Unknown Origins - The Rewrite

Chapter 9 - A Happy End

"I told him to be careful." Erica crossed their arms as they walked.

"Well now he's in the infirmary. He could be dead." Ron gasped.

"He could be what!?"

"Dead!"

"He's not dead." Hermione sighed.

Erica held onto Hermione's arm.

"He's not dead." Hermione repeated.

"See?" Parker opened the infirmary door

"Harry!" Erica ran over to his bedside.

"Woah- Hi Erica." Harry laughed

"Ron's a meanie." She huffed.

"Am not." Ron rolled his eyes,"The whole school's talking about it."

"You're famous. Well, even more so than before." Hermione chuckled.

Harry laughed before he explained what happened.

"So the Stone's gone? Flamel's just going to die?" Ron raised a brow.

"Well, he wasn't exactly young. was he?" Erica shrugged.

"All wizards are old." Parker hummed.

"Well, that's what Dumbledore said. Actually it was something like 'to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure!" Harry told them.

"I always said he was off his rocker." Ron scoffed.

Harry snickered, shaking his head,"So? What happened to you all?"

"Well, I got back all right." Hermione hummed.

"We got there and we all brought Ron round which took a while, then we dashed up to the owlery to contact Dumbledore when we met him in the entrance hall, he already knew, he just said, 'Harry's gone after him, hasn't he?' and hurried off to the 3rd floor." Parker explained, using her best Dumbledore impression.

"Very accurate." Hermione nodded.

"D'you think he meant you to do it? Sending you your father's cloak and everything?" Ron tilted his head.

"If he did, he's horrible. I mean, you could've been killed." Erica pointed.

"He's a funny man, Dumbledore."

"I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the mirror worked. It's almost like he thought had the right to face Voldemort if could-"

"He's crazy." Erica covered his mouth.

"You can't say his name." Hermione shook her head.

"I think Harry can say it all he wants." Ron chuckled,"He's beat him twice!"

"You get scared of saying it." Parker hummed.

"Harry isn't scared of anything." Ron shook his head.

"Everyone's scared of something." Parker nodded.

"Even me." Harry chuckled.

"See?" Parker pointed.

"He's still very brave though." Erica stated.

"Yeah, no doubt in that." Ron nodded as Pomfrey ran in.

"Right, you've nearly had fifteen minutes. Out!"

"Oh, but Miss-"Parker groaned.

"No, out. He needs rest."

"Fine." Parker got up.