Harry Potter x Reader

Second Year - Double Petrification

"No.. seriously. The voices are getting louder, much louder. It's not safe."
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So turns out the description of Chloe is the description of many of my readers' own enemy.. woah..
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Third Person POV

The four had always known that Hagrid had an unfortunate liking for large and monstrous creatures.

During their first year at Hogwarts he had tried to raise a dragon in his little wooden house, and it would be a long time before they forgot the giant, three-headed dog he'd christened 'Fluffy'.

And if, as a boy, Hagrid had heard that a monster was hidden somewhere in the castle, Harry was sure he'd have gone to any lengths for a glimpse of it.

He'd probably thought it was a shame that the monster had been cooped up so long, and thought it deserved the chance to stretch its many legs; Harry could just imagine the thirteen-year- old Hagrid trying to fit a lead and collar on it. But he was equally certain that Hagrid would never have meant to kill anybody.

Harry half-wished he hadn't found out how to work Riddle's diary. Again and again Ron and Hermione made him recount what he'd seen, until he was heartily sick of telling them and sick of the long, circular conversations that followed. (Y/N) didn't seem to want to say anything about the situation.

'Riddle might have got the wrong person,' said Hermione. 'Maybe it was some other monster that was attacking people ...'

'How many monsters d'you think this place can hold?' Ron asked dully.

'We always knew Hagrid had been expelled,' said Harry miserably. 'And the attacks must've stopped after Hagrid was kicked out. Otherwise, Riddle wouldn't have got his award.'

Ron tried a different tack. 'Riddle does sound like Percy - who asked him to grass on Hagrid, anyway?'

'But the monster had killed someone, Ron,' said Hermione.

'And Riddle was going to go back to some Muggle orphanage if they closed Hogwarts,' said Harry. 'I don't blame him for wanting to stay here ...'

'(Y/N).. you're awfully quiet.' Hermione told her, timidly.

She shook her head, 'I just don't believe that Hagrid could do that.. accidental or not.. he didn't.. he wouldn't.. not kill somebody either.'

'But that's the thing.. he never meant for it to kill anyone.' Harry said, sadly.

'Well,' she thought, 'well.. if he did open the Chamber, then why did Dumbledore still keep him in the grounds. Malfoy even said that anyone who would've opened the Chamber would be in Azkaban.'

'Dumbledore's done a lot of things we don't know.' Hermione added as (Y/N) sighed.

Ron bit his lip, then said tentatively,
'You met Hagrid down Knockturn Alley, didn't you, Harry? (Y/N), you were with him.'

'He was buying a Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent,' said (Y/N) quickly, recalling her and Harry's encounter.

The four of them fell silent. After a long pause, Hermione voiced the knottiest question of all in a hesitant voice: 'Do you think we should go and ask Hagrid about it all?'