Time passed quietly after that until all hallows eve. The school was abuzz with people excited to see what was going on as the halls were decked in pumpkins and animated horror themed bits and bobs. The twins were running around making a mint selling a variety of horror alchemical joke items they'd made or bought just for this purpose. Headless hats, zombie masks, chocolate spiders, wriggling gummi worms and more. Hagrid was feeling particularly happy as he wheeled in the frankly absurdly large jack o' lantern that was the centerpiece of the great hall big enough to stand inside.-
He bragged to anyone who would listen that he grew it himself and he always grew the largest pumpkins. The whole school was in a festive mood with only a couple notable exceptions. Snape, who probably long since forgot how to smile properly and Quirelmort who was planning some not so harmless mischief. Not on this day but the next when it was truly Halloween. I almost considered it poetic how he was going to give the school a good scare on this day in particular. -
During charms class on Halloween Ron snapped at Hermione and she finally lost composure. I watched it all go down and made a mental note to step out of the feast a bit early to make sure nothing derailed canon. Despite how it might seem from the books and movies defeating a mountain troll was NOT something a first year with only about two months of learning should be capable of. In fact as far as I know that troll should have smashed them to paste with almost no effort on it's part. My job was making sure that didn't happen now that this was real life and not a movie or book, all without being caught.-
The great hall was a sight for dinner time as many jack o' lanterns replaced the candles perpetually floating over head and great clouds of bats flapped through the air for dramatic effect. I however was not there for long as the moment Quirelmort showed up and started his dramatics I took the opportunity to slip out in the chaos. My friends and the professors were too busy to notice my absence immediately and I quickly moved through the halls to the girls bathroom I knew Hermione was in.-
I beat Harry and Ron who came to get her right around the same time that awful stench of sweat, mold and rotten meat wafted into the area. You heard the troll long before you saw it as it's heavy footsteps resounded in the halls. I spotted it rounding the corner and had to admit it was quite an intimidating sight. Dull stone gray skin barely covered in what appeared to be a rotting leather loincloth. A bulging belly and thick long muscled arms holding a club that might have once been a tree. -
It's head was tiny for it's body size, like a normal human head on a body several times bigger than a normal humans. The face of the creature was this ugly pug nosed scrunched thing that seemed almost like it was squished to fit on that small head. Unfortunately for Hermione trolls had an excellent sense of smell and hers had all day to thicken in the air here. Harry and Ron showed up right as the troll ducked into the bathroom. The looks of horror on their faces was absolutely right as they REALLY shouldn't have even considered heroics at that moment, Gryffindor's aren't famous for their logical thinking however.-
Like the impulsive thoughts they had overrode their brains the two rushed to the bathroom without a plan. I remained hidden inside a suit of armor watching all this go down through my haki. Hermione thought it was someone come to check on her or something as she yelled at the troll through the stall door to go away. Which prompted it to rip said door off it's hinges and roar at the girl. It was almost funny how her face when from sad to annoyed and then directly to terror as her brain caught up to the situation and she understood just how bad of a spot she was in.-
She reacted quickly though and screamed before diving under the stall along the floor just moments before the club swung through the stalls above her head shattering the backs of several toilets sending water spraying. Harry and Ron both yelled to draw the massive creatures attention and succeeded. This let Hermione scramble out from the stall area and try to use the leg locking hex on the troll, it didn't work. All it accomplished was making the thing mad as it's monstrous strength and innate magical resistance tore the brief moment of the spell hitching it's movements apart.-
It raised it's club to smash it on Hermione and I stepped in by creating a burst of electricity in it's left ear. It roared in pain and swung it's club into the wall in that direction to no doubt try and swat away whatever hurt it. This song and dance went on for a good two minutes where the troll would line up a kill shot only for me to buzz one of it's ears messing with it's aim. -
Finally though Ron managed to use the levitation spell to yoink the club out of the trolls hand mid swing leaving the dumb brute confused for all of a second before the floating club proved too much for Ron and he let it drop right on the things head, knocking it out cold. Trolls were all innately vulnerable to blunt force to the head to an almost hilarious degree which was the only reason that even worked. I picked up on the professors coming in a rush and wisely chose to elementalize and zap myself to near the Ravenclaw common room.