The events of Halloween night ran through the gossip grapevine that was Hogwarts, letting everyone and their owl know that Harry Potter and Hermione Granger had spent the night in Professor Snape's quarters. Not that they minded, it was gossip and nothing more. The next morning, Hermione had completed healing Severus' leg, showing him how adept she was with the water healing, and bringing forth the reason why neither she nor Alexander had ever had as much as a sniffle.

The other Gryffindors had been wary of them for a week, but most got over it when they won 100 points between them in a day. Their Head of House had talked to them, making sure that they weren't being bullied by the rest of the house, and praised them for their incredible marks over just 2 months of school.

Christmas came and went with little celebration, the duo staying at school as the Grangers were off at a conference, so they spent the day with Severus, helping him make potions for the Hospital Wing after exchanging presents. One present had brought a round of raised eyebrows, James Potter's Invisibility Cloak, and the handwriting in the note that accompanied it was easily identified by Severus as being Albus'. After a few checks, it was declared safe and Severus was thankful that the young pair were responsible or he would have killed his boss.

The school week was spent in class, their breaks in the library or by the lake reading from their own collection depending on the weather, while their weekends were split between spending time with Hagrid and doing physical exercise.

For Severus' birthday, Lex and Mia, as he had begun calling them outside of class, had given him a collection of potion ingredients they had found on their few trips into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid. He had been touched, other than the customary gifts from colleagues, this was the first birthday present he had gotten since Lily's death, and it was perfect for him.

The weather was thawing again, the March sun bringing enough heat that Lex and Mia were walking down to Hagrid's hut without a coat. As they passed the lake, the witch sighed, "Not long now before we can go swimming again.

"You could now Mia, just open up the ice and dive on in," Lex joked, "Though you may catch the eye of everyone in the castle if you did so."

Mia elbowed the wizard in the side and laughed with him as they continued on to the hut. The closer they got to it though, the more twisted their stomachs became, "Something's wrong."

"What is that? Not a monster…" the brunette tried to put her finger on it.

Alexander listened intently, able to hear a whispering of some sort, but only get parts of it, "Daddy… Hungry… Food… FEED ME!"

"Holy crap, did you hear that?"

"What?" Mia asked, looking around them.

"A voice, a baby I think, but it wasn't speaking in our language. It must be speaking in snake," the wizard said, figuring that if his friend couldn't understand then it would be in the snake language.

Mia nodded, knowing that if it was in horse language he couldn't understand while she could, "Coming from Hagrid's?"

Lex just moved quicker towards the hut, not bothering to knock on the door, just walking straight in. Sitting there was their bushy friend with a newly hatched dragon on the table. When he saw them standing there, Hagrid blushed deeply and tried to stand quickly, "Harry, Hermione, what are you doing here? You shouldn't be here."

"Hagrid, why do you have a baby dragon?" Hermione asked.

Lex ducked around the large man, and bent down in front of the dragon, "Hello little one, are you hungry?"

The dragon's eyes peered deep into the wizard's eyes, analysing what she saw and when she spoke, did so in a way much older than she was, "You are not a normal human. You can speak the language of serpents easily. Very odd."

The boy laughed lightly, breaking Hagrid from his silence, "You're a Parselmouth Harry? What did he say?"

"She actually Hagrid, you've got a girl," Lex answered before talking to the dragon again, "Are you hungry?"

Her head nodded eagerly, "Yes and my name is Sofia. What is yours?"

"I am Alexander and my friend over there, her name is Hermione. I'll get you some food now and please, don't set anything on fire," Lex turned to face Hagrid, "Her name is Sofia and she is hungry."

"Rats, don't worry Sofia, Daddy's coming with dinner," the half-giant moved quickly, grabbing a bowl of sliced meat and placed it in front of Sofia, who dove right in, bringing a large smile to his bearded face, "Thank you Harry."

"Hagrid, you know you can't keep her right? It's against the law and she'll be too big soon," Hermione said tenderly, sitting across from him at the table.

The man sobbed and nodded, "I know, I know, but I just wanted to be a good dad to her after she was given to me as an egg."

Alexander placed a hand on his dustpan lid sized one, "Are there places around that can take her?"

"Aye, Charlie Weasley works at a dragon refuge in Romania, he can take care of her," Hagrid informed the pair, "How I'll get her there is another question."

Sharing a look with Alexander, Hermione told the man, "We'll figure something out for you and Sofia, Hagrid. You just keep her hidden until we do."

"Thank you so much both of you," Hagrid hugged the pair, and had they not been demigods, they probably would have been crushed.

Rushing from the hut, the pair were talking and thinking fast, "How the hell do we get a dragon to Romania without alerting the wrong people?"

"Severus can help maybe; make a Portkey or something for Sofia and Hagrid."

"Might as well ask," at a run, they head to the potions lab and hoped for the best.