Facing Danger

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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