Harry potter : Forgotten Lord

He still had to get passed the dog and the next set of protections. However the sound of a couple of girls screaming brought his attention back to reality. He rushed toward the sound. Maybe it wasn't his smartest moment. After all, screaming is never a good thing.

His wand jumped into his hand as he ran. Rushing down the corridor and almost colliding with Neville and Ron. Before either of them could say anything another series screams sent the trio into a head long sprint to the source.

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Somehow he arrived first at the girl's bathroom, and nearly slammed into the partly opened door, which revealed a massive troll wielding a wooden club, smashing the nearby sinks with each swing of its club, hitting the older girl that he now realize was Penny with fragments. Time seemed to slow down, as his friend was hit.

Penny fell to the ground, out cold as blood started appearing from the base of her skull, the sight of blood and his injured friend, spurred him into action, and he sent a powerful fire spell, causing the wooden club to catch fire, and the troll dropping it immediately out of primal instinct. By this time the Lions had arrived and were spurred into action, sending their own array of spells at the troll, which caused the behemoth of a troll to turn around and bull charge them.

Harry dodged as the troll charged him, realizing their spells were having no effect, and that the troll had resistance to magic. The spells were just angering the troll further, like flies swarming round a picnic basket. He looked around in a panic, trying to suppress his rising fear, while trying to come up with an on the spot plan.

The troll braced itself and lurched forward in a bull rush towards him once again. Harry instinctively jumped aside while sending a freezing charm at the flooded floor, causing the troll to crash into the wall.

Looking at the smashed sink next to troll triggered an idea. With a stab of his wand Harry transfigured it into a steel tipped spear, like the ones he had seen some of the statues wielded in the corridors throughout Hogwarts. Thankfully the spell took hold, and transformed into a replica.

During this he heard Neville shout to Ron, who was still frozen in fear, "Get Hermione out of here," before sending another sink at the troll keeping it from getting back on its feet, as it collided with the back of the trolls head.

Harry meanwhile started levitating the spear in the air like he did in charms with a feather. Feeling the continuous drain on his magic, he lined it up with the troll before sending his strongest banishing charm at the spear while visualizing his intentions of holding the spear like an archer; pulling back the bowstring, forcing his magic into the spear, before releasing it. The drain on his magic increased.

The spear surged forward, piercing the troll's chest, as it charged towards them. The force of the spear caused the troll to stagger backwards, with the spear tip exiting its back impaling it on the wall.

He collapsed to the ground, his heart was beating rapidly, sweat was on his brow. Looking up he saw that the troll was still alive, but bleeding out before his eyes. Half crawling over to check on Penny, Harry placed two fingers on her neck feeling a pulse and taking deliberate care to avoid moving her in case of spinal damage. Looking again at the troll, he saw it die before his eyes; Harry couldn't bring himself to care that it was dying, it had been him or the troll, survival of the fittest, it was natural, primal in a way.

The troll had been a danger that needed to be removed, that had tried to kill a person he considered a friend, despite her possible ulterior motives for being one. It had endangered lives of others. He kept watching as its chest slowly stop rising.

Realizing that he had taken a life, he felt remorse and sickness rising, but he buried the emotions before checking back on his friend. Seeing the blood pool increasing, he wondered what else he could do. Harry didn't want to attempt to heal something this serious. He could make it so much worse, but at the same time he could feel her pulse weakening.

Turning in the direction of the trio he shouted out "Go get help quick, she's lost a lot blood, and needs help immediately," which caused them to look at him stupidly before he shouted again, his anger and concern mixed. "She is dying you idiots go and try to find a teacher, NOW!"

The red head fool replied in anger, "What about Hermione?"

He looked him in the eye and replied with more anger at the boy's stupidity. "Hermione is just in shock, she will be fine. Now get help you fucking fool, before my friend dies due to your stupidity," turning back to Penny.

He ignore whatever the boy was saying, the boy was an idiot of the highest order. However he was fortunate as the vanguards of the professors arrived. The professors quickly went to work as Professor Snape and Flitwick made their way over and started treating Penny.

The potions master produced a vial of red liquid and forced the substance down her throat before saying in cold dispassionate tone, "We need to get her to the hospital wing quickly," before levitating the girl out of the bathroom.

Harry made to follow, but was stopped by a professor checking him over and bombarding him with questions. His Occlumency shields were collapsing from the constant strain of emotions. Everything from anger and hatred, to remorse and piety before saying in anger, "Enough! It's not my blood, its Penny's," trying to leave to get to the hospital wing.

"Mr Potter please stop, we need to talk about what happen here" came the elderly voice he came to allocated with the headmaster. Feeling his heir ring burn as he realizing the headmaster was trying to use Legilimency on him.

Forcing his barriers back up, sealing his mind against the intrusion, anger flowing off him "I will not answer any of your fucking questions until I know my friend is going to be fine, and if you don't stop trying to mind rape me.." he let his sentence trail off before running off towards the hospital, leaving them all in shock.

Harry was making a mental note of the headmaster's attempt, to add to his growing list of criminal charges against the man.

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Hospital Wing.

Harry sat on one of the beds watching silently as the healer went about her business with dutiful professionalism, while the potion master assisted where possible. He spent the time trying to re-order his emotions, and suppressing the rest for later. The Gryffindor trio turned up with the rest of the professors, which he chose to ignore, preferring to watch as his friend was treated, whilst mentally noting down bits and pieces of what he saw.

Professor Snape went over and gave the shaken lioness some kind of potion resulting in her falling asleep almost instantly on one of the beds, "calming draught combined with a dreamless sleeping potion," the potion master offered in explanation before Neville or Ron could say anything.

Before doing a quick examination of the pair himself since the matron was busy, before dismissing the lion cubs back to their common room since they were perfectly fine. From the corner of his eye he saw several of the staff watching him with interest, he was wondering how long until the questioning started again.

As the healer made her way over to them, Professor Flitwick was first to ask what was on everyone's mind, "Poppy is she going to be all right?" It was easy to see he was clearly concerned about his student well being.

"She'll be fine, but it was close, couple more minutes and she would have died. She needs at least a week to recover," the healer replied with a serious tone, before turning to Harry and started examining him, her wand moving quickly, casting several spells at time, as he sat on one of the empty beds.

"I am fine Madam really," trying to get out of nurse's way, "None of the blood is mine. It's mostly Penny's," whilst looking at his friend, "I'm just tired," he offered, trying to stop the nurse examining him.

"I'll be the judge of that Mr Potter," she replied with seriousness, continuing on checking him over for any injury, like a mother hen.

"Now since Miss Clearwater is going be survive, it's time to discuss what happened" Stated rather than asked the headmaster.

He really couldn't be bothered with it, but just nodded his head, hoping the questioning would be quick.

Headmaster continued "What happened? Why weren't you in the great hall with the rest of your peers?" the educator asked in demanding tone.

"I was in the Library studying, and was on my way back to my room when if heard screaming, and headed off in the direction to investigate. On the way there I bumped into Neville and Ron who were charging towards the screaming from the other corridor. For whatever reason, I reach the bathroom first, and saw Penny trying to defend Hermione, but got hit in the head in the process, and was knocked out."

Taking a breath before continuing, "The troll was preparing to hit her again, so I set the club alight with an 'Incendio' charm forcing it to drop its weapon. By this time Neville and his lapdog Ron arrived, and charged into the fight," before he could continue he was interrupted by the headmaster.

"Is it necessary to insult two brave students who just helped save your friends life?" the aged educator asked with clear disapproval.

Harry took a moment to reply, collecting his response, "You are mistaken," making the headmaster blink at the challenge.

"I only insulted one of them, and it's a fair description of their relationship. Ron follows Neville around like a dog follows its owner, and he has since they arrived at Hogwarts.

Furthermore Ron's actions almost cost my friend her life. So I don't care, to me Ron's nothing but a fool," he said looking away. Out of the corner of his eye he could see a subtle smile on the potion master's face, while he was explaining his thoughts about Ron.

Professor McGonagall interrupted before headmaster could ask another question, in a defensive manner, "Why do you say he almost got Miss Clearwater killed?"

Replying straight way, "That's simple to answer. First throughout the fight, he was getting in my way blocking my line of sight, preventing me from helping.

In addition he was throwing jinx and prank spells which had no effect against a troll, and a number times he was standing right next to the girls. If the troll had chosen to charge him instead of me or Longbottom, they would be injured further.

Or in Penny's case just become a pile of crushed bones in the middle of a pool of blood, just like when a human steps on an insect," He said, whilst creating a clear mental image of what would have happened to the Ravenclaw prefect if the troll had chosen to charge Ron.

"Even after the troll was killed, he refused to go and get help, even when I told him Penny was dying, preferring to stay with his housemate rather than get help due to his damn pride, and not liking taking orders from a Raven," giving the deputy a disapproving look, "Like I said, he's an idiot and a fool," in angry tone.

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