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Chapter 10

In the days that followed, Quirrell had paled and was slimmer but he had not told Snape anything. Snape was still in his bad temper and every chance they got, Harry, David, Ron, and Hermione would go to the third corridor and still would hear Fluffy growl.

Harry, David, and Ron had been trying to stop people from making fun of Quirrell. Hermione had gone and made a calendar for when they would study down in the library.

"I can't take it anymore," Ron groaned. They were in the library now and after an hour of studying Ron couldn't take it.

"Stop complaining," Hermione said, "the final exam is in ten weeks and you need to pass it in order to move up to second year."

"Can you believe this, David?" Ron asked.

He had been trying to avoid getting in a fight but it seemed that Ron always tried to bring him in, "I don't like it either but she wouldn't have stopped nagging us and forcing us down here, so just keep studying."

"I don't nag," Hermione said, "and I shouldn't have to 'force you' as you said, you should come down here willingly."

"Not all of us read all the time like you," David said while closing his book, "don't you read ten books a day?"

"And not all of us care about Quidditch like you," Hermione said, "haven't you been flying since you were five?"

"This girl is impossible," David thought

"He can be so infuriating," Hermione thought.

Just then Hagrid was walking past them with his hands behind his back.

"Hey Hagrid," Harry said, ignoring the fact that David and Hermione were glaring at each other.

"Hello," Hagrid said still with his hands behind his back.

"Hagrid we found out that Fluffy is guarding the Sorcerer's st-" Ron said happily but was cut off by Hagrid.

"Quiet," he whispered to them. "You can't just go yelling that stuff."

"Hagrid," Harry said. "We been thinking, is there more guarding it then the dog?"

"Show up at my home later," Hagrid said. "I'll tell you more later."

Then he shuffled off.

An hour later they were at his hut, the curtains were shut; Hagrid quickly brought them in when they knocked on the door. The hut was getting hot because of the fire going in the fire place, he made them tea but they refused.

"So you have some questions," Hagrid said.

"We were wondering what else is guarding the Sorcerer's Stone." Harry said.

"Can't, that's number one's area," he said.

"Come on, Hagrid," David said, "you must know something."

"Nope."

"Hagrid," Hermione said in a sweet voice, "you know everything that goes on here and we were just wondering who Dumbledore trusted to guard it apart from you."

Hagrid was smiling at her.

"All right," Hagrid said, "Well Dumbledore got Fluffy for me; he also talked to professor Sprout, professor Flitwick, professor McGonagall, and professor Snape."

"Snape," they said.

"Don't tell me you four are still thinking it's him, he's one of the one's guarding it."

"I guess it's something," Harry mumbled.

"Hagrid," David said, "can you open a window?"

"No," Hagrid said looking at a black oval shaped egg.

"Your hatching an egg, aren't you?" Ron said.

"I won him last week in a card game," Hagrid said, "he seemed glad to be rid of him; it will be a Norwegian Ridgeback."

"You know dragons are illegal, Hagrid," Hermione said.

But Hagrid was humming while he stroked the fire, he didn't hear her.

A few weeks later, Hermione had gone and made another study calendar for them. One morning, Hedwig brought them a letter from Hagrid saying it was hatching. Of course Hermione would not let them miss a class but she agreed to seeing it after morning classes.

As soon as the bell rang to end their class, they ran down to the tree line. Hagrid was rushing them in and there on the table was the egg. It rolled around a bit and finally it broke open.

The dragon looked like a crumpled up, clack umbrella, it had spiny wings that were bigger than its skinny body, a long nose with wide nostrils. Stubs for horns and had bulging, orange eyes. It sneezed and a spark came out of its nose.

"It's beautiful," Hagrid murmured as he stretched his arm to pet it. It snapped at the fingers, showing its fangs. "It knows his mommy," Hagrid said. He looked up and suddenly his face paled. "There was a kid looking through the window."

David opened the door and said. "It was Malfoy."

The smile Draco was wearing the next week worried the four. They spent what free time they had at Hagrid's hut. They had been trying to convince Hagrid to get rid of him.

"I can't," Hagrid said, looking at the dragon that had grown three times its original size in a week. "I've decided to name him Norbert, he even know his name, watch, Norbert, where's mommy?"

"He's lost it," Ron whispered to David, who was looking out the window to make sure no one watching them.

"Hagrid," Harry said. "All Malfoy has to do is tell Dumbledore!"

"I can't just leave him," Hagrid said, "He's only a baby."

"Charlie," Harry said to Ron.

"No, I'm Ron," Ron said.

"No, Charlie can watch over him in Romania," Harry suggested. "He can watch over Norbert, what do you think, Hagrid?"

After a little while, Hagrid agreed.

It was now the next Wednesday night. Harry, David, and Hermione were still up in the common. The clock in the room struck midnight as Ron came into the common room and took off the invisibility cloak; he just came from Hagrid's hut, helping feed the dragon who was now eating dead rats.

"Norbert bit me," Ron said as he showed his pointer finger. "I tried to feed it and then it bit me, Hagrid told me off for scaring him."

David's owl came to the window; they had sent him to Charlie. Harry opened the window, the grey-horn owl flew to David and stretched its leg, and he took the letter. Then the owl bit the second knuckle on his pointer finger and flew away.

"What did you do to him that causes him to bite you?" Hermione asked as David gave the letter to Harry.

"I didn't do anything," David said, "he just hates me."

"Charlie said he would take him but we have to get him to the highest tower on Saturday night," Harry said. "The cloak should be able to hide three of us and the dragon."

"That's easy," David said. "Harry, Ron, and I will go and you can stay here Hermione."

But it was not that easy, tomorrow at breakfast, Ron's finger had swollen, they were beginning to think Norbert's fang were poisonous. By the end of the day Ron was in the hospital wing.

"I told Madam Pomfrey a dog bit me but I don't think she believed me," Ron told them. "Draco came down here, he told Madam Pomfrey he was borrowing my book, he threatened to tell her what really bit me. He's doing this because I beat him up the Quidditch match."

"He did it because he couldn't beat us by himself," David said, trying to help Ron feel better.

"He took the book with the letter in it." Ron said.

"Don't worry," Hermione said. "It'll be done by midnight."

Madam Pomfrey told them to leave so Ron could get some rest.

"It's too late to change plans now," Harry told David and Hermione, they told Hagrid about Charlie's letter and there was a tear in his eye but Norbert did just bite his foot.

"It's all right," Hagrid said. "He's just got me boot, he's still a baby."

The baby waged its tail and he hit the wall causing the windows to rattle.

It was now Saturday night. Ron was still in the hospital wing so Harry, David, and Hermione made their way to Hagrid's hut.

Norbert was in a large crate. "I put some dead rats and brandy in there incase he gets hungry," Hagrid said gruffly. "I also put his teddy bear in there if he gets lonely."

A noise come from the crate that sounded like the teddy's head was being torn off.

As they put the cloak over the crate, Hagrid started to cry. "Bye Norbert, mommy won't forget you." Harry, David, and Hermione got under the cloak and headed to the castle carrying the crate.

Halfway to the tower they heard footsteps. Professor McGonagall was in a bathrobe and a hair net dragging Malfoy by his ear.

"Detention and twenty points from Slytherin for walking the halls after dark!" she said to him.

"But professor, Potter and Barley have a dragon."

"Impossible, now to bring you to professor Snape."

When they were gone, the three continued. They reached the tower without anyone following them, they took off the cloak.

"Draco's in detention, I think I could sing," Hermione said.

"You can sing later," David said. "Serves the sneak right."

They laughed at Malfoy. Ten minutes later, four brooms swooped to them. David thought Charlie's friends were a happy group and he along with Harry and Hermione were shown the harness as they strapped Norbert in. they thanked them for doing this and watched as Norbert left.

"That went perfect," David thought as they walked down the stairs. "Norbert is gone, Draco is in detention. But why do I feel like we forgot-" David's thought was interrupted when they reached the door because standing there with a lantern was Filch.

"Well," he whispered. "We are in trouble, aren't we?"

They had left the cloak in the tower.