Jinx Not-So-Malfoy

Chapter 14

Bonjour mon amis! (Failed French, again.) So, this won't be as long as the last chapter. Mostly because that took me over an hour. It also won't be as short as chapter two. Seriously, I hate that chapter.

"He didn't catch it, he nearly swallowed it." Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference -- Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results --Gryffindor had won by one hundred and seventy points to sixty. 

Harry heard none of this, though. He was being made a cup of strong tea back in Hagrid's hut, with Ron, Hermione and I

Hagrid wasn't sure about me at first, but when Hermione told him that I was in Gryffindor and such, he didn't mind me. Especially after I told him about my love of dragons.

"It was Snape." Ron was explaining, "Hermione and I saw him. He was cursing your broomstick, muttering, he wouldn't take his eyes off you."

"Rubbish." said Hagrid, who hadn't heard a word of what had gone on next to him in the stands. "Why would Snape do somethin' like that?"

I exchanged a look with Hermione, Ron, and Harry.

"I found out something about him." Harry told Hagrid. "He tried to get past that three-headed dog on Halloween. It bit him. We think he was trying to steal whatever it's guarding."

Hagrid dropped the teapot.

"That was a perfectly good pot of tea." I scowled.

"How do you know about Fluffy?" he said.

"Fluffy?" I echoed.

"Yeah -- he's mine -- bought him off a Greek chappie I met in the pub las' year -- I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the"

"Yes?" said Harry eagerly.

"Now, don't ask me anymore." said Hagrid gruffly. "That's top secret, that is."

"But Snape's trying to steal it."

"Rubbish." said Hagrid again. "Snape's a Hogwarts teacher, he'd do nothin' of the sort."

"So why did he just try and kill Harry?" cried Hermione. "I know a jinx when I see one, Hagrid, I've read all about them! You've got to keep eye contact, and Snape wasn't blinking at all, I saw him!"

"I'm tellin' yeh, yer wrong!" said Hagrid hotly. "I don' know why Harry's broom acted like that, but Snape wouldn' try an' kill a student! Now, listen to me, all three of yeh -- yer meddlin' in things that don' concern yeh. It's dangerous. You forget that dog, an' you forget what it's guardin', that's between Professor Dumbledore an' Nicolas Flamel ---"

"Aha!" said Harry. "So there's someone called Nicolas Flamel involved, is there?" Hagrid looked furious with himself.

On our way back, I didn't stop talking. Hey, gotta make up for lost time.

"Us? Not meddle? I've never let anything be. There's this door in my basement that I was never supposed to open - ever - and I opened it. But seriously, all that was there was a book. I swear if my parents found out that I had that book, I would be deader than..... something that's dead." I proclaimed.

"Does that book happen to be the very book that changed your mind about muggleborns?" Hermione asked me.

"Perhaps...." I said with a mischivous grin.

"Jinx, I swear, if you defy your parents once more they'll disown you!" Hermione told me. I shrugged. "Then what would you do?"

"Live with you." I said casually. Hermione looked scared.