Sapphire Witch - Under Editing to make it easier to read

Norbert

It is snowy in the daytime, Harry is out in the main courtyard, bundled up, with Hedwig on his arm. He stops and she lifts off, soaring away into the sky. As the time passed when she returns, it is now springtime. Harry: "Hi, Hedwig." Hedwig has just flown down to the table where Harry, Ron, and Hermoine are studying. Hermione: "Look at you playing with your cards. Pathetic! We've got final exams coming up soon." Ron: "I'm ready! Ask me any question." Hermione: "All right, what are the three most crucial ingredients in a Forgetfulness Potion?" Ron: "...I forgot." Y/n: "Lethe River Water, mistletoe berries, and Valerian sprigs." Hermione: "At least someone studied. And what, may I ask, do you plan to do if this comes up in the final exam?" Ron: "Copy off you?" Hermione: "No, you won't! Besides, according to Professor McGonagall, we're to be given special quills bewitched with an anti-cheating spell." Y/n: "Go into the Astrel Realm and copy off of the teacher?" Hermione: "And end up unconscious?" Ron: "That's insulting! It's as if they don't trust us! [checks a card, irritated] Dumbledore again!" Just then, Neville Longbottom comes hopping into the Great Hall with his legs stuck together as the other students laugh at him. Ron: "Leg-Locker Curse?" Harry: "Malfoy." Neville approaches them amidst laughter from the other students. Ron: "You have got to start standing up to people, Neville." Neville: [wobbling uncontrollably] "How? I can barely stand at all!" Seamus: [jumping up, wand at the ready] "I'll do the counter-curse!" Neville: "No, that's all I need... you to set my bloody kneecaps on fire!" Seamus: [slamming his wand down angrily] "I don't appreciate the insinuation, Longbottom. Besides, if anyone cares to notice, my eyebrows have completely grown back!" He then stalks off angrily, showing a large chunk of hair missing from the back of his head. Harry: "I found him!" He hands Ron a Chocolate Frog card of Dumbledore. Ron: "Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark" Wizard Grindelwald in 1945–" Y/n: "Two lovers fighting against each other. How sad." Harry: "Go on." Ron: "-for his discovery of the 12 uses of Dragon Blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner Nicolas Flamel!" Harry: "I knew the name sounded familiar. I read it on the train that day." Hermione: [beaming excitedly] "Follow me!" The Trio tears out of the Great Hall. Y/n: "Here, Neville." Y/n moves her wand up and down (as if drawing a line between the locked legs) and then a swish across. Y/n: "Locomotor Liberari." (LOH-kah-MOH-tor LIH-ber-ARE-ee). Neville: "Thanks Y/n!" Y/n: "No problem, I enjoyed reading the book about the water plants." Neville smiled brightly.

~In the library~

Harry and Ron are seated, reading until Hermione comes up with a huge book and thumps it onto the table making Harry jump. Hermione: "I had you looking in the wrong section! How could I be so stupid? I checked this out a few weeks ago for a bit of light reading." Ron: "This is light?" Hermione: "Of course! Here it is! [as she reads the description on the page] "Nicholas Flamel is the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone!" Ron and Harry: "Then what?" Y/n: "Smart man's rock." Ron: "What?" Hermione: "Honestly, don't you two read? "The Philosopher's Stone is a legendary substance with astonishing powers. It will turn any metal into pure gold and produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal"." Ron: "Immortal?" Hermione: "It means you'll never die." Ron: "I know what it means!" Harry: "Shh!" Hermione: "..."The only stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicholas Flamel, the noted alchemist, who last year celebrated his 665th birthday!" That's what Fluffy's guarding on the 3rd floor. That's what's under the trapdoor...the Philosopher's Stone!" They all look at each other in concern. It is nighttime in the castle grounds, Hermione, Y/n, Ron, and Harry are running across to Hagrid's hut. They knock on the door and Hagrid, who is wearing an apron and oven mitts, opens it from the inside. Harry: "Hagrid!" Hagrid: "Oh, hello. Sorry, don't wish to be rude, but I'm in no fit state to entertain today." He begins to close the door. All three: "We know about the Philosopher's Stone!" Y/n: "I've always known about the Philosopher's Stone." Hagrid opens the door again. Hagrid: "Oh." They all come into Hagrid's hut. Harry: "We think Snape's trying to steal it." Y/n: "You three. I still think it's Quirrell." Hagrid: "Quirrell? Snape? Blimey, Harry, you're not still on about him, are you?" Harry: "Hagrid, we know he's after the Stone. We just don't know why." Hagrid: "Snape is one of the teachers protecting the Stone! He's not about to steal it!" Harry: "What?" Hagrid: "You heard. Right. Come on, now, I'm a bit preoccupied today." Harry: "Wait a minute. [Ron soon sees Hagrid's boar-hound Fang, who sniffs him.] One of the teachers?" Hermione: [whilst sitting in a large chair] "Of course! other things are defending the Stone, aren't there? Spells, enchantments." Hagrid: "That's right. Waste of bloody time, if you ask me." Hermione looks at Ron, who is still being sniffed in the face by Fang. Finally Ron shuffles away. Hagrid: "Ain't no one gonna get past Fluffy. Hehe, not a soul knows how. Except for me and Dumbledore. I shouldn't have told you that. I shouldn't have told you that." A cauldron over a fire begins to rattle. Hagrid: "Oh!" Hagrid hurries over and grabs something. Hagrid: "Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!" He places it on the table. It was an egg. The group crowds around. Harry: "Uh, Hagrid, what exactly is that?" Hagrid: "That? It's a ... its um..." Ron: "I know what that is! But Hagrid, how did you get one?" Hagrid: "I won it. Off a stranger I met down at a pub. Seemed quite glad to be rid off it, as a matter of fact." Y/n: "You see to win a lot of creatures." The egg rattles and cracks open as pieces fly off; a small baby dragon emerges. It squeaks and slips on an egg piece. Hermione: "Is that...a dragon?" Ron: "That's not just a dragon. That's a Norwegian Ridgeback! My brother Charlie works with these in Romania." Hagrid: "Isn't he beautiful? Oh. Bless him, look. He knows his mummy. Hehe. Hallo, Norbert." Norbert squeaks as it looks at Hagrid. Harry: "Norbert?" Hagrid: "Yeah, well, he's got to have a name, doesn't he? [Ron laughs] Don't you, Norbert?" He raises fingers back and forth across Norbert's chin. Hagrid: "Dededede." Norbert backs away, until he hiccups and blast a small fireball into Hagrid's beard. Hagrid: "Ohh!" He quickly pats out the smolders in his beard. Hagrid: "Oooh, ooh, ooh, well...he'll have to be trained up a bit, of course." Norbert hiccups. Hagrid sees someone looking in the window. Hagrid: "Who's that?" It turns out to be Draco Malfoy, who scampers away. Harry: "Malfoy." Hagrid: "Oh, dear." Harry, Ron and Hermione are walking back through a corridor as an owl screeches. Harry: "Hagrid always wanted a dragon. He told me so the first time I met him." Ron: "It's crazy. And worse, Malfoy knows." Harry: "I don't understand. Is that bad?" Ron: "It's bad." They stop as McGonagall, in her nightgown, appears, sternly. Y/n: "Thank god! Where are the bathrooms again?" McGonagall: "Just use the one near the Great Hall. How did you forget?" Y/n: "Half asleep, foggy mind, and it's an emergency." Y/n bolts to where McGonagall directed her. McGonagall: "Good evening." Then, Malfoy appears smugly beside her. Inside McGonagall's classroom, the three are now standing in front of McGonagall's desk, while Malfoy is feet away, smirking. Y/n walks in a few minutes later. McGonagall: [sternly] "Nothing, I repeat, nothing gives a student the right to walk about the school at night. Except for Y/n's case. Therefore, as punishment for your actions, 50 points will be taken. Harry: "50?!" McGonagall: "Each. [Harry gasps] And to ensure it doesn't happen again, all five of you will receive a detention." Y/n: "Wait? Would I get fifty points taken as well?" McGonagall: "No. Just detention. Next time instead of running through the halls ask a roommate." Malfoy nods, then his smile vanishes with great concern. Draco: "Excuse me, Professor. Perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said..." the five of us"." McGonagall: "No, you heard me correctly, Mr. Malfoy. You see, as honorable as your intentions were, you too were out of bed after hours. You will serve detention with your classmates." Harry, Ron, and Hermione grin, as Draco, sags, knowing that the tables have turned. 

~Later~

Y/n's physical body is resting in her bed as her astral form visits Sirius. Y/n: "Sirius." Sirius: "Y/n. How are you?" Y/n: "I'm good. Sleeping currently. Sirius: "Astral Projection." Y/n: "I got my animagus." Sirius: "Really?" Y/n: "A red wolf." Sirius: "Ahhh. I'm a dog like I said in the letter." Y/n: "I know you told me the truth, but no one would believe us." Sirius: "You need to expose the rat." Y/n: "I'll leave you with a parting gift." Y/n creates illusions of Lily, James, and Remus. Sirius: "Thank you." Y/n: "They'll be here for 35 minutes. Goodbye." Sirius: "Until we meet again."