17 getting rid of the dead weight

"Tttrrrrooooll... troll in the dungeon!!" The scrumptious Halloween feast was interrupted by a hysterical professor Quirrel who collapsed in the middle of the great hall, causing mass hysteria amoungst the little witches and wizards. So much so, that they failed to notice the absence of Richard and Hermione.

Right after the classes had ended, Richard had given his friends the slip, excusing himself from the feast by faking a headache. When in reality, he was wandering the school corridors, looking for the girls bathroom trailing Hermione. Which took him quite a while as well. He couldn't just go and ask another girl for the directions now, could he? And so, he had to spend some quarter an hour to finally track a girl to their bathroom.

Luckily, Richard was able to find a cheap but somewhat use able invisibility cloak from the room of requirement, which he patched up with the disillusionment charm. A charm he had spent a few hours earlier trying to master. And so, he hid behind the door at the entrance, while keeping his eyes tightly closed. He was by no way attracted to children. And he had no desire to be either. And so, he waited.... and waited and waited till he almost gave up. But seeing the dark sky outside, he became vigilant.

Sure enough, not ten minutes passed after that before a stench, almost incomparable to anything in power he had ever experienced washed over, followed by a twelve foot tall green giant with a coconut sized head. Well, maybe not coconut sized, Richard considered as he watched the troll walked in. But still the head was very small when compared with the rest of the body.

And when the troll walked in completely, the doors creaked shut. Followed by clanking of keys, indicating that the door was well and truly closed.

'Aaaaaannnnddd.....Action!' Richard thought, and sure enough, Hermione walked out from the stall at that very moment. No doubt attracted by the sound of the doors. But the moment her eyes caught sight of the troll, she seemed to freeze up for a second before screaming from the top of her lungs.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!"

The shrill cry pierced through Richard's eardrums, making him wince. It also seemed to have affected the troll, making him more agitated, gripping it's large club while glancing at the girl retreating to a corner in fear.

"HERMIONE!!"

As if on cue, the doors swung open, revealing both Harry and Ron. "HERMIONE MOVE!!" Harry suddenly yelled, as the troll swung its club wildly, missing Hermione by an inch before crashing into the bathroom stalls.

""CRASH""

Wood and ceramic flew up in the air as the club went through them, barely slowing down. But the trio paid no attention to that. Hermione quickly darted away from the corner, hoping to hide under the sinks.

""CRASH""

The club fell once more. This time missing her by a hair's width.

"HELP! "

"Come on Ron!" Richard watched as both Harry and Ron began throwing pieces of debris at the troll with barely an effect.

"Oy, pea brain! " as, Ron managed to land a heavy piece of metal pipe on the troll's head distracting it for a second, Hermione decided to slowly creep away from her position, only to alert the troll once more.

Seeing her in danger, Harry dived in recklessly, with no shred of a plan, grabbing the club as the troll lifted it once more. Then under the astonished gaze of everyone present, he managed to land on the troll's shoulders before jamming his wand in to its nose.

The troll suddenly went berserk. It started flailing around angrily, trying to remove the boy on it's shoulder. At any moment, it was going to succeed. So Richard decided to get ready just in case. He began creeping closer and close to Ron, hoping to pull the boy away from harm at a moment's notice. Accidentally stepping on a piece of wood,breaking it loudly. And that was exactly what caused chaos.

Just as Ron was about to cast the levitation charm on the troll's club, he heard something cracking, making him unconsciously turn his head back at the same moment the spell was cast, making the spell miss the club and target the troll's upper garment instead. The troll only floated for a second,but that was enough to send it to hysterical rage. Grabbing Harry's leg, it swung the boy at Ron, knocking down both of them as one flew straight into the doors before throwing him at Hermione who had crawled outfrom under the sink, effectively knocking them both out.

Richard knew he had to take action when he saw the troll reach for it's club. Quickly pointing his own wand at the club, Richard muttered "Wingardium Leviosa". But the results of the spell, made the situation all the more dire. The club, the only object that could effectively knock out the fully grown mountain troll flew away like a bullet, crashing through one of the beautifully stained glass windows as it made it's way away from both their grasps, and into somewhere in the grounds.

"Aaah , f#££ it!"

"ROAR!!!"

The troll's head whipped back as it saw Richard's, who had shed the invisibility cloak and it immediately tied the ends together. The club seemed to have some sentimental value to the troll, because the moment it saw Richard, it flew into rage, charging at him with great momentum.