Chapter 17 – Trapdoor
They were now seen walking through the courtyard, and as they were talking Hadriana thought quietly about what had happened and her forehead had been aching a lot more lately.
"I'd always heard that Hogwarts, end-of-year exams were frightful, but I found them rather enjoyable," Hermione told them, making Ron stare at her in disbelief.
"How the hell do you find them enjoyable?" asked James surprisingly shocked, knowing that yelling it out loud dramatically wasn't welcomed by anyone.
Remus couldn't help but hold in his laugh, because he knew how hard those exams are for people who don't have the brains for it.
"HOW COULD YOU LIKE THOSE THINGS? THEY ARE DREADFUL!" Yelled Young Sirius, while the older one looked on in amusement over what was happening.
McGonagall was shaking her head and gave the other teachers a look that screamed: 'See what I have dealt with these last few years!'
"That's enough, Sirius!" Euphemia scolded him, while many chuckled for his predicament over pissing off his adopted mother.
"Speak for yourself!" muttered Ron, while Hermione looked towards Hadriana worriedly. "Are you alright?" she asked.
"My scar," Hadriana answered her while rubbing her forehead. "It keeps burning." There was a little bit of worry over what the silver of soul was feeling too – it was too removed from life as possible and had become so removed from the living that it had become another person entirely. However, Hadriana knew, and the soul piece knew that it had to die.
"What do you mean by soul piece?" Regulus Black questioned, while others nodded alongside him wondering what it could be.
"You won't want to know, but you will later on." Was all that Hadriana told them.
Only two people in the hall had a clue about what she was talking about, Dumbledore and Moody. Dumbledore was pissed that it was going to be taken up, not because he wanted to scone the younger children but because now everyone would manage to kill the dark lord before he himself had the reason to give himself a boost in popularity with the people.
Moody was looking at Dumbledore again with narrow eyes wondering what his friend was thinking…
"It has happened before?" asked Hermione.
"Not like this!" Hadriana told them, and with that, they only looked confused.
"Perhaps, you should see the nurse," Hermione told her.
Hadriana only shook her head, "I think it's a warning of some kind. That danger is coming." 'Is he trying to tell me something?' she thought silently to herself, and when the ache in her head lessened somewhat, she knew that it was true.
They stopped suddenly a few meters away from Hagrid's hut. Hadriana's eyes widened in quiet realization. "Of course!"
"What is it?" one of them asked.
"Don't you think it's a bit odd? That what Hagrid wants more than anything is a dragon, and a stranger just shows up who happens to have one. I mean how many people just walk around with a dragon egg in one's pocket? Why didn't we see it before?" Hadriana explained her thoughts.
Hermione and Ron looked shocked and began to run towards Hagrid's hut immediately.
Alice looked at them fondly, for some reason that was just like Lily. "That's what you do when you deduct things, you run." She told Lily with a little smirk around her mouth.
"I do not!" Lily pouted.
"You do." James smiled and kissed her on the cheek.
"Hagrid! Who gave you the egg? What did he look like?" Hadriana inquired when the three of them finally reached the half-giant. Hagrid was already outside with Fang beside of him, as he played a song on his flute.
"I don't know. Never saw his face. He kept his hood up."
"This stranger though. You must have talked." Hadriana said, trying to get him to open up about what happened.
"Well, he wanted to know what sort of creatures I looked after. I told him. I said, after fluffy, a dragon gonna be no problem."
You could hear a collective sigh go through the hall, at what they were hearing.
"Did he seem… Interested in fluffy?" she asked, sharing a look with her friends over this.
"Well of course he was interested in fluff. How often do yah come across a three-headed dog? Even if yer in the trade. But I told him. I said, I-said… The trick with any beast is to know how to calm him. Take fluffy for example, just play him a bit of music and he falls right asleep."
Every sane person in the great all slapped their faces with their hands in exasperation wondering how the hell things could go so wrong.
"I shouldn't have told yah, that. Where are yer going, wait!" Hagrid yelled as the three of them looked at one another before they began running off.
The three ran into the castle, and straight to Professor McGonagall's classroom, where then she looked very shocked to see them.
"Good! Going to a teacher." Lily sighed but stopped when she noticed the three look sheepishly at one another. "What did you do?" she asked.
Hadriana sighed, "This is the reason why we don't go to the teachers!"
"We have to see Professor Dumbledore immediately." Hadriana rushed to say, quite out of breath.
"I'm afraid, Professor Dumbledore is not here. He received an urgent owl from the ministry of magic and left immediately to London." McGonagall told them.
"He's gone! Now? but this is important! It's about the philosopher's stone!" Hadriana told her, while McGonagall's eyes widened.
"How do you know-," she started, but Hadriana cut her off. "someone's going to try and steal it!"
"I don't know how you three found out about the stone, but I can assure you, it is very well protected. Now, will you return to your dormitories? Quietly." McGonagall told them sternly.
"How can you say that, if we found out this, who else did?" Hadriana asked, trying to reason with the professor.
"Now, go. Don't do anything." She said and gave them a look.
"Oh my, I apologise for not believing you," McGonagall said, worried about the future where she didn't listen to her own students.
"This is why we learned early that if we wanted something done, we had to do it on our own," Ron told them as an answer to this.
"We also knew that you were under pressure from the headmaster to ignore us," Hermione said with a shrug of her shoulders because she didn't want Hadriana to do this all on her own.
"That was no stranger Hagrid met in the village, it was Snape. Which means he knows how to get past Fluffy. With Dumbledore gone…" Hadriana said, though, she was interrupted by a voice behind her.
"Good evening." "Now what would three young Gryffindors such as yourself, be doing inside on a day like this?" Snape asked.
"Uh, we were just…" stuttered Hadriana, not knowing what to say.
"You need to learn how to lie…" Young Sirius said while James nodded in agreement.
"Hadriana is one heck of a liar, she only has to have a good reason to lie to be convincing," Sirius told them, to everyone's pleasure.
"That's true." Everyone said in agreement, together with the girl in question.
"You want to be more careful. People will think your… up to something." Snape said, looking down at Hadriana who gave him a slight glare, before walking away, his robes billowing after him.
"Now what do we do?" Ron asked as he and Hermione looked at Hadriana.
"We go to the trapdoor. Tonight!" Hadriana told them seriously.
It was night, the trio could be seen walking down from the dormitory stairs and into the common room. They made their way towards the portrait of the Fat Lady but were stopped by Neville's toad, Trevor.
"Trevor?" Hadriana whispered confused before he started to make very loud sounds.
"Trevor, shush, go! You shouldn't be here!" whispered Hermione.
"Neither should you. You're sneaking out again, aren't you?" Neville asked, coming out from his hiding spot.
"Now, Listen Neville, we were-," started Ron, but as you know Neville cut him off.
"No! I won't let you! You'll get Gryffindor into trouble again. I-I'll fight you." Neville said and put his hands up in fists.
"Neville, I'm really, really, sorry about this," whispered Hermione quickly, before raising her wand. "Petrificus Totalus!" the spell hit Neville right in the chest before he fell to the floor with a thud.
"You're a little scary at times, you know that? Brilliant but scary!" Ron told her, as they began to walk out of the room, stepping over Neville who laid there frozen.
"I'm sorry, Neville," Hadriana said, and before they left made the floor a little bit softer with a spell and laid a pillow underneath his head. "Hope this will help." She whispered, "Let's go." To the others, and they followed her out of the portrait.
"It actually helped, and now I know who did it," Neville said, grateful to finally know who helped him sleep that night on the floor.
"You're welcome," Hadriana said, grateful that he had noticed it had happened.
Ron and Hermione thought about that night fondly, there was just something about their friend that everyone liked. It also made them realize again how lucky they were to have her as one of their friends back then, because back then they never could see their own behaviour as something wrong.
Hadriana, Ron and Hermione could be seen underneath the invisibility cloak swiftly walking towards the third floor.
"Alohomora!" Hermione whispered, therefore unlocking the door. With the door unlocked, they could see that Fluffy already was deeply asleep.
"Wait a minute, he's snoring. Someone's already been here. As they have put a spell on that harp." Hadriana said as they shared a concerned look between them.
"Ugh… It's got horrible breath." Said Ron, as his face contorted into one of disgust.
"We have to move its paw," Hadriana said with a smirk.
Hermione and Ron looked at her like she was crazy.
"What?" whispered Ron.
"Come, okay, push!" Hadriana said, with the three of them moving Fluff's ginormous paw out of the way, revealing the trap door.
They turned back around when they noticed that it was still asleep on the floor.
"How in Merlin's Beard, did it manage to stay asleep, it's bloody insane!" Young Sirius and Regulus said at the same time, then looking at each other when they noticed this giving each other a shy glance.
"Music!" Hadriana deadpanned, though, she cringed at his use of words. With a glance towards the sleeping child, that was snuggling in between her and Sirius.
"Okay, I'll go first, don't follow until I give you a sign," Hadriana said, Ron and Hermione, nodded in understanding.
Somewhere behind them, the music had stopped playing and Fluffy began to slowly wake up.
Everyone looked at the screen in nervous anticipation – wondering what was going to happen to their children.
"If something bad happens, get yourselves out." Hadriana told them, before her eyes narrowed, "Does it seem a bit quiet to you?"
Ron's eyes widened.
"The harp, it stopped playing," Hermione whispered, and with that Ron turned his head around because something slimy landed on his shoulder.
"Yuck!" Ron said. The trio then looked up and saw Fluffy's three heads looking very mad at them.
"Jump! Go!" Hadriana yelled urgently, and the three of them immediately jumped through the latch in the floor, closing it as they went down.
"Woah! Lucky this plant thing is here really…" Ron said out of the blue, and in disbelief.
When the plant suddenly began to wrap around them, like small snakes, making their eyes again widened.
Hadriana felt them creeping around her, though, she didn't resist and soon relaxed enough to slowly sink through it, as the others struggled and screamed. 'Oh, boy!' she thought.
"Devil's Snare!" Neville along with the others that loved Herbology said out loud.
"Smart ass!" Ron whispered yelling towards his smirking friend.
Hadriana smirked, enjoying it to the fullest. It was always fun to poke fun at everyone, but at the same time, she knew that she didn't know everything.
Professor Sprout, on the other hand, shook her head at her future self's plan to use a plant like that.
"Hadri, Hadri. Where are you?" Ron yelled, frightened as he saw her disappear.
"I'm down here, please just calm down!" Hadriana yelled, trying to think about what else could be done to save them.
Hermione struggled somewhat with being the second one to figure it out, "Stop moving! This is a Devil's snare. You must relax. If you don't, it'll only kill you faster."
Ron looked at her like she was mad, didn't she see that Hadriana had disappeared? "Kill you faster! Yeah, now I can really relax!" Ron yelled, still struggled with the plant, as Hermione took a deep breath, and followed Hadriana down. "Hermione!"
Hadriana watched as Hermione fell from the plant's grasp.
"How did you know that you had to relax?" asked Hermione.
"Instinct!" Hadriana told her sarcastically, "Read it in a book!" she told her more calmly, "though I don't remember much else!"
Hermione looked at her not saying anything else and turned her attention to Ron who was still struggling and making it worse.
"I can't believe how things played out so well back then!" Hermione laughed suddenly out loud, not caring at all how it sounded to everyone else.
"I know!" Hadriana snickered, "Things could have gone utterly bad!"
"So, you know this!" Sirius pondered towards them fondly.
"Of course, we know!" Hadriana and Hermione said at the same time, laughing.
"Hadriana! Hermione!" Ron yelled as he struggled. "Where are you!" he continued.
"Just relax!" Hadriana yelled, trying to keep herself calm. "he's not relaxing, is he?" she then said, as Ron continued feeling like something was squeezing him tighter and tighter.
"HELP!" Screamed Ron from above them.
Molly squeezed Arthur's arm tighter at what her future son was going through, though, neither of them was worried for their son, as he had grown up to become, it seemed a loving husband.
"Devil's snare, Devil snare. It's deadly fun but will sulk in the sun. That's it! Devil's snare hates sunlight." Hermione muttered, before raising her wand. "Lumis Solen!" she yelled, blasting the plant with sunlight.
The plant released Ron, and he fell to the ground still screaming.
"Ron you, okay?" Hadriana asked while helping him to his feet.
"I'm fine!" Ron said, and caught his breath, "Whew! Lucky, I didn't panic!"
Hermione gave him a glare at his words, how could he be so blind to his own actions?
"Didn't panic right?" Sirius snickered and looked at Ron with a wicked smirk around his mouth.
"You don't have to say anything, I still remember you panicking the week you decided to propose to Hadriana!" Ron told him, with a totally blank face.
"What about you?" Sirius asked him right back.
Hadriana and Hermine looked at their husbands in fondness, because they had never believed that they would have such a good friendship, that they could bicker, and then they looked at each other rolling their eyes.
"What!" Ron and Sirius asked at the same time.
"Nothing!" they said, muttering about idiotic men and their contest of being better than each other.
"Lucky Hermione pays attention in Herbology." Said Hadriana, chuckling in disbelief.
Suddenly the trio looked around and heard a light fluttering sound.
"What's happening?" Regulus asked them worriedly to everyone's surprise, and his parents charged.
"Time for Hadriana, to get closer to death!" Luna said out loud like it was the most normal thing in the world to say.
Everyone looked at her in shock, especially James, Lily, Euphemia, Flamount and young Sirius.
"Dear, love. Maybe that's not something you should say right now!" Neville kindly said to his fiancée, squeezing her hand in comfort.
Hadriana and Sirius looked at one another worried over them as a couple, their engagement had come to quickly for them both though there were not worries because they loved one another. However, that warning Luna gave out loud to what happened on the screen sounded a lot direr to what had really happened. So, they couldn't help but wonder.
"My sincerest apologies," Luna said, her voice as misty and mysterious as always.
"What is that?" Ron asked as the three of them began to move closer to the sound.
"It sounds like wings." Said Hadriana, as they walked into another room that had hundreds of flying little objects above them.
"Curious. I have never seen birds like these," Hermione said in wonder, as she observed them from below.
"They aren't birds!" Hadriana told them looking up like they did. "They are keys, and I'll bet one of them fits that door." She told them and pointed at the steel door.
Hermione and Ron looked at her confused, and then a glint in their eyes.
"What's this all about?" Hermione asked and stepped in front of the broom which was leaning against the wall beside the door. Hadriana just shrugged her shoulders.
Ron stepped up to the door, and pointed his wand at it, "Alohomora."
Hadriana and Hermione looked at him like they couldn't believe him.
"Well, it was worth a try," Ron said, with a shrug.
"Uhm… What are we going to do? There must be a thousand keys up there!" Hadriana groaned and looked up towards the flying keys.
"We're looking for a huge old-fashioned one, probably rusty like the handle," Hermione told her, as she examined the door.
"There, I see one! The one with the broken wing." Hadriana told them, as she saw it flying around.
"What's wrong Hadriana?" asked Hermione, noting the weird look on her face.
"It's too simple," Hadriana responded.
"Oh, go on Hadriana. If Snape could catch it on rat old broomstick, you can. You're the youngest seeker in a century." Ron told her, with Hermione nodding alongside him.
"Ron's right. You've got this Hadriana." Hermione encouraged her with a smile and a determined look on her face.
Hadriana nodded, took the broom, and flew up but as soon as she tried to grab the handle, every key tried its best to attack her, leaving small bloody scratches all over her.
"Why can't things go smoothly for them, for once?" someone sighed in frustration.
"This complicates things a bit!" mumbled Ron.
Hadriana rolled her eyes, and with her reflexes, she quickly caught the key in seconds. "Catch the key!" she yelled towards her friends, as she threw it down to them.
Hermione caught it and quickly unlocked the door as the keys continued to attack her friend to keep them away from Ron and Hermione. "Hurry!" Hadriana yelled and started her descent who had finally managed to open the door.
Immediately after she had managed to fly through the door, she jumped of the school broom, to close the door stopping the keys from following them through it into the next room.
Where they now could see large statues standing before them.
"Where are we?" Hermione asked as they looked around in confusion.
"A graveyard?" asked Hadriana, unsurely, while Ron's face lit up.
"It's no graveyard. It's a chessboard!" Ron exclaimed excitingly.
*And I wondered why we never saw the connection before?" sighed Hadriana through the link, because it had been something she had wondered about for years.
*I see what you mean! These tasks were meant for the three of you." Sirius said thoughtfully.
"Oh, I know who's a challenge this is!" James told them with a smirk while other gave him a confused look, though, Lily rolled her eyes in fond expiration.
"Who's?" Young Sirius exclaimed excitingly for time's sake.
"Well think about it! The first one was Sprouts, as it was a plant." James started, "The last one was definitely Flitwick's and Hoochy's." Professor Flitwick narrowed his eyes, and Madam Hooch glared at the nickname he gave her.
"So, I'll bet one thousand galleons, that this challenge belongs to…" he began dramatically, and shared a look with Sirius, Remus, and Peter, all four of them smirking. "MINNIE!" they all yelled.
Professor McGonagall looked at them fondly, beginning to see the nickname as something that was just for those that were her favourites.
The room lit up with torches that illuminated the room – revealing a door on the other side of the chessboard. As they walked forward two chess pieces moved and with their swords stopped them from moving forwards.
"Minnie! Please teach us how to do that! PLEASE!" Yelled Young Sirius, and he and James nodded their heads eagerly, while Remus just gave her a scared look.
Hadriana snickered knowing that they would never be able to do find out how it worked, it was a trade secret from working in the school.
The marauders noticed this, "You know, how do you know?" they all asked in awe.
"Hahahaha…" Hadriana laughed and didn't say anything else.
"Now, what do we do?"
"Isn't it obvious?" stated Ron, Hadriana and Hermione looked over at him with questions in their eyes. "We got to play our way across the room. Alright, Hadriana takes the empty bishop square. Hermione, you'll be the Queen's side castle. As for me, ill be the knight." He explained as the three of them took their places on the chessboard.
"What happens now?" Hadriana inquired.
"Well, white moves first, and then we… play," Ron explained as the white pawn moved forward on the board.
"Ro, you don't suppose this is going to be like… real wizards' chess, do you?" Hermione asked, a little bit worried.
"You their D-5." Commanded Ron, shrugging at Hermione's question. The black pawn followed his order, and then the white one destroyed the black one in the process.
"Salazar's slimy balls!" cursed young Sirius in shock, though no one was paying attention to what he exclaimed.
"That was quite the saying," Luna said with a smile, and others like some Slytherins nodded weirded out by what he had said.
Young Sirius sheepishly shrugged, not knowing what was wrong with it.
On the other hand, Lily leaned into James worried about what was happening on the screen, James looked at her lovingly and laid his arms around her in support.
"Yes, Hermione. I think it's going to be exactly like wizarding chess." Ron deadpanned, as the game continued pieces were being destroyed all over. The more pieces crumbled on the floor when Hadriana looked at Ron, and he nodded knowing what she was thinking.
"Wait a minute-." Hadriana stated but was cut off.
"You understand, right Hadriana? Once I make my move, the Queen will take me. Then you're free to check the king." Ron told her, while Hadriana shook her head.
"No, Ron, no!" Hadriana yelled.
"What is it?" Hermione asked worriedly.
Hadriana made eye contact with Ron. "He's going to sacrifice himself.
"No, you can't! There must be another way!" yelled Hermione, scared for him.
"So, the two of you had feelings for one another?" Molly asked them curiously, wondering about the even close friendship that they had back then.
"They went through everything together, and the first betting pool went up in our third year!" Hadriana revealed to them.
"There was?" Ron and Hermione exclaimed just to say something, "We didn't get together until our last year." Ron told his mother.
Molly and Arthur smiled knowing that things were going for them.
"Do you want to stop Snape from getting that stone or not?" Ron snapped, "Hadriana, it's you that has to go on, I know it. Not me, not Hermione. You."
Hadriana nodded knowing that it was true, but she was terrified over what would happen to them.
"Knight to H-3" Ron commanded.
The night began to move, Ron looked forward determined to do so, "Check." Ron said, and the Queen moved forward driving her large sword into the horse and throwing him to the ground.
Hermione was ready to go to him, but Hadriana stopped her in her tracks.
"No! Don't move! Don't forget, we're still playing." Hadriana told her.
Hadriana did what Ron had told her to do, "Checkmate!" she said, checking the queen, whose sword then dropped in the process. After the game was over, they ran over to Ron, checking him out.
"Take care of Ron, then go to the owlery. Send a message to Dumbledore. Ron's right, I have to go on." Hadriana told Hermione.
"You'll be okay, Hadriana. You're a great witch." Hermione said teary-eyed.
"Not as good as you!" Said Hadriana.
Hermione smiled sadly, "Heh, me? Books and cleverness. There are more important things. Friendship, and bravery, and Hadriana just be careful." and gave Hadriana a hug.
Then Hadriana was walking down a flight of stairs when her scar suddenly gave a painful pulse in warning, holding her hand over it her face widened slightly in shock because of who stood before her. 'So, I was right. It wasn't Snape.' Thought Hadriana as she faced her DADA professor for the year.
"It's a joke?" Regulus laughed shocked, and many other shouts broke out throughout the room.
"Quirrell?" Young Sirius exclaimed after his younger brother, and sighed, walked over to him and hugged him for the first time in years. "I've missed you," he whispered quietly in his ear, to the ire of their parents.
Sirius who was silently talking to Hadriana still looked at them fondly, and a little bit regret that he hadn't taken the time with his own brother.
*You did your best with the information you had. * Hadriana softly told him.
*I should have known. Why didn't I know? * Sirius said irritated at himself, that he hadn't noticed anything wrong.
Hadriana knew that there wasn't anything she could do to change it, and just let him lay his head on her lap and softly ran her fingers through his hair. She couldn't help but smile softly at the two men sitting on each of her sides, Teddy, and Sirius.
Younger Sirius and Regulus walked slowly together, silently agreeing to sit together for the rest of the movie. They sat down together not far from his friends at the Gryffindor table, or far away from the future generation.
"You?" Hadriana exclaimed shocked, how could it be that someone stuttered that bad? "What's this about? Wasn't Snape the one who…" it was shocking that made her not scream it?
"Yes, he does seem the type, doesn't he? Next to him, who would suspect, p-p-poor s-stuttering, Professor Quirrell!"
"He faked it. Are you serious?" Narcissa soon to be Malfoy said.
Younger Sirius forgot the tense situation that was all around him, sat up with a smirk to Regulus' frustration, "No, I'm Sirius."
Everyone could hear the smack from Regulus's hand that the back of young Sirius's head.
"Hey!"
"You had it coming!" Regulus laughed and did it seriously as he could with what was happening. With this done, the tension in the room eased.
"B-but, that day at the quidditch match, Snape tried to kill me," Hadriana said.
Quirrell laughed in response, "No, dear girl. I tried to kill you, and trust me if Snape's cloak hadn't caught fire, and broken my eye contact, I would have succeeded. Even with Snape muttering his little counter curse."
"Thank you." Lily and James said out loud, to the shocked Slytherin.
"You're welcome!" Severus mumbled, wondering what was happening.
"Snape was trying to save me?" asked Hadriana.
"I knew you were a danger to me right from the start, especially after Halloween," Quirrell told her angrily.
"Then you let the troll in," Hadriana revealed, again somewhat shocked that it had happened.
"Very good, Hadriana, yes. Snape unfortunately wasn't fooled. While everyone else was running about the dungeon, he went to the third floor to head me off. He of course never trusted me again." He revealed.
Hadriana sighed again, still wondering how Dumbledore could've ignored this. As Quirrell turned around, her scar pulsed in pain. "He rarely left me alone after that. But he doesn't understand. I'm never alone. Never." Quirrell muttered.
"Now, what does this mirror do? I see what I desire. I see myself, holding the stone, but how do I get it?" he asked in frustration.
Hadriana's eyes widened when she heard a whispery voice coming from the back of the man.
"Use the girl." The voice said.
Hadriana looked around the room trying to identify the voice but came up short.
The tension in the great hall sky rocked through the roof.
Hadriana tensed when Quirrell commanded her to come towards the mirror. "Tell me what you see?" he asked.
Hadriana looked into the mirror expecting to see her parents once again but became shocked when she saw her reflection. Seeing her reflection wink at her, before reaching into her pocket, pulling out a red stone, and putting it back in her pocket.
As she saw it happening, she could softly feel the changes happening in her own pocket like something had been placed there. With that she began to back away from the mirror and her professor.
"Well, what is it? What do you see!" Quirrell asked quite impatient to hear the answer.
"I saw my parents, giving me smiles like they are proud of me," Hadriana told him in her soft voice before he changed his mind.
"She lies." The voice said and made Quirrell spin around to face her.
The purebloods who had met the man behind the voice were now staring at the screen in shock and fear. They were sure that they knew who it was.
"Tell the truth! What do you see!" said the voice, when Quirrell looked afraid of what was happening. "Let me speak to her."
"Master, you are not strong enough." Whispered Quirrell.
"I have strength enough for this!"
Quirrell began to unwrap his turban, facing her, and a smirk. When the face on the back of Quirrell's head was revealed, he turned it around to her revealing a faded face.
Hadriana looked on in shock over seeing Voldemort like that, but she also couldn't help but smirk thinking about that winter day when she and the Weasley twins had a snowball fight and had accidentally hit the professor on the back of his head, now knowingly hit the hidden face.
As that scene was shown to the rest of Hogwarts students, they looked at her in awe, but also fear – how wasn't she afraid of the Dark Lord? It didn't make sense to them.
Everyone looked at her, especially the teachers who couldn't believe their eyes. Professor McGonagall looked at the screen with blankness in her eyes but also dreaded what the next couple of movies would show them – especially for the younger years.
Young Sirius and Regulus looked on with dread coursing through their body, especially when their mother began to screech.
"NO!" Walburga yelled, not caring to believe what she was seeing. "THAT CAN'T BE TRUE!" the whole hall cringed over how loud it was and thought that it wasn't that far-fetched that Sirius had escaped his hope if his mother had always been like this.
"SHUT UP!" Young Sirius and Regulus said at the same time and tried to comfort one another. Regulus was also thanking his own tardiness, that he hadn't taken his mark yet – that he wasn't seventeen. "I'm so glad that I haven't taken his mark," Regulus murmured so low that only his brother could hear him. Hearing that made Sirius happy and hugged him glad that his brother hadn't done something he would never be able to get out of.
There were other people who looked on in shock, Malfoy and the others that had a clear affiliation with the dark lord were appalled overseeing their apparent leader reduced to a shadow – not forgetting that someone they looked up to had drunk unicorn blood something none of them would have thought he would be capable of doing.
There was also the question a couple of people asked themselves, 'Was he really as powerful as he claimed to be?'
"Hadriana Potter. We meet again."
"Voldemort!" Hadriana said exasperated overseeing her enemy reduced to this.
"Yes. Do you see what I've become? See what I must do to survive? Live off another. A mere parasite. Unicorn blood can sustain me, but it cannot give me a body of my own. But there is something that can. Something that, conveniently enough, lies in your pocket." Voldemort said.
Hadriana knew that she had to get out of here and began to run towards the door with quick steps.
"Stop her!" Voldemort yelled, and Quirrell snapped his fingers making fire burn around the edges of the room. Completely blocking her from leaving.
"Don't be a fool. Why suffer a horrific death when you can join me and live?" Voldemort questioned slyly.
Hadriana knew what he was trying to do, "NEVER!" she told him determinedly.
"Bravery. Your parents had it to! Tell me, Hadriana, would you like to see your mother and father again? Together we can bring them back. All I ask for is something in return."
Hadrian looked slowly towards the mirror and saw her parents smile at her. Taking the stone out of her pocket, stared at it and tried to feel for something, before looking at her parents longingly. However, she frowned when she didn't feel something in the stone, after all, shouldn't a stone like this give off some magical residue?
"That's it Hadriana. It is no good and evil. There is only power and those are too weak to seek it. Together, we'll do extraordinary things. Just give me the stone." Voldemort said, softly to Hadriana.
Looking at her parents one last time, seeing the disappearing completely from the mirror and turned to him in anger. "YOU'RE A LIAR!" she screamed loudly at the dark lord.
It was incredible seeing someone that young stand up to someone that had a bad temper, and they wondered clearly why she could be so brave standing up to him like this.
"Kill her!" Voldemort demanded of Quirrell, and he dived after Hadriana and grabbed her by the neck.
Making her fall to the floor dropping the stone in the process.
Everyone was afraid of what was happening on the screen, but they knew as the girl now the woman was sitting here that everything went well.
Some of the known death eaters were beginning to feel for the girl, though, they wouldn't admit it. Some of them felt like their leader had gone to far in attacking a young magical girl, the girl was magically powerful and seemed to have courage in spades.
Hadriana grabbed his hands, doing her best to keep him off of her, when his hands literally burned on contact, as smoke erupted from them.
"WHAT the heck!" James exclaimed, looking towards his best friend who was also sitting beside his brother in shocked wonder. James was happy that his friend was patching things up with his younger brother, though, he still wonders how everything was going to go after the movie.
"AAHHHHHH! What is this magic!" Yelled Quirrell, and stared at his hands in pain.
"Fool! Get the stone!" Demanded Voldemort.
Quirrell jumped forward despite the pain, managing to grab the stone in triumph. However, Hadriana at the same time jumped up on her feet before he could manage to get away and grabbed Quirrell by the face. It had Quirrell and Voldemort screaming in agony, before his body dissolved into nothing, leaving only his clothes and turban behind.
Taking a deep breath, she couldn't help but to look at her hands in shock, before she turned around taking one last look to Quirrell's clothes, grabbing the stone not noticing the ghostly mist rising into the air.
Hadriana turned around, and the mist takes the form of Voldemort as the shadow flew right at her. The pain she felt as it happened was excruciating and made her scream. Then the mist suddenly, flew away up through the roof, leaving her unconscious.
The scene ended, as it showed the philosopher's stone laying comfortably in her hand, glistening under a bright red light roaring from the fire around the room.
"Please tell me that you were, okay?" Lily asked, looking towards her future daughter and shaking her tense shoulders. James seeing this, began to slowly massage her shoulders and kissed her cheek – so totally in love with her. Lily smiled softly.
"Honestly, I was fine." Hadriana smiled, and still ran her fingers through Sirius's hair knowing that he was loving it.
"Alrighty, Alright…" Evan Rosier started, "You defeated the Dark Lord as a literal baby. Then defeated him again, stopping his return, at only eleven?" the boy said, he was clearly one of the leading students at his table looking at her.
"YEP!" Hadriana smirked, popping the 'p' and making Ron snicker wondering what they would say to her defeating the dark lord a couple of times more.
"WICKED" everyone said that had heard the conversation.