Harry Potter: Instant Kill

"Hagrid, What did the person who gave you the dragon egg look like?" Grace asked in a slight panic while running the last few feet to the large man. "I dunno, He was wearing a hood the whole time." He replied while rubbing his bearded chin.

"And you didn't find that suspicious?" Harry asked exasperatedly, thinking Hagrid was stupid. "No, most of the patrons in the Hog's Head are like that. Those who go there go for the low prices and hoods-allowed rule."

"What did he say to you before giving you the egg?" Daphne asked trying to ease information from the half-giant. "Well, he sat at the table I played cards at before playing a few hands. He asked about what I did and I told him that I worked as a groundskeeper for Hogwarts. He then placed the dragon egg as a possible bet and asked if I would be able to take care of it." 

He paused briefly to arrange his thoughts, "He kept buying me drinks and I told him that compared to Fluffy a dragon would be a piece of cake. Not much can compare to a three-headed dog in ferocity." He paused to chuckle and Grace took advantage to ask a question, "And was he interested in Fluffy?"

"Interested? Who wouldn't be interested in a three-headed dog? He asked me quite a few questions about how I raised it and how I kept it fed. I told him the trick to taming these creatures is to know what puts it to sleep, I said a little music and he fell right to sleep." He suddenly loses his smile before saying, "I should not have said that."

Harry, Grace, Ron and Hermione quickly ran towards the school having figured out the person trying to steal the stone had found out how to get past the first hurdle. "Why are you all rushing for?" Daphne shouted after them, "As long as Dumbledore is in the school no one will be able to get the stone." 

Her reasoning slowed the 4 runners down as they realised the truth behind her words, "We should inform him that the thief knows how to get passed Fluffy." Harry said while still making his way towards the school.

When we reached the castle I suggested, "We should split and try to find our heads of houses, that way we can inform them and they can pass on the message to Dumbledore. That is unless we know where the headmaster's office is." 

My suggestion was met with sudden and heavy agreement by Harry, "Yes if you and Daphne go tell Snape, the rest of us can tell McGonagall about it." Daphne and I could see through his obvious attempt to get rid of the both of us and so did Grace who gave her brother the stink eye.

"Where should we meet when we have told our house heads?" I ask expecting Him to try and ditch Daphne and me. "We shall meet back up here." Grace answered before moving over to the pair of us and glaring at her brother, "And I shall go with them to make it 3 and 3."

Harry realised his plan to get us out of the picture had backfired and quickly agreed with his sister, "That would be better it seems. We shall meet back here to discuss what to do after we get a response from our house heads."

Since the plan was agreed we left towards the stairs of the dungeons to see if Professor Snape was in his office. "I apologise for my brother's attempt to exclude you. I still think he is angry that you have stolen Daphne from him before he had a chance." Grace said with tears in her eyes as we got far enough away from the other group.

"It is fine, Grace. We are not going to stop being friends with you because of your brother." I said which was quickly backed up with Daphne's agreement, "Yeah, no matter how much of an ass your brother is we will still be friends with you."

We continued our mushy conversation all the way to Snape's office when we arrived we overheard something that made Grace's face flush deep red with embarrassment. "Severus, I can't drink anymore I have to get back to my own room. No, I cannot simply spend the night here." 

Professor Potter's voice could clearly be heard from the door before Snape's reply "Fine but at least think my proposal over. 11 years is a long time but I don't mind waiting even longer for you to become my wife."

Interrupting the conversation because she couldn't handle any more embarrassment, Grace loudly banged on the door with her fist. "Professor Snape we would like to talk to you." The door opened quickly as Professor Snape was nearby and looked towards our group with a face flushed with the amount of alcohol he had drunk, "What can I help you with?"

"Well you see professor, Do you know when you caught us out of curfew and gave us detention?" Grace started while heading into the room leaving no chance for Snape to deny her entry. When we all had entered and Snape had closed the door Grace continued from where she left off, "Well the reason we were out was because we were delivering a dragon Hagrid had foolishly raised to Charlie Weasley."

"Where is this going Miss Potter?" Snape asked confused while Lily sat off to the side swaying slightly while listening, "Well we found out that Hagrid told the person who gave him the dragon egg about Fluffy. The three-headed dog which is currently guarding the forbidden third-floor corridor, we think that the person intends to use this information to get past the dog and steal the Philosopher's Stone that is behind it."

Snape's face suddenly turned a lot more sober when he heard Grace mention the Philosopher's Stone and he replied, "That is serious indeed. I shall send Dumbledore this information immediately."