Chapter 14 Dragon/Qudditch time?
The days went by and soon Hogwarts found it's self in the mists of the upcoming Qudditch season. Harry and the others where pleased, but still curious how Neville would perform. They were still getting loads of homework, which wasn't helping Qudditch practice. The day before the match Harry found him-self gossiping with Ron, Cho and Hermione in Care for magical creatures as they cared for their dragon egg.
"Haven't seen much of Malfoy this year." said Ron smirking as he carefully picked up the egg out of the fire.
"Yeah maybe he died" said Harry hopefully
"Nope, he's in my runes class, been acting funny though…" said Hermione looking at Harry with a shrug.
"Is Malfoy the one with those two fat body guards?" asked Cho coming over with some mittens
Harry, Ron, and Hermione started cracking up hysterically, and Cho chucked bewildered
"No (haha) that's Crabbe and Golye (wahahaha)" said Ron Banging his fist on the table.
"Ohhh are they his friends..?" asked Cho still not understanding
"Yeah." Said Harry "They've been our enimes since are 1st year". Hermione gasped and Harry wiped around to see what was wrong. He hit Ron on the back and he turned around as well, the dragon was hatching.
Hermione immediately pulled out a quill and some parchment and started taking notes.
"Hermione!" Ron yelled, "What are we to do?!"
"Um..Um….gezz don't you listen; what ever you do don't help it and it might take a second…don't touch it..They are very testy went there born….make sure you have your gloves on..Oh! Look its tail!" squeaked Hermione
They all watched in awe as it first poked its tail out, then a leg and finally the rest of the shell fell away. The dragon looked around and flapped its scaly wings.
"Swwwaaqq" it snapped when Ron tried to touch it
"Hagrid! Hagrid! Our dragon hatched!" Harry yelled not knowing what to do. Hagrid came running over knocking a few students to the ground on the way.
"Oh bless yeh." He said beaming at them " He looks just like Norbert when he was a baby!"
Hagrid bent down and slowly patted the dragon, and to Harry's surprise it looked like it was about to purr.
"But Hagrid when I tried to touch it, it tried to bit me!" said Ron looking at Hagrid in awe at he started to make baby noises at Norbert Jr.
"Yeah, well they need some time when they fust come out, yeah know you cried when yeh was a little baby." Said Hagrid tuning back to the dragon.
Ron rolled his eyes and continued watching Hagrid. Harry looked at Cho and she seemed to be all starry eyed. Harry put his arm around her and smiled, she smiled back.
"He so cute.." she said
"Yeah, just like you" said Harry. Cho smiled again and continued watching. Norbert jr. was now breathing fire and walking around.
"Can't wait till he gets bigger." Harry thought
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The next morning Harry woke up with a knot in his stomach, Fred and George looked kind of nervous to and that reassured him. Harry, Ron and Hermione went down to breakfast and of course Hermione and Ron had to talk to him in to eating.
"You going to need it Harry" said Ron
"Yeah. Yeah…" said Harry looking at all the food
"And it's against slytherin, what do you think Malfoy would do if you lost." Said Hermione over a book
"Um….how true." Said Harry grabbing a roll. "In that case I'm going to gorge my-self!"
"And then instead of fainting you'll barf." Said Ron sarcastically. But Harry didn't hear him just that moment Cho started yelling across the room
"Good lucky Harry!" she yelled getting up and coming over to him
"Thanks." He said standing up to kiss her.
"You better win, I can't wait to have my match against you!" she said
"Oh ho ho you think you'd with do you." Harry said sarcastically
"I believe I would." She said flicking his noise.
Harry laughed and kissed her again. Somebody called her from her table and she said good-bye and ran off. Harry sat back down next to Ron and Hermione.
"Got to win now." Said Harry laughing "Girlfriends orders."
Ron laughed and so did Hermione; Harry knew he was going to win-even if it killed him.
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