Hidden: The Beginning||Harry Potter various[YEAR 3-4]

3.9

No one POV

Emboldened by Y/N's and Kayden's success, the rest of the class climbed cautiously into the paddock. Hagrid untied the Hippogriffs one by one, and soon people were bowing nervously all over the paddock. Neville repeatedly ran backwards from his, which didn't want to bend its knees. Ron and Hermione practised on the chestnut while Harry watched.

Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle had taken over Buckbeak. He had bowed to Malfoy, who was now patting his beak, looking disdainful.

"This is very easy," Draco drawled, loud enough for Harry to hear him. "I knew it must have been if they could do it...I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you?" he said to the Hippogriff. "Are you, you great ugly brute?"

It happened in a flash of steely talons; Draco let out a high-pitched scream, and the next moment, Hagrid was wrestling Buckbeak back into his collar as he strained to get at Draco, who lay curled in the grass, blood blossoming over his robes.

"It's killed me! It killed me!"

"Shut it; you're not dying." Kayden smacks his head.

"Calm yourself! Yer fine... jus' a scratch..."

"Someone help me -- gotta get him outta here --"

Hermione ran to hold open the gate as Hagrid lifted Draco quickly. As they passed, Harry saw a long, deep gash on Draco's arm; blood splattered the grass, and Hagrid ran with him up the slope toward the castle.

"Look at the blood; that's a lot." Seamus shook his head.

"Knight? Why are your eyes closed and covering your mouth and nose?" Lavender asked.

Kayden covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief. While she have her eyes close, she had her other hand on Y/N's mouth and nose.

"Keep your eyes closed," Kayden says to Y/N firmly as she does what she was told.

"I-I am not feeling good," says Kayden, but the urge is getting more complex. "Y/N, hold this. DO.NOT.TAKE.IT.OFF, boys, look after her," she said as the three Slytherin nodded. "Excuse me." Kayden runs away from everyone but heads to the forbidden forest.

"Youre not allowed to be there!"

"Y/N? Are you alright? Are you feeling unwell too?" Dean asks.

"You know you do not have to do what she says; you can open your eyes and uncover your nose and mouth; she's not the boss of you-"

"Shut your mouth." Henry interrupted Ron's sentence.

"I think it's better to follow her orders instead; you don't want anyone to die here... Right." Easton glared at him.

"Let's go? Hmm?" Benjamin asks Y/N; she nods as they lead her back to the castle.

"How about Knight?!" Hermione shouted.

"Leave her be; she needs time! Do not come after her if you still want to be alive!" Easton warned everyone as they left.

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"They should sack him straight away!" said Pansy Parkinson, who was in tears.

"It was Malfoy's fault!" snapped Dean Thomas. Crabbe and Goyle flexed their muscles threateningly.

They all climbed the stone steps into the deserted entrance hall.

"I'm going to see if he's okay!" said Pansy, and they all watched her run up the marble staircase. The Slytherins, still muttering about Hagrid, headed away in the direction of their dungeon standard room; Harry, Ron, and Hermione proceeded upstairs to Gryffindor Tower.