Harry and Daphne sat with Tracy at dinner on the Halloween feast, Draco wisely sat on the opposite end of the table and none of the trio could be bothered to complain.
"Harry" Tracy said "when we get back to the common room, can you help me with my charms homework?"
"I would Tracy" Harry replied "but Daphne's sisters fathers wife's eldest daughter needs to talk with her breathtakingly handsome boyfriend and I have to be there"
"Oh, okay" Tracy responded
"Give her a minute" Harry whispered to Daphne, who watched as realisation hit Tracy's face
"Oh, you utter prat!" Tracy punched Harry in the arm
"Guilty" Harry smiled "and yes, I will help you with your homework, even though it's due in tomorrow and I think you should suffer the consequences of not doing it."
"Thank you" Tracy sighed
"TROLL!" Quirrell burst into the hallway, catching everyone's attention "IN THE DUNGEON! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON! Thought you ought to know" He then fell flat on his face
"What happened to his stutter?" Harry whispered "and who faints like that?" Before he could receive his answers the whole hall burst into panic, Harry could hear tons of girls screaming, the most annoying scream turned out to be Malfoys who Harry had genuinely thought was a girl.
"Silence!" Dumbledore shouted, and the whole hall stopped "everyone will please not panic, prefects will lead the younger years to their dormitories" The prefects did as they were told, and began leading the students to their dormitories.
"Okay, listen up" One of the Slytherin prefect said "the headmaster has seemed to forgotten that we stay in the dungeons, so we're going to the library instead"
The Slytherin's followed the prefects to the library, as they were walking Daphne had put her hand in Harry's, while Tracy had taken a hold of his sleeve, much to Draco's annoyance.
"Greengrass" Draco said as they walked "wouldn't you rather stay by my side? I'd me much more capable of protecting you than Potter"
"Oh, says the boy who screamed like a girl" Daphne spat "I wouldn't hold your hand for a million galleons"
"We really doing this right now Draco?" Harry sighed "A troll in the castle and you're actually trying to do this right now?"
Draco's response was cut off by a loud scream, everyone stopped and looked in the direction of the scream. They were greeted by sight of Adrian, Ron and Hermione running towards them with the troll chasing them.
"Idiots!" Tracy yelled "They're leading it right to us!"
"Screw my life" Harry sighed before yanking his hand out of Daphne's and pulling Tracy off of his sleeve
"Harry?" Daphne looked at him
"I want you lot to run! Now!" Harry ordered
"Harry!" Daphne looked alarmed "You're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you!"
"If you're thinking I'm thinking about taking on the troll then you would be correct"
"Harry that's suicide!" Daphne screamed
"Only if I die" Harry took a breath and started running
"Harry!" Daphne was held back by Tracy "Harry get back here!"
Harry tossed off his robes and started running straight at the golden trio and the troll, the trio had just caught sight of Harry running at them and were beginning to think that he was mad. Harry ran closer to the wall on his right, he jumped up in the air and kicked off the wall and soared over their heads.
He landed on the floor and ran straight at the troll, who had just noticed him. The troll raised its club and prepared to smash him. Harry raised his wand and aimed it at the troll.
"Lumos Maxima!" Harry yelled
A bright light burst out of his wand, the troll closed his eyes but swung blindly. Harry slid on the floor to avoid having his head knocked off but he quickly got to his feet and ran past the troll.
"Incendio!" Harry shot a burst of fire at the back of the troll's head "Stupefy" Harry added a stunning spell to the same spot.
Harry knew they wouldn't do anything to hurt the troll much but it would serve his purpose of annoying and distracting the troll. And it appeared to have worked as the troll turned to him with a furious expression on his face, Harry just smirked and began running.
"Come on you big old bastard! Follow me!" Harry called out to the troll "Come on, I'm here!" The troll roared and started chasing after Harry who had just turned a corner, the troll followed him with its club raised.
"He's mad!" Adrian exclaimed
"So Greengrass" Draco drawled "it looks like Potter has decided that life's not worth living, I highly doubt he'll survive, don't worry though. I'm still..." The rest of Draco's words were cut off when Daphne punched him in the face.
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Harry was being chased by the troll who was gaining on him, while the troll was slow it's big legs made up the distance that Harry was gaining by his speed. Harry screeched to a halt at the stair cases, he looked around and nobody else was there. Though, the paintings were still there so Harry had to be careful with what he did.
The trolls club tried to smash him but Harry quickly rolled out of the way and narrowly avoided death. He quickly ran up the stairs, the troll followed, and kept swinging at Harry who narrowly avoided getting hit each time.
It was at this point Harry wondered how he kept getting into life threatening situations, he was then a bit surprised to realise that this was his first life threatening situation since entering Hogwarts. However if the troll was the first then he wasn't sure he wanted to have more.
Harry had gotten up four flights of staircases with the troll still behind him, the troll was panting however as it was getting out of breath. Harry looked down and decided that it was probably high enough, so after dodging another troll swing he sent a stinging hex which hit the troll right in the eye.
The troll cried out in pain, but didn't get to do much before Harry sent another stinging hex at the other eye. It covered both eyes, and in its pain had begun moving about a lot. The staircase was getting damaged, Harry fired a reducto curse in-between the troll's feet, the staircase was damaged more but not enough it seems.
"Daphne's going to kill me" Harry sighed as he took a few steps back, he shook his head and in a moment of bravery and stupidity ran.
He jumped off a railing and soared through the air towards the lower staircase, he managed to grab hold of the railing and dangled there, he climbed up and took his wand and fired another reducto cure. This time at the underbelly of the staircase and right under where the troll was standing, it caused a lot of damage but still not enough. Harry fired another one, now the troll had regained its sense of sight and began looking around.
Upon seeing Harry it roared and held its giant club high in the air, Harry decided to get a move on. He took a big breath and aimed his wand at the same spot.
"Bombarda maxima!" Harry screamed and the spell went flying.
It hit the same spot under where the troll was standing and the staircase began crumbling, the troll was a bit confused as to why the ground was shaking and why the small human was smiling and waving at him.
Suddenly the staircase broke and the troll fell, Harry still waving and smiling as he did, the troll screamed as gravity pulled him all the way down to the floor. Harry had counted to five before he heard a big bang, which signalled the trolls landing. He wiped a bit of sweat off of his forehead, and sat down.
"Wow" Harry chuckled "a bloody troll!" Harry was slightly aware at how mad his laughing made him look "I killed a bloody troll! Ha, not much point in surviving the troll when Daphne's going to kill me." Harry stood up and began walking down the staircases, eventually he reached the bottom where he discovered the troll. He wasn't going to go anywhere near it on the off chance that it wasn't dead.
"What is going on here?!" Harry turned to find Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, Quirrell, Daphne, Tracy and the golden trio along with the two Slytherin prefects staring at him.
"Well, what's going on is you're staring at me" Harry answered, he was about to say more when Daphne chose that moment to run up and hug him. "It's alright Daph, I..." Daphne let go and punched him in the arm. "Ow, what was that for?"
"What was that for?!" Daphne repeated "You went after a bloody troll! You idiot! What were you thinking?!"
"Honestly? I..."
"You weren't thinking!" Daphne interrupted "You were stupid and you worried me sick! I can't believe you..."
This time Daphne was cut off but not by words, Harry had grabbed her face and pulled her closer and gave her a kiss on the lips. It lasted all of five seconds before Harry stopped and let go.
"Daph" Harry said softly "I promise you, I'm fine"
"Mr Potter" Snape spoke up "what happened?"
"Well sir" Harry answered "me and the rest of the Slytherin's were all making our way to the library"
"The library?" Dumbledore asked "I had instructed you to make your way to the dormitories"
"Yes, you did sir" Harry nodded "but you forgot one crucial thing"
"What's that?"
"The troll was supposed to have been sighted in the dungeons, which coincidentally is where the Slytherin common room is" Harry pointed out
"He's right sir" One prefect spoke "we had decided to go to the library instead"
"Very well, ten points for quick thinking" Snape said "now what happened?"
"Well sir, apparently the troll was no longer in the dungeons. Perhaps the Gryffindor's would like to give their version of what happened first" Harry replied
"Well?" Snape looked to the golden trio "what happened?"
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