards the Snitch and Higgs is right behind him. Not anymore, Weasley just struck Higgs in the back with a Bludger knocking him off his broom while Potter grabs the Snitch. Gryffindor wins 170-60!" said Lee.

Harry landed and was hugged by everyone on the team and then from out of nowhere he was tackled by someone.

"We were so scared when you lost control of your broom, but you won!" yelled Jamie.

"I don't know what happened with the broom, but I was able to regain control" said Harry getting back up.

"We think you gained control back because of all of us doing a counter curse, son." said James walking up.

"Who was cursing my broom?" asked Harry.

"Hermione thinks it was Professor Snape, but we told her that we didn't think any Professor would've done it." said James.

"Well let's stop worrying about that and take these winners to the Three Broomsticks for a treat. I already got approval from Dumbledore." said Sirius.

Later That Night

"That's twice you've failed me now, Quirrell!"

"I'm sorry master. I tried to take care of Potter, but there were too many of them using counter curses. It won't happen again." said Professor Quirrell.

"See that it doesn't."

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