Disclaimere: Once again. I do NOT own anything of JKR's. I own Yuri Moon. And I helped create sorda kinda Aerial Claude. Full credit belongs to Ningy tho!

A/N: One word for this chappie. HAGRID! Ok yes Enjoy.

Chapter 6: In the Forest

"What is that?!" Yuri yelled, pointing at a hippogriff that was tied up right outside Hagrid's hut. Harry recognized the hippogriff Immediately as Buckbeak.

"Buckbeak!" Harry called and took off running straight at Hagrid's hut, Hagrid emerged from the hut.

"Who's Buckbean?!" Yuri asked herself.

"Oy! Harry-Kun slow down!" Yuri yelled at Harry chasing after him. Harry was now at the fence. Yuri finally caught up and bent over the fence.

"Who's yer frien' Harry?" Hagrid said.

"Oh, Hagrid this is Yuri, Yuri this is Hagrid" Harry said.

"So your Hag – Ouch! I mean nice to meet you." Yuri said, holding out her hand to shake Hagrid's. "Why'd you have to hit me?!" she hissed in Harry's ear.

"Sorry Yuri. Hagrid, wasn't Buckbeak back at Headquarters?" Harry asked Hagrid.

"Well, yes. Bu' Amelia Bones, she's an angel, she is. Her an' Dumbledore had a talk, an' since they forced Fudge outta office –"Hagrid started to explain, but Harry cut him off.

"Are you serious?!" Harry asked eagerly.

"Why woul' I joke about' this? I mean, the man completely los' it when they brough' in re-enforcemen's. They say he tried usin' a perm'nent stickin' charm on hisself. Bu' wha's done is done. It's jus' a shame I wasn' there ter witness it, ter be hones'." Hagrid said.

"Who are you guys talking about?" Yuri asked, scratching the back of her head.

"Oh, just this maniac Fudge..." Harry told Yuri and turned back to Hagrid. "Do you think you can come with us down to Hogsmeade?

"O' course, lemme jus' say goodbye ter Beaky an' ge' Fang." Hagrid said. He turned and walked over and patted Buckbeak on the beak, and walked into his hut. Yuri was eyeing the forest.

"Something wrong Yuri?" Harry asked, looking where Yuri was looking.

"Something is in there." Yuri said calmly, still staring at the forest.

"It's probally a centaur." Harry explained.

"No, that was not a centaur Harry-Kun." Yuri said, still fixed on the forest. Yuri began to move forward but Harry help her back.

"Don't Yuri, whatever it is, it's gone now." Harry said, looking over at Hagrid's hut, Hagrid had just come out followed by Fang. "Come on, Hagrid is back."

Harry walked along next to Hagrid talking to him as they walked; Yuri hesitated, still staring at the forest.

"Yuri! Come On!" Harry called.

"Yea, I'm coming..." Yuri called back, giving the forest one last look, she ran off to join Harry and Hagrid.

Aerial walked slowly to the window and looked down at the group of people walking towards the village on the edge of the grounds, and averted her gaze to the forest. Dumbledore walked to the window also and looked down at the forest too.

"You sensed it too then." Aerial said calmly, still staring at the forest.

"A force that large is hard to miss..." Dumbledore said.

"Yuri had to have sensed it too then, she must have been just a few feet away." Aerial noted. Looking up at Dumbledore with fear in her eyes. "You don't think Albus... Do you?" she added.

"A force that great had to have been him; no doubt about it. Nobody else can have had that great of force." Dumbledore explained.

"But Potter was right there! He could've –"Aerial said.

"Yes, but he knows that we're watching him. And Yuri was within striking distance." Dumbledore said, averting his attention to Aerial.

"That doesn't explain how he got here though. If he is still experiencing the effects of the blast, he shouldn't be able to find his way around without help then." Aerial said glancing back down at the forest. "He's gone."

"But how? He can't disapparate" Dumbledore commented.

"Portkey then? Should I go and retrieve Potter?" Aerial added.

"No, let Harry go, Yuri and Hagrid are with him. I want to search the forest."

Yuri, Harry and Hagrid sat at a table in the corner of The Three Broomsticks.

"Yuri are you ok? You've been awful quite since we got here." Harry asked.

"Huh? Oh Just thinking... that's all." Yuri said.

"Will you give it a rest already, it was probally just centaur!" Harry said.

"That was not a centaur and you know it!" Yuri yelled.

"Then it was a thestral, the forest is full of creatures! It could've been anything Yuri!" Harry said, standing up so fast that his chair flipped.

"He's got a poin' yeh know. There are a lotta creatures in the fores'." Hagrid said.

"Harry stop being so ignorant, you know as well as I do that, that was no animal or creature or whatever you want to say it is!" Yuri yelled, slamming her mug down on the table.

"Just give it a rest Yuri! Whatever it was, it's long gone now!" Harry yelled.

"You may not take this seriously! But I am taking it seriously!" Yuri yelled standing up. "I'll see you later. It was nice meeting you Hagrid." She added, storming out of the bar.

"Hagrid said waving at Yuri.

"She's turning twenty-two next month, and is going to be in all my classes, and according to Dumbledore, Yuri is another Fred and George." Harry said picking up the chair.

"You can a' leas' give her a chance, I mean she did soun' serious." Hagrid said.

"Well –"Harry started.

"Blimey, look a' the time Harry! We bes' be gettin' back ter the castle." Hagrid said pulling six sickles out of his pocket and setting them on the table. He pat Harry on the shoulder and led him out the door. The walk back to Hogwarts was extremely quiet. Hagrid walked with Hay to the Gryffindor common room, they said their goodbyes.

"Kneazle." Harry said, and the portrait of the Fat Lady swung open, and Harry walked in to see the Common Room just as it was last June. Just as he was about to head up to the boys dormitory, Yuri walked in, she didn't even both to look at Harry. Instead she just walked up to the girl's dormitory. Harry went up to the boy's dormitory also and went to sleep.