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We were all in the library one day and I was happily reading Hogwarts a history, when Hermione thumped a huge book on to the table, causing us all to look up. She made a noise like she wanted to kick herself "I can't believe I didn't notice it sooner!, I took this book out weeks ago for a bit of light reading!" he almost screamed
"this?" asked ron "is light?" I shot him a warning look before Hermione glared at him
"Nickolas Flemal is the only Known maker of the Philosophers stone!" she read out
"the what?" the two boys asked
"Oh honestly don't you two ever read?" I asked them with a quick roll of the eyes
"The philosophers stone is a legendary substance with astonishing powers. It can transform any metal into pure gold and produces the illicsiure of life that will make any drinker immortal" I carried on from where Hermione left off
"Immortal?" ron said
"it means you'll never die" said Hermione
"I know what it means!" snapped Ron but harry and I shushed him and he fell silent.
"the only stone currently in existence belongs to Mr Nickolas Flemal who last year celebrated his 665th birthday" I finished
"that's what fluffy's guarding, that's whats under the trapped door" said Hermione in triumph.
That night we all ran to Hagrid's hut on the edge of the forbidden forest and knocked on the door. When he opened the door harry was about to explain what we had found out to Hagrid when the half-giant said "sorry no wish to be rude but I'm in no state to entertain to day sorry!" he shut the door but we all said together "we know about the philosophers stone!".
He opened the door again and said "Oh", he let us in to his huge hut and we sat down at the table. "we think Snapes trying to steel it" said harry as he sat down
"Blimey harry your not still on about him are ya!" he exclaimed
"But hagrid!, we know he's after the stone we just don't know why!" he answered
"Snapes one of the teachers protecting the stone!" he chuckled but I gave a confused look his way, the thought of snape wanting to protect anything was odd in my opinion."He's not out to steel it!, not if yer don't mind I'm a bit preoccupied today!"
"Hang on" I said "One of the teachers?" I asked
"Of course!" said Hermione "there are other things defending the stone as well isn't there!. Spells, enchantments!"
"That's right, waste of bloody time if you ask me!" said Hagrid, me and Hermione pulled a face when we saw fang liking Ron, I giggled because of the slobber coming off his mouth. "'aint no one gonna get past fluffy" chuckled Hagrid "'aint a soul knows how, except for me and Dumbledore!" he chuckled for a minute then said "I shouldn't have told you that, no I shouldn't have". Suddenly there was a crackling noise coming from the little cauldron behind us Hagrid put some oven gloves on and pulled what looked like an egg out of it then quickly put the Maroon-ish oval on to the table. "Hagrid" harry said "em what exactly is that?" he asked
"I know what that is!" exclaimed Ron "but Hagrid" he asked "how'd you get one?".
"I won it!" he answered "Off a stranger I met down the pub. Seemed quite glad to be rid of it a matter of fact" I started to get nervous when it started to shake, but I stayed sat down with Hermione while the boys started to get off their chairs. It did in fact, explode in a way with bits of shell flying left, right and center revealing greenish wings and tinny claws 'no!' I thought 'It can't be?'
"Is that a dragon?" Hermione asked slowly confirming my thoughts
"that's not just a dragon!, that a Norwegian Ridgeback! My brother Charlie works with these in Romania"
"Well look at that he knows his mummy!" said Hagrid stroking the dragons chin. "Hello Norbert". I laughed when it coughed out fire "aw!" I exclaimed "he's adorable" I smiled at the baby dragon but, just then I saw Malfoy looking into the window and so did the others "Malfoy" harry gritted through his teeth
Eventually we got detention thanks to Malfoy but I laughed at his face when he found that he had one too. It couldn't be that bad though we were just going with Hagrid in the dark forest, when we got there Hagrid looked less then happy "whats wrong?" I asked him
"Not still on about that bloody Dragon are you!" exclaimed filch, ah I thought so Norbert was sent back to Romania. "but he'll be happier there wont he?" Hermione piped in "He'll be with his own kind" I nodded in agreement
"yeah but what if he don't like Romania?" Hagrid said on the verge of tears. Filch rolled his eyes at our big friend obviously not having the slightest bit of sympathy for him what so ever, "pull your self together man!" he snapped meanly "we're going into the forest for god sake " I wanted to retort so badly but harry gave me a look to tell me that now was not the time. Eventually we got split up me with Hagrid, Ron and Hermione and harry with fang and Malfoy "enjoy your little quality time together boys" I giggled as we walked in different directions, I could practically feel harry glare at me. We wandered about the forest for a bit... well they did I was kind of lagging behind as I was certain there was something watching us, something hidden safely behind the darkness of the trees. something didn't feel right. "Hagrid I think we should find harry, I think somethings wrong" I told them making them stop
"what do you mean?" Hermione asked looked at me worriedly
"I think he is in trouble" I told them. Hagrid agreed it was time to search for the others and we found Harry and Malfoy (well Malfoy cowering behind a tree like an idiot) talking to a centaur "Harry!" I shouted as he came into view
"alright there friend" Hagrid said bravely. the centaur said something to harry then trotted off into the dark, I ran up to harrys side and watched the creature ride off with him before turning to him. "are you okay?" I asked him and he turned to me
"it was Voldemort" I looked at him shocked but didn't say anything, he would tell us when we got to the castle.
The next day was our end of year exams; "I found them quite enjoyable" piped Hermione
"speak for yourself" said Ron, I rolled my eyes at his pessimistic attitude
"Honesty Ron they were only exams" I told him "besides, I quite agree with Hermione I thought they'd be harder" I noticed harry had his hand on his scar
"you alright there mate?" asked Ron
"Its my scar, it keeps burning" he hissed in pain
"Its happened before" said Hermione, she looked at harry with concern, so did I.
"Not like this," He replied, his hand still on his forehead. "I think it's a warning. Like dangers coming"
"Maybe you should see the nurse?" I asked him. He shook his head and stopped walking when he saw Hagrid "don't you thinks it's a bit odd, that all Hagrid wants more than anything is a dragon, and then a stranger turns up and happens to have one?" he said walking faster making us jog to catch up with him, "why didn't I see it before!" he finished and ran to Hagrid, the three of us following.
"Hagrid!, Hagrid who gave you the dragon egg?, what did he look like?" harry asked "you and he must have talked!"
"well he wanted to know what sort of creatures I looked after. I told him after fluffy, a dragon's gonna be no problem"
"did he asked about fluffy?" I asked him putting the pieces of harry's puzzle together in my head
"Well of course he did!, how often do 'ya come across a three headed dog?" asked Hagrid "I told him, I said : 'the trick is to know how to calm it, take fluffy for example just play a bit of music and he goes straight to sleep!" he smiled,straight away he realized he shouldn't have told us that I smiled at him. mischievously "I shouldn't have told you that!" he breathed. "Wait,wait!" he called but we didn't listen, and we ran off to Professor McGonagel.
"We have to speak to Professor Dumbledore!" Harry said quickly Mcgonagel looked shocked at his rudeness I elbowed him in the ribs for being so blunt.
"I'm sorry but the headmaster is absent at this moment in time" she said sternly I sighed,
"what he means to say professor" harry cut me off by saying
"its about the philosophers stone!" I mentally face palmed and by the looks of it the others did too, oh harry you can be an idiot at times! Mcgonagel looked positively outraged "I don't know how you or your friends came to know about the stone mr potter, but it is certainly nothing of your concern" she said shortly.
"we need to get through the trap door" said harry quietly "tonight" I sighed at harry's eagerness
"Harry it could be too dangerous" I tried to reason with him but it was a lost cause he was never going to listen, so after a few minutes of arguing I gave up "fine but if we die I am holding you fully responsible!" I said before walking to my next lesson.
That night, we were all dressed and ready when we saw Trevor in the common room "Trevor go you shouldn't be here!" hissed Ron
"neither should you" we all jumped when Neville ascended from the chair "your sneaking out again aren't you!"
"no Neville listen!" began harry
"No I Won't let you!, you get Gryffindor into trouble again!" he stammered "I… I'll fight you!" me and Hermione looked to one and other before nodding
"Neville we're really really sorry about this" I said
"Potrificus totalus!" said Hermione and Neville dropped unconscious on the spot
"Your scary sometimes, both of you are brilliant!, but scary" stammered Ron I smiled at Ron and patted his head "yes we are" then walked off after harry all of us saying sorry to the boy on the floor as we walked past "its for your own good mate" said Ron and then walked out with the others.
We walked down corridors under the cloak until we came to the correct door. When we walked in the harp was playing peaceful music in the corner "wait a minute " ron said
"is he?" I began as the cloak blew off
"Snoring" me and harry finished.
"Ugh!" Ron squealed "he's got horrible breath!" I sniggered as we carried on walking forward gingerly until we came to its paw, again carefully we pushed it paw away from the trapped door and opened the hatch. "I'll go first, don't follow until I give you the sign, if something bad happens, get yourselves out" he said sternly, we all nodded.
"hasn't it gone a bit" he said
"Quite" I finished for him, "The harp" I said "It's stopped playing" just then a slime like substance fell on Ron's shoulder "ugh!" he shouted "yuck!" then, we all looked up to see fluffy standing over us, "JUMP!" screamed harry we all jumped in one by one and fell on what looked like plant roots.
"Wow lucky this plant things here really!" sighed Ron slowly it started to wrap its slimy roots around us I began to get greatly confused "what happening?" Ron asked as we began to struggle, we struggled in vain as the more we moved the tighter it wrapped round us "stop struggling all f you, its devils snare" Hermione said "if you struggle it will only kill you faster" I looked at her with wide eyes and gave her a look as if to say 'that isnt helping!'. Suddenly Hermione sunk beneath the roots and vines "Hermione!" we all shouted
"now what are we going to do!" harry exclaimed next to me.
"Just relax trust me!" Hermione called from below us me and harry looked at each other and nodded, we relaxed and stop struggling and began to feel ourselves selves slowly slip under the roots and on to the hard concrete floor. "are you okay?" harry asked me as he helped me up I nodded and smiled still a bit too freaked out to speak "he's not relaxing is he?" Hermione I rolled my eyes well no!
"isn't there a spell to help him!" I said after hearing Ron scream for to long I know I was good with spells but Hermione is the one with the big brain! "urgh I'm trying to remember!" Hermione went through the rhyme she had learnt "but they sulk in the sun that's it!" me and harry looked to each other then back to Hermione "what?" we said together
"Devils snare hates sun light!" she said triumphantly then said the spell to get Ron down
"Lucky we didn't panic!" Ron said. me and harry rolled our eyes
"Lucky Hermione listens in herbology"
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