Disclaimer: Places and charackters are taken from J.K.Rowling's Harry Potter books, as is the storyline. This is merely a re-telling of the events taking place in Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone (or The First Book) from the POV of another main charackter besides Harry. Namely Hermione. If you enjoyed the story this far, you knew it anyway :)

A/N:Beta read by (you guessed it!) Luinthoron (*waves at the BlueEagle* "Thanks, big bro. You know how much I value and need your help. And support. Thanks"). My request for a second beta still stands. But apart from that... Enjoy!

--Altair



Dear Diary!

We found him! We found him!! We found Nick Flamel!!! And really, why hadn't I thought to look THERE before? I mean, Harry TOLD us, he'd read the name before. And there aren't that many options of what he counts as reading. How could we have been so blind?!
But let me start from the beginning. Harry had the most terrible news today. Snape is going to referee the game Hufflepuff-Gryffindor! We can't do anything to prevent him from trying and killing Harry this time. I only hope that he wouldn't dare to try anything in front of the Headmaster, but I'm really nerveous about this match. And we don't even have a reserve Seeker. So Harry can't back out, either. There must be SOMETHING we could do to prevent Snape from killing him.
Anyway. We were in the Common Room, Harry telling us about the Snape Thing, when Neville crawled in, leg-locked. The Vamoire Boy had been practicing it on him. On Neville. I wish I could practice some of the spells I've learned on him. Malfoy. Anyway... Neville was on that I'm Not Brave Enough For Gryffindor Trip and Harry gave him a chocolate frog to make him calm down. Neville. And Neville gave Harry the collection card. Dumbledore. And there he was. No wonder Harry had read the name before. He's collecting thede cards! He was on the back side of the card. Flamel. Turns out he's Professor Dumbledore's partner on their work on alchemy. And he's the only known maker of the Philosophers' Stone. And he seems to have one in stock. I bet you a pound, that'ts what Snape is after. The Stone. I mean, I wouldn't mind having one of those myself. Eternal life and all the gold you want - doesn't sound bad, now does it? Of course, there ARE disadvantages, too. Like some evil dudes trying to steel it... ah, maybe it's not worth all the trouble after all. But I'd still like to own one. It's be fun!

Good night.

Hermione



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