Hogwarts School of Dangerous Creatures
Hogwarts has always been known as the safest magical building in the wizarding world. Its wards are known as
powerful enough to keep Death Eaters and many Dark creatures and objects at bay. Many parents send their
children here in hopes that they will have a safe seven years of education.
But they are deceived.
The school has been home to a fully-grown Cerberus, an ancient Basilisk, a werewolf, one hundred Dementors
and several Acromantulas, as well as played host to a fully-grown troll, a cursed diary, two Death Eaters, four
dragons, and You-Know-Who himself.
In 1991, Albus Dumbledore hired Quirinus Quirrell, unaware that the man had been possessed by You-Know-
Who. That year, the headmaster was also protecting the Sorcerer's Stone, which his friend, Nicolas Flamel, had
supposedly given him to watch over. Given the wards protecting the school, one would think Dumbledore had no
need to add any more protection. Instead, he placed a series of traps in front of the Stone and borrowed Rubeus
Hagrid's Cerberus, "Fluffy," to keep any unauthorized wizard from getting the Stone.
If Dumbledore assumed this would keep the students safe, he was wrong. By the time the school year had ended,
Severus Snape, Potions Master, had been attacked by the colossal dog, Professor Quirrell had died, our own
Boy-Who-Lived had been attacked by the possessed teacher, and Harry Potter's young friend, Ronald Weasley,
had been knocked out by one of the "traps" guarding the Stone.
If you think the danger stopped there, my dear readers, you would be wrong.
The very next year, the Chamber of Secrets was reopened -- not by the Heir of Slytherin, but by Ginevra Weasley,
who was being possessed by a cursed diary which had once belonged to the Dark Lord. The ancient monster in
the chamber was a Basilisk, who managed to Petrify four students, the caretaker's familiar, and the Gryffindor
ghost before Harry Potter managed to kill it. The diary was also destroyed by the Gryffindor Golden Boy when the
memory of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named tried to murder the child.
If any students expected the next year to be safer, they were sorely wrong. As the readers may recall, 1993 was
when the supposed murderer, Sirius Black, escaped from Azkaban. What most people are unaware of is that
Dumbledore, in his infinite wisdom, allowed the Minister to send a hundred Dementors to "protect" the school.
"Right, 'protect,'" scoffs Blaise Zabini, fifth year Slytherin. "Black wasn't going to attack any of the students except
Harry Potter. Dumbledore could have hid him in a safe house to protect him from a wizard that might have
attacked someone instead of endangering an entire school with creatures that are entirely willing and able to
suck out people's souls, innocent or not."
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I Must Not Break Harry Potter
FanfictionHarry stared down at his bleeding hand, the words "I must not tell lies" dripping down his skin in blood-red liquid. And snapped. Harry Potter decides he's had enough of the wizarding world throwing him crap. he's going to throw it right back.
