13 HP Philosopher’s Stone

[chantaldormand]

Ch13 Nicholas Flamel

>Somehow Albus’ reprimand is good enough for addicted hero to not look for his drugs.

>Contrary to headmaster’s opinion Harry is experiencing withdrawals. 

>Either boys do not own up to Harry’s behaviour and symptoms or Hermione-muggleborn-genius-Granger never had one of those drugs-are-bad talks.

>Wood forces his team to train in horrible weather conditions. Somehow nobody catches cold.

>Somehow Snape referring is bad news. As if Severus was as stupid as Quirrell and tried to do something nefarious while being watched by whole school.

>Hermione losing at chess is odd, since it benefits more from good memory than intelligence. Not that I’m suggesting Hermione is stupid, but most of the time she seems to recite what she read without analysing it.

>Boys thinking that Hermione losing at something was good for her is one part mean and two parts naive. If Hermione was actually a character instead of plot pushing machine, her losing at something would motivate her to get good.

>*Snickers* “Snape’s sudden, sinister desire to be Quidditch referee.” Harry, sometimes you can be such a drama queen.

>Harry owns up that he cannot back out of the match because there is no reserve Seeker. Did he try to change this afterwards? Nope!

>Neville bunny hopped from library to Gryffindor tower and managed to climb through waist level hole in wall. Now I don’t know how far away library is, but IMHO poor guy deserves a medal. If not for athletics then for perseverance. +1 to Spell Count for Draco. I hope you are embarrassed Harry.

>Of course everybody laughs. I wonder if there is any prefect among “everybody”. +1 to Spell Count for Hermione’s „counter-curse”

>How would Neville get in trouble for reporting a student using magic on him in corridor? Even if I’m right and there are no rules or laws about assaulting other people with magic, there is this handy “no magic in corridors” rule.

>Uhhh from my experience standing up to bully does not work well.

>Jo once again tries to show reader that, yes she uses Houses as a metaphor for something else. Neville is worth 12 of Draco, because the Hat “chose” him for Gryffindor.

>Now my brain is trying to figure out Harry’s and Ron’s worth in this new unit called “Malfoy”.

>And the day was saved by Neville! If it weren’t for him, the trio might need to learn something. *shudders*

>This also once again shows that Harry has no hobbies- ever since getting the card, he didn’t look at his cards, so he probably doesn’t trade them with anyone. We know that he sometimes plays chess with Ron, but narrative suggests that he isn’t big fan of it. Then there is Quidditch. Harry goes to his trainings and reads one book about it. That is it. No looking through newspapers or listening to radio for information about match results or anything.

>After interviews word ‘partner’ in combination with ‘Dumbledore’ gains new meaning. +1 to FWBP

>Yeah Hermione, I also cannot believe just how incurious Harry can be. In his place the first thing I would do is to try to verify how many muggle legends are true or have hints of truth.

>””The dog must be guarding Flamel’s Sorcerer’s Stone! I bet he asked Dumbledore to keep it safe for him, because they’re friends and he knew someone was after it, that’s why he wanted the Stone moved out of Gringotts!”” No Hermione, that doesn’t follow. First of all instead of the Stone, package could contain notes about creation of it. Or anything else for that matter. Second of all why the hell give Dumbledore the Stone? Somebody is always after it! Third, why hide it in school full of children? Not only this endangers them, but potentially broadcasts that something nefarious is going in school. Just imagine receiving letter from your child saying that there is corridor in their school where ‘certain death’ awaits students. +3 to Leap of Logic, because that connection requires Olympic level of skill.

>Now that I think giving Albus Flamel’s alchemical notes would make the book all around much better!

>”“No wonder Snape’s after it! Anyone would want it.”” Anyone? Harry, would you want it? +1 to Leap of Logic.

>”“And no wonder we couldn’t find Flamel in that Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry,” said Ron. “He’s not exactly recent if he’s six hundred and sixty-five, is he?”” Just because Nick is old doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be at very least mentioned in recent history books. If only WW books had indexes...

>Harry and Ron continue their discussion in DADA. First, I hope that during their Auror career, one of them ends up as werewolf chewing toy and regrets not paying attention in class. Second what is the point of learning how to treat werewolf bite if you don’t know how to recognise werewolf? Third I wonder if Quirrellmort overheard them.

>In hindsight, if Voldie wasn’t paper cut-out stand in for a character; DADA class would be the worst class to discuss this in.

>Snape being responsible adult, follows around student who is the most likely to die within next few months. Harry on the other hand does not appreciate the effort.

>Now that I see Harry overdramatising his situation I have to wonder why none of the teachers wanted to check Harry’s broom for hexes. Or his teammates for that matter?

>How Leg Locker Curse would be of any use on somebody who is already sitting on broom? It might be uncomfortable, but won’t stop Severus from doing anything... +1 to Leap of Logic.

>Harry’s heart did somersault when he learnt that Dumbledore came to watch the match. *Snickers* +1 to FWBP

>Bah, again Harry, why the heck Snape would try to hurt you when whole school is watching? If he wanted to do anything to you, he had plenty of occasions when he was shadowing you. +1 to Leap of Logic.

>Snape looks so angry because he is grown man who is about to be suspended in air while sitting on friggin stick. This cannot be comfortable.

>Yes, how Severus dares to penalise Gryffindor for sending a living cannonball at him! +1 to Crime Count

>While Draco’s quips are mean this in no way justifies Ron and Neville beating him up. +1 to Crime Count

>It’s second Quidditch match and Jo is already so done with descriptions of it that she has Harry catch Snitch in 5 minutes.

>A Potion Master going into forest is not that odd Harry. Or at least shouldn’t be. +2 to Crime Count 

>Apparently Harry has no idea about history of science, but has great tree recognition skill. You have curious skill set Mr. Potter.

>The tree has leaves... Just how much time passed since the Holiday break?

>Harry’s gymnastic skill once again rears its head. This time Harry walks on branches like some kind of forest elf.

>”“…d-don’t know why you wanted t-t-to meet here of all p-places, Severus…”” Yeah Sev, I second Quirrellmort here. Why the heck you wanted to meet in forest? You could meet at Hogsmeade grab beer and so on. Oh sorry, I forgot that Hogsmeade wasn’t invented yet.

>Heh, Severus shows his muggle roots. Considering how similar AK’s incantation sounds to ‘Abracadabra Hocus Pocus' I doubt that most wizards/witches would use that phrase.

>Harry deserves Olympic bronze for this jump. There is no proof that there is anything aside from Fluffy that protects the trapdoor. The phrase “...your little bit of hocus-pocus” in no way suggests that Quirrell is one of teachers protecting Stone and that he cast anything to protect it. For all we know it could be ‘Cast on me your little bit of hocus-pocus.’ as in ‘Cast on me that famous protective charm to keep undead away from me!’ Or it might be Snape’s awkward flirting technique. +3 to Leap of Logic.

>”It’ll be gone by next Tuesday,” Again with Tuesday? Then again Buffy would be much more effective protag in this story.

Crime Count: 4

Death Count: 0

Freud Would Be Proud: 2

Leap of Logic: 9

Uncovered: 0

Spell Count: Draco: 1 Hermione: 1
I wasn’t going to give Draco point, since the spell was off-screen, but it’s plotwise important so I gave-in

*Edit: fixed a few typos*