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Chapter 10

#thoughts#

"Where have you two been? I've been looking all over for you. I herd about Malfoy snr. Are you all right?" a frantic Minerva gushed giving both her students the once over

"We're fine Minerva, honestly we are." Draco soothed trying to calm his transfiguration professor down before she gave herself a heart attack

"Here" Camilla said handing her the glass of water she conjured

"You know that I'm extremely proud of both of you and the way you handled yourselves today" Minerva said after drinking the water "you acted like true Hogwarts students, 100 points to both Gryffindor and Slytherin."

"Can you award points off school grounds?" Camilla asked

"Yes actually you can" Draco replied

Minerva noticed their intertwined hands and eyed them cautiously then looked Camilla in the eye. Camilla held her gaze as if challenging her to comment

"Ice cream anyone?" Minerva asked silently acknowledging defeat

"No thanks Minerva" Camilla replied

"Yah, I think we'll be right thanks Minerva" Draco added "my feet hurt can't we go back to the leaky cauldron?"

"men" both Camilla and Minerva sighed shacking their heads and walking back towards the leaky cauldron

"hay!" draco yelled after them "what the hell was that supposed to mean!"

5 minuets later the entered the leaky cauldron to find a very smug looking Hagrid . "what did you do?" Camilla asked suspiciously "nuffin'" he replied avoiding eye contact

She put her hands on her hips raised her eyebrows warningly and said "Hagrid" I a tone that said answer or suffer the consequences

"well I uh" Hagrid flustered

#well at least I know its not just me that she has this effect on# draco thought

"umm I kinda won this for ye" he said producing an egg

"Hagrid do you know what this is?" Camilla asked looking as if she were about to cry

"Nope" Hagrid said looking a bit sheepish

"He's the bloody care of magical creatures' professor and he doesn't know a bloody phoenix egg when he sees one" draco mumbled under his breath

"What was that you said Mr Malfoy?" Minerva asked

"Umm, its s phoenix egg and by the looks of it it's gonna hatch soon" draco quickly covered.

" 'ight then you two take it up stairs and wait for the little tyke to 'ach and we'll just do som'ing down 'ere

"Okay" Camilla said taking the egg from Hagrid and walking up stairs with Draco behind her

When they got to their red room draco paled in disgust (if that was possible) #bloody Gryffindor colours#

"so do you know how to hatch this thing?" Camilla asked

"umm if I remember correctly and I always do you put it in a fire and wait for it to hatch"

"what would happen it you put it in a magically enhanced fire?"

"don't really know. It may make it like the person or it may forge a bond, who knows"

"Then lets try then shall we." And with that her hands began to glow holding the egg and then they burst into fire. "You're on fire!" Draco shrieked clearly panicking "no I'm not" Camilla calmly replied

"YES YOU ARE!"

"No, Draco I'm not. I'll explain it all later just let me concentrate."

He was so dumbfounded by what was going on that he just sat on the bed and stared blankly at camellia's hands, and a moment later a cracking was heard and instead of an egg in camellia's hand there was a tiny gold bird with flecks of emerald green around its head and on its wings.

"wow" was all draco managed to say still in shock

The little bird spat up some sparks that landed on draco and quickly caught leaving draco doing a funny sort of gig trying to extinguish the flames making Camilla giggle

"I'M ON FIRE AND YOU'RE LAUGHING AT ME!" Draco yelled and with another giggle Camilla shot water out of her wand drenching him from head to foot

"great now I'm all wet" draco whined

"oh quit your complaining" Camilla snapped with no malice in her voice whatsoever "I think I'll call her Sparx" she cooed

"bloody women" he mumbled as he stalked off to change.

Ok people that's that chapter I'm soo incredibly sorry that this chappie is so late but I've had a few health scares including a bout of viral meningitis needless to say I didn't go anywhere near my computer that week .

This chap is for Kbar513.

.P.S. next chap won't go up until I get 5 more reviews. SO REVIEW PEOPLE!