"No, Harry, ya can't come with me."
"But Hagrid!"
He sighed. The eight-year-old wouldn't listen.
Harry stomped his foot. "You promised you would take me sometime!"
"The Forbidden Forest is too dangerous for a lad like you, Harry. I said I'd take you when you're older."
"Fine. Promise you'll be back soon?"
"O'course. Fang, look after 'im"
...
Hagrid returned home after a long day. It had taken ages to find the new mother unicorn. Dumbledore always wanted to know what creatures were in the forest, and a new unicorn was definitely important.
He trudged into the hut and flopped on a large chair. He closed his eyes for a moment.
They snapped open. Harry should be on his lap by now. "Harry!
No response.
" Harry!"
Hagrid kept calling his name as he searched around the hut. No response.
He looked toward the forest.
...
"Harry! Where are ya?" Hagrid's heart thumped loudly. How could he lose his boy? Where was Fang?
"I shoulda brought im wit me. I shoulda locked the door. Where is he?"
Maybe the centaurs had seen him. What if he accidentally insulted them? You could never tell with a centaur.
He picked up his pace.
...
As heentered the clearing, Hagrid breathed a sigh of relief. Fang was there.
"Did ya see him, boy? Where's Harry?"
Gallumph, gallumph, clip clop, clip clop
Firenze the centaur rode majestically into the clearing with a strange bundle on his back
"Harry!"
Hagrid carefully lifted his boy off Firenze' back.
"Thank ya for findin him! Sorry he bothered ya." He glared at the boy in his arms, then gave him a playful noogie.
The majestic centaur laughed. "He was not a trouble. The most entertaining person I've met in years. But stay out of this forest unless Hagrid is with you. It can be a dangerous place."
AN: Look up noogie if you need to. It's pretty Hagrid.