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Note: I didn't invent the gemstone Draconite, I found out about it in David Colbert's The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter

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Chapter 11: The Norwegian Ridgeback and the Grindyweeds

Athena was halfway to the third floor corridor when she remembered that Professor Sprouts warned that the third floor corridor is out of bounds.

"Who cares, maybe there's nothing dangerous in there. Besides, my mother will probably don't care if I die when she finds out that I am a monster." Athena said to herself and turned left to climb the stairs to the third floor corridor. She stared the golden doorknob, reached out and opened it slowly. The door led to a long, dark corridor and she walked down on the corridor, with her shoes clicking against the black marble floor loudly. She reached a cold, stone door with a golden lock as big as her closed fist. She took out her wand, pointed it and said, "Alohomora."

CLICK

The lock became undone and Athena went in. As she did, the door slammed shut and disappeared. She looked and turn ghastly pale at what she was seeing.

A dragon. (Or to Harry Potter's fans, it is actually Norbert. Hagrid got, or put it in a better way, talked, cajoled, pleaded and threatened the Ministry of Magic to bring it back from Romania to guard the third floor corridor on the left hand side)

Norbert has fully grown after 17 years and now it is gigantic, but not as big as its enormous black wings. Its snout is long with wide nostrils and it has solid horns and bulging orange eyes. It glared at Athena menacingly and gave a very loud roar, so loud that Athena could feel that the ground was shaking. Athena looked around frantically and saw an opening behind Norbert. Norbert stomped its feet and paced in front of the opening. Obviously, she had to get past Norbert to get to the other side.

Norbert gave another roar and breathed fire towards Athena; she ducked the long stream of fire and another ball of fire flew, aiming her legs. She jumped and the fire managed to catch the hem of her robes. Her ankles gave way when she landed and fell. She turned around and flapped frantically on her robes, which were burning furiously now to her knee length. By the time she extinguished it, her beautiful smooth hands were now badly burnt.

"Now what?" She thought in panic. She searched her mind quickly and remembered one of Eric's stories about his father: "So, Hagrid said to my parents and Uncle Ron that the trick with any beast is to know how to calm them.." "How am I going to calm a dragon?" Athena thought in frustration because Norbert was now giving her a deadly stare. Athena tried to remember the rest of Eric's story to find an answer to her situation. "Think, Athena, think!" She ordered herself. Eric's voice quickly came back to her mind: "...And then Hagrid said: " Take Fluffy for example, just play a bit of music and he falls straight asleep.".."

Music? Well, it works for a three-headed dog but will it work on a dragon? "Well, it worth a try!" Her mind said quickly. Norbert gave a roar and Athena searched frantically in her robes for a flute or anything that makes music.

Nothing.

She looked at Norbert in panic. Now what? She suddenly remembered one thing: She won a singing contest in her first year in her old school. But that was years ago, she doubt that she could barely sing now. "Whatever, just sing!" Her mind commanded. She opened her mouth and started to sing a soft lullaby. Norbert stopped glaring at her and looked at her curiously. It listened to Athena's singing voice and if Athena wasn't wrong, she thought that she saw Norbert was smiling. "Keep singing." Her mind ordered. Norbert stared at her dreamily and Athena continued her soft, charming singing when Norbert was lying flat on its stomach. It looked sleepy but its orange eyes were still staring at Athena. Athena continued to sing until Norbert opened its wide mouth to yawn, showing its dangerous looking fangs and fork-like tongue. It closed its eyes and fell asleep. As it slept, smoke came out of its nostrils. Athena stopped singing slowly, tiptoed past Norbert, stepping over its huge tail and walked quietly through the opening.

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When she was through the opening, she had to halt so suddenly that she had to wave her arms frantically to stop herself from falling forward. She was in a big, green room, but not as big as Norbert's room. A pool stretched in front of her and the edges stopped sharply at the four walls. The pool seems to be so deep that Athena wondered if it is bottomless. An opening was at the other end of the pool, a foot above the water. "I think I should fly." Athena thought and she leaped, with her big wings spread behind her. She flew straight to the opening and stopped in shock when she saw cold, hard, pure white bars shot out at the opening, preventing her from going through.

"Draconite?" She whispered. She learned about it in Potions, Draconite is a gemstone that has a pure natural whiteness, found inside a dragon's head. It is so hard that no man can devise to imprint or engrave anything in it.

"Okay, enough Potions, now what?" She thought as she flew back slowly to the other opening. As she did, the bars disappeared. She stared at the pool and sighed. "Looks like I have no choice. I have to swim my way across the room." She said and dived into the water, changing herself immediately into a mermaid.

Suddenly, long, slimy plants shot out from beneath and wrapped themselves around Athena's tail. As they tried to drag her down forcefully, she thought: " Grindyweeds?! Great, now what am I going to do?!" She tried to yank the plants away from her tail but like Grindylows, the plants' grip is incredibly strong. If she's an ordinary person, she will be dead by now. But luckily, she's not because she's a mermaid. She took out her wand and stabbed it at the plants, yelling a spell that couldn't be hear clearly and the plants started to burn, letting Athena's tail go. (I suppose that she said a spell that caused waterproof fire to the plants) She swam upwards and when she turned around, she stared in horror as the plants grew back quickly. She continued to swim until she reached the surface and she saw the opening in front of her. She reached out, put her hands on the ground and pulled herself out of the water. The bars didn't appear this time and when Athena stood up and got herself safely to the other side, the opening disappeared.

Dragon, Grindyweeds, what's next?