Lucy Jones 1: The beginning of a tale (HP fanfiction)

20 A Dragon

'A dragon.' Lucy says, almost dropping the books that she is carrying.

'Sshh, not so loud. Yes, Hagrid has an egg of one.' Harry whispers while looking around him, but the corridor is empty beside them: 'He said we could be there when it comes out.'

'Harry, what will he do with it when it's born. You know he can't hide it forever?'

'Yes, I'm not stupid. We must make sure Hagrid doesn't keep it. It's too dangerous.'

'Something I can agree on. And did Hermione do it?' she asks, changing the subject.

'Did what?'

'She planned on making a schedule for you guys, so you will learn everything on time.' She adds the last thing when Harry looks back at her, confused.

'Caput Draconis.' Harry says the password.

'Oh, there you are, Harry. I was looking for you?' She gives him the schedule Lucy was talking about.

'Now she did.' Harry tells her.

A few days later: 'We have class, Ron.' Hermione says.

'But how many times will you be able to see a dragon come out of his egg.' Ron argues.

'I don't want to get in trouble right before exams.' Lucy reasons.

'Like Lucy said, and if they see, we aren't in class and figure out why we were at Hagrid's....'

'Quiet, Hermione.' Harry interrupts.

When class is over, they hurry to Hagrid's. He opens the door; his face is red from the excitement.

'It's almost come out,' he says.

The four of them go inside to sit around the round table. The egg lays in the middle of the table and is full of cracks. Lucy hears something in the egg. It's a clicking sound. When, at once, it burst open with a loud cracking noise. The baby dragon falls on the table. She looks at it.

'Isn't he perfect?' Hagrid says. The dragon wants to bite his fingers, but he says, 'Oh, he knows who his owner is.'

'Hagrid, how fast does this dragon grow?' Lucy asks him.

Hagrid opens his mount but closes it when he runs to the window and closes the curtain.

'What's wrong?' Harry asks.

'Someone was watching through the window.'

Harry opens the door: 'Malfoy.'

Lucy hopes Malfoy will keep this a secret for one more week. Hagrid had given them permission to send a letter to Ron's brother Charlie. Charlie works with dragons. He told us to hand the dragon over to some of his friends who were about to visit him. Malfoy has kept quiet until now, so maybe they're lucky.

The dragon had given them a few problems. While visiting Hagrid, he burned a portion of Lucy's arm. They took care of this themselves. Two days later, he had also bitten Ron. His hand became twice as big, so he had to visit the hospital wing.

The week went by eventually. It was filled with stress, homework and even more stress. The moment came that Harry and Hermione would hand the dragon over in the astronomy tower. They had the invisibility cloak. That is a good thing because Ron told them Malfoy found out about the dragon transfer, and no one knew what he would do with this information.

Ron panicked and said it was his fault. He shouldn't have been so stupid. Malfoy visited him in the hospital wing. He told Madame Pomfrey he had to borrow one of Ron's books. Ron gave the one that contained the letter about the dragon.

Hermione and Lucy tried to devise another idea but had to admit it wasn't easy.

Harry decided the plan would stay the same.