The story is based more on the book than the movie, so there'll be more detail, things may be in a different order and some things may be missed out.
This chapter was originally the one where everyone's in Potions, but it was changed.
Disclaimer: this chapter is almost the same as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter Six, "Talons and Tea-leaves".
When Harry, Ron, Hermione and Dolphin entered the Great Hall for breakfast the next day the first things they saw were Draco and Wyverna, who seemed to be entertaining the Slytherins with a very funny story. As they passed, Wyverna did a very good impression of a faint, and Draco caught her neatly. There was a roar of laughter from the Slytherins, and Hufflepuff and a few Ravenclaw seemed to be amused.
"Ignore them," said Hermione, who was right behind Harry. "Just ignore them, it's not worth it."
"Besides, it's not like they've defeated Voldemort three times," added Dol, in an effort to cheer Harry up.
"Hey, Potter!" shrieked Pansy, who in Dol's opinion had a face like a pug. "Potter! The Dementors are coming, Potter! Woooooooo!"
"Careful, Potter," added Wyverna, in a quieter voice. "Next time you faint, there might not be anyone there to catch you."
Harry dropped into a seat at the Gryffindor table, and Dol slipped in next to him, with George Weasley on her other side.
"New third-year timetables," said George, passing them over. "And I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting you." Dol looked up into his warm brown eyes, and smiled.
"I'm Dolphin Stebbs. Pleased to meet you."
"George Weasley. Pleased to meet you. I take it you're in third year, with Ron?"
"Yup. What year are you in?"
"We're fourth-years," replied George, indicating himself and his brother, Fred. "Here's your timetable. What's up with him?" he asked, nodding at Harry.
"Malfoy," said Dol, as Ron sat down on George's other side, glaring over at the Slytherin table. George looked up in time to see Wyverna faint again.
"Who's she?" he asked, with a puzzled look. "I haven't seen her before." Fred looked up as well, catching sight of Wyverna, who was now smoothing down her long black hair. Seeing her made Dol instinctively touch her own brown hair.
"I haven't seen her either," said Fred, frowning slightly. "Here, Ron. Do you know who that girl is?"
"Who?" asked Ron.
"That kid," said George.
"She's not a kid!" Ron burst out. "She's the same age as me!"
"That's what I said," George repeated, grinning. "Kid."
"Same age as me," added Dol. George turned to her.
"i stand corrected," he said, with a wink. "Definitely not a kid." Dol sat there, horrified. As though Harry after her wasn't bad enough.
"She's a Slytherin," Hermione interrupted. "Her name is Wyverna, taken from the latin wyvern, which means dragon, or winged creature. It's actually quite fitting that she's friends with Draco, as Draco is from the latin draconum, which is also dragon." George looked up in time to see Draco catch Wyverna again.
"That little git," he said, calmly. "He wasn't so cocky last night when the Dementors where down our end of the train. Came running into our compartment, didn't he, Fred?"
"Nearly wet himself," said Fred, with a contemptuous glance at Draco.
"I wasn't too happy myself," said George. "Horrible things, those Dementors."
"Sort of freeze your insides, don't they?" said Fred.
"You didn't pass out though, did you?" said Harry in a low voice. "I defeated Voldemort three times, got to the Philosopher's Stone, and managed to get into the Chamber of Secrets! And still I faint..."
"Forget it, Harry," said George, bracingly. "We'll see how happy Malfoy looks after our first Quidditch match. Gryffindor versus Slytherin, first game of the season, remember?" Harry cheered up.
"I am the best Seeker Hogwarts has ever seen," he said, happily. "And I'm undefeated, and I hold the record for the shortest time to ever catch the Snitch, and..."
"Back to normal," said George, quietly. Dol couldn't help smiling, and he smiled back at her. The Hall was starting to empty as people headed off towards their first lesson. Ron checked his timetable.
"Divination first lesson. We'd better go quickly, so the Slytherins don't catch sight of us. And what is Divination? I hope it's not too scary..."
"If it is then I'll save you!" cried Harry, brandishing his wand like a sword. Dolphin gently lowered his arm.
"Divination is about seeing the future. It involves many ways of doing this, one being the infamous crystal ball..." began Hermione. Dol sighed. It looked like everyone was back to normal, then.
After Divination, where Harry got his death sentence, was Transfiguration, which again wasn't very exciting. After Transfiguration was lunch.
"H-Harry," quavered Ron, "I can't believe you're going to die!" He immediately hid his head in his hands, as if saying the words 'die', 'dead' or 'death' would cause Harry to die right there.
"Don't be silly, Ron, I've researched the Grim on the Internet. It's dumb. It's just a stupid legend!"
"That's not true Hermione!" Ron argued, looking as if for all the world he thought the Grim would bound into the hall and strike Harry dead right now, just to prove her wrong. "My uncle saw a Grim, and he... died... twenty four hours later!"
"Simply coincidence," Hermione replied briskly, spooning stew onto her plate.
"B-But if he's seen one..."
"I have!" said Harry, triumphantly. "I've seen a Grim and lived!"
"Look!" snapped Hermione, slamming her Arithmancy book down on the table. "If being good at Divination means I have to pretend to see death omens in a lump of tea-leaves, I'm not sure I'll be studying it much longer! That lesson was absolute rubbish compared to my Arithmancy class!" She snatched up her bag and stalked away. Ron frowned after her.
"What's she talking about?" he said to Harry and Dol. "She hasn't been to an Arithmancy class yet. Y'know what? This is really scary."
Are they brown? I checked the chapters in the Philosopher's Stone where he meets them, but it doesn't mention any of the Weasley family's eye colour.
Dolphin was pleased to get out of the castle after lunch. It was raining lightly, and the feel of it on her face made her remember the last time it had rained, back in the real world.
Flashback
"It's raining," pointed out Wyverna, from where she was sat on the school bus. "We'll be soaked by the time we've walked up the snicket!
"So? A little rain never hurt anyone!" Dol replied, laughing. Leaning forward, she slid their half of the window forward. Hollie turned around.
"Don't do that! I'm getting wet!" Wyverna rolled her eyes.
"Well, no! Rain does tend to be wet, y'know."
"Yeah, I know that!" Hollie replied, trying to make it into a joke. "Tell them, Nat!" Natalie turned around.
"Close the window, Sian."
"No," argued Wyverna, "don't, Sian! I like the rain!"
"Me too," agreed Dol. "I'm not closing that window, so you'll just get wet, Hollie!"
"Don't Sian. It's not funny."
"I think it is," said Wyverna. Hollie leaned over, and closed the window.
"There!" she said, triumphantly. Dol got up, and laid down on Hollie and Natalie, shuffling around,
"Ow! Bony bum, Sian!" complained Natalie. Wyverna leaned over, and opened the window. Wyverna and Dol high-fived, then:
"Oh my gosh! Sian – it's our stop!" They grabbed their bags, and ran over to the bus driver. "Stop... please..." gasped Wyverna. The bus driver stopped, and let them off. They stood there in the pouring rain, halfway up the snicket. Suddenly Wyverna started spinning round, her long dark hair flying out. Dolphin joined her, and the two spun round and round, in the lonely snicket.
End Flashback
Dolphin smiled at the memory, and headed off to Care of Magical Creatures with Ron, Hermione and Harry. Ron and Hermione weren't speaking to each other. Harry and Dol walked beside them in silence as they went down the sloping lawns to Hagrid's hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where a crowd was already gathered. It was only when Dol spotted the green trim on some of the black robes ahead of them that they realised they must be having this lesson with the Slytherins. Draco Malfoy, Tom Vox, Blaise Zabini and Wyverna Aiken were all talking animatedly, and laughing. Dolphin was quite sure she knew what they were laughing about.
"C'mon, now, get a move on!" Hagrid called. "Got a real treat for yeh today! Great lesson comin' up! Everyone here? Right, follow me!" Dol hoped they were going to go into the Forest, but Hagrid strolled off around the edge of the trees, and five minutes later, they found themselves outside a kind of paddock. There was nothing in there.
"Everyone gather round the fence here!" he called. "That's it – make sure yeh can see. Now, firs' thing yeh'll want to do is open yer books -"
"How?" said the cold, drawling voice of Draco Malfoy.
"Eh?" said Hagrid.
"How do we open our books?" repeated Wyverna, slowly. She took out her copy of The Monster Book of Monsters, which she had bound shut with electrical wire. Draco took his out, which was bound shut with a length of rope. He looked at her.
"Wire?" She shrugged.
"It was the nearest thing," she replied. "Rope?"
"I keep it for my evil purposes," Draco replied, obviously trying to impress her. Although failing to be impressed, she was curious.
"Really?" she asked. "What kind of evil purposes?" He winked at her.
"If I told you," he drawled, "then I'm afraid I'd have to kill you."
"I'd like to see you try," she replied coolly, before turning her attention back to the lesson.
"Hasn' – hasn' anyone bin able to open their books?" asked Hagrid, looking crestfallen. The class all shook their heads.
"Yeh've got ter stroke 'em," said Hagrid, as though this was the most obvious thing in the world. "Look..."
He took Hermione's copy and ripped off the Spellotape. The book tried to bite, but Hagrid ran a giant forefinger down its spine, and the book shivered, and then fell open and lay quiet in his hand.
"Of course!" said Wyverna, brightly. "Stroke them! Why didn't we think of that? I mean, you've got this book trying to rip your hand off, and..." she broke off as Blaise glared at her. He'd been doing that all day.
"Yeah, how silly we've all been!" Draco sneered. "We should have stroked them! Why didn't we guess!"
"I...I thought they were funny," Hagrid said uncertainly to Dolphin.
"Oh, tremendously funny!" said Draco. "Really witty, giving us books that try and rip our hands off!"
"I know! Just think – if we'd had to go to hospital, we might have been in hysterics!" agreed Wyverna.
"Shut up, Malfoy," said Dolphin, ominously.
"Righ' then," said Hagrid, who seemed to have lost his thread, "so... so yeh've got yer books an'... an'... now yeh need the Magical Creatures. Yeah. So I'll go an' get 'em. Hang on..." He strode away from them into the Forest and out of sight.
"God, this place is going to the dogs," Malfoy said loudly. Or the giants, Wyverna thought to herself, remembering Hagrid's confession in Book Four, and giggling quietly.
"Shut up, Malfoy," Dolphin repeated.
"Careful, Potter might fall on you, there's a Dementor behind you -"
"Ooooooh!" squealed Lavender Brown, pointing towards the opposite side of the paddock. The Hippogriffs had been led into the paddock by Hagrid.
"Right – who wants to go first?"
"I do," called out Wyverna and Dol, at exactly the same time.
"Don't do it, Dolphin!" called out Harry. "I'll save you!" Dol turned around.
"It's ok," she said, exasperatedly, "I'll be ok." Wyverna ignored them both, and climbed over the paddock fence. Dol followed her, quickly. Hagrid released two Hippogriffs, Buckbeak, who was a stormy grey colour, and Wildwind, who was inky-black. Wyverna and Dol approached them, Dol towards Buckbeak, and Wyverna towards Wildwind.
"Righ'... Careful now... Don't blink. Ok, then, now bow." Wyverna was the first to sink into a bow, then Dol. The two Hippogriffs stared at them, then both simultaneously descended into a scaly bow. The two girls moved forward, and started patting them.
"Now yeh can ride 'em," said Hagrid, excitedly. Dol immediately swung herself up onto Buckbeak's back, and Wyverna followed, not to be outdone. The two Hippogriffs rose into the air. As though a spell had been broken, Gryffindor and Slytherin started cheering for the student of their house. Wildwind was in the lead, then Buckbeak, then the two were neck and neck! Suddenly Wildwind dipped sharply, then began to swerve. Wyverna immediately brought him down to land. Looking around, she realised she was in the Forbidden Forest. Dol followed her down, and landed smoothly.
"Cool..." said Wyverna, happily. "Forbidden Forest! I'm going to see the unicorns, and that awesome giant spider, and that giant guy, oh wait, he won't be here for two years, will he? Y'know – Grawp? But I can see the spider, and, and, ooh! Will Dementors be here?"
"No."
"No? Why not?"
"I don't mean no, they won't be here, I mean no, you're not going off to look for them," Dol replied, casually.
"Why not?"
"Because we have to get back to Care of Magical Creatures," answered Dol, taking out her wand. "Mendius Wingus," she said, tapping Wildwind's wing. It being mended, the two made it back to Care of Magical Creatures.
"Good work, Dolphin!" roared Hagrid. "And you too, Wyverna," he added as an afterthought. "Ok, who else wants a go?"
The rest of the class climbed cautiously into the paddock. Hagrid untied the Hippogriffs one by one, and soon people were bowing nervously, all over the paddock. Draco, Tom and Blaise had taken over Buckbeak. He had bowed to Draco, who was now patting his beak, looking very disdainful.
"This is easy," Draco drawled. "I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you?" he said to the Hippogriff. "Are you, you ugly great brute?"
"Gotta go," Wyverna said quickly to Dolphin, knowing what was about to happen. She just made it to Draco when there was a flash of steely talons; Draco let out a high-pitched scream and next moment, Hagrid was wrestling Buckbeak back into his collar as he strained to get at Draco, who lay curled in the grass, blood blossoming over his robes.
Wyverna, Blaise and Tom went with him to the hospital wing, where they were kicked out by Madam Pomfrey.
