A good Beginning (Harry Potter)

Chapter 11: Advancements

The news that Harry Potter had single handily tackled a fully grown troll had spread around the school like wildfire; people were extremely impressed by the boy, who was in his first year, achieved something that some 7th years could do. Some of the 7th year students however weren't surprised that the boy was showing extreme power because they remembered when they were all in their first year and Harry had dealt with those bullies.

A lot of teachers were now also secretly admiring the boy, they were constantly watching him, everyone was. The only teacher who didn't seem to show any hint of admiration was Professor Snape; he tended to pick on Harry, asking him questions which 5th years would know, much to Snape's dismay Harry could answer most of them. However, one time Snape randomly asked him what a bezoar was, and gave him a detention because he said it a kidney stone from a lamb instead of goat.

This really annoyed Harry because deliberately made the detention overlap with Harry's first quidditch practise, causing him to miss the first 15 minutes. As Harry rushed to the quidditch office, broom slung over his back, he heard Wood give his team a talk.

'Alicia and Angelina, it is vital that you follow this play because if you don't we could very well loose' Oliver commanded as Harry came running in panting. 'Harry! Where have you been' he demanded.

'Sorry, Snape deliberately overlapped a detention, I only found out about the detention an hour before practise'

'Why may I ask you were in detention in the first place?' Angelina piped up

'He randomly asked me what a bezoar was, I told him it was a kidney stone from the gut of a lamb, it actually from a goat'

'What!', Wood shouted in fury, 'I'm in my fifth year and I'm only just learning about bezoars. This is outrageous. Anyway, I'll have a talk with Professor McGonagall, but let's actually go to the pitch, show the rest of the team why we have an eleven year old on the team, and practise some quidditch'. They all stood up and walked up to the pitch.

Oliver let 5 snitches loose on the pitch, normally the Gryffindors had quite a private training session, but a lot of the other houses wanted to see just how good Harry really was. After 15 minutes, Harry had rounded up all the snitches, he looked to the stalls to see a lot of people looking very worried. Harry rode his broom up to Oliver.

'Oliver, why does everyone in stalls look so scared and worried?' Harry asked whilst Wood laughed at how naive and innocent this child was.

'Because they all feel really threatened by your ability Harry; you rounded up 5 snitches in 15 minutes, that is around a snitch every 3 minutes, that is an insane ability Harry. I have a good feeling about this year, with you on the team, we'll finally be unstoppable.'

Dear mum, dad, Sirius and Remus,

I haven't written to you in a week so I'm going to some it all up in this one letter instead of sending all of you different letters. Hogwarts is awesome, thanks so much for sending me a new broom, it feels so smooth, but swift at the same time. I missed a bit of my first Quidditch practice because of ruddy Snape; that slimy git should learn how to make himself liked by someone who isn't in Slytherin.

I got a detention from him, he randomly asked me what a bezoar was, I said that it was the kidney stone from the gut of a lamb instead of a goat. Turns out that bezoars are a topic studied in O.W.L.S potions; it doesn't matter though because everyone was very happy when we started Quidditch practice. A lot of the other houses came to watch so that they could see what I was like as a player. Oliver let loose 5 snitches and I caught them all in 15 minutes; honestly, by then end of the practice all the teams were quaking in their boots. Make sure that you guys come for my first game.

Professor Dumbledore must have told you guys about the little run in that I had with a troll on Halloween. Professor Quirell came running into the feast claiming that a troll had come into the dungeons; I would have thought that the DADA teacher would be able to fend off a troll, but he seemed completely incompetent, I mean honestly why even employ the idiot.

Anyway, the reason why went to fight the troll was because Hermione was in the girls bathroom because of some nasty things Ron said about her when he thought she wasn't listening, she was obviously. We went to help her out of there or to warn her, but when we got there the troll was already there in the bathroom, so I knocked it out. This is one of the parts which I need some advice on, when the teachers arrived, Snape had some vicious slash marks on his leg. It took me a while to figure out where I had seen them before, but then it clicked, that was from the big three headed dog.

I was running from Filch in the middle of the night, for reasons that do not concern you(especially mum), when I found myself in the 3rd floor corridor. I opened the door and what was facing me was a massive three headed dog; I ran for it, don't worry, but before I ran I saw that it was lying over a trap door. It was guarding something; anyway, I decided to ask Hagrid about three headed dogs and he told me about his pet three headed dog called Fluffy and when Hagrid described what it looked like it fit the description.

Do you remember last month were there was that article about a Gringrotts vault broken into, I reckon that is what it was guarding, and that is what Snape was after. I know its a wild theory but I think that he let the troll in as a distraction so that  no one would realise that he slipped off to the third floor. A part  of me is even thinking that he's doing this for Voldemort, which would be very ironic that Voldemort tried to make his move on the 10 year anniversary of his downfall, maybe that's a little too farfetched.

There is one more very serious thing I need to discuss: Peter Pettigrew. Ron has a pet rat named Scabbers, he was passed down to Ron, the rat has been in the Weasley family for over 10 years. That's way too long for any rat to survive right? Well anyway when Ron handed me the rat on the first day, I saw that the rate had markings as if it were wearing a blazer, I haven't done anything yet because I'm looking for the map before I have hard evidence. I plan on asking the Weasley twins for help when finding it because they are basically like the second generation of the Marauders; I actually broke into Filch's office when looking for it.

I don't want you guys to act upon the information about Scabbers though, wait for me to catch him, his guard is definitely down because he thinks I'm an innocent 11 year old boy. Ron told me that his brother Percy found Scabbers on the 3rd of November 1981, it can't be a coincidence.

Anyway, enough conspiracy, please write back to me quickly. Also when writing, please consult Remus and mum before responding to the latter part of the letter, no offence Padfoot and dad but you guys are the same mental age as me. 

Love Harry.

P.S: I finally got my grindolow form perfected, I can now turn into 5 different creatures!