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What are they doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?

Didn’t you see what it was standing on?

I wasn’t looking at its feet! I was preoccupied with its heads.

Or maybe you didn’t notice. There were three!

It was standing on a trap door. It wasn’t there by accident.

• It’s guarding something.

Guarding something?

That’s right.

Now, if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed…

…before you come up with another idea to get us killed.

Or worse, expelled.

She needs to sort out her priorities.

Quidditch is easy to understand. Each team has seven players.

Three Chasers, two Beaters, one Keeper and a Seeker.

That’s you.

There are three kinds of balls. This one’s called the Quaffle.

The Chasers handle the Quaffle and try to put it through one of those hoops.

The Keeper, that’s me, defends the hoops.

With me so far?

I think so.

What are those?

You better take this.

Careful now, it’s coming back.

Not bad, Potter. You’d make a fair Beater.

What was that?

Bludger. Nasty little buggers.

But you are a Seeker.

The only thing I want you to worry about is this.

The Golden Snitch.

I like this ball.

You like it now.

Just wait. It’s wicked fast and damn near impossible to see.

What do I do with it?

You catch it. Before the other team’s Seeker.

You catch this, the game’s over.

You catch this, Potter, and we win.

One of a wizard’s most rudimentary skills is levitation…

…or the ability to make objects fly.

Do you have your feathers?

Good.

Now, don’t forget the nice wrist movement we’ve been practicing.

The swish and flick.

Everyone.

The swish and flick. Good. Oh, and enunciate.

Wingardium Leviosa. Off you go, then.

Wingardium Leviosa.

Wingardium Leviosa.

No, stop, stop, stop!

You’re going to take someone’s eye out.

Besides, you’re saying it wrong.

It’s Leviosa, not Leviosar.

You do it then, if you’re so clever.

Go on, go on.

Wingardium Leviosa.

Well done!

See here, everyone, Miss Granger’s done it!

Splendid!

Well done, dear.

I think we’re going to need another feather over here.

“It’s Leviosa, not Leviosar.”

She’s a nightmare, honestly!

No wonder she hasn’t got any friends.

I think she heard you.

Where’s Hermione?

Parvati said she wouldn’t come out of the bathroom.

She said that she’d been in there all afternoon, crying.

Troll in the dungeon!

Troll in the dungeon!

Thought you ought to know.

Silence!

Everyone will please not panic!

Now…

…prefects will lead their house back to the dormitories.

Teachers will follow me to the dungeons.

Gryffindors, keep up, please, and stay alert.

How could a troll get in?

Not on its own. Trolls are really stupid. Probably people playing jokes.

• What? - Hermione! She doesn’t know.

I think the troll’s left the dungeon.

It’s going into the girls’ bathroom.

Hermione, move!

Help! Help!

Hey, pea brain!