Everlasting (H.P x fem.reader) YEARS 1-4

Year Two: Chapter Fourteen

Okay I made my way through editing all of my reformatted chapters, so now they will come out more slowly since not only do I have to go through and edit them, I have to fix the format on everything. 

3rd person POV: 

Harry, Ron, Y/n, and Hermione had always known that Hagrid had an unfortunate liking for large and monstrous creatures. During their first year at Hogwarts he had tried to raise a dragon in his little wooden house, and it would be a long time before they forgot the giant, three-headed dog he'd christened "Fluffy." 

And if, as a boy, Hagrid had heard that a monster was hidden somewhere in the castle, Harry was sure he'd have gone to any lengths for a glimpse of it. He'd probablythought it was a shame that the monster had been cooped up so long, and thought it deserved the chance to stretch its many legs; Harry could just imagine the thirteen-year-old Hagrid trying to fit a leash and collar on it. But he was equally certain that Hagrid would never have meant to kill anybody.

Harry half wished he hadn't found out how to work Riddle's diary. Again and again Ron and Hermione made him recount what he'd seen, until he was heartily sick of telling them and sick of the long, circular conversations that followed. Y/n had sat numbly, chewing at her lip as she processed what he had seen. 

"Riddle might have got the wrong person," said Hermione. "Maybe it was some other monster that was attacking people..."

"How many monsters d'you think this place can hold?" Ron asked dully.

"How do we know we can trust this diary?" Y/n finally spoke up, brows scrunched up. 

"Y/n," Harry started off, not wanting an argument to break out within the group. "He's won all those awards and I don't think he would lie to me." 

"It just doesn't make sense." 

"We always knew Hagrid had been expelled," said Harry miserably. "And the attacks must've stopped after Hagrid was kicked out. Otherwise, Riddle wouldn't have gotten that award."

Ron tried a different tack.

"Riddle does sound like Percy — who asked him to squeal on Hagrid, anyway?"

"But the monster had killed someone, Ron," said Hermione.

"And Riddle was going to go back to some Muggle orphanage if they closed Hogwarts," said Harry. "I don't blame him for wanting to stay here..."

Y/n let out a groan, leaning back her head as if she couldn't stand this conversation. It made no sense to her. Why would Hagrid keep a dangerous pet in Hogwarts that killed people, that also happened to fall under the category of Salazar Slytherin's serpent. And what did this all mean, anyways? Was Hagrid the heir? That made even less since to the girl. 

"You met Hagrid down Knockturn Alley, didn't you, Harry?" Ron asked quietly. 

"He was buying a Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent," said Harry quickly.

The three of them fell silent. After a long pause, Hermione voiced the knottiest question of all in a hesitant voice.

"Do you think we should go and ask Hagrid about it all?"

"That'd be a cheerful visit," said Ron. "'Hello, Hagrid. Tell us, have you been setting anything mad and hairy loose in the castle lately?'"

"But we might find out the truth," Y/n argued. "He trusts us enough." 

"Obviously he doesn't trust us as much as we imagined if he set a create loose once again." 

In the end, they decided that they would not say anything to Hagrid unless there was another attack, and as more and more days went by with no whisper from the disembodied voice, they became hopeful that they would never need to talk to him about why he had been expelled. It was now nearly four months since Justin and Nearly Headless Nick had been Petrified, and nearly everybody seemed to think that the attacker, whoever it was, had retired for good. Peeves had finally got bored of his "Oh, Potter, you rotter" and his new "Beware of L/n" songs, Ernie Macmillan asked Harry quite politely to pass a bucket of leaping toadstools in Herbology one day, and in March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy.