Chapter 48 Halloween

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Halloween 1991

Harry is sitting at the Slytherin table with Oscar enjoying the feast made by the Hogwarts house-elves for celebrating the fall of the Dark Lord. It would have been a lot more pleasant if the said Dark Lord was not stuck to the back of their DADA professor's head.

But the day no longer holds any significance to Harry as it is no longer the day of his parent's death. It is just another day for him now. So Harry enjoyed the delicious food while having a casual chat with Oscar.

During the past two months, Harry has grown to enjoy the company of the boy sitting in front of him. The kid is smart, mature, hardworking, has a great sense of humour just like Uncle Moony and most importantly Oscar is a man of few words. The kid mostly stays silent unless he has something important or relevant to say. He doesn't feel the need to fill the silence with useless chitchat.

Ever since Daphne and Tracey joined the two of them, Oscar has started to connect with other first-years whereas before he only talked with Harry and other werewolves in the school. Harry hopes that Oscar can find true friends like Uncle Remus found in his father and uncle Sirius. The progress is very slow on that front because of the incident that happened on the first night, but Harry will continue to look after Oscar until he can look after himself.

Suddenly Daphne comes from behind draping Harry's school robes around his shoulders and sits right next to him.

"I don't want to ruin your brooding misunderstood genius persona but you should put on your damn robes at least for official school events." Daphne started nagging as soon as she sat down.

"Whatever" Harry said putting the robes on.

"No! Not whatever, Potter. There are already rumours going around about you not honouring the school traditions. You don't submit essays, skip entire lectures, you never wear your robes even to class. I can't restore your reputation if you keep acting like this."

"I think Harry looks more handsome without the robes." Tracey said as she sat next to Oscar.

Daphne glared at Tracey which made the girl give her complete attention to her food like it was her last meal.

"Who cares about the rumours. They are going to talk and gossip about Harry no matter what he does." Oscar chimed in.

Harry approvingly nods at Oscar which causes him to smile but the boy quickly flinched from Daphne's glare. Even as an eleven-year-old Greengrass is still pretty intimidating.

Daphne sighed "we will talk about this later. Now, what about Draco's new hair?"

Harry couldn't help but smile "I like Draco with bright pink hair, it's a bold new look for him"

Daphne didn't look amused "I get that he is your brother but you represent the House of Slytherin. Charlie hanging out with the Weasley twins and pranking a Slytherin student doesn't look good. I think you should tell Charlie to back off a little."

"Should I also help Slytherin students with wiping their bottoms? the way I see it is that Draco lured Charlie with a duel in hopes of getting him in trouble but now he wants my help when his plan backfired on him. Why should I help my cowardly cousin who has already shown that his words mean nothing? Tell Draco to clean his own mess."

Daphne reluctantly nodded "You are such a Gryffindor sometimes, Harry."

Harry was about to retort but Quirrell suddenly burst into the great hall yelling about a troll before fainting face-first on the floor.

Harry quickly looked around and to his relief found Hermione sitting at the Gryffindor table with Rose. He had heard of Rose whacking Ron in the head with her charms book for insulting Hermione after their charms class.

With nothing to worry about Harry quickly followed their prefects to the Slytherin dungeon like the rest of the students.

While they were making their way towards the dungeons, they were suddenly startled by loud noises. Harry turned towards the noise only to find Rose, Charlie, Hermione and Ron running towards them like hell with an enraged mountain troll chasing after them.

Just like last time Quirrell snuck in a hungry troll inside the school to cause a distraction and a hungry troll is not far from turning into a raging troll. The school wards automatically put the troll in a very relaxed almost sleepy state as soon as it entered to protect the students but whatever his siblings, Hermione and Ron did has snapped the troll out of the effects of the wards.

Harry has to take care of this quickly before the troll hurts anybody. The problem is that trolls are very spell resistant, of course Harry is powerful enough that his spells can tear right through the troll's hide but that will arouse lots of questions and suspicions, so he has to stick with basic spells.

Daphne pov:

Daphne's heart almost stopped when she saw a Merlin damned troll charging towards them destroying everything in the way chasing behind Potters, Granger and Weasley. But before anyone could react Harry already rushed past the prefects towards the troll with an almost impossible level of speed and agility.

Harry brandished his wand and the four students who were right in front of the troll came flying towards their group of scared Slytherins zooming past the prefects. Harry acted perfectly because Granger was about to be smashed into a pulp with the troll's club.

Harry once again moved his wand and this time everything heavy in the hallway that was not bolted down crashed into the charging troll in an endless barrage until the troll almost completely stopped in his tracks. But this only seems to enrage the troll further.

The troll swung his club at Harry with incredible speed but Harry gracefully moved out of the way and with a twirl of his wand the giant wooden club came flying out of the troll's hand. Losing the weapon the troll tried to smash Harry with its bare hands but he effortlessly dodged every one of those blows.

The club came flying straight towards them but stopped at the last second, the club then turned around and flew straight into the troll's head with a resounding bang knocking the troll out.