Chapter 34

Harry continued from where he had left off that morning with explaining about how he got the Invisibility Cloak for Christmas First year, and how they learned what Fluffy was guarding and that Hagrid was the one who let slip about Nicolas Flamel.

"We were busy searching for information about Flamel when we got a note from Hagrid saying his dragon egg was hatching," said Harry.

"Dragon egg?" said James in shock. Lily looked at him with a confused face.

"What's so surprising about that?" she asked.

"Oh, just that keeping a live dragon egg when you aren't living on a dragon reserve, hatching it – in a wooden hut, I might add – and so on is illegal since 1709 by the Warlock's Convention. There's a reason we have dragon reserves peppered about the country," said Sirius speaking for James.

"Oh," said Lily.

"You know sometimes, Lils, you may be a pretty smart biscuit, but you've had lots of issues remembering certain laws of the wizarding world," added Sirius with a sarcastic grin. She reached over and slapped his arm and said, "What surprises me more is that you knew that." Everyone laughed and then James asked that they continue the story so Hermione picked up where Harry had left off.

"Well, we went down after Herbology and was there when Norbert was hatched." Sirius and James snickered at the name Hagrid had chosen. "But what we didn't count on was Malfoy following us and seeing the dragon on Hagrid's table. We didn't know why he wasn't saying anything over the next couple weeks, but finally we talked Hagrid into sending a letter to Ron's brother Charlie, who lives on a Dragon Reserve in Romania. He sent back that a couple of his friends could come pick up the dragon at midnight on top of the Astronomy Tower. Unfortunately, Malfoy found out about that too, so we had to use the Cloak to cover two of us and the crate with Norbert inside all the way from Hagrid's hut to the tower. Ron had been bitten, so he couldn't go with us, as he was in the hospital wing.

"We got Norbert to the top of the tower, we even got to see Malfoy get caught for being out of bounds by Mc-Minerva." The four teens looked over and saw Minerva beaming.

"You know, I never really believed it was a dragon. I really did think you told a tall tale to Mister Malfoy and poor Neville heard. Never did I truly think any of you were telling the truth. Now that I know you were, I find this hilarious. Never had we had a group of children be so…adamant about breaking the rules. Besides, the twins, and the Marauders at least," she said. Ron and Ginny grinned, as did Sirius and James. Hermione looked abashed at being grouped with the two biggest groups of troublemakers in the history if the school.

"Well, anyways, we sent off Norbert and headed back down to our common room, but halfway there, we got caught by Filch. Apparently, we forgot the Cloak on top of the tower in our excitement of Malfoy getting in trouble and seeing the back of the dragon for good. We both got detention with Hagrid in the forest, along with Malfoy and Neville Longbottom, who got caught trying to warn us Malfoy was going to tell." Harry stopped and looked at Hermione. So far they had avoided saying the person who was helping Voldemort was Quirrell, they had also tried to avoid saying that suspected Snape all year. They wanted to leave it as a surprise for the end of story.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione all shared the story telling of the rest of the detention, and leading up to the day they went down the trap door.

"We figured out that Hagrid had told someone in the pub when he got the dragon egg how to make Fluffy fall a sleep and then the same day Dumbledore was 'called' to the ministry. I realized that Qu…er, someone was going to go down for the stone that night, so we decided to go after him."

"Did you know who it was?" asked Lily. Harry looked at the others before answering.

"Well, we thought it was Snape, but we were wrong. Remember I told you the list of people who all safe guarded the stone with their own enchantments? Minerva, Flitwick, Snape, Hagrid, Quirrell, Sprout and I believe Dumbledore placed one of his own too. Well, Fluffy was Hagrid's obstacle. The next one was Sprout's. She placed Devil's Snare at the bottom of the hole we had to drop into, so that we'd land on the plant. Hermione created bluebell fire and we escaped that one easily.

"The next one was Flitwick's. He enchanted several dozen keys to have wings and fly. There was a big door and a few brooms so we had to fly around and find the right key to the door out of hundreds of keys. Finally, I spotted one with bent wing, and we caught it and opened the door." Ron continued the next part.

"Mc…Minerva's challenge was next. It was a giant chess board. I'm pretty good at chess," he said modestly. Harry chuckled.

"Pretty good? Try a master. I've never been able to beat you!" he said. Ron blushed and continued.

"Well, long story short, I had to sacrifice myself as a Knight for Harry to go on and checkmate the King and go on through the next door." Harry smiled.

"The next door was Quirrell's which was a giant Troll. Thankfully it was already knocked out, and we just had to walk around it to the next door. Which opened up into a small chamber with a small table in the center. As soon as we walked passed the door, flames shot up in both doorways. The flames to go forward were black and to go back into the troll room were purple flames. On the table was…seven bottles, each had something in it, and a piece of paper on the table had a riddle." Hermione took off with the rest of this part of the story.

"Basically, it was not so much magic as it was Logic. Not many wizards or witches can counter Logic, so this was meant to be particularly difficult. Basically, it aid that there were seven bottles, three were poison, two were nettle wine, one would take you through the black flames, and one would let you go back to the Troll room. You just had to figure out which bottle was which. I figured out which bottle would help Harry got forward, but it only had enough for one gulp, so he took that while I took the other one. I went back and revived Ron, and together we went back and we were going to send a letter to Dumbledore. Although I don't know why we wouldn't have just gone to get another teacher, I don't know why sending a letter sounded like the right thing to do, but halfway to the owlery, Dumbledore showed up and knew that Harry had gone after him. He ran down to the third floor, faster than anyone I had ever seen."

"By that time I had taken the potion to get through the other door and had walked through to find Professor Quirrell looking in the Mirror of Erised."

"Erised?" asked Lily.

"Yeah, it's a giant mirror that when you look into it, you see your greatest desire…Erised is desire backwards. It had an inscription on the top that when it was read backwards was something like, I don't show your face, I show your hearts desire, or something like that. I don't have a photographic memory like Hermione here." He ginned at her. "But he was looking in the mirror, which was the final obstacle, Dumbledore's. He said it was one if his more ingenious ideas. The person who looked into it, had to want to find the stone, but not use it or do something with it. Quirrell wanted to give it to Voldemort, so he couldn't get it, but when he had me look into it, I found it in my pocket a moment later. Voldemort, who was possessing Quirrell, told him to kill me and when he touched me it burned him. I figured this out, so I reached up and grabbed his face and held on till I passed out. The next day I found out Quirrell was dead and Voldemort gone. The stone was going to be destroyed and Flamel and his wife would finally die."

He looked at the Pensive and pulled his wand out and started putting memories into the bowl. Hermione added the one of Snape's bottles and fire doors and leaving Harry to go get Ron.

"I guess we can all go in and watch it, it shouldn't take more than about an hour."

A/n: So! I got a review, which is what i wanted! All i really wanted was one review so that i could post again. As long as the last chapter has one review i'm good, i don't like seeing on my stats that a chapter doesn't have a review...okay, i'm really tired! I must sleep! Let me know, good with the memories, or should i just stop now? Please Review!