Title: Stars and Stones

Rating: T

Summary: Harry Dresden, the Winter Knight for the Winter Court, finds himself in the body of a boy name Harry Potter. Karrin Murphy is in the body of Hermione Granger. Now they both have to go through the next seven years, this Harry much more free thinking then a normal eleven year old should be and with the same problems as always. Crossover of the Dresden Files!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling or Butcher's characters and I'm making nothing from this.

Chapter 12

Harry's POV

Halloween came around and I was shocked at the new duster that Karrin had given me. It was enchanted to grow with me. I kissed her on the cheek and she went pink. Everyone in their first years was now learning how to make things levitate. I had already mastered this years ago but I went along with the lesson so that I could watch the others. I was paired with Karrin, which was better than being paired with Malfoy. He was still not talking to me.

Much to my disbelief I overheard Malfoy mutter 'filthy little Mudblood thinks that she's better than people like us.' I felt my anger lashing out and he screamed in pain. Everyone stared at him in shock and it took Professor Flitwick to settle things down.

"Don't let him get to you," Karrin told him.

"I'm going to find something on his family and use it against him," I vowed.

"I doubt that you'll find out anything," she said.

"Oh I have a feeling that I will," I stated.

"Don't do anything to get killed or else-."

I remembered the threat that she had made.

"Karrin, you know that I have to risk my life."

"And I've made it clear that I don't like it that you have to, however, I understand why."

"I know that."

When the Halloween feast came around I overheard Fred telling George that Neville was in the boy's bathroom due to Ronald Weasley. I could tell that he didn't like what his brother had done. I knew that if I helped him that he would get insulted by his gran, but I couldn't allow this to go on. That woman had major issues. I left the Great Hall and headed to the first floor boy's bathroom, which was empty. The second floor didn't have a Neville, but the third floor did.

"Neville," I called out.

"I'm not going to the feast," he said.

"So you would starve to death due to Ronald Weasley."

"I don't want to face anyone."

"Well I'm not leaving until-."

I stopped talking when a smell hit me. I turned just in-time to see a huge troll come in. I hate trolls! Their nasty, stupid, and dangerous. This one just had to have a club. It looked like a huge pile of shit with a head.

"STAY INSIDE," I bellowed and I summoned by staff.

My staff shot through the door and landed in my hand. I pointed it at the thing.

"You will not harm innocent lives," I snarled, "ARIETIUS!"

My staff sent the force of 77 kinetic spells right at the big, stupid, troll. It screamed as it was hit with them and the thing blew up, right all over me. Now I'm the one that smells like shit. And then the room started to shake and everything came down on me. I managed to create a shield around me, but that didn't extend to Neville who I knew was still in his stall. I took out my blasting rod and pointed it at the rubble.

"FORZARE!"

The rubble was blasted away and I found him knocked out. I checked his pulse and was glad to see that he still had one. I knew that I couldn't get Neville out of here and keep the rubble from falling on me. I then closed my eyes and focused on the Hospital wing. Feeling the wards bend, we both vanished.

Madam Pomfrey was beside herself when we appeared. She put Neville on a bed and checked him out. She then demanded to know what had happened.

"Troll," I told her.

"Great, another thing that we have to worry about," she said, "And I thought that Quirrell told us that it was in the dungeons."

I stared at her.

"Wait, did you say that he said that in the dungeons," I said to her.

"Of course, Potter, that's what I said."

That told me all I needed to know. Quirrell wouldn't have made that mistake if he was truthful about where the troll was at. No, he let it in.

"How long will Neville be out?" I asked her.

"A couple of days," she answered, "Why?"

"Just wanted to know."

Of course the Slytherin's thought that it was funny that Neville had gotten hurt. What wasn't funny was now the boy's didn't have the same number of bathrooms that the girl's had. Karrin looked at the whole lot of them with distaste.

"They don't have to be so happy," she snarled.

"I bet Malfoy is upset that I didn't die," I told her.

"Well I'm glad that you didn't," she told me, "How long will he be out?"

"A couple of days," I told her. "Karrin, I believe that Quirrell let the troll in."

She stared at me.

"Why would he do that?" she asked me.

"I think that I need to have a word with Snape," I told her. "If anyone knows the answer, he would."

"Be careful," she warned, "He used to be one of them."

I nodded.

I had told Karrin about what I had seen when I had soulglazed Snape. Knowing that he had been faithful to a man that killed innocent people had made her mad. I didn't blame her. She had seen way too much suffering being on the Chicago Police Department and she had hardened due to that, and all the monsters that attacked innocent people. Monsters come in all forms and sometimes they were forged from other monsters.

I knocked on Snape's door and waited. A few moments later it opened and the man in question appeared.

"Yes, Mr. Potter," he said, his face telling me that he didn't want me here.

"Drop the act, Snape, I know that you know that I'm not Harry Potter."

He went white at those words and then I asked, "May I come in?"

"Very well, Warden Dresden," he said and I was allowed to enter.

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A/N: The truth on how Mab is able to harm Snape will be revealed in the next chapter.