Born A Weapon

care for magical creatures

NOVEMBER 6TH 1993
(Swearing)

the soft warm hands of luna gently shook me awake for breakfast the cold November air drifted through the slightly cracked window and make me get goosebumps as I flipped the covers off of me and got dressed in my uniform

at breakfast everything was as it was supposed to be nothing was blowing up and no one was getting hexed or bullied as far as I was aware it was a perfectly normal November morning which was a relief to have once in a while to say the least

our first class on the schedule was triple care for magical creatures with Hagrid and frankly I was exited knowing it was going to be a good lesson if the class was located just outside the forbidden forest

the walk there was surprisingly okay and harry and I joked about how nifflers and rich people have a lot in common they both love shiny things and they have most likely stolen from people to get it

the lesson began and it was on pixies which made us all have some sizable flashbacks to second year which had just been a complete disaster and had sparked a lot of rumours and mostly bully behaviour towards Neville which is honestly so sad

we had to walk through the forest in pairs of 4 and search for a pixie and maybe even catch it and I was paired with harry Blaise and hermione and I wanted to comp[lain about the fact hermione was in my group seeing as her and I don't see eye to eye on anything at all due to our different cultures and beliefs

we walked through the large trees and the leaves crunching under our feet as we walked and the soft murmur of other students could be heard through the huge forest and echoed slightly

"so stupid we had pixies last year why would we go looking for them again"

I said to harry who nodded in agreement and sighed dismissively we had been walking for an hour at this point I was getting tired and so was the rest of the group so we started making our way back when we found a dead rabbit which was unusual in this part of the forest

We heard a low growl come from behind us and we jumped back raising our wands now facing a manticore which was lowly growling at us and getting ready to pounce hermione and harry ran towards the class but me and Blaise stayed still like statues and raised our wands when it started charging at Blaise I shot a spell at it sending it flying back miles giving me and Blaise enough time to run back to the class

I had never seen a manticore in that part of the forest and it was definitely unusual for them to go so far from their den on the other side of the forest deep in the trees

We immediately told Hagrid who was shocked and told us to also report this to dumbledor which we immediately did racing into the castle and storming up the stairs towards dumbledors office and barging in like a pack of elephants

"there was a fucking manticore where we had to look for pixies!!!!"

Harry screamed and blaise continued

"the thing almost ate my face off before delphini blasted it into the forest otherwise I would have been killed!!"

Dumbledor was shocked and sent a magi-zoologist in the forest to direct the beast back to its den and awarded me 30 points for saving Blaise's life in the forest which I saw on his face was a shock to him as well