Stay - Theodore Nott

He's got a dragon!

"It's too late to change the plan now," Harry told Hermione and Kirra. "We haven't got time to send Charlie another owl, and this could be our only chance to get rid of Norbert. We'll have to risk it. And we have got the invisibility cloak, Malfoy and Nott don't know about that."

They found Fang, the boarhound, sitting outside with a bandaged tail when they went to tell Hagrid, who opened a window to talk to them. "I won't let you in," he puffed. "Norbert's at a tricky stage — nothin' I can't handle."

When they told him about Charlie's letter, his eyes filled with tears, although that might have been because Norbert had just bitten him on the leg.

"Aargh! It's all right, he only got my boot — jus' playin' — he's only a baby, after all." The baby banged its tail on the wall, making the windows rattle, Kirra shot forward and wrapped her arms around it and it instantly stopped making a ruckus and calmed down in the girl's lap, Hagrid looked at the girl, he had a feeling that this would happen.

After all, it wasn't the first time that Hagrid had seen the girl with a dragon, even if it was so many years ago, he could still remember it as if it were an hour ago.

Kirra, Harry, and Hermione walked back to the castle feeling Saturday couldn't come quickly enough. They would have felt sorry for Hagrid when the time came for him to say goodbye 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 Peeves to get 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.

"Bye-bye, Norbert!" Hagrid sobbed as Harry and Hermione covered themselves with his invisibility cloak, Kirra took the crate and covered herself and the crate with the invisibility cloak

"Mommy will never forget you!" How Kirras small arms had managed to get the crate back up to the castle, they never knew. Midnight ticked nearer as she 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 three people grappling with each other ten feet away. A lamp flared. Professor McGonagall, in a tartan bathrobe and a hairnet, had Malfoy by the ear with Theodore behind them.

"Detention!" she shouted. "And twenty points from Slytherin for each of you! 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!" Malfoy pleaded with the woman

"It was clearly the younger Potter, she needs to be expelled, she's clearly putting the lives of her peers in danger by bringing such a dangerous beast into the school," Theodore said and McGonnogals cheeks went even more crimson.

How dare he talk about letting something dangerous into the school when he himself, had come from a long line of dark wizards...

"What utter rubbish! How dare you tell such lies! Come on — I shall see Professor Snape about you, Malfoy and Nott!" The steep spiral staircase up to the top of the tower seemed the easiest thing in the world after that. Not until they'd stepped out into the cold night air did they throw off the cloaks, glad to be able to breathe properly again.