Truth's And Lie's

Dogs and Trolls

Running through the halls trying to find Harry, you grind when you spotted him and Ron walking to you "Harry! Congratulations on getting into your house's team!" You said hugging the said boy making him smile and confusing the redhead "How did you know?" Harry asked as you broke the hug and turned to follow "It's going around the school like wildfire! I don't know if I should rub it in Draco's face or thank him for being a snob." You laughed making the boy shake his head as Sir Nicholas, the Gryffindor's house ghost went flying by with an attractive lady on arm. "Have you heard? Harry Potter's the new Gryffindor Seeker. I always knew he'd do well." He said making Ron look at him. "Seeker? But first years never make their house teams! You must be the youngest Quidditch player in-" "A century, according to McGonagall." Harry finished as Ron's brothers approached and started to follow behind the small group. "Hey, well done, Harry, Wood's just told us!" The twin on the right said happily. "Fred and George are on the team, too. Beaters." Ron said as the twin on the left explained their jobs. "Our job is to make sure that you don't get bloodied up too bad. Can't make any promises, of course. Rough game, Quidditch." "Brutal. But no one's died in years. Someone will vanish occasionally..." the right one said as they broke from the group. "But they'll turn up in a month or two!!" The other yelled before they left earshot as you waved at Hermione "Oh, go on, Harry, Quidditch is great. Best game there is! And you'll be great, too!" Ron said trying to encourage his friend when Hermione joined the group. "But I've never even played Quidditch. What if I make a fool of myself?" Harry said worriedly, as you opened your mouth Hermione stepped in "You won't make a fool of yourself. It's in your blood." She said leading you and the others back into the castle and up to what looked like a trophy case surprising the three of you with one engraved named. "Whoa. Harry, you never told me your father was a Seeker, too!" Ron said looking at him. "I-I didn't know." Harry said looking at the engraving in awe. Walking with them and chatting about classes til you noticed that they were going to their house you stopped with a sad smile "Looks like this is where we part today. See you guys in class tomorrow." You said turning to go to your dorm when Ron called out to you.  Looking at him "Come on, no one will really mind you visiting our common room for a little bit. Your the nicest person anyone knows and so far everyone thinks of you as one of our own for how you take care of Neville and Seamus when they get hurt." He said nodding his head up the stairs as Harry smiled. Grinning you looked at Hermione who shrugged with a smile making you follow them with joy bubbling in your stomach as Ron turned to look at Hermione then at Harry "I'm telling you, it's spooky. She knows more about you than you do." He said shaking his head as you and Hermione noticed the railing close behind the group while you all were heading up the stairs. Feeling the staircase shudder and move you held onto the railing "What's happening!?" You asked at the same time as Harry. "The staircases change, remember?" She said as the stairs stopped. "When I visit it decides to change on me, really?" You joked as Harry made Ron move forward "Let's go this way." He said leading everyone up the stairs. "Before the staircase moves again." Ron said opening a door  making a pillar light up with a fire. "Does anyone feel like...we shouldn't be here?" Harry asked as everyone backed away "We're not supposed to be here. This is the 3rd floor. It's forbidden." Hermione said making you turn to leave when a familiar cat got your attention "That isn't Filch's cat is it?" You asked as they turned to "It is Filch's cat!" Ron said stepping back "Run!" Harry yells as you all booked it to the end of the corridor as fire lit your way. Hitting a door Harry tried the handle finding it locked "It's locked!" He yelled making Ron panic "That's it, we're done for!" Seeing Hermione take out her wand you grabbed the redhead moving him out of the way "Move over! Alohomora." She said swishing her wand. Hearing the door unlock you opened it rushing in with everyone following you. "Alohomora?" Ron questioned making you freeze when you saw a very large three headed dog sleeping in front of you. Holding your breath as you hit Harry's back making him look over when Hermione looked to the redhead, "Standard book of spells, Chapter 7." She answered listening for Filch "Filch is gone." She said relaxing "Probably thinks this door's locked." Ron said giving a sigh of relief "It was locked." The brunette said looking at you seeing you go pale "And for good reason." Harry said making the other two turn as the large three headed hound began to wake up and growl seeing the four of you. Stepping back as it started to stand and bared its teeth, making all of you scream running from the room and trying to shut the door behind you as the cerberus pushed against it. As soon as it was shut and locked again you and everyone ran to the Gryffindor common room. Sitting on a nearby chair breathlessly you looked at Ron. "What do they think they're doing?? Keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?" He said trying to get he breath back, "You don't use your eyes, do you? Didn't you see what it was standing on?" Hermione said a bit annoyed. "I wasn't looking at its feet! I was a bit preoccupied with its heads. Or maybe you didn't notice, there were three!" Ron argued glaring at the girl. Standing to try and keep them from arguing "It was standing on a trap door. Which means it wasn't there by accident. It's guarding something." Hermione said unpleased with the situation. "Really? I guess that's why the 3rd floor is off limits." You said as Harry questioned her. "That's right. Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed...or worse, expelled! And sorry for that feaco (First/Name) next time, I promise nothing like that will happen, when you come to visit us." She said turning to go up to her room after glaring at the boys. "She needs to sort out her priorities!" Ron said trying to defend himself as Harry nodded in agreement. Giggling "Are all Gryffindor's this exciting and parsley scary?" You asked making the two shrug. Yawning and stretching you turn to the two and bid them goodnight "Well that's enough excitement for me today. And from what I got to see from your common room it's nice up here." You complemented waving at the two as you left heading to your designated dorm quietly and sneakily trying not to get caught by the prefects roaming the halls making sure no one was out and about. As the next few weeks passed without too much incident, well except the few arguments with Draco, Neville getting hurt in defense against the dark arts, Seamus having his magic blow up in his face, and the memory of the cerberus weighing on your mind 'I wonder what he's guarding? For such a dog to guarding, it must be important.' You thought playing with the fluffy feather in front of you as you sat in Charms while Professor Flitwick spoke about levitating objects. "One of a wizard's most rudimentary skills is levitation the ability to make objects fly. Uh, do you all have your feathers? Good. Now, uh, don't forget the nice wrist movement we've been practicing, hmm? The swish and flick. Everyone the swish and flick. Good. And enunciate. Wingardium Leviosa. Off you go then." He said urging everyone to try out the spell. Taking out your wand you heard Draco from behind you "Wingardium Levio-saaa." He said tapping you on the head with his wand, making you look at him with a glare. Looking over at Ron from across the room to ignore the blond watching as he was whacking his feather with his wand making you want to laugh when Hermione stopped him, turning back to your feather "Wingardium Leviosa." You said doing the wand movement making the feather lift up a little bit when Professor Flitwick broke your consideration making your feather drop. "Oh, well done! See here, everyone! Ms. Granger's done it! Oh, splendid!" He said happily when the sound of a small explosion sounded making everyone turn to Seamus whose face was covered in dark powder and hair stick up to no end. "I think we're going to need another feather over here, Professor." Harry said as a burnt feather fell. Walking with the group of boys after class you were helping Seamus clean off his face with your handkerchief when you heard Ron speak to Harry. "It's Leviosa, not Leviosar. Honestly, she's a nightmare. No wonder she hasn't got any friends!" Looking at him sharply you were about to yell at Ron when Hermione rushed past, sniffling. "I think she heard you." Harry said as you came up and smacked the back of their heads "You don't say? Really now Ron don't start acting like Draco when she corrects you!" You growled rushing after her. Losing sight of Hermione in the crowd you sighed and looked down scratching the back of your head. 'I hope she'll be alright.' You thought heading to the kitchen to practice using magic without a wand again. Walking into the Great Hall you smiled at the jack o'lanterns floating above. Sitting on the side closest to the Gryffindor table as usual you frowned not seeing Hermione at all. Leaning back and using the bench as support you heard Harry ask where Hermione was. Looking at Neville when he spoke up. "Parvati Patil said that she wouldn't come out of the girl's bathroom. She said that she'd been in there all afternoon... crying." He said looking between you and the two boys in front of him when the doors suddenly burst open "TROLL! IN THE DUNGEON! T-TROOLLL IN THE DUNGEON!! He yelled making it up halfway up the alley behind you before stopping. "Thought you ought to know." He said falling in a dead faint scarring everyone. "Professor!" You yelled jumping from your seat to lift and cradle the downed teacher as everyone else screamed and started to run about. "SILLLLLEEENNNNCEEEEE! Everyone please, not to panic. Now, Prefects will lead their houses back to the dormitories. Teachers will follow me to the dungeons." Dumbledore said standing, as Gabriel told you to get up and follow you looked at the turban wearing man then at the nurse who knelt down "Not to worry dear, I'll take care of him just head back to your common room." She said as you reluctantly got up. Following at the back of the group when you saw both Ron and Harry running in the direction of the girls washroom. "Harry! Ron! What are you doing?" You asked running after them "Hermione is still in the girls bathroom! And she doesn't know about the troll!" They yelled suddenly stopping when the creature walked by and pushed open a door entering the room making you gasp "He's going into the Girl's Bathroom!" Harry yelled as the three of you sprinted to the bathroom as screaming could be heard. Slamming yourself into the door making it burst open Harry yelled, "Hermione, move!" As the troll swung its club smashing the remaining stalls. Hearing Hermione plead for help you jumped forward grabbing broken pieces of wood and throwing them at the troll trying to get it away from the girl. "Hey, pea brain!" Ron yelled joining you hitting the troll in the head getting it's attention long enough for Hermione to escape from the stalls and under a sink, but the troll saw her and went to smash her breaking the sink and barely misses Hermione making her  scream. Taking out your wand with Harry as he ran forward grabbing the troll's club, being accidentally lifted off the ground and onto its shoulders making it twist and turn trying to shake him off. Grimsing as Harry's wand ended up it's nose. "Harry keep it distracted so I can get Hermione!" You yelled running to her only to have Harry knock into you when the troll grabbed his leg. Landing on your back with a grown you lost hold of your wand and looked up seeing Harry being held upside down above you, you screamed as the club past over you barely brushing over you while trying to hit Harry. "Do something!" Harry yelled pulling his body up to avoid getting hit as you screamed "What?" Ron yelled in complete panic "Anything, just do it fast before one of us gets killed!" You screamed covering your face. Muffling everything until you feel Harry fall on top of you knocking the air out of you. Feeling Harry quickly pull you up and out of the way, you fumbled trying to breath again as the troll fell over. Gasping and holding your stomach and holding onto Harry who held you up as support when Hermione approache carefully "Is it...dead?" She asked picking up your wand in case she needed it. Feeling you let go of him, Harry looked at the troll "I don't think so. Just knocked out." He said retrieving his wand, making everyone make a disgusted face when it came away with snot all over it "Ew. Troll bogies." Harry said wiping it off on his pant leg as McGonagall, Snape and Quirrell came rushing in gasping at the scene "Oh! Oh, my goodness! E-Explain yourselves, all three of you!" She yelled at both boys and you as you held your abdomen. Looking down and scratching the back of your head "Well, what it is..." You, Ron, and Harry tried to start not knowing what to say when Hermione stepped in "It's my fault, Professor McGonagall." Making everyone snap there eyes at her "Ms. Granger?" McGonagall questioned to which made Hermione look down "I went looking for the troll, only for (First/Name) to follow after telling me it was to much to handle on my own and let the professors take care of it so I wouldn't get hurt, but I read about them and thought I could handle it disregarding her words. But I was wrong. If Harry and Ron hadn't come and found me with (First/Name)'s help...I'd probably be dead." She said looking at the three of you.  "Be that as it may...it was an extremely foolish thing to do. I would have expected more rational behaviour on your part, Ms. Granger. 5 points will be taken from Gryffindor for your serious lack of judgment. As for you three I just hope you realize how fortunate you are. Not many students could take on a full grown mountain troll and live to tell the tale. 5 points...will be awarded to each of you. For sheer dumb luck." McGonagall said leaving with Snape following after her. Looking at Quirrel as he looked at the unconscious troll. "Perhaps you ought to go...M-might wake up...heh. Oh M-ms. (First/Name) you sh-should go to the medical wing and get your stomach l-looked at." He said as you all walked out. Looking at the ground as Hermione gave you back your wand "That was good of you to get us out of trouble like that." Harry said looking over at her "Mind you, we did just save her life!" Ron said a little annoyed making you smack the back of his head as Harry countered "Mind you, she probably wouldn't need saving if you hadn't insulted her." Looking harshly at the redhead making him look at her "Well what are friends for?" He asked making both you and Hermione smile. Getting close to where you would have to part ways "I have to go this way. I hope you all get a good night's sleep. Oh and Harry,  do your best in practice. I heard the team you'll be going up against is Slytherin." You said waving them farewell as you went down the hall  to the hospital wing. Looking at the other two "I'll  walk her since I think I'm the one who hurt her." Harry said running after you as Ron and Hermione nodded walking ahead. "Harry you don't have to I'm fine. You should go to your dorm so you don't get in trouble for being out of bed." You said opening the door to the infirmary making the nurse look up from her writing "Oh Ms. (Fist/Name) did mister Potter here get hurt?" She said getting up from her desk and looking over Harry after seeing how dirty the both of you were. Shaking his head quikly "N-no it's not me who's hurt!" Harry said shaking his head and looking at you. Nodding a bit "Yeeaahh, well you'll hear about it tomorrow most likely, we saved Hermione from the troll." You said looking away as Madam Poppy rushed you to a bed "Really now?! Show me where your hurt!" She said as you lifted you shirt enough to show your bruising abdomen making Harry gasp and rush over to take a closer look "I'm so sorry (Fisrt/Name)!" He said as the nurse went to fetch her wand "Harry it not your fault. The troll dropped you on me. You couldn't help it!" You said sternly as Harry looked apologetically at your belly. Pinching the back of his arm when Madam Poppy came back "Now I need you to lie down so I can heal any internal injuries. Mr. Potter please wait outside so Ms. (Last/Name) can remove her shirt." She said ushering the boy out. Doing as told when Harry left you blew your hair out of your face "Well this is one thing I'm not telling my parents this coming Christmas." You sighed feeling cool magic pooling in you stomach as the bruise slowly disappeared.