The days fell through into February, Which was full of slowly increasing days and shortening nights. The snow wasn't falling as frequently now. I was sitting in the library with Ron, Hermione and Harry.
"I'll never remember all this," Ron said frustrated. Ron shook his head and looked up. "Hagrid? What are you doing here?"
"Jus' looking." Hagrid said. "What're you up to? Not looking for Nicholas Flamel are yeh?" Hagrid asked.
"Oh. We already found out all about him." Harry said. "We also know what Fluffy is hiding. It's the Sorcerer's St..." Hagrid hushed him up with his massive hand covering his mouth.
"Shh..." Hagrid looked around fearfully. "Do yeh want the whole school to know? Listen, Meet me at my house later." Hagrid said as he quickly shuffled off.
"Um... See you later then," Harry said confused. He got up and looked at some of the books that Hagrid had dropped. "Huh? 'From egg to inferno, a dragon keeper's guide?" Harry looked at me. "Is Hagrid keeping a dragon?" I blink at Harry's quick assessment.
"Uh, not really no. He's got an egg, not a dragon." I said as Hermione looked up alarmed.
"He's hatching an egg? But he lives in a wooden hut!" Hermione whispered quietly. "And it's illegal to own a dragon! What's Hagrid thinking?" Hermione quickly got up and put away her books. Harry looked slightly alarmed as well as Ron and he packed up their own books.
"What are you doing?"I frown.
"We need to see Hagrid of course!" Hermione said as she put on her pack and all three of them hurried out of the library, Madam Pince was glaring at me at the slight mess we were leaving. I smiled sheepishly as I quickly left.
Soon, we were in front of Hagrid's hut.
"HAGRID! OPEN UP!" Hermione yelled as she banged on the door.
"I'm comin'!" Hagrid said as he quickly ushered us in. It was like a boiler in there, only without the dampness in the air.
"Hagrid! Why are you trying to hatch a dragon egg!"
"You found out? Well, of course, you found out, nosier than the entire school combined. But I've always wanted one." He brought out a book. "Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit. It's a bit outta date, but it's all in here. Keep the egg in the fire." He pointed out the black egg in the fire. "And when the dragon hatches, feed it a bucket of brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour. I've been collecting chicken blood for years now, never expected to be able to use it." He looked extremely proud of himself as he stoked the fire. "I've checked what kind of dragon this is. Norwegian Ridgeback, extremely rare these are."
"Hagrid," Hermione said seriously. "You live in a Wooden House." Hagrid didn't listen and Hermione threw her hands up in exasperation.
"Boys!" she said as she left the hut with Harry and Ron. I left and closed the door on my way out.
It was a few weeks later when I had finished taking the test on Doppelganger. Which was rather simple to grade. I simply had to grade how accurate the doppelganger was to the original and see how long it was kept up. As well as check whether the Doppelganger was a fully functional person or just a plain copy of it's original. I was talking to Pinkie about what power I should teach them next, we were divided between either Windblast or Domino. When I saw Hedwig swoop down to give some mail to Harry, He read it and his eyes widened.
I could already guess what it contained. A few hours later, after Herbology, we were sitting in Hagrid's hut, watching the egg. It had extremely deep cuts in it. The egg seemed much thicker than your average egg. Well, of course, it would need to be thicker, if it was thinner, you would just cook the dragon on the inside instead of keeping it warm. Suddenly, it cracked open and out flopped... something. It didn't look like that umbrella that was described in the book. It looked more like a cross between a lizard and a big black chicken than anything else. Its wings were easily twice the size of it and nearly filled up the table by themselves.
I bent down into the dragon's face to get a good look at its eyes and it snorted and sneezed. sending soot into my face.
"Isn't he beautiful?" Hagrid said.
"Don't you mean she." I coughed as I got the soot out of my face. Everyone turned to look at me.
"What?" Hagrid asked.
"That's a female." I pointed at the dragon. "Her name is Norberta. not Norbert like you were going to name her." Hagrid widened his eyes.
"How'd you know what I was going to name her?"
"I know the future." I wipe the remainder out of my face as I sat down. Hagrid frowned.
"Hagrid. how fast do Norwegian Ridgebacks grow exactly?" Hermione asked when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Come on in Draco," I said. As the door opened. Draco looked sheepish.
"You invited a Malfoy?" Hagrid frowned at me.
"Draco's a good guy," I said. "Hey, Draco."
"Uh... Hey guys." He waved. He bowed slightly to Hermione. "Lady." Everyone chuckled a little. "So you got a dragon? Don't you know their illegal?" Draco asked Hagrid. Hagrid frowned.
"Are you going to report me?"
"Of course not!" Draco frowned. "But someone's going to find out about her eventually. Plus dragons grow extremely fast! And when he gets released into the wild, people are going to wonder where she came from, and they're going to find out that you bred her, you'll stand trial!" Hagrid whitened. Realizing the truth in those words.
"But what am I going to do? She's too young! He'd die!" Hagrid said sadly. Draco and Harry frowned in unison and sat thinking.
"I got it!" Draco snapped his fingers and turned to Ron. "Isn't one of your brothers interested in dragons? Charles or something? We could ask him!" Ron widened his eyes.
"OH YEAH!" He turned to Hagrid. "Charlie is in Romania, studying dragons! We could send him Norberta and when she's ready, they could release her." Hagrid pursed his lips, but eventually, he nodded.
"Fine, message him." Harry and Ron quickly got up while Hermione, Draco, Hagrid and I were left in the hut. After petting the dragon for a little bit longer and almost getting my finger bitten off by the little girl. I left.
It was March now, and I was again trying to get my attention diverted by Harry, Hermione and Ron. I rolled my eyes and went into the same room as I had before when they tried to get my attention.
"Yeah?" I frown.
"We got it planned out. On Midnight on Saturday, I and Hermione will take the crate up to the Astronomy tower so that some of Charlie's friends can take the dragon." Harry said.
"Ok." I nod. "Have you told Hagrid yet?" They looked at each other and shook their heads.
"We were hoping you could come down with us," Hermione said sheepishly. I sighed and nodded as we went down to Hagrid's hut.
"Hey Hagrid!' I called in. Hagrid came out and closed the door quickly. "What's wrong?"
"Norberta's in a... tricky stage. Nothing I can't handle though." He said as I looked at Fang, one of his teeth looked cracked and his tail was bandaged tightly.
"...Yeah... I can see that. Listen. Charlie wrote back." Harry began as he told Hagrid about the letter. Hagrid sighed and he teared up slightly.
"Ok. I guess we had to be separated eventually. I just didn't think that it would happen so soon. She's still a baby you know."
The 'baby' slammed his tail into the window and it looked like the hut was going to rattle down to its foundations.
"....Ignore that." Hagrid said sheepishly.
That Saturday, I escorted Harry and Hermione to Hagrid's hut and watched as Harry took out his invisibility cloak and draped it over the large crate that held Norberta, Hermione and Harry went under it and I activated Dark Vision so I could still see them. I opened the door, but before they could leave, Hagrid stopped and told them. "I packed a lot o' rats an' some brandy fer the journey." Hagrid sobbed a little. "Goodbye, Norberta. Mommy will never forget you." I got a little chuckle when Hagrid referred to himself as a woman. Harry and Hermione left, the crate between them. I smile and hope that they don't forget to leave the invisibility cloak at the top of the tower. And even if they did, there's a chance that they wouldn't get caught anyway. I smiled as I left for my room.