'Dear Team RWBY.
After seeing your fight against Team ABRN, I had to go back to Hogwarts with Ginny, Dora and Hermione. Having seen you all fight, taught me and and my friends so much. It clearly told me that I still have a long way to go, before I'm even on the level that you are.
Soon the school tests will begin, and I am not nervous for those. Hermione on the other hand is. She's constantly trying to get us to study. Poor girl. She clearly lost it.
On other news. Attached are two files that show some 'questionable' behavior of your 'friend' Emerald Sustrai. One is a photo of her, and second is a short clip of her voice. You might want to keep your money safer, than a back pocket. Yes, I'm talking about you, Ruby... Just watch her and see what I think she is.
Finally, have you figured out a plan for the summer holidays? If not, I've asked and got permission from my dad (Your headmaster) to use our summer home for a few weeks with friends. So I thought that you might want to start the holidays with a week relaxing at the beach, near our beach house. Aunt Glynda, our beach house neighbor, agreed with Ginny to allow some of her friends to come over to. So we (Ginny and I) were thinking about Hermione, Dora and Teams RWBY, JNPR and CFVY.
Think about it, and we hope to see you after our tests are done.
Good luck in the tournament, from Ginny, Harry, Dora and Hermione. (Team GOTH)'
Harry had sent that message several weeks ago, and began to get worried. Team RWBY hadn't responded, and neither did teams JNPR and CFVY. Looking at his scroll for the last time, Harry placed it in his pocket, before he moved towards the classroom where he would sit the final test. History of magic wasn't Harry's greatest strength, but he was confident that he would get a passing grade, as was Ginny. But as he stepped inside the classroom, Harry saw Hermione moving around, slowly wearing a hole in the wooden floor.
"Hermione. Calm down" Harry said as he stood in front of the pacing girl.
"Harry, I can't do this. I need to study more. I need to do the best I can"
Harry grabbed Hermione's wrist before she could get her book out of the bag and sat her down on her chair.
"Listen Hermione. There is no other way to say this" Harry said as he sat on Hermione's table, forcing the terrified girl to look at him.
"You are ready to do this test. You have studied the entire time, as well as made several important notes. If you don't believe this, then fail the test for all I care. You know that you can do it, so just make the test and be done with it." Harry moved from Hermione's desk and sat on his own, a few seats away from Hermione's.
Looking at the professor who passed the tests out, Hermione took a few breaths to calm her down, and started to answer the questions.
"It wasn't that hard" Said Harry as he walked out of the classroom, his book-bag on his shoulder and Hermione's in his hand, as both Dora and Ginny pulled the bushy haired Faunus from the classroom where they had their history test. Hermione might have been the one who was done the first, but she stayed behind until everyone had finished, trying to write more that was necessary. "HARRY. TEL THEM TO LET ME GO" Hermione shouted as she was dragged through Hogwarts and towards the great lake.
"No." Harry said in a normal voice, as he looked at the struggling girl in between the the other two.
"This is a lesson for you, Hermione. It's time for you to learn how to relax" Said Ginny as she was having a great time pulling Hermione through Hogwarts.
They came soon to a tree, where Harry and Dora placed a blanket on the grass and then sat down with Ginny, and a reluctant Hermione.
"Now, listen to me Hermione, because it's very important." Said Harry.
"Despite what you may believe, resting is just as important, if not more so, that working. If we are not rested, then we are unable to respond to a threat from outside."
Hermione looked at Harry. "I just want to make everyone proud of my results." Hermione mumbled, as she awkwardly lay down the the blanket.
"Hermione. We are all very proud of you" said Ginny as she gently started to stroke Hermione's hair, careful not to touch her ears. "Don't worry Hermione. It will be alright" Said Dora as she looked at the great lake.
"Hey Harry. How was your detention last week?" Dora asked, as she turned to look at Harry.
Harry looked at the group of girls. "It was bad. Real bad." Harry said.
"Hagrid and I had to look in the forbidden forest for a bleeding unicorn. Something has been attacking them, and Hagrid found a trail quite soon. They have silver blood, if you can believe that" Harry said as the girls started to look at him. Standing up, Harry started to lean against the tree that they had taken shelter under.
"When Hagrid and I finally found the Unicorn, it was dead. Hagrid ordered me to stay with his big dog Fang, but the moment that Hagrid had left, a cloaked figure appeared out of the shadows and moved to the dead unicorn. It knelled down and started to drink from the wound on the unicorn. For a minute there, I stood completely still, until I decided to step away from the cloaked figure. That was when it spotted me. It's mouth, dripping with silver blood and eyes that looked like they were burning with an inner fire." Harry took a deep breath, trying to force down the fear he was feeling that night.
"The cloaked man slowly made his way over to me, and as I fell down on my back, I felt Child's-play slamming into my back. I rolled over quickly and fired a total of twenty dust bullets at that thing. It reflected several of them, but three bullets took a part of his cloak away, and scared him at his hand."
"Wow" Ginny said softly as she listened to the story.
"In the end, a centaur came to aid me and chased that thing away. It then brought me to Hagrid who had called McGonagall and Dumbledore to him. McGonagall took me with her to the dorm and put me into my bed. I fell asleep as soon as I felt the pillow."
"What kind of scars would Child's-play gave, Harry?" Dora asked as she lay on her stomach.
"That depends on the Dust I infuse the bullets with." Harry said
"Ice Dust give off a freezer-burn, that can be healed with some time and gentle care. Fire Dust is more common, as they are treated as normal burns. For electrical burns. Well, you can't heal the burns, as the electrical currents of the Dust moves through your entire body. It will give you scars that look like a lightning bolt going through your skin. Something that they call here a Lichtenberg Figure." Harry said.
Hermione shot right up. "Do you remember what the setting was of Child's-play that night, Harry?" She asked, as she looked at Harry intensely.
"Eh, not really, I kind of switched the safety off and fired." Hermione looked at Harry. "Do you remember the color of your bullets?" She asked again.
"Eh. Yellow, I think." Harry said after a few seconds of thinking. "Yeah, they were Yellow. Why?"
"Harry, I've seen such a figure on Professor Quirrell's hands during the tests that we got from him. It was like looking at tree roots, when they are pulled from the ground."
Dora looked at Hermione. "You think that it was Quirrell who drank the unicorn's blood?" She asked, her hair changing through several colors. Hermione nodded.
"But what for? The only ingredients that we use from a Unicorn is it's horn in potions and it's tail hairs for wand cores" said Ginny. "That's because Unicorn blood is cursed." said Harry as he remembered something. The three girls looked at him. "What do you mean by that?" Hermione asked. "Unicorns are pure animals, right. Filled with life and goodness. To kill a unicorn, something so pure, you have to kill an innocent creature. To kill something so pure for your own needs. It means that you have nothing left to lose. The moment that your lips touch the blood, your life is cursed." Harry explained. "But who would want to live a cursed life?" Dora spoke up.
"Voldemort" Ginny said, causing Dora and Hermione to jump up. "What? You-Know-Who?" Asked Dora, her hair turning white. "But he's dead." Hermione said. "Harry killed him that night"
"There was no body found of him." said Harry as he removed his scroll from his pocket. He opened it and started to look for something. "Harry?" Hermione asked.
"Here it is" Harry said as he showed his scroll. It showed a small film of a dark and dingy place.
"That's the leaky cauldron, where Ginny and I were taken with Doctor Oobleck by professor Sprout. Watch" Harry said as he pressed 'play'
The image stated to play, and the sound came from the scroll as it played. "I heard that the Potter boy will be coming to Hogwarts this year." A nasal voice said. "That's right. Harry Potter will be at Hogwarts this September first. A shame that his parents were killed." Said a second hoarse voice. "Yeah. I pay my respect to them each year, and it's a shame that You-Know-Who's body wasn't recovered as well. I'd like to piss on their graves once in a while for the dark lord." said the nasal voice again. "That's because You-Know-Who's body wasn't there to begin with" said a third voice, a high upper-class.
"You-Know-Who's body wasn't recovered, because there was no body?" The Nasal voice asked. "No. I still think that he is alive somewhere. Somewhere where he can rest and plan for his next conquest" Said the Upper-class voice. "What are you talking about Lucius. The dark lord is dead." the nasal voice said again. "Don't be so sure about that Crabbe. I've heard rumors that the dark lord is less than alive, but more than dead" said 'Lucius'
The file that played ended and they all looked at each other. "Well?" Harry asked.
"If Voldemort is still alive," Said Ginny, ignoring Dora and Hermione's jump "-and he is here, then he might be with Quirrell. But why?" She asked.
"The sorcerers stone" said Hermione softly. "What?" Dora said. "That's a legend"
"Not true. I found it in a book one night when I came back from the meeting with Hufflepuff house." Said Harry as he told them about the event that transpired. "But Hermione, what do you know about the Sorcerers stone?" Hermione looked down at her feet.
"It was Hagrid who took me to Diagon Alley for the first time. He told me that he was supposed to collect something from the bank for Dumbledore. He asked if I wanted to ride with him, and as we came to the door, I peaked inside. I thought that there were diamant, rubies and more gemstones than ever, but there was just this stone, that was covered in paper. He asked me not to tell anyone about it, but I heard some of the Goblins saying that the Sorcerers stone was being moved. That's why I've been searching for information about the stone. It was in Gringotts, Hagrid took it out of Gringotts and gave it to Dumbledore to keep it safe." Hermione said, still looking at her feet. She felt ashamed that she told this secret to her best friends.
"The longer we are here, the more time Quirrell has to grab that stone" Said Harry as he looked at the castle.
"I think that my dreams about it may help. It's in my journal in my dorm, where I've written it down." Looking at his friends, Harry nodded and folded the blanket up, and in his book-bag before he made his way to the Gryffindor common room, followed by his friends.
Harry and Ginny entered the common room first, followed shortly after by Dora and Hermione, who were breathing a bit heavier that Harry and Ginny.
"Wait here." Harry said as he moved upwards to his dorm. While Hufflepuff had dormitories where both male and female shared the same dorm, Gryffindor had a dorm for boys and a dorm for girls. It had taken Harry a while, to get used to the feeling that Ginny, Dora and Hermione weren't in reach when he needed them to. Opening the door to his dormitory, Harry moved with a certain amount of speed to his trunk, opened it and started to look for his Journal. Finding the book, Harry quickly moved to the pages where his dream had been written down and smiled, before he closed the book and took it with him to the Common room, where he showed it with the pages open to the girls. They all found that Harry's dream showed several obstacles that they had to cross, before they reached the mirror.
"You know. I never understand why the mirror is so important." said Ginny, as she looked at the list that they had made. They could see that several staff members of Hogwarts had aided in the defense of the stone.
"Harry's dream is giving us clues to use. The first one is easy. Harry heard music play when he saw Hagrid feeing the beast. Then a patch of moving roots. That must be Sprouts obstacle, for I'm almost certain that it's devil's snare. The flying keys is Flitwick's challenge, flying keys that probable try to evade capture. We need to have a broom for that, or maybe I can try to catch them." Hermione mumbled.
"It then seems that we need to move across a life-size chessboard to reach the other side. I think that we better blast the black pieces down." Said Dora as she holstered her 'sweetheart' on her shoulder. "You and your violence" Ginny playfully scolded.
"Then we still need to know about the other three defenses" Said Harry as he looked at his dream, written down in his Journal. "You know what. I think we need to tell this to Sprout. She'll believe us." Harry said a she grabbed his book and moved to see Professor Sprout. "Sprout? Why her and not McGonagall? Asked Hermione as she, Ginny and Dora followed Harry through the corridors of Hogwarts.
"I believe that Snape might have placed something on McGonagall. I showed her a copy of a list of deducted points that Snape had taken, and when I complained about it, she said she would look through the list. I didn't really believe her, so I followed her. Do you know where she went?" Harry asked his friends, who all shook their heads in negative response.
"She knocked on the door of Snape's room at Beacon and placed the papers on the floor before she left. Snape opened the door and took the papers in his hand, before he waved his wand and made them disappear. He then closed the door, ignoring everything around him, like he has done this many times." Said Harry as they walked towards the greenhouses, where Sprout would most likely be. She was there, cleaning up the mess that a fourth year group of students had created.
"Professor, could we have a moment of your time?" Harry asked politely. "Of course, Mr. Ozpin, how can I help you?" The older witch asked friendly.
"I'd like you to tell us everything you can about the defenses of the Sorcerers stone" said Harry in a clear voice, showing no fear for the head of Hufflepuff House. "How do you know about that?" She asked, her face getting paler by the second.
Harry placed his Journal on the bench where Sprout has sat down. "That's how. Also, Professor Flitwick was mumbling about it, and Professor Quirrell was talking about something that he needed to get for someone who was with him in a room. When he left, I checked the room and found a book with information about the Sorcerers stone." Said Harry as he sat down on the same bench as Sprout.
"Professor, Please. Help us." Harry half begged, releasing his aura slightly.
Pomona Sprout, Hogwarts Herbology teacher and head of Hufflepuff house looked at the slightly glowing boy. She somehow felt calm and safe, a feeling that she didn't have since Dumbledore allowed Snape to teach. It was like Harry was a shining beacon of light in the darkness that had surrounded and penetrated Hogwarts.
"You clearly have done your homework, Mister Ozpin" Pomona said as she held Harry's hands in her own. "Professor Snape has aided in the defense of the stone, for you need to drink a correct potion that allows you passage through a gate of fire. Although I was against it, professor Quirrell's challenge is a troll. For some reason, he has an affinity with the beasts. Professor Dumbledore's challenge is a mirror, that shows the viewer it's dearest desire. Only a person who doesn't use the stone can retrieve it."
As she looked at the quartets eyes, she spotted something. "I see much in you all. I might have seen it when you came to the school, but I see it as clear as day now. You four will be a changing factor in the wizarding world. I wish to be a part of it."She said as she pulled her wand and started to cast charms on Harry and the girls. "I've removed any tracing charms from you four, and if you allow it, I'll cast the dissolusionment charm on you. That is a charm that will allow you to blend in with your surroundings, making you as good as invisible. There is but one thing you need to know, and this is not negotiable." The Professor said to them. "What is it?" Ginny asked, her hand hovering over Hammer. "I'm going with you" The Professor replied.
"WHAT?" Harry, Ginny and Hermione cried. Dora looked at her first head of house, before she shifted to Gryffindor. "I think that it would be wise" she said, to the relief of Professor Sprout, and the shock of her friends.
"Dora?" Ginny asked, as she looked at her hair color changing teammate.
"We don't know what Quirrell has laid out for us. I think it would be wise to bring Professor Sprout with us, in case Quirrell starts to do anything reckless."
Harry sighed. On the one hand, they could move through Hogwarts under the dissolusionment charm with ease, but it would bring a Professor with them. On the other hand, if they didn't take Sprout with them, and Dora was right, then they could be in great danger. 'We are about to break several Hogwarts rules, but I'd rather break rules then let a madman taking a stone that can produce an elixer that grands immortal life' Harry thought.
"Okay, Professor Sprout will go with us. She will cast the dissolusionment charm on us and herself and then we go to the third floor to stop Quirrell's plan to get the stone." Harry said a she looked at Ginny. Ginny nodded, understanding the plan.
"Okay, but when we are gone from the area with the big dog, Professor Sprout will remove the charm."
They all nodded, and after Professor Sprout added the charm, the five of them left the greenhouses, setting course to the third floor corridor. They all spotted several students walking around, enjoying the week that they were entering without any schoolwork in it. Only the Quidditch cup match between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Harry mentally made a note to make sure that he was able to play, if he wasn't expelled from Hogwarts. Moving on, Harry and his friends, and Professor Sprout moved towards the third floor, where they saw that the door that lead to the dog was open.
"Oh no" Sprout said, as she moved to the door opening. Looking inside, she saw the giant three headed dog called 'Fluffy' sleeping peacefully, with a harp playing soothing music.
"Come on, quickly" Sprout called out and she felt four hands on her shoulder before they vanished again. Knowing that the four students moved in, Pomona closed the door silently, making sure that it was locked. Looking around, Pomona notised something odd. Looking at the harp, Pomona paled as the harp had stopped playing music, and the dog was waking up. Then another sound came from on her right. A sweet melody that placed the three headed dog back in a deep slumber. Ignoring the sound at the moment, Pomona Sprout moved forwards and lifted a hatch from the floor, leading into a dark and damp tunnel straight down.
"All of you, Jump down and remain still. The Devil's Snare will slowly pull you down, but if you try to struggle, it will stangle you to death" Sprout said. Again she felt the four hands leaving her shoulder, the last one was the source of the music. Tapping her head to undo the charm, Sprout jumped right through the hole in the ground, just as 'Fluffy' started to wake up.