The Neglected House and its Champions

by Cherry Blossom Angel 18

What if Cedric Diggory wasn't the only champion to come from Hufflepuff house? What if Harry had someone looking out for him since before his first day at Hogwarts? I bring you the story of two Hufflepuffs who stick to the shadows and try not to get themselves noticed. Some eventual exploration of Cursed Child. Now Complete.

37. Hogwarts Year 3 Chapter 13

Only one more chapter in this year after this one and the next one is Important. Anyway, we don't own Harry Potter.

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A Complete Secret

June 5th, 1992

Third Year

"We slept through it."

"Uh-huh."

"The most dangerous stunt of the year, and we slept through it," Jo said in disbelief.

"Something tells me that's why they did it in the middle of the night," Leilani said. Harry and his friends had, in the middle of the night with no protection, gone into the dungeons and confronted Professor Quirrell.

"I knew there was something wrong with that teacher!" Jo said disgustedly, she'd distrusted the man from the beginning, she just hadn't been able to pinpoint why.

"I couldn't figure out why he was teaching a subject he was obviously so afraid of," Leili shrugged. The girls were on their way back from breakfast and of course the thing everyone was talking about was the stunt three Gryffindors had pulled to save a stone no one had known existed. "We're going to have to keep a closer eye on them, aren't we?"

"To ensure that we don't sleep through the next opportunity they find to get themselves killed, yeah," Jo sighed.

"Well, at least they did it at the end of exam week! Can you imagine if they'd done it on Monday? The entire school wouldn't be able to concentrate!" Leili chirped, trying to find a bright side.

As Dumbledore would tell Harry when he woke, what happened between he and Professor Quirrell was a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knew; at least, they thought they knew. The school couldn't know the whole of it, that was for Harry to tell, but from what little Hermione and Ron had said to a bunch of chatty Gryffindors and what else anyone was able to scrounge up, the student body had a pretty good idea of what had transpired the night before. For the girls however, having to find out through the rumour mill that the honorary Hufflepuffs had nearly gotten themselves killed was not a pleasant feeling.

So it was that with renewed vigor, and sneakier tactics, the girls solemnly vowed to keep the three Gryffindors alive for the next six years, assuming of course, that the girls themselves didn't get killed in the process.