Chapter nine: Forbidden Forest

So the next day at break Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Sierra went down to Hagrids. He let them in very cautiously. Then as they sat down Harry launched the explaination and silence fell and finally Hagrid agreed. The four of them ran quickly back up to the castle and wrote Charlie before the next class started.

It was Wednesday night and Harry, Hermione, and Sierra sat alone in the common room waiting for Ron to return from helping Hagrid feed Norbert. Finally he entered the common room and was very angry.

"What happened?" Asked Sierra looking at Ron's hand.

"It bit me. You know what he told me off because I frightened him. I can't wait to get rid of that animal." Ron said.

"Well, aint that something." Sierra said. Then she heard a tap on the window.

They all looked and it was Hedwig with Charlies answer. Harry opened the window and read the letter out loud but quietly.

Dear Ron,

How are you? Thanks for the letter- I'd be glad to ake the Norwegian Ridgeback, but it won't be easy getting him here. I think the best hting will be to send him over with some friends of mine who are coming to visit me next week. Trouble is, the mustn't be seen carrying an illegal dragon.

Could you get the Ridgeback up the tallest tower at midnight on Saturday? They can meet you there and take him away while it's still dark.

Send me an owl as soon as possible.

Love,

Charlie.

"Well, the cloak should be able to cover two of us and Norbert." Harry said slowly.

"Anyway, that counts me out on going with you guys. I can't go out again or else my uncle just might murder me." Sierra said.

"If Ron's hand doesn't get better. It will have to be me and Harry doing it. I can't see how Ron would be able to help carry it." Hermione said.

"So its settled then. Saturday night is a go. I will write Charlie." Ron said.

Although the days dragged on finally Saturday night rolled around. Sierra wished Harry and Hermione good luck. She headed up to bed, as Harry and Hermione left the common room.

As Sierra woke up the next morning, she found Hermione already up so she went downstairs to meet them. She found them sitting at a table looking all grim.

"What happened?" She asked as she sat down next to Hermione.

"Well, stupid me as we were coming back from the astronomy tower forgot my invisibility cloak and got caught by filch." Harry said. Sierra didn't like the looks of this. "Then, we were taken to McGonagalls office there we recieved detentions and she took 50 points each from us two and Neville. So now Gryffindor is in last place for the house championship because of us. You know what else, she was surprised that you weren't there too." Harry finished.

"Well, ain't that something. She thinks I'm with you guys where ever you go." said Sierra.

"Pretty much." Said Harry. They all headed down to breakfast dreading to look at the hour glass and see the faces of their classmates.

As they entered the Great Hall and sat down nobody spoke to them all they did was glare at them. So they decided to keep to themselves and sit far away from them as they can. The weeks dragged on and finally the week before exams came and the four of them studied late into the night.

Sierra who managed to get a detention from Snape that day for setting off a dungbomb in his class because Malfoy was making her angry with his snotty remarks. So the next morning Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Sierra got a note for their detention. They all read the same thing.

Your detention will take place at elevn o'clock tonight. Meet Mr. Filch in the entrance hall.

professor M. McGonagall.

"Well it looks like I'll be serving detentions with you guys eh." Said Sierra.

"Sure does." Harry said.

So at half past ten that evening the four decided to head down to the entrance hall. Malfoy and Filch were already there. They headed out onto the grounds. The way was very similiar to Hermione, Harry, and Sierra the three new where they were heading to Hagrids.

"There you are and about time to." Hagrid said. " All right there you three?" He asked Harry, Hermione, and Sierra. They nodded.

"I'll be back at dawn," said Mr.Filch and stalked off.

"I'm not going into the forest," Malfoy said. Filch had told them what they were going to do when they were heading down to Hagrids.

"You are if you want to stay at Hogwarts." Hagrid said.

"If my father knew what I was doing-" Malfoy started.

"Well, then you shouldn't have wondered around the school at night trying to catch Harry and Hermione then eh," Sierra said. " Honestly Malfoy I could swear that you are a Daddy's boy running to him every time you land yourself into trouble."

Malfoy opened his mouth but Hagrid interupted. "Enough you two. All right let's get started. Harry, Hermione your coming with me. I'm sorry Sierra, you will go with Malfoy and Neville." The two glared at each other when Hagrid said that.

"Fine then we get Fang." Malfoy said quickly.

"Just to let you know he's a bloody coward." Hagrid said. " Now we are hunting for a Unicorn its been badly hurt. If you find the Unicorn send up green sparks and if any of you get hurt send up red sparks. Stick to the path don't want to see anyone get lost." Hagrid said. They heard a howl off at a distance. Sierra looked at Harry and Hermione, who didn't know what to say and they saw Malfoy grin.

"What are you grinning about Malfoy?" Asked Sierra.

He didn't answer just started walking a head and Neville, Sierra, and Fang walked slowly behind him. Sierra with her wand out and she told Neville to do the same and he obeyed. Harry, Hermione, and Hagrid went the other way. After a while of walking Sierra heard Fang growl and sure enough she saw yellow eyes looking her way and she can tell that Neville could see them to for he sent up red sparks and grabbed Sierra and they ran. The thing ran after them Sierra turned her head back to see what it was, it was a werewolf. Malfoy was of course still a head of them frightened, finally Neville was able to find a place for them to hide inside a hollow tree. Finally the werewolf gave up and left. After a few minutes Sierra heard footsteps and she heard Fang leave the hollow tree and the three followed to find Hagrid standing there catching his breathe.

"Are you three all right?" he asked. "What happened?"

As they headed back Sierra told him the story from Christmas break till now. They reached Harry and Hermione. The two ran to Sierra and Neville and asked if they were all right the two nodded.

"Well, I think we're going to change groups. I'm sorry Harry but you will go with Malfoy this time I need to keep an eye on Sierra and Malfoy will have a hard time scaring you." Hagrid said.

Harry nodded and followed Malfoy down the same path. That the three did at the beginning. It seemed like for hours they were in the forest finally they went to go look for Harry and Malfoy. It seemed like they meet about half way Harry was riding on a centaur he hopped off and the centaur said " You are safe now Harry Potter."

"Hagrid, I found the unicorn its dead. It's back in the clearing over there." Harry said pointing in that direction.

Hagrid walked down the path. Harry walked up to Sierra and Hermione. Harry, Hermione, Sierra and Neville walked back up to the common room and found Ron waiting up for them. Both Harry and Sierra were shaken by the whole expirence and told Ron and Hermione. Both of their stories.

"Don't you see, Snape doesn't want the stone for himself he wants it for Voldemort. If Voldemort comes back he'd probably try and kill me."

"Harry, everyone says that Dumbledore is the only one You-Know-Who was ever afraid of as long as Dumbledores around you can't be touched." Hermione said.

Chapter 10: Once again the three headed dog.

Finally exam week was over and the four of them could relax. The four of them went by the lake and sat underneath a tree watching Fred, George, and Lee Jordan tickle the Squid. Sierra was laying on her back thinking about how summer was going to be she quickly turned on her side and started to talk.

"You know if I ask my uncle I bet I could have you three over sometime during the summer. How does that sound?" Sierra asked.

"That would be great. I'd like to get away from the Dursley's." Harry said.

" I could get away from my family to." said Ron.

"It would be fantastic." said Hermione.

"All right I'll ask him at the end of the term." Sierra said.

After a few minutes Harry suddenly jumped to his feet.

"What is it?" Asked Sierra.

"We need to go and see Hagrid now." Harry said and started walking toward his cabin.

"Why?" Sierra asked.

"Don't you think it's a bit odd that what Hagrid wants more than anything else is a drag, and a stranger turns up who just happens to have an egg in his pocket? How many people wander around with dragon eggs if it's against wizard law? Lucky they found Hagrid, don't you think? Why didn't I see it before?" Harry said and he started to sprint down to Hagrids hut.

"Hello finished your exams?" Hagrid asked.

"Hagrid I've got to ask you something. You know that night you won Norbert? What did the stranger look like?" Harry asked.

"Dunno, wouldn't take his cloak off." Hagrid answered. Then Hagrid told him what they discussed. Then he told him "If you play Fluffy a little music he'll fall right to sleep." Hagrid said. " I shouldn't have told you that."

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Sierra bolted back up to the castle. They ran into Professor McGonagall and they told her what was going on. She told him that Dumbledore was gone.

"What are we going to do now?" asked Sierra.

"We're going through the trap door, tonight," Harry said.

After dinner they headed up to the Gryffindor common room to discuss what they are going to do. Harry decided that they would take the insvisibility cloak and he said that it should cover all four of them. They waited until the common room was empty and then Harry went to go get his invisibility cloak and they put it over themselves and exited the common room.

They reached door to fluffy and opened it seemed that Fluffy was already a sleep so they took it to their advantage and moved his paw and they jumped down as soon as the dog woke up. They landed on something soft it was dark down there. Sierra felt something tightened and panicked Hermione however relaxed and the plant thing released her Sierra did the samething and landed next to Hermione. Hermione lit her wand and the plant released the both of them.

"Are you two alright?" Asked Sierra.

"Yeah." They answered. They moved on to the next obstacle. Finally they reached the final obstacle before the stone. As they entered it looked like a chess board. When the lights turned on that's exactly what it was. Ron was pacing back and forth. There were four missing pieces.

"Well, let's see Harry take the place of the Bishop Hermione go beside him and be the castle. Sierra you take the other castle next to me. As for me I'm going to be the knight." Ron said. The four took their places and the white piece moved and the game began.

It went on what seemed forever but finally the last pieces remained on the board. Sierra heard Ron sigh.

"What is it?" asked Sierra.

"I'm going to have to be taken, so that Harry can Checkmate the king." Ron said so that Harry and Ron could hear him also.

"No!" All four of them shouted.

"Do you want to stop Snape or not? Sometimes you've got make sacrifices. I don't think all of us need to go get the stone. It has to be you two," Ron said. "You both have pasts with you-know-who. So it's got to be you two not me or Hermione."

The two nodded and Ron made his move and Harry checkmated the king and all three ran over to Ron who was unconsious. Harry told Hermione what to do and Sierra and Harry both continued on. Sierra took a deep breath and Harry took her hand and held it.

They entered the door and saw someone standing by the mirror not Snape but someone else.

Chapter 11: Quirell.

"You?" asked Sierra. "I should've known."

"Yes you should've. I'm surprised that you even came after what your uncle said. I knew that Potter would come and stop me but you this is a surprise." Quirell said.

"Let me speak to them." A voice said.

"Master you are not strong enough." Quirell said.

"I'm strong enough for this." He said.

To Sierra's terrible surprise she saw her godfather once again. He grinned at her and Harry moved closer to Sierra. It was if as her godfather could tell what Harry was doing and ordered Quirell to tie him up.

"Harry!" she shouted.

"Silence!" Her godfather said. "Now all I want is a stone that will bring be back to power. You do want me back don't you goddaughter?"

"No, I wouldn't want you back even if you were my last family member on earth." She shouted.

"Really? Stand in front of this mirror and tell me what you see." He said. She did so and to her great surprise it was her mother whom she missed dearly. Tears started to flow down her cheeks. Then she saw something else how she was able to see it she had no idea but the stone was being put inside Harry's pocket she dared not to look behind because Voldemort would know that something was up.

"Well," he commanded.

"I see my mother standing right behind me." Sierra answered truthfully.

"Very well, I see you need some encouragement. Greyback!" He shouted. The man came out and grabbed Sierra and wouldn't let her go. He motioned for Harry to come forward and his ropes were released and he slowly walked down to the mirror. Sierra looked at him and he looked at her and nodded. He knew that the stone was in his pocket she sighed with relief.

Finally Voldemort got mad Harry had to make a run for it. Sierra was shouting for him but couldn't do anything because Greyback still had a hold of her. Finally she saw Dumbledore come out of no where and released the man off her and took them both to the Hospital Wing. Sierra decided to wait until Harry awoke. Her uncle came by looking extremely worried and hugged her to death. Told her off but said that he was glad that she was okay. Madame Promfrey decided that Sierra could leave she left to find Ron and Hermione talking among themselves.

Finally the day of the feast came. Harry meet the three of them in the great hall and they seated opposite of each other Hermione and Sierra one side and Harry and Ron on the other. Dumbledore stood up once more and the Hall fell silent.

"The end of another year. Hope you all learned something new this year. I believe now would be a good time to award the house cup. In fourth place, Gryffindor with three hundred and twelve points, in third Hufflepuff with three hundred and fifty two; Ravenclaws has four hundred and twenty-six and Slytherin, four hundred and seventy two points." Dumbledore said.

A roar went up from the Slytherin table however Dumbledore raised his hand. Silence fell once again. "We have a few last minute points to award. First- to Mr. Ronald Weasley, for the best game of chess that Hogwarts has ever since I award Gryffindor house 50 points." Cheers came up from the Gryffindor table. "Second to Miss. Hermione Granger for the use of cool logic in the face of fire I award Gryffindor house 50 points. Finally last but not least to Miss. Sierra Black for her outstanding courage and to Mr.Harry Potter for his pure nerve and outstanding courage I award Gryffindor House Sixty points each." The Gryffindors once again screamed so loud Sierra could've sworn she just gone deaf. "I believe a change in decoration are in order. Gryffindor wins the house cup." Dumbledore finished. The students were able to start eating and begin their packing for summer vacation.

Before the four of them knew they were back at the Kings Cross station and getting ready for another adventure. When they seperated Sierra shouted to them "See you guys over the summer!" They waved back and Sierra left with her uncle and she knew that she was finally going to be at home.