Red hair and a Hand-Me-Down robe? You must be a Weasley!

Chapter 28: Beasts for Pets?

"Bowtruckle?" I echoed. Looking closer, I saw that it was like a little green stick with small branches for arms and fingers. It also had a pair of leaves sticking out from the top. "Awwwww! They're so cute!" I gasped, watching the bowtruckle jump onto Newt's hand. Newt put the delicate green creature onto my hand and Its tiny long fingers and toes pattered all over my hand. It tickled. I laughed. "They are so adorable Newt!" I cried. Newt grinned at me happily. "Want one? I've plenty!" He said, showing me about twenty bowtruckles on the tree. "They also help unlock doors when you don't have a wand to do it for you. They're very sneaky. I recommend one." Newt smiled.

I looked at the sweet bowtruckle who was dancing about on my hands. "I would like one, but if I had one, I would rather keep it a secret from Amber."

"Oh yeah. I forgot. You are allowed to keep two pets. I begged Tina if I could give you something perfectly supernatural and she finally agreed. But I also told her I'd be giving you one extra pet. A small one. And it wouldn't matter if you maybe got a third one? It's so much smaller than the extra pet and large one that nobody would notice you have a bowtruckle! I keep mine in my pocket, see?" Newt pointed at his jacket pocket and showed me his tiny bowtruckle. It peeped out of his pocket. "His name is Pickett"

"Well, as much as I'd like to have one..." I stared at the cute bowtruckle who looked like he was begging me to keep him. "Will my cat eat him?" I asked. Newt laughed. "No. Your cat will run away from the bowtruckle if it moves."

"Weeeeelll.... okay." I smiled and put the bowtruckle in my robe. "I'll call him Cedar."

"Wonderful!" Newt smiled. "Now, let me show you every other animal I have." He pulled me along the inside of this world and showed me every animal and what it does. Then we came to the Nifflers. There were 10 in there. I stared at them excitedly. "You have so many!" I cried. "Yes, I do. Want one? I advise you not to grab the one with the bowtie. He's mine and he's so much more trouble than anyone else in this room. First time I met him I almost broke the whole of the Jewellery store trying to catch him. Here, take this one. This is his daughter I think. She's the least trouble out of them all." Newt laughed, pulling out a sweet navy Niffler. She squawked as Newt placed her in my hands. My breath was caught in my throat as I held a Niffler in my hands for the second time in my life.

Then a smile grew on my face. Amber was right. Niffler's were ADORABLE and CUTE and I couldn't ever reject one again. SHE'S SO SWEET! "I'm gonna call her Tealinne, Teal for short!" I laughed as she reached for my family necklace. She carefully picked it off and slowly put it in her pouch. "At least I know I'll never lose it again!" I giggled, ruffling her fur. Newt smiled. "What I can tell you, is that when she'll grow up, she'll act exactly like her father and you will have some very funny and awkward scenes with her like I did 171 years ago." Newt grinned. I stared at him in confusion. "What?" I questioned. Then shook my head. "Never mind."

Newt walked me into the final room. It was an enormous enclosure and I stared at it in awe. Dragons were flying in the sky and they were also sunbathing on the rocks. Newt led me into a cave and Inside were a nest of ferns. It was a large cave with the sun coming through a hole in the roof. The nest was full of different coloured eggs. Newt picked out a white and shimmery coloured egg and a green and black spotted-coloured egg. "I chose this one for your sister" Newt smiled, holding up the green and black spotted coloured egg. "And this one for you." He smiled, giving me the other egg. I stared at it. Is he giving Amber and I DRAGONS?! Why did Tina agree to this?! "The one you're holding is a Swedish short-snout. Amber's one will be a Romanian Longhorn. They are both quite beautiful, but your one is more powerful and prettier if I do say so myself." He grinned, giving me a blanket to wrap the two eggs in.

Teal stared at the shiny eggs and put a paw on my dragon. Then she plucked off a scale and put it in her pouch. "Teal!" I cried, a grin on my face. Teal plucked of a scale from Amber's egg and I stuck my tongue out at her. She squawked indignantly. I followed Newt back to the strange room and he looked at me. He saw me holding two warm, wrapped-up eggs, a bowtruckle in my pocket and a Niffler on my shoulder. He smiled. "Not meaning to add on one more responsibility which Teal might take, but this a memory from me, to you." He put his hand in his pocket and withdrew a beautiful silver and yellow diamond necklace which sparkled in the lamplight. I gasped. "Thank you Newt!" He laughed as he put the necklace on my neck. "Actually, my Niffler was raiding another Jewellery store before we came to visit Hogwarts, and while I was emptying his pouch, I saw this necklace and thought It would fit so nicely on you. So I bought it and here you are."

Newt smiled as Teal picked off my new necklace and put it in her pouch. I laughed. "Well, at least it will be extra safe now." I smiled. Newt smiled back and offered to hold the eggs while I was going up the ladder. I shook my head and climbed up with a little difficulty. I got out the suitcase and sat down in a nearby armchair in the spare room. Newt came out and closed his suitcase, grinning. I smiled at my new pets as Teal started darting around the room for shiny things. "Well, let's get on and find Amber and Tina." Newt grinned.