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Chapter 2
Flying as fast as he could, it didn't took long for Harry to land on the roof of the train. And it was surprisingly comfortable as this train was quite slower than the other one he took before, quite different in appearance and made out of wood rather than steel, something hard to understand as every creature knew that it wouldn't resist fire. But he put that aside, he saw humans made stupid decisions all the time so he wasn't surprise anymore.
Clutching tight the roof with his claws, he moved away from the smoky part of the train and jumped from one car to the other, before stopping as he heard something, a voice from the train that went above the winds.
"-what house you'll be in? I've been asking around, and I hope I'm in Gryffindor." Said a young girl.
'What's a Gryffindor?' Harry wondered before walking toward the side of the car he heard the voice.
"M-me too." Said a smaller voice that he barely heard, a boy if he was right.
"Yeah, all my brothers got in Gryffindor so I'll probably go there too." Another boy said.
Curious, Harry got closer to the edge of the roof and, using his claws to not be blown away, slowly got closer to a window slightly open.
"I wouldn't mind going in Ravenclaw, apparently they are the only ones to have a private library." Continued the girl from earlier.
"Everything but Slytherin." Said the boy who wasn't shy.
Even more curious with all those words he never heard of before, Harry continued to get closer but stopped when he heard a new noise, something rolling on the floor of the car.
"Anything off the cart, dears?" Said a definitely old woman.
"All I have are my mom sandwiches."
"May I have Chocolate Frogs please?" Asked the shy boy.
"Of course dear." Replied the older voice.
Harry didn't heard the rest as the very distinguishable sound of coins rolled in his ears like the sweetest of melodies. It took him a few seconds to focus again but this time he had a new goal in mind in those humans had more shiny coins. The sound of torn paper came from the car as he got closer to the window and finely got a look at who was inside.
A boy with ginger hairs was sat, eating a weird looking bread without much appetite. Across him another boy with black hair and a baby face was looking at a card and holding a real frog in one hand with another one made out of chocolate resting on the couch and looking around, jumping everywhere. Next to him was a girl with bushy brown hairs and eating a little chocolate that was the definition of normal.
"Careful with your frog!" Said the ginger haired boy.
Harry, who had his head hanging above the window, looked at the green frog who didn't moved before noticing the chocolate one climbing the window and coming directly toward him. The fake animal barely got the time to reach the edge of the window that Harry lunged forward, extending his neck and opening his jaw to gobble the frog in a single bite.
The taste was nothing like he ever tasted before and it took a few seconds for him to notice that everyone in the car was looking at him perfectly immobile with wide eyes, doing their best impression of a paralyzed owl.
"Shite it's a baby dragon!" Said the ginger haired boy, instantly getting the attention of Harry who looked at him.
The girl looked to be about to say something but something seemed to have stopped her. The other boy was completely paralysed and didn't even blinked once.
Jumping from his position, Harry landed on the window and slowly got inside, looking at every human and at the little pieces of food on the couch.
"Don't move." Said the same boy as before now as white as snow.
Harry just looked at him and landed on the couch, looking at the food and smelling everything in search of something edible as well as the coins he heard earlier. His eyes landed on the rat hold in the hands of the ginger haired boy who quickly saw the danger and teared up a part of his sandwich before giving it to him with a very shaky hands.
"Okay d-don't bite me and just g-go away." He said slowly.
With a quick move that got a yelp from the boy, Harry got the small piece of bread and meat and ate it in a few bites before sniffing the air. There were many scents around but one bot his attention, one that he couldn't ignore.
Moving forward, he got closer to the boy and sniffed him as he looked to be about to pass out before turning away, not smelling the distinct smell of gold. Going toward the other boy, Harry stopped and got closer. His eyes fixed on the frog for a second but it wasn't his objective and his nostrils guided him toward the pockets of the boy. Wary, Harry looked at the boy and jumped on his legs and dived his head in a small pocked on the pant of the child.
"He smells your coins." Simply said the girl, her eyes fixed on the little dragon.
"Don't move, m-maybe he'll go away." Said the other boy.
Harry didn't listened as he put his head in the pocket as the boy whimpered. But finally he got his prize and bit down on a few coins before taking them out, jumping on the couch before spreading them. There were coins but not the golden ones, his favorites. Not satisfied, he turned toward the girl who quickly understood and pull out a few coins in her hands. He got closer as she tensed but sadly there were no golden ones again. Still he grabbed two of the most shiny ones and placed them near the other coins to select which ones would be the best for his nest.
"S-should we call a prefect?" Asked the ginger boy holding his rat closely.
"No. No sudden move." Instantly replied the girl.
As they spoke Harry made his choice and looked outside before realizing that he wouldn't be able to take the coins back with him, already too far from his nest and now stuck with a small pile of coins. He didn't really had a choice if he wanted to keep his coins rightfully taken so he took, all of them in his mouth to the apparent relief on the humans.
"Okay now just -just go away." Said the boy.
'Why would I do that? It's my coins.' Thought Harry before putting the coins in the center of the couch and resting right on top of it, keeping his eyes on the humans.
A near perfect silence followed as the children seemed to realize the problem of a small dragon resting in their car. None of them moved but they also kept their eyes on him.
"What do we do?" Whispered the boy not relaxed at all with the dragon right next to him.
"I don't know! There's nothing about that in my books." Replied the girl as silently.
"What if someone pass and he gets angry?" Continued the boy getting more scared by the second.
"Is there a spell against dragons?"
"I don't know!".
"My grandma told me about one but I don't know it." Whispered the boy with black hair who hadn't spoke since Harry's arrival.
"Bloody brilliant."
"Ron! Language!" Said the girl a bit louder.
"Come on Hermione it's a dragon! Who cares about language!"
'This humans are so loud.' Harry thought before letting out a small growl which immediately got him the silence he was looking for.
Several minutes passed before the boy next to him put his rat in a small box, the animal apparently very happy to remain out of sight of the small dragon. The girl in front of Harry, Hermione if he understood correctly, slowly moved her hand toward a long stick and pull it out.
"What are you doing?!" Asked the boy whispering loudly and panicking.
"I read about a spell to stupefy people."
"Yeah! People! And most spells don't work against dragons!"
"I-I don't know! We're not supposed to study how to deal with magical creatures before a while and certainly not dragons!" The girl panicked.
Suddenly steps came out of their cabin and a few people walked right next to them. Harry looked up warily as no-one seemed to see him as they were going to the other way to the children greatest disappointment. More steps followed and suddenly the door opened on a blond boy with pale skin followed by two other boys.
"Weasley, I was sure I smelled your lack of soap from the other side of the train." The boy said without even looking at Harry who sank in the corner of the couch, looking straight at this intruder who was talking loudly.
"Shut up Malfoy! There's a -" Started the boy with ginger hair before being interrupted.
"Who do you think you are to tell me to shut up Weasley? I'm Draco Malfoy and no one tells me to shut up!" The now named Malfoy almost screamed pointing a finger at Ron who paled at the view of Harry.
Indeed Harry was starting to have enough. Not only was he disturbed many times in his nap but this loud human was just too much for his ears. Slowly raising his neck and opening his wings to appear bigger, he got ready to strike.
"Malfoy for the love of Merlin please shut up!" Repeated Ron in a half whisper.
"I said-" Started Malfoy getting closer.
He didn't got the time to finish. A jaw of teeth came down on his hand and bit him hard, a bit of blood coming out as Malfoy let out a scream of pain. Shacking his arm, he quickly got rid of the dragon who remained on his small pile of gold and starring at the boy with his mouth wide open.
"Who brought a bloody dragon?! I'm going to report you and my father will have you all expelled!" He yelled as he grabbed his injured hand.
"It's a wild dragon! Go get a prefect!" Ron screamed while looking at Harry.
Harry prepared his fire and a bit of smoke came out of his mouth. At this sight Malfoy quickly ran away with his goons, the door closing right behind him and trapping the children with the dragon again. They all looked at the golden danger who stood down and stopped breathing smoke at their greatest relief.
"I hope they won't be dumb enough to not get a prefect!" Said Hermione.
Only a minute passed in absolute silence as Harry relaxed a bit before a loud set of steps came down toward them and a tall man opened the door.
"Is it true that you have a dragon on board?" Asked the guy wearing a red dress, with the same red hairs as Ron.
"Percy! Right here!" Said Ron pointing frantically at Harry.
"Bloody hell!" Exclaimed Percy before taking out his wand. "Stand back, dragons are naturally resistant to magic so it needs to be done quickly and precisely."
"Just hurry up!"
Feeling the danger, Harry stood up and bared his teeth at the new threat, ready to face him directly.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Percy cast.
A shock of magic travelled through the air and ended-up inside Harry's mouth. All eyes widened even more than they were already when nothing seemed to happen and Harry was merely licking his lips, enjoying the taste of this weird stuff.
"That's impossible." Slowly said Percy as he moved backward.
"Percy?" Ron asked afraid.
"Don't move. I'll try again. Petrificus Totalus!"
Whatever this stuff was, Harry was happy to have another one and ate it exactly like the previous one.
"He is eating magic." Percy concluded, realising that the problem might be even bigger than he thought.
"What do we do?"Asked Neville.
"He looks calm for now so don't do any sudden movement. There's nothing to contain him for now, just stand up slowly and get out of the cabin."
Hermione was the first to act, being the closest to the door, and stood up very slowly as Harry kept his eyes on her. She moved one foot after the other and got out of the cabin to release a bit sigh that she had been keeping since Harry's arrival. Neville was the next one and stood up like Hermione but rushed outside, making all those outside the cabin gasp. Thankfully Harry didn't act. It was obvious that the boy posed no threat to him.
Things got harder for Ron as he was right next to Harry and wasn't decided to move.
"Come on Ron." Encouraged him Percy.
"But Charlie said that dragons-" Ron said panicking again.
"Everything will be fine Ron. Get up slowly, go around him and get out."
Trembling, Ron grabbed his rat and got up, staring right at Harry who was doing the same, still giving a glance towards Percy right next to him. Preferring Neville's method, Ron ran outside and Percy instantly closed the door behind him while glaring at Harry. But Harry didn't really cared about them, he was finally alone and even if the humans were still making a lot of noise outside at least the door prevented the majority of it.
"Tell me everything." Asked Percy with a harsh but caring voice.
"We were eating when the dragon came in by the window. He looked around and I gave him a bit of my sandwich, he left me alone and took some coins from Neville and Hermione before seating down on the couch." Ron quickly explained.
"That's when Malfoy arrived." Said Hermione.
"Yes! The dragon bit him after Malfoy started yelling."
"I understand, he came to me with his hand covered in blood. Were it not for the blood I wouldn't have believed him." Replied Percy.
"He looks very different from the dragons that Charlie talked about."
"Tell me about it. I don't think I ever heard of a dragon capable to eat magic." Said Percy as he looked through the window, looking at the dragon that one could have believed asleep. But he would bet anything on earth that the fire breathing lizard was awake.
"What do we do about him?" Asked Hermione.
"We leave him here for now. I'll keep watch until we arrive and then I will ask Hagrid to come help me, he have his ways with magical creatures."
"It's only a baby." Added Neville.
"I'm not sure. The size would suggest so but his reactions are those of an adult dragon, the hatchlings don't care about gold in the first months of their life and at that point they are already starting to be bigger than that. I wouldn't be surprise if this is either a new specie of dragon or just a very small one." Explained Percy. "Anyway, you'll have to go find another cabin. Go see the prefect room and tell them that I'm keeping an eye on the dragon, stay there until we arrive."
"Okay." Said Ron turning around.
"You're coming Hermione?" Asked Neville.
"Yes." She replied after giving a last look at the napping dragon.