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Chapter Six
Hogwarts’ Grounds
Hogwarts School, Scotland
Time 06:00Am
One week from that night, flying lessons were announced, and Harry and his friends got all worked up. Hermione started looking up books on flying; with Neville taking notes on what she told him was important. Ron on the other hand cheered up at this and started bragging to anyone who would listen about the time he went flying on his brother’s “borrowed” broom. On yet another hand Harry was worried he would make a fool of himself in front of everyone. They however were not the only ones like this, all the first years in the school were acting the same way.
The morning of the announced flying lessons over breakfast the group were sitting at the Ravenclaw table, (they had at some point in time took to sitting at either the Slytherin or Ravenclaw tables, with no real order as to when they would change tables, but they always sat together.) and talking about the flying lesson that was to start that day, when the owls came with the mail. Neville received a red orb from his grandmother. “What’s that?” asked Hermione looking at the orb. “Oh this?... it’s a Remembrall” answered Neville. “Ok, so what does it do?” this time it was Harry who asked.
“It tells you when you forget something by turning red.” Ron answered much to everyone’s surprise. “Yea, but I wish it would show you what you forgot somehow.” Neville said sadly. Before anything else could be said about that the Remembrall was taken right out of his hands by the I’ve got my wand so far up my a** I can’t use it so I’ll let these two idiots do all the work for me (I should find a shorter name for him but that one fits him Oh so well and right now I just don’t feel like changing it… what I can’t help myself.) otherwise known as the prat Draco Malfoy.
“What’s this?... a Remembrall. Really Longbottom?” he sneered. Much to everyone’s relief McGonagall chose this time to come over. “What’s going on here?” Professor McGonagall asked. “Malfoy took Neville’s Remembrall, Professor.” Hermione told her. After scowling at Hermione, Malfoy dropped the Remembrall back into Neville’s hands. “I was only looking professor.” With those words he went right back to slytherin table.
After that little incident there were no more problems throughout the day, even with potions class that day (though not that potions class has been problematical since Snape has not picked on harry since that first day) as for the flying lesson, well as it turns out harry had nothing to worry about. You see according to Madam Hooch (the flying instructor) harry is a natural flyer. Ron for all his Bragging was only as good as the next guy if you know what I mean. The same could be said about Malfoy though he was better than Ron. Later that night Harry and Safir snuck into the broom shed and after getting two brooms, Harry proceeded to show Safir how to fly it.
Like harry it seemed that safir was a natural flyer too. So after a good hour or two of flying they took the brooms back to the shed and went exploring more of the castle before going to bed for the night. Before they knew it a month had passed by and they were at the end of another one. It was now Halloween morning, and everyone was awakened by the delicious smells of pumpkin baking as if they were all sleeping next to ovens with pumpkin pie in them or something else pumpkin related in them. That day for some reason the girls in Ravenclaw took to making fun of Hermione or perhaps they had always made fun of her yet she never told them.
Whatever the reason it seemed that things were getting worse for now they were making fun of her in and out of class. The teasing had gotten steadily worse as the day progressed and after charms class it seemed that Hermione couldn't take it anymore and went crying into the girls’ bathroom. The three boys try to find a way to get Hermione out of the bathroom but they couldn't so they stopped for the time being. They had decided that if she didn't come out after dinner they would ask a teacher for help. So with that in mind they proceeded to spend the rest of the day letting the teachers know that she was not feeling well and getting her the notes for class so she wouldn't miss out on schoolwork.
Later that night during the Halloween feast everyone had been eating quite contently, but the boys were still worried that she had not shown up and were just about to get up and ask a teacher for help when Professor Quirrell came busting through the door yelling out "TROLL --- in the dungeons --- thought you ought to know." then proceeded to faint. This caused all the students to panic but none more so than Harry, Ron and Neville who had been worried all day about Hermione and even more so now that she could be hurt by the troll. With the headmaster telling all the students to go back to their dorms and demanding that the teachers help him find the troll the boys did not get a moment to tell the teachers that Hermione was still in the girls’ bathroom. As they were being herded back to their dorms they decided that they would go to the girls bathroom and get Hermione out of their before anything could happen to her and bring her back to the dorms themselves. So with this in mind, while nobody was looking, the three of them slipped away from the rest of the crowd after leaving the great Hall.
Heading towards the girls bathroom they came across Snape at some point. He seemed to have been headed to the third floor corridor instead of the dungeons. Though this was odd they did not have time for it so they put it out of their minds for the time being. Luckily for them Snape did not see them ether therefore was none the wiser that they were not ware they were supposed to be. Continuing on they had almost made it to the girls’ bathroom when much to their dismay they saw it. Well to be more accurate they smelled it first.
The creature was huge, with a much too small head for its body and it was holding a large chunk of wood as a club. At the moment it was looking into a room. A few minutes later it was entering it. Ron came up with the idea of locking it in and getting a teacher to come and deal with it, but as they got closer to the door they realize it was the girls bathroom so rushing in to try and get Hermione out of there before it realized she was there they came across a scene that horrified not just the three of them but safir as well, for in the room Hermione was up against the far end wall paralyzed and staring up at the troll as it was breaking sinks and toilet stalls as it lumbered closer to her. This caused several reactions among the group of boys, Neville for instance was petrified at the site, Ron began to mumble frantically about ways to save her but other than that remained in place, Harry had stared out in shock but soon begun to debate whether or not now would be a good time to let Safir be seen or to let him use his powers but pretend it was him, Safir on the other hand decided to take that problem out of his hands and showed himself to the others by slowly coming out of Harry's shadow.
With Harry's scream of "SAFIR NO!" he launched himself at the troll having had already turned his hands into the claws of one of his creatures. This caught the troll's attention pretty quickly and he soon turned to safir and started attacking. Despite not wanting to let safir be seen yet, Harry decided that he would confront him later for this and took this time to rush over to Hermione and start to drag her out, but out of fear she refused to budge making it more difficult for safir as he had only hope to distract it while they got her out. The longer day stayed the more it looked like he would have to kill the troll or at least attempt to knock it out however as the latter would be a lot harder for him to do, he decided to kill the troll in a way that would not traumatize the others as much. Noticing that in their dual the troll had managed to destroy almost all of the sinks and toilets in the stalls with all the water spilling out, and to his relief none of the others were standing on puddles of water Safir decided to use liger's electricity to electrocute the troll. (Liger being Safir's lightning lion demon.)
So letting liger soul envelope him like a cloak he started to take on the shape and form of a large Golden lion with wings. It’s main and tail were made out of golden electricity. Not wasting time he immediately started to charge a lightning bolt attack in his mouth. Not knowing whether or not the troll decided to charge him because of the lack of action or because he thought he could stop safir from attacking safir forgoed a complete charge of the lightning attack and just launched it at his chest, hoping that the mix of electricity at his chest and water at his feet would be enough to at the very least stop him. As it turns out it was, not because the two elements were connected at first but because of the fact that as soon as he was hit, he fell forward causing his chest to hit the water which in turn caused the water to conduct more electricity and continue to shock him until the electricity stopped flowing from both him and the water.
Soon after this however Safir had to quickly hide inside of Harry's shadow for he heard three sets of footsteps coming closer and assumed they were some of the teachers, and he was right for as soon as he finished slipping into Harry's shadow three of their professors showed up. Professors McGonagall, Snape, and Quirrell came rushing in and as soon as Quirrell saw the troll on the floor with occasional shocks of electricity still running through its body, he sunk into the nearest still intact toilet and proceeded to look like he was trying to prevent himself from vomiting, but Safir could see he was hiding his face of utter shock, disbelief, and horror. Horror of what safir was not entirely sure yet it looked like he will have to keep a better eye on him. McGonagall looked like a mother lion about to scold one of her children because they had done something wrong. Snape on the other hand looked like he did not know whether to scold or to praise them as well as being in utter shock, both Harry and Safir noticed that he was bleeding from his right leg.
Much to everyone's surprise and before any of the professors could say a word Hermione started telling them about how she had not been at the feast and how the boys had come to collect her and inform her of the situation when the troll attacked. Up to this point she had managed to stay truthful to what had happened but when it came to the actual part of fighting the troll, Hermione had managed to hide the fact that Safir was even involved. She had told them that Harry had used a spell that he had looked up in the library and had not yet tested it out. She claimed it was a lightning spell and he had mixed it with the water, electrocuting the troll. Much to the group's relief professors McGonagall and Quirrell accepted this explanation.
Snape on the other hand did not seem to believe her. Now weather it was because he just didn't believe her at all or there was something about how Harry supposedly learned the lightning spell that he did not believe was uncertain. But regardless of whether or not Snape believed her McGonagall did not take points or give out a detention she did however send them to the hospital wing to get checked out by Madam Pomfrey before they were allowed to go back to their common rooms for the night. Taking that request as a dismissal the group left the girls bathroom. As soon as they were far enough away from the teachers Hermione forced the entire group to go into an empty classroom.
Closing the doors and hoping that it was enough, she turned on Harry with a look of "you are going to tell me everything that just happened right now or else..." Before looking at his shadow where safir was hiding with a look of "you better come out of there right now Mr. or else..." Although she did not say a thing they both knew they were in trouble. Realizing that he couldn't hide from them any longer Safir came out of Harry's shadow and sat on a desk in the empty classroom. Before anyone else could speak he decided to inform them of why he could not be seen by anyone, so Safir told them of how Harry and he had met as well as what they learned so far afterwards.
To say that everyone in the group was shocked was an understatement however Safir soon learned that despite all that they decided that if he was one of Harry's friends then they too would be one of his friends. Just as they were about to start coming up with a way to spend time with one another after class. (with Hermione deciding to look at all of Safir's written work and oversee his spell work) the door to the classroom banged open and in stumble Snape who had not yet had his leg looked at. To Safir's horror he was looking right at him and safir had not had time to completely hide in the shadows, but before he could finish hiding Snape said something that made him stop midway "do not bother Mr.Safir, that is your name right?, I heard everything so you can stay out." With those words he turned around closed the door pulled out his wand and started casting spells at it.
Once he was done he took a seat at the nearest table apparently his leg was hurting more than he thought because surely he would never sit on a table. After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence Snape sighed and promised he would not tell the other teachers or staff and more importantly he would not tell Dumbledore but he asked if what Safir had said was all true. After confirming that everything that they had said was true snape decided that it was all too much for the others and send them all to Madam Pomfrey before going back to their dorm rooms. Once everyone else was gone he had safir once again hide inside Harry's shadow and had Harry promised to come to his office after seeing Madam Pomfrey.
On their way down to the hospital wing Safir told Harry he would tell Snape about Harry's home life. This however did not sit well with Harry and they argued all the way to the hospital wing. The argument was forced to be stopped before they entered the wing less Madam Pomfrey hear Harry's side of the argument and think that he was not all there. Although the argument had not ended with either of them winning Safir had resolved himself to telling Snape as soon as he could when they met him at his office.
After being checked out by the nurse Harry waited until Snape's leg was bandaged and once the nurse let him go, they all headed to Snape's office. It took them a while to get there because of Snape's limping, but nevertheless they managed to make it there before too long. Once inside Snape had Harry sit in one of the chairs and had Safir come out of the shadows and sit in one of the other chairs, but before sitting himself he went to the fireplace and after throwing a green powder which also turned the fire green he stuck his head into it for a few minutes before sticking his head back out and sitting down at the chair across from the two boys behind his office table just as three sets of plates of food appeared on it.
Once seated Snape told them both "eat as you Mr. Potter have not yet finished your dinner and I assume that you Mr. safir have been eating nothing but scraps from Mr. Potter's plate lately am i right?" With both boys nodding in the affirmative he nodded once in response and gestured for the both of them to start eating. They ate in silence for a few minutes and once they were done Snape waved his wand, banishing the plates, Safir assuming to the kitchens where they would be cleaned or something. Before ether boy could start Snape moved in front of safir and started casting spells. Once he was satisfied that safir was ok he sat back down and looked between both boys and waited for one of them to start. With nothing else for it Safir decided that he would be the one to explain to Snape what happened but before he could Harry took the initiative and began to explain to him for the next hour or two everything that happened excluding his relatives bad treatment of himself.
Once this was all done Snape stared at them in disbelief for a few minutes before once again putting on his "mask"of indifference (the only reason Safir could tell it was a mask is because you could still clearly see the emotions of surprise and disbelief in his eyes). Having had enough of harry's stalling safir only waited for Snape to get his mask up before he started so Harry couldn't stop him. He told snape about what he saw and what harry had told him. This once again caused snape's mask to fall. Harry looked angry at Safir but safir knew that harry would forgive him someday, he hoped.
After this Snape asked safir if he could give him some evidence or tell him of something that could prove this. Safir responded with taking out harry's letter from hogwarts. Snape looked at it, then cast some spells on it before he asked to keep it for a bit so that he may use it to start a case in order to get harry out of the Dursleys. With that Snape noticed that both boys were tired, it had been a long day for the both of them, so he send them to bed after telling them to come back to him the next day so that they may see what can be done about safir's schooling. The two boys went to bed, safir tired from the fight with the troll, and harry from all that had happened that day.