Chapter 12
A Troll in the Dungeons
Everyone started to run out screaming when Dumbledore yelled.
"QUIET!"
Everyone immediately quiet down and looked to Dumbledore.
"Prefects, take your students back to the common rooms and food will be sent down. Teachers, follow me. We have to get rid of the troll."
I started for the exit when Harry grabbed me and Ron.
"Harry! What the heck! I have to go to my common room." I said.
"Hermione, she doesn't know about the troll. Which lavatory is she in?"
"I heard from Pansy that she was in the one off the Hall here."
"All right, wands out and follow me." Harry ordered taking his own wand out and making for the lavatory.
Quirell was wrong. The troll wasn't in the dungeons. It was in THAT LAVATORY!
I was just about to scream when Ivy ran in.
"What's going on?" she asked "OH MY GOSH!"
Hermione screamed and ducked under the sink.
"Harry, Ron! You guys fend off the troll, Ivy, you go down to the dungeons and tell the professors that the troll is up here. I'm going to go get Hermione." I ordered, taking my wand in my teeth and crawling towards the sink.
"Hannah!" Hermione shouted in relief.
"Hey, Mione. WATCH OUT!" I said ducking her down as the troll swung its club.
"Come on…we're getting out of here." I said grabbing Hermione's arm and crawling out of the bathroom.
Once we were out of the washroom, Ivy, Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape ran over.
"What are you two doing?" McGonagall demanded "Ms Potter. What's the meaning of this?"
I tried to stammer out an explanation when Hermione cut me off.
"I was in the lavatory when the troll attacked. Hannah saved me. If it wasn't for her, who knows what would have happened to me. I could be dead right now for all I know. Right, Ivy?"
Ivy nodded, her eyes on me.
"Ms Granger!" McGonagall said aghast "What were you doing in there?"
"Um…I was…trying to take on the troll. I read about them and thought I could manage on my own."
My jaw dropped. Why was Hermione lying to a teacher's face?
"Well, then, Ms Granger five points from Gryffindor. Ms Potter five points to Slytherin for your bravery." McGonagall announced simply, entering the washroom to see the troll, finished off, with Harry's wand in its nose.
"Want me to walk you down to the dungeons?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah, that'd be good." I said "Come on."
Hermione, Ivy and I walked down into the dungeons in silence. Until I found what I wanted to say to her.
"Hey, Mione?"
"Hmm?"
"You're not such a bad girl, for a Gryffindor."
"Thanks, you're not so bad yourself, for a Slytherin."
We all laughed as we neared my common room's entranceway.
"Hey, Mione one more thing." I said.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks, for, you know, getting me some house points."
"Don't mention it. You deserve it, really."
"Hermione Granger," I said "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. See you in classes tomorrow." I said muttering the password.
"Yeah, see you." Hermione said as she and Ivy walked away.
The first person I saw was Pansy rushing up to me.
"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!" she demanded.
"Oh, nowhere special, and just for the record, if there are twenty more points in our hourglass tomorrow, you have me to thank."
"You got our house twenty more points? What did you do?"
"Oh, nothing special. Just saved someone from the troll."
"WHAT! Who?"
"Hermione Granger."
"That Mudblood? Please! She's a bossy little twat! She's no good to a normal Slytherin."
I went to the food "Who knows, Pansy? I might not be a normal Slytherin."
From that night on, Hermione Granger became one of my friends along with Ron, Fred and George Weasley. There was always a little event that told you who your real friends were, and somehow, saving someone from a troll and smacking their brother around the head were two of them.
