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"Well, if I go down,I am taking you with me,Diggory."
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✰𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕣𝕕 ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟'𝕤 ℙ𝕆𝕍✰
Yesterday's rain had cleared; the sky was a clear, pale gray, and the grass was springy and damp underfoot as Harry, Y/N, Hermione and Ron set off for their first-ever Care of Magical Creatures class.
Hagrid was waiting for his class at the door of his hut.
"C'mon, now, get a move on!" he called as the class approached. "Got a real treat for yeh today! Great lesson comin' up! Everyone here? Right, follow me!"
Hagrid strolled off around the edge of the trees, and five minutes later, they found themselves outside a kind of paddock.
"Everyone gather 'round the fence here!" he called. "That's it- make sure yeh can see- now, firs' thing yeh'll want ter do is open yer books-"
"How?" said the cold, drawling voice of Draco Malfoy.
"Eh?" said Hagrid.
"How do we open our books?" Malfoy repeated. He took out his copy of The Monster Book of Monsters, which he had bound shut with a length of rope.
"Oh, I don't know, Blondie," said Y/N with a mock smile. "Ever tried using your hands to do something other than writing letters to Blondie Senior?"
A few Gryffindors snickered at her comment while Malfoy went pink from embarrassment and rage.
"Hasn'- hasn' anyone bin able ter open their books?" said Hagrid, looking crestfallen.
The class all shook their heads.
"Yeh've got ter stroke 'em," said Hagrid, as though this was the most obvious thing in the world. "Look-"
He took Hermione's copy and ripped off the Spellotape that bound it. The book tried to bite, but Hagrid ran a giant forefinger down its spine, and the book shivered, and then fell open and lay quiet in his hand.
"Oh, how silly we've all been!" Malfoy sneered. "We should have stroked them! Why didn't we guess!"
"That git!" Y/N whispered to Ron. "It's almost like he wants to get punched in the face-"
Ron grabbed his sister's hand and pulled her away before she could actually go and punch Malfoy.
"I- I thought they were funny," Hagrid said uncertainly to Hermione.
"Oh, tremendously funny!" said Malfoy. "Really witty, giving us books that try and rip our hands off!"
