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hermione always liked th their exam papers afterward,

but ron said this made him feel ill, so they wao the

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were tig the tentacles of a giant squid, which was basking

in the warm shallows. ”udying,” ron sighed happily,

stretg out on the grass. ”you ore cheerful, harry,

weve got a week before we find out how badly weve doheres

o worry yet.”

harry was rubbing his forehead.

”i wish i khis mea out angrily. ”my scar

keeps hurting -- its happe en as this.”

”go to madam pomfrey,” hermioed.

”im not ill,” said harry. ”i think its a warning... it means

dangers ing....”

ron t get worked up, it was too hot.

”harry, relax, hermiones right, the stones safe as long as

dumbledores around. anyway, weve never had any proof snape found

out how to get past fluffy. he nearly had his leg ripped off once,

hes not gain in a hurry. and neville will play

quidditgland befrid lets dumbledore down.”

harry he t shake feeling that

there was something hed fotten to do, something important. when

he tried to explain this, hermiohats just the exams. i

woke up last night and was halfway thruration notes

before i remembered wed do one.”

harry was quite sure the uled feeling didnt have anything

to dh. he wat owl flutter toward the school

acrht blue sky, a note its mouth. hagrid

was the only o him letters. hagrid would never

betray dumbledrid would ell ao get past

fluffy... --

harry suddeo his feet.

”wherere you going?” said ron sleepily.

”ive just thought of something,” said harry. he had turned

white. ”weve got to go and see hagrid, now.”

”why?” panted hermi to keep up.

”dont you think its a bit odd,” said harry, sg up the

grassy slope, ”that what hagrid wahan anything else is a

dragon, and a straurns up who just happens to have an egg in

his poany people wander around with dragos

against wizard law? lucky they found hagrid, dont you think? why

didnt i see it before?”

”what are you talking about?” said ron, but harry, sprinting

across the grounds toward the forest, didnt answer.

hagrid was sitting in an armchair outside his house; his

trousers and sleeves were rolled up, and he was shellio

a large bowl.

”hullo,” he said, smiling. ”finished yer exams? got time fer

a drink?”

”yes, please,” said ron, but harry cut him off.

”no, were in a hurry. hagrid, ive got to ask you something. you

know that night you wo did the stranger you were

playing cards with look like?”

”dunno,” said hagrid casually, ”he wouldn take his cloak off.”

he saw the three of them look stunned and raised his eyebrows.

”its not that u a lot o funny folk in the hogs

head -- thats the pub down in the village. mighta bin a dragon

dealer, mightn he? i never saw his face, he kept his hood up.”

harry sahe bowl of peas. ”what did you talk

to him about, hagrid? did you mention hogwarts at all?”

”mighta e up,” said hagrid, frowo

remember. ”yeah... he asked what i did, an i told him i was

gamekeeper here.... he asked a bit about the sorta creatures i took

after... so i told him... an i said what id always really wanted

was a dragon... an then... i remember too well, cause he

kept buyin me dris see... yeah, then he said he had

the dragon egg an we could play cards fer it if i wa he

had ter be sure