Jack Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Six Challenges

Jack's POV

We were under Harry and my father's invisibility with the others as we walked towards the door that lead to Fluffy. Hermione went take out her wand, but I stopped her placing a hand on her arm. "I'll do it" I state and she nods her head and I took out my wand. Pointing it at the key hole I said "Alohomora". It opened and we entered the room quietly as I heard a harp playing.

"Snape's been here already, he's placed a spell on the harp" Harry states as we removed the invisibility cloak. We looked at the sleeping Fluffy and saw one of hiss paws blocking the trap door. "We have to move his paw" Harry tells the others as he and I walked forward. The others helped us after Ron complained and I then opened the door.

"I'll go first no arguments" I tell the others swing my legs so that they dangled through the trap door.

"I'm coming with you, if there's trouble you two get yourselves out. Go to the owlery and send a message to Dumbledore" Harry states. They nodded their heads and it suddenly went quiet.

"Does it seem quiet to you?" Harry asks us.

"The harp it's stopped playing" Hermione states.

"That means..." I start but was cut off by something running down Ron's shoulder and a growl.

"Jump!" Harry yelled and I dropped into through the trap door with the others following. We landed on some sort of plant and it started to restrain us. Hermione and I sit still as the other try to escape it.

"Relax you two, this is devil snare if you don't stop it'll only kill you faster" Hermione tells them and I nod my head in agreement. We both then fell through the plant and landed on the hard floor before. My arm hurt as I landed on it.

"Hermione, Jack!" Harry and Ron yell.

"We're ok just relax!" I yell back.

"Jack where are you?" Harry asks.

"Do as he says trust us!" Hermione yelled and Harry joined us. Hermione helped him up while I supported my arm. "He's not relaxing is he" Hermione states as we hear Ron's muffled yells.

"Apparently not" Harry and I say together.

"Hermione want did Professor Sprout say in herbology?" I ask her.

"Devil snare, devil snare it's deadly fun" she recites.

"But will sulk in the sun" we both exclaim drawing our wands. "Lumos Solem" we say pointing our wands at the plant. It groaned in protest and released Ron who landed near Harry.

"Lucky we didn't panic" Ron says as he stood up.

"Lucky Hermione and Jack pay attention in herbology" Harry tells him. We went into the next chamber and saw flying keys with a few brooms. Ron tried to unlock the other door, but it did not work. So he and Harry got onto the brooms to catch the right key. While Hermione waited with me by the door. They caught the key and passed it to us and Hermione unlocked the door. She held it open until the boys came through and then slammed it shut.

"Are we in a graveyard?" Hermione asks looking at all the stone statues.

"It's not a graveyard, it's a chess board" Ron states stepping onto the board. Suddenly fire light filled the room as a bunch of torches around the board lit up. We saw a door on the other side of the board and walked towards it. However, the white pawns blocked our path with their swords.

"Want now?" Hermione asks and I roll my eyes. And she is suppose to be the brightest witch of our generation.

"We play our way across the room, Ron you lead the way" I state. They all looked at me shocked. "Want? He is the best at chess" I reminds them and they nod their heads in agreement. "Want's the plan Ron?" I ask him.

"Harry you take the empty bishop square, Hermione you be the king's side castle as for me and Jack. We will be knights" Ron instructs and we all take our positions. A white pawn moves first and Hermione spoke up.

"Ron you don't think this is going to be like real wizard chess do you?" she asks.

"You there d5" Ron tells one of our pawns and moves to the position he called. The white pawn used it's swords destroying it. "Yes Hermione, I think it's going to be exactly like wizard chess" Ron tells her. He then focuses on the game and we were getting closer to winning when I realized something.

"Wait a minute" Harry and I say looking around the board.

"You understand right you two, once I make my move the queen will take me" Ron says. Hermione looked confused on want the problem. Again she is suppose to be the brightest witch of our generation. Merlin please help us.

"He's going to sacrifice himself" Harry tells her.

"No, you can't there must be an other way!" she yells.

"Do you want to stop Snape getting the stone or not?" Ron asks her. "It's Harry and Jack that have to go on not us" he tells her. "Knight to h3" he stats and the knight he was on moves to the position he called. Once there he said "check" and the white queen then heads his way. Clearing Harry's path to the white king as she destroyed Ron's piece and he fell unconscious.

Hermione went to move but Harry stopped her reminding her we were still playing. He then check mate the king and we ran to Ron. "Stay with him Hermione, he's right we have to on" Harry states. "Will you be ok with your arm Jack?" he asks.

"I just dislocated my shoulder, don't worry I'll be fine. Just need to put it in a sling" I tell him. I cut off the bottom of my shirt and Hermione came over. "Can you please tie it Hermione?" I ask and she nods her head. She did so and my arm felt a little better. "Go to the key room use the brooms to get out and send word to Dumbledore. Use Hedwig or Soren" I tell her.

Harry followed me through the door and we saw a giant troll unconscious. "Glad we didn't have to fight that one" I state. We reached Snape's test and saw the seven bottles with the riddle on the table. I ignored the parchment and picked up the right bottle as the fire walls appeared blocking us in.

"This will get you through save the stone" I state giving it to Harry.

"How do you know?" he asks.

"I helped make this test, please trust me Harry this one will take me back to the others" I tell him.

"We will discus this later" he states and drinks the potion. He then went through before the potion wore off and I put the other one down. No way I was leaving this room until I knew Harry was safe. So instead I sat down and relaxed closing my eyes. When I got pulled into an other vision, except it was happening right now and wasn't the future or a nightmare. Harry was looking at Quirrell who stood in front of the mirror of Erised.

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Gif above of chess board and picture of Snape's test on external link.