chapter 12

Hermione didn't turn up for the next class and wasn't seen all afternoon.

On their way down to the Great Hall for the Halloween feast, Harry, Key, Makai,and Ron overheard Parvati Patil telling her friend Lavender that Hermione was crying in the girl's bathroom and wanted to be left alone.

Ron looked still awkward at this, but at the moment later they had entered the Great Hall, where the Halloween decorations put Hermione out of their mind except Key.

Key was twirling Makai's wand, and Harry is taking a bite out of a potato.

Makai seeing the concern in Key's eyes, and takes her wand.

"What's wrong?" asked Makai.

"I'm worried about Hermione", said Key.

"She'll be fine", said Ron.

Key was about to hit Ron, but stopped herself.

"Sure, you would think that, it was your fault she's crying in the first place", Makai pointed out.

"All I did was tell the truth", said Ron.

"Well, didn't have to do it so bitterly", said Li.

Before Ron said anything, Professor Quirrell came sprinting into the Hall, his turban askew and terror on his face.

Everyone stared as he reached Professor Dumbledore's chair, slumped against the table and gasped, "Troll - in the dungeons - thought you ought to know."

He than sank to the floor in a dead faint.

There was an uproar. It took several purple firecrackers exploding from the end of Professor Dumbledore's wand to bring silence.

"Prefects", he rumbled, "lead your Houses back to the dormitories immediately!"

Percy was in his element.

"Follow me! Stick Together, First years! No need to fear the troll if you follow my orders! Stay close behind me,now. Make way, first years coming through! Excuse me, I'm a prefect!" Percy tells them

"How could the troll get in?" asked Harry as they climbed stairs.

"Don't ask me, they're supposed to be really stupid", said Ron. "Maybe Peeves let it in as a Halloween Joke".

They passed different group hurrying in different directions. As they jostled their way through a crowd of confused Hufflepuff, Harry suddenly grabbed Ron's arm.

Key grabbed Makai's arm, and follows Harry and Ron.

Unknown to their houses, the fae group escaped and enter their secret room.

Harry tells Ron, that he remembered about Hermione.

"What about her?" asked Ron.

"She doesn't know about the troll", said Harry.

Ron bit his lip.

"Oh, alright", Ron snapped. "But Percy better not see us".

"Great let's go", said Key.

"Uh oh!" Makai groaned.

Duking down, they joined the Hufflepuffs going the other way slipped down a desperatedside corridor, and hurried off toward the girls' bathroom.

Makai was kind of shaking, Key calm her down by holdiing her hand.

They had just turned the corner when they heard quick footsteps behind them.

"Percy!" hissed Ron, pulling Harry behind a large stone griffine beside Key.

Peering around it, however, they saw not Percy but Snape. He crossed the corridor and disappeared from view.

"What's he doing?" Harry asked in a whisper. "Why isn't he down in the dungeons with the rest of the teachers?"

Nobody responded between Ron, Key, and Makai.

Quietly as possible, they crept alone the next corridor after Snape's fading footsteps.

"He's heading for the third floor", Harry said, but Ron held up his hand.

"Do you smell something?" asked Ron.

Harry,Key,and Makai sniffed and a foul stench reached his nostrils, a mixture of old socks and the kind of public toliet noone seems to cleans.

They heard it, a low grunting, and the shuffling footfalls of gigantic feet.

Ron pointed at the end of a passage to the left, something huge was moving toward them.

They shrank into the shadows and watched as it merged into a patch of moonlighted.

It was a horrible sight.

It's twelve feet tall, its small bald head perched all top like each coconut. Its skin was dull, granite gray, its great lumpy body like a shoulder.

It had short legs thick as tree trunks with flat, horny feet.

It was holding a huge wooden club, which dragged along the floor because its arms were so long.

The troll stopped next to a doorway and making up its tiny mind, then clouched slowly into the bedroom.

In-between this the Faes was taking a secret passage way, which lead to the third floor.

The exact third floor is forbidden, they almost got caught by Professor Snape.

They made it to another room, filled with ancient books, it's dusty and abandoned

The fae group finds an book similar to History of Faes, but instead it says Faes and Visions.

Keni reads page 4 of chapter 1: Dear Fellow faes, my name is Uhani millfur, i'm apart of the guardians of the Laqueen's child, and our grandchildren. We're still looking for a safe place to raise the children.

It won't be easy not many people trust faes, called us strangers that want to cause destruction, I hope my granddaughters Qin and Li.

Keni turned around to see Qin and Li crying, but they wanted her to continue.

So, she skipped to the next journel entry.

Keni reads page 10: Journal entry twenty seven, we've found a trustworthy group of friends, and a temporary place to stay.

These people we soon figure out is like a second family, and it seems there is an unknown guardian that has a grandchild that is a fae too.

Hearing this information, the fae group took the book, and sneak out back to the passage way.

"The Key's in the lock", Harry muttered. "We could lock it in".

"Good idea", said Ron, nervously.

Key and Makai nodded in agreement.

They edged toward the open door, the troll wasn't about to come out of it. With one great leap, Harry managed to grab the key, slam the door and lock it.

"Yes!" cheered Harry.

They were at first, flushed with victory.

But, then Key looks at where they locked troll.

"Harry!" Key tapping her cousin shoulder.

They heard a petrified scream and it was coming from the chamber they just chained up.

"It's the girls' bathroom!" Harry gasped

"Hermione!" They said together.

Key pulled the door open and they ran inside.

Hermione Granger was shrinking against the wall opposite the wall opposite, looking as if she was about to faint.

The troll was advancing on her knocking the sinks off the walls it went.

"Confused it!"Harry said, desperately to Ron, and seizing a tap.

Ron and Key threw a metal pipe at the troll.

The troll runs toward Ron and Key.

Makai was completely petrified beside Key.

Harry goes to Hermione and tells her to move but she was competely petrified.

Key gets in the troll's way, which is when her wings appear. With her wings, she grabs the metal pipe, and hit the troll again.

"Key! Be careful!" Makai warned her.

"Don't worry about me, get Hermione out of here", said Key.

Harry takes Hermione out, but the footsteps caught the trolls attention.

With Makai's help, Hermione got out before the troll got them,but it got Harry.

The troll tried to hit Harry with the club, while hanging him upside down.

"Do something!" yelled Harry.

"What?" asked Ron.

"Anything!" responded Harry.

Ron got out of his wand, and said, "Wingardium Leviosa".

The club was in the air, and hit the troll.

Key grabbed Harry's hand, while flying, moving from the troll.

The troll fell down on the ground.

Makai and Hermione come back in to see if everybody was okay.

Key land on the floor slowing, while holding Harry's hand.

Makai hugged Key with concern, and said "Thank you".

"I didn't do much, Ron was the one that knocked the troll out", said Key.

Hermione looked closely at the troll who was knocked out, and asked "Is it dead?"

"I don't think so, just knocked out", said Harry.

Almost unnoticed Professor Quirrel, Professor McGonagall, and Professor Snape.

"Oh my goodness! Explain yourselves", groaned McGonagall referring to Ron and Harry.

Harry and Ron was about to explain, but Hermione interrupted.

"It's my fault, Professor Mcgonagall", said Hermione.

"Miss Granger!" McGonagall gasped.

Hermione did the unthinkable she told a downright lie to a professor.

"I went looking for the troll, I've read about them and thought I could handle it. But I was wrong if Ron,Key,Harry,and Makai hadn't come and found me. I probably be dead", Hermione lied.

"Be that as it may...it was an extremely foolish thing to do", McGonagall.

Harry looks at Snape's leg...which has a large cut on it. Snape notices and covers it up, glaring at Harry.

"I would have expected more rational behaviour on your part, Ms. Granger. 5 points will be taken from Gryffindor for your serious lack of judgment", McGonagall.

McGonagall turns to Harry,Key,Ron, and Makai.

"As for you two gentlemen along with Miss walker and Makai, I just hope you realize how fortunate you are. Not many students could take on a full grown mountain troll and live to tell the tale. 5 points...will be awarded to each of you. For sheer dumb luck", McGonagall continued.

Snape and McGonagall exit.

"Perhaps you ought to go...M-might wake up...heh", Quirrell told them.

Ron, Key, Makai,Harry and Hermione. Troll roars.

"Ahh! Hehe..." said Quirrell.