The mirror and the stone

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It was Professor quirrel

"It can't be!" You say

"You!" gasped Harry.

Quirrell, no twitching coming from his face, as if he never had it to begin with, spoke

"Me," he said calmly. "I wondered whether I'd be meeting you here, Potter. Though I'm surprised at your presence, l/n"

"But We thought — Snape —" Harry choked

"Severus?" Quirrell coldly laughed, which worried you. He never laughed like this... "Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an over- grown bat. Next to him, who would suspect p-p-poor, st-stuttering P-Professor Quirrell?"

"But Snape tried to kill me!" Harry said

"No, no, no. I tried to kill you. Your friend Miss Granger accidentally knocked me over as she rushed to set fire to Snape at that Quidditch match. She broke my eye contact with you. Another few seconds and I'd have got you off that broom. I'd have managed it before then if Snape hadn't been muttering a countercurse, trying to save you." Quirrel said

"Snape was trying to save him?" You ask

"Of course" said Quirrell "Why do you think he wanted to referee your next match? He was trying to make sure I didn't do it again. Funny, really... he needn't have bothered. I couldn't do anything with Dumbledore watching. All the other teachers thought Snape was trying to stop Gryffindor from winning, he did make himself unpopular... and what a waste of time, when after all that, I'm going to kill both of you tonight."

Quirrell snapped his fingers and ropes appeared and wrapped around you and Harry, Which You recognized as the incarcerous spell, just silently said

"The two of you are too nosy to live. Scurrying around the school on Halloween like that, for all I knew you'd seen me coming to look at what was guarding the Stone."

"You let the troll in?" Harry asked

"Certainly. I have a special gift with trolls — you must have seen what I did to the one in the chamber back there? Unfortunately, while everyone else was running around looking for it, Snape, who already suspected me, went straight to the third floor to head me off — and not only did my troll fail to beat you to death, that three-headed dog didn't even manage to bite Snape's leg off properly. Now, wait quietly, boys. I need to examine this interesting mirror." Quirrel said

You saw him looking at a mirror and wondered why he was so interested in it

"This mirror is the key to finding the Stone," Quirrell murmured, as he walked back and forth a bit "Trust Dumbledore to come up with something like this... but he's in London... I'll be far away by the time he gets back...."

"I saw you and Snape in the forest —" Harry blurted out, you looked at him with confusion and he mouthed "distraction" to you

"Yes," said Quirrell idly as he looked behind the mirror "He was on to me by that time, trying to find out how far I'd got. He suspected me all along. Tried to frighten me — as though he could, when I had Lord Voldemort on my side...."

Quirrell came back out from behind the mirror and stared directly and impatiently into it

"I see the Stone.... I'm presenting it to my master.... but where is it?" He asks

You fall to the ground and try rubbing your rope against the stone ground to try and burn it off to no avail, so you try a spell

"Lacarnum inflamari" you say, trying to make a small fire without your wand, you manage to warm your hands a bit from something but nothing major

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