"I don't know. If she doesn't show for the feast, I'll tell McGonagall."
Harry nodded, he actually wanted some quiet of his own. Being around people who were ramped up about a day which he had traditionally spent quietly around his godfather listening to stories about his parents was irritating to him. "Susie, I think I'm going to give the feast a miss as well."
"Oh, but Harry-"
"Susan, it's the anniversary of the attack on me and my parents. Being around a bunch of people celebrating is the last thing I want to do."
Put in that context all Susan could do was nod. "Do you want company?" She asked thinking of how she felt around the anniversary of her parents death.
"Nyah, you go to the feast have fun. Maybe I'll track down Granger see if I can somehow knock some tact and common sense into her without crushing her. See if all my time hanging out with diplomats is worth anything."
Susan smiled. She had confidence in her friend. "Good luck. I'll McGonagall know."
Harry nodded and wandered away from his class mates. And was very shortly thereafter pounced on by the Weasley twins.
"So, Harry, we"
"couldn't help noticing how "
"Mrs. Norris avoids you."
"Whatever did you do to get that response?"
"Because normally she spies on us students, especially us, and"
"fetches Filch at the merest hint of rule breaking."
"She's scared of Sheba. She smells Sheba and runs the other way. Filch has threatened both me and Sheba because of it, sour git. Why they would hire someone like him to work at a school, I don't know."
"Can we borrow her?"
"We want to do a school wide prank and can't if Mrs. Norris comes near."
"If she'll go with you. I wouldn't mind. I have a harmless prank I want to do on Mrs. Norris and Filch, but I can't get close enough because of Sheba. What do you say, Sheba? Will you go with Fred and George?"
Sheba looked at Harry then left her perch and tentatively smelled Fred and George.
They gamely held out their hands After a couple of minutes Sheba rubbed against them.
"Go and see if she'll follow you." Harry instructed.
As they left Harry quickly pulled out his map to see where Mrs. Norris was, he found her near the trophy room. Harry quickly made his way there. Almost forgetting to use a scent cleaning charm and a silencing spell on himself for stealth. When he could see her he shot the prank charm he'd invented a year ago for Sirius at her. She jumped a little as it hit. Then he left. The prank would take two hours to take effect but Harry couldn't wait for the twins' reaction when it did.
He glanced at his watch the feast was about to begin. He activated his map to check on Hermione Granger. She wasn't in the great hall. Which meant,where was she? He'd check Gryffindor Tower first. "Gryffindor Enlarge." He was looking at the Tower scanning it when he saw the name Peter Pettigrew in his own dorm. Stunned he stared at it a few moments . How could that traitor get into Hogwarts? Then it occurred to him Ron Weasley's rat. He collected himself it had already been a couple of months it could probably wait until after he had found and spoke to Hermione Granger.
Since she wasn't in the tower he went back to the general map. As he did he decided he needed to add a search person feature that would allow him to find a specific person easily. It wasn't terribly hard to find her since almost all the castle's inhabitants were at the feast. He found her in a bathroom, and winced it figured it would be a bathroom. The last room he would ever want to go into. He jumped when Sheba nudged him. "Hey, girl. Fred and George finish their prank?"
She meowed at him.
"Let's go get Hermione." He said after she climbed back on his shoulders.
Down in the Great Hall Draco was enjoying the feast when Quirrell burst in announcing a troll was in the dungeons before fainting. He snorted. His father was right Dumbledore really was the worst thing that had happened to Hogwarts. Imagine a defense teacher who faints about a troll! Not that most the students were much better. Panicky sheeple that they were.
Dumbledore set off some purple fireworks then stated, "Prefects lead your houses back to your common rooms. Teachers-"
Draco saw some rather immediate flaws in that plan. Borrowing a page from his cousin's methods, he stood on one of the benches and shouted, "Are you barmy? Or are you just trying to get the Slytherin students killed! The students would be safer staying here in a group with all the prefects to safeguard us while you teachers go out and deal with the troll than we would be going through the halls with just our houses."
The other first years could see Draco's logic and immediately supported his words, and not just those in Slytherin but also those in the other three houses. They were shortly followed by many of the older students.
Dumbledore frowned for a moment at being questioned.