chapter twelve - The Philosopher's stone

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Today marked the first day of final exams and everyone has been studying hard to ace the exam. I used most of my free time to study any subject I lack knowledge of and my friends studied with me half of the total duration I study except for Draco. He likes to study with me together and help each other if we ever find difficulty in any topic which is most of the time him asking me.

I was worried about my brother Harry because he's been too caught up about Nicholas Flamel and made his house lost some points too. He didn't get enough time to prepare for the upcoming exams. Hermione had been ready for this since the first day she entered Hogwarts and Ron only studied for one hour with distractions then done.

We four studied in the library for the exam on the next day

"How could I be so stupid?! I read this weeks ago for better light reading" Hermione came with a big book as big as her

"This is light reading?" Ron commented and she just glared at him.

"Look. Nicolas Flamel is the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone, an object capable of turning metal into gold and granting immortality with its Elixir of Life" Hermione read out the text

"That's what Fluffy's guarding. The philosopher's stone. Snape wants to steal the philosopher's stone" She added

"Steal? What do you mean steal?" I asked her

"Eleonore, Snape let the troll in during Halloween feast and while everyone were busy about the current situation, he took the advantage to go and steal the philosopher's stone. However, he got hurt by fluffy" Harry said to me

"We should go tell Professor Dumbledore then" Ron said to us

They all stood up and left. I wanted to stop them but they're just not going to listen so I just followed them to Professor McGonagall's office.

"Where is Professor Dumbledore? We need to speak to Professor Dumbledore" Harry said to Professor McGonagall

"He's not here at the current time and wont be here till tomorrow. He left this morning to the ministry of magic" Professor replied him

"But this is important" Hermione added back

"Are you saying the ministry of magic is not important Ms Granger?" Professor McGonagall asked back

"We know about Philosopher's stone! And someone wants to steal it" Harry bluntly told her

"How did you know about the stone? Go back to your common room, the stone is in a safe place" Professor McGonagall said to us

We left her classroom and discussed in the middle to the hall way what to do since Professor Dumbledore was not here and they believed my father was trying to steal the stone.All through the discussion, I stayed silent until he mentioned my father where I jumped in defending him. My father suddenly appeared behind us and I panicked

"Good Afternoon.." We turned around
"Now what would three young Gryffindors and a Slytherin such as yourselves be doing out on a day like this?"

"We- We were- We were just" Hermione couldn't answer him

"Be careful... Someone might think you're up to something. Eleonore, come with me" He said and left

"Bye guys, see you later" I left them three

He guided me to his office

"How was today's exam?" He asked me

"It was alright, not difficult but I think there might be some silly mistakes "

"What do you have tomorrow?"

"Potions, your exam tomorrow"

"Exactly. Have you studied?"

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