Chapter lV
The Centaurs' Camp
Rose clung to Hansveer's mane. She could see a warm, flickering light between the trees and hear celtic tunes filling the air. Hansveer trotted into the camp and went toward the leader of the centaurs tent, passing roughly made tents with centaurs sharpening weapons, practicing archery, and playing ditties around the fire. Everyone stared at Rose and Hansveer as they walked up to a well built tent with scarlet banners hanging around it.
"General Wadsworth," Hansveer announced as he stepped into the well kept tent with a huge centaur examining maps with a tall man with a tangled beard. At that same time Rose's eyes spotted Hagrid as the tall man.
"Hagrid!" Rose shouted excitedly.
"Blimey Rose! What in the name of the Lochness Monster are ya do'n here?" Hagrid bellowed in his cockney accent.
General Wadsworth looked up from the maps at Hansveer who quickly explained Rose's circumstance.
"Well then, she must stay with us for the night, It would be too dangerous to take her back to the castle, Hagrid can take her to Hogwarts in the morning," Wadsworth stated.
Hansveer bowed and trotted out of the tent while Rose said her thanks to him. Hagrid walked out of the tent motioning for Rose to follow him.
"I'll get an owl and send it to McGonigal. You look tired. Why don't ya' go to sleep? Teddy isn't back yet, so you can have his blanket," Hagrid said merrily.
"Teddy's hear!" Rose exclaimed, surprised.
"Not exactly... "Hagrid muttered while cursing himself for saying Teddy was there.
"Well, where is he?" Rose asked.
"Teddy is with a party of the centaurs search'n for some ingredients to make a potion," Hagrid explained trying not to tell Rose to much.
"What kink of potion," Rose asked curiously.
"Well, you see there's been some bad luck lately with the the werewolves. This potion we're going to make gives you luck. When the potion's done, and we finally find were the great dogs are, well, hopefully we'll just get plain lucky fighting them," Hagrid said, instantly regretting the he said a word incase someone might trick Rose into spilling the beans.
"Why's Teddy hear?" Rose asked.
"Well you know his father was turned into a werewolf, so when I told him about it just before the train left Platform 9 and 3/4, well ... he insisted on coming along with me to help fight against them... or at least trying to talk reason into them to give up," Hagrid explained.
"What!" Rose exclaimed."Teddy never told me anything about his father being a werewolf!"
"Didn't Harry, Ron, and Hermione ever tell you anything?" Hagrid asked.
"No, although on the Hogwarts Express, Al and I stumbled upon a chocolate frog card about Al's dad, my uncle, defeating the dark lord," Rose said, suddenly feeling like she was a stranger to her own family.
"Great Scott! Rose, your uncle is famous, so is your mum and dad. I thought James would of told ya about this," Hagrid roared.
"Never," Rose replied yawning.
As much as Rose was interested to find out more, she had a difficult time keeping her eyes open.
"I'll tell you more about it on the way to Hogwarts tomorrow," Hagrid said seeing how tired Rose appeared. "But what in the barking blazes possessed you to come into the Forest?"
"I don't know. My feet moved like magic…"
Hagrid led Rose to a tent on the outskirts of the camp. Tall trees loomed over it, however, it had a rather cozy appearance about it. Inside there were two sleeping bags rolled out on the ground. On top of them Hagrid's massive dog lay, slobbering all over the one on the left side of the tent. Rose took the sleeping bag on the right, not wishing to sleep on slobber, and laid down on top of it, falling asleep before her wavy red hair had a chance to touch the pillow.
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