Chapter three let's go
October 31
Ravenclaw first years room Adam writing at a desk when a Brown haired brown eyed pale boy of average build walks in.
"Who are you writing to Adam your parents, brother, grandma, or Ginny?" Asked the brown haired boy.
"Oh hey Terry I'm writing to Ginny right now." Adam answers happily.
"I wish I had all the free time you had but I really need to study." Terry said sadly.
"Perks of having done ninety percent of the work last year, but that gives me time to learn new spells with Uncle John and write home." Adam said in an almost bragging voice.
"Hey about that do you think you can show me some of those spells, like the disarming spell I would really like to learn how to defend myself?" Terry asked hopefully.
"Yeah sure no problem. Quirell not doing it for you?" Adam asks while laughing.
"No he sucks at teaching defense against the dark arts." Terry replied while joining Adam in laughing at their professor's expense.
"Yeah he is kinda a joke, but then again so are Trelawney and Snape, but the rest are pretty good." Adam admits in a good mood now.
"Yeah well thanks again but I need to perfect this essay for Snape." Terry said his mood becoming more somber.
"Good luck with that fifteen inches is just ridiculous." Adam says remembering that hell.
"Yeah it is." Terry agrees.
"Well see you at diner." Adam says as he gets back to his letter.
Dinner
"Hey Padma have you seen Hermione today?" Adam inquires.
"Yeah I saw her go into the fourth floor bathroom a little over an hour ago crying but I had to finish my Charms paper I hope she's not still in there even if she is kind of a know it all." She answers still feeling bad for her.
"I'll go check on her, and please don't call her a know it all, it's kinda mean." Adam tells her worrying for his friend.
"You can't go in there Adam." Padma says, thinking he's crazy for suggesting looking in the girl's bathroom.
"Its diner and the rest room is on the fourth floor. I'll be fine going to look for her." Adam points out.
"Ok, I just hope she's alright, she seemed really upset." Padma says, sad she didn't check on Hermione earlier.
As Adam comes closer to the fourth floor girls' rest room he starts to hear crying so he decides to just enter the lions den.
"Hermione?" Adam asks hoping she is in the restroom and not some other girl she doesn't know.
"Y-Yes." (Hic) Hermione replies while crying.
"You want to talk about it?" Adam asks in an I want to help but don't know how kind of voice.
"No." She cries out the simple word.
"Come here." Adam says remembering a time his grandmother handled him when he was in a similar place.
"What?" Hermione asks as she walks out of the stall. "You can't be in here." She says while she breaks down in more sobs.
"Who did it?" Adam asks in an angry voice.
"Who did what?" She tries to hide who hurt her feelings.
"You're not getting out of this Hermione you may as well tell me now." Adam says in a determined voice as he comes up to give her a hug and sit her down next to him.
"Ron and Harry were making fun of me behind my back and I overheard them… they… (Hic)."
"Called you a know it all." He said remembering his conversation with Padma, this was turning exactly into the conversation he had with his grandmother a few years back.
"Y-Yes… (Hic) how did you know." She asks between sobs.
"Because they weren't the only ones, I heard other people saying something similar, I asked them to stop but I doubt they did." He said hugging her even closer to him.
"Why does everyone think that?" She mumbles out to him.
"Because you're always right and actually try. Underachievers hate that in people." Adam said while he starts to smile
"What?" She said as her crying slows.
"You are smart and you try that is a rare combination that people hate, but it is a good one to have, it means you will go places." Adam says matter of fact like.
"Thanks" Hermione says soberly.
"No problem, I have always been good a showing people what others hate about them." Adam says while laughing.
"That's not helping" Hermione snaps.
"(Sigh) What if I told you I had the same problem back in the States?" Adam asks her.
"What?" Hermione asks surprised by the revelation.
"My classmates at Sherman and Lee hated me for being a know it all." Adam admits.
"What did you do?" Hermione asks now truly interested.
"Ignored it and they eventually got over it and eventually learned I was a better friend then enemy, do you want to know how?" He asks glad to see she is perking up.
"Yes." She says now very interested.
"In defense against the dark arts they gave us a pass fail test on a spell that they gave us three weeks to figure out. I was the only one to pass so they gave the rest another week to try again. A classmate of mine by the name of Jason came up to me and asked me to help him learn the spell in two days I had him doing it flawlessly. So a couple more came up to me and asked for help and eventually half the class had learned it from me. I set up a little group in my class and my group ended up having by far the best grades in the class. It slowly grew in size until most of my class was in this now large group and many of them I could count as friends." He finishes his story. "I'm not saying it's easy or right but people like useful people, a friend will come find you and try to help." Adam says in a slightly disgusted voice. "And I want you to remember that It you need someone to talk to you can talk to me, I'll be your friend" Adam announced.
"So your advice is to make myself useful and then I'll have friends?" Hermione asks skeptically.
"No that makes you useful and liked friends are those in that group that actually care about each other and enjoy hanging out. How about this we can start meeting up every Tuesday and Thursday after dinner and hang out in the library together. That is what friends do, get together and hang out wherever because they can and enjoy it." Adam said excitedly. Breaking his hug on the young girl and standing up.
"Um… ok that would be nice." Hermione answered with a blush, unknown to the dense American boy.
"Come on let's get out of here." Adam said happy that Hermione is smiling and that they are going to start hanging out.
"OK." She says as she stands up and gives Adam a thank you hug.
As they exited the bathroom they turn left and see a troll coming down the hall. Before they can make a stealthy escape Hermione shrieks and Adam pushes her into the bathroom.
"Nice scream." Adam says sarcastically.
"Sorry." Hermione says sadly.
Ok Ok, trolls John was telling me about these, resistant to magic, stupid and strong. Now how to outsmart it… got it. "Hermione do you trust me?" Adam asks suddenly.
"Yes?" She says
"Good, hide in that last stall and I will buy some time." He says hurriedly
"OK wait what are you doing?" She exclaims.
"No time just go." He hurries her.
Just as Hermione gets into the last stall the troll breaks down the door and walks in. Adam waits till the troll breaks the first stall and runs out the restroom and sends a blasting curse at the troll hitting it in the gut. The troll is pushed back but he starts coming after Adam who keeps throwing blasting and stunning spells most of them hit but it is not enough, it just seems to be pissing off the troll. The troll is getting closer and closer to Adam who is getting more and more afraid. Just as the troll is right above him and is about to flatten him the troll's club is raised out of its hand by a levitation spell and is dropped on the troll's head and knocks it out.
"Hermione! Thank god." Adam yells happily.
"You're welcome." She giggles.
"I guess I owe you one." Adam said smirking.
"No you don't your my friend and I would do it again for any friend of mine." Hermione says as she comes up and hugs him.
"What is the Meaning if this?" Exclaimed the voice of what could only be professor McGonagall.
"Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Snape thank god you're here." Adam says happy to see Snape for the first time ever.
"What are you doing outside of our common rooms?" snarled Snape.
"Well it's only eight curfew hasn't been instated yet so why would I be in my common room?" Adam questions the potions teacher.
"Because boy we made an announcement that all students were to go to their common rooms when we found out there was a Troll in the dungeons." Leered the pale black haired hook nosed monster of a man, and not monster as in large but monster as in ugly.
"I'm sorry professor but Hermione and I must have missed it." Adam defended.
"Why I must ask were you and the young Granger girl here were not present at dinner that you missed the announcement?" asked professor Dumbledore.
"Well you see Sir Hermione was not having the best of days so she was up here… um thinking and I decided to come up here and try to cheer her up." Adam says trying to hide the fact that Hermione has been crying for the last hour up here.
"In the girls Bathroom?" Snape questions
"No professor Snape we were just down the hall and after she was feeling better we came down the hall here and saw the troll round the corner down there and she… shrieked so I pushed her into the closest room." Adam said afraid of what the punishment for entering the girl's restroom would be.
"And how may I ask did two first years defeat a troll?" The older witch asked.
"Well professor McGonagall I had Hermione hide in the last stall so when the troll broke the first stall I ran out the door sending blasting curses at the troll drawing it away and when it started to get too close Hermione used a levitation spell on the troll's club and dropped it on the troll's head, it was awesome." Adam exclaimed.
"Is all this true Hermione?" McGonagall asks skeptical
"Well I don't know how awesome I was." Hermione blushed, "but Adam was just brilliant." Hermione gushed as she took Adam's hand
"That's not what I meant I meant is that what happened?" McGonagall said now annoyed.
"Oh, yes it was sorry Professor." Hermione said embarrassed as she drops Adam's hand.
"Oh young love." Dumbledore said causing the eleven year olds to blush. "Now to reward our young friends here, for their success, for a cunning strategy and a powerful blasting curse 30 points to Ravenclaw. For defending the school and saving a student 35 points to Gryffindor." Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye.
"Now both of you off to bed you can talk tomorrow." Said professor McGonagall. "And Adam."
"Yes Professor." Adam answers now afraid.
"Where was Kelly?" She asks, as the question sinks in Adam has an, oh shits look enter his face.
"I ditched him to have a privet conversation with Hermione, he doesn't need to find out does he?" He asks hopefully.
"I think he does, you came here to be safe, I suggest you stick with your godfather." The witch advises to the young boy.
"… Yes Madame." He says respectfully.
"Now off to bed both of you." She finishes.
"Good night Hermione." Adam says sadly.
"Night Adam." Hermione says feeling sorry for him.
The next day in the library.
"Adam, John" Hermione calls out to them when she sees them.
"Hey Hermione, sorry about Uncle John but after yesterday he'll barley let me out of his site to bathe and use the loo." Adam said while rolling his eyes.
"That's understandable." Hermione says while looking at the grim faced assassin.
"Yes but still he's terrifying everyone." Adam complains
"Hey you're the one who escaped from me and fought a troll." Said Kelly
"And won." Adam said heroically.
"No she won you got lucky." Said Kelly points out.
"It was my plan." Adam said trying to save face.
"It was your plan to have me knock out the troll that would have been nice to know beforehand." Hermione deadpans.
"Hey it worked and I knew you would be smart enough to beat it." Adam said causing Hermione to blush once again.
"When did you become such a player?" Said John while smirking
"A what?" asked Adam Confused.
"Never mind." Was his Uncles disappointed reply.
"So Hermione how was your day?" Adam asks.
"Much better then yesterday, Harry and Ron apologized and were really nice today." Hermione says happily, "It was nice having them to talk to at meals.
"That's great if you do become friends with them they will be good ones to have." They seem like they will be loyal to any friend they make.
"Well let's get to work I was hoping you could help me with my dark arts work." Hermione says.
"No problem, but you'll have to help me with astronomy, I don't get these star charts we keep getting." Adam announces.