We Third Wheel Hagrid's Date

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The grounds were very dark.  Harry and I walked down the lawn toward the lights shining in Hagrid's cabin.  The inside of the enormous Beauxbatons carriage was also lit up.  I could hear Madame Maxime talking inside it as we knocked on Hagrid's front door.

Hagrid: You there, Harry?  Is YN with yeh?

Harry: Yeah.

We slipped inside the cabin and pulled the Cloak down off our heads.

Harry: What's up?

Hagrid: Got summat ter show yeh.

There was an air of enormous excitement about Hagrid.  He was wearing a flower that resembled an oversized artichoke in his button hole.  It looked as though he had abandoned the use of axle grease, but he had certainly attempted to comb his hair.  I could see the comb's broken teeth tangled in it.

YN: What did you want to show us?

Hagrid: Come with me, keep quiet, an' keep yerself covered with that Cloak.  We won' take Fang, he won' like it.

Harry: Listen, Hagrid, we can't stay long... we've got to be back up at the castle by one o'clock-

But Hagrid wasn't listening.  He was opening the cabin door and striding off into the night.  Harry and I hurried to follow and found, to our great surprise, that Hagrid was leading us to the Beauxbatons carriage.

Harry: Hagrid, what-

Hagrid: Shhh!

He knocked three times on the door bearing the crossed golden wands.  Madame Maxime opened it.  She was wearing a silk shawl wrapped around her massive shoulders.  She smiled when she saw Hagrid.

Maxime: Ah, 'Agrid.  It is time?

Hagrid: Bong-sewer.

I was trying my hardest not to laugh at Hagrid's failed attempt at French.  Madame Maxime closed the door behind her, Hagrid offered her his arm, and they set off around the edge of the paddock containing Madame Maxime's giant winged horses, with Harry and I, totally bewildered, running to keep up with them.  Had Hagrid wanted to show us Madame Maxime?  We could see her any time we wanted, she wasn't exactly hard to miss.  But it seemed that Madame Maxime was in for the same treat as us.

Maxime: Wair is it you are taking me, 'Agrid?

Hagrid: Yeh'll enjoy this.  Worth seein', trust me.  On'y don' go tellin' anyone I showed yeh, right?  Yeh're not s'posed ter know.

Maxime: Of course not.

I whispered to Harry.

YN: What a shock, Hagrid letting another secret loose.

Harry grinned.  After five minutes, we were getting more and more irritated as we jogged along in their wake, Harry checking his watch every now and then.  Hagrid had some harebrained scheme in hand, which might make us miss Sirius.

YN: If we walked all this way just to see Hagrid get laid, I'm gonna kill myself.

Harry snorted, a little too loudly.  Madame Maxime stopped and looked around, but Hagrid assured her it was probably just a deer.  I didn't know if there were deer in this forest, on account of all of the... other, more magical creatures, but she seemed to buy it.  We decided if we didn't get there soon, we were going to turn around, go straight back to the castle, and leave Hagrid to enjoy his moonlit stroll with Madame Maxime.  But then, when we had walked so far around the perimeter of the forest that the castle and the lake were out of sight, I heard something.  Men were shouting up ahead.  Then came a deafening, earsplitting roar.  Hagrid led Madame Maxime around a clump of trees and came to a halt.  We hurried up alongside them, and for a split second I thought we were seeing bonfires, and men darting around them... and then my jaw dropped.

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