Black Soul- George Weasley

The One With Norbert

"Please don't", Fred begged Astraea.

"I'm sorry my friend", she replied with fake sympathy.

"Georgie help please", he begged his brother.

"I'm sorry dear brother, it's either you or me and I'm too pretty", George replied.

"DEPULSO", Astraea yelled waving her wand causing Fred to fly backwards nearly missing the cushions.

Astraea and George laughed so hard at Fred.

"Miss Black, great job, but I did believe I asked you to perform Depulso at an object", Professor Flitwick gave her a knowing look.

"But where's the fun in that?" she replied wiping her tears.

After Flitwick left, George turned to Astraea.

"Did you talk to your mother?" he asked her.

"No"

"You should"

"No"

"'Raea-"

"If you're going to keep bringing this up, I'm going to start avoiding you", she glared at him.

"Look you are not eating, not sleeping and when you sleep, you have nightmares", George said.

"Angelina you bitch", she growled.

"Look we are looking out for you"

"I don't need anyone to look out for me and I don't need you"

"Astraea, you don't mean that", George frowned.

"I don't?" she raised her voice. "I don't need you to pity me, I'm not some charity case or a glass that will shatter just because of her house problems".

Just like that, she stormed out of the class and went towards the common room.

"Astraea", she heard someone call her name.

She took a deep breath getting ready to tell them off when she saw it was Harry.

"Yes?" she asked.

"You okay?"

"Peachy, what's up?"

"I need your help, it's something quite dangerous", Harry mumbled.

"Okay", she said biting her urges to storm to her room and break something.

Astraea took Harry to the Astronomy Tower to have some privacy.

"Look Hagrid got a dragon egg, a Norwegian Ridgeback, it has hatched and in two weeks it will be as big as Hagrid's hutt", Harry said.

"That's pretty illegal", she replied.

"I know and Malfoy has been spying on us trying to get us and Hagrid in trouble", he added.

"Want me to hex him? That's it?" she asked.

"No", he yelled quickly. "We contacted Charlie and he agreed to take Norbert to Romania, we just need help getting Norbert here, the Astronomy Tower, without anyone noticing".

"Well I can help", she thought for a bit. "I can be your look out"

"How?"

"I'm friends with Peevsey, and I have my own strategy"

"You could get in trouble"

"That's for me to worry", she sighed. "When is the day again?"

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They would have felt sorry for Hagrid when the time came for him to say good-bye to Norbert if they hadn't been so worried about what they had to do. It was a very dark, cloudy night, and they were a bit late arriving at Hagrid's hut because they'd had to wait for Astraea's signal that Peeves is out of their way in the entrance hall, where he'd been playing tennis against the wall. Hagrid had Norbert packed and ready in a large crate. 

"He's got lots o' rats an' some brandy fer the journey," said Hagrid in a muffled voice. "An' I've packed his teddy bear in case he gets lonely."

From inside the crate came ripping noises that sounded to Harry as though the teddy was having his head torn off.

"Not to seem insensitive", Astraea whispered. "But you have to move now. I'll head of now to try and make sure no one is there"

"How will you do that?" asked Hermione.

Astraea morphed to Percy.

"How-"

"No time for questions. I need to change"

After changing, she went off to the castle securing the way.

How they managed to get the crate back up to the castle, they never knew. Midnight ticked nearer as they heaved Norbert up the marble staircase in the entrance hall and along the dark corridors. UP another staircase, then another– even one of Harry's shortcuts didn't make the work much easier.

"Nearly there!" Harry panted as they reached the corridor beneath the tallest tower. Then a sudden movement ahead of them made them almost drop the crate. Forgetting that they were already invisible, they shrank into the shadows, staring at the dark outlines of two people grappling with each other ten feet away. A lamp flared.

Percy (Astraea) came to view, then Draco appeared.

"Why are you out of bed? Detention!"

"Oh giving me detention Weasley? What about your brother and his dragon?" snarled Malfoy.

"Non sense! Where are they?"

Then Minnie appeared in a tartan bathrobe and a hair net.

"Detention both of you", she shouted.

"Professor", Percy (Astraea) said puffing his chest like Percy usually does. "I'm a prefect and caught a student out of bed".

"Excellent job, Mr. Weasley", McGonagall muttered then held Malfoy by the ear. "Detention! And twenty points from Slytherin! Wandering around in the middle of the night, how dare you —"

"You don't understand, Professor. Harry Potter's coming — he's got a dragon!"

"Dragon", Percy (Astraea) laughed.

"What utter rubbish! How dare you tell such lies! Come on — I shall see Professor Snape about you, Malfoy!"

"Clear", Percy (Astraea) told them after they left.

"Coming with us?" Harry asked.

"No afraid your brother will come out and expose me", she replied. "Take care and be careful"

"Thank you", Harry said. She nodded and left.

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