Chapter 12: Forbidden Forest

Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. This idea came to me after playing Hogwarts Mystery. If any of you play the game you'll know it when you see it. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy.

It was late at night as Harry, Sam, Hermione and Ron ran to Hagrid's hut and knocked on his door.

"Hagrid we need to talk to you." Harry said.

"Sorry but I'm in no state to entertain today." Hagrid said about to close the door when Sam caught it.

"We know about the Philosopher's Stone." The four of them said.

"Oh…come on in." Hagrid said.

Walking into Hagrid's place for the first time Sam saw that Hagrid's hut was basically just one giant room with a bed, fireplace, bathroom, and bed for his dog Fang and one for a guest, but since Hagrid never had a guest it just held clutter on it.

"This is where you live Hagrid?" Sam asks.

"Got a problem?" Hagrid asks looking over.

"What? No. Why would I have a problem with how you live?" Sam asks.

"Sorry force of habit." Hagrid said walking over to the fire pit.

"We think Snape's trying to steal it." Harry said.

"This again?" Hagrid asks.

"You guys think that. I think he's innocent." Sam said.

"Snape is one of the teachers protecting the Stone, he wouldn't steal it." Hagrid said.

"So that's what he meant. He was interrogating Quirrel so he can get past the other things set up by the teachers." Harry realized.

"Waste of time if you ask me. Nothing can get past Fluffy, the only ones who know how are me and Dumbledore…I shouldn't have said that." Hagrid realized when they heard a rattling coming from a pot in the fire pit.

Putting on oven mitts, Hagrid reached in a pulled out an egg before putting in on the table.

"Hagrid, what's that?" Harry asks as they look over.

"Oh well it's…" Hagrid paused trying to think of an excuse.

"I know what that is, but how did you get one?" Ron asks.

"I won it off a guy I met in a pub. Seemed pretty happy to get rid of it." Hagrid said as the egg started to crack and from it a baby dragon emerged from it.

"Is that what I think it is?" Sam said in shock.

"A dragon." Hermione said equally shocked.

'Eric and Cole are gonna lose it when I told them I saw a real dragon.' Sam thought.

"That's not just any dragon, it's a Norwegian Ridgeback." Ron said.

"Oh bless him he knows his mommy." Hagrid said petting the dragon. "Hello Norbert."

"Norbert?" Harry asks.

"He's gotta have a name, right?" Hagrid said.

"Hagrid, that's a fire breathing dragon and you live in a wooden house." Sam points out but Hagrid was too into his dragon to listen.

Suddenly Norbert breathed a small ball of fire almost burning Hagrid's beard.

"Well he might need a little training. Hey who's that?" Hagrid said as they looked to the window and saw Malfoy run off.

"Malfoy." Harry and Sam growled.

"Oh boy." Hagrid said not liking this.

Walking back to the school the four of them were talking.

"Hagrid's always wanted a dragon, he said so when we first met." Harry said.

"And now Malfoy knows." Ron said.

"Is that bad?" Hermione asks as McGonagall came out from a room.

"It's bad." Sam gulps.

"Good evening." She said as Malfoy came out behind her with a smirk on his face.

"Nothing and I mean nothing gives a student permission to roam about the castle at night. As punishment that's 50 points from each of you." McGonagall said.

"Seriously?" Sam gasps.

"And to ensure it doesn't happen again all 5 of you will receive detention." McGonagall said.

"Excuse me Professor but I think I heard you wrong. I thought you said all 5 of us?" Malfoy asks.

"No you heard me right Mr. Malfoy. As honorable as your intentions were you too were out of bed. You will join your classmates in detention." She said.

Looking over Malfoy saw a smirk on their faces.

A few nights later, Filch was leading them outside. Looking up at the night sky Sam saw it was a full moon.

"A pity they let the old punishments die. Used to be detention was you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons. God I miss the screaming." Filch said.

"And this guy wonders why his only friend is a cat?" Sam mumbles.

"You'll be serving detention with Hagrid." Filch said leading them to his hut. "He's got a job to do in the forest. Sorry lot this is Hagrid." Looking over they saw a sad look on Hagrid's face. "You're still sad about that bloody dragon, are you?"

"Norbert's gone. Dumbledore sent him off to Romania to live in colony." Hagrid said.

"Well that's good right? He'll be with his own kind." Hermione said.

"But what if he don't like Romania? What if the other dragons are mean to him? He's only a baby." Hagrid said.

"Oh pull yourself together. You'll need your wits when you go into that forest." Filch said.

"The forest? You must be joking. Students aren't allowed. There's…werewolves." Malfoy said hearing a howl.

"There's more than that in those woods. Nighty night." Filch said walking away.

"I'm not going into that forest." Malfoy said.

"You are if you wanna stay at Hogwarts." Hagrid said leading them into the forest.

"Hey Hagrid what is in this forest?" Sam asks.

"Don't worry Sam. There's nothing in this forest that will hurt you as long as me or Fang are around." Hagrid said when they spotted a puddle of silver liquid.

"Hagrid, what's that?" Harry asks.

"What we're here for. See that? That's Unicorn blood. I found one dead a few weeks ago and this one has been badly hurt. It's our job to go and find the poor beast. Ron, Hermione you'll come with me and Harry, Sam, you're with Malfoy."

"Fine, but I get Fang." Malfoy said.

"Alright, but just so you know he's a bloody coward. We'll go down this way, you three go that way." Hagrid said as they went in separate directions.

"Wait until my father hears of this. This is servant's work." Malfoy whines.

"You know Malfoy if you kept had kept your stupid mouth you wouldn't be here." Sam said.

"If I didn't know any better Draco I'd say you were scared." Harry smirks.

"Scared? Hardly." Malfoy mocks when Sam heard a movement.

"Ssh. Something's out there." Sam said as the three of them stopped.

Looking ahead in the distance they saw a silver-haired werewolf.

"A werewolf." Harry gulps.

"Come on Fang, this way." Malfoy said as they started to move away from it.

Sam turned around and followed but had no idea the werewolf had turned its head in their direction.

They walked for nearly a half-hour going deeper and deeper into the forest.

Reaching a small patch, Fang came to a stop and growled.

"What's wrong Fang?" Sam asks when Harry saw something.

"Over there." Harry points.

Looking ahead they had found the Unicorn but the poor beautiful thing was already dead.

"Oh man." Sam said when they heard a noise.

Slithering out of the shadows a cloaked figure bent down towards the Unicorn and from an open wound began drinking its blood.

As the figure lifted its head up Harry suddenly felt a pain where his scar was.

Letting out a huge scream Malfoy ran for his life with Fang right behind him.

"Harry let's go!" Sam said trying to grab him but Harry was frozen with fear as the cloaked creature came towards them.

Sam took out his wand but the figure moved in fast and knocked him to the ground.

Eyes widening Sam thought this was the end when suddenly they heard a loud growling noise.

Turning around Sam saw the silver furred werewolf leap out of the trees and attack the cloaked figure.

The figure jumped back as the werewolf swung its claws at it.

"Sam are you okay?" Harry asks snapping out of it and helping him up

"That werewolf saved me." Sam said surprised.

The figure tried to escape but the werewolf grabbed it by the arm and threw it into a tree.

Seeing there was no way it could win the figure escaped.

Turning around the werewolf looked Sam in the eye and for a split-second Sam felt something familiar about that werewolf.

"Huh?" Sam said when they heard galloping.

Acting quickly the werewolf ran into the woods as a centaur arrived. It had white-blonde hair and a palomino body.

"Are you two alright? I came as quick as I could." He said.

"Yes, thank you." Harry said.

"Who are you?" Sam asks.

"My name is Firenze and you two should leave, especially you Potter. The forest is not safe." Firenze warns.

"How do you know me?" Harry asks.

"Many creatures know about you." Firenze said.

"But what was that thing the werewolf saved us from?" Sam asks.

"Tell me do you two know what Unicorn Blood is used for?" Firenze asks.

"I know its hair is used in wands." Sam said.

"And the horn can be used for potions." Harry said.

"That's because it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn. Only one with nothing to lose and everything to gain would commit such a crime. The blood of a unicorn will keep you alive even if you are an inch from death but at a terrible price. You have slain something pure and defenseless to save yourself. You will live a half-life, a cursed life the second the blood touches your lips." Firenze explains.

"But who would be that desperate? If you're gonna be cursed forever wouldn't death be better?" Sam asks.

"It is unless you need to stay alive long enough to drink something else…something even stronger. That is hidden in this school at this very moment." Firenze said.

"The Stone, the Elixir of Life." Sam and Harry realized.

"Can you think of nobody? One who has clung to life for so long just hoping for a chance like this?" Firenze asks.

"Are you saying that was Voldemort?" Harry asks.

"The wizard who gave you that scar?" Sam said surprised.

"Harry! Sam!" Looking down the path they saw Hagrid with Ron, Hermione, Fang and Malfoy.

"Hello Firenze, I see you've met our friends." Hagrid said.

"This is where I leave you both, you're safe now." Firenze said.

"Wait." Sam said before the centaur wandered off. "Why did that werewolf save me? I looked into its eyes and it didn't attack me. Why?"

"When someone becomes a werewolf they cannot keep their wits, but this werewolf sounds different." Firenze said before galloping away.

"Different...like me." Sam said surprised.

The next day, Barnaby and Penny were walking down the hall when they saw Sam gesturing for them to come over.

"Hey Sam what's up?" Penny asks walking over.

"Is something wrong?" Barnaby asks.

"Hold that question." Sam said leading them into an empty classroom where Harry, Ron and Hermione were waiting for them.

"Okay you two might wanna sit down for this." Harry said.

Sitting down Sam and Harry told them all about what happened last night in the forest.

"You Know Who was in the forest last night?" Penny gasps.

"Yes and for some reason a werewolf leaped in and saved Sam." Harry said.

"Why would a werewolf save you?" Barnaby asks.

"I don't know but when I looked it that thing seemed familiar. Like I've seen it somewhere before." Sam said.

"Right now Voldemort is weak. He's been living off the Unicorns. Don't you see? We had it all wrong. Snape doesn't want the stone for himself. He wants the stone for Voldemort. With the Elixir of Life, he'll be at full strength." Harry explains.

"Do you think if he does, he'll try to kill you again?" Ron asks.

"Think if it wasn't for Firenze and that werewolf, he would have killed me yesterday." Harry said.

"And I thought the scariest thing coming up were finals." Barnaby cringed.

"This is a million times worse than any finals." Penny said.

"Hold on, you're all forgetting one important thing. Who's the one wizard that Voldemort always feared? Dumbledore. As long as Dumbledore's around you can't be touched. As long as Dumbledore is here, you're safe." Hermione said.

"I hope you're right Hermione." Sam sighs.

"Thanks for telling us." Barnaby said.

"We better keep an eye on Snape though." Ron said as he, Harry, Hermione and Barnaby walked out.

Penny was about to walk out when she saw an angry look on Sam's face.

"Are you okay?" Penny asks.

"Not really. I'm getting really tired of these guys thinking Prof. Snape is the bad guy." Sam growls.

"Well who do you think it is?" Penny asks.

"Honestly, I think something's up with Quirrell." Sam said causing Penny to raise an eyebrow.

"Prof. Quirrell? That guy can't even say a complete sentence without turning into a stuttering mess." Penny said.

"Look I know what I've been seeing and something is not right with that man." Sam said as they walked out.

"Even so like you've been saying about Snape we have no proof." Penny said.

"I guess." Sam sighs when Chiara walks out.

"Oh Sam." Chiara said surprised.

"Chiara, hey what's up?" Sam asks.

"I heard you had to go to the forest last night. Are you okay?" Chiara asks.

"Yeah I'm fine, thanks for asking." Sam said.

"Listen uh you shouldn't go into the forest on a full moon. That's when it's the most dangerous." Chiara said.

"Hopefully I won't have to." Sam said.

"Well I better get to class." Chiara said walking past him. As she walked by he couldn't help notice the werewolf that saved him had fur similar to Chiara's hair.

Sam paused for a minute between the stone, what happened in the forest and You Know Who things were getting dangerous.