The next thing he knew he was lying on the ground with Snape looking at him. He thought he was dead, but then Snape said, "Get up Potter!" Snape grabbed Harry's hand and pulled him up. Harry was surprised to still be alive and looked around "What happened?" Harry looked back at Snape. Snape was picking up some scrolls of parchment and said, "I was heading to the store room for some ingredients for my next class and was ran over by an off balance student named Harry Potter!" It took Harry a moment to realize that Snape just saved his life. Before Harry could say anything Snape was gone, and Harry was the only one there. Harry looked down and saw something shinning in the torchlight. He picked it up and looked at it closer. It was hard to see what it was so Harry took it with him to his class, unfortunately he didn't have time to look at it until he was in Care of Magical Creatures.
Harry showed it to Ron and Hermione, it was a ring; a golden ring with a Slytherin snake on one side and a Gryffindor Lion on the other. For the gem color it was a swirling mix of the two houses color, maroon, gold, dark green, and silver. After their classes they go back to Hagrid's hut to ask him about the ring. "I think its a girl's ring, I don't know any boys that would be able to wear something that small." Hermione started the conversation. Hagrid took the ring from Harry and was looking at it. Ron who didn't really care about the ring started to look around Hagrid's hut. Then through the window he saw Maya looking at Hagrid, Ron got up and grabbed some fruit, "I'm going to feed Maya while you guys figure out about that ring." Ron when out and started to try and feed Maya, Which Ron discovered that she ate fruit after finishing reading the book he got for Hermione.
Maya had no interest in eating, she just keep her eyes moving between Hagrid and Harry when Hagrid returned the ring. Harry, Hermione and Hagrid left the hut to join Ron. "I think she likes that ring she hasn't taken her eyes off it." Ron said once they where outside. Hagrid petted Maya and said; "I think your right Ron, and she's lookin' at the pocket that Harry put that ring in." Hermione got up and said, "Hagrid are you sure you don't know anything about the ring not even who it belonged to so we can return it." Hagrid looked around and then went and sat on his front steps. "Yeah, I know who it belongs to, but it's a long sad story. And I don't know all of it and the some that I do know, I just heard, you understand?" Harry, Ron, and Hermione all sat around Hagrid to lesson to the story.
"This story starts on your father's 2nd year at Hogwarts, Harry. He was so happy to be back, with this friend. It was also his little sisters' first year." Harry stopped it there, "Little sister?" Hermione elbowed him and said, "Quite Harry! Ask questions at the end." Hagrid nodded and went on, "Well she was a friendly person indeed. If you were nice to her, than she'd be nice to you, no matter what house you were in. This made James very upset at times. He really got mad when she started to get to really friendly with a Slytherin boy that was in James year. So James and Sirius would be very unpleasant to that Slytherin boy hopin' to get him away from James' little sister. But she always stood up for that Slytherin boy she got in many fights with James over it. Sirius would be the meanest when James wasn't around though because he had a crush on James' sister. This when on until that Slytherin boy, gave that ring to your Aunt. They were to be wedded two years after he left school. One year so she could finish school, and another was that she had made plans to travel the world, the year after leaving school. They agreed on this because that Slytherin boy wanted to get settle, you know with a job and a nice house for them to live in. Well this is thee part that gets tricky now cause there're parts missin'. I heard that after she got outta school, and on her trip, that Slytherin boy joined You-Know-Who. That made her mighty upset when she got back. And she hadn't been seen since." Ron looked over at Maya and saw that she looked to be crying. Hagrid got up and wiped the tears away from his and Maya's face.
Then Ron stated, "Well you still didn't tell us whom the ring belongs to. If Harry's aunt still had it why was it in the dungeons?" Hagrid shrugged and said, "Beats me, I told you I didn't have the whole story. Maybe if you ask one of the other teachers that knew your Aunt, Harry, they might be able to tell ya more." It was starting to get dark and Harry had Quidditch the next day and had to rest up. So Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked to the common room talking about Hagrid's story. "I can't believe that my Father had a Sister and no one thought to tell me." Harry said walking with his friends. Hermione put her hand on Harry's shoulder "well if it made Hagrid that upset to tell us that it might be just as hard for others. Anyway it's would have been about 20 years since she disappeared. Maybe some forgot about her?" This was defiantly something he didn't want to learn about before a match. The next day everyone went to the Quidditch field to watch the game. Harry could see the whole school there. Harry had gotten a chain to put the ring on. He thought that maybe the ring would bring him luck in the game. Harry was the only original Gryffindor team member left. They didn't have much luck replacing the Chasers, or the Beaters. Harry caught the Golden Snitch winning the game for the Gryffindor once again. Maybe the ring was good luck. The whole house celebrated the winning after dinner with treats from the kitchen brought by Dobby the House Elf.