CHAPTER FIVE
the philosopher's stone
act one, year one
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THE GROUP ENTERED THE TRANSFIGURATION CLASSROOM IN A RUSH.
"We need to talk with Professor Dumbledore."
Professor McGonagall was quick to answer.
"I'm sorry, but Professor Dumbledore is not available at the moment." She told them
"But we need to talk with him." Hermione insisted
"I'm sorry, but there's nothing that I can do." she said
Y/n took a step forward. They needed to spoke with Dumbledore.
"It's the philosopher's stone. We think that she might get stolen." Y/n said
She looked surprised
"I don't know how you found out about the stone, but don't worry, it is in a safe place." Professor McGonagall said
Defeated by the teacher's answer, the group got out of the classroom. Y/n turned to her friends.
"This will not stop us." She said "We will go there tonight."
They all nodded. Will this be easy? Probably not, because, when it comes to Y/n Wintergreen, nothing is ever easy.
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Ron opened the big door that would lead them to the dog. To their surprise, the once monstrous dog was now quiet and sleepy.
"Snape is already here."
Y/n was not so sure that this was Snape's doing. She has a bad feeling, but not about him. If the girl had to guess, he was not involved in this.
"It's too dark." Hermione said
It all happened so quickly. In one minute everything was calm, and in the other the dog woke up and start going after them. Y/n quickly went to the small door on the floor and, followed by her friends, jumped to another room.
Unfortunately, it was not a room. They fell on something, something that starts capturing them until they were definitely stuck.
"What is this?" Ron asked
"Devil's snare." Hermione answered
"Oh my God, we're going to die." The boy said in despair
Y/n was scared too, but she knew what to do, perks of reading everything at every time.
"Just relax." She said
"Relax! We're going to die!" Harry screamed
The girl rolled her eyes
"Trust me and relax." She said again
Y/n and Hermione were freed from the Devil's snare, leaving the other two behind.
"Y/N! HERMIONE!" They screamed thinking that their friends were dead.
"Just relax." Hermione repeated
Harry seemed to finally understand what they meant so, slowly, he starts to relax too.
He also was released from it.
"HARRY!" Ron screamed
Y/n turned to the others.
"He is not going to relax, is he?" She asked and they shook their heads
Hermione took out her wand and pointed at the Devil's snare.
"Lumos"
Finally, Ron is able to join his friends.
"You're so dramatic." Y/n said
"No, I'm not."
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not."
"Yes, you are."
"No, I-....."
"Can you two stop!" Hermione interrupted Ron's answer towards Y/n.
Both quickly shut up.
The students from Hogwarts continued their walk through the dark corridor. Y/n was glad that she had her friends by her side, otherwise she doesn't know if she would be able to make it.
"What is this?" asked Hermione
They came across...Flying Keys?!
"How will we pass this?" Y/n asked
Harry was quiet while observing everything. He seemed to be thinking.
"Do you guys see that door?" The others nodded while looking at the door he was pointing at "One of the keys opens the door."
"But how will we find the right key?" Y/n asked
Harry looked up
"There! I saw it." He said and went to the broom that was in the middle of the room
"Good luck Harry." Hermione said and he nodded
They watched as Harry start chasing the keys. It was a very difficult task since every other key was after him.
He finally was able to get a hold on the right key. The others quickly went to the door waiting for him.
They opened the door and, as Harry passed through, they close it on time.
"Are you okay?" Ron asked Harry
"Yes."
"Let's keep going." Hermione said
As the group continued to walk they saw a enormous room with giant things on it.
"It's a chessboard." Ron said
Y/n never was very good at chessboard. In fact, she was horrible.
Her grandmother is a natural at it, probably because the woman is very intelligent, confident and very observant. No matter how many times the elder tried to teach the Wintergreen, she would always fail.
"What are we going to do?" Y/n asked
"We will play." Ron said confidentiality
He turned to the others.
"Alright, Harry you will be the Bishop...." He started "Hermione you will be the queen, Y/n you'll just watch and help me and I'll be the knight." He told them
Everyone went to their respective places. Y/n quickly went to the side of the chessboard.
And that's how they started to play.
Y/n had no doubt on her mind, this was barbaric.
Ron was giving the orders and the 'players' were moving. When it came to a end Y/n quickly understood what was Ron's next move.
Even if she was horrible at that, for all the times she played with her grandmother, she was able to predict a move.
"Don't ever think about that." Y/n yelled
"It's necessary." He said
"No." Harry said also understanding what Ron is about to do.
"What is happening?" Hermione asked
"He is gonna sacrifice himself." Y/n said
"Ron, you can't!" Hermione said
"It's the only way." He said "Harry, you know what to do next."
Then he instructed his horse to move. Ron went close to the Queen.
In a quick move, the Queen turned to him and destroyed the knight.
"No!" Y/n said
"Ron!"
He went to the floor making all of his friends worried about his condition at the moment.
Hermione, moved by worry, tried to move. Harry was quick to stop her.
"Don't move, we still are playing."
Harry moved to his new position. He looked directly to the white queen.
"Checkmate."
Her sword went to the floor and a door opened.
"Hermione, go find help." Y/n told her "I will go with Harry."
The two friends walked to the door leaving the other two behind. As they entered the room they were met with a big mirror.
As Y/n walked close to it, she was able to see her reflection, but she wasn't alone. By her side stood a boy, older than her.
They looked happy, smiling. When she looked at his face, she gasped. It was.....it was the man that constantly is present in her dreams. The man that chases her every time. The same man who kills her.
"You!" Harry exclaimed in shock
Only now Y/n was able to see that they were not alone.
"How stupid you all were, you really believed that Professor Snape was the one who wanted to steal the stone." Professor Quirrell said
Y/n was in shock. She never thought this teacher was behind everything.
"You were the one who let the troll in, weren't you?" Harry asked
"Of course." He told them smirking
"We could have died." Y/n said
"It was never my intention to kill you, my lady." he said while looking down
Y/n's eyebrows furrowed.
"What is happening here?" Y/n asked Harry
"I have no idea." He told her
The teacher turned to look at the mirror again. He seemed to be in his own world, leaving Y/n to think if he was okay.
"Why did you do all of this?" Y/n asked
His answer was quick to come.
"Because my lord asked me to." He said
Then they heard a voice
"Let me talk to them." The voice said
"No, my lord, you are not strong enough." Quirrell said
Y/n got close to Harry's ear and start whispering.
"In addition of him being a killer he is also crazy. We are so lucky."
Quirrell took off his kerchief. When he turned around, the two eleven year old were met with a face.
Y/n took a step back which didn't got unnoticed by the face who looked at her attentively. That stare....it reminds her of something.
She wants to remember from where she knows that stare. It's familiar, that's for sure.
It stopped looking at her and looked directly at Harry.
"I want the stone." He told them
"We don't have it."
Quirrell turned to look at them, more specifically at Harry.
"What do you see in the mirror?"
Harry stayed in silence for a while.
"Dumbledore is giving me the house cup." He answered
"The boy is lying." The voice said again
Quirell seemed angry by this.
"Tell me the truth, what do you see?!" Quirrell yelled at Harry
Y/n ignored his comment and decided to ask something.
"Why do you want the stone?" She asked
"It doesn't matter." He said "Now, Harry give me the stone."
Y/n and Harry start running to the exit but everything start getting on fire making both take steps back.
"Join me Harry, and together we can be stronger." Voldemort told Harry
"Never!" Harry refused
"Bravery. Tell me Harry do you want to see you mother and father again?" He asked the obvious question "Give me the stone and I will help you."
Y/n quickly got close to Harry
"He is lying." She said
"Am I?" He smirked "I can bring your parents back, but for that I want the stone."
"No!" Harry said again
Voldemort didn't even flinch before uttering his next words.
"Kill him."
Quirrell ran to them and start strangling Harry.
"Stop it!" Y/n said
The girl ran to him and punch him on the face, or at least she tried to do so.
He got up and went after her, but Harry was quicker and put himself in front of them. In the moment that Harry's hand came in contact with Quirrell's face, the skin start burning.
"What are you doing?" He asked
Harry, even if he wasn't so sure about what he was doing, put his hands on Quirell's face again. And again it burned.
"Enough!" Quirrell screamed
But Harry didn't stopped, instead put his hands on his face again. It was enough for Quirrell to fell down unconscious.
Voldemort got out of his body.
"Harry Potter I will come back and I will kill you."
He looked one last time at her before disappearing.
When Y/n looked at Harry, she was surprised to see that he was also laying on the floor unconscious. Unfortunately, for her, it didn't took long before the same happened to her.
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Her eyes felt pretty heavy when she tried to open them. The constantly pain on her head made her realize and remember what happened a few hours priori.
Slowly, the Wintergreen opened her eyes. She felt weak and her body hurts. She was brought to reality when a voice not too far away from her was heard.
"Good morning, Ms. Wintergreen." She heard
With difficulty, the eleven year old was able to turn her head. She saw Professor Dumbledore by her side.
"How is Harry and Ron and Hermione?" She rushed
Dumbledore laughed at the girl's concern about her friends. It was a very noble thing to do since she was the one who was laying on a hospital bed.
"They are perfectly fine." He told her
"And the stone?"
"Destroyed."
"But, Mr. Flamel needed it."
"He lived for a long time already." It was his response
The girl had so many questions, but only a few answers.
Apparently, Dumbledore could see right through it.
"Ask, Ms. Wintergreen."
She nodded ready to start questioning
"A few months ago I started having these dreams." She started "It's about me, I'm running through the woods, running away from someone."
He was listening attentively.
"I can hear screams coming from the house that is located at the beginning of the forest, but I can't go back, I have to continue to run. Then, this man comes out of nowhere and kills me."
It was the first time that she was telling this to someone.
"He's always so heartless, so drained from emotions. And he always says and do the same things."
When she looked back at him, she was expecting a lot of things, perhaps surprise or terror, but no, instead, the girl observed that the headmaster didn't seemed surprised at all.
Like he already knew this....
"Our dreams always mean something, Ms. Wintergreen."
He got up and smiled at the girl.
"I think we have a wonderful lunch waiting for us."
As he turned around, Y/n couldn't stop herself from asking something else.
"Who's Y/n Slytherin?"
He didn't turned to look at her.
"Someone very special who had such a horrible end."
That's all he said before getting out of the Hospital Wing leaving the girl all alone.
She already knows what she has to do next year. She will find out who Y/n Slytherin is and what happened to her.
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"Another year gone and now, as I understand it, the house cup needs awarded." Professor Dumbledore said "In fourth place, Gryffindor with 312 points."
Y/n put her head on her hands in disappointment. This was horrible.
"In third place, Hufflepuff with 352 points."
Everyone applauded
"In second place, Ravenclaw with 426 points." The Headmaster continued "And now in the first place, Slytherin with 472 points."
Inside her chest, for some reason, she felt happy for Slytherin.
"Yes, yes, well done Slytherin, well done." He said but didn't seemed too happy for their victory. "However, recent events must be taken into account and I have a few last minute points to award......to Ms. Hermione Granger for her incredible intelligence, 50 points."
Y/n looked at her best friend with a smile on her face. She was proud of her.
"To Mr. Ronald Weasley, for the best played game of chess that Hogwarts has ever seen, 50 points."
Everyone applauded.
"Third, to Mr. Harry Potter for pure love and outstanding courage, I award 60 points."
The Great Hall was consumed by the cheering of the people from the other houses, except Slytherin.
"Fourth, to Ms. Y/n Wintergreen for always being there for her friends, I award 60 points."
The girl was happy, she did something for her house. She helped them win.
"And finally, it takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." Professor Dumbledore said "I award 10 points to Neville Longbottom."
They all applauded and Neville looked down smiling too
"Assuming that my calculations are correct, I believe that a change of decoration is in order."
The decoration that was initially green was now red.
"Gryffindor wins the house cup!"
They all start screaming and celebrating. It was a great moment to witness.
And here it ends Y/n Wintergreen's first year. It was full of surprises and challenges that she passed successfully.
But this is not over. No. It's far from it.
Follow Y/n as she discovers the truth about herself.
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Forgive me for being away for a few days but school is the only thing on my mind right now.
Here ends the first year. Did you liked it?
Love you all
Bye!