𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓃𝑔. - golden trio era au

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𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲

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Dawn didn't get a moments more sleep that night. She stayed wide awake, staring at Hagrid, waiting for his huge form to disappear before her very eyes and confirm this was all a dream. But he never did. He stayed there sleeping on the sofa, snoring so loudly Dawn swore the house would collapse on them all. But it never did. She wasn't particularly happy with him for cursing her brother but after all those hateful words spouted about what she apparently was now, she found herself conflicted. 

Daylight came and with it, Harry awoke. He didn't move from out of under Hagrid's large moleskin overcoat, but he spoke firmly to himself. "It was a dream," Dawn turned to look at him. "I dreamed a giant called Hagrid came to tell me I was going to a school for wizards. When I open my eyes, I'll be at home in my cupboard."

Dawn snorted despite the fact that she had spent the entire night convincing herself of exactly that. Her laugh, however, was drowned out by a sharp tapping on the window. An owl, a different one from last night, had a newspaper in its beak and was tapping on the window with its claw. 

"All right," mumbled Harry. "I'm getting up." He sat upright and Hagrid's large coat fell from him. He looked gobsmacked that it had all been real. With a large grin on his face, he scrambled to his feet to jerk the window open. The owl swooped in, dropped the newspaper on Hagrid's head and started pecking incessantly at his coat. "Don't do that," Harry tried to shoo the owl away but it only snapped at him and continued attacking. "Hagrid! There's an owl -"

"Pay him," Hagrid grunted face-first into the sofa. 

"What?"

"He want's payin' fer deliverin' the paper. Look in the pockets." Hagrid's coat looked to be only pockets. Dawn slid to her knees beside Harry to help search. She had been so scared that the moment she moved, she'd wake up back in her room but that never happened. Hagrid seemed to have packed his entire house into his coat. Bunches of keys, yarn, a handful of sweets. Dawn swore she even felt something move - it wouldn't surprise her since he pulled an entire owl out of it last night. Eventually, Harry managed to find some strange looking coins of different sizes and metals. Dawn picked up a large gold one and inspected it curiously. "Give him five Knuts."

"Knuts?"

"The little bronze ones." Harry plucked five of the little bronze coins and went to put it in a pouch tied to the owl while Dawn shoved everything they had found back into the pockets they took them from. Hagrid yawned loudly, stretched and sat up on the beaten sofa. "Best be off, then. Lots ter do today, gotta get up ter London an' buy all yer stuff fer school." 

"Um - Hagrid?" said Harry, turning one of the peculiar coins over in his hand. Hagrid hummed while pulling on his large boots that Dawn would be able to comfortably sit in. "We haven't got any money and you heard Uncle Vernon last night - he won't pay for us to go and learn magic." Dawn had been trying not to think of that little detail. 

"Don't worry about that," said Hagrid, standing up and scratching the top of his head. "D'yeh think yer parents didn't leave yeh anything?"

"But if their house was destroyed -"

"They didn't keep their gold in the house, boy!" chuckled Hagrid. "Nah, first stop fer us is Gringotts. Wizards bank. Have a sausage, you two, they're not bad cold - an' I wouldn' say no teh a bit o' yer birthday cake, neither." 

"Wizards have banks?"

"Just the one, Gringotts. Run by goblins." Harry dropped the bit of sausage he was holding.