Jasmine's POV

So the first two months of school have been great. Hermione and I often study together. I even study with Neville and help him with potions, in turn he helps me with herbology. Hermione helps me with history. Dad is happy that I am making friends and doing well in school so far. So is mum, she still hasn't found that poor dragon egg though. I feel so sorry for it. I pray they find it before it hatches in six months and can get it home. Mum promised that she'd be back for Christmas and that I can spend it with her. Which I am very excited about.

Anyway, it's Halloween and I'm in Charms class next to Hermione. We'll be practicing the levitation charm today. Well be trying it, we've been practicing the wrist movements and pronunciation for a couple of weeks. Today we get to combine the two and try to make a feather fly. Though I am feeling a bit ambitious and I'm gonna try levitate my spell book.

"Now, don't forget that nice wrist movement we've been practicing!" Flitwick squeaks. "Swish and flick, remember, swish and flick. And saying the magic words properly is very important, too never forget Wizard Baruffio, who said 's' instead of 'f' and found himself on the floor with a buffalo on his chest" he states. I giggle.

It was a little difficult combining the two. Trying to say the words at the right moment with the wand movement. I heard a few people saying the words wrong or to quickly. Hermione told Ron he was says Leviosa wrong and he told her to do it if she was so clever.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" she says swishing and flicking her wand. Her feather rose off the desk and hovered about four feet above their heads.

"Oh, well done!" Flitwick cheers. "Everyone see here, Miss Granger's done it!" he declares. "Five points to Gryffindor" he says.

"Wingardium Leviosa" I say and make my book raise.

"Oh well done Miss Snape, take 15 points for Gryffindor" he tells me. "As you all can see, you can use this spell on anything. Even people once you've mastered it" he tells the class.  By the end of the class some of the others had mastered the spell also. Hermione worked on heavier things and she to was able to levitate her school book.

I stay behind to help clean up. Hermione said she'd wait for me outside. Only when I left the classroom. She wasn't there. Which is strange, what's even stranger is that she wasn't in our next lesson. So I decide to ask her dorm mates if they'd seen her.

"She's in the girls bathroom crying" Parvati states.

"Why? What happened?" I ask confused. Why would Hermione be crying alone in a bathroom?

"Apparently Ronald Weasley said same mean things to his dorm mates after Charms. And she overheard" Lavander explains.

"I'm going to hex him" I snarl. "But first my best friend needs me, thank you for telling me this" I tell them. "If you see Weasley, tell him to watch his back" I state and stalk off. While they headed to the feast.

The only problem was, they didn't tell me which bathroom Hermione was in. But I took a guess that she'd be at the one closest to Charms, so try there first. Turns out to be the right call when I hear quiet sniffles when I enter the bathroom. "Who's there?" I hear her ask from the end cubicle.

"Your best friend" I state.

"Jasmine" she says surprised.

"Who else?" I ask her as I lean against the wall outside her cubicle. "Classes are over for the day, I took notes from our last class and no homework" I tell her.

"Thanks" she mumbles.

"Why didn't you tell me Hermione?" I ask her.

"I thought you'd hex him and get into trouble" she states and I laugh.

"Hermione my dad is a professor here, do you really think anyone would of told on me?" I ask her. "Besides I still plan on hexing Ronald when I see him next" I state.

"You don't have too" she tells me.

"He made my best friend cry" I remind her.

"You consider me yr best friend?" she asks.

"Yep" I say with a smile. "Now dry those tears and wash your face. Then we can go to the feast" I tell her. As she exits the cubicle wiping her eyes I hear the bathroom door open. "We're busy in here" I state not turning around.

Hermione gasps looking behind me in horror as a foul scent fills my nose. She points shakily behind me. "Tr-tro-troll" she stammers. I wipe my head around to see she's right. There stood a 12 foot tall mountain troll with a club. It hadn't spotted us yet.

"In the cubicle" I whisper pushing Hermione behind me. But as she opened the door, it squeaks loudly catching the trolls attention. It growls and storms towards us club raised. We scream and dive to avoid the club. "Get to the door!" I shout and we run for it. But the troll blocks our path.

"Any ideas?" Hermione asks.

"Stunning won't work, but this might" I tell her. I draw my wand pointing it at the trolls eyes. "Oculi irritamentum" I say using the conjunctivitis curse. It roars rubbing it's eyes. Hermione and I run for the door, she tries to open it.

"It's locked!" she shouts. I tackle her as the troll swings blindly at us. "We're done for!" she cries.

"No we're not, we just need to think" I tell her as we continue to dodge the troll. We end up back where we started. I curse as I try to think of a solution wishing mum or dad were here.

"Hermione, Jasmine move!" I hear a boy shout. I look up surprised to see Harry and Ron. Hermione and dive to under the sink as the troll destroys the cubicles with a swing of it's club.

"Help!" Hermione screams. The boys start to throw bits of broken wood at the troll. While I still try to think of a way to defeat it. There is enough of us now for stunning to work. But none of the others have learnt it yet and we do not have time for me to teach them. Just then Harry does something either incredibly brave or stupid. I couldn't decide. He ran at the troll jumping onto it's back and sticks his wand up it's nose. Causing it to howl in pain.

"Do something!" Harry shouts.

"What?" Ron asks as he draws his own wand.

"Anything!" Harry screams.

"Swish and flick" Hermione tells Ron. Seriously, how is the levitation charm going to help us?

"Wingardium Leviosa" he says properly. The trolls clubs floats out of it's hand. It looks at it's hand confused. Then it's own heavy club falls on it's head, knocking it out. I blink in surprise, I can't believe that worked. Harry retrieves his wand while Hermione asks if it's dead.

"No, just knocked out" I state and point my wand at it. "Incarcerous" I say and it's bound in thick ropes. As Harry wipes his wand. Just then dad appears with professors McGonagall and Quirrell. I gulp hiding behind Hermione, but dad notices me anyway and I avoid his eyes.

Hermione lies saying she had gone after the troll alone. How I had tried to stop her. If Ron and Harry hadn't come to find us. We'd be dead right now. "Ron knocked it out with it's own club and I tied it up" I add. Professor McGonagall deducts five points from Hermione. But gives the other two and I five points each. The other three then left and dad escorted me to his office. I only hope he doesn't tell mum.

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Picture above of the Great Hall and picture on the external link of the troll.