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And here is the next chapter, ladies and gentlemen!)

 That Saturday night, when they went to go visit Hagrid, they noticed that he was depressed.

"'Lo," he said, forlorn.

"What's wrong, Hagrid?" Harry asked.

"Fang's gone off. He got away while I was chasin' a dementor. Third one this month I found and killed. But the lot of them won't be comin' back. I made sure of tha'. The only thing is Fang's lost in there. All alone, with his sense of home messed up from those rotten dementors," Hagrid explained.

"Dementors in the forest? How'd they get there?" Elizabeth asked.

"Don' know," he replied, "All I know is that Fang's gone and he ain't found his way back home, yet."

Harry could practically see the light bulb turning on in Elizabeth's head.

They talked about different things until curfew. Then they said their goodbyes and walked out of Hagrid's hut.

"Why don't we go look for Fang?" Elizabeth asked once Hagrid's door was closed.

"I don't think that's such a good idea, Elizabeth," Ron warned.

"Ron's right," said Harry. Memories involving the forest swirled in his head.

"Fine! You want to leave a poor cowardly dog in the middle of a forest, that's fine with me! But I'm going to look for him," Elizabeth said vehemently. Her recklessness and weakness for animals got the better of her as she strolled straight into the forest bravely, and boldly alone.

Harry and Ron waited a minute. Harry whispered, "We can't let her get lost on her own," and they ran to catch up to her.

The forest was dark and eerie. Fog was rolling over tree trunks and over grass and dirt. A wolf howled in the distance. Still, they found no sign of Elizabeth.

"HAGGER!" something screamed. Harry and Ron walked towards the screaming to see Grawp, swinging his arms into trees. Harry turned his head as he saw a glint of light beside Grawp, but it was gone before he could get a closer look.

"Harry!" There, sitting in the trunks of a gnarled tree, was Elizabeth, her forehead bleeding.

"ME WANT HAGGER! SENAWRS!" Grawp continued to shout.

Harry and Ron helped Elizabeth up. She shook her head and seemed to be all right except for the cut on her head.

"What does he mean by 'senwars?'" Elizabeth asked out loud.

"Why do I think he's saying, 'I want Hagrid. Centaurs?'" Ron said.

Suddenly, Grawp quieted down and pointed a hand towards a clearing. The three stepped closer to get a better look.

A whole circle of centaurs were there, pointed their arrows at one beast that was undistinguishable. When Harry, Ron, and Elizabeth tried to get closer, all the centaurs released their arrows. Elizabeth jerked her head away, hoping to hear not the sound of arrows digging into flesh.

Before the centaurs knew the three were there, they heard a whimper.

"Fang?" Harry called softly. The great dog came out from the shadows and rubbed his head on Harry's leg. He then started walked away. The three followed him.

When they were at the front door of Hagrid's hut, Fang started scratching at the door.

"Is that you, Fang?" came Hagrid's voice as he opened his door. "What're you three doin' here? I thought ya went back, already," he commented at seeing Harry, Ron, and Elizabeth.

"We came to bring Fang back to you," Elizabeth answered brightly.

Hagrid turned furious. "You meant ta tell me, that you three went into the forest, alone, in the middle of the night, just to get my bloody dog?" They nodded. Hagrid shook his head and grabbed their arms and walked them all the way to Dumbledore's office.

"Yes, Hagrid?" said Dumbledore, looking up from his desk.

"Professor, these three went into the forest," Hagrid informed.

Dumbledore became very somber. "And what, pray tell, were you doing in there?" he asked to Harry, Ron, and Elizabeth.

"It was all my fault," Elizabeth spoke up suddenly. "Sir. I decided to go looking for Hagrid's dog. Harry and Ron couldn't very well leave me in the forest, alone. I wasn't quite away of the danger, but Fang had run away while Hagrid was out finding a dementor and Fang—"

"Dementors, Hagrid? Another one? Please, step out into the hall. I wish to speak with you a moment," interrupted Dumbledore.

"Now, we're in for it," Ron moaned.

"Hagrid, I want you to tell me everything," Dumbledore requested. They could still hear him, but they had to try harder.

"Well, sir, I…Uh…got a message from an old friend of mine. He said that him and his family were getting scared bad by summin. They were sayin' that whatever it was, it was sucking all the warmth outta the place.

"I went to go check it out with Fang and my cross-bow, and sir, he sensed the dementor before I did, brave cha, and he scattered. I saw the horrible creature, tall, lurkin' and sulky. I shot him right in the chest. But Fang wasn't with me. I figured he'd find his way home by now. But a day went by and Fang still didn't come home. I almost lost hope when these three paid me a visit. Little did I know that when they left, they went straight in to the forest.

"They came back to me hut and I brought them straight to you, sir, for fear of them doin' in again, if I have to chase another dementor and Fang gets lost again," Hagrid explained.

The subject was then changed to other things.

"Hello, Fawkes," said Harry as the phoenix landed on his shoulder. Elizabeth noticed that this was the bird in her dream. She started looking around the office. On one of the shelves was a glass doom. Inside was a flower, a purple daisy, in full bloom. But the dome must have been ancient from all the dust on it, and the flower didn't have any roots, dirt, or anything else it needed to survive. Elizabeth thought it looked oddly familiar…

"Well, I'm sorry to say that am very disappointed in you, Elizabeth. You put two of your fellow students in danger, as well as yourself. But since you found Hagrid's dog, I'm not going to take any points away from Gryffindor. As you broke the rules, no points will be awarded, and the three of you are not allowed to go to the village around Halloween. I must advise you three, do not go into the forest again. This is not just a regular rule, anymore. Something is happening in there that isn't normal. It isn't good, either. You were very lucky this time with only receiving a mere scratch, Elizabeth. But, as I'm sure you're very aware, your luck may run out at any moment," said Professor Dumbledore.

"Besides that, a new barrier will be added around the school. It will not let students pass unless they are with a teacher. It will give you room to be outside, but no more will you be able to roam the forest."

As Harry, Ron, and Elizabeth walked out of Dumbledore's office, all three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"I thought we were going to get a load of points off, plus a century worth of detention," said Ron. Harry knew how close they were to narrowly, not just getting detention, or losing points, but getting expelled.

(A/N: *shakes head* When's Elizabeth going to learn that you just can't run off like that? *sigh* Hope you liked this chapter! ^_^)

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