Chapter 7- Troll In The Dungeon?
After the moment with Fred and George was over, I rushed to my next class earning a confused and scolding look from my brother.
"Alright class now please take your wands and take 'Flick and Swish!'" The old (most likely insane) professor exclaimed. The entire room filled with a chorus of Flick and Swish's before he began clapping.
"Very good! Now annunciate this; Wingardium Leviosa!"
I concentrated on the feather and began repeating it but was stopped when Hermione levitated her feather to the ceiling.
I grinned. "Nice Hermione!"
She grinned back. "Why thank you." She smirked at Ron too.
"Good job Ms. Granger-!"
There was a huge explosion between Harry and I and realized a bit had made his feather, and partly his face, explode. After magic class, I was walking with Harry, Ron, and two other boys while listening to Ron mimic Hermione.
"Okay Ron knock it off." I said getting a little annoyed.
"Oh but it's lieviosa! Not leviosaaa! She's a nightmare! No wonder she doesn't have any friends."
The boys laughed until Hermione pushed past them. "Now you've done it!" I hiss at them and run after Hermione.
I wrap my arm around her shoulder as she cries into my arm. "T-Thank you..."
"No problem. Don't listen to them they are just being twats."
She nods sniffling and I look back at Harry and the others who seem guilty now. I shake my head and the two of us head to the girl's bathroom.
It's most likely hours later and we are still sitting there. I didn't really mind because she's my friend and I can't leave her.
"You know," she spoke quietly sniffling. "You don't have to stay. I'm just being a little over emotional."
"No I will stay because they shouldn't have said that to you." I say as we sit with our backs pressed against the cold tile.
"Your a great friend you know that?" She says with a small laugh.
I chuckle back until I hear something. "Wait. Did... Did you hear that?"
Hermione sniffled and wipes her eyes before we both stand up. We walk out of the bigger stall and i dab her face.
"There you are." I say with a smile.
I was expecting a smile back but instead it was horror.
Confused, I turn around and see a towering Troll. We both gasp and step backwards adore running back into the stall. We scream loudly as the troll swings, smashing the stalls on top of us.
"ASHLEY!" I hear Harry scream.
We push away the debris and I see him looking petrified.
We both try to get up but can't as the troll digs through trying to find us.
"HEY PEA BRAIN!" Yells Ron.
The troll turns around and Hermione and I crawl underneath the sink. That served us horribly. The troll didn't see distracted enough so it slammed down on the sink and something pinned down my arm in a sharp pain so I let out a scream of pain.
"ASHLEY!" Harry yelled terrified.
I hissed from the pain and Hermione dragged me over to her as the boys desperately tried to stop it. Suddenly, Harry being the idiot hat he is, jumps up on the trolls head as it swings him around until finally Harry shoves his wand into its nose while levitates the troll's giant stick up above before slamming it onto the troll's head causing him to fall down. Harry runs over to me and gently helps me up as I cradle my wrist.
"Are you okay?" Harry asks.
"Yeah I'm-" I hiss in pain. "Okay fine im not okay. I think I broke it."
"I'll take you to the infirmary."
I just nod until we look up to see the teachers staring at us in disbelief.
"Explain yourself!" Professor McGonagall shouted.
Before any of us could speak, Hermione interrupted. "It was my fault." Wait what is she doing? "I went looking for the troll.. I thought I could handle it. If Ashley, Harry and Ron didn't come to help me... I'd probably be dead."
"That was a foolish move. 5 points will be taken off of Gryffindor." She scolded.
We all looked to the floor in shame.
"As for you three I hope you realize how fortunate you are. I can't believe first year students could take down a fully grown troll and live to say so. 5 points..." We looked down at the floor again. "Will be awarded. For sheer dumb luck!"
We all looked at each other with grins as we walked to the infirmary.