Chapter 7: Halloween

Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. I'm glad to see you all are interested in the objects Sam found last chapter. Now since Harry had his trio of Ron and Hermione I thought it was only right Sam got his own trio. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy.

It was late at night in the Slytherin Dorm Rooms and Sam was wide awake as he took out his wand and the Slytherin's journal.

"Lumos." Sam whispers as a light emitted from the tip of his wand allowing him to flip through the pages.

On one page, Sam saw a drawing of the daggers he found with the journal.

'The Viper Fangs, my favorite weapons after my wand. Forged by goblins and enchanted with spells from my mentor Merlin these daggers saved my life in more ways than one.'

Sam looks to the green daggers and slowly reached down and picked them up before looking back in the journal. "Alright how do these things work?"

Examining the journal carefully, Sam placed it down before taking a deep breath. Stepping off his bed, the daggers glowed as darkness surrounded Sam allowing him to step into the shadows.

"This is beyond crazy." Sam said as he stuck one hand inside the darkness before pulling out. He touches the tip of the dagger and winces softly. "Still sharp after all this time." Going to his bed, Sam places the daggers and the journal down. 'I gotta keep these things safe. Even if they let me have a wand I don't think it's wise to carry daggers to every class.' Sam thought as he hid them.

Meanwhile in Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore was at his desk reading a copy of Transfiguration Today while Severus was pacing back and forth.

"He possesses no measurable talent and his arrogance seems to rival that of his father and all he seems to want to do is break the rules and draw attention to himself." Snape said.

"You see that only because you want to see it, Serverus. All of Harry's other teachers seem to think he's a delightful child, I find him quite engaging." Dumbledore said not looking up from what he was reading.

"I can't believe you're letting him join the Quidditch Team." Snape mumbles.

"What about your boy? Sam seems to be working really hard in all his classes, even harder in Potions." Dumbledore said.

"He's not my boy and he works hard in that class because I expect my students to work hard." Snape said.

"He's doing it to get your attention." Dumbledore said putting the book down to look at him. "Serverus, all Sam has is your last name and everywhere he goes people are trying to compare him to you. You may not choose to pay attention to it, but Sam craves your approval above anyone else."

"He can find a better wizard to look up to." Snape said brushing it off.

"But he wants you. That boy looks up to you. You should give him a chance, Harry too while you're at it." Dumbledore said.

"Doubtful." Snape said turning to the door.

"Time has a way of changing people. You may find having that boy in your life could change your entire future." Dumbledore chuckles as Snape was about to leave. "Oh and one more thing." He said in a serious tone getting his attention. "Keep an eye on Quirrell."

Snape nods as he walks out the door.

The next morning as Sam was sitting in the Great Hall, he had so many things on his mind: Slytherin's journal and the Viper fangs, what that 3 headed dog was guarding, what could be on his next exam. Sighing Sam was about to eat when two figures walk up to him.

"Hey uh Sam, right?" Sam looks up to see a boy with brown hair, green eyes and light skin. Next to him was a girl with long dark brown hair, dark skin and glasses. Looking at them, Sam saw they both were wearing Slytherin robes.

"What's up?" Sam asks.

"I'm Barnaby Lee and this Liz Tuttle."

"We just wanted to thank you." Liz said surprising him.

"Huh?" Sam said confused.

"We heard what you said yesterday on the Quidditch field and we just wanted to say you're awesome." Barnaby said.

"Are you guys being serious?" Sam asks blown away by all this.

"Absolutely. People think just because we're Slytherin we're mean but I don't want to be mean. I want friends." Barnaby admits.

"Me too. Can we hang out?" Liz asks.

"Sure pull up a seat I'm working on Defense Against the Dark Arts homework." Sam said as they sat down.

"Any of you guys have any idea what is up with Prof. Quirrell?" Liz asks as they took out their books.

"No clue." Both boys said.

"Hey does this study group have more than one more?" Looking up they saw Penny walking over. "I can't learn anything from Prof. Quirrell's lesson. He stutters way too much.

"As long as you don't mind sitting with snakes." Sam chuckles as they all laugh when multiple owls flew in delivering mail.

Sam looks to see Noctis fly in with a letter from home. Smiling he opens it.

Dear Sam,

I hope things are going well at your new school. We all miss having you around. Eric and Cole have been trying to keep themselves occupied with their new jobs as dog sitters. Who knew those two were so good with animals? I hope you have an amazing year and be sure to keep us posted on anything happening to you. I hope you have been making lots of good friends.

Love, Martha.

'Maybe when I get back I'll show them some of my wizarding books.' Sam chuckles when he looks up to see three owls flying in with a large package for Harry.

Getting up Sam walks over to Harry and Ron.

"Whoa, Harry what's that?" Sam asks.

"My new broomstick, Prof. McGonagall got me a Nimbus 2000 for Quidditch." Harry smiles showing him the note.

"Wow, maybe I should try my hand at this." Sam said.

"Unfortunately, you'll have to wait until next year to even be on the team. Tryouts are over." Ron explains.

"What? I just freaking learned about all this." Sam groans.

"Don't worry Sam, I'll fly for both of us this year." Harry said patting Sam on the back.

"Thanks, Harry." Sam said as he walked back to Barnaby, Liz and Penny to work on their homework.

Weeks past and it was Halloween at Charms Class, Sam was paired up with Barnaby, Harry was with Seamus and Ron was with Hermione.

Up on his stack of books, Prof. Flitwick was looking out the students. "Now don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing. Remember, swish and flick. Swish and flick. Now make sure when you cast the spell you say the magic words carefully.

"Wingardium Leviosa." All the students said flicking their wands trying to get the feathers to float off the ground.

Sam managed to get his feather to move a few inches up before falling back down while Barnaby wasn't having much luck.

Harry and Seamus were trying but Seamus got impatient and ended up setting his feather on fire.

"Uh I think we might need another feather Professor." Harry called out.

"Wingardium Leviosar." Ron said waving his arms.

"You're doing it wrong." Ron looks over to Hermione. "It's Leviosa not Leviosar." She corrects.

"You do it then if you're so clever." Ron snarled.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" Hermione flicks her wand and the feather rose all the way above their heads.

"Oh well done. Everyone, Miss Graner's done it!" Prof. Flitwick smiles which just ended up ruining class for Ron.

After class, Sam, Harry, Ron, Seamus and Barnaby were walking out.

"Dude if you keep setting things on fire, you might need to carry a fire extinguisher everywhere." Sam warns.

"What's a fire extinguisher?" Barnaby asks.

"It's what Muggles use to put out fires." Harry explains.

"Maybe I should, to avoid more disasters." Seamus sighs.

"Speaking of disaster, can you believe little miss know-it-all back there? It's Leviosa, not Leviosar. She's so annoying, no wonder she no friends." Ron said when Hermione runs past him sniffling.

"I think she just heard you, Ron." Sam said.

"Ouch." Barnaby said.

Hermione didn't show up for the next classes or the rest of the afternoon.

As Sam was about to enter the Great Hall, he saw Harry and Ron talking saying that they heard Hermione has been crying in the girl's bathroom all day.

As Sam was sitting down at the table with Barnaby, Merula and a girl with long black hair sat next to them. Like Malfoy with Crabbe and Golye she found her own henchman with Ismelda Murk.

Merula was about hit Sam with her latest insult when suddenly the doors swung open to reveal Prof. Quirrell running for his life. "TROLL! IN THE DUNGEONS! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON! Thought you outta know." Quirrell said before fainting on the spot.

"Wait what?" Sam said when the entire hall erupted in screams as Merula jumps into his arms afraid.

"SILENCE!" Dumbledore yells which echoes through the hall stopping all the students. "Prefects, lead your houses back to the dormitories. Teachers will follow me to the dungeons."

As Sam looks to Merula she jumps out of his arms. "You tell anyone, and you die." Merula said pointing at him.

"Understood." Sam said when he noticed Snape quickly moving through the back door in the opposite direction of the dungeons. "What the?" While everyone went out the front Sam went after Snape.

As Sam ran through the door he turns to see Snape running down a corridor. He was about to follow when a hand grabbed his shoulder causing Sam to jump and pull out his wand only to see Barnaby and Penny behind him. "Barnaby? Penny? What are you doing here?"

"We should be asking you that." Penny said.

"Sam what are you doing? We got a troll on the loose." Barnaby said.

"Yeah but I saw Prof. Snape go that way. Maybe he's onto something." Sam points. "He might need help."

"You're not going alone, we're coming with you." Penny said as she and Barnaby followed Sam down the hall when Harry and Ron came from another hallway.

"I guess no one follows rules anymore." Barnaby said.

"Hermione's still in the girl's bathroom she doesn't know about the troll." Harry said.

"We gotta warn her!" Sam said as the 5 of them ran down the hall but as they were about to turn a foul odor filled the air.

"Ugh what's that smell?" Penny groans.

"Wasn't me." Barnaby said when a large shadow emerged from down the hall.

"I don't think the troll is in the dungeons anymore." Ron said as they ran behind a statue to see a giant 12 foot tall, pale skinned troll walking down the hall with a giant club in its hand.

"It's heading towards the girl's bathroom." Ron said as all 5 of them gasp.

In the bathroom, Hermione walks out of the stall sniffling when she looks up to see the mountain troll looking down at her.

Shuddering in fear she backed up towards the stall when the troll swung its club destroying the top halves of all the stalls.

"Hermione move!" Harry yells.

"We got to get that thing away from her!" Sam said as he and Barnaby took out their wands.

"Rictusempra!" Barnaby waves his wand as the troll stops his attack as it burst into laughter as the Tickling Charm took effect.

"The Tickling Charm?" Penny asks raising an eyebrow.

"Less judging more saving." Barnaby points.

Grabbing pieces of wood Harry, Penny and Ron threw them at the troll to try and distract it.

"Oy! Peabrain!" Ron yells as a piece of wood hits it in the head getting the troll's attention as it turned to them.

Penny reaches to her side and pulls out her wand. "Flipendo!" Using the same spell Sam used to save her Penny flicks her wand but it only caused the troll to step back. "Guys help me out!"

Taking out his wand Sam stood next to Penny as Barnaby stood next to him. "Ready, now! Flipendo!" The three cast the spell at the same time with their combined power managed the knock the troll onto its butt.

But their victory was short lived as the troll picked up its club and swung it at them.

Moving quickly the three of them ran out of the way to avoid being crushed. As the troll decided to go after Sam. Harry did what might have been the bravest and dumbest thing ever. Running up behind the troll Harry jumps onto the back of its neck and shoves his wand up its nose making it scream in pain.

"Well I guess that's one way to use a wand." Penny cringes grossed by that. Running to Hermione she helps her up and ran her back to the others as the troll was swinging Harry back and forth before grabbing his legs.

"Do something!" Sam yells seeing Ron was the only one close enough to help.

"What?" Ron asks.

"Anything!" Sam snaps as Ron took out his wand.

Doing the only spell that came to mind, Ron waved his wand. "Wingardium Leviosa!"

The troll was about to swing his club when the club floated out of its hand and high above its head before coming down and bonking it on the head with a loud crack causing the troll to fall to the ground.

"Is it dead?" Hermione asks.

"I don't think so, just knocked out." Harry said pulling his wand out of the troll's nose only to see it was covered in troll boogers.

"Okay that's gross." Barnaby cringes when Hermione notices them.

"Wait you guys saved me? But you two are Slytherin." Hermione said.

"Yeah, so what? Just because I'm a Slytherin that means I'm supposed to turn my back on someone in trouble?" Sam asks.

"We're not all monsters." Barnaby said.

"Well, thank you all of you." Hermione said when McGonagall, Snape and Quirrell came running in having heard the noise.

"Oh my goodness! All of you explain yourselves! Why aren't you in your dorms?" McGonagall orders.

"They came to help me Professor." Hermione said surprising all of them. "I went looking for the troll. I read all about them and thought I could handle it, but I was wrong. If they hadn't shown up I would probably be dead."

All of them couldn't believe what they were seeing, Hermione Granger of all people was lying to a teacher.

As Harry looked over he noticed a wound on Snape's leg which her quickly covered up with his robes.

"I am very disappointed with you Miss. Granger. 5 points from Gryffindor." McGonagall turns the others. "As for you 5, I hope you know how fortunate you are. Not many first years can take on a fully-grown mountain troll and live to tell the tale. 5 points will be awarded to each of you."

As the teachers walked away Sam noticed Snape was limping after them.

"Well that was a crazy night I'll never forget." Barnaby said as the 5 of them left.

"Thank you all for saving me." Hermione said before looking to Sam. "Maybe I shouldn't be so quick to judge people."

"Never hurts." Sam said as Harry, Ron and Hermione went to the Gryffindor common room.

"You know, we didn't do half bad together." Penny said as they walked down the hall.

"How many people can say they knocked down a troll?" Barnaby smiles.

"We make a pretty good team. Thanks for helping Penny." Sam said.

"Well I owed you one for when you saved me." Penny smiles. "See you round." She waves goodbye before going to her common room.

Back in the Slytherin common room, Sam was sitting down near the fireplace in the corner of the room eating an apple when he heard the door open.

"Blasted thing, how are you supposed to keep your eye on all three heads?" Snape asks limping into the room when he saw Sam standing up.

"Are you okay? What happened?" Sam asks.

"It's none of your concern." Snape brushes off as Sam notices some blood dripping down his leg.

"That doesn't look good." Sam cringes.

"It's fine. Nothing I can't handle." Snape said sitting down. "Shouldn't you be in bed?"

"Couldn't sleep." Sam said sitting next to him.

"I'm not in the mood for this." Snape said trying to push Sam away. Getting up Sam walks out of the room causing Snape to sigh in relief until a few minutes later Sam walked back in with some bandage wrap. "What do you want?" Snape asks annoyed by this.

"Just want to help." Sam said as wrapped some bandages around his leg. "This should stop the bleeding."

"I didn't need your help for this." Snape said.

"Maybe not, but that's not gonna stop me from helping you." Sam said standing up.

"Can't you find someone else to bother? There's plenty of other people in this school to try to impress." Snape asks.

"Maybe but there aren't many people in this place that are as cool as you." Sam said surprising him. No one has ever used that word to describe Snape before. "I thought I was gonna be stuck in that orphanage for the rest of my life and then you showed up and brought me here. I don't know why have your name but I'm gonna prove I'm worthy of it someday. Happy Halloween." Sam said as he walked back to his room.

Snape watched the boy walk away and a soft smile forms on his face. "Maybe it won't be so bad to give him a chance."