The Worst Summer of Her Life
Harry Potter Alternate Universe: First Year
A few days later, the plan was set in motion. Charlie and a friend would come and get the dragon, the only thing they had to do was get Norbert into the castle and up to the highest tower so they could pick him up, since it was illegal to be seen with a dragon. Ron was going with Harry, until he got detention with Snape in potions. Becca said she would but she had already had plans with a teacher to talk about homework or something. So Hermione volunteered to go with him.
"It's a good thing I have the invisibility cloak." Harry whispered in Hermione's ear as they went through the common room where the twins were still up. They hurried down to Hagrid's, where Norbert was waiting in his cage.
"We need a silencing charm." Hermione said as Harry threw off the cloak. He quickly pulled out his wand and said the silencing charm and pulled the cloak over all three of them.
"Lets go." Harry said as they both took a handle and hurried back up to the castle. They were at the Astronomy tower and sat down. Harry pulled off the cloak and sat down next to her. A couple minutes later, they saw a red haired man and a dark haired man on separate brooms.
"Harry, right?" The red head asked, Harry nodded.
"Charlie?" Harry asked, Hermione stood up behind him. Charlie smiled at them and turned to the dragon.
"Well, nice to meet you. We better go. Say hi to Ron for me." Charlie said, he chuckled and they took off with the dragon. Harry grabbed his cloak and stuffed it into his bag and they set off.
"Come on." Harry said, grabbing her hand and they ran down the steps only to stop when they reached the bottom when a familiar face came into view.
"Oh dear, you are in trouble." Filch said with an evil grin, Harry and Hermione looked at each other then dropped their heads. They followed Filch to Professor McGonagall's office, to find Luke and Ron already their with Professor Snape.
"Explain yourselves!" McGonagall yelled, obviously furious. They couldn't speak so they looked down at their shoes. "If you wont answer, I'll tell you what I know! Mr. Black running around the castle with absolutely no reason at all, with Mr. Weasley. And I also know that you and Miss Granger were caught coming down from the Astronomy tower!" She shook her head. "Fifty points from each of you and detention." They all filed out and Luke burst into laughter, followed by Ron.
"What are you laughing at?" Harry asked, Luke stopped and held onto the wall.
"Anyone who goes to the Astronomy towers after curfew usually goes there to make out." Ron said, Hermione looked at Harry and pulled her hand away while they both blushed deeply while the other two laughed again.
The next morning, Becca and Harry, Hermione and Ron walked into the Great Hall only to get the cold shoulder from nearly everyone. Gryffindor were still upset they had lost one-hundred and fifty points from first years who couldn't behave themselves.
"Why are you all acting like this? Its not like Hermione hadn't earned all those points before and she'll end up getting them back." Becca said into the silent hall, Hermione turned red and sat down, she hid her face. "When's your detentions?" They all sat down in their usual seats.
"Tonight, McGonagall paired us up with Filch." Ron said bitterly, Harry started eating.
"I cant wait to tell dad you got detention because you got caught coming from the Astronomy tower with my best friend." Becca said and laughed as Harry buried his face like Hermione.
Harry, Hermione and Ron made their way to the front of Hogwarts where they met up with Filch and Luke. It was dark.
"Finally, come, time for your punishment." Filch said gladly and led them down to Hagrid.
"What is our punishment?" Ron asked, Filch came to a stop in front of Hagrid. Filch walked back up to the castle ignoring Ron's question.
"Right, listen up. Unicorns have been getting hurt and I found one badly injured last week. Its our job to find the poor thing and put it out of its misery." Hagrid said as he shouldered his crossbow. They walked further into the forest when Hagrid stopped. "Alright, we'll cover more ground if we spilt up." Hermione moved toward Harry.
"I don't think we get to chose, Potter." Luke said pointedly, Hagrid sighed.
"Right, Ron, you come with me and you three go that way." Hagrid said, Ron nodded to his friends and went with Hagrid. As soon as they were out of sight, Luke turned to Harry and Hermione.
"The Astronomy tower, eh?" Luke asked, Harry and Hermione started walking off leaving him. "Awe, don't do that. Come on guys, I was joking!" Luke called out and ran to catch up with them. Luke caught up to them when they stopped, he looked past them and saw the dead unicorn lying on the ground and a cloaked figure bent over it. Harry hissed out a gasp as he clutched his scar in pain. Luke kept his eyes on the figure and saw it snap its head up, they could see the bottom lip covered in silver blood. The figure stood up and started towards them.
"Hermione, run!" Harry yelled, Hermione couldn't move though. But another figure came out of nowhere and reared their legs at the cloaked figure, scaring it off. The figure turned to see the three kids, Luke stepped in front of Hermione.
"Are you three alright?" The creature asked, Hermione poked her head out, so she could see passed Luke's shoulder.
"Yes, who are you?" Luke asked, he pulled Harry closer to him.
"My name is Firenze, a centaur. The forest is not safe for you, Harry Potter." The centaur said, Harry looked at Hermione and then back at the centaur.
"What was that thing?" Harry asked, Luke looked around.
"Do you know what Unicorn blood is used for?" He asked, Harry shook his head and Hermione slowly came out from behind Luke.
"Of course, once unicorn blood touches the drinker's lips, it will save their life. Even if you're inches from death. But it's a horrible thing to kill something so pure and defenseless and the drinker receives a half life, cursed life. Its not something people do a lot." Hermione said looking at the fallen unicorn.
"Wait, could that have been Voldemort?" Harry asked, Hermione flinched at the name.
"Don't say that name, many creatures still fear You-Know-Who. Stay with Hagrid, do not come in the forest again." He said and disappeared.
"You three alright?" Hagrid asked coming over to them.
"Yeah, we found the unicorn, dead." Harry said pointing a little ways back. Hagrid nodded and they took off towards the castle.
"Looks like Voldemort is the one killing unicorns." Luke said, Hermione didn't flinch this time.
"What are we going to do?" Hermione asked, Harry looked at the ground and shook his head.
"Its obvious that Voldemort wants the stone, but he cant get to it if there are traps there. Snape'll have a hard time trying to get it." Harry said, Luke looked straight ahead.
"Maybe. But what if he does?" Hermione asked, the question that was burning in each mind.
"Its time to let dad in, Potter. He could help." Luke said and strode off in front of them.