It was the busiest part of breakfast, and the Great Hall was louder than usual, buzzing with rumors about the troll, rumors that were even more outlandish than usual. The strangest and most persistent of all were that the Boy-Who-Lived and another girl had stumbled into the Gryffindor Common Room an hour after the evacuation, covered in blood. Though nearly all of the Gryffindors insisted they'd seen it themselves, the other Houses remained skeptical—a pair of first years, taking on a troll?