Hermione and Harry went up to Buckbeak who clicked his beak. Harry then remembered Hermione never rode Buckbeak before.
Buckbeak nuzzled them both, he seemed excited to go for a flight. Harry got on first and pulled Hermione up.
"Hold on tight", said Harry. Hermione nodded biting her lip, scared of heights. She wrapped her arms around Harry's waist making him blush.
Buckbeak stood on his hind legs and then began running at high speed. Hermione kept her grip tight and Buckbeak spread out his long wings and flew off into the sky.
Buckeabk flew over the Cloak Courtyard, Stone Circle and Covered bridge first flying over the castle. Hermione had her eyes closed scared of heights.
Harry had Buckbeak fly above the lake. "Hermione, it's ok. Open your eyes", said Harry. Hermione slowly opened them, the wind blowing through her hair.
Below her she saw the lake and the entire castle. Hermione looked, it did look amazing to see the castle from sky view.
Buckbeak flapped his wings as they flew toward the Viaduct. "Hagrid said Dragonfly Throaxas are near the forest", said Hermione.
Harry nodded, Buckbeak flew back toward Hagrid's and they saw the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Buckbeak landed gracefully.
Harry and Hermione dismounted off him and saw 3 dragon flies. "Incendio!", cried Hermione, all three burned turning to throaxas. "Brilliant", said Harry.
"We have to try and get the doxy eggs", said Hermione. "Hermione, that's too dangerous. Those things are poisoness", said Harry.
"If we use Experliurmus we'll be ok", said Hermione. "Yeah but then how are we going to get the eggs? Their in trees", said Harry.
"We still haven't learned summoning charms, like Accio. They're for fourth years", said Harry. Hermione thought.
"First let's see how high the nest is", said Hermione. Buckbeak clicked his beak. "We should let one of the other Hippogriffs spread their wings", said Harry.
They approached Shadow-Wings, the jet black Hippogriff. Harry and Hermione bowed and the black Hippogriff bowed back, mellow.
Harry and Hermione got on him and Shadow-Wings began running fast and then spread his jet black wings flying off.
"Hagrid said the Stone Circle", said Hermione. Shadow-Wings flew toward the Stone Circle in front of the Covered bridge. The black Hippogriff flew around the trees near it. "There! That small tree!", cried Hermione. A small leafless tree sat hidden within 6 big pine trees with eggs on it, and doxies flying around it.
"We can easily reach them without a spell but...", said Hermione. "But there's 4 doxies", said Harry. They landed in the stone circle, Shadow-Wings lay down lazily cleaning his feathers.
Hermione pointed her wand at the Doxies. "Expleriurmus!", she cried. The Doxy snarled and flew over. "Get down!", yelled Harry grabbing her.
"Expeliurmus!", yelled Harry. "Hermione, you grab the eggs I'll distract them!", said Harry. He kept shooting spells at the Doxies who got agitated enough to fly away from the nest to chase Harry.
Hermione ran over to the nest. Harry ran, they were fast. Shadow-Wings looked up wondering what they were doing.
"I got them!", cried Hermione. "Expleiurmus!", she cried hitting the doxy that was chasing Harry. They got on Shadow-Wings and flew back to Hagrid's hut.
Hermione panted, she and Harry dismounted Shadow-Wings who lay down in the pumpkin patch with Buckbeak.
"All we have left to get is Fairy wings", said Hermione. "Hagrid says they only come out at night in Hogsmeade, let's try to search the grounds to be sure", said Harry.
This time they rode Hallowfeathers and regretted it. The orange Hippogriff didn't like being told where to fly. When they would try to fly over the Boathouse to look, he flew above the Transfiguration courtyard instead.
"Ok let's try to get to the training ground", said Harry. Hallowfeathers flapped his wings, they were up high. They tried diving down but Hallowfeathers began to flap his wings fast, agitated and flew up.
Eventually, they gave up and landed Hallowfeathers back at Hagrid's. They took Buckbeak out again but couldn't find Fairies anywhere.
"Harry, we'll have to sneak into Hogsmeade at night somehow", said Hermione as they rode Buckbeak over the Black lake
"To think Snape is making us find stuff at night...", Harry stopped. "Harry?", asked Hermione. "He's barking MAD! Dementors patrol Hogsmeade at night!", remembered Harry.
Hermione gasped slightly. They were now hesitant about the plan to sneak into Hogsmeade. "Buckbeak, land there", said Hermione.
Buckbeak landed on the training ground, no one was around. They dismounted Buckbeak who began cleaning his feathers.
"Hermione, let's try again", said Harry. Hermione nodded, she pulled her wand out and pointed it at the sky.
"Expector Patronum!", she cried, nothing happened. Hermione breathed. "Expecto Patronum!", cried Hermione, nothing.
Harry noticed she was trembling. Harry wrapped his arms around her suddenly. Hermione tensed and blushed.
"Harry...?", she asked. "Hermione, you're tense. Relax", said Harry. Hermione nodded and she slowly relaxed in Harry's arms.
Hermione took a deep breath and thought. She used the memory again from their second year. "Expecto Patronum!", she cried.
Suddenly a silver mist came out and so did a full shield. "Yes!", said Harry happily. Hermione kept the shield held up for the longest amount of time yet.
Hermione began to pant and finally the shield vanished. "Yes! You did it Hermione!", said Harry. Hermione looked like she might lose her balance, Harry helped her sit.
There wasn't any benches but Hermione gladly nearly collapsed on the grass leaning into Harry's arms who also sat with her.
Buckbeak right behind them. "Relax Mione", soothed Harry. "You think I'm getting better?", panted Hermione. "Yes, much better", smiled Harry.
Hermione breathed heavy, it took a lot of magic and energy to perform a patronus. Hermione leaned more in Harry's arms breathing softly.
Harry blushed looked down at her. "Come on, we better get inside before it gets dark", said Harry seeing the sun setting. They got on Buckbeak and rode him back to Hagrid's.
After that they went back inside the castle. "Harry since we both can produce a shield...maybe it will be ok to sneak into Hogsmeade", said Hermione quietly.
The Entrance hall was nearly deserted but she didn't want any ghosts or anyone to overhear.
The only people left in the Entrance hall was a Gryffindor Prefect and Draco, Crabbe and Goyle. But it was so deserted their voices echoed when just normal talking.
They climbed up the marble staircase and continued up the Grand Staircase until they were in the Gryffindor common room.
By after dark, Hermione was heavily studying by the fire place, Crookshanks curled in her lap. Ron was sorting through his wizard cards.
"I know Fred and George have the Limited Edition Bertie Bott card but they're too cheeky to trade", said Ron.
"I got another lesson with Professor Lupin", said Harry. "This late at night?", asked Ron. "Wouldn't he be worried about you getting caught by prefects?", asked Ron.
"Luckily no prefects are on the fourth floor, it's becoming risky for us to practice during the day. Snape comes in a lot and if he sees me in there anymore he'll get suspicious", explained Harry.
"Lupin's a teacher though, its none of Snape's concern", ranted Ron. "Yeah well, he's Snape", said Harry.
Harry traveled to the fourth floor.
Author's Note: OK, I think you guys should know where I came up with the names for the other Hippogriffs. On the third harry potter video game for PS2, which I have, on the endless day at the end of the game, when Buckbeak is gone with Sirius, you can fly three different Hippogriffs around the castle freely. A black one, orange one and red one. Flying hippogriffs on the game is my favorite part of the entire game, so I do it a lot. I started to give them names. Also, on my game whenever I ride the orange one (Hallowfeathers) when I dive down his wings go nuts when the other two don't. So I kinda gave him his own personality too. As far as Cherrytalons, made her up for the fanfic.