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You know the drill… here's the next chapter to my story…I'll leave you to read it now… thank you… and of course, you have to review…Be happy becuse I reviewed again, I know I am...

Disclaimer: If Harry Potter were mine, do you think I would be writing a fan fiction? I wish I had better things to do than to write (I'm kidding, of course, lol)

Who Knows

By: Carla P.

Chapter 4- Hullo Hagrid!

The pair trudged from the castle in the snow, wrapped in their scarves and coats, and headed towards the hut of one of their closest friends. Hermione had a look of determination, worry and joy visible on her face all at the same time. Meanwhile, Harry had only one emotion pasted on his face, sorrow, melancholy, grief, you name it, unquestionably, he was sad and the girl beside him noticed this and sped up in order to get him as fast as possible to Hagrid's.

When they reached the doorway to Hagrid's dwelling they knocked on the door. After a while of waiting for answer and getting none, the two supposed that Hagrid must be at the back and couldn't hear them, so they circled his hut and headed to the back.

Once there, they saw Hagrid bent over a crate and had obviously not seen or heard their arrival, so Hermione shouted the greeting for both of them, "Hullo, Hagrid! What you doin?"

Hagrid unbent himself, revealing his full height to his visitors and responded, "Harry, Hermione, hullo, a delivery came this mornin', for yer class, wan' ter see?"

Hermione hesitated, before answering, "Uhh… Hagrid, exactly what came in the delivery this morning?" the terror unmistakable in her voice.

"Oh, a beauty, tis is, mind yeh" he said in a proud voice "Boidae Edentata, more commonly known as the Cypabarca." With this said, he opened the side of the crate and out came a creature that, no other words would be appropriate for it, ugly.

The Cypabarca had a pointed snout that had a forked tongue sticking out of it like a snake's, it's big, yellow eyes were protruding and were too big for its face, just as the ears were. Its teeth that were pointed weren't used for plants either, as it was spitting a liquid that looked suspiciously like venom. The body was as ugly as the face, with an armor like that of an armadillo, only it was thicker and in a sickly grayish green, it's tail was also armored but it ended in a sharp point and from this grew spikes that looked as if they contained poison. The creature walked on four feet that had four claws each, which looked as sharp as kitchen knives. It was as tall as a German shepherd but longer. It looked like it wanted to eat them so Hermione and Harry took a few steps backward so it wouldn't get the chance.

In Harry's opinion, the Cypabarca wasn't someone's idea of the perfect pet. Beside him, Hermione's thoughts echoed Harry's and she spoke up after the initial shock of seeing the animal, "Uhh… Hagrid, if you don't mind my asking, where exactly did you buy that Cypabarca?" her voice not caring where it came from, only that she wanted to send it back there, if she can.

"Wel, Hermione, this beauty here I got from somewhere's in Africa, I don't know where, 'xactly but it's a native in that region. What do yeh think of it?" he said the pride once again emanating from his voice.

"It's, well, interesting Hagrid, I can't wait 'till we learn all about it in class." Making a face that indicated as well as her voice did that she didn't mean a word she said.

"Well, I d'nt wan' to be spoiling it fer yeh now, how 'bout we step inside for a cup o' tea?" Hagrid replied, obviously pleased with Hermione's answer.

"That would be wonderful, Hagrid, there's nothing better than mid-morning tea." Hermione beamed at him, the joy more because of separating herself from the revolting animal that Hagrid had showed them.

"Come inside then" said Hagrid as he pushed open the back door.

Upon entering, the two took of their coats and Hagrid set about making a fire. After Hagrid had the water boiling in the teapot, he turned to the two, "So what brings you two down here?" he looked at them, "An' where's Ron?"

"Well, Hagrid, we missed you and we thought we'd come and say hello. As for Ron, he's in the castle, where exactly, I don't know." Hermione, the one who always did the answering as Harry was not in the mood.

"O, you three, din't go and have a fight didya?" asked Hagrid, with just a little hint of suspiciousness, used to the fights between the tree.

Hermione was just about to shake her head when Harry said the first thing since coming down to Hagrid's, "Yes, we did." And no one said anything concerning it afterwards.

After tea with Hagrid, which consisted of pound cake, which weighed a ton not a pound, some hot tea and a talk about the things going on around the school, the two excused themselves, saying they had to get back to the castle for lunch. So they stepped outside into the brilliant white and cold and started to trudge from Hagrid's.

"Hermione?"

"Yes, Harry?"

"Thank you"

"For what?"

"Oh, you know taking me down to Hagrid's to make me feel better and trying to snap me from my mood…" he said the gratefulness obvious in his tone.

"Your welcome, Harry" said a now happy Hermione, "so, you're all right, then?"

"I honestly don't know, Hermione, I mean that Cypabarca was a bit traumatic in ways to see, making me eat that pound cake was sheer torture that made me want to puke but aside from all that, I appreciate you bringing me down to see Hagrid made me feel better and forget everything that happened." said Harry, who felt better than he did at breakfast.

"I have to agree that that Cypabarca was horrible, so was that pound cake but I'm glad you're better, Harry." She said, flashing him her beautiful smile.

They continued walking in silence until Harry broke it and said as he stopped walking, "Hermione?"

She stopped, too and turned to him and answered, "Hmmm?"

"Can we not go to the castle yet, I don't want to spoil my almost good mood all that soon." He said, in what he hoped was a convincing tone.

A slight frown appeared on Hermione's face, which didn't mar it but instead it made it all the more enticing, "Well, where do you want to go then?" she asked as she cocked her head to one side, in an adorable gesture.

"You'll see" said Harry in a teasing voice as Harry grabbed Hermione's arm and started to drag her.

To those who reviewed for my second and third chapter:

T. Di Paolo- hey! Thanks for reviewing and for loving my story… kutekelcie- haloo! Thanks for being such a faithful reviewer, now I really love you… Flamepaw- thanks for referring to my fict as good…. I appreciate it and the review. Call me brit- thank you for liking it and reviewing. Airalynn- thanks for the criticism… I appreciate. I also would like to thank you for the review but I hope you didn't just review because you wanna tell me something like that, I hope you review again, though. Just call me blondie- I don't know if Ron will be forgotten… what I do know is… I can't, I'll spoil it, please just read and review… LemonDropAnyone- hello! I'd love a lemon drop, thank you, lol…anyway, seriously, thanks for the review and I'm happy that you like what happened to Ron. Fairy Gyakutenno-Megami- hey! Thanks…

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The cruel me has to stop here but I will be back… of course, you have to review, my friends… By the way… I don't like this chapter, so it would be all right for me if you don't like it either. I know I said that I won't update anymore but some people threatened me that I should, lol… I'm just joking, of course… expect that I would review next month… I'm sorry but anything that anyone says can't change that.. I hope you won't hate me… I'll be back… oh, and btw, if ii don't get, maybe, hmmm, a lot of reviews… I just might not update anymore, I live for reviews…I really do… please don't let me die, kay?

About the name of the animal, I made it up since I had no idea what kind of animal Hagrid would have, I hope it was scary enough. Btw, Boidae means a family of snakes and Edentata means a family composed of armadillos… don't mind me, I just thought you might like to know what I've been writing, I'll leave you to criticize my fic now. I'm also so sorry that it was so short… I just wanted to update for you… Ciao!