The Aftermath of the Confrontation
The ones to arrive first were Professors Snape and Flitwick. Flitwick had noticed Harry missing when he had checked his Ravens five minutes after curfew through a charm in the Ravenclaw common room. A few inquiries with the other heads of houses and he knew Harry had left the Gryffindor common room early enough to get back to the Ravenclaw common room well in time. And Harry wasn't the kind of boy to stroll around after curfew. So he had gone to search his student. Snape meanwhile was keyed into the alarms on the third floor. When he noticed them breaking, he had immediately taken off towards the corridor. He had met Flitwick on the way and sent a patronus to McGonagall to get back-up against whoever was trying to get through the protections of the stone.
What they found in the room was nothing they had expected. Sitting curled up in a corner was Harry Potter, petting the giant beasts head while humming. Close to the door a bloody corpse laid, the robe remains indicated this to be Quirrell. The Cerberus turned two heads towards them and growled. Great it seemed that the dog was now protecting Potter.
"We need music to get him to sleep. For some bizarre reason he protects Potter." Snape said.
Flitwick tried to conjure a harp to charm it to play, but the spell didn't work.
"There is nothing I can do, Severus. The room must have been spelled to prevent charming things to play music." He said.
"Then we need Hagrid. This is his beast after all. I fear if we get close to Potter at the moment it will attack us." Snape said and Flitwick left the room to send his own patronus to Hagrid.
When Hagrid finally arrived at the room, Professors McGonagall, Tonks and Sprout had also arrived. Professor Tonks tried to coax Harry out, but didn't succeed at all.
"What happened?" Hagrid asked.
"We don't know yet. The only one to really know is probably Harry, but he is in shock and your Cerberus doesn't let us get close to him." Tonks said.
"I see. Fluffy, down, boy. Let me help Harry." Hagrid commanded Fluffy.
The Cerberus looked sceptically and sniffed the air. Recognising his master's scent he became much more docile.
"Good boy, yer did well protectin' Harry like tha'. Now let me take care of him." Hagrid said and Fluffy let Hagrid lift Harry from the floor, who didn't put up any resistance.
Hagrid commanded Fluffy to stay put in the room. Flitwick levitated the mess that was Quirrell's remains out of the room. Then Snape shut the door behind them. Hagrid gently sat Harry down on the floor.
"Harry, can you hear me?" Hagrid asked.
Harry didn't answer and just blankly stared ahead. His hands were now clutching Hagrid's coat. He had dropped Quirrell's wand when they had left the room.
"We need to get him to the hospital wing. Does he still have his wand?" McGonagall asked.
"Well, that's easy to find out. Accio Harry Potter's wand." Flitwick said and from the ground behind the door in the floor the wand came sailing towards them.
Just when they wanted to go to the hospital wing, Hedwig came soaring through the corridor. She landed in Harry's lap. She stared into the blank eyes of her wizard. Then her silver plumage glowed slightly. Harry closed his eyes and fell over into Hagrid's arms. Hedwig decided to take a seat on Hagrid's shoulder.
"Well, she did something to help him, though I don't know what. Let's get him to Poppy and get him treated." Professor Tonks said.
The others nodded. Snape levitated the corpse of Quirrell behind the others.
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Dumbledore just came back into the Entrance Hall where Professor Sinistra was waiting for him and giving him a message from Flitwick. Dumbledore's face grew hard and he immediately went to the hospital wing. There Madam Pomfrey had changed Harry into hospital robes and he was lying under a blanket in a bed. He didn't like how pale the boy looked. And he had no idea what had happened. In another bed lay the corpse of Quirrell. He sighed. He feared what Harry might have seen and what had happened to him.
"Severus, Filius, what happened?" Dumbledore asked.
"When I checked through the charm that is on my common room if all of my Ravens were present after curfew, I noticed that Harry was missing. So I went looking for him after checking if any of the other heads of houses knew something. Soon I met Severus and he told me the alarm had been triggered. We went to the third floor corridor together. I feared Harry might have been there." Flitwick explained.
"The alarms were triggered perhaps ten minutes after curfew. I immediately went up there to get the intruder. When Filius and I arrived at the scene, we found the bloody body of Quirrell on the floor near the door and Potter sat in the far left corner of the room, humming and petting one of the beast's heads. He was in shock and didn't react to anything we tried to get him out of the room. We also couldn't get him before Hagrid came. Andromeda, Minerva and Pomona had come to assist after I sent Minerva a patronus message, but none of them could get the boy out either. And the Cerberus didn't take well to us attempting to get to Potter. He was ready to attack us if we did." Snape reported.
"Yes, I tried to charm instruments to let him fall asleep, but no charm worked. So we waited for Hagrid. When he finally reached the room, he commanded the Cerberus to stand down and praised him for protecting Harry. Once he had Harry out of the room and tried to get him to respond, Harry's owl came flying in there, sat in his lap and her silver plumage started to glow. Then Harry slumped over into Hagrid's arms and he brought him here." Flitwick ended.
"I see, Poppy, does Harry have any serious injuries?" Dumbledore asked.
"As far as I could determine, no. There is a bit of magical exhaustion, but nothing dangerous. He should awake tomorrow in the morning." She said.
"That's good to know. Please inform me when he wakes up. I need to send an owl to Sirius to inform him about this. I hope he stays reasonable." Dumbledore sighed.
"Black, reasonable? That's a contradiction in itself. But with the state his godson is currently in, he might be up to something. I would also like to know how Quirrell could get Potter into that corridor. I thought you had warded it against students." Snape said.
"I did. No student would have been able to go into the corridor on his own. There were age barriers, compulsion charms to go somewhere else and small warning shots in case a students tricked the first two. But I didn't want to risk a student suffering the other wards if he was forced there. So I guess Quirrell knew that and kidnapped Harry on his way back to his common room. My wards that would have harmed an intruder, deactivated to protect Harry." Dumbledore explained.
Both Snape and Flitwick nodded.
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