Harry potter and the caretaker
Chapter 7
As Harry, Ron, Hermione, the doctor, Rose and Hagrid made their way deeper into the forest they came across a clearing. The sun was shining upon a large grey-blue shape on the ground. It stood up and looked like the top half of an eagle mixed with the body of a horse.
"Ain't he beautiful?" Hagrid said proudly.
The Doctor and Rose looked in wonder while Harry, Ron and Hermione looked scared.
"Hagrid?" Ron asked. "What exactly is that?"
"That, Ron, is a hippogriff. Now. The first thing you need to know about hippogriffs is that they are very proud creatures, Very easily offended."
All the while Draco malfoy looked at them from the shadow of the trees.
The doctor looked at it. "It looks familiar…" he scratched his chin.
Rose sighed. "Thought it might."
"Now! Who wants to come an' say 'ello?" Hagrid asked cheerfully.
Everyone stepped back except harry, who looked at it in wonder.
"Well done harry!" Hagrid said.
Harry then looked around at the others to find they were a few steps behind him. He half heartedly stepped forward to the beast.
"Right… now you need to bow." Hagrid urged him. Harry looked at him so Hagrid gave him a: "just do it" look.
Harry slowly bowed to the beast.
The doctor was looking around when he saw a shape in the woods. Nobody noticed him sneak off and grab malfoy to bring him to the group. Malfoy was struggling in the Doctor's grasp. "Let me go!"
"Not going to happen! Come and learn something!"
"But I have a free period!"
"And I had to go to school for fifty years. I never complained as much as you."
Rose looked scornfully at malfoy. Malfoy returned the look.
"What's that muggle doing here?"
Rose scowled at him. "This muggle is going to punch you so hard that you will have to-" the Hippogriph's squawk drowned out her next word.
"-sideways!" Rose finished.
"Rose. Let the small boy go." The doctor said.
Rose found herself holding malfoy up to a tree by his collar. He was whimpering quietly.
She let him go and looked back at Harry and Hagrid, who were looking at her in awe.
He flicked her wrist. "Go on… continue."
Harry was sitting on the hippogriff's back. Hagrid shrugged and smacked the beast's flank with his hand.
The beast squawked again and began to run. It gained speed in the trees and spread it's large wings and took off.
