Chapter 12

"Welcome to your first Flying Lesson. Now I want all of you to move the left side of your brooms" Madam Hooch. Everyone quickly did so for they were all scared of Madam Hooch. Harry did find her intimidating at all.

"Now, place your right hand over the broom and say 'up'" she said.

Harry's hand hovered over the broom and then he said "Up". The broom shot up towards his hand. It took everyone else a longer time to do so. Madam Hooch was particularly impressed with Harry's quick succession.

"Now on my whistle I want everybody to mount their broom, kick themselves off from the ground, lean forward slightly, hover for a moment, and then touch back down. Now on my whistle, 3, 2," she blew the whistle at the one. However Neville couldn't control his broom and ended up soaring higher than everyone else.

His broom was running amok, it was flying in different directions and the worst part is Neville didn't know how to control it. Harry quickly mounted his broom and chased after Neville before something serious happened. Harry didn't understand how he was flying so well, it seemed natural to him. That didn't matter he had to save Neville.

Neville seemed like he gained some control of his broom but he was heading towards one of the Hogwarts towers at full speed. Harry wasn't far from him and started leaning forwards to gain some speed. He had overtaken Neville but kept going a little further once Harry got close to the tower he quickly changed his direction in mid-air and started heading full speed towards Neville. Neville knew Harry's plan and stuck out his left hand. Harry was getting closer to Neville by the second.

When Harry got close enough he swiftly grabbed Neville's outstretched hand and put him on his own broom. Neville immediately grabbed Harry's waist.

"Wait, where is my remembrall?" He said.

Harry saw it falling in mid-air and dove with his broom to get it.

"Hang on tightly Neville" Harry said.

He was come closer to both the Remembrall and the ground. Again he leaned forward to gain some speed. He did to things in one step, first he caught the remembrall then he quickly pulled his broom up and flew straight towards their class areas.

Harry saw group of students in the black Hogwarts robe and started slowly descending down towards it. As soon as Harry touched back to the ground everyone started running towards him.

"Alright there, Neville" Harry asked.

"Yeah, thanks for saving me" He said.

"No problem" Harry responded before the both of them dismounted the broom and were flooded by their classmates who either checked up on Neville or were admiring Harry, especially the girl population. However all of that stopped when a voice called "Harry Potter".

Harry turned to see Professor McGonagall with less than impressed look on her face. "Follow me" she said before turning into the castle, Harry had followed her in to the castle.

The both of them had been walking for a while. Harry however recognized this corridor from his Defense Against the Dark Arts class. His curiosity as to what Professor McGonagall really wanted with him grew. Before stopping at a classroom she turned around and said to Harry "Now you wait here."

Harry did so and saw that she was calling someone from the class. She came back with an older student, who was in Gryffindor as well from the emblem on his robes.

"Harry Potter, this is Oliver Wood" she said. Harry shook Oliver's hand, once they did so McGonagall began to speak again "Wood, I have found you a new Seeker."

Harry's heart skipped a beat.

"That brilliant Harry" Ron said "You should be thankful, first years usually never make the house team"

"I know, I guess my little stint with Neville paid off after all" Harry said.

"Yeah that's true but from what I've heard the poor boy is never going to fly again" Ron said.

Harry gave a confused look and asked "Why's that?"

"Well he now has a fear of flying on broomsticks" Ron said trying to suppress a laugh. Harry was trying to do the same thing but they both couldn't do so and ended up laughing anyways.

"That really does suck for him though" Harry said.

"Yeah, come one we should go for dinner. I'm famished" Ron said. The both of them headed of to dinner with their fellow Gryffindors who had heard the news of Harry making the Gryffindor Quidditch team as their seeker.

However there was still no sign of Hermione anywhere. Something had to be up. He saw one of the girls that Hermione hung out with and asked "Hey, do any of you know where Hermione is?"

"Someone had said something mean about her" a dark skinned girl said "Last I saw she was in the girl's bathroom crying her eyes out"

Harry turned to Ron who just shrugged at the news. Suddenly Professor Quirrell came running through the Great Hall doors screaming "TROLL IN THE DUNGEONS! TROLL IN THE DUNGEONS!" he then stopped running and talking for a moment and then said "I though you ought to know" and then fainted to the ground.

Everyone was screaming and panicking. Soon enough they were about to run for their lives when someone yelled "SILENCE!"

Everyone turned to see Professor Dumbledore saying something "All prefects lead their houses to their dormitories. All teachers will accompany me to the Dungeons."

Harry and Ron followed their nearest Gryffindor prefect. "I don't understand how could the troll come into the castle?" Ron asked "They usually lived high in mountainous areas"

"Well this one clearly strayed from the pack" Harry said.

"Yeah well good thing it's just in the dungeons it will at least destroy the Potions class" Ron said.

"Wait a minute. RON!" Harry yelled

"What?" he said back.

"Hermione doesn't know about the troll" Harry said.

"Oh, dear" Ron said.

"You tell your brother and I'll go and find her" Harry said before running off in the opposite direction. He pulled out the Marauder's Map from within his robe pockets and looked for Hermione's name. She was in the bathroom on the same floor "Mischief managed" he said and then placed the Marauder's Map back into his pocket.

He reached the corridor that girls bathroom was supposed to be in but what he saw shocked him. A 20 foot giant troll was heading towards where the girl's bathroom was supposed to be.

"Oh no" Harry said before sprinting to the girls bathroom

Hermione heard someone open the door. She didn't want to be bothered with so she yelled from her stall "Go away". When she didn't get an answer she assumed that whoever it was didn't know her but she saw a huge shadow from her bathroom stall. The person was standing in front of her stall.

"GO AWAY" she yelled again but the person didn't move. This time she decided to meet the person face to face so she unlocked her stall and opened the door.

"Didn't I tell you to-" she said before she saw a 20 foot green monster that stood before her. Hermione didn't know what to do so she ran back into her stall and locked the door hoping by some chance that the monster didn't see her.

Some instinct told her to duct. She thanked that instinct because the monster had swung at her stall and destroyed it. She was covered by layers of broken wood. Suddenly someone had busted through the door. Hermione moved some pieces of wood and looked for her savior. She saw that same boy as always "Harry?"

"Hermione move!" He yelled.

The monster's movement caught her eye he was aiming this blow towards her. Harry had to act quickly; he took his wand out and yelled "PROTEGO!"

The club hit a force field that was surrounding Hermione. She was preoccupied with covering her head to notice it.

"Hermione get out of there!" Harry yelled once more. She uncovered her head and saw that the troll was trying to hit her but was blocked by some force field. She saw Harry and tried to run towards him but she tripped on a piece of wood. She saw the monster's shadow turn towards her once more and again she covered her head.

"FLIPENDO" Harry yelled and a blue spell struck the troll and had pushed it back a little bit. Harry ran towards Hermione helped her up.

"Harry watch out!" she screamed and buried her head in his arms. However Harry quickly reacted by pointing his wand and saying "EXPULSO!"

This caused the troll to fly back towards the far wall and fell to the ground, breaking a couple of stalls and a sink with it. Hermione lifted her head from Harry's arms to see the fallen troll.

Harry was panting heavily clearly it was an exhausting experience for him. He turned to Hermione who was still clutching his arm and asked "Are you alright?"

She nodded her head but Harry didn't believe her until she said "Is it dead?" letting go of his arm.

Harry walked towards it and saw that it was still breathing "I don't think its dead. Just knocked out" he said to her. He put his wand back in his robe pocket and then said "Come on, we'll be in trouble if someone catches us here."

Hermione nodded and was about to leave but however she saw that something was wrong with Harry. Harry's hand began trembling for some reason. He didn't understand why this was happening. Soon enough his hand stopped but he lost all feeling in his hand. Then he lost feeling in his legs and fell to the floor. Soon enough he couldn't move any part of his body, he was paralyzed. Hermione came rushing towards him when he fell down.

"Are you alright?" She asked almost yelling.

"I can't feel my body" Harry said.

Soon enough the paralysis was gone but what came next was worse. Searing pain in his scar, Harry clutched it and began screaming in agony.

"AHHHHHHHH" he screamed still clutching his scar.

He wanted it to end in some way, he though he was deaf because Hermione mouthed something and he couldn't hear it. He felt a warm liquid on his hand. He couldn't see what it was since he was too busy clutching it with both his hands. However he did notice something dripping from his head. It had a crimson red colour. Harry was bleeding somewhere.

Soon enough the pain intensified it not only burned his scar but sent an electrical pain throughout his nerves which caused Harry to shake uncontrollably on the ground. Harry was blacking out he could see the blackness creeping in. The image he saw was a tearful Hermione mouthing something. However the thing he heard was another woman, not Hermione, screaming "HARRY!" before blacking out completely.

AN: This is perhaps the longest chapter in the entire book. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Just to let you know I will re-edit these once I finish the series. As always Rate and Review.