Harry Weasley

Chapter Seventeen: A Talk with Hagrid part two

The next day found the four of them going down to Hagrids hut to talk to him about what he knew about fluffy and the different ideas that they had dreamed about. Draco was just going to find out about the stone himself. When they reached the hut, Harry knocked on the door and it was answered by the friendly half giant himself. "How may I help you four? I hope that it isn't anything that will get you into trouble."

"Can we come in Hagrid? We were wondering if we could talk to you about something important." Harry asked his friend with a smile and a lopsided grin.

"Come on in you guys, I was wondering when you would show up. Now how may I help you?" Hagrid had a feeling that he knew what they were going to talk about, he was floored when they actually told him.

"Hagrid, what can you tell us about Fluffy and how do we get past him?"

Hagrid looked at them, and shook his head. "I shouldn't tell you all about that. How did you find out about Fluffy? I mean that is supposed to be a secret. Why do you want to know how to get past him? Your not going in there to find the stone, I won't let you. If I have to I will give you all detention til the end of the school year, so you won't have the opportunity to go down there." Hagrid was looking like he was serious, and wasn't going to let them get themselves killed.

"Don't worry Hagrid, we already know what's going to happen, and that we're meant to go save the stone from someone that is trying to get it. We think that it's Snape, because how he tried to hex Harry during the quidditch match. We're not sure when we need to get it by, but we know that it is soon. The three of us each had a dream last night about each of our roles in the retrieving the stone. Now are you going to help us, or are we just going to go on what we know?"

Hagrid let out a long breath, and looked at them. "I know that I shouldn't be doing this, but I believe you. One thing tho, all four of you won't be able to go. If your going to do this, it's best that it's only three of you doing it. Now since you said that three of you had dreams about it last night, which one of you didn't?"

Draco raised his hand and said. "I didn't have a dream about what my part in it is, but I did have a dream about who the traitor is. I'm sorry to tell you all this, but it isn't Snape. My dream showed me who it was quite well. It's Quirrell, he has something hidden under his turban that is controlling him. I don't know who or what it is, but I know that it is evil." Draco shuddered when he said this, and the rest of them knew that they each had there own way of learning about what was going on.

"Damn, I wouldn't have thought that Quirrell would have it in him to turn dark. But then neither did they think that he-who-must-not-be-named would turn dark either. Well we need to tell Professor Dumbledore immediately and hope that we can catch Quirrell before he goes down there."

The five of them went straight up to the headmasters office to talk to him. When they knocked on his door, they heard. "Come in all of you."

When they walked in they found Professors, Snape, McGonagall and the headmaster standing there in front of his desk discussing what was going on. "Professor, we have news about the sorcerers stone. Professor Quirrell is after it for some reason. We all had dreams last night about either our tasks in getting the stone, or about who it was that is after it." Hermoine was talking a mile a minute, and the three professors looked at them shocked.

"Excuse me, but are you accusing one of the professors of this school of being a traitor? I will not hear of this nonsense. The four of you better be off to your dorms before you get detention or worse expelled." Snape snarled at the four of them, and it seemed that the other two professors agreed with him and the discussion was closed.

The four of them were followed by Hagrid out of the office and went there separate ways to there dorm rooms. "I believe you on what you say guys. I have only two pieces of advice for you if you still plan on going after it. 1. Remember that music soothes the savage beast, and 2. Be careful in there, there are many different types of traps that your going to be facing. Not be very careful, and don't worry about fluffy, just keep singing to him when you come across him." With that, Hagrid went his own way with a smile and a whistle on his lips.

The four of them went on their own way to their own dorms. Draco told them, "be careful please. Your some of the only friends I truly have here. Don't do anything stupid, and get in and get out. I know that you're going to do it, but I didn't see what or if anything bad will happen to you all." Draco waved to his friends and went down to the dungeon to talk to Pansy and wait up to hear whether or not the trio was able to pull it off.

"Well I say we wait til tonight, so that we won't have any problems. Wait til everyone else has gone to sleep, and slip out under Harry's invisibility cloak." With that they each sat down to finish up there homework for the end of the year, and to make sure that they were ready.

Three hours later when they thought that everyone else was asleep, the three friends went to sneak out the portrait hole when they heard a voice behind them. "Stop, where are you three going? Your going to sneak out again aren't you? I won't let you." Neville was standing behind them shaking, but definitely having his wand pointed at them, going to try to stop them.

"I'm sorry Neville, Petrificus Totalus." With that said, Neville fell to the floor petrified but still breathing. "Common guys, he won't be out forever." With that the three friends made their way out of the portrait hole, and Harry wrapped the cloak around them as they walked to the third floor corridor to face their fate with fluffy and the chambers that lay beneath him. When they reached the corridor and the door, they heard music coming from behind the door.