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Next chapter to the Harry Potter section of the story. This chapter like most of the next ones (like 2) will jump to different moments of Hogwarts from Hermione's perspective. I actually have up to chapter 16 planned out. BTW in chapter 16 (hopefully) the big reveal of Hermione's love interest will be shown just a heads up for that, so stick around.
The title says everything in this chapter.
So on with it. Also this continues on from the last Harry Potter chapter.
HPOV:
Once we were off the small boats, we were at the front of a giant castle I felt so small just standing here, and I wasn't even that close to it. But it looked beautiful, I can't wait to tell dad that I'm going to live and go to school in a castle. Hagrid -Harry told Ron and I that was his name and he was the one to bring him around Diagon Alley to get his things- brought us up the pathway through hedges and bushes up to the magnificent castle, and we followed him like little ducklings follows the mother duck.
As we got closer and closer, it felt like the castle tripled in size each time. I stuck close to Harry and Ron so I wouldn't get lost in the dark bushes or stray from the path, whilst we walked up Hagrid called out facts about the school grounds and about the professors. He even told us a bit about himself and the kindness of the headmaster, Professor Dumbledore.
Once we got up to the castle, Hagrid knocked on the giant doors. The door opened to show Professor McGonagall. "Hello Professor McGonagall, here's all the first years like you asked. A few got wet on the journey across the lake but they will soon dry up." Hagrid told the professor.
"Yes, thank-you Hagrid I'll take it from here." She said and stepped aside and pulled the two doors open for us all to walk through. Hagrid walked through first and then he stopped and spun around to face us. "Alright you lot, this is where I leave you, Professor McGonagall here will take you the rest of the way. Good luck." He said and then walked off.
Professor McGonagall then came into view, "Good evening, as Hagrid said I am Professor McGonagall and I am the Transfiguration teacher and the Gryfindor Head of House. I will be bringing you into the Great Hall, if you follow me I will bring you up to the Great Hall." She told us and then began to walk and we all followed her, in a big huddle of people chatting to those around us.
We followed the professor around a pillar and up two flights of stairs before stopping in front of a set of big doors. "Everyone settle down, I will be going over a few rules before we go in. But before I do that, I will inform the head master we have arrived. Take this time to calm down any nerves you may have and to sort any appeara-" the professor was saying before she was cut off with a boy shouting out "TREVER!" and there was a bit of rustling, and Neville popped through lifting his toad from beside Professor McGonagall's foot. The professor looked down disapprovingly to Neville, who gulped up at her and got up from the ground and stood up straight.
"As I was saying, sort your appearances now and I will be back in five minutes." And then she spun around and walked through the big door.
"So it is true. The whispers on the train was right, Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts." Draco said moving up one step and standing where the professor stood moving in front of Harry.
"And you are?" he asked.
"I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." He said and Ron let out a snigger at Draco's name.
"Think my name's funny do you? No need to question who you are, red hair and a hand-me-down robe. You must be a Weasley." He sneered to Ron, I looked at the boy he was decent to me earlier on in the day and now he was being rude, I don't know if I'll be friends with him, "You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort, Potter. I see you've got Banner I can help you make another." He said and held his hand to Harry.
"I think I can sort out the wrong sort for myself, thank-you." Harry said back. Draco twisted up his face at Harry, but he gave me a look in acknowledgement and then the Professor was back and was right behind him and smacked him on the back of the head with a piece of rolled up paper and he moved back to his place very quickly after that.
"Now that's sorted, for those who do not know, there are four houses in Hogwarts, Gryfindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Now, once you are in your house they will become your family for the next seven years of your stay here at Hogwarts. Now following the rules will gain you points, disobeying the rules will lose you points. At the end of the year there will be a house cup awarded to the house with the most points. But they are ready for you now. So I want you to make a line of two, it does not matter if you are beside your friend or not." The professor called out to us and we all moved into two single file lines and she pushed the two doors open and we began to walk into the great hall.
By chance I was stuck beside Draco. "That was a dumb move with trying to make friends Draco." I said to him whilst we walked into the great hall.
"Well, Weasley laughed at my last name, I was obviously going to retaliate. Why didn't you point out the old hag was behind me?" He questioned me, looking around him.
"I didn't notice she was there until it was too late. And Professor McGonagall is a nice lady, as long as you don't get on her wrong side, which you seem to be doing." I told him, looking around myself as well.
"Why are you being so nice about a woman you don't know?" He asked me.
"Draco she's the one to introduce me to this world. Remember, my mother died a few months after I was born. And my dad's a muggle so he didn't know anything about the wizarding world." I told him.
"But your parents were married right?" He said stressing the words 'were married' to me.
"No, my dad had no clue that I was born only my mother's cousin knows of me. She was killed over here." I told him.
"Who's your cousin maybe I know him." He said to me, as we got to the top of the room, moving to let other people get into the space.
"In my mother's letter she said he was called Sirius Black. He's the only one that knew of me. Not even my grandparents knew me." I told him, and his face seemed to get even whiter and his eyes grew really big, after seeing this reaction I asked him, "Draco you're pulling a face do you know him?"
"Yeah, he's my mother's cousin. Hermione I'm sorry to say but Sirius Black is in Askaban prison for giving out the information of the Potter's residence to the dark lord, for killing one of his other best friends and killing 12 muggles in the area." Draco said, sorrowfully.
"Oh, okay then." I said to him, feeling down about the information given to me. Then Professor McGonagall said, "The sorting will begin in a minute, first I will go over the procedure, I will call your name out, you will come up and sit on the stool, I will place the sorting hat on your head and it will determine your house. It will come as a shock, but you will get used to it. First up we have, Hermione Banner." I could feel my heart pounding in my ears. I have to go first. I looked over to Draco scared, and moved from my spot and made my way up to the stool. I looked over to Harry and Ron and then I sat on the stool and the professor placed the hat on my head.
"My, my, my such a clever mind you have here Miss Banner. It's been a while since I've seen a Herope family member. Pity about your mother child. Now where to put.
Hufflepuff would be a bad place to put you seeing as you are a very outspoken child, it seems you got that from your Uncle Tony. You possess only one Slytherin trait, it seems you are very sneaky, going behind your fathers back, but you're braveness and intelligence seems to shine through with you.
You would do well in either house." If felt like a voice whispering in my ear or should I say head.
"But I know which one to place you in Hermione, GRYFINDOR!" the hat called out for everyone to hear, the professor took the hat off my head, smiling down to me and I saw everyone applauding me, I got off the stool and went over to the red and gold table, where everyone was standing up, clapping the loudest and cheering for me getting into their house. I went over and sat beside whom I assume are Ron's brothers.
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It was now coming up to Halloween, I have kept my promise to dad on writing a letter to him where ever he is, once every week and he has kept the Hulk on the down low for me. He's asked if I'm enjoying the school and if I've made any friends whatsoever. I told him about Harry being like an on and off friend, he only talks to me a few times. But I mainly told him about my friendship with Draco.
Draco and I are friends but not a lot of people know about it, but he tells me about himself and I tell him about mine. We get on together well and he's easy to talk to. I think he enjoys my company because he told me that I'm the first friend he has made that his parents didn't basically force him to have. I also think he likes to hear about the muggle world.
When I explained that my dad was a scientist and that a scientist could be like a potion master and some looked at the making of humans he was hooked. He also knows about my dad being the Hulk and all about my uncle tony just like how I know that he's a mummy's boy and loves to fly on his broom. He also knows about my fear of heights and I know that he's allergic to strawberries. We became fast friends, we meet up in the library on Wednesdays and Fridays after our classes to chat and do our homeworks, we were both at the top of the class.
But enough about Dray (he calls me Herms) today we were learning the levitation charm. Professor Filtwick taught us charms on Mondays and Thursdays and he told us on Monday that we would be doing the practical of the levitation charm, after we had practised the incantation and the wand movement.
In charms, that the Gryfindor's had with the Slytherin's, we were placed in our separate houses across the room from each other. We also had assigned seats, I was placed beside Ron Weasley. He was nice to me on the train, but now he doesn't come near me unless he can't help it. We walked into the room and got into our seats. On our tables was a long white feather for us to levitate.
Once we were all in and seated, the professor got up onto his tower of books, so we could see him, seeing as he's an elf, or half elf. "Hello everyone, and welcome back to charms. Does everyone have their feathers?" He asked looking around at us, I held mine up so did a few others but everyone nodded their heads.
"Oh, good. Now, does everyone remember the incantation? Say it with me, Wingardiam Leviosa." And everyone said it with them.
"Now does everyone remember the wand movement? The swish and flick." He said and everyone got their wands out and did the wand movement.
"Alright, do the charm." And then the room was full of people saying the incantation.
I let Ron go first, he began saying, "Wingardium Leviosa." But he didn't do the wand movement, be began to start moving his wand up and down in a quick movement instead.
I had to stop him before he took his eye out or injured someone else. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop, stop, you're going to take someone's eye out doing that." I grabbed his arm to stop him, "Also you're saying it wrong, its Win-GARD-ium Levi-O-sa, now Wing-ardium Levio-SA." I told him.
"Well, if you're so good why don't you do it? Go on, go on." He encouraged me, making a shooing motion with his hands.
I grabbed my wand off the table, and said the incantation doing the correct the wand movement and the feather began to float off the table and into the air; I controlled it with my wand. I looked over to Ron, with a happy smile on my face and he gave me a dirty look. And it seems that I was the first in the class to perform the charm correctly because Professor Flitwick said, "Look everyone, Miss Banner's done it." And I immediately felt everyone's eyes on me, but I concentrated on my feather.
I made the feather twist and twirl in the air, and other peoples feather began to join it, and then they all fell, mine included, because to my right Seamus had –as usual- had made his feather explode and Harry was his partner. "Professor I think we'll be needed a new feather." And the now black charred feather fell back to its position on the table.
Once the class was over, it meant we (well the Gryfindor's) had nothing to do until dinner, and because it was Halloween it meant that it was going to be a massive feast for it. Normally dad and I would go out trick-or-treating, with me dressed up as whatever I was into that year and now that I'm at school here I won't be able to do it. But I was getting too old to go out anyway so I was fine.
But as we were all walking back to our common room I could hear Ron talking to Harry and Seamus. "She's a bloody nightmare, I'm telling you. Its Win-GARD-ium Levi-O-sa not, Wing-ardium Levio-SA. I can't stick her at all. With her Americanism's and being a know-it-all. No wonder she has no friends, no one would want to be friends with that!" He exclaimed. He wasn't really whispering this, he was practically shouting it. I could feel my face sink, and I began to walk quicker and I walked through the boys and made sure that I bumped shoulders with Ron so he would know that I heard all that he said about me.
"I think she heard you." I heard Harry say to him. I began to power walk it through the school and I headed straight to the girls toilets, walked into one of the stalls, sat on the floor and began to cry. I can't believe someone would have said that about me here, where I thought I would fit in better than any other school that I went to, I was a freak there and it looks like I'm a freak here too. I was only helping the boy, he should be grateful that I did help him at all. If I had Draco as my partner, at least he would know what he was doing; I was just insuring that Ron didn't hurt himself or anyone else. Maybe I was too harsh with him but he needed a firm hand to tell him that what he was doing was wrong.
I heard the girls from my dorm room come into the toilets, laughing and giggling. I let out a loud sniffle, by accident. I didn't want them to know I was in here. "Hello is anyone in here?" I think Padma called out.
"Yeah, it's me." I replied back.
"Oh hey Hermione. Are you okay? I heard about Ron being rude to you." She called out.
"I'm fine. He just reminded me of the boys at my old school that's all. I'll be fine." I told him, using my hands to dry my eyes.
"Oh, okay. Are you going to the feast? It'll be starting soon." She asked me
"Maybe if I feel up to it." I told her.
"Okay, we're gonna go now. The feast starts in twenty minutes." She told me. And then I heard them walk out of the toilets and I stayed on the floor. I didn't feel like eating, so I'm just gonna stay here until the feast is nearly done and then I'll go up to the common room. I sat on the cold floor, thinking over what happened today, about if I was with my dad, that I wished that today was Friday etc. I sat until I felt my legs begin to get sore from sitting on the floor, so I got up and pushed open the cubical door, wiping my eyes to see a massive troll in front of me.
I wiped my eyes again to make sure I wasn't just hallucinating the troll in front of me. But when I opened the cubical door, it let out a large squeak and the troll immediately spun around to me and started to make its way towards me. I began to scream, scared for my life because I have read that a troll can kill inexperienced witches and wizards and guess what I'm an inexperienced witch! I moved from being outside of the stall to being back inside it. Then the toilet doors opened and Harry and Ron came running in.
"Hermione duck!" Harry shouted, and then the troll swung its giant bat and it knocked down all the stalls, mine included. I looked up from my position on the floor to see the troll confused as to where I was, so I took this as my advantage and got up from my spot and ran over to the sinks on the other side of the room and squeezed down in between two sinks. Harry had somehow managed to get on the trolls mallet and he climbed up onto the beast's shoulders and that made the troll spin, and Harry stuck his wand up the things nose. I then looked over to Ron and he had his wand out, unsure what to do until I called out "Swish and flick!" and he performed the levitation spell and lifted the trolls mallet and made it hit him on the head, effectively knocking it out.
Once the thing was down I got out of my position. "How did you guys know I was down here?" I asked them, fixing my uniform.
"I heard Padma saying to another girl that she found you in the toilets before the feast and you said that you weren't going to the feast, and we found out that there was a troll on the loose and you didn't know." Harry explained to me.
"And we saw it come into here so we decided to come and save you." Ron said, it wasn't an apology like I wanted but I don't expect one from him really.
The doors opened for a fourth time since Hermione was in it and in walked, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape and Professor Quirrel. "Now what do you three have to say for yourselves?" Professor McGonagall said to the three of us, with an angry and disappointed look on her face.
"You see Professor," Harry begun, before I cut him off.
"It's my fault Professor, I read up on trolls and thought that I could take it on, but I was wrong. Harry and Ron came in to save me when they heard me scream." I lied to her.
"And how do three Gryfindor first years, accomplish on knocking out a full grown mountain troll?" Professor Snape, nasally said looking down at us from his tall height.
"We knocked him out with his bat." Ron told him.
"Okay, I'm taking 5 points from Gryfindor, due to your poor judgement Miss Banner I had high hopes for you. But I am also awarding 5 points, to both Mr Potter and Mr Weasley for shear dumb luck." Professor McGonagall said, and then she spun around and walked out of the toilets.
Harry was staring at Professor Snape and then he left and Professor Quirrel told us to go back to our dormitories, that he was sort out the troll from there. And Ron, Harry and I walked up to our common room with a new friendship cemented in.
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Now that Harry and Ron know that I'm best friends with Draco, they don't mind it. Well, I don' think that they do because they haven't said anything to me about it, well to me anyways. But they are going on about this Philosophers stone, and Harry is more than one hundred percent certain that Snape is going to steal the stone, because when the troll got in, Harry thinks it was Snape that let him in. I agree that Snape is a suspicious person, but he's Draco's godfather and Draco has told me that Snape is nice and can be nice, he just has a grudge against Gryfindor house.
Dad's currently in Italy giving out both free health checks and paid health checks. He said that he'll be going back to our apartment in England this week to clean it and prepare it for us to live in it. I finish my first year of Hogwarts this year and Draco has promised me that he'll write to me and hopefully maybe a visit but he says the best he can do now is write, because he doesn't know how his father would react to him going into muggle London. He has told his mother that he made friends with a Half-blood this year and she was happy for him, I know this because he told me and showed me the letter.
But Harry has decided that tonight we were going to catch Professor Snape in the act, because Professor Dumbledore has been called out of the school, Harry thinks this is when Snape will go and get the stone. We were to meet in the common room at 10.30pm and sneak out and go to the forbidden third floor and go through the trap door.
I made sure that I read up on all my books in case of what will be happening tonight. I read my charms, herbology, potions and defence against the dark arts books, because I think that's probably the key areas that we would be facing tonight. Once that was done, the boys and I talked about what will be happening tonight.
We all made it look like we weren't up to anything, but I don't think we did a good job of it seeing as when we all met up in the common room at 10.30pm as when we got down, Neville with his toad Trever was sitting waiting on us, to try and get us not to go out and disobey the rules, seeing as the three of us was the source of getting points taken away from our house. I apologised to him and said "Petrificus toalouis." And it made him freeze up and all his joints lock into place and he fell to the floor. We walked around him, walked out of the dormitory and made our way to the third floor.
Once we got there, there was a harp enchanted to play in the corner and the three-headed dog, Fluffy was sleeping, with its giant paw on top of the trap door. We immediately began to try and move it and open the door, when the harp stopped playing and Fluffy woke up, we all jumped through the trap door and landed in a giant mound of vines and leaves. We moved to try and got off, when it took a mind of its own and grabbed onto us all, making us stay in place.
"Wait, you two! Stop moving! This is Devil Snare, you need to stop moving and relax. The more you move it will only try and kill you faster." I told them and began to do one of the techniques that dad does to calm himself down so he wouldn't turn into the Hulk when I was younger. Once I had relaxed myself enough, I fell through the vinery and landed on hard, tiled ground banging my elbow off it when I landed down on it.
Harry joined me next and we heard Ron freaking out above us. "He's not relaxing is he?" I asked him and began to think back to my herbology textbook specifically the page on devil snare. "There's something I read in my herbology textbook about devil snare. Devil snare, devil snare is deadly fun but can sulk in the sun. That's it, needs light. Lumos Maxima!" I said and pointed my wand up to the bundle of vines and Ron fell to the ground to Harry and me.
"There I did it. Wasn't too hard was it?" Ron said to us.
"You should be grateful that Hermione pays attention in Herbology." Harry told him and we walked through a door to see a levitated broom and keys with wings fly around the room. Ron and I went over to the door on the other side of the room, and tried to open it and Ron did the unlocking spell, but it didn't unlock. So Harry got onto the broom and flew around the room trying to get the key for the door, it was a rusty key with a broken wing so it was easy for Harry to spot and once he got it he threw it down to us, I caught it and unlocked the door, and Harry flew through it with Ron and I following him in after him.
We walked into the next room which was dark and when we moved forward the lights came on and it showed to be a giant wizard's chessboard with chess pieces. The three of us walked across the board, and we were stopped by the opposing team's pawns. It meant the only way to get across the room was to play the game. Harry let Ron take control of the game seeing as he knew it better than he or I did. Ron put us into the open positons on the board and began to play. In the end, Ron sacrificed his position in the game so that Harry could checkmate the opposing team. He told me to contact Dumbledore and help get Ron to the Hospital wing.
Once I got Ron to the Hospital wing, he got checked up on and I was checked on. I told Madame Pompfery what happened and she immediately went and got Professor Dumbledore. She told me to rest up on one of the beds and to look after the patients while she's out. I sat down on the bed next to Ron's. Half an hour later, Harry was levitated into the Hospital wing by Professor Dumbledore and placed on the bed on the other side of me.
Dumbledore came over to me and asked me what happened and I explained to him what we did and that Harry moved on to the next room by himself, he told me to go and take Ron up to the Hospital wing and to get Professor Dumbledore. I asked the professor if he knew what happened to Harry after he walked into the room. He told me about Professor Quirrel and about Voldemort and where the Philosophers stone was hidden all along. He then told me to get some sleep and I lay down and fell asleep.
Another chapter done, I apologise now if none of the words are correct, the spelling is wrong or if the information is wrong most of the chapters both before and probably after this one was written on memory, no internet connection what so ever and my own interpretation.
I also know that Hermione being born from a muggle and a squib may not make her a Half-blood but again this is my interpretation of the story at the minute so what I say goes. Again, Hermione won't ever possess Hulk like qualities because of her magic. I like suggestions but I have come up with a structured story layout now.
On word this story is 8 pages long. Enjoy the extra-long chapter, most of the more 'Harry Potter sided' chapters most likely will be longer than the 'Avenger sided' chapters.
Thanks for the reads, follows, favourites and reviews.
Signing out,
Emma X
