ADOMANIA [harry potter]

08 - merry christmas

The only teacher the group of friends had any chance to get an answer from was Hagrid. So the next morning in the bitter cold, the four walked with Hagrid down a path. Mara looked around her, the ground had a white hue to it from the snow that had started slowly falling over the last few days.

"Nonsense!" Hagrid cried out after hearing Hermione's theory. "Why would Snape put a curse on Harry's broom?"

"Who knows?" Harry asked. "Why was he trying to get past that three-headed dog on Halloween?"

"Who told you about fluffy?" Hagrid asked them dumbfounded, bushy eyebrows rose into his hairline.

"Fluffy?" Mara asked as evenly dumbfounded. "They named a three-headed dog, Fluffy?"

"Well, of course, he's got to have a name," Hagrid answered her. "He's mine. I bought him off an Irish feller it met down at the pub last year. Then I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the ..." He stopped.

The first years ushered him to continue. He didn't though, instead he turned his back towards them and whispered. "Shouldn't have said that!"

"No more questions!" Hagrid said as he finally turned back around. "That's top secret, that is."

"But Hagrid," Harry tried to plead. "Whatever Fluffy's guarding, Snape's trying to steal it!"

"Codswallop," Hagrid sighed. "Professor Snape is a Hogwarts teacher!"

"Not a very good one," Mara whispered under her breath.

"I know a spell when I see one!" Hermoine spoke out, thinking back on the quidditch match. "You've got to keep eye contact and Snape wasn't blinking!"

Hagrid sighed, placing a big hand on Harry's shoulder. "You listen to me, all four of you! Yer meddling in things that ought not to be meddled in. It's dangerous. What that dog is guarding is strictly between Professor Dumbledore and Nicholas Flamel.

Hagrid's eyes shot open as he said that. "Shouldn't have said that!" He murmured to himself again as he left. Though Mara couldn't help but get the feeling that Hagrid hadn't meant it. It felt like he meant to say the name of this unknown wizard.

"Who's Nicholas Flamel?" Harry asked Hermoine and Mara. Both girls shook their heads, they didn't know either.