The Elemental Witch (Draco X OC X George)

Year I - Chapter VII

At the other side of the huge magical castle, everyone was gathered in the Great Hall. It was Halloween night and there were floating Jack O'Lanterns in place of the candles. The two boys were seating and Harry noticed two empty spots on the bench.

"Where's Hermione? And Aurora?" he asked.

"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. And Aurora has been sitting right outside the stall, trying to calm her down" Nevil informed him.

Harry glanced at Ron with a disapproving look on his face and the boy, shrugged. Suddenly, Professor Quirrell came running into the Great Hall in panic.

"TROLL! IN THE DUNGEON! T-TROOLLL IN THE DUNGEON!"Dumbledore rose from his seat in concern. Everyone looked at Quirrell as he stopped and there was utter silence. "Thought you ought to know"

With those words, he passed out on the floor. The once silent room was quickly overwhelmed by screams and shouts of students, freaking out and running.

"SILLLLLEEENNNNCEEEEE!" Dumbledore shouted, his voice echoing across the hall. Everyone stopped and calmed down. "Everyone will please, not panic. Now, Prefects will lead their houses back to the dormitories. Teachers will follow me to the dungeons"

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A bit later, Percy was leading the house down a corridor. "Gryffindors, keep up, please. And stay alert!"

"How could a troll get in?" Harry asked.

"Not by itself. Trolls are really stupid. Probably people playing jokes *Suddenly, Harry stopped and pulled Ron aside* What?"

"Hermione and Aurora, they don't know"

They two of them paled and quickly made their way discreetly from the crowd.

"How are we going to reach them in time?" Ron asked as they started to run down the stairs.

"Look!" Harry said and pointed above them was Ruby was flying.

Her yellow eyes locked on their forms before she flew a little faster. They wasted no time to follow the mystical bird, knowing very well that it would lead them to the girls as fast as possible.

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In the bathroom, the two girls ended up talking about pretty much everything and that had helped Hermione to calm down. Hearing the stall being unlocked, Aurora smiled in victory and stood up, her friend coming out a second later.

They both hugged each other, a smile on their faces. "Thank you, Aurora," the girl said as they parted.

"My pleasure"

They turn and were about to move when they noticed something. Blinking, they realized that it was a troll with its wooden club. Hermione was about to scream when Aurora placed her hand in front of her mouth and slowly moved her to retreat into the stalls as quietly as possible.

The troll though spotted them and with one move, he used its club to smash the top part of the stalls

"Shit" Aurora commented as Hermione freed her mouth and let out a scream.

A second later, Ruby flew in with the boys hot on her tail. The bird let out a screech and brought its sharp claws across the cheek of the beast.

"Come one" Aurora told her and lead her under the sinks while the troll was busy trying to hit her loyal bird.

However, the Phoenix avoided each hit and let it destroy more stalls. The boys had also tried to help by throwing pieces of wood at the Troll but caused no damage or even irritation to it. Hermione screams. Harry and Ron come bursting in.]