It was Halloween night, as everyone gathered in the Great Hall for the feast. Floating pumpkins were flying high above the ceiling. Everyone has sat down and were eating some of the food that was on the table. Fae looked around and noticed that Quirrell was not there. Where could he be? She thought to herself. Then she glanced over at at the Gryffindor table and saw Harry talking to Ron but noticed that Hermione was also not present as well. Suddenly, the doors burst open and everyone quickly looked up to see Quirrell running in with a look of sheer look of terror on his face.
"TROLL IN THE DUNGEON! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!" He screamed. Dumbledore stood up. "Thought you ought to know." said Quirrell as he collapsed on the floor passing out. Suddenly, a loud roar echoed throughout the room. All of the students screamed and began to panic as they scrambled out of their seats.
"SILENCE!" shouted Dumbledore. Everyone in the room went dead silent. "Everybody, please do not panic. Now, Prefects will lead their house back to the dormitories. Teachers will follow me to the dungeons." said Dumbledore, calmly.
As the prefects, lead their houses to their dormitories, Fae noticed Harry and Ron slip away and followed after them, wondering where they were going. As she came around the corner, she was them further down the hall hiding behind a pillar. She walked over to them. As she approached them, she heard them whispering to themselves.
"What are you two doing?" Fae asked. The two boys were startled as they jumped and they quickly turned around to her.
"Professor Craft!" The two of them exclaimed in surprise. Then the two of them flinched seeing that they were caught. "We uh-! Ron stammered nervously. "We we're -!"
"It's Hermione, she's in danger!" Harry shouted.
"In danger? What do you mean? You two aren't making any sense." said Fae. Suddenly, the three of them heard low growling sounds down the end of the hallway. Fae's eyes widen as she saw a huge silhouette of the troll as it began to walk into the girl's bathroom. Fae gulped as she swallowed nervously then turned to the two boys.
"Okay, boys stay here. I will handle this." She said.
"You can't go in there on your own!" Harry exclaimed.
"That thing is huge!" Ron exclaimed. Fae laughed and smiled.
"I'm very flattered that you care for my safety, but I can-" Fae was cut off by Harry.
"Please, let us come." He said. "Hermione's in there!"
"Merlin's beard, you two." Fae pinched her, frustrated, and sighed. "Alright fine, you can come. But, stay right next to me don't even leave my side for a second, understand?" She said.
Both boys nodded their heads. "Good. Now let's go help your friend." said Fae. Then the three heard a loud crash coming from the girls lavatory and quickly rushed in to see that the stalls were all smashed and completely destroyed. In front of them was the troll. Harry saw Hermione from underneath the dilapidated stalls and also saw the troll was about to swing his club again.
"Hermione, move!" warned Harry.
"Do something!" cried Ron as he looked at Fae. Fae took out her wand and pointed it at the troll. "Stupefy!" She shouted as the spell flew straight at the troll. It was knocked back as it stumbled away from the stalls. But, now it had set its sights on the three.
It charged angrily raising its club in the air. The three quickly moved out of the way.
"Hey, pea-brain!" Ron shouted as he threw a piece of plank at the troll hitting it on the head. Harry did the same throwing some at the troll.
"You two are making it angrier! Stop!" Fae shouted. Suddenly, a club connected with her chest as she flew back as her back collided into the wall. She hissed in pain as she tried to stand up. Fae looked and saw the troll raising his club and smashed it into the sinks but Hermione crawled out of the way.
"Help!" She screamed. Harry ran up to the troll and climbed into it's back until he was on top of it as the troll violently jerking him around until Harry stuck his hand into the troll's nose. Fae, Ron and Hermione made a disgusted look. Then the troll grabbed Harry's let pulling him off and tried to club him.
"Do something!" Harry shouted.
"What?" Ron shouted as he looked around.
"Anything?!" Harry exclaimed.
"Cast windgardium leviosa on the club." said Fae. Ron pulled out his wand and aimed it at the troll's club.
"Windgardium leviosa!" He shouted. Then the groom's club slipped out of it's hand and floated above its head for a second before it came down smacking on the troops head.
"Cool." Ron laughed. The troll dropped Harry as he scrambled back as he saw that the troll was falling until it crashed onto the floor, unconscious.
Then Mcgonagall, Snape and Quirrell ran into the room until they saw the troll at their feet knocked out.
"Explain yourselves-" McGonagall stammered as she looked at the two boys then towards Fae until Hermione spoke.
"It's my fault, professor McGonagall." She said. The four professors looked at her as did the two boys.
"Miss Granger?" questioned McGonagall.
"I went looking for the troll. I've read about them and thought that I can handle it. But, I was wrong. If Harry, Ron and Professor Craft hadn't found me, I'd probably be dead." She said.
"Be that as it may, it was an extremely foolish thing to do. I would have expected more rational behavioral on your part. I'm very disappointed in you Miss Granger. Five points will be taken from Gryffindor, for your serious lack of judgement. As for you two gentlemen, but I just hope you realize how fortune you are. Not many first-year students could take on a fully grown mountain troll and live to tell the tale. Five points, will be awarded to each of you, for sheer dumb luck." said McGonagall.
The four followed after Snape and McGonagall while Quirrell stayed behind to watch the troll. "Perhaps, you ought to go. M-Might wake up." Quirrell stammered. Fae quickly walked passed him not even glancing but she could feel glares from behind her as she did.
As McGonagall, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Snape left the bathroom, Fae followed behind. Fae stopped when she noticed that Snape was walking funny.
Why was he limping?
"Darn this blasted thing!" Snape hissed as he tried to apply the bandage to his leg. He was standing his foot on the chair as He was struggling to wrap the bandage around his injury but was struggling. He immediately shut his eyes as stinging pain hit his leg. Suddenly, Snape heard the door creak open as someone walked in. He looked up and saw Fae. The two stared at each other silently for a moment before Fae's eyes trailed down to his leg to see the gaping wound.
"Severus, y-your leg, what happened?! " Fae asked as she stared, she's wide in horror. "It looks like a wild animal got a hold of it!" Snape frowned. The thing is an animal did get a hold of him, a big three-headed one.
"Who told you that you could barge in here?!" Snape shouted angrily.
"What happened?" Fae asked. She walked closer to the wizard to get a closer look. Snape moved away from her.
"I'm fine," Snape said. "It's nothing for you to be concerned about."
"This qualifies as fine?! Sev, you're bleeding everywhere. You need to go see Pomfrey!" shouted Fae, concerned. Shape glared at her.
"I told you to never call me that, " He said quietly. "I'll go and see her once I put the bandage on it."
"At least, let me do it," said Fae. She bent down to her knees and took the bandages from Snape's hand and began to sterilize the wound as she casted a spell to clean it then started to wrap Snape's leg.
"I don't need your help," said Snape as Fae continued to wrap the bandage around his leg, dressing the wound.
"Stop being so stubborn. Everyone needs help once in a while." said Fae. She finished tying the bandage and stood up. "What's really troubling is how did a troll get into the castle without anyone onto it."
"It was Quirrell." Far looked at Snape as she turned to him.
"How do you know that it was him?" She asked.
"He sent the troll as a distraction to get to the door on the third corridor, hoping that no one would notice. But, I did when he didn't attend tonight feast and realize that it was set up. But, what Quirrell didn't know that the door was being guarded by Hagrid's mutt. I stopped him but got bitten instead, and the bloody bastard ran off." He growled.
"What's so important behind that door?" asked Fae. Snape stared at her for a minute before answering. "The sorcerers stone." He answered. Fae looked at him in shock. The stone that grants everlasting life. But why does Quirrell want it? She thought to herself. She shivered as a cold rush of and ran down her back. Everything about that man was off. He gave off an evil presence.
"Maybe that was why I've been feeling weird around him?" Fae mumbled quietly to herself but Snape heard what she had said.
"What do you mean weird, Craft?" He asked quietly.
"Every time when I'm near him, I feel drained. Like all my magic's been sapped out of me but it's not. More like a heavy weight is being pressed down on me and I can't use it." said Fae. Fae saw Snape's face grew more paler than he was. Was this the reason Dumbledore told him to look after the girl? If she can't use her magic, she would be in mortal danger, should it ever arise.
"Can you tell me why this is happening to me?" asked Fae, breaking Snape out of his thoughts.
He looked at her silently as he thought. Snape remembered something that he had read years ago when he was just a student, although it has never really peeked his interest at the time. Uncontrollable bursts of magic, stronger magic casting, and feeling unexplained weakness, never aging... It lead to one answer.
"You're not exactly a human, Miss Craft." said Snape.
Fae furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "What are you talking about? Or course I'm human!"
"The reason these strange things are happening to you is because you not a human, Fae. But, a Fae, a powerful race of supernatural beings, commonly known as a fairy. Unfortunately, there isn't much about them. They supposedly died out several hundreds of years ago. But, I guess that's not the case."
Fae's whole world around suddenly began to blur as her whole body went numb in shock. All her life she thought that she was a human but she wasn't. Why didn't mother and father ever tell her? Maybe it was to protect her or her brother? She began to grow angrier as her brother appeared in her mind then Salazar. Fae clenched her teeth as she grinded them. They lied! Her entire life was a lie! Fae tightly clenched her fists angrily. Snape could practically see steam coming from the witch's ears.
"There is more that you need to know. But, first, you need to calm down before you blow my classroom up again." said Snape. Fae sighed as she took in a deep breath then looked at Snape and he continued.
"This is a serious matter. If word gets out that you are a Fae the ministry will hunt you down." said Snape.
Fae's eyes widen "Hunt me down? What do you mean? Why would they do that? It's not like I'm a danger to anyone." She said.
"That may be the case, but, Fae's are considered to be wizards and witch's mortal enemy, because of how powerful they are." Said Snape.
Fae's eyes widen more alarm as her thoughts drifted. Fae's are consider enemies? Did Dumbledore know? He must have. Otherwise, why would he made her quit ministry. Fae took a seat in a chair as She sat down. She couldn't believe it.
He had saved her life.
"That's enough talk for today. It's getting late and I've got things to do." said Snape. Fae stood up and begin to head towards the door. As she opened it, heard Snape say something and turned to him.
"What was that?" She asked. Snape drifted his eyes away from her.
"Thank you for helping me." He said quietly. Fae felt her heart flutter as she looked at him in shock. She smiled and turned around walking out.
"Goodnight, Professor." She said as she closed the door.