It seems like they kept getting more homework so Jennifer and Cooper had to push back their prank on albums for another week. That was not their only worry, their other worry was the dragon egg that Hagrid has now, Jennifer and Cooper wanted to ask her father about dragons. But they were not sure what kind of respond they would get from her father, not only with the egg, the homework and the exams that Jennifer and Cooper were struggling somewhat. However, Harry, Hermione, Ginny, and a evilly were struggling more than Jennifer and Cooper were, that was only because Jennifer assumed that Cooper and herself went on missions that had more pressure placed on them than the homework, exams or a dragon egg could place upon them. Being calm and collect while under pressure or on a mission was something that Jennifer and Cooper were taught since they started training to be agents. One morning Cooper's owl, Jenny of which was what Cooper decided to call her, brought him a note that has the words, it's hatching. Cooper, Neville, Harry and Jennifer wanted to skip Herbology to see the dragon hatch.
"Hermione, how many times in our lives are we going to see a dragon hatching?"
"We've got lessons, we'll get into trouble, and that's nothing to what Hagrid's going to be in when someone finds out what he's doing -" Before Hermione could finish that Jennifer whispered.
"Shut up!" Malfoy was standing a few feet away from the six of them and he stopped to listen, she wasn't sure of how much Malfoy heard but she didn't like the look on Malfoy's face. Thankfully no one argued when they went to Herbology since Hermione agreed to run down to Hagrid's hut with the five of them during the morning break. When the bell ran that the six of them dropped their towels at once and hurried across the grounds to the edge of the forest where Hagrid's hut was, Hagrid greeted them and he looked flushed and excited. He spoke as he ushered them inside the hut.
"It's nearly out." The egg was lying on the table, there were deep cracks on the egg all ready. There was something moving inside of the egg as well as a funny clicking noise was coming from it. They all drew their chairs and watched the egg. All at once there was a scraping noise and the egg split open and the baby dragon flopped onto the table. The dragon wasn't exactly pretty, the baby dragon looked more like a crumpled black umbrella than a dragon. It's spiny wings were huge compared to it's skinny jet body, it had a long snout with wide nostrils and it had stubs of horns as well as bulging orange eyes. Than the dragon sneezed, a couple of sparks flew out of it's snout than Hagrid murmured.
"Isn't he beautiful?" Jennifer wanted to ask of how he knows if the dragon was a male or not, but she was unsure of how to ask that question. Than Hagrid reached out a hand to stroke the dragon's head but the dragon snapped at his fingers to show it's pointed fangs. "Bless him, look, he knows his mommy!" It was than that Jennifer spoke up.
"Hagrid, how fast do Norwegian Ridgebacks grow, exactly?" Hagrid was about ready to answer when the color drained from his face, than Hagrid leapt to his feet and ran to the window. Jennifer got up from the table just about as quickly as Hagrid did before going over to where Hagrid was.
"What's the matter?"
"Someone was lookin' through the gap in the curtains - it's a kid - he's runnin' back up ter the school." When Hagrid said that, that Jennifer bolted to the door, when she reached the door that she opened it before looking out. Even from this distance that there was no mistaking the boy that was running back to the castle. Malfoy has seen the dragon.
The following week that Jennifer wanted to punch Malfoy till he blacked out because of the smile lurking on his face. Harry and Cooper were the only ones that prevented a Jennifer from punching Malfoy till he looked nothing like himself. Honestly, Jennifer didn't care if she got expelled for punching Malfoy out, she would be only too happy to go back to her life at S.H.I.E.L.D. with her father. Cooper knows this fact as well but he told her that it may not be the best idea to rearrange Malfoy's features. Though they both know that her father wouldn't mind pulling her out of Hogwarts if she wanted to leave Hogwarts. She knows that her father was a bit worried about her being at Hogwarts without him, that he would feel better if she was with him on his missions though the missions were just as dangerous but neither one of them cared. During that week that Jennifer and the other four spent most of their free time in Hagrid's hut trying to reason with him, Harry was trying to urge Hagrid at the moment.
"Just let him go. Set him free."
"I can't. He's too little. He'd die." Jennifer looked at the dragon, it grew three times in length in just the last week. Because of the dragon that Hagrid hasn't been doing his gamekeeping duties, there were empty brandy bottles and chicken feathers all over the floor.
"I've decided to call him Norbert." Hagrid looked over at the dragon with misty eyes. "He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mommy?" Jennifer need to get Hagrid to see some reason.
"Hagrid, give it two weeks and Norbert's going to be as long as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment." Hagrid bit his lip.
"I - I know I can't keep him forever, but I can't jus' dump him, I can't." Suddenly Jennifer had an idea, something that Jennifer remembered to what Ginny said about her older brothers, Jennifer turned to Ginny.
"Charlie." Ginny looked slightly confused when Jennifer said that to her.
"What about Charlie?"
"He is studying dragons. We could send Norbert to him. Charlie can take care of him and then put him back in the wild!"
"How about it, Hagrid?" It took a while but in the end that Hagrid agreed that they could send an owl to Charlie to ask him about Norbert. The following week seem to drag by for them, on Wednesday night that Hermione, Harry, Ginny, Cooper and Jennifer were sitting in the common room long after everyone else went to bed. The clock chimed midnight when the portrait hole burst open, Neville appeared out of nowhere as he took off Harry's invisibility cloak. Neville showed them his hand of which was wrapped in a bloody handkerchief.
"It bit me! I'm not going to be able to hold a quill for a week. I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit. When it bit me he told me off for frightening it. And when I left, he was singing it a lullaby." There was a two on the dark window and it was Shadow.
"It's Shadow! She'll have Charlie's answer!" Jennifer went to the window and opened to let Shadow in and took the letter from Shadow before they out their heads together to read the note.
Dear Ginny,
How are you? Thanks for the letter - I'd be glad to take the Norwegian Ridgeback, but it won't be easy getting him here. I think the best thing will be to send him over with some friends of mine who are coming to visit me next week. Trouble is, they mustn't be seen carrying an illegal dragon. Could you get the Ridgeback up the tallest tower at midnight on Saturday? They can meet you there and take him away while it's still dark. Send me an answer as soon as possible.
Love,
Charlie
They looked at one another before Harry spoke. "We've got the invisibility cloak. It shouldn't be too difficult - I think the cloaks big enough to cover two of us and Norbert." They all agreed, it was mark of how bad the last week was like if all six of them agreed to that, if it means to get rid of Norbert and Malfoy. But there was a hitch, Neville's bitten hand swollen to twice it's usual size by the next day, they were not sure if it was safe to go to Madam Pomfrey or not. By afternoon, Neville had no other choice but to go to her for the cut turned a nasty shade of green, of which most likely mean that Norbert's fangs were poisonous. At the end of the day at Harry, Cooper, Jennifer, Ginny and Hermione rushed to the hospital wing to see Neville in a terrible state in bed. Neville whispered to them
"It's only just my hand, although that feels like it's about to fall off. Malfoy told Madam Pomfrey he wanted to borrow one of my books so he could come and have a good laugh at me. He kept threatening to tell her what really bit me - I've told her it was a dog, but I don't think she believes me. But she knows I trend to get into accidents often so she didn't question it." They tried to calm Neville down, than Jennifer said the one thing she hoped would calm Neville down.
"It'll all be over at midnight on Saturday." But Neville sat bolt upright and broke into a sweat. He spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Midnight on Saturday! Oh no oh no - I've just remembered - Charlie's letter was in that book Malfoy took since Ginny ask me to put the book there the last time she was here since her bag was rather full, he's going to know we're getting rid of Norbert." Ginny looked panicked when Neville said that, Ginny had went with Neville when his hand got so bad and she must have forget about getting the book sooner. None of them didn't get the chance to answer for that was when Madam Pomfrey came over and made them leave saying that Neville needed rest.
"It's too late to change the plan now. We haven't got time to send Charlie another owl, and this could be our only chance to get rid of Norbert. We'll have to risk it and we have got the invisibility cloak, Malfoy doesn't know about that." They went down to Hagrid's hut to tell him of the news. They found Fang sitting outside with a bandaged tail and Hagrid opened a window to talk to them.
"I won't let you in. Norbert's at a tricky stage - nothin' I can't handle." They told him about the letter, though Jennifer wasn't sure if his eyes were fill of tears because of the letter or if it was because of the fact that Norbert bitten him on the leg. "Aargh! It's all right, he only got my boot - jus' playin' - he's only a baby, after all." Jennifer could hear the tail being banged against the walls making the windows rattle. They walked back to the castle feeling that Saturday couldn't come quick enough for them. When Saturday did come that Hermione and Harry went while Jennifer and Ginny remained in the tower. Jennifer hoped that everything would go as they planned for the night and that Hermione and Harry won't get caught with the dragon.
When Jennifer got up the next morning that Jennifer was confused, for Gryffindor has lost two hundred points. At first she thought it was a mistake, than the story started to spread about Harry Potter the son of James and Lily Potter, the hero of two quidditch matches, lost all those points along with three stupid first years. Harry wasn't as well as known as Jennifer was but he was known well known that it would give him some grief. Jennifer, Hermione, Neville, and Ginny stood by him but Dean and Seamus seem to avoid them for apparently they were the other two first year students that was caught as well. As some people thrown some insults at Harry that Ginny spoke.
"They'll all forget this in a few weeks. Fred and George have lost loads of points in all the time they've been here, and people still like them."
"They've never lost two hundred points in one go, though, have they?"
"Well - no." Later Jennifer heard that Harry tried to resign from the quidditch team but Wood wouldn't let him and that made it worse for Harry. Hermione was having a hard time but she didn't have it as bad as Harry does since he was more well known than Hermione. Jennifer couldn't begin to think if she was in Harry's or Hermione's position of what would happen. She was sure that she would have it way more worse than Harry and Hermione, since she was the girl who lived. As the days followed that Jennifer was getting worried about Hermione since she stopped drawing attention to herself, kept her head down as she worked in silence. A week before exams that Hermione, Jennifer, Ginny and Neville were in the library when Harry came over and told them of what he heard just than. When Harry finished that Jennifer spoke up.
"Snape's done it, then! If Quirrell's told him how to break his Anti-Dark Force spell -"
"There's still Fluffy, though." Jennifer shrugged, than Ginny looked up from the books and spoke up.
"Maybe Snape's found out how to get past him without asking Hagrid, I bet there's a book somewhere in here telling you how to get past a giant three-headed dog. So what do we do, Harry?" Jennifer could see the light of adventure was in Ginny's eye, Jennifer was willing to go on an adventure as well. But Hermione spoke up first.
"Go to Dumbledore. That's what we should have done ages ago. If we try anything ourselves we'll be thrown out for sure." Jennifer looked at Hermione and spoke up before Harry could.
"But we've got no proof! Quirrell's too scared to back us up. Snape's only got to say he doesn't know how the troll got in at Halloween and that he was nowhere near the third floor - who do you think they'll believe, him or us? It's not exactly a secret we hate him, Dumbledore'll think we made it up to get him sacked. Filch wouldn't help us if his life depended on it, he's too friendly with Snape, and the more students get thrown out, the better, he'll think. And don't forget, we're not supposed to know about the Stone or Fluffy. That'll take a lot of explaining." When Jennifer said that, that they went on studying for their exams. The following morning that Harry, deans Seamus and Hermione got notes, Jennifer figured of what the notes said. At eleven that night that Hermione and Harry said goodbye to Cooper, Jennifer, Ginny and Neville, though neither Seamus or Dean said anything to them as they left the common room. The four of them stayed up waiting for Harry and Hermione to come back, as they waited that the four of them fell asleep, after seem like a while that Jennifer was shaken awake by Hermione. Once all four of them woke up that Harry told them of what happened in the forest, Harry couldn't sit down so he was pacing up and down the common room. Though Jennifer was the one should be more worried than Harry with the news Harry had brought them. He told them of what happened in the forest and how he was saved by the centaur, when he was finished that he looked over at Jennifer as spoke.
"So are you saying that all I've got to wait for now is Snape to steal the Stone, then Voldemort will be able to come and finish me off... Well, I suppose that will make Bane happy." Hermione looked frightened but spoke up none the less.
"Jennifer, everyone says Dumbledore's the only one You-Know-Who was ever afraid of. With Dumbledore around, You-Know-Who won't touch you. Anyway, who says the centaurs are right? It sounds like fortune-telling to me, and Professor McGonagall says that's a very imprecise branch of magic." The sky turned light before they stopped talking, when Jennifer climbed into her bed that she clasp the necklace her father gave to her at Christmas. She wondered if she could have a normal life for a change or even just minus the wizard aspect from her life.
