Harry Potter and the Mystery of Trust
A/N:Some of you people like Rich and some of you don't well I get to the point why he chose Harry's side instead of his cousin. Please be patient with this story.
CHAPTER 2: Why?!
"You got it already?" Rich asked, waiting impatiently with the 'Lumos' lit wand.
"Yeah, the yellow stone, got it," said Harry, digging his hand inside a hole to find the Badger Stone.
"I take the Snake Stone any day than spending a day in the sewer," said Rich boldly.
"Me too,"
Both of them were in the sewers under the Hufflepuff Tower, the location of the second stone. They did expect the awful smell but what they didn't expect the digging part.
"You sure, it's the stone – and not someone's left behinds," Rich teased.
"Ha, I'm pretty sure this thing glows in the dark," said Harry as he showed the glimmering yellow stone to Rich.
"That's great; now let's get out of here before we smell really dreadful,"
"Ah! I see you found the Badger Stone," said Dumbledore, taking the stone from Harry. "Well done Harry, five points to each of you and your three other friends," he awarded them gratefully.
"Thank you sir," said Harry, bowing slightly.
"I'm sorry that I forced you on to this but Voldermont is at large and we need all four stones to fight him," said Dumbledore, looking apologetically.
"It's alright, sir," Rich stated. "We don't want to find the stone anyway and it's for goodwill and to save the people we want to save," he added thoughtfully, gaining a smile from Dumbledore.
"I believe you are right Mr. Weasley," he said. "Now, feel free to do anything before rushing off to find the Eagle Stone, I'll dismiss right now, good luck," with that Dumbledore left them.
Rich faced Harry who was in a state of alert. "What's the matter?"
"I feel something weird is around us……" his eyes travelled all around. "Like someone is watching us right now."
Rich noticed a bushy haired and a red hair hanging out at the end of the corridor. "Is it Ron and Hermione?"
Harry shook his head. "No, I know they were listening since we talked to Dumbledore – it's someone else, someone… close… really close," he said, whilst looking around the corridor.
He saw an open door of a classroom, a knight on display and a sleeping portrait of an old witch.
"Well whatever or whoever watching, he better get a good smell of us, we stink," Rich joked, as they laughed loudly and left for the showers in the Quidditch changing room.
The next day……
Harry burst through the portrait hole, looking flushed, mad at someone, probably his bitch ex-girlfriend. He paced around the room to cool off the anger; he ignored the other people in the common room.
"Hey, Harry sit down and tell us," Draco urged him; he was aloud in the Gryffindor Tower after Dumbledore aloud students from other houses to enter any Tower they liked only at their good behaviour.
"Sit Harry and tell us," Ginny pleaded, the five friends were occupying a table in the common room. They discussed the whereabouts of the Eagle Stone. Harry sat after his anger resided.
"You know why she wanted so much to be friends again with me?" said Harry in a sarcastic voice.
"No why?" everyone said in unison and sarcastically.
"She and Dung brain only wanted to be part of the adventure – like the last six time I brought them along wasn't enough and they wanted to prove they are worth of something, I say they worth only half a knut," he said, letting out frustration.
"Oh you poor boy," Ginny hugged him kindly. "That bad girl dumped you and look what did she do to you, innocent boy you," her words were a bit fluffy.
"Um… Ginny, are you okay?" Rich asked. He never saw Ginny this caring before.
"Is she okay? Involving yourself in a three-way relationship, is okay?" Harry snorted. Draco and Neville looked away, blushing madly. Ginny pulled away and hid her embarrass face.
"So Harry, what did you tell Hermione and um… Ron, I know you said something else other than 'sod off'," Terry asked, he was the one eager to look into the fight between Harry and Hermione.
"You wanted to know what I told her?" he looked crossly at Terry. The Ravenclaw squirmed at his gaze. "I told her to cut off the jerk's shaft and she could make an even better adventure with it," said Harry, the whole common room burst into laughs. It seemed that other people were interested in Harry's fight with his two former friends.
Rich, Terry, Draco, Neville and Ginny laughed till they shed tears. "Ha… Harry…. that… was… funny…funniest……thing……you ever said," Rich said between laughs. Harry couldn't help but laughed along too, remembering the angry face Hermione wore and the shocked face of Ron.
After relaxing a minute for a quick breath, the six worked on their school works and the search for the Eagle Stone.
"So what do you guys find out?" Harry asked inquisitively.
"Well…… we all know its somewhere near the Ravenclaw Tower and according to Terry's knowledge of his house and Draco's relativity of size doesn't matters," Draco rolled his eyes at Rich. "It's somewhere above the tower."
"That's easy, we just fly again,"
"That won't be easy, Harry," Terry chided.
Harry looked at the Ravenclaw puzzled, "And why is that?"
Before Terry could answer, Draco shut his mouth because in came two very nosy people. They quickly covered up the map that they drawn out to search the four stones with books, so it will look like they were doing their homework.
Harry saw from the corner of his eyes that Hermione was looking oddly at them. Draco made an eye contact to Ginny. Ginny noticed and nodded. She stood up and went to Hermione and dragged her up to the girls' dormitory. That left Ron all alone and for Rich to play.
Rich grinned maliciously at his cousin. Terry and Draco accompanied him in beating Ron. Ron was so scared that he wet his pants and ran upstairs to his room.
"Ready!" Harry yelled softly as he held onto the ropes along with Rich, Neville and Terry.
They were at the rooftop of the Ravenclaw Tower. Due to the Anti-Flying Charm that was put on the whole place; they have to use a rope get the stone stuck in one of the statue of an eagle.
"Lower," Harry signalled, they let go a bit of the rope. Draco was tied at the end of the rope; he was dangling sixty feet from the ground. He was chosen because he was lighter than the other five.
The rope went lower and lower until Draco gave a whistling sound from his mouth. He was face to face with the Eagle Statue and saw a bright blue stone stuck in its heart. He pulled it hard, gave a good pull and he got it out of the stone. He tugged the rope.
Harry felt the rope was tugged. "Pull," he said, the four pulled Draco up vigorously. Draco was safely pulled back up with the stone.
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"Now all four stones are gathered once again," said Dumbledore proudly. "The school will reward you five with incentives when all of you graduated."
"Thank god you have the Lion Stone already, sir," Harry sighed, slumping himself in a chair in Dumbledore's office.
"Indeed or it will burden your lessons more," he said and they all nodded vehemently.
"Professor Dumbledore," Neville spoke.
"Yes Mr. Longbottom,"
"Now with all four stones gathered, what are you going to do with them?" he asked politely, Dumbledore smiled softly and looked at the 7th years eager-to-know faces.
"Very well then, I should tell you since you did a great deal of job gathering the three stones, do you all want to hear it now?"
All five answered 'Yes' in unison.
"Do you remember the Basilisk in your second year, Harry?"
"How could I forget, I almost got eaten by it," said Harry prudently.
"Yes, it's a giant snake use by Salazar Slytherin to protect the secrets in the deepest bowl of Hogwarts – but what if there are other chambers – and those chambers are guarded by special guards," Dumbledore explained carefully, everyone looked puzzled until Harry's mind caught on something.
"You mean that they are other giant snakes other than the Basilisk?" he yelled in shock, everyone in the room gasped.
Dumbledore gave out a slight chuckle. "No Harry… not snakes but close," he said.
"You mean giant animals," Draco exclaimed.
"Like the animals of the four houses," Terry added.
"Exactly,"
"A giant badger," Rich muttered, trying to imagine a badger digging a huge hole near the lake.
"A giant eagle," Neville murmured, imagining an eagle on top of Hogwarts lying on its nest.
"A giant lion, that would scare the pants out of Voldermont," said Harry, sniggering at the thought of Voldermont getting chased by a huge lion.
"I will released them along with Hagrid to use them for the fight against Voldermont – they have been locked away for a period of long time – it would be a shame that they were prison for a thousand years,"
"What?!" Draco shouted. "For all the times we learnt at this place, three giant animals are sleeping right under us."
"Except for the eagle, she's beside your Potions classroom," Dumbledore quipped, the five yelped in horror. Dumbledore looked at the time. "I think you five need to go bed now, tomorrow it's your Hogsmeade weekend," Dumbledore ordered politely.
"Yes sir," the five said and left except Harry who was in a deep state of thinking.
"Do you have a problem, Harry?"
"Professor, last night, there was someone listening to our conversation when we got the Badger Stone," he informed, while the others were already gone.
"You mean Ms. Granger and Mr. Weasley,"
"Not just them, I couldn't care less if they listened, it's not like they can do anything but someone else, like…… a spy,"
"A spy you say?" said Dumbledore, shocked of hearing Harry's information and also astonished at the same time. "I'll look into this matter, the stones would be safe with me, get some sleep Harry, and you did a great job yet again, ten points to you and each of your friends."
With that Harry left the room, only to be greeted by a waiting Rich.
"You reckon we check out that spy," Rich asked.
"We should, maybe tomorrow," said Harry, feeling dubious about leaving the stones to be protected by Dumbledore.
The end………