Destiny- The First Year
Chapter 12: Norbert
"Has anybody found anything yet?" Charlie sighed.
The other three marauders simply shook their heads and Charlie sighed again.
It had been a week since Hagrid had let slip Nicolas Flammel's name to them and they couldn't find anything about him anywhere.
"You know I swear I've heard the name somewhere before" Harry said as he slammed the book he'd been looking in closed.
"Come on it's nearly time for Defence against the Dark Arts!" Hermione sighed
They left the library and headed down to the Defence against the dark arts classroom.
"Hi Sirius" Harry said dully as he sat down at the front of the class with Ron and Charlie either side of him.
"You sound happy this afternoon!" Sirius smiled
"What are we doing?" Charlie asked
"Actually I have no idea!" Sirius shrugged "Dumbledore's got this student teacher person to teach most of this term I have to be here because I have to make sure he teaches you properly!"
The rest of the class began to file in and with them came the nervous man who had interrupted their lesson ages ago
"Class this is professor Quirrell who will be teaching you this term" Sirius introduced the new teacher
"hhhhiiii clllllassssss" Quirrell stuttered
The rest of the lesson passed slowly. Compared to Sirius this new teacher was really boring, but not as boring as Binns.
"I'm so glad that's over!" Ron moaned "Sirius is so much better than that man!"
"Whose turn is it to help Hagrid tonight?" Charlie asked
"Weren't we all going to go together now?" Harry asked confused
"Yeah now Norbert's started to grown bigger than us it does tend to take more than two of use to hold him down" Ron said sarcastically "that way all four of us can get eaten together!"
"Yes we were going to all go together remember and we were going to persuade Hagrid to send Norbert to your brother remember!" Hermione said nudging Ron
"Yeah that's right! Charlie said he'd take him!" Ron said pulling out a letter
"Come on lets brake the good news to Hagrid!" Charlie said as she opened the front doors
"I'm not sure he'll see it as good though!" Harry said shaking his head
"Hi Hagrid we have some er news for you!" Hermione said
"Yeah?" Hagrid asked as he fed a bucket of something dead to Norbert
"Well Ron's brother Charlie who works with dragon said he would love to take Norbert to Romania and put him with a heard of Norwegian ridgebacks they have out there!" Hermione explained
"Wot take him away?" Hagrid asked
"Yeah he'll be happy!" Harry said
"I don't know?" Hagrid said sadly
"Come on Hagrid he'll be with his own kind, you know he'll be better off!" Hermione pleaded
"Well... I Dunno I've always wanted my own dragon ever since I was little and now I've got one I Dunno if I wanna let 'im go" Hagrid said sadly
"Its better that you do let him go Hagrid one day somebody else could find out and you'd be in a lot of trouble!" Charlie said matter of factly
"Well... if your sure he'll be happy..." Hagrid said sadly
"Were positive! You must remember Charlie when he was at school here!" Ron said
"Yeah I do he was a good fella" Hagrid contemplated "ok you can take 'im"
"Great" Hermione said relived
"I'll send a letter back to Charlie and say yes and find out how he'll get him to Romania and when" Ron said
"Okay then we best be off Hagrid we'll see you tomorrow usual time!" Harry said calmly "you've
made the right decision you know!"
"Yeah thanks bye" Hagrid said dully
"That was one hell of a lot easier than I thought it would be" harry sighed as he flopped into one of the armchairs by the fire in griffindor common room
"Yeah we all thought he'd put up a fight but he obviously knows it's the right thing to do" Hermione said. Charlie nodded.
A few minutes later Ron joined Harry, Charlie and Hermione at the fireplace.
"Well that's that the letter's sent," he said flopping down in the chair next to harry
"All we have to do is wait!" Harry said cheerfully "then pull it off!"
It took several days for Charlie's letter to return. In the mean time the four of them had still been helping Hagrid with Norbert who was getting increasingly dangerous (not that Hagrid would admit it!)
The night they got Charlie's reply Ron and Harry had been down at hagrid's helping out.
They came in through the portrait hole with Ron holding his hand in a bandage.
"What happened?" Charlie asked looking up from the game of chess; she was playing with Hermione.
"Norbert bit him!" Harry said, "I said that dragons don't appreciate looking at chocolate frog cards but he didn't believe me!"
"So I though he'd like to see Dumbledore's card!" Ron said wincing
"Yeah but he didn't and here's the proof!" harry said pulling out a chewed up card "I think I'll keep this as proof of your stupidity!" He teased his friend as he put the chocolate frog card in his pocket.
"Do you think you should go see madam pomfrey?" Hermione asked.
"No he shouldn't he'll get Hagrid in trouble!" Charlie said anxiously "if its no better by the morning we'll ask Sirius for some healing potions if its desperate he'll believe us if we say you got hurt pranking snape"
"Yeah let's see if it heals naturally before we go running to pomfrey " Harry agreed
"Hey is that Hedwig?" Hermione asked pointing at the window
"Great shes back with Charlie's reply!" Harry said excitedly as he made his way over to the window to let his owl in.
Harry came back over to the fire with the envelope in his hands he read it quickly.
"So what did he say?" Charlie asked
"He's sending some friends who are coming tomorrow at midnight, we're to meet them at the top of the astronomy tower" Ron said reading his brothers letter over Harry's shoulder.
"Great now all we have to do is wait!" Charlie said excitedly
During the next day, Ron's hand had swelled up to nearly twice its original size so they were forced to go to Sirius for some healing potion. Sirius as expected didn't doubt them one bit when they said Ron had been trying to prank snape and the prank backfired. So Ron's hand was beginning to heal (Sirius said the potion would take twenty-four hours and could make Ron sleepy) and finally it was half eleven and it was time to go take Norbert to the astronomy tower. Ron was snoring peacefully on one of the chairs in the common room so Harry, Charlie and Hermione decided to leave him there (he wouldn't be any use to them while he was asleep).
They walked to Hagrid's hut under the invisibility cloak when they got there Norbert was safely packed in a crate (to their relief!) and was chewing up a teddy.
"I've given 'im some brandy 'n' rats for the journey and he has his teddy for company" Hagrid sniffed
"Or rather had by the look of it!" Charlie whispered to Harry
"Come on Hagrid it's time to go" Hermione said kindly
"Ok by Norbert don't forget ya mummy" Hagrid weeped "I'll miss ya"
"Come on before we have to prise him off the crate!" Harry whispered
Finally, they left Hagrid's hut carrying Norbert under the invisibility cloak. It was a long hard journey up to the astronomy tower but finally they made it just as four broomsticks appeared.
Charlie's friends greeted the trio cheerfully and harnessed Norbert between their brooms before taking off.
"Well that was easy," Charlie said relived
"Yup and I've still got one souvenir of both Norbert and Ron's stupidity!" Harry said holding up the chocolate frog card
"I still can't believe he thought Norbert would want to see it!" Hermione shook her head
"You know this was the first card I ever got?" Harry said flipping it over and reading as they walked down the stairs
"Yes" Charlie said bored "soooo"
"One minute!" Harry said stopping in his track causing both Hermione and Charlie to walk into him.
"What" Charlie asked
"What was that bloke called Hagrid blurted out the other day?" Harry asked
"Nicolas Flammel" Hermione said "why?"
"He's mentioned here! Look!" Harry said excitedly
"Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindlewald in 1945, for his discovery of the twelve uses of dragons blood and his work on alchemy with his partner Nicolas Flammel!" Charlie read
"One minute I know where I've read that name before! follow me!" Hermione said excitedly dashing off toward the library
However as they charged down the empty halls towards the library they didn't notice Draco Malfoy lurking in the shadows and they didn't hear his footsteps as he followed them with an evil smirk on his face.
A/n dum dum dum!!!! I'm soooooo sorry this took so long to get up I can't believe how much school work I've been getting! I've only been back at school less than two weeks you evil teachers!!! I don't know how long it will take to get the next chapter done due to school (Grr!) And the fact I've just started working at my stables on Saturdays meaning that's another day I cant go on my computer!!! It will be up as soon as possible! Anyway, thanks to all of you for reading and thanks for reviewing every one who has reviewed! And if you haven't left a review yet please review because I love to know what you all think!
