Chapter 24

"You going to be taught a lesson, Potter! You made my sister go to the snake house and for that you will pay!" cried Ronald Weasley as he shot a red spell at Harry but the boy easily deflected it.

"Go away or you might not like the outcome," Harry warned his opponent but the red head ignored him and the four Gryffindors were firing spells at him. Now, as he was fighting not one but four Gryffindors, Harry had some difficulty but he still had an upper hand, albeit smaller one than before.

Minerva looked at the lions and joined the fight. However, she was the least experienced in the group and her spells seemed to be the weakest of the six students and she quickly went on defensive. "You might need to defend your new friend," teased Ron as he fired a spell at the Granger girl, who then dropped on the grass.

"You are nothing but a weak Slytherin slime," cried Ron as he tried to shoot another spell at the girl but then saw that the smile disappeared from her face and her eyes lusted for blood.

The girl stood up and sent a strong red spell, that disarmed Ron; and as he fell on the ground he was horrified at the facial expressions of the girl as it looked that she went for a kill.

Suddenly Harry dropped on the ground as his scar felt pain and the boy put his arms on top of the scar. He rarely felt real pain in the scar, granted it hurt occasionally, when his body all hurt after Quidditch training sessions but now it hurt like Hell, Harry thought. The last time he felt that pain was when he faced Voldemort.

The girl dropped on the ground as she quickly ran out of energy and looked with scared eyes as the four wizards approached her. "We will teach you a lesson, bitch!" Ron Weasley tried to hit the girl with his shoe in the face but Minerva used her last strength to quickly crawl away from him. She then crawled to Harry to help him.

"Crawl away like a cockroach, you Granger bitch. You are no better than your cousin Hermione. At least you are not a know-it-all bookworm but still you disgust me" He spit on the girl's face.

"Harry, help me please. Stand up, I cannot fight them alone!" cried the girl. Harry felt that his scar no longer hurt and took her hand as he stood up.

"Thanks" Harry stood up and then the two saw a spell flying at them. The two Slytherins fired together, and saw that more powerful spells came out of their wands.

"Harry, I think we somehow have a magical connection and can increase each other's spell power. Take my hand" Harry took the girl's hand and the two started shooting more powerful spells that soon sent all four Gryffindors flying to the wall. The two friends then released their hands from the hand lock.

"Take this!" cried Ron as he threw a small yellow object that upon the impact exploded and threw the Slytherins away. Both groups stood up and prepared their wands to continue the fight.

"What is the meaning of this?" the two groups saw Percy Weasley with a few other Gryffindor Prefects as well as their counterparts, together with Draco and Hermione.

"They started," cried Harry to Percy, who first looked at the Boy Who Lived and then at his brother. He then took his wand out and pointed his wand at Potter, as he did not believe the Slytherin. Nobody remembered who fired the next spell as the next thing they knew was that a group of Gryffindors was dueling the Slytherin one and the sky got surprisingly red at nighttime. Harry was now dodging the flying rocks that were sent by Percy to put him down from the fight.

Harry slipped on the mud and fell. One large rock was flying at him but then he saw that a rocky wall got constructed and it engulfed the rock before blowing up. "Hermione" cried Harry as he jumped and hugged his friend.

"Good to see you Harry, now lets kick their ass" said Draco, who sat beside the couple and the group then rejoined the fight.

The fight lasted for another our and both groups were getting exhausted. At some point during the fight, they saw that all their wands dropped on the ground with a chilling wind and as they looked at the source, they saw the old Headmaster, who looked disappointed.

"Could someone care to explain to me what is going on here?" asked the Headmaster. Both groups started shouting and telling their story.

"Quiet down, I will ask you one at a time" Every student then told what had occurred and the Headmaster thought about their stories.

"Well, then, both of your houses will receive the deduction of thirty points. Now, off you go to your dormitories" the group broke out and Harry joined his friends while they walked to their common room. After they returned to the Slytherin common room, they sat on the armchairs and started talking.

"What happened Harry, we were all worried," cried Hermione and Harry saw that she had tears on her eyes. She then hugged him.

"Well, I was talking to Minnie here and we were attacked by Ron and his gang. Fortunately, they could not hurt us much" Harry replied

"Harry also talked to a snake," replied Minerva Granger with a smirk. Draco opened his mouth and dropped the glass of water he was holding.

"That means" Hermione said " that means you are a parselmouth!" Hermione looked rather horrified at the thought. However, the next thing she saw made her scream as a green snake climbed from Minerva's cloak and coiled on the carpet.

"Don't worry cousin, Poisy will not hurt you!" the girl tried to calm her cousin as she stood up and went to pet her snake.

"Poisy? Minerva, how do you know that?"

"Well, he is poisonous, so yes! He told me, this little snakey that he is not dangerous" told the younger girl as she hugged the snake. The group looked at them in surprise.

"Hermione, I almost forgot, this Poisy, the boomslang came to warn me about the danger this year and that some evil monster will try to kill the muggleborns" The group sat in silence as the day made them extremely tired and as they tried to digest all the new information they received, the group of five Slytherins fell asleep on the armchairs in the common room.