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ten || Year 3 ✔️

Harry, Ron, Amelia and Hermione hurrying pass. The Executioner looks up, and stares the the four. Harry leads the other three toward Hagrid's hut.

"I can't believe they're going to kill Buckbeak! It too horrible." exclaimed Hermione, sadly.

"It just got worse." sighed Harry. Amelia rolls her eyes.

They see Malfoy along with his ugly goons lurking within a grouping of monolithic menhirs. Malfoy has a binoculars in hand, spying on Hagrid, who stands in his pumpkin patch, tossing dead ferrets to Buckbeak.

"Did you see the big, fat blubbering oaf?! Oh, this is going to be rich. Did I tell you, Father said I can keep the head—"

Amelia narrows her eyes at her ugly cousin. "What are you doing here, Malfoy?!"

"Ah. Come to see the show?" chuckled Draco.     

Hermione walks towards him, taking her wand out of her pocket. "You, foil, loathsome, evil little cockroach!" Malfoy stumbles back against the stone, cross-eyes with fear as hermione jabs the tip of her wand on his neck.

"Hermione, No! He's not worth it." said Ron.     
Hermione nods, turning back. Draco chuckles and Amelia runs towards him and punched him in the nose, quick as lightning. Stunned, he leaps to his feet and runs, His goons huffing behind.

"I should do that more often." Amelia shrugged,grinning ear to ear.

Moments later, the four of them makes their way down the slope and past Buckbeak, chewing on a ferret with idle satisfaction.

Hagrid stands by the window watching Buckbeak. Harry, Ron and Amelia sits while hermione makes tea.

"Look at 'em. Loves the smell o' the trees when the wind blows..." said Hagrid, sadly.                                 
"I say we set him free." chirped Harry.

Hagrid shakes his head. "They'd know I did it. And tha' would only get Dumbledore in trouble. Gonna come down, yeh know. Says he wants ter be with me when it...when it happens. Great man, Dumbledore."

"We'll stay with you too, Hagrid." said Hermione.

"Yeh will not! Think I wan' yeh seein' a thing like this! No. Yeh'll drink yer tea an' be off. But before yeh do—I wan' ter see you an' Ron shake hands Harry." said Hagrid.

Ron and Harry exchange a glance, then look to Hagrid.

"Thin' I haven' seen 'ow it's bun betw'n you two? Go on now..."

Reluctantly, Harry and Ron extend their hands and shake.                               

"Good. Now then. Ron, I wan' ter see you give Hermione a hug." smiled Hagrid.

"What?!" exclaimed Ron and Hermione in unison. Amelia snorts and hides it by coughing. "Go on! You two've been at it all year. An' I'm sick o' it."

Acutely uncomfortable, Hermione and Ron step forward and perform the most awkward hug Hogwarts has ever seen.

"Crikey, tha's jus' abou' the most Pathetic hug I e'er seen. But yeh did it, an' tha's wha' matters. Now, Hermione and Amelia, yer two hug as well." Hagrid said.

Amelia nods and hugs Hermione, tightly. "I'm sorry I've been shutting you out all year, Mione."

"No worries. You'll live with me, anyway." smiled Hermione.

Hagrid nods, smiling. "There's jus' one other thing..."

"Im not kissing Fang if that's what you're thinking..." said Ron. Hearing his name, Fang thumps his tail happily on the floor. Hagrid turns, then takes the kid from a flour tin, a tiny head, ears flecked with powder, emerges.