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Chapter 7

Ellie's p.o.v.

"Ellie, did you get the Daisies?" Lucas asked me.

The two of us got up extra early to go outside to restock on some of our potion ingredients. At least on the plants and other stuff that we could easily find around the school.

"Yeah, I got a whole bunch of them, you were right they're growing here like crazy."I said

"Hey, I found some nettle. Answer this question what two potions has this as an ingredient?"Lucas asked showing the nettle.

"Okay...I know this one... Nettles are used in potion-making two ways. Fresh nettles are used in the Boil-Cure Potion and the dried nettles are used in the Herbicide Potion." I said

"Yep, you got it right you're a natural at it Ellie."Lucas said smiling at me.

"It's only cause you helped me study."I said adding the nettle in the small jar.

"But I think you don't need my help."Lucas admitted

"Yes I do, besides its always fun brewing potions with you. How do you know about it so much?"I asked

"Well I learned it from my mum."Lucas said "She's a potioneer and owns her own shop selling potions."

"No wonder you're so good at it."I said

We heard the bell ring that it was time for class, the two of us quickly gathered our things to run, today's first class was potions. We hurried and luckily we made it on time. Both houses looked at us and as usual I heard a few whispers from both houses I ignored them. I sat down at the table.

"Today you will attempt to make the Herbicide potion, the instructions are on the board."Snape sternly said "You may begin."

I felt so pumped I know that recipe like the back of my hand so I took out my ingredients and started on the potion. I barely looked up at the board I occasionally glanced at Lucas and at my brother to see how they're doing. I sometimes glanced at Neville since potions isn't his best subject and I tend to try and help him a bit. After everyone was done with the potion, Snape was inspecting all of our work.

So far, a few people in the class has failed the potion we were making today even Harry, Ron, and Neville. I guess not everyone is good at this but it's just the first year I'm dire with a lot of practice they'll be fine. Now, I bottled my potion and Snape was in my desk.

He picked up the potion looking closely at it. Every so often, he would glance up at me and back down at the potion. Truthfully I felt a bit nervous but I felt like I did it right.

"Well done..." Snape murmured and said something under his breath.

"Huh?" I asked.

He looked at me, right into my eyes. It reminded me of how we first met when he gave me my letter. Only back then he seemed a bit surprised and maybe something else too that I couldn't describe it.

"Nothing..." he whispered and slowly walked over to Lucas station which was next to mind, looking lost in thought which made me even more curious at his behaviour.

i noticed that Lucas lightly glanced at me the corner of his mouth moved to a half smirk. I lightly smiled at him. I noticed Snape looking at us. For a moment, I saw something In his dark eyes. He looked sad. His eyes were shining and his face dropped. He normally looked so bitter and angry, but something changed when He saw me and Lucas being friendly to eachother, I didn't understand what or why?

When everyone's potion had been graded, Snape took his place in front of the room once again.

"You all did...dreadful," Snape said as he paced through the front of the class. "Only three of you managed to complete the potion without a single error. Lucas Knight, Hermione Granger and...Ellie Potter. Considering that the rest of you do not understand the proper way to create this potion, I expect you all to write an essay explaining what you did wrong and how you should actually make this potion without having it explode," he glared at Neville and Seamus.

"However, the three people that made this potion correctly are exempt from this assignment..." he finished.

After class ended I started to get my things in my table, I was the last one to pack up today. I was hoping that I could ask snape to recommend a few potions books, I was slightly nervous since I really don't know what he'll say.

"Professor?"I asked

He stopped grading the papers and looked up from his desk avoiding eye contact.

"What is it ?" He asked

"I...um...I was wondering if you could recommend a few other potion books?"I asked softly

He glanced up a bit meeting my eyes, his gaze softened a bit, he took out a piece of parchment and wrote down something. He gave me the paper in his elegant handwriting.

"Here's a few that are good to help you study." He said

"Thank you Professor." I said giving him a soft smile.

I heard him mutter something that I couldn't understand and I gave him a curious look.

"Just study hard." He said

"You know I will professor."I said walking out of his classroom stuffing the note in my backpack.

After that I couldn't stop smiling I was going to read more potions book! I immediately ran to find Lucas to go to the library to check on the books. Lucas was really excited about it too. After that I found out that Harry got a new broomstick for the Quidditch game! I was really happy for him that he'll be able to use it. I felt really happy for my brother.

Once we were done we had charm class. Today is when we were able to actually do magic!

"You just wave your wand and say 'Wingardium Leviosa.'" Professor Flitwick instructed. "Remember swish and flick!"

We all had feathers sitting in front of us and we were supposed to make them levitate.

So far, no one had been able to make their feathers move, including Harry.

"Wingardrium leviosaaa," Ron said stabbing his feather repeatedly.

"No, no, no!" Hermione said. "You're doing it wrong. It's pronounced Wingardium Leviosa, you have to say it right."

"Well if you're so brilliant, why don't you do it!" Ron said.

"Fine," Hermione said picking up her wand. "Wingardium Leviosa!"

The feather slowly began to float up into the air.

"Congratulations Ms. Granger!" Professor Flitwick clapped.

"Well, aren't you just talented," Ron muttered.

If Hermione had heard him, she didn't show it, she just watched her feather. I looked at my feather I took a deep breath and picked up my wand.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" I said my feather slowly started to float.

"Good work !" Professor Flitwick said

I lightly smiled and kept my feather up.

"It's no wonder she doesn't have any friends!" Ron said after class. "She's always showing off!"

Suddenly I saw a person with big, bushy hair push past Ron, walking fast.

"I think she heard you." Harry said

"So?" Ron said but he looked uncomfortable. I growl and glared at Ron smacking him on the back of his head several times.

"You jerk! Stop being mean to Hermione! It's not her fault that she's good at these subjects!" I snapped

"Harry! Control your sister!" He yelled as I smack him hard.

"I'm not getting near her! She's your problem." Harry said

"Ellie?"Lucas said seeing me in the hallway as I was so mad at Ron that I stormed off.

"You all are a bunch of idiots!"I yelled out.

"Uh-oh...what did you guys do?"Lucas asked quietly to The two boys. In which they just shrugged.

By next class I still couldn't find her. "Ugh where is she?" I was really worried about her. I noticed lavender talking to pavarti.

"Hey Lavender, do you know where Hermione is?" I asked she thought about it for a moment

"Oh I saw her in the girls bathroom. She might still be there." I nodded

"Thanks Lavender!" I said

I ran as fast as I could to the first floor bathroom and checked every stall. I heard a loud cry filled with sobs.

"Hermione, Hermione it's me. Please open up." I begged walking over to the third stall in.

"Go away." I heard her say

"No. I won't leave you. Don't listen to what Ron said he's being an idiot. You should know that some boys are idiots." There were a few sniffles but the door wouldn't budge. "I'm not leaving this bathroom until you get out of there." I warn crossing my arms and sitting on the floor.

"Just go away." She said in a small whisper, I could barely hear.

"No way, I'm not leaving one of my friend alone when she needs someone." I said

" There was a small gasp "Y-You think I'm your friend?" I smile and stand up staring at the wooden door.

"You bet I do! I couldn't have picked a better friend." I smile brightly staring at the door there was a small shuffle before the door opened slightly. I saw a puffy eyed girl with tear stains coating her pretty face. "You're sweet, incredibly smart, and helpful." She opens the door and hugs me tightly crying into my shoulder.

"Don't let those two stupid boys be the reason you cry if they make you cry I'll hex them into next week." She smiled softly

"Thanks Ellie." I nodded "Now come on you missed class but You can borrow my notes." She smiled softly.

I turn to the exit and my eyes widen in fear, my body locked up as I stare up at the gigantic troll. Hermione just finished wiping her eyes when she caught on. Her eyes became wide as she let out a loud petrified scream. It startled me causing me to join in.

Harry's p.o.v a few minutes earlier

"Have any of you guys seen my sister?" I asked at dinner. My sister...is still feels a bit weird saying that out loud but it felt nice.

"I don't know," Ron said shoving a piece of pumpkin pie in his mouth. "But she's missing an amazing Halloween feast."

"I heard that she was in the bathroom with hermione." Neville said as he sat down a little ways from us. "She's been in there all day, been crying I heard and Ellie is trying to get her out of there."

I looked directly at Ron.

"What?" he said as food fell out of his mouth. "Oh, she'll get over it."

Suddenly, the doors to the Great Hall burst open.

"TROLL!" Professor Quirrell yelled. "IN THE DUNGEONS!"

Everyone was silent, including the teachers, just staring at the man in the purple turban.

"Just thought you should know," he said and collapsed to the floor.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" several people screamed and the room went into total chaos.

"SILENCE" Professor Dumbledore yelled over the crowd, when everyone went silent, he started talking again.

"Prefects, please take your houses to your dormitories in an orderly fashion," he instructed. "Please avoid the dungeons while we get the troll out and please stay calm and stick together."

"Gryffindors!" Percy Weasley yelled and I heard several different prefects calling to their houses.

Everyone scrambled towards Percy and got out of the Great Hall, which took a while because of all the people.

"WAIT!" I said pulling Ron off to the side.

"They said to go to the common room!" Ron said.

"What about Hermione and my sister! They don't know about the troll." I said.

We ran through the crowd and through the hallways to where the bathrooms were.

"Stop!" I said

Ahead of us was the troll. It was huge and ugly and was holding a large club in it's hands. It was walking right for the girls bathroom.

"What do we do?" Ron asked.

Once the troll had gotten into the bathroom, we ran into the room. Right when we got in there, we heard a big smash and a few screams. The troll had smashed the bathroom stalls. Hermione and Ellie were crawling from underneath some debris in attempting to escape.

"Hermione! Ellie!" I yelled.

Their heads shot up for a moment, then they scrambled to stand up to run away from the attacker.

The troll swung his club again and Hermione dropped to the floor to dodge it. While Ellie manage to sprint towards my side.

"DO SOMETHING!" Hermione screamed as she ran further away from the troll.

The troll went to swing his club again, but I stopped it when me and Ellie both ran at it. We jumped onto its shoulders and it began to swing around to try to hit us.

"RON! DO SOMETHING!" I yelled.

"What?" he asked.

"ANYTHING!" Ellie yelled.

Ron pulled out his wand and pointed it at the troll.

"Wingardium Leviosa," he said waving his wand.

Suddenly, the club that the troll was holding flew up into the air. The creature stopped moving and looked around with a dumb expression on its face.

Then, when Ron lowered his wand, the club smashed right into the troll's face. The monster then began to fall to the ground and I jumped off of it. While my sister did the same.

Hermione screamed from underneath the sink, where she'd been hiding, when the troll landed feet away from her.

After a minute or so of just staring at the troll, Hermione stood up.

"Is it...dead?" she asked.

"I don't think so," I said.

"Oh..." she said. "Thanks by the way."

Then we all heard a crowd of people coming into the bathroom. It was Dumbledore, Quirrell, Snape, and McGonagall.

"What-" McGonagall started and then stared at the fallen troll.

"What happened?" Dumbledore asked.

"Hermione and Ellie were attacked by the troll and we came to help." Ron said.

"And why was Miss Granger and Miss potter in here?" McGonagall asked. "They should've have been in the common room."

Ellie's p.o.v

"I went looking for the troll because I...I thought I could deal with it on my own, you know because I've read all about them." Hermione said

"And I followed her because I was worried about her."I chimed in.

"If they hadn't found us...we'd be dead now." Hermione said

"I see..." McGonagall said. "Everyone get out of here, we need to get rid of this troll..."

I looked over at Snape, who I noticed had a large wound on his right leg that was bleeding. When he saw me looking at it, he quickly covered it. I started to leave only to have Professor Snape stop me.

"Professor Snape?" I look up at him and saw the look in his eyes.

"Come with me, I must speak to you in private." I nodded and follow him outside the bathroom, I was expecting a lecture. I kept my head down awaiting my punishment or that he'll tell my dad about what had happened.

"Not many students would put their life on the line against a Mountain Troll." I bite my lip staring at my feet. "Let alone putting their life on the line to protect a fellow student." I look up and saw a something in his eyes it was the same as when we first met.

"You are so much like her." I heard him mumble.

'I wonder who's he talking about?' I thought

"Go off to your dormitory and eat." I nod and run off to Gryffindor Tower.

"What happened to you?" Harry asked as I sat in a chair and grab some food.

"Snape."I said and the others just nodded thinking that he was lecturing me. But I couldn't help but wonder why he acted a bit different around me and why he was mumbling about.

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