Ron felt a bit bad about hurting her feelings that much, but put it out of his mind when they entered the Great Hall, and saw all the Halloween decorations.
Everyone was having fun looking at the bats as they flew around, when Professor Quirrell, the Defense Against Dark Arts teacher, who had a stutter, came running into the hall, and ran up to Dumbledore's chair.
"Troll - In the dungeons - thought you ought to know."
And with that, he collapsed to the floor in a faint.
There was an uproar, and Dumbledore ordered the Prefects to lead the other students back to their dormitories.
"All this for a single troll?" Harry muttered to Ron as they started heading back to Gryffindor Tower. "If it was a dragon, I could understand, but one troll by itself..."
Just then, it hit Harry.
"Ron," Harry grabbed his friend's arm. "Hermione! She doesn't know about the troll!"
Ron bit his lip.
"Alright." Ron snapped. "Let's get her before Percy sees us!"
The pair slipped away when their group encountered a group of Hufflepuffs heading the other way. They ran towards the girl's bathroom, but had to hide as they heard footsteps coming their way.
"Percy!" Ron whispered. The two hid behind a stone griffin. However, as the footsteps got closer, they saw it wasn't Ron's older brother, but Snape. The Potion Master crossed the corridor and disappeared from view.
"Where's he going?" Harry asked. "That's not the way to the dungeons. Why isn't he down there helping the other teachers?"
"Search me."
Just then, the pair of them smelth something horrid, like dirty socks and a bathroom that no one had cleaned for years. Then they heard it - a low grunting, and the shuffling of enormous feet. Ron saw it first, and quickly pointed it out to Harry. It was horrible, twelve feet tall, with a body like a boulder, and a small bald head.
"Damn, thing's bigger than the ones back home." Harry muttered. "Oh well, one good spell should do it." He pointed his hands at the giant beast, and was about to start an incantation, when Ron grabbed his shoulder.
"Nevermind! Let's just get Hermione and get out of here." Ron pleaded with his friend.
Harry sighed, and nodded his head.
"Okay. I'll let the teachers handle it. After all, how dangerous is one troll to a group of fully trained spellcasters?"
They watched as the troll stopped next to a doorway, and then slouched in.
They were about to go back to looking for Hermione, when they heard a loud scream of terror. It was coming from the room the troll had just entered!
"Oh HELL!" Ron said, turning as pale as the Bloody Baron, the House Ghost of Slytherin.
"That's the girl's bathroom!" Harry exclaimed!
He rushed in, and found Hermione backed against the wall on the other side of the room, as the troll advanced towards her, knocking sinks down as it passed.
"Distract it!" Harry yelled at Ron. "I'll get Hermione out of the way!"
Ron grabbed a pipe, which had been knocked to the floor by the troll, and threw the pipe at the troll.
"Oy, pea-brain!" He yelled, trying to get it to notice him. The troll seemed to ignore the pipe, but the yelling certainly attracted its attention, and it turned to look at Ron. Harry took the opportunity to race around the behemoth, and grab Hermione by the arm.
"Come on, run run!" Harry yelled, pulling Hermione towards the door. If I can make sure that the two of them are in the clear, I can take out ugly with one shot! Unfortunately, Hermione was frozen in terror, making it difficult for Harry, and the troll was now cornering Ron.
Harry, seeing Ron's danger, quickly started muttering an incantation, and ran up and jumped on the troll, grabbing it around its neck. The troll didn't even notice, not until Harry finished his spell. There was a sharp crackling sound, and the troll froze for a few seconds. Then, it started swaying as if dizzy, or drunk.
Harry let go of the troll, as Ron yelled out the first spell that came into his head "Wingardium Leviosa!"
The troll's club flew out of its hand, and soared high up into the air. Harry, noticing that neither of the others were close enough to be in danger, quickly cast a spell. A large icicle appeared in his hands, and Harry threw it at the troll, freezing it. Just as that happened, the troll's club fell, smashing into the frozen beast's head.
The three looked at each other, including Hermione, who had finally come to her senses.
"Let's get out of here! Before anyone catches us!" Harry said.
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